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rowed of * * * * the fall sum of two hundred pounds 

 sterling, for the assurance thereof I do constitute him 

 the said * * * to be receiver of two hundred pounds, 

 payable from the Eight Honourable the Lord High 

 Chancellor of England, the Earl of Clarendon, at 

 Michaelmas next, which shall be in the year of our 

 Lord 1666, and therewith to repay himself the said 

 two hundred pounds. Witness my hand and seal, this 

 30th day of Dec. 1665. 



&quot; WORCESTER. 



&quot; Signed, sealed and delivered 

 &quot; in presence.&quot; 



From 1662 to 1665, the Marquis of Worcester 

 appears to have been pretty regular in his attendance 

 at the House of Peers. But the last we hear of him 

 was on the 31st of October, 1665. When the House 

 met on the 1st of October, 1666, the Marquis was absent, 

 being &quot; excused, 7 possibly from the state of his health, 

 as he was never present afterwards.* 



About the same time we have his Petition for the 

 appointment of a Committee of Inquiry : f 



&quot;To the King s Most Excellent Majesty. The most 

 humble Petition of Edward, Marquis of Worcester : 



44 SHEWETH, 



&quot;That your Petitioner overwhelmed with the 

 very, very much he hath to say, and fearful too long to 

 detain your sacred Majesty therewith from more serious 

 affairs, humbly prayeth that you will be pleased to 

 refer him to be heard by the Lord High Chancellor of 

 England, the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Albemarle, 

 the Earl of Lotherdale, the Lord Arlington, the Lord 



* On the 10th of October, 1667, his son occupied his place, as Marquis of Wor 

 cester. 



f From MSS. Badminton. 



