190 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1649. 



The Marquis had been little more than a year in 

 France, when he seems to have written to the exiled 

 King, then at Jersey, for some confirmation of his titles ; 

 to which request he received the following courtly 

 compliments and vain empty promises : 



&quot; MY LORD WORCESTER, 



u I am truly sensible of your great merit and 

 sufferings in the service of the King my father, and I 

 shall never be wanting to reward and encourage as well 

 that kindness to his person as that zeal to his service 

 which you have expressed in all your actions, and 

 which I doubt not but you will still continue to 

 me. I fear that in this conjuncture of time it will not 

 be seasonable for me to grant, nor for you to receive 

 the addition of honour you desire ; neither can I at this 

 time send the order you mention concerning the Garter, 

 but be confident that I will in due time give you such 

 satisfaction in these particulars and in all other things 

 that you can reasonably expect from me, as shall let 

 you see with how much truth and kindness I am 



&quot; Your affectionate friend, 



&quot; CHARLES E. 



&quot; I do not send the letter to Monsieur Monbrun till I 

 understand more particularly from you what the inten 

 tion of it is, which I do not yet well understand. 



&quot;Jersey, 21/31 of Octob. 1649. 

 &quot; For the MARQUIS OP WORCESTER.&quot; 



The Marquis was probably for four or five years a 

 refugee in France, intimately associated with the exiled 

 Court; &quot;Paris and indeed all France (says Evelyn 37 ), 

 being full of loyal fugitives,&quot; in 1650. Many vague sur 

 mises have originated with different writers to account for 



From MSS. Badminton. 37 Evelyn. 



