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in the House, and whose life had been chiefly passed in foreign countries,
assume with confidence, and discharge with ability, all the functions of a
Chancellor of the Exchequer.” He was forty-four years old at the time.
Roger North describes the financial theories of his brother, thus: “One is,
that trade is not distributed, as government, by nations and kingdoms, but is
one throughout the whole world; as the main sea, which cannot be emptied
or replenished in one part, but the whole more or less will be affected.”
Another was “concerning money; that no nation could want money
(specie), and they would not abound in it.... For if a people want money,
they will give a price for it; and then merchants, for gain, bring it and lay it
down before them.”
Roger North, speaking of Sir Dudley and of the Lord Keeper, says:
“These brothers lived with extreme satisfaction in each other's society; for
both had the skill and knowledge of the world, as to all affairs relating to
their several professions, in perfection, and each was an Indies to the other,
producing always the richest novelties, of which the best understandings are
greedy.”
The Hon. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, differed
in some respects from his brothers, and resembled them in others:—
“When be was very young, and also as he grew up, he was of a nice and
tender constitution—not so vigorous and athletic as most of his brothers
were.”
“His temper was always reserved and studious. ... If anything so
early seemed amiss in him, it was a non-natural gravity, which in youths is
seldom a good sign, for it argues imbecility of body and mind, or both; but
his lay wholly in the former, for his mental capacity was vigorous, as none
more.”
Thus he became devoted to study, and the whole of his expenditure went
to books; in other respects he was penu-
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