of Suffolk, being witnesses:  and christened with a proviso, that it had not already been christened.  Since that she left her Lord, carrying away every thing in the house; so much as every dish, and cloth, and servant but the porter.  He is gone discontented into France, they say, to enter a monastery; and now she is coming back again to her house in Kingstreet.  But I hear that the Queen did prick her out of the list presented her by the King;

["By the King’s command Lord Clarendon, much against his inclination, had twice visited his royal mistress with a view of inducing her, by persuasions which he could not justify, to give way to the King’s determination to have Lady Castlemaine of her household . . . .  Lord Clarendon has given a full account of all that transpired between himself, the King and the Queen, on this very unpleasant business (’Continuation of Life of Clarendon,’ 1759, ff. 168-178).”—­Steinman’s Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland, p. 35.  “The day at length arrived when Lady Castlemaine was to be formally admitted a Lady of the Bedchamber.  The royal warrant, addressed to the Lord Chamberlain, bears date June 1, 1663, and includes with that of her ladyship, the names of the Duchess of Buckingham, the Countesses of Chesterfield and Bath, and the Countess Mareshall.  A separate warrant of the same day directs his lordship to admit the Countess of Suffolk as Groom of the Stole and first Lady of the Bedchamber, to which undividable offices she had, with the additional ones of Mistress of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse, been nominated by a warrant dated April 2, 1662, wherein the reception of her oath is expressly deferred until the Queen’s household shall be established.  We here are furnished with the evidence that Charles would not sign the warrants for the five until Catherine had withdrawn her objection to his favourite one.”—­ Addenda to Steinman’s Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland (privately printed), 1874, p. i.]

desiring that she might have that favour done her, or that he would send her from whence she come:  and that the King was angry and the Queen discontented a whole day and night upon it; but that the King hath promised to have nothing to do with her hereafter.  But I cannot believe that the King can fling her off so, he loving her too well:  and so I writ this night to my Lady to be my opinion; she calling her my lady, and the lady I admire.  Here I find that my Lord hath lost the garden to his lodgings, and that it is turning into a tennis-court.  Hence by water to the Wardrobe to see how all do there, and so home to supper and to bed.

27th (Lord’s day).  At church alone in the pew in the morning.  In the afternoon by water I carried my wife to Westminster, where she went to take leave of her father,