considering the profession of his landlord, who had at that time his
house burnt to the ground. After being here a year or two, and no
preferment coming, Secretary Windebank calling him Puritan, being his
enemy, because himself was a Papist, he was, by his elder brother, put
into the place of the King's Remembrancer, absolutely, with this
proviso, that he should be accountable for the use of the income; but
if in seven years he would pay 8,000 pounds for it to his brother,
then it should be his, with the whole revenue of it; but the war
breaking out presently after, put an end to this design; for, being
the King's sworn servant, he went to the King at Oxford, as well as
his fellows, to avoid the fury of this madness of the people, where,
having been almost a year, we married, as I said before; and I will
continue my discourse where we left.

Now we appear on the stage, to act what part God designed us; and as
faith is the evidence of things not seen, so we, upon so righteous a
cause, cheerfully resolved to suffer what that would drive us to,
which afflictions were neither few nor small, as you will find. This
year the Prince had an established Council, which were the Earl of
Berkshire, Earl of Bradford, Lord Capel, Lord Colepeper, Lord Hopton,
and Sir Edward Hyde, Chancellor of the Exchequer. My husband was then,
as I said, newly entered into his office of secretary of the Council
of War, and the King would have had him then to have been sworn his
Highness's Secretary, but the Queen, who was then no friend to my
husband, because he had formerly made Secretary Windebank appear in
his colours, who was one of her Majesty's favourites, wholly
obstructed that then, and placed with the Prince Sir Robert Long, for
whom she had a great kindness; but the consequence will show the man.

The beginning of March 1645, your father went to Bristol with his new