 Sir H. Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.  The Parlour Window: Or, Anecdotes - Page 165by Edward Mangin - 1841 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1831 - 564 pages
...possessing a spark of patriotism, can review without a sense of degradation. But there was a cause. " The night the Dutch burned our ships, the king did sup with my lady Castlemaine, at the duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting a poor moth!" The esteem in which this modern... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 614 pages
...Pepys says, " Sir H. Cholraly came to me this day, and tells me " the court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our " ships the King did...Castlemaine, at the Duchesse " of Monmouth's ; and these were all mad in hunting of a poor moth." (Pepys, iii. 262.) f Burnet, i. 433. j A petition is... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 622 pages
...this day, and tells me " the court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our " stops the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchesse '• of Monmouth's ; aiul these were all mad in hunting of a poor moth." (Pepys, iii. 262.) .:,.:*'.' f Burnet, i. 433.... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 482 pages
...intrusted to him. And what shall we say of his " spirit," when we find that " the "night the Dutch did burn our ships the king did sup with my lady Castlemaine, at the duchess of Monmouth's, where all were mad in hunting a poor motli !" (Pepys) ; and when an eye-witness... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 198 pages
...in discourse he told me that his grandfather, my great grandfather, had £800 per annum in ftueene Elizabeth's time, in the very town of Cottenham."...so degrading is related of Nero, or Commodus. Pages 2/6, 277. " It is said that the King of France do make a sport of us now, and says, that he knows no... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 432 pages
...21st, 1667.— Sir H. Cholmlycome tome this day, and tells me the court is as mad as ever ; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships, the King did...Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchesse of Monmouth's, and these were all mad in hunting of a poor moth." Charles, inconsiderate and unfeeling in all his actions,... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 438 pages
...21st, 1667. — Sir H. Cholmlycome tome this day, and tells me the court is as mad as ever ; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships, the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchesse of Monmouth' s, and these were all mad in hunting of a poor moth." was so excited by her firmness, that... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 pages
...worth reading. Sir H. Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever ; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.1 All the Court afraid of a... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1867 - 516 pages
...worth reading. Sir H. Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.1 All the Court afraid of a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 832 pages
...out of town with 1,8001. in gold in their night-bng. Pepys also notes the characteristic fact that " the night the Dutch burned our ships, the King did sup with my lady Caatlcmaine at the Duchess of Monmouth's .... and they were all mad in hunting of a poor moth." (Diary,... | |
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