And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of _De Cros_'s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir _W. T._ in his Morals and Intellectuals. It remains now I should observe a little what he says concerning his Fortunes, which seems to turn upon these two rusty Hinges, that make as ill a noise as all the rest; the obscurity from whence he was raised to all those great Employments, and his disgrace upon leaving them, which _De Cros_ says was immediately after his Return from _Nimeguen_. For my own part I must confess I am neither old enough, nor have had Conversation in Courts, and with Publick Affairs, to give an account how Sir _W. T._ came into Business, or how he went out, any further than I could gather from Writings and Transactions which are publick and known to every body; or by particular enquiries from some Friends and Acquaintance of my own; and it has happened, that some of them have long known so much of that Family, as to assure me it is a very Ancient one: That Sir _W. T._ was born of a very Honourable Father, who was for many years of the Privy Council in _Ireland_ to King _Charles_ the First, and King _Charles_ the Second, and was long possessed of one of the best Offices in that Kingdom, both for Honour and Profit; as likewise in his time a Member of several Parliaments in _England_: That his two younger Brothers are known to have lived always with plentiful Fortunes, and in much esteem: So that this Gentleman alone seems to have been born under the unluckiest Planet in the world, tho Heir to his Father's Fortune, and Successor to his Office, which was so considerable; yet he only of all his Family, was _in Obscurity_, and _lay in the Dust_ (for so the _French_ Letter has it) till my Lord _Arlington_ raised him out of both; whose beams it seems were so refulgent, as to make him shine at that distance his Foreign Employments carried him to. My Friends have likewise assured me from their own remembrance and knowledge, that Sir _W. T._ shined as much in a Parliament of _Ireland_ soon after the King's Restoration, as _De Cros_ says he shined long in his Employments abroad; and this was several years before he came into any Foreign Employments. They told me, likewise that he was very easy in his Fortune, not only by what he had from his _Father_, but from his _Lady_, to whom God be thanked (and it is very happy for her Ladyship that) _De Cros_ says, he has no Quarrel. By all which, and the many Employments he since passed through, and of which in one of his Essays he says, he _never sought any_; in my weak conception I should think he was a person, that by the Circumstances of his Humour and his Fortune, needed the Court less than the Court needed him.