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Amsterdam, and from thence to Rotterdam, where he 

 sent one of his servants with a complement and tender 

 of his humble service to Her Highness, the then 

 Princess Royal, the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess 

 Dowager of Orange, and the Prince of Orange, which 

 was received with much kindness and civility. 



From Rotterdam he directed his journey to 

 Antwerp, and from thence, with one coach, one 

 chariot, and two waggons, he went to Mechlin and 

 Brussels, where he received a visit from the governour, 

 the Marquess of Castel Rodrigo, the Duke of Lorrain, 

 and Count Piccolomini. 



From thence he set forth for Valenchin and Cam- 

 bray, where the Governour of the town used My 

 Lord with great respect and civility, and desired him 

 to give the word that night. Thence he went to 

 Peroon, a frontier town in France (where the vice- 

 governour, in absence of the governour of that place, 

 did likewise entertain My Lord with all respect, and 

 desired him to give the word that night), and so to 

 Paris without any further stay. 



My Lord being arrived at Paris, which was in April, 

 1645, immediately went to tender his humble duty to 

 Her Majesty, the Queen-Mother of England, where it 

 was my fortune to see him the first time, I being then 

 one of the Maids of Honour to Her Majesty; and 

 after he had stayed there some time, he was pleased to 

 take some particular notice of me, and express more 

 than an ordinary affection for me; insomuch that he 

 resolved to chuse me for his second wife; for he, 

 having but two sons, purposed to marry me, a young 

 woman that might prove fruitful to him and encrease 

 his posterity by a mascuHne offspring. Nay, he was 

 so desirous of male-issue, that I have heard him say, 

 he cared not (so God would be pleased to give him. 



