\6 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



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 showed himself — not in any manner troubled at it, 

 but in a pleasant humour told me that I must of necessity pawn 

 my clothes to make so much money as would procure a dinner. 

 I answered that my clothes would be but of small value, and 

 therefore desired my waiting-maid 1 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 persuasive 

 arguments, obtained so much that they did not only trust him 

 for more necessaries, but lent him money 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 despatched one of his servants 2 , who was then governor 

 to his sons, to some of his friends, to try what means he could 

 procure for his subsistence. But though he used all the 

 industry and endeavour he could, yet he effected but little, by 

 reason everybody was so afraid 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 proffers 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 unwil- 

 lingness to marry as yet, continuing, nevertheless, in England 

 and living as well as they could 3 . 



, Some two years after my Lord's marriage, when he had pre- 

 vailed 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 hither- 

 to, 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 manage, which 



l Mrs. Chaplain, now Mrs. Top. ~ Mr. Benoist. 



3 Charles Viscount Mansfield married the eldest daughter and heir'of Mr. Richard 

 Rogers ; Henry, afterwards Earl of Ogle, married a daughter of Mr. William Pierre- 

 pont, who is so frequently mentioned by Mrs. Hutchinson. But see Section 16, in Book 

 III, of this Memoir, which treats of the Duke's pedigree. 



