 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1753 - 670 pages
...this with horror. He faid, it was a wicked thing 1668. te make a poor lady miferable, only becaufe (he was his wife, and had no children by him, which was no fault of hers. The hints of this broke out: For the Duke of Buckingham could conceal nothing. And upon that the Earl... | |
 | William Carey - Conspiracy - 1820 - 160 pages
...with some principles to carry an act of divorce. The king would not hear of it, saying, ' 'Twas wicked to make a poor lady miserable only because she was his wife, and had had no children by him, which was not her fault. As if indeed he did not make her miserable enough... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...wilful desertion. Sir Robert Murray told me, that the king himself rejected this with horror. He said, it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable,...had no children by him, which was no fault of hers. The hints of this broke out: for the duke of Buckingham could conceal nothing. And upon that the earl... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...scheme to the king about stealing her away, and sending her to a plantation. — But the king had said " it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable,...and had no children by him, which was no fault of her's."-j" But it was during the heat of the popish plot, that his conduct towards her was such as... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...scheme to the king about stealing her away, and sending her to a plantation. — But the king had said " it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable,...and had no children by him, which was no fault of her's."f But it was during the heat of the popish plot, that his conduct towards her was such as most... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...desertion. Sir Robert Mur- 1 668. ray told me, that the king himself rejected this with horror. He said, it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable,...had no children by him, which was no fault of hers. The hints of this broke out : for the duke of Buckingham could conceal nothing. And upon that the earl... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 286 pages
...Prince, or of any of his family, " rejected this with horror, saying it was a wicked thing to make her miserable only because she was his wife, and had no children by him, which was no fault of hers." It was indeed well known that she had been more than once pregnant. In this manner, always hi affliction,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - England - 1838 - 256 pages
...have spared her fair fame, had it not been unimpeachable. The King rejected this idea with horror, saying, " it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady...only because she was his wife and had no children, which was not her fault." In that age, when satire was " worn to rags and scribbled out of fashion,"... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 pages
...Robert Murray told me," pursues Burnet, " that the king himself rejected this with horror. He said it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable...had no children by him, which was no fault of hers." Buckingham next suggested that her majesty's confessor should be dealt with, to persuade her to retire... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 562 pages
...wishes. She conversed with her rival before a large party, and we find her subsequently joining in many of the wild frolics of the ladies of the court. We...of Dunkirk, in 1662, to the French, for the sum of 400,0001. The odium of this latter transaction has been thrown on Lord Clarendon, who however in the... | |
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He said, it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable, only because she was his wife, and had no children by him, which was no fault of hers. 
