Note 213 — Chapter XIV

“On Saturday last, Faulkener, one of the Lord Craven’s accusers, was condemned to the pillory for perjury; it is believed his lordship will have his estates cleared and the purchaser to be satisfied with other lands; here be many others that hope for right in the like case; some interpret this favour (for here it is a great one to have justice) as an inclination to oblige the royal party, but such plausible things could never be more seasonable” (27th May, 1653). “The committee of officers have restored several parties to their estates with reparation for what is past. Sir John Stowel is out of prison upon bail, and many such plausible things are done to stroke the poor easy Cavalier” (3rd June, 1653).—Royalist letters of intelligence among MS. Clar. Papers in Bodleian.