 one who was to support the Name and Honours of the Family. He appointed his Brother in Law Executor and Guardian, who, educating the Children agreeable to their different Fortunes and Prospects in Life, in about Seven Years after the Death of their Father, sent
Richard
with a Tutor to take the Tour of Europe, and bound
Henry
Apprentice to a considerable
London
Merchant.
During the Travels of the One and the Apprenticeship of the Other, the Troubles happened, and
Cromwell
assumed the Regency; before the Fortune of the
Morelands
could be forfeited or endangered, by siding with the Crown or the Commonwealth.
Richard
returned to
England
a short time before the Restoration; and being too gay and too dissolute for the Plodding and Hypocricy of
Cromwell
and his Fanaticks, he withdrew to the Mansion House of his Forefathers.
On his Landing he had inquired for his Brother
Henry;
but hearing that he was lately married, and wholely absorbed in Matters of Merchandise, as he had the utmost Contempt for all Cits and Traders, he took no further Notice of him.
In the Country, he amused himself with his Bottle, Hounds, Hawks, Race Horses,
&c.
and in debauching the Persons of the neighbouring Wenches, and corrupting the Morals of the Neighbouring Squires. But, on the Restoration of his Majesty, of pleasurable Memory, he hastened to Court, where he rolled away and shone as in his native Sphere. He was always of the Party of the King,
Rochester, &c.
where Virtue was laughed out of Countenance, and where all Manner of Dissoluteness became amiable and recommendable by the Bursts of Merriment and Zest of Wit. But toward the latter End of this droll Reign, Earl
Richard,
being advanced in Age, and being still older in Constitution than Years, began to think of providing an Heir to his Estate; and, as he had taken vast Pains to impair it, he married a Citizen's Daughter who wanted a Title, and with her got a Portion of one hundred thousand Pounds, which was equally wanting on his Part.
With his Lady he, again, retreated to the Country, where, in less than a Year, she made him the exulting Father of a fine Boy; whom he called
Richard.
Richard,
speedily, became the sole Centre of all his Mother's Solicitudes and Affections. And though, within the Space of the two succeeding Years, she was delivered of a second Boy, yet, as his infant Aspect was less promising and more unformed than his Brother's, she sent him forth to be nursed by the robust Wife of a neighbouring
