8o The Duchess of Newcastle 



kingdom to subsist long under so many changes of 

 government ; and whensoever I expressed how httle 

 faith I had in it, he would gently reprove me, saying, 

 I believed least, what I desired most ; and could never 

 be happy if I endeavoured to exclude all hopes and 

 entertained nothing but doubts and fears. 



The city of Antwerp in which we lived, being a 

 place of great resort for strangers and travellers, His 

 Majesty (our now gracious King, Charles the Second) 

 passed thorough it, when he went his journey towards 

 Germany; and after My Lord had done his humble 

 duty, and waited on His Majesty, he was pleased 

 to honour him with his presence at his house. The 

 same did almost all strangers that were persons of 

 quality; if they made any stay in the town, they 

 would come and visit My Lord, and see the mannage 

 of his horses: and, amongst the rest, the Duke of 

 Oldenburg, and the Prince of East Friesland, did My 

 Lord the honour, and presented him with horses of 

 their own breed. 



One time it happened, that His Highness Dom 

 John d'Austria (who was then governour of those 

 provinces) came to Antwerp, and stayed there some 

 few days; and then almost all his Court waited on 

 My Lord, so that one day I reckoned about seventeen 

 coaches, in which were all persons of quality, who 

 came in the morning of purpose to see My Lord's 

 mannage; My Lord receiving so great an honour 

 thought it fit to shew his respect and civility to them, 

 and to ride some of his horses himself, which otherwise 

 he never did but for his own exercise and delight. 

 Amongst the rest of those great and noble persons, 

 there were two of our nation, viz. the then Marquess, 

 now Duke of Ormond, and the Earl of Bristol; but 

 Dom^John was not there in person, excusing himself 



