Six hundred a year from his fortune was allowed him during his minority.

He insisted on sharing this allowance with his father; the moiety left to himself was quite sufficient for all that a man so young could require.

At the age of little more than seventeen, but with a character which premature independence had half formed, and also half enervated, the young Godolphin saw the shores of England recede before him, and felt himself alone in the universe--the lord of his own fate..