Note 77 — TO THE NEW-BORNE PRINCE, AFTERWARDS CHARLES II.
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“On the 29th of May,” says sir Richard Baker, “the queen was brought to bed of a young son, which was baptized at St. James’s on the 27th of June, and named Charles. It is observed that at his nativity, at London, was seen a star about noon-time: what it portended, good or ill, we leave to the astrologers.” Baker’s Chronicle, p. 497. 1660. fol.