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to York for one Dr. Waler, for I found him herein 

 a most miserable condition; he desired me to stay 

 with him, which I very willingly obeyed. I con- 

 fess it made my heart bleed to see the Duke of 

 Buckingham in so pitiful a place and in so bad a 

 condition ; and, what made it worse, he was not at 

 all sensible oi'it, for he thought in a day or twe he 

 should be well; and when we minded him of his 

 condition, he said it was not so as we apprehend- 

 ed. The doctors told me his case was desperate, 

 and though he enjoyed the free exercise of his senses, 

 that in a day or two at most it would kill him ; but 

 they durst not tell him of it ; so they put a hard 

 part upon me to pronounce death to him, which I 

 saw approaching so fast, that I thought it was high 

 time for him to think of another world, for it was im- 

 possible for him to continue long in this : so I sent 

 for a very worthy gentleman, Mr- Gibson, a neigh- 

 bour of his Grace's, who lives but a mile from this 

 place, to be an assistant to me in this work ; so we 

 jointly represented his condition to him, who I saw 

 was at first very uneasy : but I think we should not 

 have discharged the duly of honest men ; or I of a 

 faithful kinsman, if we had suffered him to go out of 

 this world without desiring him to prepare for death, 

 and to look into his conscience. 



After having plainly told him his condition, 1 

 asked him who I should send for to be assistant to 

 him during the small time he had to live : he would 

 make me no answer, which made me conjecture, and 

 having formerly heard that he had been inclining 

 to be a Roman Catholic, I asked him if I should 



