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what to say,

Wyfe of the

concerning

chins, & so

next meeting in P'liam') to send away all the Capu- I know not cins & dissolve their cloyster, for if yo' Matiedoe it not if it be not to yo'self, I am misinformed if ye P'liam't fall not vpon aduerticemy them when they come againe together; & it would Parlaments be much more for yo' Maties hon, & more acceptable intention to yo❜ people, & (it may be) safer for ye Capucins, if in hir Caputhat particular yo' Matic prevented the P'liam". first to heare And now I humbly beg yo' Maties pardon for my what she will presumc'on in tendering to yo' great wisdome these On the conmy vndigested thoughts, wch I assure yo' Matie have trair 1 beene comunicated to noe other person in the world, for this honbut are (wthout any p'tic'lar designe) meerely the nest freeyssues of my weake judgem & indulgent care of yo Maties honor, p'servac'on & service, wch I preferre before any thing in this world that can concerne Yo' sacred Maties

Most humble & most obedient servaunt,

THORPE, 19 Sepbris, 1641.

EDEN. 26.

"For yor sacred Mate'

"Yours apostyled."

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EDW. NICHOLAS.

Superscribed by Sir E. N. "19° Sepbris, 1641. Apostl. 26°. his Matie thankes me for his ler and my freedome in it. It was sent by Mr. Wm. Murrey."

Sir Edward Nicholas to the King.

May it please yo' most excellent M'tie, Yesterday S Job Harby, & I attended Queene about yo' Maties collar of rubies, vpon

wch

say.

thanke you

dome.

I wonder of

the this, for he

or Crispe, 3

he

asseured me

This order of Roman Catholic priests had been introduced on the marriage of Charles with Henrietta Maria, and had been allowed to form an establishment here.

2 He was of an ancient Northamptonshire family, the Harbys of Adston. His sister Emma was married to Robert Charlton, of Whitton, Esq., who suffered much for his loyalty in the cause of Charles the Second. Their son Sir Job was a Judge in the Common Pleas, and created a Baronet.

3 This Crisp appears to be the same person afterwards engaged, in 1643, in the plan to seize the city of London for the King; to which Edmund Waller was a party, according to Rushworth's account, though Clarendon considers their plans as completely distinct.

before my

it would be

Bartholemy

fore know

parting from saith there is alreddy 25mo. Her Matie hath let him London that vnderstand yor Maties pleasure concerning ye disabsolutlie posing of it, whereupon he hath promised that he free, before and S Jo. Nulls (who hath bene formerly imployed tyde, there in the pawning of it) will forthwth write to ye partie in the cause of Holland wth whome it lyes engaged, to see what more monny may be had vpon it, and if that man will not lend any further considerable som'e, then S Job the cource promiseth to doe his best to procure elsewhere as by my Wyfe much more vpon it as he can, & therewth redeeme it out of the hands where it now lyes, & get ye overplus for yo' Matie, & he assures the Queene, that he will doe this wth secrecy, and all possible dilligence.

this mistaking housoeuer I lyke

now taken

in this.

It is so, & lykes me well.

and shall

This inclosed from my Lo. Keeper was brought to me the last night to be conveyed to yo' Matie, & will I hope give yo' Matie an account of yo' last let' to his LOPP. Yo Matie may be pleased to procure from ye I lyke your P'liament there some further reiterac'on of their proposition, declarac'on, that what yo' Matie hath consented vnto gett as much concerning ye election of Officers there may not be however I drawne into example to yo' Maties preiudice here, for thanke you if I am not misinformed there wilbe some attempt uertisment. to procure the like Act heere concerning Officers before y Act of Tonnage & Poundage wilbe passed to yo' Matie for lief.

as I may,

for your ad

I pray God, it be to good

that there be

I heare that ye Comittee of the Com'ons hath appurpose, & pointed to take into considerac'on yo' Maties Revenue no knavery ye next weeke, and that they will then set at least in it. twice a weeke. I am vnwilling to give yo" Matie in I command yo great affaires there too long an interruption with you to send, the tedious lynes of,

in my name,

to all those Lords that my Wyfe

shall tell you of, that they faile not to

attend at the downe sit.

ting of the

Parliament.

1

Yo' sacred Maties

Most humble & most obedient servaunt,
EWD. NICHOLAS.

THORPE, 24° Sepbris, 1641.

'The powers given to these Committees, during the recess, were almost unlimited. In vol. ix. of the Parliamentary History, page 537, a copy of them is inserted.

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Sir Edward Nicholas to the King.
May it please yo' most excellent Matie,

Being yesterday at Oatlands to attend the Queenes com'aunds, her Matie gaue me this paper inclos'd, wth comaund to send it this day to yo' Matie: it was brought to ye Queene by ye Lady Carlile,' who saith she had it from ye Lo. Mandeville. I confesse it were not amise to have it published, but I had rather it should be donne by any other hand than yo' Maties or ye Queenes, & therefore I could wishe yo' Matie I shall would conceale it for a day or 2, by wch tyme I know there wilbe other coppies of it sent into Scotland.

The late crosse orders, & vnusuall passages in P'liam't a little before y Recesse, are so distastfull to ye wiser sorte, as it hath taken off ye edge of their confidence in parliamentary proceedings, & I verily beleeve, that if y Houses (when they next meete)

This was the Dowager Carlisle, Lady Lucy Percy, second wife, and, at this date, widow of James Hay, first Earl of Carlisle; a famous woman in her time, celebrated by Waller and others, and supposed to have become as intimate with Pym as she had previously been with Strafford. Clarendon accuses her of perplexing the King's affairs, and what Nicholas states of her above seems to exhibit an equal readiness to perplex the affairs of Parliament. But, being upwards of forty, she had now perhaps wholly given up amatory for political intrigues.

2 Son to the first Earl of Manchester of the Montague family, and formerly a personal friend of the King, having accompanied him on his romantic journey to Spain. The nature of the paper here alluded to, may be surmised from the fact that Lord Mandeville was at this time an active member of the Parliament party, and deep in the counsels and confidence of Pym. In the preceding year he had been one of the Commissioners to arrange all causes of dispute with Scotland. He was now best known, however, as the Lord Kimbolton, having at this period been called to the Upper House for his father's barony, though retaining the title of Viscount Mandeville by courtesy. A little later, he was impeached with the five members. His brother, Walter Montague, was a bigoted Catholic priest, Abbot of Pontoise, in France, and Confessor to the Queen after the death of Father Phillips; he is further noticed in subsequent letters.

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