1680.] " THE OTHER BOTTLE." 363 



Holland, where he was invited, to go with him. Mr. 

 Godolphin goes to Newmarket, and receives all my 

 son's packets ; if there is any occasion for his being 

 there, Godolphin will send for him — if not, he does not 

 go. His Majesty and his City of London are upon 

 very good terms. When he supped this week at the 

 Mayor's, the people showed so much affection and duty 

 as the expressions at such a time could be. The Lady 

 Mayoress sat next to the King, all over scarlet and 

 ermine, and half over diamonds. The Aldermen 

 drank the King's health over and over upon their 

 knees, and wished all hanged and damned that would 

 not serve him with their lives and fortunes. They 

 attended him to Whitehall at two o'clock in the morn- 

 ing ; they would not trust him with his guards, who 

 were all drunk, but brought some of their own, and 

 they all went merry out of the King's cellar. The 

 next day they came in full body to give both the King 

 and Duke thanks for the honour they had done them. 

 The Mayor is now as well affected as anybody, and 

 was as ill." — Sidney, " Diary and Correspondence," vol. 

 i., p. 301. 



Let those who hold up the finger of reproof, with 

 which they point to the naughtiness of Newmarket, 

 ponder on and inwardly digest the scenes above de- 

 scribed. If such a state of things was possible in the 

 centre of civihzation, and countenanced by the chief 

 magistrate of the said centre of civilization, surely 

 " the inosent disports " of Newmarket were not more 

 noxious ? 



^°^ Dorothy Sidney, dowager Countess of Sunderland, 



