. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. - 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 certainlydes
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. - 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 beenquartered—is a matter of historic notoriety. Agood insight into these royal escapades is given by ^Vh?ltehall.] LIFE AT THE COURT OF CHARLES U. 355. 356 OLD AND NP:W LONDON. [Whitehall. quaint old Pepys, who, writing in his Diary underdate April 25th, 1663, says : I did hear that theQueene is much grieved of late at the Kingsneglecting her, he not having supped with her oncethis quarter of a year, and almost every night withLady Castlemaine, who hath been with him thisSt. Georges Feast at Windsor. It is said byseveral retailers of Court gossip that the king spentin Lady Castlemaines apartments the whole of theweek previous to the arrival of his wife, Catherineof Braganza. Here, probably, and not, as usually supposed, atthe house of Sir Samuel Morland, at Vauxhall,Charles IL first spent his hours in dalliance withBarbara Palmer, afterwards Countess of Castle-maine and Duchess of Cleveland, of whom weshall have more to say anon, when we reach theneighbourhood of St. Jamess Palace. Her apart-ments, or lodgings, according to the privately-printed Memoir of the lady by Mr. G. S. Stein-man, were on that part of W
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