2 5 8 Mr. N L A L 'S IIa Vol. of the ` now, as I judge, I muff. Malter Secretary was examined thrice upon Oath at the Preparatory Committee. The fait time he was queltioned to all the Interrogatories ; and to that part of the feventh, which concerns the Army in Ireland, he faid pofitively in thefe Words 1 cannot charge ` him with that; but for the refl, he defires time to recolle,`i himfelf, which was granted him. Some ' Days after, he was examined a fecond time, and ' then depofeth thefe Words concerning the King's being abfolved from Rules of Government, and fo forth, very clearly. But being prej'l to the part concerning-the Irifh Army, again can fay nothing to ¿ that.' Mere we thought we had done with him, till divers Weeks after, my Lord ofNorthumberland, and all others of the junto, denying to have heard any thing concerning thole Words of re- ducing England by the IrifbArmy; it was thought fit to examine the Secretary once more, and then he depoles thefe Words to have been faid by the Earl of Strafford to his Welty : You have an Army in Ireland, whichyou may employ here to re- duce (or force Word to that Senfe) this Kingdom. Mr.Speaker, there are the Circumítances, which, I confefs with my Confcience, thrult quite. out of doors that grand Article ofour Charge, concern- ing his defperate Advice to the King, ofemploy- e ing the Irifh Army here. Let not this, I befeech you, be driven to an Afperíion of Malter Secre- tary, as if he Iiould have fworn otherwife, than he knew or believed, he is too worthy to do that ; only let thus much be inferred from it, a, that he who twice upon Oath, in time ofRecol- lection, could not remember any thing of fuck a Bufinefs, might well a third time mifremember fomewhat : and in this Bufinefs, the difference of " one Letter ; here, for there ; or that, for this; quite
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