#104) ANNUAL REGISTER, (1790. 
to my life or estate, appal me; but 
T shall, on all oceasions, (by Ged’s 
assistance) ’shew myself ready to ex 
press my duty and loyalty with the 
hazard of both : and this I shall ad- 
venture for the future with more 
alacrity, forasmuch as, in all my 
former attings in his majesty’s ser- 
vice, I never did ‘any thing, with 
relation to the trust reposed in me 
that awakens my conscience to re- 
pentance. . 
DeERBy. 
From Castletown, in 
the Isle of Man, 
July 18, 1649. 
Letter to General Ireton, in Answer 
to his Summons of the Isle of Man. 
Sir, 
HAVE received your letter with 
indignation, and with scorn re- 
turn you this answer, that I can- 
not but wonder whence you should 
gather any hopes that I should 
prove, like you, treacherous to my 
sovereign; since you canrot be in- 
sensible of the manifest candour of 
my former actings in his late ma- 
jesty’s service, from which principles 
of loyalty I am no whit departed. 
I scorn your proffer, I disdain your 
favour, 1 abhor your treason ; and 
am so far from delivering up this 
island to your advantage, that I 
shall keep’ it with the utmost of may 
power to your destruction, Take 
this for your final answer, and for- 
bear any farther solicitation ; for if 
you trouble me with any more mes- 
sages of this nature, 1 will burn the 
paper and hang the messenger. This 
is the immutable resolution, and 
shall be the undoubted practice, 
of him who accounts it his chief 9) 
glory to be 
His majesty’s most loyal 
and obedient servant, 
DERBY. 
From Castletown. 
July 12, 1649. 
Two Original Letters of King James 
the First. 
Copy of a Letter from his Majesty | 
to the Lords, read at the Board, 
November 12, 1617, touching 
the Abatement of his Majesty’s | 
Household Charge. 
LETTER 1. 
* My Lords, 
O worldly thing is so precious 
as time. Ye know what task 
I gave you to work upon during 
my absence; and what time was 
limited unto you for the performance 
thereof. This same chancellor of 
Scotland was wont to tell me twen- 
ty-four years ago, that my house 
could not be kept upon epigrams : 
long discourses and fair tales will 
never repair my estate. Omnis vir- 
tus tn actione consistit, Remember 
that I told you, the shoe must be 
made for the foot ; and let that be 
the square of all your proceédings 
in the business. Abate superfluities 
in all things, and multitudes of un- 
necessary officers, wherever they 
may be placed ; but for the house-~ 
hold, wardrobe, and pensions, cut 
and carve as many as may agree 
with the possibility of my means. 
Exceed not your own rule of fifty 
thousand pounds for the household : 
if you can make it less, I will ac- 
count it for good service; and that 
you 
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