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my Lord in so great distress, did him the favour to lend him 

 /200 (which money my Lord since his return hath honestly 

 and justly repaid). This relief came so seasonably, that it 

 got my Lord credit in the city of Antwerp, whereas otherwise 

 he would have lost himself to his great disadvantage ; for my 

 Lord having hired the house afore-mentioned, and wanting 

 furniture for it, was credited by the citizens for as many 

 goods as he was pleased to have, as also for meat and drink, 

 and all kind of necessaries and provisions, which certainly 

 was a special blessing of God, he being not only a stranger in 

 that nation, but, to all appearance, a ruined man. 



After my Lord had been in Antwerp some time, where he 

 lived as retiredly as it was possible for him to do, he gained 

 much love and respect of all that knew or had any business 

 with him. At the beginning of our coming thither, we found 

 but few English (except those that were merchants) but 

 afterwards their number increased much, especially of persons 

 of quality ; and whereas at first there were no more but four 

 coaches that went the Tour 1 , viz. the Governor's of the 

 Castle, my Lord's, and two more, they amounted to the 

 number of above a hundred, before we went from thence ; 

 for all those that had sufficient means, and could go to the 

 price, kept coaches, and went the Tour for their own pleasure. 

 And certainly I cannot in duty and conscience but give this 

 public testimony to that place. That whereas I have ob- 

 served, that most commonly such towns or cities where the 

 prince of that country does not reside himself, or where there 

 is no great resort of the chief nobility and gentry, are but 

 little civilised ; certainly, the inhabitants of the said city of 

 Antwerp are the civilest and best-behaved people that ever 

 I saw. So that my Lord lived there with as much content 

 as a man of his condition could do, and his chief pastime 

 and divertisement consisted in the manage of the two afore- 

 mentioned horses ; which he had not enjoyed long, but the 

 Barbary horse, for which he paid 200 pistoles in Paris, died, 

 and soon after the horse which he had from the Lord Crofts ; 

 and though he wanted present means to repair these his 

 losses, yet he endeavoured and obtained so much credit at 



1 The Duchess, in her Life, explains this to signify driving about the town and the 

 principal streets in a coach, ' which we call here a Tour, where all the chief of the town 

 go to see and be seen, likewise all strangers, of what quality soever '. 



