I02 The Duchess of Newcastle 



well how to spend, and how to manage; for though 

 he lived nobly before the time of the wars, yet not 

 beyond the compass of his estate; nay, so far he 

 would have been from spending his estate, that no 

 doubt but he would have increast it to a vast value, 

 as he did before the wars ; where notwithstanding his 

 hospitality and noble house-keeping, his charges of 

 building came to about 31,000/.; the portion of his 

 second daughter, which was 12,000/.; the noble 

 entertainments he gave King Charles the First, one 

 whereof came to almost 15,000/., another to above 

 4000/., and a third to 1700/. as hereafter shall be men- 

 tioned; and his great expences during the time of 

 his being Governour to His Majesty that now is, he 

 yet encreased his estate to the value of 100,000/. 

 which is 5000 per annum, when it was by so much 

 less. 



But if any one will reckon the charges of his house- 

 keeping during the time of his exile, and when he had 

 not the enjoyment of his estate, he may substract 

 the sum accounted for the payment of his debts, 

 contracted in the time of his banishment, which went 

 to the maintenance of himself and his family; or in 

 lieu thereof, considering that I do not account all My 

 Lord's losses, but onely those that are certainly 

 known, he may compare it with the loss of his personal 

 estate, whereof I shall make some mention anon, and 

 he'll find that I do not heighten My Lord's losses, 

 but rather diminish them; for surely the losses of 

 his personal estate, and those I account not, will 

 counterballance the charges of his house-keeping, if 

 not exceed them. 



Again, others will say, that there was much land 

 sold in the time of My Lord's banishment by his sons, 

 and feoffees in trust. 



