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able side, and maintained there 800 men entirely at his 

 own expense. 



In September, 1642, Lord Herbert was in personal 

 communication with his Majesty at Nottingham. He 

 was then, although 41 years of age, a man singularly 

 inexperienced in the ways either of commerce or of 

 courts. His studies, pursuits, domestic habits, were 

 not calculated to foster that spirit of intrigue which 

 a deep designing mind alone knows best how to 

 conjure up and apply with consummate art, and the 

 exercise of which base quality his position would 

 seem to have frequently demanded. We have now to 

 peruse a minute report, drawn up by Lord Herbert, 

 of what passed between himself and the King in re 

 gard to a further loan.* The cunning and artfulness 

 of the royal negotiator is mirrored forth in this affair 

 in most unmistakeable characters. But the whole 

 document is a striking example of the arts by which 

 Charles the First could practise on his unsuspecting 

 victims. It is an engrossed copy not signed but has 

 been endorsed on the back, &quot; Lord Herbert s Message 

 from the King to be delivered to his father from Not 

 tingham, Sept. 9th, 1642,&quot; and runs as follows: 



&quot; The effect of the message your Majesty desireth 

 I should deliver to my father for your Majesty at Not 

 tingham, the 9th of September, 1642. 



&quot; That your Majesty with many thanks expresseth 

 yourself most sensible of the great expense and charge 

 his Lordship hath been at for your service, far more 

 than any man else, considering what I have had as 

 well as Sir John Byron s [expenses], that it is most 

 true at this time, much lieth at stake both of your Ma- 



* From MSS. at Badminton 



