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 some had of his being an Eunuch, because his Lady hath not been with childe. But these are errors; for though Sir Hierome speaking in the Parliament used many antick gestures of his body, many vulgar expletives, as [O strange, really Mr. Speaker, &c.] with needless repetitions, as [I have my Papers Mr. Speaker, I say my Papers which I brought from Dublin, from Dublin Mr. Speaker] as also frivolous descriptions where Capt. Sands house stood, and whose was next it, with the like. I say, though all this had hapned, I know no reason for likening him therefore to an Eunuch; there being other names that I could better call him by. And as for the other jealousie of his being an Eunuch, I am perswaded 'tis causless, for Sir Hierome can (nay did) bawle very base-Notes, I say base deep Notes, whereas Eunuchs squeal trebles for the most part; besides, Sir Hierome could not have been a Curate (as hee was in the Bishops time) if hee had been thus emasculated.