The obiections yow were pleased to make against the owning and subscribing y^e Letter to his Ma^{tie} were as I humbly conceaue y^r Graces resolution not to trouble y^e King for any money businesse euen in your owne behalfe much lesse in an others, and secondly that as for Creations you had absolutely promised his Ma^{tie} you would not importune him againe, to the furst I answeare that this is to save the Kings Coffirs, since certainely if eyther honor or conscience should take place his Ma^{tie} ought to saue me harmelesse from the six thousand pound Confest and proued to be y^e Crownes Debt, soe happyly now vpon his Head by your Graces noe lesse prudent and valerous then dutyfull endeauours blest by Devine Prouidence neuer intending the ruine of his best deseruing subiects, and y^e only promoting of his ribells, which the child unborne may rue if not timely preuented, and as a wise Privye-Counsillor y^r Graces part is to minde his Ma^{tie} soe of, as not totally to disharten I will not say disgust his good subiects well desarueing yet that as far as loyalty and Religion will giue them leaue, and I am sory his Ma^{tie} should bedd a diew to workes of superergation and loue in his subiects and most Certinely they are not his best Councellers who aduise him to it, and y^r Grace will be most Commendable in douing the Contrery, and at long running the King will loue you best for it, soe that this obiection of y^r Grace I humbly conceave to be totally solued. As for the seconde y^r Graces promise not to speake for any more Creations be pleased to vnderstand it rightly, and you are noe motioner of this, you doe but lay before him my reasonable Petition therein, such as indeed my Lord Chancellor was pleased to thinke soe fitting as he once vndertook it for me, and I am confident will thanke y^r Grace for reuiuing of it and in my Conscience soe will y^e King too in graunting of it, for I cannot haue soe meane a thought of his Ma^{tie} but that against the hayre he hath binne forced to bistow honoure to the highest degree upon five member men and vpon irth as subscribed to his father of happy memory his death, and that he will thinke mutch to countinance him who only assisted his late Ma'^{ie} to flye from theyr compulsion of him to agree to such acts as would have lefet him selfe our now Gratious King y^e sucessior of a title of a King of three Kingdoms but to the substance of noe one of them. It was I furnished his Ma^{tie} with money to goe (to) Theobalds to goe to Yorke when the then Marquis of Hambleton refused to pay three hundered pound for his Ma^{tie} at Theobalds only to deliuer him to the Parliament, as he had donne the Earle of Strafford, and to * * * the * * * Parliament, It was I carried him money to sett vp his standard at Yorke, and procured my father to giue the then s^r John Byron five thousand pound to rayse the first Regiment of Horse, and kept a table for aboue twenty