A TRVE COPIE OF THE LORD DIGBIES LET∣TER TO THE QƲEENE.

I Shall not adventure to write unto your Majestie with freedome, but by expresses, or till such time as I have a Cypher, which I beseech your Majestie to vouchsafe mee. At this time therefore I shall onely let your Majestie know where the humblest and most faithfull servant you have in the world is, here at Middleborough, where I shall remaine in the privatest way I can, till I receive instructions how I shall serve the King and your Majestie in these parts. If the King betake him∣selfe to a safe place, where he may avow and pro∣tect his servants from rage and violence, for from Page  4Iustice I will never implore it. I shall then live in impatience and in misery till I waite upon you. But if after all he hath done of late, he shall betake himselfe to the easiest and compliantest wayes of accommodation, I am confident, that then I shall serve him more by my absence, than by all my industry: and it will be a comfort to mee in all calamities, if I cannot serve you by my actions, that I may doe it in some kinde by my sufferings for your sake, having (I protest to God) no mea∣sure of happinesse or misfortune in this world, but what I derive from your Maiesties value of my affection and fidelitie.