ORIGINAL LETTERS AND OFFICIAL PAPERS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PRECEDING MEMOIR.

The manuscripts from whence the annexed documents have been selected, are now in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort; and the Editor would be wanting in justice to another distinguished member of the same noble family, did he omit to acknowledge the great kindness which he has received from Lord Granville Somerset, who has materially assisted the Editor in illustrating the labours of his very ingenious ancestor.

Glamorgan

I heerew^th send you the rest of my dispatches for Ireland, whether I praye hasten, time beeing most considerable. I am sensible of the dangers y^u will undergoe, and y^e greate trouble and expences you must be at, not being able to assiste y^w who have already spent aboue a Million of Crowns in my service, neither can I saye more then I well rememb^r to have spoke and written to you that allready words could not expresse your merits nor my gratitude: and that next to my wife and children I was most bound to take care of you. whereof I have besides others particularly assured yo^r Cosin Biron as a person deare unto you. What I can further thinke at this pn̄t is to send y^w the Blue Ribben, and a Warrant for the Title of Duke of Somerset both w^ch accept and make vse of at your discretion, and if you should deferre y^e publishing of either for a whyle to avoyde envye, and my being importuned by others yet I promise yo^r Antiquitie for y^e one and your Pattent for y^e other shall beare Date with the Warrants. And rest assured, if God should crosse me w^th your miscarrying I will treate your Sonne as myne owne, and that y^u labour for a deare freind as well as a thankefull Master when tyme shall afforde meanes to acknowledge, how much I am

Yo^r most assured reall constant and thankfull freind Charles R.

Oxford Feb. 12, 1644.

Oxford this seconde of January 1644 Severall Heades whereupon you our Right trusty and right welbeloved Cosen Edward Earle of Glamorgan may securely proceede in execution of our Commands.

First you may ingage y^r estate, interest and creditt that we will most really and punctually performe any our promises to the Irish, and as it is necessary to conclude a Peace suddainely, soe whatsoever shall be consented unto by our Lieutenant the Marquis of Ormond, We will dye a thousand deaths rather than disannull or breake it, and if vpon necessity any thing be to be condescended unto, and yet the Lord Marquis not willing to be seene therein, as not fitt for us at the present publickely to owne, doe you endeavour to supply the same.

If for the encouragement of the Lord Marquis of Ormond you see it needefull to have the Guarter sent him, or any further favour demonstrated from vs vnto him, we will cause the same to be performed.

If for the advantage of our service you see fitt to promise any titles, even to the Titles of Earles in eyther of our Kingdomes, vpon notice from you we will cause the same to be performed.

For the Maintenance of our Army vnder y^r Com^~aund we are gratiously pleased to allowe the Delinquentes estates where you overcome, to be disposed by you, as alsoe any our revenues in the sayd places, Customes or other, our profitts, woods and the like w^th the contributions.

Whatever Townes or places of importance you shall thinke fitt to possesse you shall place Com^~aunders and Governours therein at y^r pleasure.

Whatever Order we shall sende you (w^ch you are only to obey) We give you leave to impart the same to y^r Counsill at Warr and if they and you approve not thereof We give you leave to replye, and soe farr shall we be from taking it as a disobedience, that we com^~aunde the same.

At y^r returne we will accept of some officers vpon y^r recom^~endation, to the ende noe obstacle or delay may be in the execution of y^r desires in order to our service, and our com^~aunds in that behalfe.

At y^r Returne you shall have y^e Com^~aund of South Wales, Herefordshire, and Glocester-shire of the Welsh-side returned to you in as ample manner as before.

In y^r abscence we will not give creditt or countenance to any thing, w^ch may be preiudiciall to y^r Father, you, or yours

C. R.

Herbert

I wonder, you are not yet gone for Ireland; but since you have stayed all this time, I hope these will ouertake you, whereby you will the more see the great trust and confidence I repose in your integrity, of which I have had soe long and soe good experience; commanding yow to deale with all ingenuity and freedome with our Lieutenant of Ireland the Marquis of Ormond, and on the word of a King and a Christian I will make good any thing, which our Lieutenant shall be induced unto upon your persuasion: and if you find it fitting, you may privately shew him these, which I intend not as obligatory to him, but to myselfe, and for both your encouragements and warrantise, in whom I repose my cheefest hopes, not having in all my Kingdomes two such subjects; whose endeauours joining, I am confident to be soone drawen out of the mire, I am now enforced to wallow in; and then shall I shew my thankfullnesse to you both, and as you have neuer failed mee, soe shall I neuer faile you, but in all things shew how much I am

Oxforde the 12th of March 1644.

Herbert

I am confident that this honest trusty bearer will give you good satisfaction why I have not in euerie thing done as you desired, the wante of Confidence in you beeing so farre from beeing y^e cause thereof that I am euery daye more and more confirmed in the trust that I have of you, for beleeve me it is not in the power of any to make you suffer in my opinion by ill Offices, but of this and diuers other things I have given so full Instructions that I will saye no more, but that I am

Yo^r most assured constant freind Charles R.

Oxford 26 Feb. 1645.

Glamorgan

I am glad to heare that you are gone to Ireland and assure y^u that as my selfe is nowyse dishartened by our late misfortune so neither this Country; for I could not have expected more from them, then theye have now freely undertaken though I had come hether absolute Victorious w^ch makes me hope well of y^e neighbouring Sheeres. So that (by y^e grace of God) I hope shortly to recover my late losse with aduantage if such succours come to me from that Kingdome w^ch I have reason to expect, but the circumstance of time is that of the greatest consequence, beeing that which is cheefliest and earnestliest recommended you by

Your most assured reall constant freind Charles R.

Hereford 23 June 1645.

Glamorgan

I have no time nor do you expect that I should make unnecessary repetitions to you wherefore referring you to Digby for business this is onlie to giue you assurance of my constant freindship to you which considering the generall Defection of common honesty is in a sorte requisite howbeit I knowe y^u cannot be but confident of my making good all instructions and promises to you

Y^r most assured constant freind Charles R.

Oxford 5 Aprile 1646

Henriette Marie R

Nous henriette Marie de bourbon Regne de la grande Bretagne auons par l'ordre du Roy notre tres honoré Seigneur et Mary fait deliurer es mains de notre tres cher et bien amé cousin Edouard Somerset Comte et Marquis d Worcester un collier de Rubis contenant dix gros Rubis et cent soixante perles enchassées et confilées en or entre les dits Rubis comme aussy deux gros diamans l'un appellé Sancy et l'autre le Portugal, confessans qu'outre les tres grandes depenses faites par luy, pour le dit Roy notre tres honore Seigneur, il nous a encore fourny trois cens soixante et dix mil liures tournois outre les tres grands seruices qu'a ce present mesme il nous fait qui sont au moins d'egale consequence, au regard de quoy nous faisons scauoir que le dit collier et Diamans sont totalement pour en disposer par luy soit par uente on engagement, sans que nous, ou aucun en notre nom puisse en faire aucune demande, Rechercher ou troubler aucune personne qui achetera ou prestera argent sur les dits Joyaux cy dessus nommez en temoignage de quoy nous auons Signé et fait mettre notre Séel Royal a cette presente a notre Cour a St Germain en Laye ce Jourdhuy 20 May mil six cens quarente huiet.

L. S. (The Royal Arms.)

To the Kinges most Exelent Mai^{tie} The humble Petition of all the Deputy Lieutenants Justices of the Peace the Knights & Burgises for Parliam^t setting for the Countie of Monmouth & indeede of all the Gentry & Comonalty Freehoulders and other inhabitence within the said Countie nemine contradicente but una voce most humbly

Sheweth

That whereas y^e Right hon^ble our very good Lord the now Earle and Marquisse of Worcester after about twenty yeares absence comforteth and honoureth us w^th his p^rsence to y^e great sattisfaction of all your Maj^ties most loyall & devote^d subjects, Wee become most humble petition^rs to your Gratious and most sacred Maj^tie that you wilbe pleased to incuredge his Exelency to make his cheife residance heer, which by longe and suffitient experience wee well know will much conduce to your Maj^ties intherest, and seruice, and to the good and great sattisfaction not onely of this but of all y^e adjacent Counties, his Lords^p having always been a disinterested Governor and freind to us all, as most espetially a most faithfull zealouse and powerfull promoter of seruices to y^e Crowne, yett with care and sweetnesse euer shewed towards your Maj^ties Loyall subjects, and nowayes partiall to those of his owne perswation and religion, where ever his Excelency hath had command looking but vpon his kings intherest and y^e peoples justifiable pretentions neither can his greatest enimies make appeare y^e least profe to y^e contrary.

May itt therefore please your most Excelent Maj^tie vpon this our most humble petition suplycat^g to Joyne his Lords^pp with his most deseruing sonne, the Lord Herbert, in the Liuetenancie of this Countie, and wee esteeme it wille soe far from derogateing from my Lord his Sonne who we must hon^r that it wilbe an adit^~on of coumfort and hon^r to his Lords^pp to have his beloued father Joyned with him, as his Grandfather was with his Father the Lord Privie Seale, that wise and stout Privie counsellor: his Lords^pps great grandfather and predecessor neither doe wee looke with lesse awfullnesse and respect vpon our now Lord Marquisse of Worcester, if he reside amonghst us in a poore Grange of his then whilst he dwelt in his most sumptuous Castle of Ragland, like a Prince attended, esteemeing his now pouertie in respect of his then opulancie, but as a badge of Loyaltie, and as readilie and cheerfully shall wee obey his commands who our harts attend, as much as then, if Impower^d by your Gratious Maj^tie to bee our Joynt Lord Lieutenant which hon^r and power wee most humbly begg may be againe conferred upon his Excelency.

And wee shall euer pray, &c.

May it please y^r Grace

The obiections yow were pleased to make against the owning and subscribing y^e Letter to his Ma^tie were as I humbly conceaue y^r Graces resolution not to trouble y^e King for any money businesse euen in your owne behalfe much lesse in an others, and secondly that as for Creations you had absolutely promised his Ma^tie you would not importune him againe, to the furst I answeare that this is to save the Kings Coffirs, since certainely if eyther honor or conscience should take place his Ma^tie ought to saue me harmelesse from the six thousand pound Confest and proued to be y^e Crownes Debt, soe happyly now vpon his Head by your Graces noe lesse prudent and valerous then dutyfull endeauours blest by Devine Prouidence neuer intending the ruine of his best deseruing subiects, and y^e only promoting of his ribells, which the child unborne may rue if not timely preuented, and as a wise Privye-Counsillor y^r Graces part is to minde his Ma^tie soe of, as not totally to disharten I will not say disgust his good subiects well desarueing yet that as far as loyalty and Religion will giue them leaue, and I am sory his Ma^tie should bedd a diew to workes of superergation and loue in his subiects and most Certinely they are not his best Councellers who aduise him to it, and y^r Grace will be most Commendable in douing the Contrery, and at long running the King will loue you best for it, soe that this obiection of y^r Grace I humbly conceave to be totally solued.

As for the seconde y^r Graces promise not to speake for any more Creations be pleased to vnderstand it rightly, and you are noe motioner of this, you doe but lay before him my reasonable Petition therein, such as indeed my Lord Chancellor was pleased to thinke soe fitting as he once vndertook it for me, and I am confident will thanke y^r Grace for reuiuing of it and in my Conscience soe will y^e King too in graunting of it, for I cannot haue soe meane a thought of his Ma^tie but that against the hayre he hath binne forced to bistow honoure to the highest degree upon five member men and vpon irth as subscribed to his father of happy memory his death, and that he will thinke mutch to countinance him who only assisted his late Ma'^ie to flye from theyr compulsion of him to agree to such acts as would have lefet him selfe our now Gratious King y^e sucessior of a title of a King of three Kingdoms but to the substance of noe one of them. It was I furnished his Ma^tie with money to goe (to) Theobalds to goe to Yorke when the then Marquis of Hambleton refused to pay three hundered pound for his Ma^tie at Theobalds only to deliuer him to the Parliament, as he had donne the Earle of Strafford, and to * * * the * * * Parliament, It was I carried him money to sett vp his standard at Yorke, and procured my father to giue the then s^r John Byron five thousand pound to rayse the first Regiment of Horse, and kept a table for aboue twenty Officers at Yorke, which I vnderhand sent thether to keepe them from takeing Conditions from y^e Parliament, and soe were ready to accept his. It was I vittled the towre of London & gaue fiue and twenty hundred pound to y^e then Lieutenant s^r John Byron my Cosin Germain by my first wifes side. It was I raysed most of the Menne at Edgehill fight, and after I was betrayed at when soe many Gentlemen of Quality were taken and of twenty fiue thousand men first & last by me raysed Eight thousand men disperssed by the Contriuance of such as called themselues y^e Kings good subiects, and some of them rewarded for it, they were my men weekely payed without takeing a farthing contribution because the country tottered, who tooke in the forest of Deane, Goodredge Castle, Monmouth, Chepstowe, Carlyon and Cardiff from y^e Parliament forces, in w^ch and y^e Garrison of Ragland I can bring profe of aboue an hundered and fifty thousand pounds expended, and in ready Money first & last to y^e Kings owne Purse aboue as much more, and of aboue thirty five thousand Pounds Receaued by my father and me Comunely Armes in forty—forty two—and forty three I have not now fiue and twenty hundered and that clogged well, twenty thousand Pounds Crying Debts that keepe me not only from a competent maintenance but euen from sleepe, I speake not heare of aboue three hundered thowsands pounds which it hath cost y^e Noblemen Knights and Gentlmen which ridd in my Life Guarde for ther comporting they makeing amongst them aboue three-score thousand Pownds yearly of Land of inheretance and I vpon my interest with seauen Countys had begune an Engagement of above three hundered thousand Pounds yearly land of inhiretance against my returne with men from beyonde the sea in which endeauours my charges have beine vast, besides hazard by sea euen of shipwracke and by Land of deadly encounters, I doe not trouble y^r Lo^p with, but all this being true to a tittle as vpon my word and honour dearer to me then my life I advouche it, I cannot doubt but y^r Grace will call for a peane to signe y^e Letter, and if you please sende this together with it, and rest assured that if the King refuse my request I will neuer importune you more, nor euer sett my foote into his Ma^ties Court againe vnlesse expressly comanded by him for his seruice, otherwise I will only heartyly pray for him but neuer hereafter shall I or any freind of mine engage for him further, then y^e simple duty of a Loyall subiect sitting quiettly at home noe ways breake the peace or disobying the wholsom lawes of the land, and god seande him better and more able subiects to searve his Ma^tie then my selfe, willinger I am sure he cannot, and I beseeche y^r Grace to pardon me if passion hath a little transported me beyonde good manners, and lay what pennance you please vpon me soe it tende not to lessen y^r Graces beliefe that I am

Y^r Graces Most really deuoted freind and seruant ever to obey you Worcester.

Dec. 29th, 1665.

My deare Lord, my heart is yet full froughted and I can say much more for myselfe, were I not ashamed of giueing y^r Grace soe great a trouble with my scribling, which I will thus ende, promising to smoother as long as may be my deplorable condition, and worse vsage, but it will at last fly ouer the whole world to the disheartining of all zelous and Loyall subiects, vnlesse such a true hearted Englishman and fathful seruant as y^r Grace doe awaken his Ma^tie out of the leturgie my enimies have cast him not to be sensible of what I have done or suffered. Cardinall Mazarine presented me to his King, with these woords "S^r who soeuer hath Loyalty or Religion in recommendation must honour this well Borne Person," and Queene Mother now Dowager hath often sayd to have heard her husband say that next to her and his Children he wass bound to take a care of me of whom it may be now verified qui iacet in terra non habet vnde cadet, I am cast to the Ground I can fall noe lower.[6]

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, The most humble Petition of Edward Marquis of Worcester.

Sheweth

That yo^r petitioner overwhelmed with the very, very much he hath to say, fearefull too long to detaine y^r sacred Ma^ty therewith from the more serious affaires humbly prayeth that you wilbe pleased to refer him to be heard by the Lord high Chancellor of England, The Lord privie seale, The Duke of Alm^~erle, the Earle of Lotherdale, the Lord Arlington, the Lord Ashley, and Mr. Secretary Morris, or to such of them, or other persons, as yo^r Ma^ty shall thinke fitt, and that vppon their Report yo^r Ma^ty will vouchsafe to doe with yo^r petitioner, or to yo^r petitioner, what they in the petitioners behalfe, and congruous to yo^r service shall finde reasonable, and consonant with yo^r petitioners meritts or demeritts, the petitioner most intirely submitting to your will and pleasure, Casting himselfe vppon yo^r Ma^tyes goodnesse, noe wayes standing vppon his deserts, though really found never soe many not thought of, or hetherto kept from yo^r Ma^tyes knowledge, your peti^r doth not say through envy or malice, since perhaps through ignorance such ignorance notwithstanding as the divines call ignorantia crassa, but whatsoever in quality or number, his services were, they were but due to such a gratious King and Master as yo^r Ma^tyes Father of happy memory was to yo^r petitioner, and to yo^r incomparable selfe, and therefore acknowledgeth they fall farr shorte of his true loyalty and devotion to either and being once rightly made knowne and p^rsented to yo^r sacred Maiesty yo^r petitioner promiseth himselfe noe lesse incouragement for the future from your Ma^ty nor lesse abilities in himselfe to become as useful as formerly, and as disinterresedly to serve you, Neither shall any thing for the future dismaye, or in any kinde deterr, your petitioner, from that his resolution, but from the bottome of his heart

He shall ever pray, &c. Worcester.

Att y^e Court att Hampton Court Jan. 29th 1666.

His Ma^ty is graciously pleased to referr and recom^~end the Peticōner to bee heard by the within named Lords Referrees or to any fower or more of them, and they to give their Report to his Ma^ty as soon as conveniently may bee.

Arlington.

Maddam

I did not thinke I should have had the occation to have troubled you with an other Letter but I am soe little sattisfyed with yours in what I required conscerninge my monyes that I cannot thinke a survilous paper an equal ballance for soe waighty and iust a debt: I confesse I have hard of a new way to pay ould debts but certainly this is the newest, I belieue your Ladiship is one of the first that euer tryd it: itt may bee al a mode, but truely I doe not like the fashion, though itt may bee others doe: To answare your Letter, first for your Religion I medle not with itt It conscerns not mee; if I have, certainely I have done rather an hon^r to itt then an iniury: for I belieu'd soe well of your Religion that itt tought noe man to distroy his faith, Hon^r, and Christianety; which my Lord hath done in his engagement to mee I onely speake of him—I pray you Maddam lett mee aske, what is hon^r if broken? tis easely answared noe hon^r, what is itt to pretend a faith in Jesus Christ, to be call'd a Christian, and to breake that faith, and likewise forfitt that Christianety, he's noe Christian and whereas you say I wronge the memory of the late Kinge (I know not upon what grounds) Maddam you doe mee wronge, I serve the memory of that Royall Martyr, equall to any hee that lives: I pray you did his Ma^tie euer engage his faith, hon^r, and Christianety, to pay any debts, where in he fail'd; Maddam vnder fauour I must say you doe his incomparable ashes iniury. You likewise tell mee noe gallant pearson wilbeleiue but that my Lord will pay mee when hee hath itt, tis a large extent, and for ought I know may reach to Dooms day; tis small sattisfaction to expect a certaine debt att such an vncertaine payment. Maddam you haue the priueledge of a Woeman in speakinge of my Loyalty, noe man can, nor dare tax itt, for my publishinge any thinge that conscernes your Lord, tis his owne actions that causeth mee to report those truths: You say my Lord hath spent more in his Ma^ties seruice than any Protestant, I dare say there has beine ten thousand loyall faithfull Protestants hath spent as much: where of I am one, for wee have spent, and lost all wee had to our proportions, tis as much as hee (the widowes mite will make itt good) and in soe doinge wee did but our dutyes, and wee ought not to obraide the King with itt, tis vnhandsome to expect Sallery for a lawfull duty. Your Ladyship saith that I reported my Lord gaue mee counterfitt plates, I confesse hee gaue mee some plates, and forced them upon mee, hee likewise borrowed them of mee againe, resoluinge to returne them within too dayes, but he hath not restored them to this day, I heare since that my Lord hath sould them: I hope hee will confesse that noe man of Hon^r did euer such an action before, allthough he was ready to starue, and for his giuinge mee false plate, I must deny itt for I neuer said itt, but this I did say, that when I was at his Lordsp's house he showed mee some plates, that was not the same that hee had formerly giuen mee for the first was beaten, and the latter was cast, if that was counterfitt, I sayd itt, and that ile iustify. for your friuolous paper, I dare say your reconcil'd iudgment doth repent the sendinge of itt, I have shewed it to diuers of your religion, and they condemne you for itt, likewise the paper, nor can the Kinge of Englande giue you thanks for itt. But his royall Mother beinge a Roman Catholique, my hon^r and admiration of her doth silence my penn in answeringe that scandalous paper.

Your Ladiships humble Servant Rich. Hastings.

Paris Ape 3

Directed, Forr the Right Hon^ble the Marchioness of Worcester these

humbly

Jesus + Mi^~a September 6 1670

Noble Madam— The Grace of the Holy-ghost be with you.

The great esteeme and honour w^ch I have euer had for your Ladys^p hath all waise made mee prompt and willing to serve you to the best of my power, without the bias of selfe interest, as your selfe can witnesse; And because I feare that at present, your Honour hath noe one, that in the greate concernes, which you have in hand, will tell you the truth, as it often happens to persons of greate quality: I have thought it the part of my Priestly function, and fidelity towards yo^r Ho^r: (haveing first in my poore prayers, humbly commended it to Alm: God) to represent unto you, that w^ch all your friends know to bee true, as well as myselfe, and would be willing that your Ladys^p should know it likewise.

Alm: God hath Madam put you into a happy, and flourishing condition, fitt and able to serue God, and to doe much good to your selfe and others; and your Ladys^p makes yourselfe unhappy, by seeming not to be contented with your condition but troubling your spiritts with many thoughts of attayning to greater dignityes and riches.

Madam all those that wish you well, are greeued to see your Ladys^p to bee allready soe much disturbed & weakened in your iudgment & in danger to loose the right use of your reason, if you doe not tymely endeauour to preuent it, by ceasing to goe on with such high designes, as you are vppon, which I declare to you, in the faith of a Priest to bee true: The cause of your present distemper, and of the aforesayd danger, is doubtlesse, that your thoughts and imagination are very much fixed on the title of Plantagenet, and of disposing yourselfe for that greate dignity by getting of greate sums of money from the king, to pay your deceased Lords debts, and enriching your selfe by the great Machine and the like. Now Madam how vnproper such undertakings are for your L. and how vnpossible for you to effect them, or any one of them, all your friends can tell you if they please to discover the trueth to you.

The ill effects that flow from hence are many: as the danger of looseing your health and iudgment by such violent application of your fancies in such high designes and ambitious desires; the probability of offending Alm: God and preiudising your owne soule thereby: the advantage you may thereby give to those who desire to make a prey of your fortune, and to rayse themselves by ruining of you: the spending greate sums of money in rich and sumptuous things w^ch are not suteable to the gravity of your Ladys^p and present condition of Widdow-hoode and mourning for your deceased Lord.

Although it bee certine, that it is a greate temptation which you are now vnder, and very dangerous and hurtfull both to your temporall and eternall happynesse; yet I confesse that the Devil, to make his suggestion the more preualent, doth make vse of some motives that seeme plausible, as of paying your Lords debts, of founding of monasterys, and the like, and that your Ladys^p hath the Kings favour to carry on your designes. But Madam it is certine that the King is offended with your comeing to the Court, and much more with your pretention to the title of Plantaginet; and it is dangerous to provoke him any farther: And for paying of Debts and founding of Monasteryes, wee all know that your L. can neuer bee in a better condition to doe it, than now you are; and as you are not bound to doe such things, so they are not expected from you; but wee all applaud your pious inclinations herein, of w^ch you will not loose the merit with Alm: God but our apprehensions are, least you should by your Ladys^ps inordinate designes bring your selfe into such a condition, as not to bee able to helpe your friends nor your selfe.

Bee pleased Madam now to give mee leave to suggest some waie how the approaching dangers may bee prevented, by changing the objects of your affections, and insteede of temporall, to seeke after eternall riches, and honors, which your age doth assure you are not far off; for w^ch you may dispose yourselfe, before death comes, by retiring into the countrey for some time, from the distractions of the Court, where you may haue the advice and directions of some learned Priest, in whose vertue you may wholey confide, and bee guided by him, for your internall quiet & security. Many places may soone be found out, that are fitt for that purpose: At Hammersmith Mrs. Bedingfield a very vertuous & discreete person, and of your Ladys^ps acquaintance, hath lately taken a faire house & garden, & hath but a small family. In some such place your Ho^r might likewise haue the aduice of some well experienced Doctor, for the health of your person, and the benefitt of good ayre and of quietnesse, would much conduce to your health: And soe by Alm. Gods blessing, you may recouer from that most pernicious distemper of bodey and mind, vnto w^ch every one seese you to bee very neere approching, and may live many yeares with your owne fortune & dignity in greate honour and happynesse & bee the author of many good workes of piety & Charity to the glory of God & eternall saluation of your owne soule. Thus dear Madam I have ventured to declare a great trueth to you, w^ch was before a secrett only to your selfe. I know that I run the hazerd of incurring your displeasure, if your Ladys^p should not reade the candor of my intentions, w^ch in my Letter I intend towards you: but my assurance of haveing herein performed a duty w^ch I owe to my God, and the hope I have that you will take it well as I intend it, have encouraged mee to doe it, and to subscribe myselfe

Honored Madam Your humb. Ser. in C. J. Walt. Travers.

The Lord Marquesse of Worcester's ejaculatory and extemporary thanksgiving Prayer, when first with his corporal eyes, he did see finished a perfect trial of his Water-commanding Engine, delightful and useful to whomsoever hath in recommendation either knowledge, profit, or pleasure.

Oh! infinitely omnipotent God! whose mercies are fathomlesse, and whose knowledge is immense, and inexhaustible; next to my creation and redemption I render thee most humble thanks from the very bottom of my heart and bowels, for thy vouchsafing me, (the meanest in understanding,) an insight in soe great a secret of nature, beneficent to all mankind, as this my water commanding engine. Suffer me not to be puffed upp, O Lord, by the knowing of it, and many more rare and unheard off, yea unparalleled inventions, tryals, and experiments.—But humble my haughty heart, by the true knowledge of myne own ignorant, weake, and unworthy nature: proane to all euill, O most mercifull Father my creator, most compassionatting Sonne my redeemer, and Holyest of Spiritts, the sanctifier, three diuine persons, and one God, grant me a further concurring grace with fortitude to take hould of thy goodnesse, to the end that whatever I doe, unanimously and courageously to serve my king and country, to disabuse, rectifie, and convert my vndeserved, yet wilfully incredulous enemyes, to reimburse thankfully my creditors, to reimmunerate my benefactors, to reinhearten my distressed family, and with complacence to gratifie my suffering and confiding friends, may, voyde of vanity or selfe ends, be only directed to thy honour and glory everlastingly. Amen.