The king, however, laughed at her reproaches, as, for some time, she had certainly no right to make any; and, as this piece of jealousy appeared to be more ill-founded than any she had formerly affected, no person approved of her ridiculous resentment.  Not succeeding in this, she formed another scheme to give the king uneasiness:  Instead of opposing his extreme tenderness for his son, she pretended to adopt him, in her affection, by a thousand commendations and caresses, which she was daily and continually increasing.  As these endearments were public, she imagined they could not be suspected; but she was too well known for her real design to be mistaken.  The king was no longer jealous of her; but, as the Duke of Monmouth was of an age not to be insensible to the attractions of a woman possessing so many charms, he thought it proper to withdraw him from this pretended mother-in-law, to preserve his innocence, or at least his fame, uncontaminated:  it was for this reason, therefore, that the king married him so young.  An heiress of five thousand pounds a-year in Scotland, offered very a-propos:  her person was full of charms, and her mind possessed all those perfections in which the handsome Monmouth was deficient.

[This was Lady Anne Scott, daughter and sole heir of Francis, Earl of Buccleugh, only son and heir of Walter, Lord Scott, created Earl of Buccleugh in 1619.  On their marriage the duke took the surname of Scott, and he and his lady were created Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, Baron and Baroness of Whitchester and Ashdale in Scotland, by letters patent, dated April 20th, 1673.  Also, two days after he was installed at Windsor, the king and queen, the Duke of York, and most of the court being present.  The next day, being St. George’s day, his majesty solemnized it with a royal feast, and entertained the knights companions in St. George’s hall in the castle of Windsor.  Though there were several children of this marriage, it does not appear to have been a happy one; the duke, without concealment attaching himself to Lady Harriet Wentworth, whom, with his dying breath, he declared he considered as his only wife in the sight of God.  The duchess, in May, 1688, took to her second husband Charles, Lord Cornwallis.  She died Feb. 6, 1731-32, in the 81st year of her age, and was buried at Dalkeith in Scotland.  Our author is not more correct about figures than he avows himself to be in the arrangement of facts and dates:  the duchess’s fortune was much greater than he has stated it to have been.]

New festivals and entertainments celebrated this marriage.  The most effectual method to pay court to the king, was to outshine the rest in brilliancy and grandeur; and whilst these rejoicings brought forward all manner of gallantry and magnificence, they either revived old, or established new amours.