96 The Duchess of Newcastle 



in comparison of those he sustained by the late civil 

 warrs, whereof I shall partly give you an account : I 

 say partly: for though it may be computed what 

 the loss of the annual rents of his lands amounts to, 

 of which he never received the least worth for himself 

 and his own profit, during the time both of his being 

 employed in the service of warr, and his sufferings in 

 banishment ; as also the loss of those lands that are 

 alienated from him, both in present possession, and 

 in reversion; and of his parks and woods that were 

 cut down; yet it is impossible to render an exact 

 account of his personal estate. 



As for his rents during the time he acted in the 

 warrs, though he suffered others to gather theirs for 

 their own use, yet his own either went for the use of 

 the army, or fell into the hands of the enemy, or were 

 suppressed and with-held from him by the cozenage 

 of his tenants and officers. My Lord being then not 

 able to look after them himself. 



About the time when his late Majesty undertook 

 the expedition into Scotland for the suppressing of 

 some insurrection that happened there; My Lord, 

 as afore is mentioned, among the rest, lent His 

 Majesty 10,000/. sterling; but having newly married 

 a daughter to the then Lord Brackly, now Earl of 

 Bridgwater, whose portion was 12,000/. the moiety 

 whereof was paid in gold on the day of her marriage, 

 and the rest soon after (although she was too young 

 to be bedded). This, together with some other 

 expences, caused him to take up the said 10,000/. 

 at interest, the use whereof he paid many years 

 after. 



Also when after his sixteen years banishment, he 

 returned into England, before he knew what estate 

 was left him, and was able to receive any rents of his 



