his Friends to try what means he could procure for his subsistance but though he used all the industry and endeavour he could yet he effected but little by reason every body was so affraid of the Parliament that they durst not relieve Him who was counted a Traitor for his Honest and Loyal service to his King and Country Not long after My Lord had profers made him of some Rich Matches in England for his two Sons whom therefore he sent thither with one Mr. Loving hoping by that means to provide both for them and himself but they being arrived there out of some reasons best known to them declared their unwillingness to Marry as yet continuing nevertheless in England and living as well as they could Some two years after my Lord's Marriage when he had prevailed so far with his Creditors that they began to trust him anew the first thing he did was that he removed out of those Lodgings in Paris where he had been necessitated to live hitherto to a House which he hired for himself and his Family and furnished it as well as his new gotten Credit would permit and withal resolving for his own recreation and divertisement in his banished condition to exercise the Art of Mannage which he is a great lover and Master of bought a Barbary-horse for that purpose which cost him 200 Pistols and soon after another Barbary-horse from the Lord Crofts for which he was to pay him 100 l. when he returned into England About this time there was a Council call'd at St. Germain in which were present besides My Lord Her Majesty the now Queen Mother of England His Highness the Prince our now gracious King His Cousin Prince Rupert the Marquess of Worcester the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond the Lord Iermyn now Earl of St. Albans and several others where after several debates concerning the then present condition of His Majesty King Charles the First my Lord delivered his sentiment that he could perceive no other probability of procuring Forces for His Majesty but an assistance of the Scots But Her Majesty was pleased to answer my Lord That he was too quick Not long after When my Lord had begun to settle himsef in his mentioned new house His gracious Master the Prince having taken a resolution to go into Holland upon some designs Her Majesty the Queen Mother desired my Lord to follow him promising to engage for his debts which hitherto he had contracted at Paris and commanding Her Controller and Treasurer to be bound for them in Her behalf which they did although the Creditors would not content themselves until my Lord had joined his word to theirs So great and generous was the bounty and favour of Her Majesty to my Lord considering she had already given him heretofore near upon 2000 l. Sterling even at that time when Her Majesty stood most in need of it My Lord after his Highness the Prince was gone being ready to execute Her Majesties Commands in following Him and preparing for his Journey wanted the chief thing which was Money and having much endeavoured for it at last had the good Fortune to obtain upon Credit three or four hundred pounds sterl With which Sum he set out of Paris in the same Equipage he entred viz. One Coach which he had newly caused to be made wherein were the Lord Widdrington my Lord's Brother Sir Charles Cavendish Mr. Loving my Waiting-Maid and some others whereof the two later were then returned out of England one little Chariot that would onely hold my Lord and my self and three Waggons besides an indifferent number of Servants on Horse-back That day when we left Paris the Creditors coming to take their Farwell of my Lord expressed so great a love and kindness for him accompanied vvith so many hearty Prayers and Wishes that he could not but prosper on his Journey Being come into the King of Spain's Dominions my Lord found a very Noble Reception At Cambray the Governour vvas so civil that my Lord coming to that place somevvhat late and vvhen it vvas dark he commanded some Lights and Torches to meet my Lord and conduct him to his Lodgings He offer'd my Lord the Keys of the City and desir'd him to give the Word that night and moreover invited him to an Entertainment which he had made for him of purpose but it being late my Lord tyred with his Journey excused himself as civilly as he could the Governour notwithstanding being pleased to send all manner of Provisions to my Lords Lodgings and charging our Landlord to take no pay for any thing we had Which extraordinary Civilities shewed that he was a Right Noble Spaniard The next morning early my Lord went on his Journey and was very civilly used in every place of His Majesty of Spain's Dominions where he arrived At last coming to Antwerp He took water to Rotterdam which Town he chose for his residing place during the time of his stay in Holland and sent thither to a Friend of his a Gentleman of Quality to provide him some Lodgings which he did and procured them at the house of one Mrs. Banaum Widow to an English Merchant who had always been very Loyal to His Majesty the King of England and serviceable to His Majesties faithful Subjects in whatsoever lay in his Power My Lord being come to Rotterdam was informed that His Highness the Prince now our Gracious King was gone to Sea Wherefore he resolved to follow him and for that purpose hired a Boat and victual'd it but since no body knew whither His Highness was gone and I being unwilling that my Lord should venture upon so uncertain a Voyage and as the Proverb is Seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay he desisted from that design The Lord Widdrington nevertheless and Sir Will. Throckmorton being resolved to find out the Prince but having by a storm been driven towards the Coast of Scotland and endangered their lives they returned without obtaining their aim After some little time my Lord having notice that the Prince was arrived at the Hague he went to wait on His Highness which he also did afterwards at several times so long as His Highness continued there expecting some opportunity where he might be able to shew his readiness to serve His King and Countrey as certainly there was no little hopes for it for first it was believed that the English Fleet would come and render it self into the obedience of the Prince next it was reported that the Duke of Hamilton was going out of Scotland with a great Army into England to the assistance of His Majesty and that His Majesty had then some party at Colchester but it pleased God that none of these proved effectual For the Fleet did not come in the Duke of Hamilton's Army was destroyed and Colchester was taken by the Enemy where my dear Brother Sir Charles Lucas and his dear Friend Sir George Lile were most inhumanly murther'd and shot to death they
THE LIFE OF THE Thrice Noble High and Puissant PRINCE William Cavendishe Duke Marquess and Earl of Newcastle Earl of Ogle Viscount Mansfield and Baron of Bolsover of Ogle Bothal and Hepple Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-chamber one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councel Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter His Majesties Lieutenant of the County and Town of Nottingham and Justice in Ayre Trent-North who had the honour to be Governour to our most Glorious King and Gracious Soveraign in his Youth when He was Prince of Wales and soon after was made Captain General of all the Provinces beyond the River of Trent and other Parts of the Kingdom of England with Power by a special Commission to make Knights WRITTEN By the thrice Noble Illustrious and Excellent Princess MARGARET Duchess of Newcastle His Wife LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell in the Year 1667. To His most Sacred MAJESTY Charles the Second By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. May it please Your Majesty I Have in confidence of your Gracious acceptance taken the boldness or rather the presumption to dedicate to Your Majesty this short History which is as full of Truths as words of the Actions and Sufferings of Your most Loyal Subject my Lord and Husband by Your Majesties late favour Duke of Newcastle who when Your Majesty was Prince of Wales was Your most careful Governour and honest Servant Give me therefore leave to relate here that I have heard him often say He loves Your Royal Person so dearly that He would most willingly upon all occasions sacrifice his Life and Posterity for Your Majesty whom that Heaven will everbless is the Prayer of Your most Obedient Loyal humble Subject and Servant Margaret Newcastle TO HIS GRACE THE Duke of Newcastle My Noble Lord It hath always been my hearty Prayer to God since I have been your Wife That first I might prove an honest and good Wife whereof your Grace must be the onely Iudg Next That God would be pleased to enable me to set forth and declare to after-ages the truth of your loyal actions and endeavours for the service of your King and Country For the accomplishing of which design I have followed the best and truest Observations of your Secretary John Rolleston and your Lordships own Relations and have accordingly writ the History of your Lordships Life which although I have endeavoured to render as perspicuous as ever I could yet one thing I find hath much darkned it which is that your Grace commanded me not to mention any thing or passage to the prejudice or disgrace of any Family or particular person although they might be of great truth and would illustrate much the actions of your Life which I have dutifully performed to satisfie your Lordship whose Nature is so Generous that you are as well pleased to obscure the faults of your Enemies as you are to divulge the vertues of your Friends And certainly My Lord you have had as many Enemies and as many Friends as ever any one particular person had and I pray God to forgive the one and prosper the other Nor do I so much wonder at it since I a Woman cannot be exempt from the malice and aspersions of spightful tongues which they cast upon my poor Writings some denying me to be the true Authoress of them for your Grace remembers well that those Books I put out first to the judgment of this censorious Age were accounted not to be written by a Woman but that some body else had writ and publish'd them in my Name by which your Lordship was moved to prefix an Epistle before one of them in my vindication wherein you assure the world upon your honour That what was written and printed in my name was my own and I have also made known that your Lordship was my onely Tutor in declaring to me what you had found and observed by your own experience for I being young when your Lordship married me could not have much knowledg of the world But it pleased God to command his Servant Nature to indue me with a Poetical and Philosophical Genius even from my Birth for I did write some Books in that kind before I was twelve years of Age which for want of good method and order I would never divulge But though the world would not believe that those Conceptions and Fancies which I writ were my own but transcended my capacity yet they found fault that they were defective for want of Learning and on the other side they said I had pluckt Feathers out of the Universities which was a very preposterous judgment Truly My Lord I confess that for want of Scholarship I could not express my self so well as otherwise I might have done in those Philosophical Writings I publish'd first but after I was returned with your Lordship into my Native Country and led a retired Country life I applied my self to the reading of Philosophical Authors of purpose to learn those names and words of Art that are used in Schools which at first were so hard to me that I could not understand them but was fain to guess at the sense of them by the whole context and so writ them down as I found them in those Authors at which my Readers did wonder and thought it impossible that a Woman could have so much Learning and Vnderstanding in Terms of Art and Scholastical Expressions so that I and my Books are like the old Apologue mention'd in AEsop of a Father and his Son who rid on an Ass through a Town when his Father went on Foot at which sight the People shouted and cried shame that a young Boy should ride and let his Father an old man go on Foot whereupon the old Man got upon the Ass and let his Son go by but when they came to the next Town the People exclaimed against the Father that he a lusty man should ride and have no more pity of his young and tender child but let him go on foot Then both the Father and his Son got upon the Ass and coming to the third Town the People blamed them both for being so unconscionable as to over-burden the poor Ass with their heavy weight After this both Father and Son went on foot and led the Ass and when they came to the fourth Town the People railed as much at them as ever the former had done and called them both Fools for going on foot when they had a Beast able to carry them The old Man seeing he could not please Mankind in any manner and having received so many blemishes and aspersions for the sake of his Ass was at last resolved to drown him when he came to the next bridg But I am not so passionate to burn by Writings for the various humours of Mankind and for their finding fault since there is nothing in this world be it the noblest and most commendable action whatsoever that
he replied That he cared not whether His Majesty lov'd him again or not for he was resolved to love him LXX I asking my Lord one time What kind of Fate it was that restored our Gracious King Charles the Second to His Throne He answer'd It was a blessed kind of Fate I replied That I had observed a perfect contrariety between the Fortunes of His Royal Father of blessed memory and Him for as there was a division amongst the generality of the people in the Reign of King Charles the First tending to His Destruction so there was a general Combination and Agreement between them in King Charles the Second His Restauration and as there was a general malice amongst the people against the Father to Depose Him so there was a general Love for the Son to Enthrone Him My Lord answer'd I had observed something but not all for said he there was a Necessity for the people to desire and Restore King Charles the Second but there was no Necessity to Murder King Charles the First For the Kingdom being through so many Alterations and Changes of Government divided into several Factions and Parties was at last hurried into such a Confusion that it was impossible in that manner to subsist or hold out any longer Which Confusion having opened the Peoples Eyes the generality being tyred with the evil effects and consequences of their unsetled Governments under unjust Usurpers and frightned with the apprehension of future dangers began to call to mind the happy Times when in an uninterrupted Peace they enjoyed their own under the happy Reign of their Lawful Soveraigns and hereupon with an unanimous consent Recall'd and Restor'd our now gracious King which although it was opposed by some Factious Parties yet the generality of the people outweigh'd the rest neither was the Royal Party wanting in their endeavours LXXI Asking my Lord one time Whether it was easie or difficult to govern a State or Kingdom He answer'd me That most States were govern'd by secret Policy and so with difficulty for those that govern are at least should be wiser then the State or Commonwealth they govern I replied That in my opinion a State was easily govern'd if their Government was like unto God's that is to say If Governours did Reward and Punish according to the desert My Lord answer'd I said well but he added the Follies of the People are many times too hard for the Prudence of the Governour like as the sins of men work more evil effects in them then the Grace of God works good for if this were not there would be more good then bad which alas Experience proves otherwise LXXII Some Gentlemen making a complaint to my Lord That some he employed in His Majesty's Affairs were too hasty and over-busie My Lord told them That he would rather chuse such persons for His Majesties service as were over-active then such that would be fuller of Questions then Actions The same he would do for his own particular affairs LXXIII Some condemning My Lord for having Roman Catholicks and Scots in his Army He answered them that he did not examine their Opinions in Religion but look'd more upon their Honesty and Duty for certainly there were honest men and loyal Subjects amongst Roman Catholicks as well as Protestants and amongst Scots as well as English Nevertheless my Lord as he was for the King so he was also for the Orthodox Church of England as sufficiently appears by the care he took in ordering the Church-Government mentioned in the History To which purpose when my Lord was walking one time with some of His Officers in the Church at Durham and wonder'd at the greatness and strength of the Pillars that supported that structure My Brother Sir Charles Lucas who was then with him told my Lord that he must confess those Pillars were very great and of a vast strength But said he Your Lordship is a far greater Pillar of the Chureh then all these Which certainly was also a real truth and would have more evidently appear'd had Fortune favour'd my Lord more then she did LXXIV My Lord being in Banishment I told him that he was happy in his misfortunes for he was not subject to any State or Prince To which he jestingly answer'd That as he was subject to no Prince so he was a Prince of no Subjects LXXV In some Discourse which I had with my Lord concerning Princes and their Subjects I declared that I had observed Great Princes were not like the Sun which sends forth out of it self Rays of Light and Beams of Heat effects that did both glorifie the Sun and nourish and comfort sublunary Creatures but their glory and splendor proceeded rather from the Ceremony which they received from their subjects To which my Lord answer'd That Subjects were so far from giving splendor to their Princes that all the Honours and Titles in which consists the chief splendor of a subject were principally derived from them for said he were there no Princes there would be none to confer Honours and Titles upon them LXXVI My Lord entertaining one time some Gentlemen with a merry Discourse told them that he would not keep them Company except they had done and sufferd as much for their King and Country as he had They answer'd That they had not a power answerable to my Lords My Lord replied They should do their endeavour according to their Abilities No said they if we did we should be like your Self lose all and get but little for our pains LXXVII I being much grieved that my Lord for his loyalty and honest Service had so many Enemies used sometimes to speak somewhat sharply of them but he gently reproving me said I should do like experienced Sea-men and as they either turn their Sails with the wind or take them down so should I either comply with Time or abate my Passion LXXVIII A Soldiers Wife whose Husband had been slain in my Lord's Army came one time to beg some relief of my Lord who told her That he was not able to relieve all that had been loyal to His Majesty for said he My losses are so many that if I should give away the remainder of my Estate my Wife and Children would have nothing to live on She answer'd That His Majesty's Enemies were preferr'd to great Honours and had much Wealth Then it is a sign replied my Lord that your Husband and I were Honest Men. LXXIX A Friend of my Lord's complaining that he had done the State much Service but received little Reward for it my Lord answer'd him That States did not usually reward past Services but if he could do some present Service he might perhaps get something but said he those men are wisest that will be paid before-hand LXXX I observing that in the late Civil Warrs many were desirous to be employed in States Affairs and at the noise of Warr endeavoured to be Commanders though but of small Parties asked my Lord the reason thereof
of My Lords together with some Notes and Remarques of mine own which I thought most convenient to place by themselves at the end of this Work rather then to intermingle them with the Body of the History It might be some prejudice to my Lord's Glory and the credit of this History not to take notice of a very considerable thing I have heard which is That when his Lordship's Army had got so much Strength and Reputation that the Rebellious Parliament finding themselves overpower'd with it rather then to be utterly ruin'd as was unavoidable did call the Scots to their Assistance with a promise to reward so great a Service with the Four Northern Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and the Bishoprick of Durham which I have not mention'd in the Book And it is most certain That the Parliaments Forces were never Powerful nor their Commanders or Officers Famous until such time as my Lord was overpower'd neither could Loyalty have been over-power'd by Rebellion had not Treachery had better Fortune then Prudence When I speak of my Lord's Pedigree where Thomas Earl of Arundel Grandfather to the now Duke of Norfolk is mention'd they have left out William Viscount Stafford one of his Sons who did marry the Heir of the last Baron Stafford descended from the Dukes of Buckingham which was set down in my Original Manuscript Some of those Omissions and very probably others are happened partly for want of timely Information and chiefly by the death of my Secretary who did copy my Writings for the Press and dy'd in London attending that Service afore the Printing of the Book was quite finish'd And as I hope of your Favour to be excus'd for omitting those things in the Book so I expect of your Justice to be approv'd in putting them here though somewhat unseasonably Before I end this Preface I do beseech my Readers not to mistake me when I speak of my Lord's Banishment as if I would conceal that he went voluntarily out of his Native Country for it is most true that his Lordship prudently perceiving all the King's Party lost not onely in England but also in Scotland and Ireland and that it was impossible to withstand the Rebels after the fatal overthrow of his Army his Lordship in a poor and mean condition quitted his own Countrey and went beyond Sea soon after which the Rebels having got an Absolute Power and granted a general Pardon to all those that would come in to them upon composition at the Rates they had set down his Lordship with but few others was excepted from it both for Life and Estate and did remain thus banish'd till His Majesties happy Restauration I must also acknowledg That I have committed great Errors in taking no notice of Times as I should have done in many places of this History I mention in one place the Queen Mothers being in France when my Lord went thither but do not say in what year that was Nor do I express when His Majesty our now Gracious Soveraign came in and went out again several times from that Kingdom which has happen'd for want of Memory and I desire my Readers to excuse me for it No body can certainly be more ready to find faults in this Work then I am to confess them being very conscious that I have as I told my Lord I should committed many for want of Learning and chiefly of skill in writing Histories But having according to his Lordships Commands written his Actions and Fortunes truly and plainly I have reason to expect that whatsoever else shall be found amiss will be favourably pardoned by the candid Readers to whom I wish all manner of happiness AN EPISTLE TO HER GRACE THE Duchess of Newcastle May it please your Grace I Have been taught and do believe That Obedience is better then Sacrifice and know that both are due from me to your Grace and since I have been so long in obeying your Commands I shall not presume to use any Arguments for my excuse but rather chuse ingeniously to confess my fault and beg your Graces Pardon And because forgiveness is a Glory to the supreamest Powers I will hope that your Grace by that great example will make it yours And now I humbly take leave to represent to your Grace as faithfully and truly as my memory will serve me all my Observations of the most memorable Actions and honourable Deportments of His Grace my most Noble Lord and Master William Duke of Newcastle in the execution and Performance of the Trusts and high Employments committed and commended to his care and charge by three Kings of England that is to say King James King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory and our Gracious King Charles the Second under whom he hath had the happiness to live and the honour to serve them in several capacities And because I humbly conceive that it is not within the intention of your Graces Commands that I should give you a particular Relation of His Graces High Birth his Noble and Princely Education and Breeding both at home and abroad his Natural Faculties and Personal Vertues his Iustice Bounty Charity Friendship his Right Approved Courage and True Valour not grounded upon or govern'd by Passion but Reason his Magnificent manner of living and supporting his Dignity testified by his great Entertainments of their Majesties and his private Friends upon all fit occasions besides his ordinary and constant House-keeping and Attendants some for Honour and some for business wherein he exceeded most of his Quality and that he was and is an incomparable Master to his Servants is sufficiently testified by all or most of the chiefest of them living and dying in His Graces Service which is an Argument that they thought themselves as happy therein as the World could make them nor of his well-chosen Pleasures which were principally Horses of all sorts but more particularly Horses of Mannage His Study and Art of the true use of the Sword His Magnificent Buidings These are his chiefest Delights wherein his Grace spared for no cost nor charge which are sufficiently manifested to the World for other Delights as those of running Horses Hawking Hunting c. His Grace used them meerly for societies sake and out of a generous and obliging Nature to please others though his knowledg in them excelled as well as in the other And yet notwithstanding these his large and vast expences before his Grace was called to the Court he encreased his Revenue by way of Purchase to a great value and when he was called to the Court he was then free from Debts and as I have heard some Thousands of Pounds in his Purse These Particulars and as many more of this kind as would swell a Volume I could enumerate to your Grace but that they are so well known to your Grace it would be a Presumption in me rather then a Service to give your Grace that trouble and therefore I humbly forbear and proceed according to
who also came to take their leaves of My Lord being much troubled at his departure and speaking very honourably of him as surely they had no reason to the contrary The Second Book HAving hitherto faithfully related the life of My Noble Lord and Husband and the chief Actions which He performed during the time of his being employed in His Majesties Service for the Good and Interest of his King and Country until the time of his going out of England I shall now give you a just account of all that passed during the time of his banishment till the return into his native Country My Lord being a Wise Man and foreseeing well what the loss of that fatal Battle upon Hessom-moor near York would produce by which not onely those of His Majesties Party in the Northern parts of the Kingdom but in all other parts of His Majesties Dominions both in England Scotland and Ireland were lost and undone and that there was no other way but either to quit the Kingdom or submit to the Enemy or die he resolved upon the former and preparing for his journey asked his Steward How Much Money he had left Who answer'd That he had but 90 l. My Lord not being at all startled at so small a Summ although his present design required much more was resolved too seek his Fortune even with that litle and thereupon having taken leave of His Highness Prince Rupert and the rest that were present went to Scarborough as before is mentioned where two Ships were prepared for Hamborough to set sail within 24 hours in which he embarqued with his Company and arrived in four days time to the said City which was on the 8th of Iuly 1644. In one of these Ships was my Lord with his two Sons Charles Viscount Mansfield and Lord Henry Cavendish now Earl of Ogle as also Sir Charles Cavendish My Lord's Brother the then Lord Bishop of London-derry Dr. Bramhall the Lord Falconbridg the Lord Widdrington Sir William Carnaby who after died at Paris and his Brother Mr. Francis Carnaby who went presently in the same Ship back again for England and soon after was slain by the Enemy near Sherborne in York-shire besides many of my Lord's and their servants In the other Ship was the Earl of Ethyne Lieutenant General of My Lord's Army and the Lord Cornworth But before My Lord landed at Hamborough his eldest Son Charles Lord Mansfield fell sick of the Small-Pox and not long after his younger Son Henry now Earl of Ogle fell likewise dangerously ill of the Measels but it pleased God that they both happily recovered My Lord finding his Company and Charge very great although he sent several of his Servants back again into England and having no means left to maintain him was forced to seek for Credit where at last he got so much as would in part relieve his necessities and whereas heretofore he had been contented for want of a Coach to make use of a Waggon when his occasions drew him abroad he was now able with the credit he had got to buy a Coach and nine Horses of an Holsatian breed for which Horses he paid 160 l. and was afterwards offer'd for one of them an hundred Pistols at Paris but he refused the money and presented seven of them to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother of England and kept two for his own use After my Lord had stay'd in Hamborough from Iuly 1644 till February 1645 4 he being resolved to go into France went by Sea from Hamborough to Amsterdam and from thence to Rotterdam where he sent one of his Servants with a Complement and tender of his humble Service to Her Highness the then Princess Royal the Queen of Bohemia the Princess Dowager of Orange and the Prince of Orange which was received with much kindness and civility From Rotterdam he directed his Journey to Antwerp and from thence with one Coach one Chariot and two Waggons he went to Mechlin and Brussels where he received a Visit from the Governour the Marquess of Castel Rodrigo the Duke of Lorrain and Count Piccolomini From thence he set forth for Valenchin and Cambray where the Governour of the Town used my Lord with great respect and civility and desired him to give the word that night Thence he went to Peroon a Frontier Town in France where the Vice-Governour in absence of the Governour of that place did likewise entertain my Lord with all respect and desired him to give the Word that night and so to Paris without any further stay My Lord being arrived at Paris which was in April 1645 immediately went to tender his humble duty to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother of England where it was my Fortune to see him the first time I being then one of the Maids of Honour to Her Majesty and after he had stay'd there some time he was pleased to take some particular notice of me and express more then an ordinary affection for me insomuch that he resolved to chuse me for his Second Wife for he having but two Sons purposed to marry me a young Woman that might prove fruitful to him and encrease his Posterity by a Masculine Off-spring Nay He was so desirous of Male-Issue that I have heard him say He cared not so God would be pleased to give him many Sons although they came to be Persons of the meanest Fortunes but God it seems had ordered it otherwise and frustrated his Designs by making me barren which yet did never lessen his Love and Affection for me After My Lord was married having no Estate or Means left him to maintain himself and his Family he was necessitated to seek for Credit and live upon the Courtesie of those that were pleased to Trust him which although they did for some while and shew'd themselves very civil to My Lord yet they grew weary at length insomuch that his Steward was forced one time to tell him That he was not able to provide a Dinner for him for his Creditors were resolved to trust him no longer My Lord being always a great master of his Passions was at least shew'd himself not in any manner troubled at it but in a pleasant humour told me that I must of necessity pawn my Cloaths to make so much Money as would procure a Dinner I answer'd That my Cloaths would be but of small value and therefore desired my Waiting-Maid to pawn some small toys which I had formerly given her which she willingly did The same day in the afternoon My Lord spake himself to his Creditors and both by his civil Deportment and perswasive Arguments obtained so much that they did not onely trust him for more necessaries but lent him Mony besides to redeem those Toys that were pawned Hereupon I sent my Waiting-Maid into England to my Brother the Lord Lucas for that small Portion which was left me and my Lord also immediately after dispatched one of his Servants who was then Governour to his Sons to some of
purpose sent a Letter to my Lord from Paris but my Lord was so far from selling that Horse that he was displeased to hear that any Price should be offer'd for him So great a Love hath my Lord for good Horses And certainly I have observed and do verily believe that some of them had also a particular Love to my Lord for they seemed to rejoice whensoever he came into the Stables by their trampling action and the noise they made nay they would go much better in the Mannage when my Lord was by then when he was absent and when he rid them himself they seemed to take much pleasure and pride in it But of all sorts of Horses my Lord loved Spanish Horses and Barbes best saying That Spanish Horses were like Princes and Barbes like Gentlemen in their kind And this was the chief Recreation and Pastime my Lord had in Antwerp I will now return to my former Discourse and the Relation of some Important Affairs and Actions which happen'd about this time His Majesty our now Gracious King Charles the Second some time after he was gone out of Holland and returned into France took his Journey from thence to Breda if I remember well to treat there with his Subjects of Scotland who had then made some offers of Agreement My Lord according to his duty went thither to wait on His Majesty and was there in Council with His Majesty His Highness the then Prince of Orange His Majesties Brother-in-law and some other Privy-Counsellors in which after several Debates concerning that Important Affair His Highness the Prince of Orange and my Lord agreed in one Opinion viz. That they could perceive no other and better way at that present for His Majesty but to make an Agreement with His Subjects of Scotland upon any Condition and to go into Scotland in Person Himself that he might but be sure of an Army there being no probability or appearance then of getting an Army any where else Which Counsel either out of the then alledged Reasons or some others best known to His Majesty was embraced His Majesty agreeing with the Scots so far notwithstanding they were so unreasonable in their Treaty that His Majesty had hardly Patience to hear them that he resolved to go into Scotland in Person and though my Lord had an earnest desire to wait on His Majesty thither yet the Scots would not suffer him to come or be in any part of that Kingdom Wherefore out of his Loyalty and Duty he gave His Majesty the best advice he could viz. that he conceived it most safe for His Majesty to adhere to the Earl of Argyle's Party which he supposed to be the strongest but especially to reconcile Hamilton's and Argyle's Party and compose the differences between them for then His Majesty would be sure of Two Parties whereas otherwise He would leave an Enemy behind Him which might cause His overthrow and endanger His Majesties Person and if His Majesty could but get the Power into his own hands he might do hereafter what he pleased His Majesty being arrived in Scotland ordered his affairs so wisely that soon after he got an Army to march with him into England but whether they were all Loyal is not for me to dispute However Argyle was discontented as it appear'd by two complaining Letters he sent to my Lord which my Lord gave His Majesty notice of so that onely the Duke of Hamilton went with His Majesty who fought and died like a Valiant Man and a Loyal subject In this fight between the English and Scots His Majesty expressed an extraordinary Courage and though his Army was in a manner destroyed yet the Glory of an Heroick Prince remained with our gracious Soveraign In the mean time whilest His Majesty was yet in Scotland and before he marched with His Army into England it happen'd that the Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Newburg upon some differences having raised Forces against each other but afterwards concluded a Peace between them were pleased to profer those Forces to my Lord for His Majesties use and service which as the Lord Chancellour who was then in France sent word to my Lord was the onely Foreign profer that had been made to his Majesty My Lord immediately gave His Majesty notice of it but whether it was for want of convenient Transportation or Mony or that the Scots did not like the assistance that profer was not accepted Concerning the affairs and intrigues that pass'd in Scotland and England during the time of His Majesties stay there I am ignorant of them neither doth it belong to me now to write or give an account of any thing else but what concerns the History of my Noble Lord and Husbands Life and his own Actions who so soon as he had Intelligence that the Scottish Army which went with His Majesty into England was defeated and that no body knew what was become of His Majesty fell into so violent a Passion that I verily believed it would have endanger'd his life but when afterwards the happy news came of His Majejesties safe arrival in France never any Subject could rejoice more then my Lord did About this time it chanced that my Lords Brother Sir Charles Cavendish and my self took a journey into England occasioned both by my Lord 's extream want and necessity and his Bothers Estate which having been under Sequestration from the time or soon after he went out of England was then in case he did not return and compound for it to be sold out-right Sir Charles was unwilling to receive his Estate upon such conditions and would rather have lost it then compounded for it But my Lord considering it was better to recover something then lose all intreated the Lord Chancellour who was then in Antwerp to perswade his Brother to a composition which his Lordship did very effectually and proved himself a Noble and true Friend in it We had so small a Provision of money when we set forth our Journey for England that it was hardly able to carry us to London but were forced to stay at Southwark where Sir Charles sent into London for one that had formerly been his Steward and having declared to him his wants and necessities desir'd him to try his Credit He seemed ready to do his Master what service he could in that kind but pretending withall that his Credit was but small Sir Charles gave him his Watch to pawn and with that money paid those small scores we had made in our Lodging there From thence we went to some other Lodgings that were prepared for us in Covent-Garden and having rested our selves some time I desired my Brother the Lord Lucas to claim in my behalf some subsistance for my self out of my Lords Estate for it was declared by the Parliament That the Lands of those that were banished should be sold to any that would buy them onely their Wives and Children were allowed to put in their Claims But he received