1645-6.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 217 



CHAPTER XVI. 



HIS INVENTIONS FURTHER PETITIONS PUBLICATION OF 

 HIS CENTURY CHARLES II. VISITS HIS SON AT BAD 

 MINTON WORCESTER HOUSE, STRAND. 



THE preamble of an Act for awarding 60,000 to 

 poor cavaliers sets forth, that &quot; Whereas there was a 

 loyal party which through all hazard and extremities 

 in the defence of the King s person, crown, and dignity, 

 the rights and privileges of Parliament, the religion, 

 laws, and honour of the English nation, did bear arms 

 by command of his late Majesty of ever blessed memory, 

 according to their duty, and the known laws of this 

 land, and did with an unwearied courage, faith, and 

 constancy, with their lives and fortunes, oppose the 

 barbarous rebellion raised against his most excellent 

 Majesty in the year 1642, &c. &c.&quot;* But means so 

 inadequate could really benefit few, particularly so large 

 a claimant as the Marquis of Worcester, who had sacri 

 ficed more than fifteen times the whole amount of that 

 fund. 



And although he received back a large portion of his 

 estates, the very deeds held by Cromwell being at this 

 day in the family s possession, his own debts had accu 

 mulated to a most ruinous extent, less from improvidence 

 on his own part, than from the precarious course of 



Bod Lib. &quot; Carte Papers. Lord Wharton s Papers, 81.&quot; 



