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After some time spent in France, he betook himself to the war in Holland, where after he had made two or three campaigns, according to the custom of the English volunteers, he came in the leisure of the winter to visit England, about the time of the infancy of the duke of Buckingham's favours, to whom he grew in a short time very acceptable. He was a very handsome man 5, of a lovely and winning presence, and gentle.conversation; by which he had got so easy an admission to the court and grace of king James, that he gave over the life of a soldier. He took all the ways he could to endear himself to the duke, and wisely declined receiving any grace or favour but as his donation; above all, avoided the suspicion that the king had any kindness for him upon any account but of the duke, whose creature he desired to be esteemed, though the earl of Carlisle's friend. And he prospered so well in that pretence, that the king scarcely made more haste to advance the duke, than the duke did to promote the other. Under this protection, he received every day new obligations from the king, and great bounties; and continued to flourish above any man in the court, while the weather was fair; but the storm did no sooner arise, than he declined fast from the honour he was said to be master of❝. After va

Mercer says, in his panegyrical address to lord Holland, "Thy beauty too exceeds the sex of men;

Thy courtly presence and thy princely grace

Add to the splendor of thy royall race."

Angliæ Speculum, 1646.

Hist. of the Rebellion, vol. i. p. 62.