Sir William Boswell's third Letter to the Archbishop, sent with the larger Discovery of the Plot.
May it please your Grace,
UPon Receipt of his Majesties Commands, with your Graces Letters of 9 and 18 Sept. last, I dealt with the Party to make good his offers former∣ly put in my hand, and transmitted to your Grace; This he hopes to have done by the enclosed, so far as will be needful for his Majesties satisfaction; yet if any more Particular Explanation of Discovery shall be Required by his Majesty or your Grace, He hath promised to add thereunto, whatsoever he can remem∣ber and knows of truth. And for better Assurance and Verification of his Integrity, he professeth him∣self ready (if required) to make Oath of what he hath already declared, or shall hereafter declare in the business.
His name he Conjures me still to conceal, though he thinks his Majesty and your Grace, by the Character he gives of himself, will easily imagine who he is, having been known so generally through Court and City, as he was for three or four years in the Quality and Em∣ployment he acknowledgeth (by his Declaration en∣closed) himself to have had.
Hereupon he doth also redouble his most humble and earnest Suit unto his Majesty and your Grace to be most Secret and Circumspect in the business, that he may not be suspected to have discovered, or had a hand in the same.
I shall here humbly beseech your Grace to let me know what I may further do for his Majesties Service, or for your Graces particular behoof; that I may ac∣cordingly endeavour to approve myself as I am
Your Graces most Dutiful and obliged Servant, William Boswell.
Hague, Octob. 15. 1640.
The Archbishop's Endorsement,
Rec. Octob. 14. 1640. Sir William Boswell in Prosecution of the great business. If any thing come to him in Cyphers, to send it to him.
Which said larger Discovery here follow∣eth: