OF SAMUEL HAKTLIB. 39 



name inserted in tlie Warrant for £1000 for special 

 service, of wliicli Sir Jolm Morley liad spoken to him, 

 being a permit to transport certain foreign coin free of 

 duty. 



This is the latest evidence we have of his being 

 alive ; so that, all circumstances taken together, it is 

 probable that his mortal career suddenly closed in 1662. 

 He had long been a patient martyr to excruciating 

 bodily suffering, and had endured more than four years 

 of distressing poverty : the result of what may be 

 called improvident liberality, expending all his means 

 with uncalculating generosity, while his only source of 

 income was dependent on the stability of a new system 

 of government, against the contingencies of which it 

 never appears to have formed any part of his plans to 

 make provision for a day of adversity. The Parlia- 

 ment of the Commonwealth allowing his pension to 

 become in arrear to the amount of £700, he found 

 himself at the Restoration heavily burdened with debt. 

 Greater than all the poignant sufferings of an enfeebled 

 frame are the heart-rending griefs of the stricken Chris- 

 tian, surrounded by relatives helplessly and hopelessly 

 seeking his wonted support, and yet not without friends 

 who, with every desire to assist, acknowledge their 

 inability to afford deserved competence. The times 

 were out of joint, everything made against this eminent, 

 philosophic-minded man, whose sun unfortunately set 

 sadly and gloomily in a threatening sky. 



