io6 The Duchess of Newcastle 



design is onely to account such losses as were caused 

 by the wars. 



By which, as they have been mentioned, it may 

 easily be concluded, that although My Lord's estate was 

 very great before the wars, yet now it is shrunk into 

 a very narrow compass, that it puts his prudence and 

 wisdom to the proof, to make it serve his necessities, 

 he having no other assistance to bear him up; and 

 yet notwithstanding all this, he hath since his return 

 paid both for himself and his son, all manner of taxes, 

 lones, levies, assessments, etc., equally with the rest 

 of His Majesties subjects, according to that estate 

 that is left him, which he has been forced to take 

 upon interest. 



