84 The Duchess of Newcastle 



was to hinder His Majesties enemies from executing 

 that cruel design which they had upon their gracious 

 and merciful King; in which he tried his uttermost 

 power, in so much that I have heard him say out of a 

 passionate zeal and loyalty, that he would willingly 

 sacrifice himself and all his posterity, for the sake of 

 His Majesty and the royal race. Nor did he ever repine 

 either at his losses or sufferings, but rejoyced rather 

 that he was able to suffer for his king and countrey. 

 His army was the onely army that was able to uphold 

 His Majesties power; which so long as it was victori- 

 ous it preserved both His Majesties person and crown; 

 but so soon as it fell, that fell too : and My Lord was 

 then in a manner forced to seek his own preservation 

 in foreign countries, where God was pleased to make 

 strangers his friends, who received and protected him 

 when he was banished his native country, and relieved 

 him when his own country-men sought to starve him 

 by withholding from him what was justly his own, 

 onely for his honesty and loyalty; which rehef he 

 received more from the commons of those parts where 

 he lived, then from princes, he being unwiUing to 

 trouble any foreign prince with his wants and miseries, 

 well knowing, that gifts of great princes come slowly, 

 and not without much difficulty ; neither loves he to 

 petition any one but his own soveraign. 



But though My Lord by the civility of strangers, 

 and the assistance of some few friends of his native 

 country, hved in an indifferent condition, yet (as it 

 hath been declared heretofore) he was put to great 

 plunges and difficulties, in so much that his dear 

 brother Sir Charles Cavendish would often say, that 

 though he could not truly complain of want, yet his 

 meat never did him good by reason My Lord, his 

 brother, was always so near wanting, that he was 



