Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . it, for he was still holding the place in 1633. It was during Denbighs absence in the East that hiswife wrote to him : My heart, the best news thatI can send you is that I hold a good position in mymistress the Queens favour. Since your departurethe times have been something troublesome and yourdeputy has found much opposition in your office [theroyal wardrobe], nor can as yet obtain any of thefuneral money which has put him to great and all yours, God be thanked, are well, and
Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . it, for he was still holding the place in 1633. It was during Denbighs absence in the East that hiswife wrote to him : My heart, the best news thatI can send you is that I hold a good position in mymistress the Queens favour. Since your departurethe times have been something troublesome and yourdeputy has found much opposition in your office [theroyal wardrobe], nor can as yet obtain any of thefuneral money which has put him to great and all yours, God be thanked, are well, and yourdaughter Marques [Marchioness of Hamilton] is becomethe mother of two pretty daughters. The eldest, whosename is Henrieta, having the Queen and my motherher godmothers, and the Lord Treasurer godfather,was born the last of February, the month you beganyour voyage in ; and the other whose name is Anne,the King being godfather, and myself deputy for theold lady Marques, and the Countess of Devonshire theother God-mother, was borne in January. The LordMarques was sent by the King in July last (1631). WILLIAM, 1st earl OF DENBIGH AFTER THE PAINTING BY VANDYKE THE EXPEDITION TO ROCHELLE 79 with 6 thousand of English and Scotsmen to aid theKing of Sweden in the German wars, who has beenbeyond expectation prosperous in all his designs, anddoes use my Lord Marques with all noble respects,and added eight thousand men more to his commandwith which he has, lately, as his Ma^ has intelligence,taken Magdenburgh, a town of great son Feilding is now at Paris, being forced outof Italy by the general infection of the plague in thoseparts ; and had he not had the good fortune to meetwith Monsieur Toras, captain of the citadel in the Isle ofReese, he could hardly have got out of the country butby his honourable favours, and coming by Turin wasvery gratiously entertained by the Queens sister. Yourson Desmond has been in an academy in Paris this halfyear where he profits himsel
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