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CIVIL WAR PAPERS
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had taken from the Rebells, wes by Mr. Crespe1 one of the
English Companie here arrested: under pretext, as was impu-
dentlie averred, even before the king of Denmark his admiraltie
att Gluckstadt, that the king was but a pretended king, and
consequentlie could not in right grant any commissions: I no
sooner gott notice hereof than I dispatcht Liuftenant Colonell
Jones to the Governour of Holstein, to give him notice of the
trust the king had putt upon me, and desyring in my king’s
name that justice might be administratt upon some of his
Rebells, who were not ashamed even before the admiraltie of
Gluckstadt to vent their malice against his sacred person.
Lykewyse I desyred that the pryze might be released from the
arrestment and remitted to the disposition of the kings ser¬
vants who had brought in the same, as the coppie of my letter
to the Governour of Holstein Num. B.2 will more amplie
testifie: I conceaved my self obleiged in duetie to try if I could
stopp the progress of those insolencies att their first appear¬
ance, least afterward (they acquyrring strength) I might find it
a business of much more difficultie, just as Liuftenant Colonell
Jones averred at Gluckstadt, the Rebells depairted and came
to this toune, so the first pairt of my letter concerning justice
requyrred against the Rebells was waved; and the last con¬
cerning relaxation of the arrestment condescended, as you will
find be the coppie of the Gouvernoure’s answere to me Num. C.
translatted word to word out of the dutch, the letter I receaved
the 22 dito, the pairty who delivered it told me he had some¬
thing to impairt to me from the Gouvernour, which was that
he wondred how it wes possible, that I could comport with the
insolencyes which were daylie practised be the Rehells against
Our King; that there wes many wayes to gett the cheif of
them brought to condigne punishment, which wes easie to con-
tryve, that he beleaved I would find few to crosse any designe
against them, but many well wishers, that for their pairts they
1 Crespe. See p. 187.
2 The letter itself was doubtless ‘ Number A.’ These enclosures have not been
found. Cochran’s report was sent by Charles IX. to Montrose along with his
commission to settle Cochran’s dispute with Hamburg and raise a loan, dated
St. Germains, Sep. 5, 1649. See Deeds of Montrose, App. v. This report of
Cochran was found among Montrose’s papers taken in Dunbeath Castle, 1650.
—Id. App. ix.