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INTRODUCTION.
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me humbly beg of your Lordship not to be, by your continued cruelty to her (who is not envious, but happy in seeing you so), the author of any new noise in King William's and Queen Mary's Court; for I assure your Lordship I do not desire it, for I am now wholly inclined to peace, love, and Christian amity. I hope you do not forget your hopeful son in Holland; and that you had my letter, with the inclosed bill, that came to me from him."


"July 6th, 1694.

"My Lord,

"My creditors' unreasonable proposals, which I hope Colonel FitzPatrick has acquainted you with, have obliged me to withdraw from London for the present, till I know what your Lordship would have me to do; and I wish you would consider that you must one day come to die, and that it will be too late when you come to lie upon a deathbed to wish you had been more kind and considerate of my sufferings for so many years together, and

    to plead the righteous cause of the distressed and the innocent, as you in your Princely power and equity shall think meet. And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray for your Majesty."