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gave his Majesty notice of it ; but whether it was for want of 

 convenient transportation, or money, or that the Scots did 

 not like the assistance, that proffer was not accepted K 



Concerning the affairs and intrigues that passed in Scotland 

 and England, during the time of his Majesty's stay there, I am 

 ignorant of them ; neither doth it belong to me now to write, 

 or give an account of anything else but what concerns the 

 history of my noble Lord and husband's life, and his own 

 actions ; who, so soon as he had intelligence that the Scottish 

 army, which went with his Majesty into England, was de- 

 feated and that nobody knew what was become of his Majesty, 

 fell into so violent a passion, that I verily believed it would 

 have endangered his life ; but when afterwards the happy 

 news came of his Majesty's safe arrival in France, never any 

 subject could rejoice more than my Lord did. 



About this time it chanced, that my Lord's brother, Sir 

 Charles Cavendish, and myself, took a journey into England, 

 occasioned both by my Lord's extreme want and necessity, 

 and his brother's estate ; which having been under seques- 

 tration 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 outright. Sir Charles was unwilling to receive his 

 estate upon such conditions, and would rather have lost it, 

 than compounded for it. But my Lord, considering it was 

 better to recover something, than lose all, entreated the Lord 

 Chancellor, who was then in Antwerp, to persuade his brother 

 to a composition, which his Lordship did very effectually, 



1 Nicholas writes to Ormond on June 20, 1651, that he hears from the Hague ' that 

 the Marquess of Brandenburgh and his lady arrived there Friday last, and on Sunday 

 following he and his lady (when the Princess Royal was at sermon) went to see the young 

 Prince of Orange, and on Tuesday following intended to leave the Hague, without 

 making one visit to her Highness Royal. The Marquess resolves to make war against 

 the Duke of Neuburg, who will be assisted by the King of Spain and the Duke of Lor- 

 raine, as the Marquess hopes to be by the Swede.' — Carte, Original Letters, ii, 38. 

 On August 8, however, the Elector of Brandenburgh wrote to the Marquess of New- 

 castle that his being obliged to take up arms against the Duke of Neuburg hindered 

 his helping Charles at present, but that as soon as matters were settled he would not 

 fail to let his soldiers put themselves at the service of the King. On September n 

 he wrote further congratulating him on the success of the King of Great Britain, and 

 saying that as he hoped soon to have no further need of his troops he would willingly 

 enter into a treaty for their employment in the King's service. A letter from one of 

 the Elector's Ministers stated that his sovereign would provide 6000 infantry and 4000 

 cavalry, adding that he had been employed to proceed to Denmark to solicit ships, and 

 asking in what British harbour the troops were to land. The Marquess replied saying 

 that he was about to send a messenger to make arrangements with the King of Den- 

 mark. Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, vol. ii, pp. 105-7. But the battle of 

 Worcester put an end to all these hopes. Nevertheless the Elector of Brandenburgh 

 continued to exercise his good offices on behalf of Charles in the Diet of the Empire, 

 and in January 1654 the King sent him the Order of the Garter (p. 303). 



