But Dud's evil fortune continued to pursue him.

The patent had scarcely been securedere the Civil War broke out, and the arts of peace must at once perforce give place to the arts of war.

Dud's nature would not suffer him to be neutral at such a time; and when the nation divided itself into two hostile camps, his predilections being strongly loyalist, he took the side of the King with his father.

It would appear from a petition presented by him to Charles II.

in 1660, setting forth his sufferings in the royal cause, and praying for restoral to certain offices which he had enjoyed under Charles I., that as early as the year 1637 he had been employed by the King on a mission into Scotland,[7] in the train of the Marquis of Hamilton, the King's Commissioner.