Life of the Duke 9 1 



so much of the land that formerly had been his, as 

 amounted to 730/. a year. And though My Lord's 

 children had their claims granted, and bought out 

 the hfe of My Lord, their father, which came near 

 upon the third part, yet My Lord received nothing 

 for himself out of his own estate, for the space of 

 eighteen years, viz. during the time from the first 

 entering into warr, which was June 11. 1642, till his 

 return out of banishment. May 28. 1660; for though 

 his son Henry, now Earl of Ogle, and his eldest 

 daughter, the now Lady Cheiny, did all what lay in 

 their power to relieve My Lord their father, and sent 

 him some supplies of moneys at several times when 

 he was in banishment; yet that was of their own, 

 rather then out of My Lord's estate; for the Lady 

 Cheiny sold some few jewels which My Lord, her 

 father, had left her, and some chamber-plate which 

 she had from her grandmother, and sent over the 

 money to My Lord, besides 1000/. of her portion: 

 and the now Earl of Ogle did at several times supply 

 My Lord, his father, with such moneys as he had 

 partly obtained upon credit, and partly made by his 

 marriage. 



After My Lord had begun to view those mines that 

 were nearest, and tried the law to keep or recover 

 what formerly was his, (which certainly shewed no 

 favour to him, besides that the act of oblivion proved 

 a great hindrance and obstruction to those his 

 designs, as it did no less to all the royal party) and 

 had setled so much of his estate as possibly he could, 

 he cast up the summ of his debts, and set out several 

 parts of land for the payment of them, or of some 

 of them (for some of his lands could not be easily 

 sold, being entailed) and some he sold in Derbyshire 

 to buy the Castle of Nottingham, which although it 



