IT was my misfortune to be abroad in Kent when the Letter wherewith your Grace vouch∣safed to Honour me, came to London. And therefore as I came late to taste the Pleasure of so high a Favour, I hope your Grace will permit me to plead that delay in excuse of this slow return of my most humble Acknowledgments and Thanks for it. My most Noble Lord (were it not known by experience that great Persons, and great Minds, are most apt to stoop from their own height, and own mean and inconsiderable services offered to them) I should say it was too low a Condescension in your Grace, to take notice of my readiness to comply with your Desires: Wherein (beside the discharge of my Duty) I did likewise serve the ends of my Ambition; it having ever been the Vanity of Soul∣diers to think themselves dignified by the Honours done to their General. This made me with great Delight employ my self in Designing that for your Grace, which I should be sorry to live to accom∣plish, being already unhappy enough, in Burying too many Princes. For the thing it self I am glad to see the King do that which is so decent and wor∣thy of him, as to order your Grace a Tomb among the Kings, who have always been so near to him, and who stood up so close to his Father in extremity of Danger, and so bravely, that had not God designed to restore the Crown, in his own Miraculous way, it had certainly been done before by your Hand. However your Grace hath prepared for your self a more Noble, and more lasting Monument, in the Fame of your Heroick Actions, of some of them I Page  108 had the happiness to be an Eye-witness, upon which pretence I humbly beg the Honour to retain unto your Grace in the Quality of