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were the revengers of blood ; the father and the bro 

 ther of the murdered. And in these terms things 

 stood by the space almost of two years, during which 

 time God so blinded the two great procurers, and 

 dazzled them with their own greatness, arid did bind 

 and nail fast the actors and instruments with secu 

 rity upon their protection, as neither the one looked 

 about them, nor the other stirred or fled, nor were 

 conveyed away ; but remaineth here still, as under 

 a privy arrest of God s judgments; insomuch as 

 Franklin, that should have been sent over to the 

 Palsgrave with good store of money, was, by God s 

 providence and the accident of a marriage of his, di 

 verted and stayed. 



But about the beginning of the progress last 

 summer, God s judgments began to come out of 

 their depths : and as the revealing of murders is 

 commonly such, as a man may say, &quot; a Domino 

 &quot; hoc factum est ;&quot; it is God s work, and it is mar 

 vellous in our eyes : so in this particular it is most 

 admirable ; for it came forth by a compliment and 

 matter of courtesy. 



My lord of Shrewsbury*, that is now with God, 

 recommended to a counsellor of state, of especial 

 trust by his place, the late lieutenant Helwissef, only 



* Gilbert earl of Shrewsbury, knight of the Garter, who died 

 May 8, 1616. 



f Sir Gervase Helwisse, appointed lieutenant of the Tower, 

 upon the removal of Sir William Waade on the 6th of May, 

 1613, [&quot; Reliquiae Wottonianac,&quot; p. 412, 3d edit. 16/2.] Mr. 

 Chamberlain, in a MS, letter to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated 



