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said money for many years without paying any use for it, 

 it might have been improved to my Lord's better advantage, 

 had it been in his father's own hands, he being a person of 

 great prudence in managing his estate ; and though the said 

 Earl of Shrewsbury made my Lord his executor, yet my Lord 

 was so far from making any advantage by that trust, even in 

 what the law allowed him, that he lost ^17,000 by it ; and 

 afterwards delivered up his trust to William, Earl of Pem- 

 broke, and Thomas, Earl of Arundel, who both married two 

 daughters of the said Earl of Shrewsbury ; and since his 

 return into England, upon the desire of Henry Howard, second 

 son to the late Earl of Arundel, and heir-apparent (by reason 

 of his eldest brother's distemper), he resigned his trust and 

 interest to him, which certainly is a very difficult business, 

 and yet questionable whether it may lawfully be done or not ? 

 But such was my Lord's love to the family of the Shrewsburys, 

 that he would rather wrong himself than it. 



To mention some lawful advantages which my Lord might 

 have made by the said trust, it may be noted in the first place, 

 that the Earl of Shrewsbury's estate was let in long leases, 

 which, by the law, fell to the executor. Next, that after some 

 debts and legacies were paid out of those lands, which were 

 set out for that purpose, they were settled so, that they fell 

 to my Lord. Thirdly, seven hundred pounds a year was left 

 as a gift to my Lord's brother, Sir Charles Cavendish, in case 

 the Countess of Kent, second daughter to the said Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, had no children. But my Lord never made any 

 advantage for himself, of all these ; neither was he inquisitive 

 whether the said Countess of Kent cut off the entail of that 

 land, although she never had a child ; for my Lord's nature 

 is so generous, that he hates to be mercenary, and never minds 

 his own profit or interest in any trust or employment, more 

 than the good and benefit of him that entrusts or employs 

 him. 



But, as I said heretofore, these are but petty losses in com- 

 parison of those he sustained by the late Civil Wars, whereof 

 I shall partly give you an account 1 . I say partly ; for though 



1 Newcastle was too great a ' delinquent ' to be allowed to compound, even if he 

 had wished to do so. His whole estate was confiscated and sold. The proceedings 

 in the case of persons having claims on his estate are given in the Calendar of the Com- 

 mittee for Compounding, which also contains a list of the purchasers of his lands, and 

 many other particulars about the disposal of his property (pp. 1732-7). 



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