I add yet a third extract.

It is from another letter from the Hague:--'A man of the first rank in the Hague has told me that he has in his possession a copy of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ with Morus's own letter.'" Farther on Milton re-adverts to the same topic, in a passage which it is also well to quote: "You say you 'will produce not rumours merely, not conversations merely, but letters, in proof that I had been warned not to assail an innocent man.' Let us then inspect the letter you publish, which was written to you by 'that highly distinguished man, Lord Nieuport, ambassador of the Dutch Confederation,'-- a letter, it is evident, which you bring forward to be read, not for any force of proof in it, for it has none, but merely in ostentation.

He--and it shows the singular kindliness of 'the highly distinguished man' (for what but goodness in him should make him take so much trouble on your most unworthy account ?)--goes to Mr.Secretary Thurloe.

He communicates your letter to Mr.Secretary.When he saw that he had no success, he sends to me two honourable persons, friends of mine, with that same letter of yours.

What do they do?
They read me that letter of Morus, and they request, and say that Ambassador Nieuport also requests, that I will trust to your letter in which you deny being the author of the _Clamor Regii Sanguinis_.