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A53046	The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Newcastle ... written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1667 (1667)	Wing N853; ESTC R30741	100,054	226

this Answer That I could not expect the least allowance by reason my Lord and Husband had been the greatest Traitor of England that is to say the honestest man because he had been most against them Then Sir Charles intrusted some persons to compound for his Estate but it being a good while before they agreed in their Composition and then before the Rents could be received we having in the mean time nothing to live on must of necessity have been starved had not Sir Charles got some Credit of several Persons and that not without great difficulty for all those that had Estates were afraid to come near him much less to assist him until he was sure of his own Estate So much is Misery and Poverty shun'd But though our Condition was hard yet my dear Lord and Husband whom we left in Antwerp was then in a far greater distress then our selves for at our departure he had nothing but what his Credit was able to procure him and having run upon the score so long without paying any the least part thereof his Creditors began to grow impatient and resolved to trust him no longer Wherefore he sent me word That if his Brother did not presently relieve him he was forced to starve Which doleful news caused great sadness and melancholy in us both and withal made his Brother try his utmost endeavour to procure what moneys he could for his subsistance who at last got 200 l. sterl upon Credit which he immediately made over to my Lord. But in the mean time before the said money could come to his hands my Lord had been forced to send for all his Creditors and declare to them his great wants and necessities where his Speech was so effectual and made such an impression in them that they had all a deep sense of my Lords Misfortunes and instead of urging the payment of his Debts promised him That he should not want any thing in whatsoever they were able to assist him which they also very nobly and civilly performed furnishing him with all manner of provisions and necessaries for his further subsistance so that my Lord was then in a much better condition amongst strangers then we in our Native Countrey At last when Sir Charles Cavendish had compounded for his Estate and agreed to pay 4500 l. for it the Parliament caused it again to be surveyed and made him pay 500 l. more which was more then many others had paid for much greater Estates so that Sir Charles to pay this Composition and discharge some Debts was necessitated to sell some Land of his at an under-rate My Lords two Sons who were also in England at that time were no less in want and necessity then we having nothing but bare Credit to live on and my Lords Estate being then to be sold outright Sir Charles his Brother endeavoured if possible to save the two chief Houses viz. Welbeck and Bolsover being resolved rather to part with some more of his Land which he had lately compounded for then to let them fall into the Enemies hands but before such time as he could compass the money some body had bought Bolsover with an intention to pull it down and make money of the Materials of whom Sir Charles was forced to buy it again at a far greater Rate then he might have had it at first notwithstanding a great part of it was pulled down already and though my Lords eldest Son Charles Lord Mansfield had those mentioned Houses some time in possession after the death of his Uncle yet for want of Means he was not able to repair them I having now been in England a year and a half some Intelligence which I received of my Lords being not very well and the small hopes I had of getting some relief out of his Estate put me upon design of returning to Antwerp to my Lord and Sir Charles his Brother took the same resolution but was prevented by an Ague that seized upon him Not long had I been with my Lord but we received the sad news of his Brothers death which was an extream affliction both to my Lord and my self for they loved each other entirely In truth He was a Person of so great worth such extraordinary civility so obliging a Nature so full of Generosity Justice and Charity besides all manner of Learning especially in the Mathematicks that not onely his Friends but even his Enemies did much lament his loss After my return out of England to my Lord the Creditors supposing I had brought great store of money along with me came all to my Lord to solicite the payment of their Debts but when my Lord had informed them of the truth of the business and desired their patience somewhat longer with assurance that so soon as he received any money he would honestly and justly satisfie them they were not onely willing to forbear the payment of those Debts he had contracted hitherto but to credit him for the future and supply him with such Necessaries as he should desire of them And this was the onely happiness which my Lord had in his distressed condition and the chief blessing of the Eternal and Merciful God in whose Power are all things who ruled the hearts and minds of men and filled them with Charity and Compassion for certainly it was a work of Divine Providence that they shewed so much love respect and honour to my Lord a stranger to their Nation and notwithstanding his ruined Condition and the small appearance of recovering his own credited him wheresoever he lived both in France Holland Brabant and Germany that although my Lord was banished his Native Countrey and dispossessed from his own Estate could nevertheless live in so much Splendor and Grandure as he did In this Condition and how little soever the appearance was my Lord was never without hopes of seeing yet before his death a happy issue of all his misfortunes and sufferings especially of the Restauration of His most Gracious King and Master to His Throne and Kingly Rights whereof he always had assured Hopes well knowing that it was impossible for the Kingdom to subsist long under so many changes of Government and whensoever I expressed how little faith I had in it he would gently reprove me saying I believ'd least what I desir'd most and could never be happy if I endeavour'd to exclude all hopes and entertain'd nothing but doubts and fears The City of Antwerp in which we lived being a place of great resort for Strangers and Travellers His Majesty our now gracious King Charles the Second passed thorough it when he went his Journey towards Germany and after my Lord had done his humble duty and waited on His Majesty He was pleased to Honour him with His Presence at his House The same did almost all strangers that were Persons of Quality if they made any stay in the Town they would come and visit my Lord and see the Mannage of his Horses And amongst the rest

Wars that was neither between Medes and Persians Greeks and Trojans Christians and Turks but among my own Countreymen whose Customs and Inclinations and most of the Persons that held any considerable Place in the Armies was well known to me and besides all that which is above all my Noble and Loyal Lord did act a chief Part in that fatal Tragedy to have defended if humane power could have done it his most Gracious Soveraign from the fury of his Rebellious Subjects This History being as I have said of a particular Person his Actions and Fortunes it cannot be expected that I should here Preach of the beginning of the World nor seem to express understanding in the Politicks by tedious moral Discourses with long Observations upon the several sorts of Government that have been in Greece Rome and upon others more modern I will neither endeavour to make show of Eloquence making Speeches that never was spoken nor pretend to great skill in War by making Mountains of Mole-hills and telling Romansical Falshoods for Historical Truths and much less will I write to amuse my Readers in a mystical and allegorical Style of the disloyal Actions of the opposite Party of the Treacherous Cowardise Envy and Malice of some Persons my Lords Enemies and of the ingratitude of some of his seeming Friends wherein I cannot better obey his Lordships Commands to conceal those things then in leaving them quite out as I do with submission to his Lordships desire from whom I have learn'd Patience to overcome my Passions and Discretion to yield to his Prudence Thus am I resolved to write in a natural plain style without Latin Sentences moral Instructions politick Designs feigned Orations or envious and malicious Exclamations this short History of the Loyal Heroick and Prudent Actions of my Noble Lord as also of his Sufferings Losses and ill-Fortunes which in honour and Conscience I could not suffer to be buried in silence nor could I have undertaken so hard a task had not my love to his Person and to Truth been my Encourager and Supporter I might have made this Book larger in transcribing as is ordinary in Histories the several Letters full of Affection and kind promises he received from His Gracious Soveraign Charles the First and from his Royal Consort in the time he was in the Actions of War as also since the War from his dear Soveraign and Master Charles the Second But many of the former Letters having been lost when all was lost I thought it best seeing I had not them all to print none As for Orations which is another way of swelling the bulk of Histories it is certain that My Lord made not many chusing rather to fight then to talk and his Declarations having been printed already it had been superfluous to insert them in these Narrations This Book would however have been a great Volume if his Grace would have given me leave to publish his Enemies Actions But being to write of his own onely I do it briefly and truly and not as many have done who have written of the late Civil War with but few sprinklings of Truth like as Heat-drops upon a dry barren Ground knowing no more of the Transactions of those Times then what they learned in the Gazets which for the most part out of Policy to amuse and deceive the People contain nothing but Falshoods and Chimeraes and were such Parasites that after the Kings Party was over-powred the Government among the Rebels changing from one Faction to another they never miss'd to exalt highly the Merits of the chief Commanders of the then prevailing side comparing some of them to Moses and some others to all the great and most famous Heroes both Greeks and Romans wherein unawares they exceedingly commended my Noble Lord for if those Ring-leaders of Factions were so great men as they are reported to be by those Time-servers How much greater must his Lordship be who beat most of them except the Earl of Essex whose employment was never in the Northern parts where all the rest of the greatest strength of the Parliament was sent to oppose my Lord's Forces which was the greatest the Kings Party had any where Good Fortune is such an Idol of the World and is so like the golden Calf worshipped by the Israelites that those Arch-Rebels never wanted Astrologers to foretel them good success in all their Enterprises nor Poets to sing their Praises nor Orators for Panegyricks nay which is worse nor Historians neither to record their Valour in fighting and Wisdom in Governing But being so much as I am above base Profit or any Preferment whatsoever I cannot fear to be suspected of Flattery in declaring to the World the Merits Wealth Power Loyalty and Fortunes of My Noble Lord who hath done great Actions suffered great Losses endured a long Banishment for his Loyalty to his King and Countrey and leads now like another Scipio a quiet Countrey-life If notwithstanding all this any should say That those who write Histories of themselves and their own actions or of their own Party or instruct and inform those that write them are partial to themselves I answer That it is very improbable Worthy Persons who having done Great Noble and Heroick Exploits deserving to be recorded should be so vain as to write false Histories but if they do it proves but their Folly for Truth can never be concealed and so it will be more for their disgrace then for their Honour or Fame I fear not any such blemishes in this present History for I am conscious of any such Crime as Patiality or Falshood but write it whilest My Noble Lord is yet alive and at such a time where Truth may be declared and Falshood contradicted and I challenge any one although I be a Woman to contradict any thing that I have set down or prove it to be otherwise then Truth for be there never so many Contradictions Truth will conquer all at last Concerning My Lords Actions in War which are comprehended in the first Book the relation of them I have chiefly from my Lords Secretary Mr. Rolleston a Person that has been an Eye-witness thereof and accompanied My Lord as Secretary in his Army and gave out all his Commissions his honesty and worth is unquestionable by all that know him And as for the Second Book which contains My Lords Actions and Sufferings during the time of his Exile I have set down so much as I could possibly call to mind without any particular Expression of time onely from the time of his Banishment or rather what I can remember from the time of my Marriage till our return into England To the end of which I have joined a Computation of My Lord's Losses which he hath suffered by those unfortunate Warres In the third Book I have set down some particular Chapters concerning the Description of his Person his Natural Faculties and Personal Vertues c. And in the last some Essayes and Discourses

Majesty King CHARLEs the Second was pleased when my Lord was in banishment to make him Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And 12. After his Return into England Chief Justice in Eyre Trent-North 13. He created him Duke of Newcastle and Earl of Ogle 7. Of the Entertainments He made for King CHARLES the First THough my Lord hath alwayes been free and noble in his Entertainments and Feastings yet he was pleased to shew his great Affection and Duty to his Gracious King Charles the First and Her Majesty the Queen in some particular Entertainments which he made of purpose for them before the late Warrs When His Majesty was going into Scotland to be Crowned he took His way through Nottinghamshire and lying at Worksop-Mannor hardly two miles distant from Welbeck where my Lord then was my Lord invited His Majesty thither to a Dinner which he was graciously pleased to accept of This Entertainment cost my Lord between Four and Five thousand pounds which His Majesty liked so well that a year after His Return out of Scotland He was pleased to send my Lord word That Her Majesty the Queen was resolved to make a Progress into the Northern parts desiring him to prepare the like Entertainment for Her as he had formerly done for Him Which My Lord did and endeavour'd for it with all possible Care and Indudustry sparing nothing that might add splendor to that Feast which both Their Majesties were pleased to honour with their Presence Ben Iohnson he employed in fitting such Scenes and Speeches as he could best devise and sent for all the Gentry of the Country to come and wait on their Majesties and in short did all that ever he could imagine to render it Great and worthy Their Royal Acceptance This Entertainment he made at Bolsover-Castle in Derbyshire some five miles distant from Welbeck and resigned Welbeck for Their Majesties Lodging it cost him in all between Fourteen and Fifteen thousand pounds Besides these two there was another small Entertainment which my Lord prepared for His late Majesty in his own Park at Welbeck when His Majesty came down with his two Nephews the now Prince Elector 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 possessiou 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 Gentleman To School-Learning he never shew'd a great inclination for though he was sent to the University and was a Student of St. Iohn's Colledg in Cambridg and had his Tutors to instruct him yet they could not perswade him to read or study much he taking more delight 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 suffer'd 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 hapned that a young Gentleman one of my Lord's Relations had bought some Land at the same time when my Lord had bought a Singing-Boy for 50 l. a Horse for 50 l. and a Dog for 2 l. which humour his Father Sir Charles liked so well that he was pleased to say That if he should find his Son to be so covetous that he would buy Land before he was 20 years of Age he would disinherit him But above all the rest my Lord had a great inclination to the Art of Horsemanship and Weapons in which later his Father Sir Charles being a most ingenuous and unparallell'd Master of that Age was his onely Tutor and kept him also several Masters in the Art of Horsemanship and sent him to the Mewse to Mons. Antoine who was then accounted the best Master in that Art But my Lord's delight in those Heroick Exercises was such that he soon became Master thereof Himself which encreased much his Father's hopes of his future perfections who being himself a person of a Noble and Heroick nature was extreamly well pleased to observe his Son take delight in such Arts and Exercises as were proper and fit for a person of Quality 9. His Natural Wit and Vnderstanding ALthough my Lord has not so much of Scholarship and Learning as his Brother Sir Charles Cavendish had yet he hath an excellent Natural Wit and Judgment and dives into the bottom of every thing as it is evidently apparent in the forementioned Art of Horsemanship and Weapons which by his own ingenuity he has reformed and brought to such perfection as never any one has done heretofore And though he is no Mathematician by Art yet he hath a very good Mathematical brain to demonstrate Truth by natural reason and is both a good Natural and Moral Philosopher not by reading Philosophical Books but by his own Natural Understanding and Observation by which he hath found out many Truths To pass by several other instances I 'le but mention that when my Lord was at Paris in his Exile it happen'd one time that he discoursing with some of his Friends amongst whom was also that Learned Philosopher Hobbes they began amongst the rest to argue upon this subject namely Whether it mere possible to make Man by Art fly as Birds do and when some of the Company had delivered their Opinion viz. That they thought it probable to be done by the help of Artificial Wings My Lord declared that he deemed it altogether impossible and demonstrared it by this following Reason Man's Armes said he are not set on his shoulders in the same manner as Bird's wings are for that part of the Arm which joins to the Shoulder is in Man placed inward as towards the breast but in Birds outward as toward the back which difference and contrary position or shape hinders that man cannot have the same flying-action with his Armes as Birds have with their Wings Which Argument Mr. Hobbes liked so well that he was pleased to make use of it in one of his Books called Leviathan if I remember well Some other time they falling into a Discourse concerning Witches Mr. Hobbes said That though he could not rationally believe there were Witches yet he could not be fully satisfied

words or actions shall never be trusted again by wise and honest men But said he A wise man is not bound to take notice of all Dissemblers and their cheating Actions if they do not concern him nay even of those he would not always take notice but chuse his time for the chief part of a wise man is to time business well and to do it without Partiality and Passion But said he The folly of the world is so great that one honest and wise man may be overpowred by many Knaves and Fools and if so then the onely benefit of a wise man consists in the satisfaction he finds by his honest and wise actions and that he has done what in Conscience Honour and Duty he ought to do and all successors of such worthy Persons ought to be more satisfied in the worth and merit of their Predecessours then in their Title and Riches IV. I have heard that some noble Gentleman who was servant to His Highness then Prince of Wales our now Gracious Soveraign when my Lord was Governour should relate that whensoever my Lord by his prudent inspection and foresight did foretell what would come to pass hereafter it seemed so improbable to him that both himself and some others believed my Lotd spoke extravagantly But some few years after his predictions proved true and the event did confirm what his Prudence had observed V. I have heard That in our late Civil Warres there were many petty Skirmishes and Fortifications of weak and inconsiderable Houses where some small Parties would be shooting and pottering at each other an action more proper for Bandites or Thieves then stout and valiant Soldiers for I have heard my Lord say That such small Parties divide the Body of an Army and by that means weaken it whereas the business might be much easier decided in one or two Battels with less ruine both to the Country and Army For I have heard my Lord say That as it is dangerous to divide a Limb from the Body so it is also dangerous to divide Armies or Navies in time of Warr and there are often more men lost in such petty Skirmishes then in set-Battels by reason those happen almost every day nay every hour in several places VI. Many in our late Civil-Warres had more Title then Power for though they were Generals or chief Commanders yet their Forces were more like a Brigade then a well-formed Army and their actions were accordingly not set-battels but petty Skirmishes between small Parties for there were no great Battels fought but by my Lord's Army his being the greatest and best-formed Army which His Majesty had VII Although I have observed That it is a usual Custom of the World to glorifie the present Power and good Fortune and vilifie ill Fortune and low conditions yet I never heard that my Noble Lord was ever neglected by the generality but was on the contrary alwayes esteemed and praised by all for he is truly an Honest and Honourable man and one that may be relied upon both for Trust and Truth VIII I have observed That many instead of great Actions make onely a great Noise and like shallow Fords or empty Bladders sound most when there is least in them which expresses a flattering Partiality rather then Honesty and Truth for Truth and Honesty lye at the bottom and have more Action then Shew IX I have observed That good Fortune adds Fame to mean Actions when as ill Fortune darkens the splendor of the most meritorious for mean Persons plyed with good Fortune are more famous then Noble Persons that are shadowed or darkned with ill Fortune so that Fortune for the most part is Fame's Champion X. I observe That as it would be a grief to covetous and miserable persons to be rewarded with Honour rather then with Wealth because they love Wealth before Honour and Fame so on the other side Noble Heroick and Meritorious Persons prefer Honour and Fame before Wealth well knowing That as Infamy is the greatest Punishment of unworthiness so Fame and Honour is the best Reward of worth and merit XII I observe that spleen and malice especially in this age is grown to that height that none will endure the praise of any body besides themselves nay they 'l rather praise the wicked then the good the Coward rather then the Valiant the Miserable then the Generous the Traytor then the Loyal which makes Wise men meddle as little with the Affairs of the world as ever they can XIII I have observed as well as former Ages have done That Meritorious persons for their noble actions most commonly get Envy and Reproach instead of Praise and Reward unless their Fortunes be above Envy as Caesars and Elexanders were But had these two Worthies been as Unfortunate as they were Fortunate they would have been as much vilified as they are glorified XIV I have observed that it is more easie to talk then to act to forget then to remember to punish then to reward and more common to prefer Flattery before Truth Interest before Justice and present service before past XV. I have observed that many old Proverbs are very true and amongst the rest this It is better to be at the latter end of a Feast then at the beginning of a Fray for most commonly those that are in the beginning of a Fray get but little of the Feast and those that have undergone the greatest dangers have least of the spoils XVI I have oberved That Favours of Great Princes make men often thought Meritorious whereas without them they would be esteemed but as ordinary Persons XVII I observe That in other Kingdoms or Countries to be the chief Governour of a Province is not onely a place of Honour but much Profit for they have a great Revenue to themselves whereas in England the Lieutenancy of a County is barely a Title of Honour without Profit except it be the Lieutenancy or Government of the Kingdom of Ireland especially since the late Earl of Stafford enjoyed that dignity who setled that Kingdom very wisely both for Militia and Trade XVIII I have observed That those that meddle least in Wars whether Civil or Foreign are not onely most safe and free from danger but most secure from Losses and though Heroick Persons esteem Fame before Life yet many there are that think the wisest way is to be a Spectator rather then an Actor unless they be necessitated to it for it is better say they to sit on the Stool of Quiet then in the Chair of Troublesome Business FINIS * Sir William Carnaby Kt. * Mr. Gray Brother to the Lord Gray of the North. * Francis Palmes * Capt. Mazine * Sir Iohn Marlay Kt. * Dr. Coosens * Sir Thomas Fairfax * The Lord Goring and Sir Francis Mackworth Knight * Sir Will. Savil Kt. and Bar. * The Lord Ethyn * The Lord Widdrington * The Lord Loughborrough * The Lord Bellasis * The Lord Langdale * Selby in Yorkshire * Mrs. Chaplain now Mrs. Top. * Mr. Benoist * Sir Henry Wood. * Sir Foster * Sir William Throckmorton Knight