Or a piece of scandal about Lady Castlemaine, how her nose fell out of joint when Mrs. Stuart came to courtsuch things tease one from the sterner business.

Presently Castlemaine enters the royal box with the King.

Or he is whispered a bit of gossip, how Castlemaine is much in love with Hart, an actor of the house.

De Grammont tells in his Memoirs how he presented a French calash with glasses to the King, and how, after the Queen and the Duchess of York, had publicly appeared in it, a battle royal took place between Lady Castlemaine and Miss Stewart as to which of the two should first be seen therein on a fine day in Hyde Park.

In conjunction with Tory and Jesuit, he coalesced in the celebration of Castlemaine's gaudy reception at Rome.

BOY ’Tis of a wild Colonial boy, Jack Doolan was his name, Of poor but honest parents he was born in Castlemaine.

Prince Rupert had rooms in the Stone Gallery, which ran along the south side of Privy Gardens, beyond the main buildings of the palace, and beneath him were the apartments of the king's mistresses, Barbara Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine, afterward Duchess of Cleveland, and Louise de Querouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.

At the same period, a supper-dish, when the king supped with his mistress, Lady Castlemaine, was "a chine of beef roasted.

The beautiful Countess of Castlemaine, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, extended her protection to the unfortunate performance, and received the incense of the author; who boasts, "Posterity will judge by my success, I had the Grecian poet's happiness, Who, waving plots, found out a better way, Some god descended, and preserved the play.

In praise of the Countess of Castlemaine.

" Pepys tells of the crowd waiting, in 1667, to see Lady Castlemaine come out from the puppet play of 'Patient Grisel.'

Those of greatest repute were Lady Castlemaine (later Duchess of Cleveland), Lady Chesterfield, Lady Shrewsbury, with a hundred other stars of this shining constellation; but Miss Hamilton and Miss Stewart outshone them all.

This honourable distinction it probably acquired by the influence of the Countess of Castlemaine, then the royal favourite, to whom Dryden addresses some verses on her encouraging this play.

His voice was low and intense: "If his Majesty has but one glimpse, he will pitch the Castlemaine overboard.

"After dinner," says the right garrulous Pepys in his journal, "to Hyde Parke; at the Parke was the King, and in another Coach, Lady Castlemaine, they greeting one another at every turn.