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tended to be granted from His Majesties Office of the Revels ; 

 These are therefore to give notice to all persons who at 

 present have Licences for that purpose which are not yet 

 expired, that they forthwith bring them in to Charles Kil- 

 legrew Esq ; Master of the Revels, to the end that they may 

 have the same renewed under his hand and Seal, and Printed 

 in Red Letters for the discovery of such abuses. And all the 

 Justices of the Peace, Bailiffs, Constables, and other Officers 

 are hereby desired to Apprehend and Punish according to 

 Law all such persons who shall continue the said abuses." — 

 The " London Gazette," March jf, 1679, No. 1495. 



''Newmarket, March 23. On Sunday last [March 21] the 

 Vice-Chancellor accompanied with the Heads of the Colledges, 

 and others of the University of Cambridge, in all to the 

 number of about 200 persons, came hither in their Formalities, 

 to pay their Duty to His Majesty ; which having done, they 

 likewise awaited upon the Duke, and complimented him upon 

 his safe return from Scotland ; after which they were by the 

 King's command entertained at Dinner. It's said the Court 

 will continue here till the third day of the next month." — The 

 " London Gazette," March ff, 1680, No. 1497. 



Miss Strickland, in her " Lives of the Queens of England," 

 says, " The Duke of York accompanied the king to the spring 

 races at Newmarket, but Mary Beatrice remained charies II 

 at St. James's with the Princess Anne and her I68O. 

 own little Isabella. The Duke made a journey March, 

 from Newmarket to London on purpose to visit 

 her, and returned the next day, which, considering there was 

 no such locomotive facilities for travelling as in these times, 

 may be regarded as almost a lover-like mark of attention. 

 The virtues and conjugal devotion of this princess were 

 gradually winning a greater empire over the heart of James 

 than had been gained by her beauty in its early bloom, when 

 she came to England as his bride. It was not till she had 

 been his wife six years, that James appears to have been fully 

 sensible of the value of the prize he had drawn in the matri- 

 monial lottery, and that she was possessed of qualifications 

 more worthy of admiration than those external graces wliich 



