] my Lady Hinchingbroke's sister,
and my Lady Peterborough. And after dinner Sir Jer. Smith and I
were invited down to dinner with some of the Maids of Honour,
namely, Mrs. Ogle, [Anne Ogle.] Blake, [Mary, daughter of
Colonel Blague, married Sir Thomas Yarborough. VID. "MEMOIRES DE
GRAMMONT."] and Howard, [Dorothy Howard.] (which did me good to
have the honour to dine with and look on); and the mother of the
Maids, and Mrs. Howard, the mother of the Maid of Honour of that
name, and the Duke's housekeeper here. Here was also Monsieur
Blancfort, Sir Richard Powell, Colonell Villers, Sir Jonathan
Trelawny, [Eldest son of Sir John Trelawney, who was created a
Baronet 1628. He served with credit in 1672 under Marshal
Turenne and was afterwards made Governor of Plymouth by King
William, for his good conduct in Ireland.] and others. And here
drank most excellent, and great variety, and plenty of wines,
more than I have drank at once these seven years, but yet did me
no great hurt. Having dined very merrily, and understanding by
Blancfort how angry the Duke of York was about their offering to
send Saville to the Gate-house among the rogues; and then,
observing how this company, both the ladies and all, are of a
gang, and did drink a health to the union of the two brothers,
and talking of others as their enemies, they parted, and so we
up: and there I did find the Duke of York and Duchesse with all
the great ladies sitting upon a carpet on the ground, there being
no chairs, playing at "I love my love with an A, because he is so
and so; and I hate him with an A, because of this and that:" and
some of them, but particularly the Duchesse herself and my Lady
Castlemaine, were very witty.
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