1665.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 277 



is however in a contemporary handwriting, and, there 

 fore, may be the very letter he offered to submit for 

 approval.* It runs thus : 



U MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 



&quot; Upon my Lord of Worcester s speaking to my 

 husband for his letter to your Majesty, and laying open 

 his sad condition, there comes into my mind a petition 

 from his Lady to the Speaker ready to adjourn the 

 House in Cromwell s time, without relief to her, but 

 upon her petition, as here enclosed, Worcester House 

 was granted her. God forbid a greater hardness should 

 possess your Majesty s heart, our most gracious King, 

 than did those regicides to one they took for their 

 enemy and I do, therefore, with more than confidence 

 in remembrance of my Lady s former pressures and 

 miseries make myself a party with my Lord Marquis, 

 in his most humble suit to your Majesty, in my Lord 

 Powis his behalf, that he may not be frustrated of 

 what the last King entitled him, of being created Earl, 

 because it came through my Lord Marquis his hands, 

 but further likewise to bestow a Baron s patent upon a 

 friend of my Lord Marquis, for both which I become a 

 suitor with his Lordship, and beg pardon if I become 

 more importunate to your Majesty in this case, than for 

 myself in anything, who do already acknowledge most 

 thankfully many great favours done to me, 



&quot; Your Majesty s most humble servant.&quot; 



The following letter it would appear was addressed 

 to the Duke of Albemaiie : 



&quot; MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE, 



u The objections you were pleased to make 

 against the owning and subscribing the letter to his 



From MSS. Badminton. 



