Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — From Kitchen to Throne. [ARTICLE]

From Kitchen to Throne.

We read of peculiar things happening in life, and a wise man should be surprised at nothing. In like manner a comely and modest woman has often found a fortune in her face if she knows how beauty should become her. To wit: During the troubles in the reign of King Charles 1., a country girl came up to London in search of a place as servant maid; but, not succeeding, she applied herself to carrying out beer from a brew-house, and was one of those then-called tub-women. The brewer observing a well-looking girl in th*s low occupation, took her into his family

as a servant, and, after a while, she behaving with so mnch prudence and decorum, he married her; he died when she was yet a young woman and left her a large fortune. The business of the brewery was dropped, and the young woman was recommended to Mr, Hyde as a gentleman of skill in the law to settle her affairs. Hy de (who was afterward the great Earl of Clarendon), finding the widow’s fortune very considerable, married her. Of this marriage there was no other issue than a daugh* ter, who was afterward the wife of James 11., and mother of Mary and Anne, Queens of England. —Land and Water.