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<DATE>2014-05-16</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>FATHER PETERS HIS New-Years-Gift To My Lord Chancellor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving receiv'd the &s;orrowful Intelligence of your Lord&s;hips late mis|fortune, in being Taken into Cu&s;tody, I can forbear no longer to Condole the unhappy Circum&s;tances, I am inform'd you lye now under; But being willing to afford your Lord&s;hip what Con&s;olation, the promi&s;e of a Holy Fathers care over your troubled Soul, can give you, I here a&s;&s;ure you, I have made Interce&s;&s;ion to his Holine&s;s, and with great diffi|culty have procur'd you a general pardon, Sign'd with his own hand, for all tho&s;e Manifold black Sins and Enormities you have been Guilty of, through the illegal Execution of that Honourable Authority, His Maje&s;ty was pleas'd (for your great &s;ervice to the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church) to confer upon you.</P>
<P>And knowing 'twas the cu&s;tom of your Lord&s;hip to &s;et a-part New-Years Day for the Reception of tho&s;e ob&s;cure pre&s;ents, which oftentimes altered the property of a ca&s;e, and made a bad cau&s;e a good one, by placing Ju&s;tice on the wrong &s;ide the hedge; I have therefore thought it convenient to inclo&s;e the Pardon in this Epi&s;tle, and entreat your Lord&s;hip to accept it, as a New-Years-Gift, Sincerely intended as a Benefit to your great Soul; and to di&s;charge you of the weight of tho&s;e premedi|tated Crimes, which we fear double the oppre&s;&s;ion of your Lord&s;hips pre&s;ent calami|ties; I mu&s;t confe&s;s there is abundance to be &s;aid in Vindication of what the World Taxes, as a great fault upon you, for who would covet to be advanc'd to Honourable offices of State, without a private end of making an advantage equal to its Grandure, to buoy up the de&s;ire of being &s;till Greater, and Ambition incident to mo&s;t Great Men, who have rais'd their Fortune like your Lord&s;hip.</P>
<P>I am very much di&s;&s;atisfied, to think your Lord&s;hip (being a Man accounted of &s;o great Pollicy, and Judgment) &s;hould not take a more timely Care to &s;ecure your Per|&s;on at this Juncture, than I perceive you did. And when you had made &s;o great a &s;tep to your pre&s;ervation, as to Ca&s;t Anchor privately in Rope Ally, you mu&s;t be &s;o inde&s;creet upon a &s;mall Bu&s;sle in the place, to be peeping, by which I under&s;tand you were di&s;covered; and now according to the Old Engli&s;h Proverb, I fear They will make <HI>You pay for your peeping:</HI> But pray, if the Laws &s;hould deal &s;o &s;everely by you, as to force you to dye a Martyr, and di&s;unite a wi&s;e Noddle, from tho&s;e &s;houlders, which have bore &s;o many Poor Mens Cur&s;es, and Rich Mens Slanders: let me entreat you to dye with a Good Courage, for you &s;hall only call at <HI>Purgatory</HI> for fa&s;hions &s;ake, and continue &s;hort time e're our Prayers &s;hall convey you to a place (if the Cur&s;es of the people of <HI>England</HI> prevent not) where you &s;hall enjoy the full of tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ings lay'd up by the Church, for &s;uch Worthy Agents as your Lord&s;hip: Being the Care of him, who remains till Death. (which I fear will meet you in a &s;hort time)</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips a&s;&s;ured Friend and Servant. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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