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& thence towards Royston, which he approved of, & so passed 

 through St. Albon's, where one old Man with an Halberd 

 asked us, whence we came, I told him, from the Parliament, 

 & threw him a sixpence & so passed. After we had ridd 

 a mile a Gentleman well horst came gallopinge after us 

 verie fast, which put us in some doubt, that we had been 

 discovered in St. Albon's, but they tow \i.e. the Kinge 

 and Mr. Ashburnham] turninge aside, I turned my horse 

 to meete him, & saluteinge him, found him verie drunke, 

 & soe to avoid his Company, turned up another way, till he 

 was past, & after went to Walthamsteed 3. Miles from 

 S* Albon's, where we lodged that night, & next morninge 

 tooke horse at day breake & went towards Baldocke : & as 

 we rid upon the way. It was resolved that I should goe 

 directly away towards Southwell, and the Kinge, & M'" 

 Asburnham, towards Norfolke, & to stay at the White Swann 

 at Downham, till I come back to them. So at Graveley, 

 the Kinge gave me a little Note to Montreuil, wherein he 

 expressed his departure from Oxford, & desired him to make 

 an absolute conclusion with the Scots, & if they would give 

 such assurance for hon''^*^ Conditions for him, as would satisfie 

 him (concerninge the particulars, whereof the Kinge had given 

 me Instructions) then he would come to them ; If not, he was 

 resolved to dispose otherwise of himself upon my returne. 

 I came to Southwell next morninge, and acquainted the 

 French Agent with these particulars, who upon Thursday 

 night told me, they would condiscend to all the Demands 

 which the Kinge & Montreuil had agreed to make to them, 

 before Montreuil came from Oxford (of which Montreuil told 

 told me the Summe) but would not give any thinge under 

 their hands. I desired to avoide mistakes, that the particulars 

 might be sett downe in writinge, lest I should afterwards be 

 charged with making a false Relation, & soe he sett the 

 Propositions downe in writinge. 



" ' (i) That they should protect the Kinge in his person and 

 n his honour. (2) That they should presse the Kinge to do, 

 nothinge contrary to his concience. (3) That M'' Ashburnham 

 & I should be protected. (4) That if the Parliament refused, 



