586 APPENDIX. 



honourable privy Council, who are the most proper advisers in such 

 cases, whose report and advice in this matter to your Majesty may 

 prove a redemption to the Petitioner, a royal exoneration to your 

 Majesty, and a great encouragement to all good subjects for the 

 future, to expose themselves as the Petitioner hath done, for your 

 Majesty s less trouble and better understanding of the premisses, and 

 what shall be made appear concerning the same. 



The Petitioner s most humble request is, that your Majesty 

 will be graciously pleased to recommend and refer the 

 Petitioner to be fully heard touching his services, loans, 

 disbursements, losses, and sufferings to the Lord High 

 Chancellor of England, and the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of 

 Albemarle, the Marquis of Dorchester, the Earl of Anglesey, 

 the Earl of Loutherdale ; the Lord Holies, the Lord Ashley, 

 Lord Arlington and Mr. Secretary Morrice, or to such of 

 them, or other, as your Majesty shall think fit. And that 

 your Majesty will be pleased to order the said Lords to refer 

 to reports to your Majesty with all convenient speed the 

 Petitioner s whole case, as they shall find it, with their 

 opinions to your Majesty for such just and speedy satisfac 

 tion for the relief of the Petitioner, and encouragement for 

 his long endeavouring for the public good, as shall be thought 

 fit, whereby he may be enabled to stop the mouths of his 

 numerous and clamorous creditors, and live himself without 

 disgrace to nobility, or being further necessitated to importune 

 your Majesty. And that, until the Petitioner s case can be 

 reported, and fitted for your Majesty s royal pleasure, your 

 Majesty will be pleased to order the Petitioner, some small 

 sum out of the privy purse for the present support of his 

 wife and family who exceedingly want the same. 



And your Petitioner will ever pray, c. &c. 



[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665-66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green, 

 8vo. 1864. P. 330, No. 82.] 



State Papers. 



Vol. 144, &quot;No. 27. Duke of Albemarle to Lord Arlington. 



My Lord, At the request of my Lord Marquis of 

 &quot;Worcester I make bold to write to your Lordship in his behalf, you 

 know his Lordship s business so well that I shall not need to state 



