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confess I have found too true, and my services have 

 been more retarded by those who called themselves the 

 King s friends than obstructed by his enemies. 



&quot; Pardon me, my Lords, if I detain you a little longer, 

 descending to some particulars as near as I can call to 

 mind ; and beginning first to tell your Lordships that 

 I was not privy nor present with his Majesty at 

 Greenwich, when he first took his resolution for the 

 North, and removed without the Queen to Theobalds, 

 from which he was pleased to write me a lamentable 

 letter by the hands of Sir John Byron, averring that he 

 had but 600, and 300 of which was given to defray 

 his horses, which the Marquis of Hamilton, then Master 

 of the Horse, refused to do, fearing to displease the 

 Parliament ; but upon such a lamentable complaint, 

 and pressing necessities of my dear master (yet no 

 ways advising him unto the journey), I sent him to 

 Theobalds. 3,000 



&quot; To Huntingdon, after his departing from 

 Theobalds .... 3,000 

 &quot; To Nottingham . . . 4,000 



&quot; To York ... 8,000 



&quot; And took order for a table, to be kept for 

 several experienced officers, who by this means 

 were kept from taking arms for the Parliament, 

 and were ready for the King s service, and the 

 defraying of their debts here, their journey into 

 York, and their table there, which none of them 

 but 2 knew it came from other hand than the 

 King s privy purse, yet stood me in . 1,500 



&quot;And these sums, with as great privacy as may 

 be, keeping good correspondence with the Par 

 liament, and myself present at London, to avoid 

 suspicion, being then trusted both by King and 

 Parliament. For victualling the Tower of Lon 

 don, by his Majesty s command I sent to the 



