68 The Duchess of Newcastle 



that His Highness the Prince (now our gracious King) 

 was gone to sea: Wherefore he resolved to follow 

 him, and for that purpose hired a boat, and victualed 

 it ; but since nobody knew whither His Highness was 

 gone, and I being unwilling that My Lord should 

 venture upon so uncertain a voyage, and (as the 

 proverb is) Seek a needle in a bottle of hay, he desisted 

 from that design : the Lord Widdrington nevertheless, 

 and Sir Will. Throckmorton, being resolved to find 

 out the Prince, but having by a storm been driven 

 towards the coast of Scotland, and endangered their 

 lives, they returned without obtaining their aim. 



After some little time. My Lord having notice that 

 the Prince was arrived at the Hague, he went to 

 wait on His Highness (which he also did afterwards 

 at several times, so long as His Highness continued 

 there) expecting some opportunity where he might 

 be able to show his readiness to serve his king and 

 countrey, as certainly there was no little hopes for it ; 

 for first, it was believed that the EngHsh fleet would 

 come and render it self into the obedience of the 

 Prince ; next, it was reported that the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton was going out of Scotland with a great army, into 

 England, to the assistance of His Majesty, and that 

 His Majesty had then some party at Colchester; but 

 it pleased God that none of these proved effectual. 

 For the fleet did not come in ; the Duke of Hamilton's 

 army was destroyed, and Colchester was taken by 

 the enemy, where my dear brother Sir Charles Lucas, 

 and his dear friend Sir George Lile, were most in- 

 humanly murthered and shot to death, they being 

 both valiant and heroick persons, good soldiers, and 

 most loyal subjects to His Majesty; the one an 

 excellent commander of horse, the other of foot. 



My Lord having now lived in Rotterdam almost 



