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in his grounds, grange horses, hackney-horses, manage-horses, 

 coach-horses, and others he kept for his use. 



To these losses I may well and justly join the charges which 

 my Lord hath been put to since his return into England, by 

 reason they were caused by the ruins of the said wars ; whereof 

 I reckon : 



1. His law-suits, which have been very chargeable to him, 

 more than advantageous. 



2. The stocking, manuring, paling, stubbing, 1 hedging, 

 etc., of his grounds and parks ; where it is to be noted, that 

 no advantage or benefit can be made of grounds, under the 

 space of three years, and of cattle not under five or six. 



3. The repairing and furnishing of some of his dwelling- 

 houses. 



4. The setting up a race or breed of horses, as he had before 

 the wars ; for which purpose he hath bought the best mares 

 he could get for money. 



In short, I can reckon ^12,000 laid out barely for the repair 

 of some ruins, which my Lord could not be without, there 

 being many of them to repair yet ; neither is this all that is 

 laid out, but much more which I cannot well remember ; nor 

 is there more but one grange stocked, amongst several that 

 were kept for furnishing his house with provisions. As for 

 other charges and losses, which my Lord hath sustained since 

 his return, I will not reckon them, because my design is only 

 to account such losses as were caused by the wars. 



By which, as they have been mentioned, it may easily be 

 concluded, that although my Lord's estate was very great 

 before the wars, yet now it is shrunk into a very narrow com- 

 pass, that it puts his prudence and wisdom to the proof, to 

 make it serve his necessities, he having no other assistance 

 to bear him up ; and yet notwithstanding all this, he hath 

 since his return paid both for himself and his son, all manner 

 of taxes, loans, levies, assessments, etc., equally with the rest 

 of his Majesty's subjects, according to that estate that is left 

 him, which he has been forced to take upon interest. 



1 ' Stub ', to grub up stumps or roots. — Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Pro- 

 vincial Words. 



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