Note 151 — Chapter V · THE DUCHESS
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In the year 1661 we find evidence of the King’s kind feeling towards his sister-in-law in a present made to her. The letter is to Sir Stephen Fox:
“Charles R.
“Our will and pleasure is yt you forthwith pay to Sir John Shaw ye sum of one thousand pounds in ys of a necklace of Pearls given by us to ye Dutchesse of Yorke and for yr soe doing this shal be yor warrt. Given at or Court at Whitehall this 19th of July 1661” (Egerton MS.).