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lxiv his Lordship does yet keep the King's ear; but, between you and I, I fear he will find that he is ill advised if he thinks to carry it with a high hand, for I believe he will prove a wounded deer, and be very unserviceable to the King in the place he is in at least. That is the opinion of wise people, but, to-morrow, they say, will be a hot day, and shew us much.

"You see how willing I am to tell you what I can. Whatever there is that should not be omitted, excuse, for it is out of my province writing on these matters; but what ought I not to do to satisfy one to whom I have so great obligation; but when I consider how well you spend your time, I am like to bum this scribble. Pray do you do so as soon as you have read it.

"Now, as to the plot, methinks it looks as if God Almighty would bring it all out, whether we would or not, and shew us our wilful, sinful blindness. The day you went, Bedloe cast his eye upon a man who followed his coach, and on the sudden called out that they should lay hold of him, for that he was the man he had described to the two Houses, and that he could never find. Upon which the man was seized, loaded with chains, and sent to Newgate. Bedloe swears that he was one