_On alleged historical Facts._--
"During the troubles in the reign of Charles I., a country girl came up
to London in search of a place as a servant-maid; but not succeeding,
she applied herself to carrying out beer from a brewhouse, and was one
of those then called 'tub-women.' The brewer observing a well-looking
girl in this low occupation, took her into his family as servant, and,
after a little while, she behaving herself with so much prudence and
decorum, he married her; but 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. Hyde (who was afterwards the
great Earl of Clarendon), finding the widow's fortune very
considerable, married her. Of this marriage there was no other issue
than a daughter, who was afterwards the wife of James II., and mother
of Mary and Anne, queens of England."--_Newspaper Paragraph._
What truth is there in the foregoing statement; and if in any degree true,
what further is known of the fortunate "tub-woman?" Is her existence
ignored in the Hyde pedigree?