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then Lieutenant, Sir John Byron, in old plate, 

 under pretence of coining it . . 2,500 



&quot; B j a feigned pretence getting leave of the 

 Parliament (the circumstance being too tedious 

 to relate to your Lordships, but yet notable in 

 itself), I went with their pass to York, and 

 carried to his Majesty in ready money . 15,000 



&quot; In bills and assurances. . . 80,500 



&quot; For both which sums I had his Majesty s 

 note, yet extant, for ninety-five thousand 5 

 hundred pounds. Which done, in two days, 

 his Majesty s further commands received, I re 

 turned to the Parliament, with a plausible 

 answer to a message sent from them by me, and 

 I agreed with Parliament to remove the maga 

 zine of powder and [ammunition] for [from ?] 

 Monmouth, which was a town of my own, to 

 Carlyon, a town of the Earl of Pembroke, a 

 professed adherent unto them, which they took 

 kindly at my hands, though done by design by 

 me, who could not have pretension to take it from 

 the town of Monmouth had it been still there. 



&quot;For the raising of Sir John Byron s regiment 

 of horse, being the first completed . 5,000 



&quot; Things being thus set in order between his 

 Majesty and me, I fairly took leave of the Par 

 liament to go down to my father ; where I no 

 sooner arrived but there came directed unto me 

 from his Majesty a Commission of Array ; where 

 of I presently, by a servant of my own, sent 

 word to the Parliament, with a letter to the 

 House of Lords, which I directed to my Lord of 

 Holland, and to the House of Commons, to Mr. 

 Pym ; in both of which I offered to intercede to 

 his Majesty, and conceived I should prevail to 



