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with. Be but pleased to deal plainly with me, and I 

 desire to show your Lordship in the King s presence or 



if you please, what I intend to produce 



or say, having had a dearly bought experience what 

 it is to trust to Princes alone. So preventing your 

 Lordship further trouble, and asking pardon for what 

 I have put your Lordship unto, I only desire to receive 

 a verbal answer by this most deserving person, Mr. 

 White, my ancient acquaintance, into whose hands I 

 would deposit the greatest imaginable treasures untold, 

 and intrust the greatest secrets, without other tie than 

 his acceptance of them. 



&quot; My Lord, 



&quot; your Lordship s, 



&quot; Most really affectionate and humble servant, 



&quot; WORCESTER. 



&quot;June 9th, 1660. 



&quot; For the Right Honourable the LORD CHANCELLOR, present these.&quot;* 



It is painful to find the Marquis of Worcester com 

 pelled by the theological tendencies of that age, to allude 

 in his letter to &quot; the obnoxiousness of his religion.&quot; But 

 it is in just accordance with all that we have seen of his 

 progress through life, his u having had a dearly bought 

 experience what it is to trust to princes alone,&quot; that 

 is, without witnesses or other sufficient legal evidence. 

 This last observation is called forth by his &quot; desire to 

 show&quot; Clarendon, as he states &quot; what I intend to pro 

 duce or say.&quot; This might possibly have reference to 

 his long written statement of his losses, amounting to 



* The Lord Chancellor was at this time occupying Dorset House, in Salisbury 

 Court, once the residence of the Bishops of Salisbury, one of whom alienated it to 

 the Sackville family. 



Notwithstanding this offer (free of rent), it is stated by Lord Clarendon, that 

 he paid for Worcester House a yearly rent of 500. (T. II. Lister s Life of Edward, 

 first Earl of Clarendon.) 



