64 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



Majesty's enemies from executing that cruel design which 

 they had upon their gracious and merciful King. In which 

 he tried his uttermost power, insomuch that I have heard him 

 say out of a passionate zeal and loyalty, that he would willingly 

 sacrifice himself and all his posterity, for the sake of his 

 Majesty and the royal race. Nor did he ever repine either at 

 his losses or sufferings, but rejoiced rather that he was able 

 to suffer for his King and country. His army was the only 

 army that was able to uphold his Majesty's power ; which, so 

 long as it was victorious, it preserved both his Majesty's per- 

 son and crown. But so soon as it fell, that fell too ; and my 

 Lord was then in a manner forced to seek his own preservation 

 in foreign countries, where God was pleased to make strangers 

 his friends, who received and protected him when he was 

 banished his native country, and relieved him when his own 

 countrymen sought to starve him, by withholding from him 

 what was justly his own, only for his honesty and loyalty ; 

 which relief he received more from the commons of those 

 parts where he lived, than from princes, he being unwilling 

 to trouble any foreign prince with his wants and miseries, well 

 knowing, that gifts of great princes came slowly, and not 

 without much difficulty ; neither loves he to petition any one 

 but his own Sovereign. 



But though my Lord by the civility of strangers, and the 

 assistance of some few friends of his native country, lived in 

 an indifferent condition, yet (as it hath been declared hereto- 

 fore) he was put to great plunges and difficulties, insomuch 

 that his dear brother Sir Charles Cavendish would often say, 

 that though he could not truly complain of want, yet his meat 

 never did him good by reason my Lord, his brother, was 

 always so near wanting, that he was never sure after one meal 

 to have another : and though I was not afraid of starving 

 or begging, yet my chief fear was, that my Lord for his debts 

 would suffer imprisonment, where sadness of mind, and want 

 of exercise and air, would have wrought his destruction, which 

 yet by the mercy of God he happily avoided. 



Some time before the restoration of his Majesty to his 

 royal throne, my Lord, partly with the remainder of his 

 brother's estate (which was but little, it being wasted by 

 selling of land for compounding with the Parliament, paying 

 of several debts, and buying out the two houses aforemen- 



