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sunt beneficia quam diu solvi posse videantur ubi semel 

 antevenere pro gratia odium vedditur. I am, notwith 

 standing, very loth to trouble your sacred Majesty in 

 order to myself, not but I am sufficiently necessitated 

 to importune you, even as much as any poor subject 

 your Majesty hath; and warranted by as good a title 

 unto it (if, after an opulent and flourishing condition to 

 become an object of pity, through my zeal and ser 

 vices to the crown you wear, may challenge any 

 esteem) ; but my very nature abhors anything that may 

 seem self-interest, though indeed whatever I have or 

 do ambition, be it of favour or benefit from your Ma 

 jesty s most gracious self, it hath been, really is, and 

 shall be ever, but to make me able the more eminently 

 to serve your matchless Majesty, whose advantage is 

 my greatest comfort ; and, in earnest, my very heart s 

 objectum adgequatum. Think of me whatever others 

 please to suggest, yet such shall your Majesty ever find 

 me, and unless your Majesty command me to speak, I 

 shall still say nothing, but seeing a coldness in your 

 Majesty, I shall continue dumb and speechless : Leves 

 loquunter curse ingentes stujescunt. Yet, animated by 

 your Majesty s cheerful commands, I shall ingenuously 

 lay before you the truth and nothing but the truth, and 

 (though to mine own confusion) I will as candidly 

 shrive me to your benign self, as to a ghostly father, 

 and I will make your most excellent Majesty my sole 

 judge, as well spiritual as temporal, that is to look into 

 my inward man, as well as my outward actions and 

 deportment.&quot; 



In November we have another petition in respect to 

 a large claim on his estate, and a report thereon, as 

 follows : * 



* MS. Public Record Office, in course of being calendared by Mrs. M. A. E. Green. 



