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Rh side, by two parties to the business, exist: none of which shall concern us here. Lieutenant-General Cromwell’s Letter to Whalley also exists; a short insignificant Note: here it is, fished from the Dust-Abysses, which refuse to disclose the other. Whalley is ‘Cousin Whalley’ as we may remember; Aunt Frances’s and the Squire of Kerton’s Son,—a Nottinghamshire man.

“Putney, Nov. 1647.” ''Dear Cos. Whalley,—There are rumours abroad of some intended attempt on his Majesty’s person. Therefore I pray have a care of your guards. If any such thing should be done, it would be accounted a most horrid act. Yours,'' OLIVER CROMWELL.

See, among the Old Pamphlets, Letters to the like effect from Royalist Parties: also a Letter of thanks from the King to Whalley;—ending with a desire, ‘to send the black-gray bitch to the Duke of Richmond,’ on the part of his Majesty: Letters from etc., Letters to etc., in great quantities. For us here this brief notice of one Letter shall suffice:

‘Monday 15th November 1647. Letter from Colonel Robert Hammond, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Cowes, 13° Novembris, signifying that the King is come into the Isle of Wight.’ The King, after a night and a day of riding, saw not well whither else to go. He delivered himself to Robert