But he kept a large household, and was able to live in comfort at Gray's Inn or at Gorhambury.

A man who speaks in his will of his "four coach geldings and his best caroache," besides many legacies, and who proposes to found two lectures at the universities, may have troubles about debts and be cramped in his expenditure, but it is only relatively to his station that he can be said to be poor.

And to subordinate officers of the Treasury who kept him out of his rights, he could still write a sharp letter, full of his old force and edge.

A few months before his death he thus wrote to the Lord Treasurer Ley, who probably had made some difficulty about a claim for money: "MY LORD,--I humbly entreat your Lordship, and (if I may use the word) advise your Lordship to make me a better answer.

Your Lordship is interested in honour, in the opinion of all that hear how I am dealt with.