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" I was witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset... "
Brambletye House: Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads : a Novel - Page 121
by Horace Smith - 1826 - 413 pages
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The British review and London critical journal

1818 - 574 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which 2 gentlemen who...
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Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6 ..., Volume 3

John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...
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The Encyclopedia of Anecdotes: Illustrative of Character and Events from ...

George Ramsay - 1828 - 654 pages
...witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love-songs, in that glorious gallery,...greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them; upon w1" two gentlemen who...
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The Life of Thomas Ken, D.D., Deprived Bishop of Bath and Wells: Viewed in ...

William Lisle Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which 2 gentlemen who...
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Notes and Queries

1907 - 678 pages
...diary having seen Charles II. on Sunday evening, 25 Jan., 1685, sitting in the gallery at Whitehall, "whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers, and other dissolute persons were at Basset^ round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000/. n gold before them." Macaulay refers to t in...
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Historical Essays

John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pages
...King sitting with his mistresses, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about '20 of the...greate courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S ...

John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 468 PROCLAMATION OF JAMES II. FUNERAL OF CHARLK II....
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The diary of John Evelyn

John Evelyn - 1879 - 652 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...
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The English illustrated magazine [ed. by J. W. C. Carr].

Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883 - 984 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland and .Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen...
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The Life of Thomas Ken, D.D., Bishop of Bath and Wells, Volume 1

Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1889 - 348 pages
...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarin,1 &c. ; a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset, round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen...
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