nto the very good graces of the Duke of Buckingham, who
was the general in that mission; and after the unfortunate
retreat from thence was made colonel of a regiment with general
approbation and as an officer that well deserved it.

"His credit increased every day with the duke: who, out of the
generosity of his nature, as a most generous person he was,
resolved to raise his fortune; towards the beginning of which, by
his countenance and solicitation, he prevailed with a rich widow
to marry him, who had been a lady of extraordinary beauty, which
she had not yet outlived; and though she had no great dower by
her husband, a younger brother of the Earl of Suffolk, yet she
inherited a fair fortune of her own near Plymouth, and was
besides very rich in a personal estate, and was looked upon as
the richest marriage of the West. This lady, by the duke's
credit, Sir Richard Granvil (for he was now made a knight and
baronet) obtained, and was thereby possessed of a plentiful
estate upon the borders of his own country, and where his own
family had great credit and authority. The war being now at an
end and he deprived of his great patron, [he] had nothing to
depend upon but the fortune of his wife: which, though ample
enough to have supported the expense a person of his quality
ought to have made, was not large enough to satisfy his vanity
and ambition, nor so great as he upon common reports had
possessed himself by her. By being not enough pleased with her
fortune he grew displeased with his wife, who, being a woman of a
haughty and imperious nature and of a wit superior to his,
quickly resented the disrespect she received from him and in no
respect studied to make herself easy to him. After some years
spent together in those domestic unsociable contestations, in
which he possessed himself of all her estate as the sole master
of it, without allowing her out of her own any competency for
herself, and indulged to himself all those licenses in her own
house which to women are most grievous, she found means to
withdraw herself from him; and was with all kindness received
into that family in which she had before been married and was
always very much respected."

To superficial observers, or observers who have convinced themselves that
high lights and bright co