Stuart dynasty

Appendix I. 257
to it, for I think that is the least I can do, and the gentlest
return I can make is to name him nor think of him no more,
for as to trusting him or employing him, he certainly ought
no more to be it, nor will not, I dare say, expect it.
" I am very well pleased with what you write to me in
relation to the French Court, where one like you would
certainly be very useful in my absence, iho 1 still think you
would be much more necessary with me, but as to that, as we
agreed in parting, you can best judge where you will be
most useful to me, and whether you can meet me on this side
of the sea with secresy.
" I approve entirely j^our destination of the different ships
you mention, and which you or somebody els in your absence
must see executed, for the article of transporting people after
me is of the last consequence. I shall expect with im-
patience the news of D. 0. (Duke of Ormond) parting, which
I think presses to a great degree, for tis plain nothing will
stirr in Engl d till his arrival, which alone can put a stop to
this fury of imprisoning all our friends, which if it continued
would cause inevitable delay at the best.
" I shall give a few days law to D. 0. (Duke of Ormond),
but as I find by Flanigan that I can ly with great privacy
somewhere near the coast on this side I shal still part from
hence a day or two after your Couriers arrival, and as I said
before wait at that place till I hear from England.
" If that should be at my arrival there, and that I find all
is ready to receive me, so much the better. If there should
be some delay it would be, I think, of advantage for the
security of my passage, for when 'tis once publick that I am
no more in this countay people will never dream that I am
hiding at the sea side, but rather be looking for me in the
island or at sea,* and I shall on my side, as you on yours,
use all the little finesses I can to puzle people as to my true
design, and make people beleeve I am gone to Scotland ; and
on the whole I shall neglect nothing for disguising my
person and hiding my march.
" Pray God D. 0. (Duke of Ormond) got safe on t'otber
side, as well as our other friends, and then I shall have very
good ho^es of our affairs.
" I here return you the Commission to the Lord Grenard
altered as you propose, and if they are printed Sir Thomas
will send you with this the two letters and the Declaration
* This is what actually happened.