222 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1660. 



date of copying, or to a period granted for lending it. 

 The 88th article alludes to a Coining Engine, while in 

 the printed edition this is omitted and a Brazen Head 

 substituted; there are also some slight verbal differ 

 ences ; only an abbreviated title page 5 and no dedi 

 cation. 



Among other petitions a rough draft exists of one 

 evidently prepared by the Marchioness herself; whether 

 sent or not cannot now be ascertained, but of its authen 

 ticity as a family record of distress there can be no 

 doubt whatever. It is so negligently and imperfectly 

 written, that an entire copy cannot be advantageously 

 given. It runs thus : 



&quot; Master Speaker, I beseech you not to stand so 

 much upon an order of the House as to forget God 

 Almighty s precepts, to do as you would be done by. 

 Most of the honourable House I conceive have wives, 

 and if any of you would be contented his wife should 

 suffer as I do, then let me still endure ; if otherwise, 

 be pleased to consider me, if not according to my sex 

 or quality &quot;- yet, &quot;in consideration of seven years at 

 tendance, and millions of court sueings, and my heart 

 almost broken with supplications and vain promises to 

 them, and at last instead of many thousand pounds,&quot; out 

 of the estates, &quot; all now ending in a ruined house, and 

 that but for an uncertain time, not for my own life, 

 rather but this poor pittance for his life, who is near 

 three score.&quot; She also seems to allude to fever, and 

 the breaking up of his health, concluding, &quot; I, therefore, 

 most humbly seek this honourable House to make an 

 end of it.&quot; 



We find the Marquis with noble perseverance con- 



* Brit. Mus. Harleian MS. No. 2428. 



