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Micah Clarke

CHAPTER XXI
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Offer him money, a seniority amongst the dukes, the perpetual Presidentship of Wales--what you will, if you can but shake him.

If not, sequestration, exile, and everlasting infamy.
And, hark ye! you can enclose a copy of the papers drawn up by Van Brunow, which prove the marriage of my mother, together with the attestations of the witnesses.

Have them ready by to-morrow at daybreak, when the messenger may start.' (Note H, Appendix.) 'They shall be ready, your Majesty,' said Wade.
'In that case, gentlemen,' continued King Monmouth, 'I may now dismiss ye to your posts.

Should anything fresh arise I shall summon ye again, that I may profit by your wisdom.

Here we shall stay, if Sir Stephen Timewell will have us, until the men are refreshed and the recruits enrolled.


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