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years of age, he would ride leaping horses, and such 

 as would overthrow others, and mannage them with 

 the greatest skill and dexterity, to the admiration 

 of all that beheld him. 



Nor was this the onely honour My Lord received 

 from His Majesty, but His Majesty and all the royal 

 race; that is to say, Her Highness the then Princess 

 Royal, His Highness the Duke of York, with his 

 brother the Duke of Glocester, (except the Princesse 

 Henrietta, now Duchess of Orleans,) being met one 

 time in Antwerp, were pleased to honour My Lord 

 with their presence, and accept of a small entertain- 

 ment at his house, such as his present condition was 

 able to afford them. And some other time His Majesty 

 passing through the city was pleased to accept of a 

 private dinner at My Lord's house; after which I 

 receiving that gracious favour from His Majesty, that 

 he was pleased to see me, he did merrily and in jest, 

 tell me. That he perceived My Lord's credit could 

 procure better meat then his own. Again, some other 

 time, upon a merry challenge plajdng a game at 

 butts with My Lord (when My Lord had the better 

 of him), What (said he) My Lord, have you invited 

 me to play the rook with me ? Although their stakes 

 were not at all considerable, but onely for pastime. 



These passages I mention onely to declare My 

 Lord's happiness in his miseries, which he received by 

 the honour and kindness not onely of foreign princes, 

 but of his own master and gracious soveraign : I will 

 not speak now of the good esteem and repute he had 

 by his late Majesty King Charles the First, and Her 

 Majesty the now Queen-Mother, who always held and 

 found him a very loyal and faithful subject, although 

 fortune was pleased to oppose him in the height of 

 his endeavours; for his onely and chief intention 



