This man's story will be confirmed by the man who set him on, and by other hidden papers, if necessary.

As to the discovery of the documents, we may know well enough that the fellow himself put them there, but we have no manner of proof of it.

It is evident that there is nothing for us but to leave the country, and to await the time when the king shall have his own again.

My other friends, who were with me this afternoon when the news came from Lancaster, all agreed that it would be throwing away our lives to stay here.

We all have money by us, for each has, for years, laid by something for the time when money will be required to aid the king on his arrival.
"Having agreed to take this course, we drew up a document, which we all signed, and which will be sent in when we have got clear away.
In it we declare that being informed that accusations of being concerned in a plot against the life of William of Orange have been brought against us, we declare solemnly before God that we, and also Sir Marmaduke Carstairs and his son, are wholly innocent of the charge, and that, although we do not hesitate to declare that we consider the title of the said William to be king of this realm to be wholly unfounded and without reason, and should therefore take up arms openly against it on behalf of our sovereign did occasion offer, yet that we hold assassination in abhorrence, and that the crime with which we are charged is as hateful in our sight as in that of any Whig gentleman.