"My Lord, for God sake lett some of that money w^{ch} you in tended to have at Portsmouth to be left w^{th} Dick Oliver, if it be but five hundred pound to pay Mr. Ward for a ringe and for a cross w^h you gave to my Lady Exeter: for Jesus sake do this, for I am so hanted with them for it, that I do not know what to do; if you will but send me 400_l._ I will dispatch them myself, for I cannot ster for them.[36] "I beseech you remember my cusin Turpine. “To the Duke of Buckingham, my dere husband.”[37] Footnote 33: State Papers, vol. lxv., No. 3. Footnote 34: Main business. Footnote 35: Vol. xvii. No. 28. Footnote 36: For the Duke’s creditors. Footnote 37: State Papers, 2, vol. lxvii., date uncertain, No. 60. This epistle was soon followed by another letter, expressive of great affection--the poor Duchess begging of the Duke not to deceive her, and to love no one but herself. “It was impossible,” she writes, “for woman to love a man more than she did him.” Again she writes:--“beginning to fear” that some hints in which he had encouraged a hope of their meeting again before he sailed were but deceptions, and that she should not see him again, “she was grieved,” she added, “that he had not told her the truth.”[38] Footnote 38: No. 96, Ibid. The Duke’s example and presence, however, after all these delays, had so great an effect both on officers and men, that, on the second of June, Sir Fulke Greville had to write word from Cowes Castle, that he could, with a “perspective,” see a part of the fleet in Stokes Bay.[39] The Duke, meantime, was harassed with difficulties; affairs were far from being in a satisfactory condition; there was continual difficulty in getting seamen, and supplies of money were wanting to leave the coast guarded, to repair the navy, to furnish stores, and to pay the sailors on their return from Rhé.[40] Footnote 39: S. P., vol. lxvi., No. 14. Footnote 40: State Papers, vol. lxvi., No. 33.