1651.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 207 



&quot; Whereas, according to an order of the Committee 

 of Lords and Commons for sequestrations, of the 17th 

 of March, 1646, the Committees of Monmouth, Breck 

 nock, Glamorgan, Gloucester, and Berks, have sent out, 

 and assigned, unto the Petitioners, a fifth part of their 

 father s estate in those counties, towards their respective 

 maintenance : It is ordered by the Commons assembled 

 in Parliament, That the Petitioners shall have and re 

 ceive the profits of the said fifth part, so allotted unto 

 them, from the time of their demand, according to the 

 said order of the Lords and Commons, until this House 

 take further order : And the several Committees of the 

 said counties are hereby authorized and required forth 

 with to pay the same, or permit the Petitioners to receive 

 the same accordingly.&quot; 57 



The period from the surrender of Eaglan Castle in 

 August, 1646, down to the close of 1651, extending 

 over five years, must have been one of the most galling 

 and trying nature to the Marquis of Worcester. From 

 a state of ease and affluence he was suddenly plunged 

 into a condition the most mortifying possible to a noble 

 and independent mind ; without any other than the 

 barren consolation that his Prince, the Court, and men 

 of all ranks shared a similar fate. He did not stand 

 alone, a monument of ruin amidst plenty. In Septem 

 ber, 1649, Charles the Second had quitted the Continent 

 for Jersey, and the next year he arrived in Scotland ; 

 in 1651, his romantic career in England terminated, and 

 in November he was once more in France, without 

 credit, as Clarendon asserts, to borrow twenty pistoles. 



The Marquis s extensive property in Middlesex and 

 in Wales enabled the Government to discharge many 

 heavy claims ; but among its claimants, its very good 



57 Jo. II. C. Vol. v. p. 504; vi. p. 256. 



