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other woman of his time. She fled gladly from the Court, after 
having served also as maid of honour to Charles II. 's queen. 
After living for some time in retirement she married that " singular 
and silent lover " Sydney Godolphin at Temple Church in May, 
1675. She died about three years afterwards of a fever, shortly 
after the birth of her only son, in her twenty-fifth year. 
Evelyn never passed the anniversary of her death without 
emotion, sorrow, and tears. Her husband never married again, 
and survived her by thirty-four years. It is said that he had a 
passionate admiration for Mary of Modena, James II. 's queen, and 
used to "send her many presents that ladies like." Eefore her 
death his wife wrote him a letter, settling her affairs with the 
tenderest solicitude, and begging pardon for all her imperfections, 
and concluding by saying that she would beg that her body might 
lie, where she had had such a mind to go herself, at Godolphin 
among her husband's friends. She added that she believed the 
expense would not be great if carried by sea. However, at the 
cost of £1000 she was taken by land, the funeral passing all 
down through the country with great state, and she was buried in 
Breage Church, close by the sounding Cornish sea. 
During the reign of William, Godolphin was openly accused in 
Parliament of keeping up, together with his intimate friend the 
Duke of Marlborough, a treasonable correspondence with the 
exiled king at St. Germain. This attack entirely failed. It has 
been said that this correspondence had taken place with the full 
sanction of William, who is reported to have expressed his 
admiration of the results of Godolphin's coquetting with the 
exiled James and his French Court. The politics of that period 
are so much involved in plots and counter plots that no one can 
now clearly state the exact intentions of the actors. 
On the accession of Queen Anne he was made Lord Treasurer of 
England ; and under his administration public credit, which before 
was in a sinking condition, revived, and the war was carried on 
with success by his friend Marlborough (who was a Devonshire 
man), while to Godolphin was attributed a share of the triumph. 
He was constituted a Knight of the Garter in 1704, and in 1706 
he was selected to accompany Queen Anne to the thanksgiving 
service at St. Paul's after the battle of Kamillies. At the end of 
the same year he was elevated to the dignity of Earl Godolphin. 
To summarise some of his later actions, I may mention that by 
