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home and abroad ; his natural faculties, and personal 

 vertues ; his justice, bounty, charity, friendship ; his 

 right approved courage, and true valour, not grounded 

 upon, or governed by passion, but reason ; his magnifi- 

 cent manner of living and supporting his dignity, 

 ■ testified by his great entertainments of their Majesties, 

 and his private friends, upon all fit occasions, besides 

 his ordinary and constant housekeeping and attendants ; 

 some for honour, and some for business, wherein he 

 exceeded most for his quality ; and that he was, and is an 

 incomparable master to his servants, is sufficiently 

 testified by all or most of the chief est of them, living and 

 dying in his Grace's service, which is an argument that 

 they thought themselves as happy therein, as the world 

 could make them ; nor of his well-chosen pleasures, 

 which were principally horses of all sorts, but more 

 particularly horses of mannage ; his study and art of 

 the true use of the sword ; his magnificent buildings. 

 These are his chief est delights, wherein his Grace spared 

 for no cost nor charge, which are s^i^fficiently manifested 

 to the world ; for other delights, as those of running 

 horses, hawking, hunting, etc. His Grace used them 

 meerly for societies sake, and out of a generous and 

 obliging nature to please others, though his knowledge in 

 them excelled, as well as in the other. And yet notwith- 

 standing these his large and vast expences, before his 

 Grace was called to the Court, he encreased his revenue 

 by way of purchase to a great value ; and when he was 

 called to the Court, he was then free from debts, and, as 

 I have heard, seme thousands of pounds in his purse. 

 These particulars, and as many more of this kind as 

 would swell a volume, I could enumerate to your Grace ; 

 but that they are so well known to your Grace, it would 

 be a presumption in me, rather then a service, to give 

 your Grace that trouble ; and therefore I humbly forbear , 



