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against the liair he hath been forced to bestow honour 

 to the highest degree upon five member men, and * * * 

 upon earth, as subscribed to his father of happy memory 

 his death, and that he will think much to countenance 

 him who only assisted his late Majesty to fly from their 

 compulsion of him, to agree to such acts as would have 

 left himself our now gracious King the successor of a 

 title of a King of three kingdoms, but to the substance 

 of no one of them. It was I furnished his Majesty with 

 money to go (to) Theobalds to go to York, when the then 

 Marquis of Hambleton refused to pay three hundred 

 pounds for his Majesty at Theobalds only to deliver him 

 to the Parliament, as he had done the Earl of Straff ord, 

 and to * * * the * * * Parliament. It was I carried 

 him money to set up his standard at York, and procured 

 my father to give the then Sir John Byron five thousand 

 pounds to raise the first regiment of horse, and kept a 

 table for above twenty officers at York, which I under 

 hand sent thither to keep them from taking conditions 

 from the Parliament, and so were ready to accept his. 

 It was I victualled the Tower of London, and gave five 

 and twenty hundred pounds to the then Lieutenant, Sir 

 John Byron, my cousin-german by my first wife s 

 side. It was I raised most of the men at Edge-hill fight, 

 and after I was betrayed at ***** when so many 

 gentlemen of quality were taken, and of twenty-five 

 thousand men first and last by me raised, eight thou 

 sand men dispersed by the contrivance of such as called 

 themselves the Bang s good subjects, and some of them 

 rewarded for it ; they were my men weekly paid, with 

 out taking a farthing contribution, because the country 

 tottered ; who took ********* m the forest of 

 Dean, Goodridge Castle, Monmouth, Chepstow, Car- 

 lyon, and Cardiff from the Parliamentary forces; in 

 which, and the garrison of Raglan, I can bring proof of 



