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INTRODUCTION.
hear my Lord Sidney say, that he hates himself because he hated her, without any just cause, who is sincerely yours,
"G. Worthley.
"P.S. My Lord, though there was too much noise in King Charles's[1] and King James's Court, let
- ↑ "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
"The humble Petition of Grace Worthley,
"Sheweth that your Petitioner, having tried with all submissions upon her knees to Mr. Sidney to induce him to do those things that are but her due from him, both by his word and numbers of solemn promises, can prevail nothing with him more than that he will have her banished the town, which she never will submit to, and is fallen from four score pounds a year to fifty. So that your Petitioner is afraid to go a hundred and fifty miles off, only upon his bare word, for so poor a pension; but is resolved to starve in town, if neither your Majesty will be her friend with Mr. Sidney, or the law will give her nothing.
"Your Majesty's poor unfortunate Petitioner has been informed that Mr. Sidney has abused her to your Majesty; but, to prove how false all his abuses, or at least his informers, are—Your Petitioner had a husband, that, out of the great zeal he bore to his Royal Highness, your Majesty's dear brother, went with him to sea in the Dutch war that happened in the sickness year, and there got his death, as can be made appear by the people of the house where he left your disconsolate Petitioner, who are yet alive, and where I continued till within five weeks of my being brought acquainted with Mr. Sidney.
"May it therefore please your Majesty both to judge and
