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to see the young" Princess before he entered into 

 affairs, and to proceed in that before the other affairs 

 of the Peace.' The fact was, he did not mean to make 

 peace, but to play the impassioned lover as well as he 

 could, and obtain her from the good nature of his 

 uncle Charles, and then trust to his alliance with the 

 Protestant heiress of England to force the continuation 

 of the war with France. He could not affect beine in 

 love with his cousin when before he saw her, and for 

 this happiness he showed so much impatience, that his 

 uncle Charles said (laughing, like a good-for-nothing 

 person as he was, at delicacy which would have been 

 most respectable if it had been real), ' he supposed his 

 whims must be honoured ; ' and leaving Newmarket 

 some days before his inclination, he escorted George 

 to Whitehall, and presented him as a suitor to his 

 neice, * 



The Prince of Orano-e wrote from Newmarket to the 

 States General announcing his approaching marriage 

 with the Princess Mary. The letter is in High Dutch, 

 and preserved in Harl. MS. 1516, fo. 222. The royal 

 marriage festivities were kept up for a week, during 

 which time every " honest" person at the court was in 

 a chronic state of intoxication. — See Harl. MS. 1523, 

 vol. X., fo. 242. 



During the year 1676-1677 the sum of ;^94 ^s. 6d. 



was paid on account of work and buildings some time 



previously done at Newmarket Palace : 



1677. ^24 2s. 2d. having been paid for timber. 



The Palace. ^Q^rds, and planks; £1 y. for laths, lime, 



* Hist. Queens of Eng., vol. vi., p. 34. 



