D in trust, for the equal benefit of his credi Dr. Zachary Pearce, on the authority of Lowndes of the Treasury, asserts that Butler received from Charles II. An annual pension of lool.; he also became secretary to Richard, Earl of Carbury, Lord President of the Principality of Wales, who made him steward of Ludlow Castle when the court was revived there. About this time he married Mrs. Herbert, a lady of good family, and possessed of a competency, which was most of it lost either through having been put out on insufficient security, or through knavery it is thought by some that it is owing to these losses that his poem contains such severe strictures on the lawyers, but, if carefully read, it will be found that he only satirizes the unworthy members of the profession.
