ANTIQUITIES. 



857 



being of Siluer and holding in fine- 

 ness not under ten ounces, shall 

 be valued and made currant in this 

 realtne of England, from the tyme 

 of the entre of the said Queue of 

 Scott, according to the juste values of 

 the same monies, being tried and 

 compared Avith the monies of the 

 golde and siluer of the said realm 

 of Encjland, and so to remain 



• 



currant 6 monethes after the said 

 entre, or longer, as to the Queue of 

 Englande shall seem convenient. 

 Item, it is accorded that both the 

 said princes shall ratifye and con- 

 firme these said articles enterchange- 

 bly, under their hands and grete 

 scales, to be delivered to either 

 party, before the last day of July 

 uext. 



(Signed) W. Maitland. 



Karrafive of certain Transactions 

 during the Civil Wars in uliich 

 Colonel Lun'ford zcas concerned, 

 draicn up by himself, and here 

 given from his original MS. in the 

 Collection of the Marquis of Buck, 

 inghum*. 



Calling to mindc the uncerteinty 

 of my life, which the continuall tor- 

 ments of my wounds put me in minde 

 of; andhearingof many to loose their 

 lives by accidents nothing so dan- 

 gerous, and wounds nothing so cruell 

 as mine are; and fearing, (if I dye) 

 that my friends and others, innocent 

 and free from any of my supposed 

 errors, might unjustly suller; and 

 by concealing the truth, I rayselfc 

 and my late action might be tra- 

 duced, and 1 apprehended as an au- 

 thor of an inhumane and monstrous 

 fact; — have for these reasons thought 



• For some account of Col. Lunslbrd, 

 ad, p, 243, 2d edit, and Gray's Iludibras, 



fitt to put in -writiug the "vrhole truth 

 of the late action, protesting to God 

 and man that what I here relate is 

 the truth ; — and if I live I shall be 

 able to justifie it, if I dye it is my 

 last legacie, which I bequeath to the 

 beleif of all indiiferent men, not 

 prepossessed with violent passions, 

 or overweighed vnth untrue testi- 

 monies, or greatness of mine adver- 

 saries ; I will not speake at all of the 

 cause or beginning of those discon- 

 tents betwixt sir Tho. Pelham and 

 myselfe — I will only fix upon th« 

 last tragedy, and truly relate the 

 particulars thereof in a bare narra- 

 tion. 



Having withdrawn myself into the 

 parts beyond seas, to avoid the great 

 storme which I saw was falling upon 

 mc at home, in hope that time would 

 have allayed the fury of mine adver- 

 saries; and that during my absence 

 some reasonable propositions would 

 have taken place for a reconcilia- 

 tion, that as we were neighbours 

 and kinsmen, so forgetting former 

 unkindnesses, we might at length 

 have been reconciled, and enjoyed 

 the content and happiness of friends : 

 There did I iiiteud to leade my life 

 in a voluntary banishment, till mv 

 desires might have gained contenter 

 }3ut I was not able so fo continue, 

 in regard of my father's strict hand, 

 who denied me fitting meanes of 

 maintenance there ; and this brought 

 me over, frought with desires and 

 hopes to surrease the former, or ob- 

 tcine the latter. 



After my retorne, I kept myself 

 retired for the most part about 

 London, where had I been owner 

 of so wicked an intent as to murtber 

 sir Tho. Pelham, I had many op- 

 portunities to put the same in exe- 



ridc (iiaiii;cr Biog. IlistJ of England, vol. 

 vqI. 2, p. Jl<2, IsC fdit, 



cation ; 



