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Rh ''to you, if you send to him to meet you at your quarters; both by letting you know where he is, and also in all matters of intelligence. If there shall be need, Captain Burges’s troop, now quartered in Glamorganshire, shall be directed to receive orders from you.''

''You perceive by all this that we are, it may be, a little too much solicitous in this business; —it’s our fault; and indeed such a temper causeth us often to overact business. Wherefore, without more ado, we leave it to you; and you to the guidance of God herein; and rest, yours,'' OLIVER CROMWELL.

''“P.S.” If you seize him, bring,—and let him be brought with a strong guard,—to me. If Captain Nicholas should light on him at Chepstow, do you strengthen him with a strong guard to bring him—If you seize his person, disarm his House; but let not his arms be embezzled. If you need Captain Burges’s troop, it quarters between Newport and Chepstow.''

Saunders, by his manner of endorsing this Letter, seems to intimate that he took his two men; that he keeps the Letter by way of voucher. Sir Trevor Williams by and by compounds as a Delinquent,—retires then into ‘Langevie House’ in a diminished state, and disappears from History. Of Sheriff Morgan, except that a new Sheriff is soon appointed, we have no farther notice whatever.

Cromwell quitted London, there have arisen wide commotions in that central region too; the hope of the Scotch Army and the certainty of this War in Wales excite all unruly things and persons. At Pembroke lately we heard