doubt or scruple vpon that point to accept of par∣don from all former gouernours, who had their Commissions penned with that limitation (their Commissions being things not kept secretly in a boxe, but published & recorded) so as it appeared manifestly that it was a meere deuise of his owne out of the secret reaches of his heart then not re∣uealed: but it may be shrewdly expounded since, what his drift was by those pardons which he gran∣ted to Blunt the Marshall, and Thomas Lee, and o∣thers, that his care was no lesse to secure his owne instruments then the Rebels of Ireland.Yet was there another point for which he did contend & contest, which was, that he might not be tied to any opinion of the Counsell of Ireland, as all others in certain points (as pardoning traitors, concluding warre and peace, and some other prin∣cipall articles) had bene before him, to the end he might be absolute of himselfe, and be fully Master of opportunities and occasions for the performing and executing of his owne treasonable ends.But after he had once by her Maiesties singular trust and fauour toward him obtained his Patent of Commission as large, and his List of forces as full as hee desired, there was an end in his course of the prosecution in the North. For being arri∣ued into Ireland, the whole cariage of his actions there, was nothing els but a cunning defeating of that iourney, with an intent (as appeared) in the ende of the yeere to pleasure and gratifie the Re∣bell with a dishonourable peace, and to contract 0