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Janded at Perofe, in Baffe-Bretagne, leaving the marquis of Clanricard deputy of the king-dom; of the affairs of which it is foreign to our design to take any farther notice than as they coincide with what relates to the marquis, who having landed in France in the beginning of January, 1651, after a few days ftay with his family at Caen, went, on the twenty-firft, to -pay his duty to the queen at Paris, and ac quaint her majefty with the state of affairs in Ireland; which having done, he returned to his family, where he continued till the latter end of June.

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He made a fecond journey to Paris to wait on the duke of York. He there remained a month, the duke requiring his affiftance in fettling and proportioning the expence of his family to his small penfion of four thousand piftoles a year allowed him by the court of France.

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This being done, he again vifited and ftayed with his family till his majefty escaped from the battle of Worcester, and from the purfuit and narrow fearch made for him returned to Paris. The marquis was reduced at this time to great ftreights, being obliged to board himself at a piftole a week; to walk on foot, which is not very reputable at Paris, and his family not able longer to fubfift in Caen; for the penfion granted to his majesty not exceeding fix thousand piftoles, barely fufficed for his own table, confequently there was nothing to be expected for his fervants.

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These circumftances made it neceffary, for the fupport of the marquis's family, that the anarchionefs fhould go over to England, and follicit the parliament for an allowance of her own hereditary estate. She at length obtained an order of parliament to authorize the commiffioners for Irish affairs, to fet apart, for a provifion for her and her children, the clear yearly value of two thousand pounds out of her own inheritance, with Donemore-house, near Kilkenny, for her abode; where the continued, and never faw her lord till after the king's restoration.

The marquis attended his majesty at Paris till the treaty between the court of France and Cromwell made the king's departure from that kingdom indifpenfably neceffary: wherefore, having obtained of the cardinal Mazarine barely fufficient to pay his debts, and defray the expences of his journey, he fet out from Paris for Spaw, where meeting his fifter, the princess of Orange, they went together to Aix la Chapelle; and, after a few months. ftay in that town, his majesty, attended by the marquis, who had never quitted him, went to Cologne; but hardly had he been there three months, before he was ordered back to Paris, to wait on the duke of Gloucester from thence to Cologne, Cromwell having, at the latter end of the year 1652, permitted his royal' highness to depart England. After having conducted the duke to the king, he was ordered

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to the Hague, to attend the princess royal to his majesty.

The marquis, early in the fpring, was fent to the duke of Newburg, to engage him to employ his intereft at the court of Bruffels, to engage their efpoufing his majefty's caufe, and for promoting an alliance between the king of England and the king of Spain, the duke being in perfect amity with the Spaniards, and defirous to ferve the king of England. He, however, for very fubftantial reafons, thought any overtures of this nature might, at that juncture, rather prejudice than advance. his majesty's interests.

The peace concluded between France and Cromwell, another between him and Portugal, and the taking Jamaica, made it the interest of the Spanish court to diftrefs Cromwell as much as poffible; but, notwithstanding the above treaty had been entered upon, it went on but flowly; and his majesty, till the arrival of Don John, obtained no more than the permiffion of refiding incognito at Bruges; and a promife of the affiftance of fix thousand men, with a quantity of arms and ammunition to make a defcent, when he fhould be mafter of a good port in England. With Don John he entered into a new treaty, which afforded him an immediate fupport of three thoufand crowns a month.

His majesty loft no time in removing into Flanders, and from thence fent for the duke of York to come to him at Bruges; which VOL. VII. command

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command his royal highness obeyed, having, before he fet out, engaged fome of the chief Irith officers then in the French fervice. His majefty formed five or fix regiments of fuch of his fubjects as were then in the Spanish fervice, and of those who had left that of the French, which were by much the greater number, and moftly Irish. The marquis had the command of one of those regiments.

The king entertained fome hopes, from his treaty with the Spaniards, which had raised thofe of his fubjects, who fent him several meffengers to affure him of their readiness to join him; but Don Juan, who faw plainly, by the account he received, that a person of eminent credit with the king, to conduct the defign, was wanting, would not hazard the Spanish forces.

The marquis, in this exigence, generously offered to go to England in difguife, and act in the manner that should be moft conducive to his majesty's interest, either as a chief or as a fubaltern; which was, with fome reluctance, accepted by the king. He accordingly came over, but foon was convinced, that all hopes from the cavalier's zeal were built upon a fandy foundation.

The marquis found an averfion from the government, which at that time poffeffed all parties; but fuch mutual jealoufies among one another, that an intercourfe was impracticable. In short, he returned with no other fruits reaped, than the certainty that all hopes of

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any thing being done by the Cavaliers, for his majefty, were entirely vain; though the general inclination to throw off the yoke of the ufurper was fo great, that, had the king been fupported by a foreign force, his lordship thought a restoration would meet with but fmall refiftance;

This made his majefty folicit the Spanish ministry, who flattered, but failed, his expectations. The marquis, in the interim, ftayed at Paris, in almoft as much danger of imprifonment there as of death in London, Cromwell having fent to the cardinal to get him fecured.

The king, deluded by the Spaniards, fent for the marquis to attend him to Bruffels; but, as it was dangerous for him to go near any part of the frontiers towards Flanders, he rode to Lyons; from thence to Geneva; and, paffing through the palatinate, went to Duffeldorp, and from thence to Bruffels.

The king, difgufted with the Spanish minifters, who amufed him with vain hopes, withdrew from Bruffels to Hookstraten, Cromwell being dead; and the Dutch seemed to take a favourable turn. The marquis, to forward his master's intereft, which he hoped by fuch means to ftrengthen, agreed to his fon's fecond marriage with Emilia, daughter of Lewis of Naffau, lord of Beverweert, natural fon of Maurice, prince of Orange; with a fortune of only ten thoufand pounds.

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