Moreover, I have both pawned and sold plate for my present
subsistence, and if immediately I do not receive a supply of all that
is due to me upon amount of ordinaries, the which I do hopefully
expect upon former addresses to that purpose, I cannot subsist longer
in this Court, nor yet know how to remove out of it, if such should be
his Majesty's orders of revocation, by my Lord of Sandwich: a thing
intimated to me here by more than common persons, whether with or
without ground I cannot say, having not heard one word from any
Minister of our Court for the space of above seven weeks last past, or
concerning myself anything out of England, save what I read in a
London diurnal, that letters from me out of Portugal, by sea,
signifying my then immediate return for Madrid, were come to hand. The
like whereof having never happened to me before, so much as for a
fortnight's time, I am utterly to seek what to impute it to, unless it
be interceptings in France since the war hath been declared. In the
meantime, it puts me to a great confusion in many respects,
particularly for the want of monies; and thus farther I crave leave to
inform you upon the same point, which is, that if my brother Turnor's
kindness had not advanced out of his own purse, to comply with my
bills, above a thousand pounds, before he received the last tallies on
my behalf, whereof I have not had any notice, I had been reduced to
yet greater extremities than these I am contending with.
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