side, by two parties to the business, exist:[1] none of which shall concern us here. Lieutenant-General Cromwell’s Letter to Whalley also exists; a short insignificant Note: here it is, fished from the Dust-Abysses, which refuse to disclose the other. Whalley is ‘Cousin Whalley’ as we may remember; Aunt Frances’s and the Squire of Kerton’s Son,—a Nottinghamshire man.[2]
“FOR MY BELOVED COUSIN, COLONEL WHALLEY, AT HAMPTON COURT: THESE”
Dear Cos. Whalley,—There are rumours abroad of some intended attempt on his Majesty’s person. Therefore I pray have a care of your guards. If any such thing should be done, it would be accounted a most horrid act. * * * Yours,
See, among the Old Pamphlets, Letters to the like effect from Royalist Parties: also a Letter of thanks from the King to Whalley;—ending with a desire, ‘to send the black-gray bitch to the Duke of Richmond,’ on the part of his Majesty: Letters from etc., Letters to etc., in great quantities.[4] For us here this brief notice of one Letter shall suffice:
‘Monday 15th November 1647. Letter from Colonel Robert Hammond, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Cowes, 13° Novembris, signifying that the King is come into the Isle of Wight.’[5] The King, after a night and a day of riding, saw not well whither else to go. He delivered himself to Robert
- ↑ Berkley’s Memoirs (printed, London, 1699); Ashburnham’s Narrative (printed, London, 1830);—which require to be sifted, and contrasted with each other and with third parties, by whoever is still curious on this matter; each of these Narratives being properly a Pleading, intended to clear the Writer of all blame, in the first place.
- ↑ See antea, p. 26, note.
- ↑ King’s Pamphlets, small 4to, no. 347, § 15, p. 7.
- ↑ Parliamentary History, xvi. 324-30.
- ↑ Commons Journals, in die (v. 359).
