Thence to the New
Exchange, to buy some things; and, among others, my wife did give
me my pair of gloves, which by contract she is to give me in her
30l. a-year. Here Mrs. Smith tells us of the great murder
thereabouts on Saturday last, of one Captain Bumbridge, by one
Symons, both of her acquaintance; and hectors that were at play,
and in drink: the former is killed, and is kinsman to my Lord of
Ormond, which made him speak of it with so much passion.
12th. Mr. Pierce, I asking him whither he was going, told me as
a great secret that he was going to his master's mistress, Mrs.
Churchill, [Arabella Churchill, sister to John Duke of
Marlborough, one of the Maids of Honour to the Duchess of York.
James Duke of Berwick and three other children were the fruits of
this intrigue. She married subsequently Colonel Godfrey,
Comptroller of the Household, and died 1730, aged 82.] with some
physic; meaning, I suppose, that she is with child.
15th. To Sir W. Coventry; where with him a good while in his
chamber, talking of the great factions at Court at this day, even
to the sober engaging of great persons, and differences, and
making the King cheap and ridiculous.
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