By IF. IF. Ravenhill, Esq. 



7 



Thus much I am obliged to say to the honour of the souldiery, that they have 

 beone so far re from breaking [any*] Articles given to others heretofore that they 

 have rather bettered them than otherwise. 



It is now our misfortune to be made Presidents [precedents] and examples to- 

 Mather [but I will not do the Protector so much injury as to load him with this 

 dishonour since L have been informed, &c] but I have heard that the Protector 

 would have made our conditous good if Crooke that gave them, had not abjur'd 

 them ; This is not a time for me to inlarge upon any subject since I am now become 

 the subject of death, but since the Articles were drawne by my very hand I thought 

 myselfe obliged to a particular justification of them. I could tell you of some 

 souldiers which are turned out of his Troope for defending those conditions of 

 o rs . but lett that passe and henceforward instead of Life Liberty and Estate 

 [which were the articles agreed upon] lett drawing hanging and quartering be 

 the denominatons of Captain Crooke's Articles. [However I thank the Protector 

 for granting me this honourable death.] 



I should now give you an account of my ffaith but truly (Gent) this poore 

 Nation is rent into so many sevrall opinions that it is impossible for me to give 

 you mine without displeasing some of you. However if any may be so criticall 

 as to inquire of what ffaith I dye I shall referre them to the Apostles [Athan- 

 asius and Nicene] Creed and to the Testimony of [this Reverend Gentleman] 

 Dr. Short to whom I have unbosomed myselfe and if this don't satisfye you look 

 in the [thirty nine] Articles of the [Catholic] Church of England those I have 

 subscribed and doe owne [authentic]. 



Having now given you an accompt concerning myselfe I hold myselfe obliged 

 in duety to some of my ffriends to take of a suspicion which lyes upon them. I 

 meane as to some psons. of honour which upon my examination I was charg'd 

 to have held a correspondency with My Lord Marquis of Hertford the Marquis 

 of AVinchester and my Lord of Pembrooke were persons denominated to me. 

 I did then acquitt them and doe now second it with this protestations that I 

 never held any correspondency with either [or any] of them in relation to this 

 particular business or indeed to any which concernes y e Protector or his Goverm^f 

 I was examined likewise concerning my brother ffreake [Freke, Mrs. Penrud- 

 dock's brother], my cousin Hastings [Mr. Dorrington] and others. It is pbable. 

 their estates may make them lyable to this my conditon but I doe here so farr 

 quit them as to give the world this my further ptestation that I am confident 

 they are as innocent in this busines as the youngest ohild here. 



He also questioned me as I passed through Salisbury from London whether he had given me con- 

 ditions—which I endeavouring to make appear to Major Butler; he interrupted me and unwillingly 

 confesst it saying I proffered him four hundred pounds to perform his Articles : which had been a 

 strange proffer of mine, had I not really conditioned with him. And I told him then (having found 

 him ud worthy) I would have given him five hundred pounds, believing him to be mercenary. To 

 make it yet farther appear, I injure him not by stiling him unworthy, after these articles were given, 

 he profered to pistoll me, if I did not persuade another house to yield, which then were boldly re- 

 sisting. To which my servant John Biby now a prisoner replyed : I. hope you will not be so un- 

 worthy as to break the Law of arms. 



* The words in brackets in the text throughout this page are from the pamphlet. 



t Pamphlet : " As for the Marquesse of Winchester, I saw him some twelve years since, and not 

 later ; and if I should see him here present I believe I should not know him. And for the Earl of 

 Pembrook he was not a man likely to whom I should discover my thoughts, because he is a man 

 of contrary judgement," 



