THE GREAT MARQUIS 



"forfeited unto the Commonwealth," and that they 

 were therefore to remain in the possession of 

 Cromwell and his heirs. After bringing forward 

 a second petition for the restitution of his rights, 

 which seems to have been equally barren of results, 

 Edward, the sixth Earl and second Marquis of 

 Worcester, went to Paris, where he remained in 

 poverty and exile till the year 1652. 



Possibly it was the urgent state of his private 

 affairs that caused Lord Worcester to return to 

 England. He was immediately arrested by order 

 of the Parliament and committed to the Tower. 

 No steps were, however, taken for bringing him 

 to trial, and it was only after many petitions had 

 been made by the impoverished Worcester for 

 a " competent maintenance for himself and family," 

 that at last the magnificent sum of ;^3 per week 

 was ordered to be paid " for the subsistence of 

 the Earl of Worcester, prisoner in the Tower, 

 weekly or otherwise as the Earl shall desire." 



In 1654 he was released on bail, and he then 

 sought to forget his cares in the mechanical studies 

 he loved so well. To the perfecting of his " water- 

 commanding engine " he devoted himself, this 

 having been set up in his " operatory," as the 

 Marquis called his workshop, in Vauxhall. The 

 Century of Inventions was also written, though the 

 work was not published till some eight years later. 

 At the time of the Restoration, when the Marquis 

 must have hoped to be indemnified for some at least 



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