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Rh ''would please to effect it accordingly. Wherein you shall do a favour will be owned by your affectionate friend and servant,'' OLIVER CROMWELL.

Dudley Wyatt, Scholar of Trinity College, 25th April 1628; B.A., 1631; Fellow, 4th October 1633; vanishes from the Bursar’s Books in 1645: no notice of him farther, or of any effect produced by the Lieutenant-General’s Letter on his behalf, is found in the College records. Indeed, directly after this Letter, the young gentleman, of a roving turn at any rate, appears to have discovered that there was new war and mischief in the wind, and better hope at Court than at College for a youth of spirit. He went to France to the Queen (as we may gather); went and came; developed himself into a busy spy and intriguer;—attained to Knighthood, to be the ‘Sir Dudley Wyatt’ of Clarendon’s History; whom, and not us, he shall henceforth concern.

, Governor of the Isle of Wight, who has for the present become so important to England, is a young man ‘of good parts and principles’: a Colonel of Foot; served formerly as Captain under Massey in Gloucester;—where, in October 1644, he had the misfortune to kill a brother Officer, one Major Gray, in sudden duel, ‘for giving him the lie’; he was tried, but acquitted, the provocation being great. He has since risen to be Colonel, and become