250 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1662, 



u EIGHT HONOURABLE, 



u Though I bear as great a reverence to the Act 

 of Oblivion as any, yet methinks justice also requires it 

 at my hands to make a great difference between those 

 who in their then actings carried a respect and afforded 

 kindness to us their poor prisoners for his Majesty s 

 cause ; I think myself therefore bound in honour and 

 gratitude to give such a testimony in Captain William 

 Foster s behalf to my own knowledge, and was an eye 

 witness thereof to the very saving some prisoners of 

 quality and merit [from?] their greatest hazards, who I 

 believe (if they were in town, or present with you) would 

 not deny it : the favour he only begs, and I in his behalf, 

 is, that upon sufficient bail, he may follow his own 

 calling, and provide for many children of his wife s 

 relict, of one once a soldier for his Majesty ; and some 

 little ones of his own, now by her ever a most Lady 

 Cavalier. And if my intercession may be of stead to him, 

 and of value to you, I shall take it for a good obligation 

 upon one who am confident his accusations are of some 

 priest animosities, and will prove so when rightly under 

 stood : for before his Majesty s happy restoration his 

 commission was upon that account taken from him to 

 his damage, and that he should now likewise suffer for 

 his Majesty does seem very hard. But I submit all this 

 to your Honour s best judgment towards him, and create 

 an obligation from you upon me, though not very 

 personally known to you, yet a great admirer of your 

 great parts and merit ; and shall ever approve myself 



&quot; Your Honour s 

 &quot; most affectionate and most humble servant, 



u WORCESTER. 



&quot;November 18th, 1662. 

 &quot; For the Right Honourable Sir Henry Bennett, 



One of his Majesty s principal Secretaries of State, these.&quot; 



