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tioned, viz. Welbeck and Bolsover), and the credit which his 

 sons had got, which amounted in all to ^2400 a year, sprinkled 

 something amongst his creditors, and borrowed so much of 

 Mr. Top and Mr. Smith (though without assurance) that he 

 could pay such score 3 as were most pressing, contracted from 

 the poorer sort of tradesmen, and send ready money to market, 

 to avoid cozenage (for small scores run up most unreasonably, 

 especially if no strict accounts be kept, and the rate be left 

 to the creditor's pleasure) by which means there was in a 

 short time so much saved, as it could not have been imagined. 



About this time, a report came of a great number of sectaries, 

 and of several disturbances in England, which heightened my 

 Lord's former hopes into a firm belief of a sudden change in 

 that kingdom, and a happy restoration of his Majesty, which 

 it also pleased God to send according to his expectation 1 ; 

 for his Majesty was invited by his subjects, who were not able 

 longer to endure those great confusions and encumbrances 

 they had sustained hitherto, to take possession of his hereditary 

 rights, and the power of all his dominions : and being then at 

 the Hague in Holland, to take shipping in those parts for 

 England, my Lord went thither to wait on his Majesty, who 

 used my Lord very graciously ; and his Highness the Duke 

 of York was pleased to offer him one of those ships that were 

 ordered to transport his Majesty ; for which he returned his 

 most humble thanks to his Highness, and begged leave of his 

 Highness that he might hire a vessel for himself and his com- 

 pany. 



In the meantime, whilst my Lord was at the Hague, his 

 Majesty was pleased to tell him, that General Monk, now 

 Duke of Albemarle, had desired the place of being Master of 

 the Horse : to which my Lord answered, that that gallant 

 person was worthy of any favour that his Majesty could 

 confer upon him : and having taken his leave of his Majesty, 

 and his Highness the Duke of York, went towards the ship 

 that was to transport him for England (I might better call it 

 a boat, than a ship ; for those that were intrusted by my 

 Lord to hire a ship for that purpose, had hired an old rotten 

 frigate that was lost the next voyage after ; insomuch, that 

 when some of the company that had promised to go over with 

 my Lord, saw it, they turned back, and would not endanger 



1 See the Duke's letters to Nicholas in Appendix viii. 



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