Confident in his own powers of deception, he resolved, since the Jacobite agents would not seek him, to seek them.

He therefore sent to beg an interview with Colonel Edward Sackville.
Sackville was astonished and not much pleased by the message.

He was a sturdy Cavalier of the old school.

He had been persecuted in the days of the Popish plot for manfully saying what he thought, and what every body now thinks, about Oates and Bedloe.

[64] Since the Revolution he had put his neck in peril for King James, had been chased by officers with warrants, and had been designated as a traitor in a proclamation to which Marlborough himself had been a party.