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

 Loutherdale, the Lord Holies, the Lord Ashley, myself, and Mr. 

 Secretary Morrice, or to any three or more of them, who are hereby 

 authorized to take special care to find out the truth of the whole 

 particulars, which will be afforded by the Petitioner, and to report 

 the same to his Majesty, their opinions of the most proper and 

 expeditious way for his Majesty to answer the Petitioner s desires, 

 so far as the same shall be found just, upon whose report his 

 Majesty will take a speedy course for the Petitioner s satisfaction. 



[No signature, date, or endorsement. But in Cal. State 

 Papers, 1665-66, reference is made, p. 316, No. 11, to 

 Ent. Book 18, p. 18, which supplies the date 24 March, 

 1665-6.] 



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

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



APPENDIX K. 



JOHN GOWEtf. 



[In the &quot; Life, Times, &c.,&quot; page 108, a quotation is given from the 

 poet Gower, as used by Henry Marquis of Worcester, in 

 addressing Charles I. and is again alluded to at page 145. The 

 author is indebted to a friend for taking the trouble to search 

 the works of the poet, at the London Institution, and supplying, 

 from Chalmers edition, 1810, page 218, the following reference 

 and extract. 



The lines occur in &quot; Confessio Amantis,&quot; Book VII. in a 

 dialogue, the subject being: &quot;Of the three, Wine, Women, 

 or the King, which is the strongest ?&quot; Harpages says : ] 



A kynge maie spille,* a kynge maie saue, 

 A kynge maie make a lorde a knaue, 

 And of a knaue a lorde also, 

 The power of a kynge stontf so : 

 That he the lawes ouerpasseth. 

 &quot;What he will make lesse, he lasseth, 

 What he will make more, he moreth. 



Sj ille; to waste, to throw away, to destroy, 

 f Stunt; for stondeth (standeth). 



