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reacht mee. Or I mi^ht have acerpted ;it my r.-turn nt .1 : 



greater sum to have' timely diftOOVered tli. 



well's expedition into the Indies Tor tin- Spun; all thuflC 



commissions and instruments ben: 



tody. 



Whoerei shall seriously consider the t'on Lroin : w ill 



hardly helieve that any self ends, (though pi>ibly they ini-: 

 the pravity of man's nature, and the snhtilty of the Div. 

 jectcd into the fancy) could possibly ontwey the considerations of 

 duty and conscience in such an undertaking ;i > this of mi:. 

 the blackest and worst of times. 



Having no\v resolved upon the end, the next thin DOB- 



trivc the means of effecting it. And having made choice of one Ma- 

 jor Ilenshuw, (whose life I had some time before saved, lie ! 

 one of the forty men who had sworn neither to eat or drink till they 

 had killed Cromwell) I gott him to send a letter to Charles -Jnd. 

 by one of his confidents, to acquaint him that there was death in 

 the pott, if ever hee entered within the doors of Weston Ma: 

 This letter happened to bee put into his hands, as bee had one of 

 his boots already on, and was drawing on the other, to ride post 

 towards the water side, in order to his coming over, as ISir Richard 

 Willis had advised him, for the encouragement of bis party. This 

 letter putt a stop to his journey, but with much difficulty, the king 

 being made almost believe, by the lord of Ormond and others, that 

 this was onely a stratagem of the protector, to throw dirt upon his 

 beloved favourite, and so to spoyl his best design. 



However, the king sent mee an answer marked (B), whereupon I 

 dispatch't Major Henshaw himself, with a second letter, and ac- 

 companied it with several long letters, all written with Sir Richard 

 Willis his own hand, discovering from time to time all the king's, 

 secrets, and whatever His Majesty had entrusted him with. 



To this the king sent mee a second letter marked (C). 



With one of these letters came a privat paper, as from the king 

 (but in truth from the chancellor himself), ordering mee to send him 

 in another privat paper an account of his chancellor Hyde, and 

 what I knew of him, for hee was then accused of corresponding 

 with Thurlo, and receiving moneys from Cromwell. I believing it 

 came really from the king, sent such an account as it seems did not 

 very well please his lordship. And Hinc ilia? lachriime ! From that 

 time hee became a mortal enemy. 



When I went over to Buda, upon the king's Restanration, tin- 

 chancellor charged mee not to ask any thing of the. King, till /if 

 came into England, His Majesty briny rcsulrrtf to yiri- irr more than 

 in modesty I could petition for. But when I bad wayted in 

 England till all things of moment were given away, and at la-' 

 sired to know what the king designed for mee, his a;: 

 zounds ! what the Divel would you hurt- ' 



Before the king's coming over, by Major Hcn>haw's am: 

 confidents privat agreement, as I believe with the chancellor, my 

 wife was made believe that there wa> a patent brought OUT and bid 



