. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. streetes and windows even to Whitehallbeing replenished with innumerable people of allconditions. It must have been indeed a gaysight to have seen the king returning to the palaceof his ancestors, and the demonstrations of joy onthe occasion are described as having been extrava-gant in the extreme. Space will not permit us toenter into the details of the enthusiastic receptionon the part of the Londoners, or of the sevenliours ride through the streets to ^^hitehall; all 354 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Whitehall. this will
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. streetes and windows even to Whitehallbeing replenished with innumerable people of allconditions. It must have been indeed a gaysight to have seen the king returning to the palaceof his ancestors, and the demonstrations of joy onthe occasion are described as having been extrava-gant in the extreme. Space will not permit us toenter into the details of the enthusiastic receptionon the part of the Londoners, or of the sevenliours ride through the streets to ^^hitehall; all 354 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Whitehall. this will be found described with picturesqueminuteness in the pages of Sir Edward Walkers Manner of the Most Happy Return in Englandof our most gracious Sovereign Lord, King Charlesthe Second, and also at page 702 of Whitelocks Memorials. notice of each other; only at first entry he put offhis hat, and she made him a very civil salute; butafterwards they took no notice one of another;but both of them now and then would taketheir child, which the nurse held in her arms, anddandle THE HOLBEIN GATEWAY, (From a Drawing by G. Vertue.) On the 23rd of August, 1662, the King and Queencame b}- water from Hampton Court, and landed at Whitehall Bridge, as the Stairs were often this occasion Pepys draws our attention to the]:)resence of the celebrated Lady Castlemaine, andalso of her husband. But that which pleased memost was that my Lady Castlemaine stood overagainst us on a piece of Whitehall. But methoughtit was strange to see her lord and her ni)on thesame place, walking up and down and taking no Pepys tells us distinctly that the removal of LordClarendon from place and power was certainlydesigned in my Lady Castlemaines chamber, andhe adds that he saw several of the gallants ofWhitehall staying to see the Lord Chancellor passby, and talking to her in her birdcage. The loose life led by the Court of Charles H. atWhitehall—or, indeed, wherever it may have beenquarte
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