334: LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS 



a time, to encourage him to go on at Glou 

 cester ; besides, likewise, the charge of reducing 

 of Abergavenny, Carlyon, and Newport to his 

 Majesty s obedience. 



44 Furthermore, for seven years, both in 

 England and Ireland, I allowed twenty pounds 

 each meal, to which all officers and gentlemen 

 were welcome ; and I believe the charges in 

 these particulars, not to be inserted or charged 

 on this account, amounts to one-half as much 

 as the former sums. I never received a farth 

 ing towards it as General or [otherwise], nor 

 a penny out of my estate in 20 years. These 

 times came unto upwards of sumebus viis et 

 modis, which alone amounted unto . 600,000 



44 These sums added together balance the 

 accounts and make good that I have spent, 

 lent, [and lost ?] for my King and country, 

 revera . . . . 918,000 



44 My Lords, being conscious of this, and many things 

 forgotten by me to set down, I was become proof against 

 anything the King s enemies could do against me, 

 since by their principles I knew I deserved it ; but, 

 since his Majesty s return and happy restoration it hath 

 almost stupified me to have been so laid by as not to have 

 had any promise made good to me, for which I had his 

 Majesty s royal word, hand, or even the Great Seal of 

 England ; but, of the contrary, I humbly beseech your 

 Lordship s leave to set down what, with all submission 

 to his Majesty s will and pleasure, flesh and blood cannot 

 but resent, yet so far only as shall stand with the duty of 

 a loyal subject and the unquenchable zeal of my real 

 heart towards my King and country, and a most humble 

 submission to your Lordships better judgment, casting 



