"Among many other expedients for that purpose, a most malicious
attempt was made to lodge an information against him, for treasonable
practices, with the secretary of state, notwithstanding the repeated
proofs he had given of his loyalty; and, as a preparatory step to
his accusation, a letter, which this traitor dictated, was copied
by another person, and actually sent to the earl of C--, importing,
that the person who copied the letter had an affair of consequence
to communicate to his lordship, if he would appoint a time of
receiving the information. But that person, upon full conviction of
the villainy of the scheme, absolutely refused to proceed further
in it; so that his malice once more proved abortive; and before he
had time to execute any other contrivance of the same nature, he
was imprisoned in this very jail for debt.
"Here, finding his creditors inexorable, and himself destitute of
all other resource, he made application to the very man whom he
had injured in such an outrageous manner, set forth his deplorable
case in the most pathetic terms, and entreated him, with the most
abject humility, to use his influence in his behalf.
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