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Percy to take charge of a box of family papers for him, as he apprehended that, when he was absent from the country, his steward had not been as careful of them as he ought to have been. Mr. Percy willingly consented to take charge of the papers, but he desired that, before they were left with him, Buckhurst should take a list of them. Buckhurst was unprepared for this task.
Nothing came of it however, and the relations of Wilkes and Buckhurst with Hohenlo continued to be friendly. It was a lesson to Wilkes to be more cautious even with the cautious Walsingham. "We had but bare suspicions," said Buckhurst, "nothing fit, God knoweth, to come to such a reckoning.
"Puppy!" exclaimed Buckhurst: "is it possible you can be thinking of a puppy, John, when I am talking to you of what is of so much consequence? when the whole happiness of my life is at stake?" "Stake! Well, but what can I do more!" said John: "have not I been standing here this half hour with my gun in my hand this fine day, listening to you prosing about I don't know what?"
"'Tis a most lamentable thing," said he, "to hear the complaints of soldiers and captains for want of pay." . . . . Whole companies made their way into his presence, literally crying aloud for bread. "For Jesus' sake," wrote Buckhurst, "hasten to send relief with all speed, and let such victuallers be appointed as have a conscience not to make themselves rich with the famine of poor soldiers.
After that event, Buckhurst emerged from confinement, received the order of the garter and the Earldom of Dorset, and on the death of Burghley succeeded that statesman in the office of Lord-Treasurer. Such was the substantial recognition of the merits of a man who was now disgraced for the conscientious discharge of the most important functions that had yet been confided to him.
Have you not made my brother, the dunce, a colonel? and my brother, the knave, an envoy? I only pray to be a dean I ask not yet to be a bishop you see I have some conscience left." "True," said his father, laughing. "Now go to bed, Buckhurst; you may, for your fortune is up." "Ha! my good cousin Percys, where are you now? Education, merit, male and female, where are you now?
"Sir, I am not the keeper of my brother's conscience Indeed, if I were, you might congratulate me in the words of Sir B. R. upon the possession of a sinecure place." "It is a pity, Buckhurst, that you cannot use your wit for yourself as well as for other people. Ah! Buckhurst!
It was not for want of vehement entreaty on the part of the Secretary of State and of Buckhurst that the loan was denied. At least she was entreated to send over money for her troops, who for six months past were unpaid.
Percy, who made one condition with him, that he would go up to town immediately to commence his studies. This Buckhurst faithfully promised to do, and only implored permission to declare his attachment to Caroline.
W. H.; the case of Lord Buckhurst being spoken of as Mr. Sackville being not really a parallel instance, as Lord Buckhurst was not a peer, but merely the younger son of a peer, with a courtesy title, and the passage in England's Parnassus, where he is so spoken of, is not a formal and stately dedication, but simply a casual allusion.
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