1644.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. G7 



The achievements, as thus recorded, are sufficiently 

 high sounding, but no contemporary historian seems to 

 have considered them of sufficient importance to put on 

 record. Neither his own letters, nor those of his 

 numerous family and connexions, neither political nor 

 religious partizans nor opponents give us a glimpse of 

 our general s skill, bravery, and final successes ; while 

 the few particulars actually recorded leave but a faint 

 impression as regards facts, and a most unfavourable 

 one as regards results. In short, in his military capacity 

 he bears a most mythical character. 



We have his own statement* that, through the means 

 supplied by his father and himself, the Marquis of Hert 

 ford, after his defeat in the West, was supplied with 

 recruits to attend his Majesty at Oxford, at a cost of 

 8000. They also raised Sir John Byron s regiment of 

 horse, at an expense of 5000. 



He further expressly alludes to having rendered his 

 Majesty s army considerable service before Edge-hill, by 

 the men he furnished. And he was likewise at the 

 charge, if not personally engaged in the reducing of 

 Abergavenny and Carlyon to the service of the Crown. 



His own troop of Life Guards, consisted of one hun 

 dred and twenty noblemen and gentlemen, whose es 

 tates amounted to above sixty thousand pounds per 

 annum, most of whom he supplied with arms and horses. 

 This troop he acknowledges to have raised without 

 consulting his father, who reproving him said : &quot; The 

 consequence would be that the love and power he had 

 in the country would be perspicuous, although he should 

 have thanks from the King, yet others, though his 

 Majesty s well-wishers, through envy, would hate 

 him for it.&quot; His Lordship adds : &quot; which I confess 

 I have found too true, my services having been more 



* See Chapter XIX. giving the entire statement. 







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