of the Royal Navy and Apsley accompanied him on board his flagship the "Royal James" at the Battle of Lowestoft. The war ended in 1667 with the humiliating Raid on the Medway and forced a series of cost-saving measures, reducing the income Apsley received from his various positions. In partial compensation, he was appointed secretary to the Royal African Company, established to challenge the Dutch dominance of the slave trade and whose principal shareholders included Charles and James. He remained a supporter of James throughout the disputes over his conversion to Catholicism but was not re-elected in March 1679, making him the last member of his family to sit in Parliament. The epic poem "Order and Disorder", published anonymously in 1679 during the Exclusion Crisis, was for many years attributed to Apsley but is now considered the work of his sister Lucy. He died at his home in St James's Square on 15 October 1683 and was buried two days later in Westminster Abbey. Footnotes References Sources 1616 births 1683 deaths People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Cavaliers English MPs 1661–1679 Knights Bachelor Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple Military personnel from London People from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Burials at Westminster Abbey Royal Navy personnel of the Second Anglo-Dutch War