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After the king's death Nicholas remained on the continent concerting measures on behalf of the exiled Charles II with Hyde and other royalists, but the hostility of Queen Henrietta Maria deprived him of any real influence in the counsels of the young sovereign.

He lived at The Hague and elsewhere in a state of poverty which hampered his power to serve Charles, but which the latter did nothing to relieve.

Charles appointed him secretary of state while in exile in 1654.

As an enthusiastic Royalist, in a letter dated 10 September 1657 and directed toward Sir Edward Hyde, Nicholas speaks of Cromwell ;