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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47926	To the right honorable Edward Earl of Clarenden, Lord High Chancellor of England, the humble apology of Roger L'Estrange	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1661 (1661)	Wing L1314A; ESTC R202822	2,673	8

TO The Right Honorable EDVVARD EARL OF CLARENDEN Lord High CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND The Humble APOLOGY OF ROGER L'ESTRANGE Verbera sed Audi. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane M.DC.LXI MY LORD I Am deliver'd from all other Care then of my Duty and my Honour and This Tranquillity of Thought I am to thank the Malice of my Fortune for which has left me neither worse to Fear nor much better to hope for In This Estate of Freedome and Security I must presume to Dedicate this Paper to your Lordship which is no more then a fair offer of a supposed Criminal to a Publique Tryal Be pleas'd to know my Lord that upon Friday Morning last in Westminster-Hall a Gentleman took me aside L'Estrange sayes he I am glad to meet you for I 'm unquiet till I have told you something which both in Honour and in Conscience I think my self oblig'd to acquaint you with Continuing Thus I am the Person that gave Intelligence to my Lord Chancellour that You betray'd the King's Designs but with such Caution and Deliberation as you your self in my place would have done no lesse My Lord he told me the whole matter with so obliging and so Frank a Cleerness that truly when I weigh one Office against the other that is according to their true Intention his Iustice and his Kindness here compar'd with his former mistake I reckon that I have an Obligation to him This Gentleman was further pleas'd to give me a view of your Lordships Answer to him which I confess was Charitable considering the Suggestion but as related to my Innocence 't was sharp and Cruell I do not wonder now my Lord at some Discourses I have heard of late as if your Lordship were my Enemy having such Reason for it nor at his Sacred Majesties Displeasure toward a Person under so Black a Character To clear my self to You my Lord and to the World must be the Businesse of This Paper Waiving the Parties mediate to this Notice the Ground of all is fix'd upon Mr. Iames Whitlock a Captain of Horse and a Knight of Cromwell's He as this Gentleman my Friend undertakes to prove declar'd that L'Estrange WAS A TRAYTOUR AND TO HIS KNOWLEDGE HAD RECEIVED six hundred Pounds In Gold from CROMWELL Hinc Illae Lachrymae I shall not passe good manners so far as to call This Scandal by the right Name but This I humbly Begg and Offer that I may put my Life upon the Tryal which I profess I had rather lose than in the case of Treason Wear it as a Mercy Further my Lord I shall be bold to add that These ensuing Particulars are Truths 1. I never took Protestation Covenant Oath or any Engagement of That Quality from them 2. I never Comply'd with the Party in any thing whatsoever related to the Publique 3. I never spake to Cromwell save four times in my Life First being his Prisoner at Chambridge Twice more while I was a Prisoner in Newgate I went to him under a Guard to move for an Exchange The Fourth and Last time was in 1653. when being ty'd by a Restreyning Order to attend an Examination and my Father lying then upon his Death-sickness I mov'd Cromwell that I might go down and receive my Fathers Blessing 4. I did never communicate Directly or Indirectly as I have said elsewhere with any man of the Party upon Publique Business 5. I never made a Particular Acquaintance with any man of that Side that had not first disown'd the Cause and Actually serv'd the King 6. I did never decline either Hazzard Labour or to my little Power Expence in order to his Majesties Service nor did I ever let slip any Opportunity of doing my Duty Now with your Leave my Lord I challenge the whole World to contradict me and by your Lordships favour yet a little further I was engag'd in the First Scotch Expedition after which when the Broyls began in England I was Confederate with divers Gentlemen to endevour the Securing of Lin Regis for his Majesty That failing I betook my self to Oxford and Serv'd in Prince Rupert's Troup My next remove was to Newark then Govern'd hy the now-now-Lord Byron where after a while I reciev'd an Invitation out of Norfolk to attempt something upon Lin. The Motives to the Enterprize were These Walton the Governour was before Crowland a place of Consequence and Strength And Lin left almost without a Guard and a considerable number of Gallant Gentlemen that had been taken at Lincoln and Gainsborough then Prisoners in the Town This Occasion call'd me to Oxford where I received his late-Majesties Commission to endevour the Surprizal of the Place It was sign'd and deliver'd to me by the now-Earl of Bristol I was Betray'd in the Attempt by one Leman formerly of the Kings Party and ty'd up by an Oath of Faith and Secresie as binding as Syllables could make it Thence I was carried to London and there adjudg'd to Dye under These Solaecismes First I condition'd for my Life when I was taken Next It was contrary to Articles betwixt the Earl of Manchester and the Governour of Newark to which Garrison I belong'd Thirdly The Committee by their own Law were not empowr'd to try me Fourthly They jugled up a Court almost at Midnight and Sentenc'd Me to Death without a Hearing Lastly I was adjug'd to Dye by a Court-Martial as a Traytor yet they themselves confess'd that I never receiv'd any Trust D. MILLS the now Chancellor of Norwich was my Iudge-Advocate Betwixt my Doom and my appointed Execution Mr. Thorowgood and Mr. Arrowsmith then of the Synod gave me a Visit and very friendly tendred me the utmost of their Interest to save me if I would but Petition for Mercy and offer to take the Covenant These Gentlemen will acquit me my Lord that I refus'd it At length by the Interest and Kindness particularly of the Earls of Northumberland Essex Stamford with others I was Reprieved First for a Fortnight and till further Order and then under Colour of a further Hearing which in almost four years I could not obtain although I pressed it earnestly With the same Faith and Openness have I proceeded to this Instant Out of Newgate I slipp'd into Kent in 1648 and of that Action I presented your Lordship with a Printed Accompt in Flanders to which I dare refer the most unsatisfy'd of my Enemies After that Defeat I cross'd the Seas and return'd in 1653 fixing in London as the most proper place in Relation both to my Publique Duty and particular Safety Since which time my Lord let my Soul answer for it if according to the best of my own memory I ever exchang'd one Syllable with Cromwell During the Cheshire Motion I can appeal to a hundred several persons in London and to a Declaration now Extant in my Apology that at that time I was not Idle And touching those succeeding Broyles which more immediately led to his Sacred Majesty's Return I dare remit my self to half the honest Part of the City who Then were of opinion that Those Remonstrances Protests Resolves Engagements Declarations c. however drawn by my unlucky hand were no Ill office toward his Majesty They will at least acquit me of Ill meaning At last my Lord having scap'd all these Rocks and Storms I meet new dangers in the Harbour I find my self crush'd under fresh mistakes But I shall be too Bold Briefly I have spent Twenty yeers now in his Majesties Service according to my Duty and after all I only beg not to be thought a Villein MY LORD Decemb. 3. 1661. I am Your Lordships most obedient Servant Roger L'Estrange