Selected quad for the lemma: england_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A66501
|
Captain Walcot's letter before his attainder of high-treason, in compassing the death of King C. II. confessing his guilt, and proffering to be a spy upon his own party
|
|
1680
(1680)
|
Wing W283A; ESTC R3404
|
1,136
|
1
|
Captain Walcot's Letter before his Attainder of High-Treason in compassing the Death of King C. II. confessing his Guilt and proffering to be a Spy upon his own Party To the Right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins c. Honoured Sir I Being in the Countrey and to my great trouble seeing my self in His Majesty's Proclamation I came last Night to Town resolving to lay my self at His Majesty's Feet let him do with me what he pleaseth This is the first Crime I have been guilty of since His Majesty's Restoration and too soon by much now If His Majesty thinks my Death will do him more good than my Life God's Will and His be done Until I sent your Honour this Letter my Life was in my own power but now it is in the King 's to whom I do most humbly propose That if His Majesty desires it I will discover to him all that I know relating to England Scotland or Ireland which I suppose may be something more than the Original Discoverer was able to acquaint His Majesty with especially as to Ireland There is not any thing His Majesty shall think fit to ask me but I will answer him the Truth as pertinently and as fully as I can My intimacy with a Scotch Minister through whose Hands much of the Business went I judge occasioned my knowing very much And I do further humbly propose That if His Majesty thinks it advisable I will follow those Lords and Gentlemen that are fled into Holland as if I fled thither and had made my Escape also and will acquaint the King if I can find it out what Measures they resolve of taking next I do assure His Majesty the Business is laid very broad or I am misinformed And I am sure as to that particular if my being with His Majesty and your Honour be not discovered I shall be ten times abler to serve him than either Mr. Freeman or Mr. Carr for they will trust neither of them There 's scarce any thing done at Court but is immediately talk'd all the Town over therefore if His Majesty thinks what I have presumed to propose Advisable I do then further most humbly Propose That my waiting upon His Majesty may be some time within Night that your Honour will acquaint me the Time and Place where I may wait upon you in order to it and that it may be within Night also and that no body may be by but His Majesty and your Honour And if His Majesty pleaseth to Pardon my Offences for the Time past he shall find I will approve my self very Loyal for the future if not I resolve to give his Majesty no further trouble but to lye at His Mercy let him do with me what he pleaseth I purpose to spend much of this day in Westminster-Hall at least from Two of the Clock to Four I beg your Pardon I send your Honour this by a Porter I assure your Honour it was for no other reason but because I would not have a third Person Privy to it and that I might have the better opportunity to make good my Word to His Majesty and to approve my self Your Honours most humble Servant THO. WALCOT