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ported me beyond good manners, and lay what penance 

 you please upon me, so I tend not to lessen your Grace s 

 belief that I am 



u Your Grace s most really devoted friend 

 &quot; and servant ever to obey you, 

 &quot; WORCESTER. 



&quot;Dec. 29, 1665.&quot; 



&quot; My dear Lord, my heart is yet full fraughted, and 

 I can say much more for myself, were I not ashamed 

 of giving your Grace so great a trouble with my scrib 

 bling, which I will thus end, promising to smother as 

 long as may be, my deplorable condition, and worse 

 usage, but it will at last fly over the whole world to the 

 disheartening of all zealous and loyal subjects ; unless 

 such a true-hearted Englishman and faithful servant as 

 your Grace do awaken his Majesty out of the lethargy 

 my enemies have cast him into, not to be sensible of 

 what I have done or suffered. Cardinal Mazarine 

 presented me to his King with these words, 4 Sire, who 

 soever hath loyalty or religion in recommendation, must 

 honour this well-born person ;&quot; and the Queen-mother, 

 now Dowager, hath often said to have heard her hus 

 band say, that next to her and his children, he was 

 bound to take a care of me, of whom it may be now 

 verified, qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadet, I am 

 cast to the ground, I can fall no lower.&quot; 



This month the Marquis appears to have obtained 

 the loan of 200, for which a draft receipt* is extant, 

 as follows : 



&quot; I, Edward Somerset, Earl and Marquis of Worcester, 

 do confess and acknowledge to have received and bor- 



* From MSS. Badminton. 



