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158 mother, who was great-grand-daughter to the Duchess. The supposed parallel cases of the deaths of Henry Prince of Wales and King James I. are supported by no testimony so strong as that advanced in the case of Charles II.

Had the King lived, Nelly was to have had a peerage for herself, and the title chosen was that of Countess of Greenwich. This of course she was not now likely to obtain—if indeed she would have cared so to do. Her own end was near.