He
told me over the story of Mrs. Stewart, much after the manner
which I was told it by Mr. Evelyn: only he says it is verily
believed that the King did never intend to marry her to any but
himself, and that the Duke of York and Lord Chancellor were
jealous of it: and that Mrs. Stewart might be got with child by
the King, or somebody else, and the King own a marriage before
his contract (for it is but a contract, as he tells me to this
day,) with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown; and
that, therefore, the Duke of York and Chancellor did do all they
could to forward the match with my Lord Duke of Richmond, that
she might be married out of the way: but above all, it is a
worthy part that this good lady hath acted. My sister Michell
[The wife of Balthazar St. Michel, Mrs. Pepys's brother.] come
from Lee to see us; but do tattle so much of the late business of
the Dutch coming thither that I am weary of it. Yet it is worth
remembering what she says: that she hath heard both seamen and
soldiers swear they would rather serve the Dutch than the King,
for they should be better used.
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