Show AN extraordinary RISE how a poor welsh weigh pot girl laid foundations of royalty the wife of the celebrated lord clarendon the author of the history of the rebellion was a welsh pot girl who being extremely poor in her own country journeyed to london to better her fortune and became a servant to a brewer says an exchange while she was to this humble capacity the wife of her master died and he happening to ft fix his affections on her she became his wife himself dying soon after leaving her heir to his property which la Is said gaid to have amounted to between and pounds among those who frequented the tap at the brew house was a mr hyde aken a poor barrister who conceived the project of forming a matrimonial alliance with her lie he succeeded and soon led the brewers widow to the altar mr hyde being endowed with great talent and in the command of a large fortune quickly rose in his profession becoming head of v bench and was afterward the celebrated hyde arl aarl of clarendon the eldest daughter the offspring of this union won the beeart of james duke of york and was waa to him his majester maj estey charles 11 II sent immediately for his brother md having first plied him with some very sharp raillery on the subject finished by saying james as you have brawn so you must drink and forthwith commanded that the marriage should be legally rectified fled and promulgated upon the death of charles james mounted the throne but a premature death frustrated this enviable consummation in the person of his ais amiable duchess her daughters Ito however wever were queen mary the wife of VV william illiam and queen anne both grandchildren of the ci davant pot girl from wales and wearing in succession ahe he crown of england |