[T.S.]] [Footnote 23: P.Fitzgerald adds "(to which, however, she hath been thought not entirely a stranger)." [W.S.J.]] [Footnote 24: See note in vol.v., p.

368, of present edition.

[T.S.]] The next in order to be mentioned is the Earl of Godolphin.[25] It is said, he was originally intended for a trade, before his friends preferred him to be a page at court; which some have very unjustly objected as a reproach.

He hath risen gradually in four reigns, and was much more constant to his second master King James than some others, who had received much greater obligations; for he attended the abdicated King to the sea-side, and kept constant correspondence with him till the day of his death.

He always professed a sort of passion for the Queen at St.Germain's; and his letters were to her in the style of what the French call _double entendre_.