. is age, there fell out an occasion Monks Life di^tdid hasten this resolution; which may not be ungrateful to relate. written bv 1) I • 1 ? Gnmbie, lis lliefiist comiug to Plymouth, about this time, to have an eye to his naval preparations,graces chap- j| apiMehension of a breach with Spain ; Sir Thomas Monk, (that in all great lam, (printed, I ^^ ^ /• i , i ii-ri t \ 16-1) solemnities, used not to be one of the last, nor least, in the business ot liis country)panthcrMf >eing now, by his predecessors, left unde
. is age, there fell out an occasion Monks Life di^tdid hasten this resolution; which may not be ungrateful to relate. written bv 1) I • 1 ? Gnmbie, lis lliefiist comiug to Plymouth, about this time, to have an eye to his naval preparations,graces chap- j| apiMehension of a breach with Spain ; Sir Thomas Monk, (that in all great lam, (printed, I ^^ ^ /• i , i ii-ri t \ 16-1) solemnities, used not to be one of the last, nor least, in the business ot liis country)panthcrMf >eing now, by his predecessors, left under great incumbrances in his estate, sent thishis son George to the then under-sheriff of Devon, with a good present and this mes-sage, That he did not know what judgments might be against him, but desired that,without any prosecution, he might have the liberty to wait upon his prince, nowvisiting this county: Who acknowledged his desire reasonable, and assured his per-formance. Notwithstanding which, he broke his word, and in a most treacherous man-ner. GEORGE mi&f^K,MUMLE OF MJL Cook satip fuJ?lishaiDecT5h8op. fy B^xs &- (h^tis / MONK, GEORGE, DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. 587 ner seized the person of Sir Thomas Monk, upon an execution, in the face of the wholecountry : Which affront our young gentleman, who had received his engagement tothe contrary, could not digest with patience; and therefore going to Exeter, he findsout the under-sheriff; first he expostulates his falseliood, and then gives him the chas-tisement lie deservd, (without any intention of murder) and had not some interposd,he had left him in worse condition than he did. Upon this contrast© he was forcd (toavoid the fury of this enraged Bagster) to turn soldier sooner than his friends designd,being not arrivd as yet to the seventeenth year of his age. Hereupon he was recommended to the care of Sir Richard Grenvil (younger brotherto the brave Sir Bevil) his near kinsman, a captain of great renown; Yrom wh
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