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A29852	The Lord Digbies designe to betray Abingdon carryed on for divers vveeks by an intercourse of letters. Which are here published for the satisfaction of all men, by Sergeant Major Generall Brown. Together with the cipher which the Lord Digby sent him for that purpose.	Browne, Richard, Sir, 1602?-1669.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. aut; Bernard, Nath. Nathaniel. aut	1645 (1645)	Wing B5145; ESTC R212391	25,574	39

by this next you will think he had his Congedeslier his black Box already for converting me He quotes the Kings Excommunicates ipso facto as he calls it the Kingdoms and Da●nes the Parliament as confidently as if he had been Priest at Lambeth and not Lecturer at Wooll-Church witnesse this divine charitable composure SIR I am commanded to let you know that His Majesty cannot but wonder that you who being recommended to him for many worthy parts and actions declaring you no stranger to vertue and Noble qualities as one no way aspersed with any infamous factions inclination in your self in times past one whom he nor his former Government hath ever wronged He having never taken the Staffe of Lord Chamberlain from you nor were you ever fined 1500. l. in the Star-Chamber at the suit of Sir Thomas Reynolds as the case is of Essex and Waller wherein yet he denies that either of them were wrong'd or injuryed no Wife taken from you in his Fathers dayes nor your Father beheaded in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth That you who was never thought of so broken or low a fortune as some Scotish Reformers That you who were so far from a Schismaticall spirit that you have obliged Orthodox Divines now his cosufferers to bear you an Honourable Testimony That you to whom he never so much as in thought intended other then good when occasion offer'd it self That you whose moderation in other things hath witnessed that you neither want valour nor courtesie That you should not onely joyn with but lead on his Subjects armed against his Life his Crown and Kingdom when he hath declared with so much vehemency and to his knowledge inward integrity and sincerity his resolutions to perform all your desires concerning the true Reformed Protestant Religion and just Rights of Parliaments the Liberty and property of his Subjects when there is nothing left that may be desired by equall and just-dealing men but he hath yielded to That you should be one of them that will never trust him till by their meanes he be kill'd or made a Prisoner or which is worse such a slave as must never say No or I will advise to any thing he shall be required He desires you to make the case your own and to judge whether you could without defence suffer all that you have to be violently taken from you c. Or whether you could finde out a way that you would think were it your case more equall and just for you to go in I am therfore in my way appointed to let you know that that place Prov. 24.21 is part of that Word of God which shall one day judge the World and doth ipso facto Excommunicate that Party which you are insnared with That that place 2 Tim. 3.5 expresly commands you to turn away from such notwithstanding their form of Godlinesse And that you are looked upon as Mordecai did on Esther chap. 4. vers. 14. as one advanced for such an occasion as this to restore the King to his Subjects and his Subjects to their King I should have come secretly to you to have given you evidence of what I told by the last concerning Injuries you suffer by your own side and to have made Honourable and advantagious Propositions to you both for your own and the Kingdoms good with the way of assurance But though your Letter did infinitely adde to you Yet the newes of hanging some of ours at Abingdon hath stopt my Commission and somewhat daunted my resolution to the present Onely I would pray you to furnish with a reasonable account in your defence Sir your most faithfull Servant Nath Bernard Nov. 8. 1644. Had it not been that we saw a direct necessity of whilng with him This Letter which they made bitter with those Ingredients to try how it would worke had made me breake off with such an unsufferable Rabsheca but on we went and I returned this SIR T is true I never countenanc'd but ever abhorr'd all Faction nor do or shall I side with any contemning lawfull authority neither can I beleeve that revenge is the cause why the Lord Generall or Sir William Waller are in Armes I am assured they as my selfe have no other ends but the Kings and Kingdoms good and am confident the Parliaments aymes are the same and will appear so in the end otherwise I should turne my sword against them or any that should s●eke His Majesties life or to imprison His person I shall in nothing more willingly adventure mine then in rescuing Him in both sh●ll chearfully hearken after all honourable and advantagious Propositions which may prove my own and the Kingdoms good I deny that any of your party in Abingdon have been hang'd nor shall any except by Order of Parliament I have alwayes given order for christian usage of all prisoners with me and wish you would do the like by ours Sir you have twice fill'd your Letters to me with Riddles which till you make plain to my understanding I will say no more I am Sir Your loving Friend and Servant Rich. Brown Abingdon Novemb. 11. 1644. Postscript Sir I hold it unsafe for your self to come any more to me your last being here was much distasted I must desire the Reader to know that now all my Letters went to His Majesties eye as their Letters afterward tell me and must necessarily carry seeming answers to demands and therefore my hardest taske was to compile innocent words such as would carry double with some seeming satisfaction such as these My design in hand I hope to bring all to passe as I desire Settle my aff●i●es at London What I have undertake● I will perform c. All which are but new Anagrams of my old resolutions which I was much afraid they would finde out and therefore tooke the advantage of working hard and a day or two after heard from him in these NOble Sir This is the last time I will trouble you with any generalls which you are pleased to call Riddles And since you thinke it not safe for my self to wait on you I am commanded to entreat you would expresse your doubts and feares on one side and your hopes and desires on th' other viz. The motives whereupon you engaged so much worth as we finde in you in the present action that if we can give you no satisfaction we may suspect our selves to have gone amisse To this end I am further to beseech you to assure safe accesse and recesse to a discreet third person that shall wait upon your Honor for those purposes which I have already intimated whereby you shall perceive how much I have laboured to evidence that your favour● have inviolably obliged Your most humble Servant N. Bernard Water-E●ton Nov. 15. 1644. Postscript I have authority to tell you and you shall speedily and exactly finde it made good to you that there is no just or reasonable thing you can propose in which you shall not be satisfied

then I shall againe subscribe my selfe Your friend to serve you George Digby Oxon this of Decemb. 1644. The Lord Digbies last Letter Worthy Colonell Browne IN the first place I must extreamly lament the unlucky burning by chance of the Cipher wherein all my former Letters but only those which were meant for your well-serv'd masters supervizing were written whereby I am constrained to venture these mysteries without a vaile which I should not have done but that the necessity of this instant time presseth it and that I am as confident as I can be of any thing that this will come safe to your hands In the next place I must chide you for hazarding in your Cousin Bernards packet that other paper of yours which was so little meant for his sight But your Letter of defiance which I read out to him made him so mad that he observed not my Cleanly Conveyance away of the Treasure within it For truly I cannot give any other name to that which conteined so admirable contrivance and disposition of the principall Scene of our Act You know my opinion from the beginning that I valued Abington but as a sleight part of those services which if your reputation and trust with your masters could bee by any act upheld his Majes●y might expect from a person of your dexterity and interests and therefore I willingly consented to the designe of seeming to make those with whom you were to improve the confidence of you privy to all our Negotiations with me though with the inconvenience of making the Surrender of Abington somewhat more difficult and lesse seasonable by the delay But I must confesse to you with an unfained pleasure to be so exceld that it was beyond my skill to finde out such a way as that which you resolve on by blowing up so artificially your Magazine to make Abington the Kings upon such Conditions as m●ght let you march away unsuspected and unblemisht in your power to doe his Majesty those greater services aymed at by you I will enlarge no further then to assure you that the time and houre upon the blazing signe given shall be punctually observed according to your agreement with our incomparable Engineer Beckman whose escape so artificially and so unsuspectedly as to your having any hand in it hath succeeded even to a Miracle In case there should a●ise any difficulty unforeseene in the course proposed and that there should need a nearer approach of our Forces either for assault or surprize direct your pleasure to Beckman by the conveyance agreed on by you and it shall be punctually executed for there is no roome for distrust when there are such Hostages given of which take it upon my word the one your friend shall be a● kindely used as in your owne house and the other as safely kept for you as in your owne coffers I must not conclude without admiring your incomparable Letter of defiance which as if it were to prevent the scornes being first put upon me at London I have in great rage caused to be printed here with my Eloquent Answer which I send you here inclosed to be presented with moderate insulting unto your masters to whom certainly the world could not have furnished you with a pleasanter endearment● then to have fooled my Lord Digby who can expect no lesse if this businesse be cleanly gone through with then to see you one of their Generals especially now the rest are displaced by their last Vote Farewell I have that faith in what I hope for of you which hath seldome deceived Your Friend entirely George Digby Postscript Since the writing of this I have a small Agent come in from Abington who assures me that he saw you march out since noone to Reading which I doe not believe but yet for more security I have sent thither the last night to meet you a duplicate of this and of the inclosed by a very safe messenger with one of the blank Pastes you gave me I fo●got to tell you my opinion that Reading is a fi●●er place for you to march unto upon your Composition then Alisbury and lies apter for his Majesties service The last of these as all hellish machinations doe belies it selfe as a very ordinary Readers eye will finde The scope of it is to possesse the world that I had appointed him time and manner of betraying Abington notwithstanding my Letter of defiance I knew God would blesse me with an opportunity which would seriously sooner or later by action confute it and in the interim laughing at his miserable shifts to heale himselfe and wound me I shut up with him merrily and returned this which left him speechlesse My Lord YOu are so farre from winning by playing an aftergame that you will not save your owne stake which you ayme at by it for standers by see you doe it very poorely and dare not throw out your dice I finde you are swel'd and the poyson you vent is worse then Spiders but your web is so thin that the Readers will guesse by the ridiculousnesse of your Plot that it was the Kings Iester not his Secretary that contrived it and yet by the wickednesse of it will again conclude that the Divell works journey work to my Lord Digby Sir my Magazine is safe and will be when your dishonourable underground dealings shall bee blown up within these few dayes you may expect a Blaze but it must be of this machination of Oxfords wherein your Honour shall goe for the Faux and the Garnet I finde you can personate them both against the Kingdom and at such a time as now when you feared his Majesty who I know hath found you out should conclude a peace with his people which you dare not pray for I thank God I doe daily nay would ravell in the fi●st knitting You t●l● me your Cipher is burnt it was of your owne writing my Lord I suppose I am sorry your Lordships hand should be burnt it is a scurvy brand and ominous But feare not your friends at London will send your Honour a copy of it in print You say Bernard saw not your cleanly conveyance I am glad they take your Lordship for a Iugler in Oxon they have done in London a long time but being your Familiar I much wonder he should not know your tricks I am sorry your Honour should be his Majesties Hocus Pocus and have the knack of cleanly conveyance Now the world may see which way the King was conveyed from London the jewels beyond Sea the Irish Rebels brought over which way so many overtures of peace have appeared and vanished surely by my Lord Digbies trick of cleanly conveyance Play above board my Lord that is fittest for a Councell Table My Lord I tax you now for your incomparable base Beckmans escape I verily think he got away by one of your Lordships tricks of cleanly conveyance You upbraid me much with my Masters my Lord they will answer for themselves and it is unworthily done to scoffe at them whom your Master and mine calls his Parliament againe whether you will or no and to them I referre you who are fit to judge of such language If I were a Prostitute my Lord as you call me why did your Honour act the Pimp and offer me a reward with such sollicitations so frequently so hotly so long a while Let the world judge of your wooings which since they faile I look now your force should venture upon a rape My Lord you say at Oxford that Londoners can preach which is more then we can say of you againe the rest therefore shall bee wholsome exhortation Doe not destroy a Noble mans soule pity your selfe though not the Kingdome and let the feare of God bee in you to expell forgeries even for your owne if not yours for his Majesties sake and honour who hath taken you so neare to himselfe for if you counterfeit hands and seales of Subjects it will be historied that you were not chast to his For my selfe you see my Lord this Plot of yours is so farre from molesting my thoughts that it makes them merry for I serve a God and a Cause which shall make them so in death yet I hope to live to see more and more 〈◊〉 wise caught in their own craftinesse I am my Lord Your Honours most humble Servant Richard Browne Abington Dec. 20 1644. Since this Conclusion they sent a party of 200 to fortifie a house of Mr Speakers two or three miles from us as soone as I had notice I sent out some of ours who took the house upon Composition and there unexpectedly we found Beckman their Swedish Engineer who being my prisoner before made 〈◊〉 escape perfidiously and is now used according to his desert and by this Providence that part of my Lords Letter which concerns my suffering him to goe away is seriously answered And now since that our beating them off when they came to storme us and hanging all their Irish I took by Gods blessing choaks the other part of slander concerning my selfe Let God whose mercies faile not to deliver from the heads of the Politique and defend from the hands of the Powerfull those that trust in him have the glory of all FINIS