**I doubt bis loss will be a growing affliction upon these
nations, and that we shall learn to value him more by miss-
ing him than we did when we enjoyed him ; a peryerseness of
our nature that teaches us in every condition wherein we
are, therewith to be discontent, by undervaluing what we
have, and overvaluing what we have lost. I confess his per-
formances reached not the making good of his professions, but
£ doubt his performances may go beyond the professions of
those who may come after him. All this I say, not as grumb-
ling at that wise and good hand that has taken him away,
but as laying before you, why I think we should not receiva
so smart a blow from that hand, without having such a sense
thereof as may really humble us under it, and cause us so to
set upon mending our ways by this judgment, that we may
prevent the worse that are yet to come, if this produce not that
effect upon particular persons, and these nations in general'*'

Lady Kanelagh was not happy in her married state. She
was treated unkindly by her husband. So miserable indeed
did he make her life, that by the persuasion of her friends in
Ireland she consented to leave him, and taking her children
along with her to live with them. But as he refused to
grant her anything for the support of herself and her children,
she was wholly dependent upon her friends, and the thought
of this, gi*eat as was their kindness to her, making her un-
comfortable, she had solicited the interference of Cromwell,
from "whose authority and severity," says she, "against such
practices as my lord's are, I thought the utmost would be
done that either persuasions or advice would have effected
upon my lord."

Her application to Cromwell had been favourably received,
and her brother Lord Broghill had brought a letter from his
highness to her husband, remonstrating with him as to his
» Thurloe, State Poofters, voL vii p. 305-7.
