110 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1645. 



the King, that if he would send for his brother the 

 Lord John, to come unto him, and would say but thus 

 and thus unto him, that he would undertake he might 

 have the 6000. The King s occasions were then 

 urgent (being then before Gloucester, and hard pinched 

 for lack of money) ; through my Lord Herbert s persua 

 sion, my Lord John was sent for, came, and the busi 

 ness took effect ; the King promising to repay it by 

 such a time. When time and suspicion persuaded the 

 Marquis to call in his money, excuses made delays for 

 a time, but at last all excuses being set apart, by im 

 portunity, the Marquis wished his son John to go and 

 fetch the money, or else never to see his face any more ; 

 part of which injunction the Lord John performed, but 

 never the other. Not long after the Lord Herbert 

 coming to his father, his father received him with 

 wonted, but unexpected, cheerfulness. It so happened 

 that my Lord Herbert began to excuse himself unto his 

 father, concerning this business ; on whom the father 

 bestowed this language : Son, I pray save yourself the 

 labour, for I do not blame you at all, neither am I 

 angry with you ; for I never trusted you with the 

 money. I love no man the worse for following his pro 

 fession 5 and you have made it your profession (all 

 along) to deceive your father, to help the King but I 

 do not love a man that will take away another man s 

 profession from him, and deceive his own father of his 

 money, and his brother of his calling/ 



In 1650, the chronicler of this anecdote dedicated his 

 book to the subject of it, in the following strain : 

 &quot; The many favours which I received from your noble 

 family, especially from your Lordship, wrought upon a 

 disposition, some-deal a pretender unto gratitude, how 

 it might, in some measure or other, answer the respect 

 and clear the heart, that had lain charged so long with 



