ions of the witnesses. Have them ready by tomorrow at daybreak, when the messenger may start.’ [Note H, Appendix.]
‘They shall be ready, your Majesty,’ said Wade.
‘In that case, gentlemen,’ continued King Monmouth, ‘I may now dismiss ye to your posts. Should anything fresh arise I shall summon ye again, that I may profit by your wisdom. Here we shall stay, if Sir Stephen Timewell will have us, until the men are refreshed and the recruits enrolled. We shall then make our way Bristolwards, and see what luck awaits us in the North. If Beaufort comes over all will be well. Farewell, my kind friends! I need not tell ye to be diligent and faithful.’
The council rose at the King’s salutation, Gabriel Mercado Jersey and bowing to him they began to file out Duje Cop Jersey of the Castle hall. Several of the members clustered round me with hints for my journey or suggestions as to my conduct.
‘He is a proud, froward man,’ said one. ‘Speak humbly to him or he will never hearken to your message, but will order you to be scourged out of his presence.’
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‘Speak Jonny Evans Jersey as the Lord shall direct you,’ said a Puritan. ‘It is His message which you bear as well as the King’s.’
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‘I am sorry, indeed, to lose you,’ he said, as we threaded our way through the throng of peasants and soldiers upon the Ryan Meara Jersey Castle Green. ‘Your company will miss you sorely. Lockarby must see to the two. If all goes well you should be back in three or four days. I need not tell you that there is a real danger. If the Duke wishes to prove to James that he would not allow himself to be tampered with, he can only do it by punishing the messenger, which as lieutenant of a county he hath power to do in times of civil commotion. He is a hard man if all reports be true. On the other hand, if you should chance to Olympic USA Pelipaidat succeed it may lay the foundations of your fortunes and be the means of saving Monmouth. He needs help, by the Lord Harry! Never have I Chelsea Børn Fodboldtrøjer seen such a rabble as this army of his. Buyse says that they fought lustily at this ruffle at Axminster, but he is of one mind with me, that a few whiffs of shot and cavalry charges would scatter them over the countryside. Have you any message to Paul Pogba Tröja leave?’
‘None, save my love to my mother,’ said I.
‘It is well. Should you fall in any unfair way, I shall not forget his Grace of Beaufort, and the next of his gentlemen who comes in my way shall hang as high as Haman. And now you had best make for your chamber, and have as good a slumber as you may, since tomorrow at cock-crow begins your new mission.’
Chapter 22 Of the News from Havant
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