time with him. About the beginning of July, the Prince, accompanied
with the Earl of Bradford, a soldier of fortune, and Lord Colepeper,
and the Earl of Berkshire, and most of his servants, went to
Cotanville, and from thence to Paris, where he remained some little
time by his mother the Queen's council, and afterwards went into
Holland. Your father and I remained fifteen days in Jersey, and
resolved that he would remain with his brother in Caen, whilst he sent
me into England, whither my father was gone a month before, to see if
I could procure a sum of money. The beginning of August we took our
leave of the governor's family, and left our child with a nurse under
the care of the Lady Carteret; [Footnote: It was apparently this Lady,
of whom Pepys observes, 30th June, 1662. "Told my Lady Carteret, how
my Lady Fanshawe is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf of
the French: which my Lady wonders at, they having been formerly like
sisters."--Diary, vol. i. p. 284.] and in four days we came to Caen,
and myself, sister, and maid went from Mr. Fanborne's house, where my
brother and all his family lodged, aboard a small merchantman that lay
in the river; and upon the 30th of August, I arrived in the Cowes,
near Southampton, to which place I went that night, and came to London
two days after. This was the first time I had taken a journey without
your father, and the first manage of business he ever put into my
hands, in which I thank God I had good success; for, lodging in Fleet
Street, at Mr. Eates, the Watchmaker, with my sister Boteler, I
procured by the means of Colonel Copley, a great Parliament-man, whose
wife had formerly been obliged to our family, a pass for your father
to come and compound for 300 pounds which was a part of my fortune,
but it was only a pretence, for your grandfather was obliged to
compound for it, and deliver it us free. And when your father was
come, he was very private in London; for he was in daily fears to be
imprisoned before he could raise money to go back again to his master,