ut after we remained sometime therein [in Antwerp], we grew extremely necessitated, tradesmen being there not so rich, as to trust my Lord for so much or so long as those in France. Yet they were so civil, kind and charitable as to trust him for as much as they were able. But at last necessity enforced me to return into England to seek for relief. For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

So being accompanied by my Lord's only brother, Sir Charles Cavendish, who was commanded to return, to live therein or to lose his estate -- over I went. But when I came there I found their hearts as hard as my fortunes, and their natures as cruel as my miseries: for they sold all my Lord's estate which was a very great one and gave me not any part thereof, or any allowance thereout, so that few or no other was so hardly dealt withal.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure. Neither did I haunt the Committees, for I never was at any as a petitioner, but one in my life, which was at Goldsmith's Hall, but I received neither gold nor silver from them, only an absolute refusal that I should have any of my Lord's estate.

My brother, Lord Lucas did claim in my behalf such a part of my Lord's estate as wives had allowed them, but they told him that by reason I was married since my Lord was made a delinquent I could have nothing nor should have anything he being the greatest traitor to the State -- which was to be the most loyal subject to his King and Country. But I whisperingly spoke to my brother to conduct me out of that ungentlemanly place, so without speaking unto them one word good or bad I returned to my lodgings, and as that Committee was the first, so was it the last I ever was at as a petitioner.

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