left us a vivid picture:

"When he went from the King on Monday morning my Lady Castlemaine
was in bed (though about twelve o'clock), and ran out in her
smock into her aviary looking into Whitehall Gardens; and thither
her woman brought her her nightgown; and she stood, blessing
herself at the old man's going away; and several of the gallants
of Whitehall--of which there were many staying to see the
Chancellor's return--did talk to her in her birdcage; among
others Blandford, telling her she was the bird of passage."

Clarendon lingered, melancholy and disillusioned, at his fine
house in Piccadilly until, impeached by Parliament, he remembered
Strafford's fate, and set out to tread once more and for the
remainder of his days the path of exile.

Time avenged him. Two of his granddaughters--Mary and Anne--
reigned successively as queens in England.





X. THE TRAGEDY OF HERRENHAUSEN

Count Philip Koenigsmark and the Princess Sophia Dorothea



He was accounted something of a scamp throughout Europe, and