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comprehended in the first book, the relation of 

 them I have chiefly from My Lord's secretary 

 Mr. RoUeston, a person that has been an eye-witness 

 thereof, and accompanied My Lord as secretary in 

 his army, and gave out all his commissions; his 

 honesty and worth is unquestionable by all that know 

 him. And as for the second book, which contains 

 My Lord's actions and sufferings, during the time of 

 his exile, I have set down so much as I could possibly 

 call to mind, without any particular expression of 

 time, onely from the time of his banishment, or rather 

 (what I can remember) from the time of my marriage, 

 till our return into England. To the end of which I 

 have joined a computation of My Lord's losses, which 

 he hath suffered by those unfortunate warres. In 

 the third book I have set down some particular 

 chapters concerning the description of his person, 

 his natural faculties, and personal vertues, etc. And 

 in the last, some essayes and discourses of My Lord's, 

 together with some notes and remarques of mine 

 own; which I thought most convenient to place by 

 themselves at the end of this work, rather then to 

 intermingle them with the body of the history. 



It might be some prejudice to My Lord's glory, and 

 the credit of this History, not to take notice of a very 

 considerable thing I have heard, which is, That when 

 his Lordship's army had got so much strength and 

 reputation, that the rebellious Parliament finding 

 themselves overpowered with it, rather then to be 

 utterly ruined (as was unavoidable), did call the 

 Scots to their assistance, with a promise to reward 

 so great a service with the four northern counties 

 of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmerland, 

 and the Bishoprick of Durham, which I have not 

 mentioned in the book. 



