in the time of the late rebellion as their revenue made nearly eighty
thousand pounds a year, and this I have often seen a list of and know
it to be true.

The use of which to you is, that you should not omit your duty to your
king and country, nor be less in your industry to exceed at least, not
shame, the excellent memory of your ancestors. They were all eminent
officers; and that, I believe, keeping them ever employed, made them
so good men. I hope in God the like parallel will be in you, which I
heartily and daily pray for.

I was born in St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, in a house that my
father took of the Lord Dingwall, father to the now Duchess of Ormond,
in the year 1625, on our Lady Day, 25th of March. Mr. Hyde, Lady
Alston, and Lady Wolstenholme, were my godfather and godmothers. In
that house I lived the winter times till I was fifteen years old and
three months, with my ever honoured and most dear mother, who departed
this life on the 20th day of July, 1640, and now lies buried in
Allhallow's Church, in Hertford. Her funeral cost my father above a
thousand pounds; and Dr. Howlsworth preached her funeral sermon, in
which, upon his own knowledge, he told before many hundreds of people
this accident following: that my mother, being sick to death of a
fever three months after I was born, which was the occasion she gave
me suck no longer, her friends and servants thought to all outward
appearance that she was dead, and so lay almost two days and a night,
but Dr. Winston coming to comfort my father, went into my mother's
room, and looking earnestly on her face, said "she was so handsome,
and now looks so lovely, I cannot think she is dead"; and suddenly
took a lancet out of his pocket and with it cut the sole of her foot,
which bled. Upon this, he immediately caused her to be laid upon the