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" And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw: and did me good to look at them. "
Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Page 348
by Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 546 pages
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The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ...

J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and...that the night the bonfires were made for joy of the Queene's arrival!, the King was there ; but there was no fire at her door, though at all the rest of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 33

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...picture. ' In the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and hnnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw; and did me good to look at them.' — (vol. ip 142.) — On the subject of her picture, our zealous admirer is scarcely less enthusiastic...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism

Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 402 pages
...picture. " In the privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them." — (Vol. ip 142.) On the subject of her picture, our zealous admirer is scarcely less enthusiastic...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 20

Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 584 pages
...picture. " In the privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemame's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them." — (Vol. ip 142.) On the subject of her picture, our zealous admirer is scarcely less enthusiastic...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 4

Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...-garden," says Pepys, " saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and...every day and night the last week ; and that the night that the bonfires were made for joy of the Queene's arrival!, the King was there ; But there was no...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...picture. " In the privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Casllemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw; and did me good to look at them." — (Vol. ip 142). On the subject of her picture, our zealous admirer is scarcely less enthusiastic...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 456 pages
...picture. " In the privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlenjaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw; and did me good to look at them."—(Vol. i, p/142.) On the subject of her picture our zealous admirer is scarcely less enthusiastic...
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A Topographical History of Surrey, Volume 2, Part 1

Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1842 - 296 pages
...Garden at Whitehall, — " saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them." — In August, 1670, she was created Baroness of Nonsuch (in Surrey), Countess of Southampton, and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 235

Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...on May 21, 1662, saw there "the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw; and did me good to look at them." The lawns and the statues and the quaint dials have all disappeared, and now two of the houses are...
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early ..., Volume 1

Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...And in the Privy Garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them." Plumes, red or yellow, were worn in their ridinghats :* their riding-habits (now first introduced)...
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