[G] Jo. H. of Lords, Vol. xi. p. 133. [H] Jo. H. of Lords, Vol. xi. p. 135. [I] Jo. H. of Lords, 1660. 12 Car. II. [J] Ibid. p. 152. [70] Nicholas. [K] Jo. H. of Lords, Vol. xi. p. 296. [L] Ibid, pages 119, 125, 149, 150, 348, 386, 393, 395. CHAPTER XVI. HIS INVENTIONS--FURTHER PETITIONS--PUBLICATION OF HIS CENTURY-- CHARLES II. VISITS HIS SON AT BADMINTON--WORCESTER HOUSE, STRAND. The preamble of an Act for awarding £60,000 to poor cavaliers sets forth, that “Whereas there was a loyal party which through all hazard and extremities in the defence of the King’s person, crown, and dignity, the rights and privileges of Parliament, the religion, laws, and honour of the English nation, did bear arms by command of his late Majesty of ever blessed memory, according to their duty, and the known laws of this land, and did with an unwearied courage, faith, and constancy, with their lives and fortunes, oppose the barbarous rebellion raised against his most excellent Majesty in the year 1642, &c. &c.”[A] But means so inadequate could really benefit few, particularly so large a claimant as the Marquis of Worcester, who had sacrificed more than fifteen times the whole amount of that fund. And although he received back a large portion of his estates, the very deeds held by Cromwell being at this day in the family’s possession, his own debts had accumulated to a most ruinous extent, less from improvidence on his own part, than from the precarious course of life his necessities had obliged him to lead, especially during the last ten or twelve years.