OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 335 



myself wholly at your disposal and favourable con 

 struction of what I shall set down, according to the old 

 saying, that losers may have leave to speak&quot; 



In this proposed address to the House of Peers, the 

 Marquis of Worcester offers some introductory remarks 

 bearing on his parentage, education, and travels ; but 

 the burden of his speech is a detailed account of the 

 severe losses himself and his family sustained, con 

 sequent on the Civil War, combined with his father s 

 and his own liberality to Charles the First personally. 

 His proposed plan of laying his case before the House 

 is prefaced with a singular offer on his own part, under 

 four different heads : 



1st. He proposes to raise an auxiliary troop for his 

 Majesty s Life-guard. 



2nd. To cause to be erected a complete ordinary 

 for forty indigent officers. 



3rd. To cause a fair causeway to be made, for two 

 miles together, at four of the greatest avenues to the 

 city. 



And 4th, to cause 1,000 a year, for ten years, to 

 be allowed tow r ards the building of St. Paul s. 



Then follow items of the various and vast sums 

 expended in the Royalist cause. 



His allusion to the Act obtained for his Engine, in 

 1663, fixes the date of this document at or soon after 

 that period. The amount expended in the Royal cause 

 by his father and himself was so enormous, that it is 

 difficult to understand on what ground he considered he 

 bettered his claim to some compensation, by burdening 

 his statement with four separate offers, .calculated to 

 absorb far more than he could ever expect to obtain 

 through a monarch so needy, extravagant, and disso 

 lute as Charles the Second. 



