his governor stretched out, and telling them that was a more lively image of a crucifix than any they had."[320] But it took a manly man to be a governor at all.  It was not safe to select a merely intelligent and virtuous tutor; witness the case of the Earl of Derby sent abroad in 1673, with Mr James Forbes, “a gentleman of parts, virtue and prudence, but of too mild a nature to manage his pupil.”  The adventures of these two, as narrated by Carte in his life of Ormond, are doubtless typical.

“They had not been three months at Paris, before a misunderstanding happened between them that could not be made up, so that both wrote over to the duke (of Ormond) complaining of one another.  His grace immediately dispatched over Mr Muleys to inquire into the ground of the quarrel, in order to reconcile them....  The earl had forgot the advice which the duke had given him, to make himself acquainted with the people of quality in France, and to keep as little correspondence with his own countrymen, whilst he was abroad, as was consistent with good manners; and had formed an intimate acquaintance with a lewd, debauched young fellow whom he found at Paris, and who was the son of Dr Merrit, a physician.  The governor had cautioned his young nobleman against creating a friendship with so worthless a person, who would draw him into all manner of vice and expense, and lead him into numberless inconveniences.  Merrit, being told of this, took Mr Forbes one day at an advantage in an house, and wounded him dangerously.  The earl, instead of manifesting his resentment as he ought in such a case, seemed rather pleased with the affair, and still kept on his intimacy with Merrit.  The duke finding that Merrit had as ill a character from all that knew him in London, as Mr Forbes had given him, easily suspected the earl was in the wrong, and charged Muleys to represent to him the ill fame of the man, and how unworthy he was of his lordship’s acquaintance and conversation....

“When Muleys came to Paris, he found the matters very bad on Lord Derby’s side, who had not only countenanced Merrit’s assault, but, at the instigation of some young French rakes, had consented to his governor’s being tossed in a blanket.  The earl was wild, full of spirits, and impatient of restraint:  Forbes was a grave, sober, mild man, and his sage remonstrances had no manner of effect on his pupil.  The duke, seeing what the young gentleman would be at, resolved to send over one that should govern him.  For this purpose he pitched upon Colonel Thomas Fairfax, a younger son of the first lord Fairfax, a gallant and brave man (as all the Fairfaxes were), and roughly honest.  Lord Derby was restless at first:  but the colonel told him sharply, that he was sent to govern him, and would govern him:  that his lordship must submit, and should do it; so that the best method he had to take, was to do it with decorum and good humour.  He soon discharged the vicious and scandalous part of the earl’s acquaintance,