1646.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 147 



woman who was continually employed betwixt the 

 Castle of Denby in North Wales and Raglan in South 

 Wales. I agreed with her to go to Denby, Conway, or 

 Harlo Castles, with the letters quilted up in a truss of 

 linen and tied next to her body, and with her my own 

 man disguised to receive them from her, and to go over 

 with them, if I could not make my way to overtake 

 him, but directed him by the Governors to whom I 

 wrote. The man and woman were taken and carried 

 before Howell Gwynn, then High Sheriff; but what 

 became of the despatches, or how the woman concealed 

 or made them away, I know not, nor dare enquire, 

 but she saw the man taken, being a great distance 

 from her, as I had directed them, to keep in sight one 

 of the other, but not to go together ; and she was not 

 taken in two or three hours after, so that by all like 

 lihood she conveyed them away, otherwise the Parlia 

 ment pamphlets would have told us of it as they did not, 

 for with much fear, I expecting it, perused all the diur- 

 nals for more than a quarter of a year. This is all I 

 can deliver of it, and the particulars of these will be 

 punctually justified by those several parties formerly 

 meant, some of them being now about the Court, and for 

 the truth of this I am ready to make Oath when I shall 

 there unto be called. 



u ALLAN BOTELER.&quot;* 



Boteler or Butler s evidence would appear to have 

 been taken during the Marquis of Ormond s temporary 

 sojourn in England, after his leaving Dublin in June, 

 1647, previous to his shortly after going to Paris for 

 six months, when he returned to Ireland to assume his 



* In MS. Index entitled, &quot; No. 145. Boteler s Account of his business at Oxford, 

 1646. f. 210.&quot; The MS. vol. containing above is lettered at back, &quot; Carte Papers, 

 1604-1660. 30.&quot; 



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