His lordship's opinion of this disastrous and impolitic
removal may be gathered from the following hasty expressions. After a
perusal of the despatches, announcing the king's, or rather the queen's,
pleasure that he should speedily repair to the Isle of Man, where an
invasion was apprehended from the Scots,--speaking to the Lady Derby
with more than ordinary quickness, he said, "My heart, my enemies have
now their will, having prevailed with his Majesty to order me to the
Isle of Man, as a softer banishment from his presence and their malice."
This valiant and high-born dame was daughter to Claude, Duke of
Tremouille, and Charlotte Brabantin de Nassau, daughter of William,
Prince of Orange, and Charlotte de Bourbon, of the royal house of
France. By this marriage the Earl of Derby was allied to the French
kings, the Dukes of Anjou, the Kings of Naples and Sicily, the Kings of
Spain, and many other of the sovereign princes of Europe. Her father was
a staunch Huguenot, and a trusty follower of Henry IV. That she did not
sully the renown acquired by so illustrious a descent, the following
narrative will abundantly prove.
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