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ness, I have not heard the gentleman noted with it ; 

 his faults were of insolency, turbulency, and the like 

 of that kind. 



Mean time there was some industry used, of 

 which I will not now speak, to lull asleep those that 

 were the revengers of the blood, the father and the 

 brother of the murdered. And in these terms things 

 stood by the space of two years, during which time 

 God did so blind the two great procurers, and dazzle 

 them with their greatness, and blind and nail fast 

 the actors and instruments with security upon their 

 protection, as neither the one looked about them, 

 nor the other stirred or fled, or were conveyed 

 away, but remained 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, diverted and 

 stayed. 



But about the beginning of the progress the last 

 summer, God s judgments began to come out of their 

 depths. And as the revealing of murder is com 

 monly such as a man said, &quot; a Domino hoc factum 

 &quot; est ; it is God s work, and it is marvellous in our 

 &quot; eyes :&quot; so in this particular it was most admirable ; 

 for it came forth first by a compliment, a matter of 

 courtesy. My lord of Shrewsbury, that is now with 

 God, recommended to a counsellor of state, of special 

 trust by his place, the late lieutenant Helwisse,* 



* Called in Sir H. Wotton s Reliq. p. 413. Elvis. In Sir A. 

 Welden s Court of King James, p. 107. Elwaies. In Aulic. Co- 



