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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25601	An Answer to the Lord George Digbies apology for himself published Jan 4, Anno Dom. 1642 put in the great court of equity otherwise called the court of conscience, upon the 28th of the same moneth / by Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes Decius.	Decius, Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Lord George Digbie's apology for himself.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters, the one from the Lord Digby, to the Queens Majestie ; the other from Mr. Thomas Elliot.; Elliot, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3421; ESTC R8961	70,751	74

of those Letters there were any expressions of discontent or bitternesse I shall say little more then that they passed an examination they were not prepared for and fell into hands that they were not directed to and I am confident that many honest Gentl●men who have had the happinesse to preserve their papers from such ●n inquisition and shall consider the case they might be in if all their secret conferences and private Letters we●e● exposed and produced to the public●● view will cast up these Letters of mine in the number of my misfortunes● without making any addition to my faults and certainly whoever shall observe the measure of my sufferings with any kind of indifference will easily forgive such eruptions of passion as were onely vented by me to a brother though they came within the reach of any other car To draw now to a period of my unfortunate story which I cannot promise my self from the generality so much charity as to vouchsafe the reading further then me●r curiosity shall lead them I returned into England not with so much joy to see my Countrey as hope to be admitted upon my humble Petition to His Majesty to a fair regular impartiall vindication of my innocency and I protest to God I look upon the time I may naturallie hope to live with no other comfort then as it may make me still capable of that happinesse I have follies and infirmities enough about me to make me aske the pardon of e●ery wise and good man but for treason or for any voluntary crime either against my Soveraign or my Country I say it with all humility I will not accept a pardon from the King and Parliament By the grace of God it shall never be sayd that either the Parliament hath brought me or His Majesty exposed me to a triall my own uprightnesse shall constantly sollicite it and without recourse in this to either of their favours I will either stand a justified man to the world or fall an innocent But in the meane time till it shall please God to blesse this Nation with such a composure of the present distractions as that Government and Law may have their rightfull and comfortable course I implore only so much charity from men as may seem due to one whose good intentions to his Country have been in some sort publiquely manifested whose ill are yet but obscurely and improbably suggested To conclude let the few yeers I haue lived be examined and if there be found any rancour or venime in my nature even toward particular persons which might in time contract it self to an enmity against the state● if I have been a fomenter of jealousies and debate or a secret conspirer against the honour and fame of any man if I have worn Religion as a maske and vizard for my hypocrisie and underhand cherished any opinions that I have not avowed if I have been lead by any hopes of preferment to flattery or by the misse of it to revenge if I have been transported with private ambition and been inclined to sacrifice the least branch of the publique peace and happinesse to my owne ends and advantage let the complication of all these ills prepare a judgement of treason it self upon me and let me be looked upon as a man who hath made a progresse in wickednesse that a few yeers more added to that account would render me a prodigie to the world But if in truth my life hath been pleasant to me under no other Nation then as I might make it usefull to my Country and have made it my businesse to beget and continue a good intelligence amongst good men if I have been then most zealous and fervent for the Liberties of the Subject when the power of Court was most prevalent and for the rights of the Crown when popular licence was most predominant if by my continuall study and practise of Religion I have alwayes been a true sonne of the Church of ENGLAND and by my submission and application of my actions to the known rule of the Law I haue alwayes been a true son of the State of England if my actions have been 〈◊〉 and my words onely doubtfull if my life onely clouded with many intersections I hope the world will beleeve I have been overtaken with too great a measure of unhappinesse and every generous heart will case me of some part of my burthen by giving the benefit of his good opinion ANSWER And so my Lord I am come to your Lordships Letters which is all that remaineth in your Apologie of which I have not already given you my account except it be of your counsell and purpose as well in the transporting of your self into Holland as in your returne from thence into England which you call the period of your unfortunate story Both which will fitly fall in with your Letters and I wish did as well agree with them But sure they were quite out of your memory and you could recover no copy of them when you wrote this passage in your Apologie I procured his Majesties Licence to transport a person of so great inconvenience and danger out of his Dominions into another Countrey and with all possible speed removed my selfe into Holland never suspecting that my guilt would increase with my absence in the retyred private life I had resolved on and did according to that resolution lead beyond tqe sea My Lord I hope it will not offend you to be shewed by your servant that you are not well hidden under this covert where you may else chance to be taken by an enemy In which hope I will presume to observe that it may be well believed your Lordship resolved on such a retyred private life on the other side of the sea if things had gone on here by way of Accommodation to which easiest and compliantest way it appears your Lordship doubted His Majesty might betake Himselfe But whether His Majestie shewing Himselfe so extreamly tender of the Peace of the Kingdome that He was more a wake to the sense of the calamity and misery that in all probability was like to befall His good Subjects upon this occasion then of His own Honor and Dignity were so well approved of by your Lordship you know the judgement of the Parliament in their observations upon your Letters to the Queens Majesty and I will leave the world to judge My purpose is only to shew out of them that your Lordships resolution to lead so retyred a life on the other side was not absolute but conditionate a blind man if he could read your letters must needs plainly see For you were no sooner arrived at Middleburg in Zealand but in your first letter from thence to Sir Lewis Dives you make mention of another written from abord Sir Iohn Pennington wherein you gave an account why you thought sitting to continue your journey into Holland going stil upon this ground that if things went on by way of Accommodation the King would be