74 The Life of William, Duke of Newcastle 



it may be computed what the loss of the annual rents of his 

 lands amounts to, of which he never received the least worth 

 for himself and his own profit, during the time both of his 

 being employed in the service of war, and his sufferings in 

 banishment ; as also the loss of those lands that are alienated 

 from him, both in present possession, and in reversion ; and 

 of his parks and woods that were cut down ; yet it is impossible 

 to render an exact account of his personal estate. 



As for his rents during the time he acted in the wars ; 

 though he suffered others to gather theirs for their own use, 

 yet his own either went for the use of the army, or fell into 

 the hands of the enemy, or were suppressed and withheld 

 from him by the cozenage of his tenants and officers, my Lord 

 being then not able to look after them himself. 



About the time when his late Majesty undertook the expe- 

 dition into Scotland for the suppressing of some insurrection 

 that happened there ; my Lord, as afore is mentioned, amongst 

 the rest, lent his Majesty £i 0,000 sterling ; but having newly 

 married a daughter to the then Lord Brackly, now Earl of 

 Bridgwater, whose portion was ^12,000, the moiety whereof 

 was paid in gold on the day of her marriage, and the rest soon 

 after (although she was too young to be bedded) — this, to- 

 gether with some other expenses, caused him to take up the 

 said ;£ 10,000 at interest, the use whereof he paid many years 

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Also, when, after his sixteen years' banishment, he returned 

 into England, before he knew what estate was left him, and 

 was able to receive any rents of his own, he was necessitated 

 to take ^5000 upon use for the maintenance of himself and 

 his family ; whereof the now Earl of Devonshire, his cousin- 

 german, once removed, lent him ^1000, for which and the 

 former ^1000 mentioned heretofore, he never desired nor 

 received any use from my Lord, which I mention, to declare 

 the favour and bounty of that noble Lord. 



But though it is impossible to render an exact account of 

 all the losses which my Lord has sustained by the said wars, 

 yet as far as they are accountable, I shall endeavour to repre- 

 sent them in these following particulars : 



In the first place, I shall give you a just particular of my 

 Lord's estate in lands, as it was before the wars, partly accord- 



1 Use — i.e. interest 



