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could, yet he effected but little, by reason everybody 

 was so affraid of the parliament, that they durst not 

 relieve him, who was counted a traitor for his honest 

 and loyal service to his king and country. 



Not long after. My Lord had profers made him of 

 some rich matches in England for his two sons, whom 

 therefore he sent thither with one Mr. Loving, hoping 

 by that means to provide both for them and himself; 

 but they being arrived there, out of some reasons 

 best known to them, declared their unwilHngness to 

 marry as yet, continuing nevertheless in England, 

 and Hving as well as they could. 



Some two years after My Lord's marriage, when 

 he had prevailed so far with his creditors, that they 

 began to trust him anew, the first thing he did was, 

 that he removed out of those lodgings in Paris, where 

 he had been necessitated to live hitherto, to a house 

 which he hired for himself and his family, and fur- 

 nished it as well as his new gotten credit would 

 permit ; and withal, resolving for his own recreation 

 and divertisement in his banished condition, to 

 exercise the art of mannage, which he is a great lover 

 and master of, bought a Barbary-horse for that 

 purpose, which cost him 200 pistols, and soon after 

 another Barbary-horse from the Lord Crofts, for which 

 he was to pay him 100/. when he returned into England. 



About this time, there was a council called at St. 

 Germain, in which were present, besides My Lord, 

 Her Majesty the now Queen Mother of England; His 

 Highness the Prince, our now gracious King, his 

 cousin Prince Rupert; the Marquess of Worcester, 

 the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, the Lord 

 Jermyn now Earl of St. Albans, and several others; 

 where after several debates concerning the then 

 present condition of His Majesty King Charles the 



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