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@d custome for my ancestors to take 
wives att home, that there was not 
scarce a famely of any note in Sus- 
sex, to which they were not by in- 
termarriages neerely related ; but I. 
was myselfe a stranger to them ail, 
except my lord Goring, who living 
att court, I have sene with my 
father, and heard of him, because 
he was appoynted one of my fa- 
ther’s executors, though he de- 
clin’'d the trouble. My grand. 
father had seven ‘sonns, of which 
my father was the youngest: to the 
eldest he gave his whole estate, and 
to the rest, according to the cus- 
tome of those times, slight annuities. 
The eldest brother married to a’ 
gentlewoman of agood famely, and 
by her had only one sonne, whose 
mother dying, my uncle married 
himselfe againe to one of his own 
maides, and by her had three more 
sons, whom, with their mother, my 
cousin William Apsley, the sonne 
of the first wife, held in such con- 
tempt, that agreate while after, dy- 
ing without children, he gave his 
estate of inheritance to my father, 
and two of my brothers, except 
about 100/. a yeare to the eldest of 
his halfe brothers, and annuities of 
30/, a piece to the 3 for their lives. 
He died before I was borne, but I 
have heard very honourable mention 
of him in our famely ; the rest of my 
father’s brothers went into the 
warres in Ireland, and the Low 
Countries, and there remain’d none 
of them, nor their issues when [ 
was born, but only three daughters 
who bestowed themselvcg@ineanely, 
and their generations aré worne out 
except two or three unregarded 
cbildren. My father att the death 
ef my grandfather, being but a 
youth att schoole had not patience 
to stay the perfecting of his studics, 
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but putt himselfe into present ac. 
tion, sold his annuitie, bought him- 
selfe good clothes, putsome mony 
in his purse, and came to London ; 
and by meanes of a relation at 
court, got a placein the household 
of queene Elizabeth, where he be. 
hav’d himselfe so that he won the 
love of many of the court; but be- 
ing young tooke an affection tO 
gaming, and spent most of the mo- 
ny he had in his purse. About 
that time the earle of Essex was set. 
ting forth for Cales voyage, and my 
father that had a mind to quitt his 
idle court life, procur’d an employ- 
ment from the victuallar of the na- 
vie, to goe allong with that fleete. 
In which voyage he demean’d him- 
selfe with so much courage and 
prudence, that after his returne he 
was honor’d with a very noble and 
profitable employment in Ireland. 
There a rich widow thathad many 
children cast her aflections upon 
him, and he married her ; but she 
not living many yeares with him, 
and having no children by him, af- 
ter her death he distributed all her 
estate among her children, for whom 
he ever preserv’d a fatherly kind- 
nesse, and some of her grandchil- 
dren were brought up in his house 
after | was borne. He, by God’s 
blessing, and his fidellity and indus- 
try, growing in estate and honor, 
receiv’'d a knighthood from king 
James soone after his coming to 
the crowne, for some eminent ser. 
vice done to him in Ireland, which 
having only heard in my childhood, 
I cannot perfectly settdowne. Af- 
ter that growing into a familliarity 
with sr. George Carew, made now 
by the king earle of Totnesse, a 
niece of this earl’s, the daughter of 
sr. Peter Carew, who liv’d a young 
widow in her uncle’s house, fell in 
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