Читать книгу The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne онлайн
20 страница из 64
Newcastle, as we must now call William Cavendish, had a rent-roll of more than £22,000 a year—a very large income at the then value of gold—besides more than £3000 a year from his wife. Even with this wealth, he found his visits to the Court very expensive and by degrees even embarrassing, as will be seen presently.
Of Newcastle’s private correspondence at the period which we have lately been considering, there is a good deal among the manuscripts at Welbeck.ssss1 Only a few specimens shall be given.
ssss1 Historical Manuscripts Commission, 13th Report, Appendix, Part II, p. 120 seq.
“The King to William, Viscount Mansfield.
ssss1
“1621, March 10. The Palace of Westminster.—Permitting him on account of his wife’s sickness to be absent from Parliament, but directing him to send up his proxy to some fit person. Signed. Seal of Arms. Countersigned, ‘Windebank’.”
How many a modern legislator would be thankful to be allowed to send a proxy to the House!