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but if possible to restore the royal family of England. 

 His commanding minister, the Cardinal Mazarine, 

 however, was always averse to any such measure ; so 

 that all the exiled prince could do was to send abroad 

 his envoys and agents, to solicit for justice and relief, 

 although without effect, as the result proved. He sent 

 to England, says Kennet, u the noble Marquis of Wor 

 cester for .private intelligence as well as for supplies ; 

 but the Marquis was taken up prisoner in London, and 

 committed to the Tower in September [?] ; where he 

 was threatened with a speedy trial, and worse punished 

 with a long confinement.&quot; 



We are brought by this circumstance to an interest 

 ing period in the adventurous life of the Marquis of 

 Worcester. His visit to England was every way ex 

 traordinary for its boldness or apparent recklessness ; 

 as he was a marked man, one who could have no 

 reason for expecting to be able to conciliate the reign 

 ing power, which had already stigmatized him as an 

 u enemy and traitor to the Commonwealth,&quot; his estates 

 to be confiscated, and himself, wherever taken, doomed 

 to u die without any mercy whatever.&quot; 



The Marquis s son sat in the Cromwellian Parliament ; 

 Cromwell enjoyed the Monmouthshire estates of the 

 Marquis, to the value of 2500 per annum, and allowed 

 Lord Herbert a pretty liberal income. From Edinburgh, 

 Cromwell wrote on the 12th of April, 1651, a letter to 

 his wife : &quot; My dearest, Beware of my Lord Her 

 bert his resort to your house ; if he do so may occa 

 sion scandal, as if I were bargaining with him : indeed 

 be wise ; you know my meaning.&quot;&quot;)&quot; 23 



The Marquis might have some private object in view, 

 equally with that of serving his prince, and might have 



Brit. Mus Cole MSS. Vol. xxxiii. p. 37. 23 Carlyle. 



