VII. To Sir Tho: Savage Knight and Baronet, at his house in Long-Melford.
Honble SIR,
I Receivd your commands in a Letter which you sent me by Sir Iohn North, and I shall not fail to serve you in those particu∣lars. It hath pleased God to dispose of me once more for Spain, up∣on a business which I hope will make me good returns: ther have two Ambassadors and a royall Agent follow'd it hitherto, and I am the fourth that is employed in it: I defer to trouble you with the particulars of it, in regard I hope to have the happiness to kiss your hand at Tower hill before my departure; which will not be, till my Lord Digby sets forward. He goes in a gallant splen∣did Equipage, and one of the Kings ships is to take him in at Plymouth, and transport him to the Corunnia, or Saint Ande∣•…•…as.
Since that sad disaster which befell Archbishop Abbot, to kill the man by the glancing of an arrow as he was shooting at a Deer, (which kind of death befell one of our Kings once in new For∣rest:) ther hath bin a Commission awarded to debate whether up∣on this fact, wherby he hath shed human bloud, he be not to be depriv'd of his Archbishoprick, and pronounc'd irregular; som were against him, but Bishop Andrews, and Sir Henry Martin stood stifly for him, that in regard it was no spontaneous act, but a meer contingencie, and that ther is no degree of men but is subject to misfortunes and casualties, they declar'd positively that he was not to fall from his dignity or function, but should still re∣main a regular and in statu quo prius; during this debate, he pe∣titioned the King that he might be permitted to retire to his Almes∣house at Guilford where he was born, to pass the remainder of his life; but he is now come to be again rectus in curia, absolutely quitted and restor'd to all things: But for the wife of him which