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he is a great lover and master of, bought a Barbary horse for 

 that purpose, which cost him 200 pistoles, and, soon after 

 another Barbary horse from the Lord Crofts for which he was 

 to pay him ^100 when he returned into England. 



About this time there was a council called 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 Marquis of 

 Worcester ; the then Marquis, now Duke of Ormond ; the 

 Lord Jermyn, now Earl of St. Albans, and several others ; 

 where, after several debates concerning the then present con- 

 dition 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 himself 

 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 con- 

 tracted at Paris, and commanding her Controller 1 and Trea- 

 surer 2 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 ! — con- 

 sidering she had already given him heretofore near upon ^2000 

 sterling, even at the time when her Majesty stood most in need 

 of it. 



My Lord, after his Highness the Prince was gone, being ready 

 to execute her Majesty's commands in following him and pre- 

 paring 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 sterling ; with which sum he set out of Paris in the 

 same equipage he entered, 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 latter were then 

 returned out of England), one little chariot that would only 



1 Sir Henry Wood. 2 Sir Richard Foster. 



