belonging to his places, which is the custom, of two tuns of wine at
the Custom-house, for Master of Requests, and fifteen ounces of gilt
plate at the Jewel-house, as Secretary of the Latin Tongue.

At the latter end of Christmas my husband returned from Lisbon, and
was very well received by the King; and upon the 22nd of February
following I was delivered of my daughter Elizabeth.

Upon the 8th of June,[Footnote: Query, 8th] 1662, my husband was made
a Privy Councillor of Ireland; and some time after my Lord and Lady
Ormond went into Ireland, and upon my taking leave of her Grace, she
gave me a turquoise and diamond bracelet, and my husband a fasset
[Footnote: A diamond cut into facets; a brilliant.] diamond ring. I
never parted from her upon a journey but she ever gave me some
present. When her daughter, the Lady Mary Cavendish, was married, none
were present but his grandmother and father, and my husband and self;
they were married in my Lord Duke's lodging in Whitehall, and given by
the King, who came privately without any train. [Footnote: According
to Collins' Peerage, Mary, second daughter of James Duke of Ormond,
married William Cavendish, ninth Duke of Devonshire, at Kilkenny in
Ireland, on the 27th of October, 1662. Lady Fanshawe's statement
proves that he was mistaken.]

As soon as the King had notice of the Queen's landing, he immediately
sent my husband that night to welcome her Majesty on shore, and
followed himself the next day; and upon the 21st of May the King
married the Queen at Portsmouth, in the presence-chamber of his
Majesty's house.

There was a rail across the upper part of the room, in which entered