The secretaries said that they had more trouble with the chamberlains of the various princes than with the princes themselves; they all wanted to sup in the private room, and were much more tenacious of having a good place, or the place they thought was due to them, than their royal masters.

He had been page to Charles II., and lord chamberlain to Mary of Modena.

His first acquaintance with the world was acting as chamberlain in the house of a cardinal, but this life he presently abandoned for the more stirring career of a soldier.

He was a court chamberlain with the military rank of lieutenantBernardino, the son of Messer Sebastiano degl' Antinori, who had translated Boccaccio's works for Cosimo.

Reports of liaisons were made to the Duke by his Chamberlain from time to time, but these were couched in words which concealed his own part therein.

[It seems to have been a memorial addressed to the Lord Chamberlain for the time, and was long in the possession of the Killigrew family.

Once he stopped the Court Chamberlain on the street, only to be rebuked for his pains.

This incident and others led next day to the enforced resignation of Lieutenant Angel and the election of George Chamberlain as his successor.

The discomfited Chamberlain at these words gazed at the Elector, who turned away, his whole face flushing, and walked over to the window.

[Footnote 1: Lord Dorset, Lord Chamberlain under Charles II., author of the celebrated ballad "To all you ladies now on land," and patron of Dryden and other literary men, was honourably mentioned as such by Macaulay in c. 8 of his "History," and also for his refusal, as Lord-Lieutenant of Essex, to comply with some of James's illegal orders.

[Enter Chamberlain through door.

Certainly I never saw Mr. Bright with an eye-glass, and never saw Mr. Chamberlain without one.