Volume the First: Diplomatic DisplayOxfordBodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
the Dutcheſs's vengeance, which they had somuch reason to apprehend.
In France they remained 3 years, duringwhich time
they became the parents of twoBoys, & at
the end of it Eliza became a widowwithout any thing to support
either her orher Children. They had lived
since theirMarriage at the rate of 128,000£ ya1 year, ofwhich Mr Cecil's estate being rather leſsthan the twentieth part, they had been ableto savescarce but a trifle, having lived to theutmost extent of their Income.
Eliza, being perfectly conscious ofthe derangement in their affairs, immediatelyon her Husband's death set sail for England, ina man of War of 55 Guns, which they had
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