Monday the 14th, my husband went with the Earl of
Sandwich to the Duke de Medina de las Torres.
On the 15/25th, being Tuesday, [Footnote: Query, 5/15th June.] my
husband was taken ill with an ague, but turned to a malignant inward
fever, of which he lay until the 26th of the same month, being Sunday,
[Footnote: Query, Saturday, 16/26th June.] until eleven of the clock
at night, and then departed this life, fifteen days before his
intended journey to England.
'O all powerful good God, look down from Heaven upon the most
distressed wretch upon earth. See me with my soul divided, my glory
and my guide taken from me, and in him all my comfort in this life;
see me staggering in my path, which made me expect a temporal blessing
for a reward of the great integrity, innocence, and uprightness of his
whole life, and his patience in suffering the insolency of wicked men,
whom he had to converse with upon the public employment, which thou
thoughtest fit, in thy wisdom, to exercise him in. Have pity on me, O
Lord, and speak peace to my disquieted soul, now sinking under this
great weight, which, without thy support, cannot sustain itself. See
me, O Lord, with five children, a distressed family, the temptation of
the change of my religion, the want of all my friends, without
counsel, out of my country, without any means to return with my sad
family to our own country, now in war with most part of Christendom.
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