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tricate nature, and the most embroiled circumstances, 

 were under their consideration, and resolutions to be 

 taken therein for his Majesty s service :&quot; he having just 

 previously escaped from the Isle of Wight. 



&quot; The Earl of Glamorgan* had come to Paris a few 

 months before him, recommended by the Nuncio Einuc- 

 cini to Cardinal Mazarine, and to the Pope s Nuncio in 

 that place, on account of his attachment to the Holy 

 See, though unfortunate in all his undertakings, and not 

 endued with that prudence which was necessary to the 

 post he desired. His business there was to solicit the 

 Queen to make him Governor of Ireland, but he met 

 with so ill a reception at Court, that he soon despaired 

 of succeeding. His Lady, to whom the Marquis of 

 Ormond had once made his addresses, (before he had 

 hopes of marrying his cousin, and uniting the estate of 

 his family) resented the neglect shewed of her Lord, and 

 imputed it, as well as his imprisonment at Dublin, to 

 the influence and power of the Marquis. She carried 

 her resentment so far, that when he waited upon her 

 after his arrival at Paris, and offered to salute her, she 

 turned away her face with great disdain. The Marquis 

 thereupon made her a reverence, and with great presence 

 of mind, said, 4 Really, Madam, this would have trou 

 bled me eighteen years ago ; f and then went to the next, 

 the company present being of his acquaintance, and 

 much pleased with what he had said.&quot; 



We may here pause to remark that, from the close of 

 the year 1640, when the Long Parliament commenced 

 its memorable sittings, the prominent events affecting 

 the history of art and science in England are compa 

 ratively meagre, as might be expected, while the public 

 mind was being perpetually distracted and disturbed 



* Sec Nuncio s Memoirs, fol. 1818. Ireland, iii. 100. 

 f Sec her Marriage in 1639, page 30. 



