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Excerpt from Letters of Humphrey Prideaux: Sometime Dean of Norwich to John Ellis Sometimes Under-Secretary of State 1674-1722
No correspondence or memoirs of this time would. I suppose, be complete without the introduction of some of Charles the Second's many mistresses. Accordingly, two anecdotes will be found in these pages, characteristic enough of the silly vanity of the Duchess of Cleveland, who sits in her carriage in the streets of Oxford for all the world to admire, and of the free and easy manners of Nell Gwyn as she accosts Charles in the public fields of Newmarket.
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