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Palatine, and his brother Prince Rupert, into the 

 Forrest of Sherwood; which cost him fifteen hundred 

 pounds. 



And this I mention not out of a vain-glory, but to 

 declare the great love and duty My Lord had for 

 his gracious King and Queen, and to correct the 

 mistakes committed by some historians, who not 

 being rightly informed of those entertainments, make 

 the world believe falshood for truth. But as I said, 

 they were made before the warrs, when My Lord had 

 the possession of a great estate ; and wanted nothing 

 to express his love and duty to his soveraign in that 

 manner; whereas now he should be much to seek to 

 do the like, his estate being so much ruined by the 

 late civil wars, that neither himself nor his posterity 

 will be able so soon to recover it. 



8. His Education 



His education was according to his birth; for as he 

 was born a gentleman, so he was bred like a gentle- 

 man. To school-learning he never shewed a great 

 inclination ; for though he was sent to the university, 

 and was a student of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge, 

 and had his tutors to instruct him ; yet they could 

 not perswade him to read or study much, he taking 

 more dehght in sports, then in learning; so that his 

 father being a wise man, and seeing that his son had 

 a good natural wit, and was of a very good disposition, 

 suffered him to follow his own genius; whereas his 

 other son Charles, in whom he found a greater love 

 and inclination to learning, he encouraged as much 

 that way, as possibly he could. 



One time it happened that a young gentleman, one 

 of My Lord's relations, had bought some land, at the 



