placed, though no bigger than a shilling, serves as well as a whole
suit of armour; so our stock bought pen, ink and paper, which was your
father's trade, and by it, I assure you, we lived better than those
that were born to 2OOO pounds a year as long as he had his liberty.
Here stay till I have told you your father's life until I married him.

He was but seven years old when his father died, and his mother, my
Lady, designed him for the law, having bred him first with that famous
schoolmaster Mr. Farnaby, and then under the tuition of Dr. Beale, in
Jesus College in Cambridge, from whence, being a most excellent
Latinist, he was admitted into the Inner Temple; but it seemed so
crabbed a study, and disagreeable to his inclinations, that he rather
studied to obey his mother than to make any progress in the law. Upon
the death of his mother, whom he dearly loved and honoured, he went
into France to Paris, where he had three cousins german, Lord
Strangford, Sir John Baker of Kent, and my cousin Thornhill. The whole
stock he carried with him was eighty pieces of gold, and French silver
to the value of five pounds in his pocket; his gold was quilted in his
doublet; he went by post to lodgings in the Fauxbourg St. Germain,
with an intent to rest that night, and the next day to find out his
kindred; but the devil, that never sleeps, so ordered it, that two
friars entered the chamber wherein he was, and welcoming him, being
his countrymen, invited him to play, he innocently only intending
diversion, till his supper was ready; but that was not their design,
for having engaged him, they left him not as long as he was worth a
groat, which when they discovered, they gave him five pieces of his
money until he could recruit himself by his friends, which he did the
next day: and from that time forward never played for a piece. It came
to pass, that seven years after, my husband being in Huntingdonshire,
at a bowling-green, with Sir Capel Bedells, and many other persons of