HISTORY OF HARTING. 95 



Thus Grey escaped for the first time out of the 

 hands of James II., and in the latter end of June, 

 1683, sought the protection of the Dutch Elector of 

 Brandenburg in Holland, whither Monmouth, as soon 

 as he was pardoned, followed him. As a Protestant 

 refugee in Holland, Grey's life seems to have been 

 miserable enough. Did the Calvinistic or Fatalist 

 motto of his family help him : " Che s<(ra, s^ra," 

 " What will be, will be." It is strange to hear of 

 the lord of a great London house and three country 

 seats undergoing poverty. " I thought of going to 

 Switzerland, where I heard I might live cheap, which 

 was a very necessary inducement to one in my cir- 

 cumstances, who had little for support and less to 



expect from the Duke of Monmouth I was 



at this time in as sad circumstances as can well be 

 imagined : I had before me the prospect of being 

 always a vagabond and that a poor one too : no place 

 to hide my head in except a garret at Amsterdam." * 



Then came the proposals for Monmouth's expedi- 

 tion to England, in which Grey says that his cousin 

 Henry Ireton who had come over about private affairs, 

 but " in a very unfortunate time for him," was impli- 

 cated : and word was brought that " if the Duke of 

 Monmouth landed anywhere in England with a switch 

 in his hand, he might with safety march to Whitehall," 

 and dethrone James II., "there was such an universal 

 longing for him." Grey further urged to Monmouth 

 that Henry VII. had landed with a smaller number 

 than his, and had succeeded in making himself king 

 and dethroning Richard Ill.f 



Three Dutch vessels arrived at the Port of Lyme 

 Regis June n, 1685, and among the 80 men that 

 landed first were Monmouth and Grey. Their blue 

 flag was set up in the market place with the cry, 



Grey's " Secret Confession," page 91. 

 f Burnet, I., 631. 



