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besides all sorts of water-fowl; so that this park 

 afforded all manner of sports, for hunting, hawking, 

 coursing, fishing, etc., for which My Lord esteemed 

 it very much : and although his patience and wisdom 

 is such, that I never perceived him sad or discontented 

 for his own losses and misfortunes, yet when he 

 beheld the mines of that park, I observed him 

 troubled, though he did little express it, onely saying, 

 he had been in hopes it would not have been so much 

 defaced as he found it, there being not one timber- 

 tree in it left for shelter. However he patiently bore 

 what could not be helped, and gave present order for 

 the cutting down of some wood that was left him in 

 a place near adjoining, to repale it, and got from 

 several friends deer to stock it. 



Thus though his law-suits and other unavoidable 

 expences were very chargeable to him, yet he ordered 

 his affairs so prudently, that by degrees he stocked 

 and manured those lands he keeps for his own use, and 

 in part repaired his mannor-houses, Welbeck and 

 Bolsover, to which latter he made some additional 

 building ; and though he has not yet built the seat at 

 Nottingham, yet he hath stocked and paled a little 

 park belonging to it. 



Nor is it possible for him to repair all the mines of 

 the estate that is left him, in so short a time, the}^ 

 being so great, and his losses so considerable, that 

 I cannot without grief and trouble remember them ; 

 for before the wars My Lord had as great an estate 

 as any subject in the kingdom, descended upon 

 him most by women, viz. by his grandmother 

 of his father's side, his own mother, and his first 

 wife. 



What estate his grandfather left to his father Sir 

 Charles Cavendish, I know not; nor can I exactly 



