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and service, which (as the Lord Chancellour, who was 

 then in France, sent word to My Lord) was the onely 

 foreign profer that had been made to His Majesty. 

 My Lord immediately gave His Majesty notice of 

 it ; but whether it was for want of convenient trans- 

 portation, or mony, or that the Scots did not hke the 

 assistance, that profer was not accepted. 



Concerning the affairs and intrigues that passed 

 in Scotland and England, during the time of His 

 Majesties stay there, I am ignorant of them; neither 

 doth it belong to me now to write, or give an account 

 of any thing else but what concerns the history of 

 my noble Lord and husband's Hfe, and his own 

 actions ; who so soon as he had intelligence that the 

 Scottish army, which went with His Majesty into 

 England, was defeated, and that no body knew what 

 was become of His Majesty, fell into so violent a 

 passion that I verily believed it would have en- 

 dangered his hfe; but when afterwards the happy 

 news came of His Majesties safe arrival in France, 

 never any subject could rejoice more then My Lord did. 



About this time it chanced, that My Lord's brother 

 Sir Charles Cavendish, and my self, took a journey 

 into England, occasioned both by My Lord's extream 

 want and necessity, and his brother's estate; which 

 having been under sequestration from the time (or 

 soon after) he went out of England, was then, in 

 case he did not return and compound for it, to be 

 sold outright; Sir Charles was unwilHng to receive 

 his estate upon such conditions, and would rather 

 have lost it, then compounded for it: but My Lord 

 considering it was better to recover something, then 

 lose all, intreated the Lord Chancellour, who was then 

 in Antwerp, to perswade his brother to a composition, 

 which his Lordship did very effectually, and proved 



