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Updated: September 19, 2025
Praslin's hopeful cub, the Viscount, whom you saw in England last year, goes to Naples; and the Marquis de Durfort to Vienna a cold, dry, proud man, with the figure and manner of Lord Cornbury. Great matters are expected to-day from the Parliament, which re-assembles.
"Mistress Nancy, I must beg you to walk your watch like a lady, and not to be corresponding with my prisoner anyhow, whether you talk raison or traison, as may happen to suit your convanience," observed the man who was guard over Cornbury. "Be aisy, my jewel," replied Nancy, mimicking the Irishman, "and I'll be as silent as a magpie, anyhow.
She then approached. "What's o'clock?" said Nancy. "Do you want the right time?" replied the man. "To a minute," replied Nancy, who, finding that the password was given correctly, now stopped, and faced the other party. "Is that you, Cornbury?" "Yes, Nancy," replied the man, who was the same person who went on board of the cutter to give the information. "I have been seeking you," replied Nancy.
"Philip Cornbury, you have but a few minutes to live. In mercy, you may see the holy father, if you wish it." "I'm no damned papist," replied Cornbury, in a sulky tone. "Lead him on then." Cornbury was led to the western edge of the flat, where the cliff was most high and precipitous, and then made to kneel down. "Fitzpatrick," said the leader, pointing to the condemned.
"Philip Cornbury," said he, with a stern and unrelenting countenance, "you would have betrayed us for the sake of money." "It is false," replied Cornbury. "False, is it? you shall have a fair trial. Nancy Corbett, give your evidence before us all." Nancy recapitulated all that had passed. "I say again, that it is false," replied Cornbury. "Where is the woman whom she states to have told her this?
Governor Cornbury very soon let his new subjects see that he was eager to acquire wealth, and that he intended to get it without the slightest regard for their interests or desires.
"Bind him fast," said the leader, "and keep watch over him; his case shall soon be disposed of. Nancy, you will call me at daylight." When Cornbury had been secured, the men returned into the cave, leaving one with a loaded pistol to guard him. Nancy still remained on the watch. "Nancy Corbett," said Cornbury, "why am I treated thus?" "Why?" replied Nancy, with scorn; "ask yourself why.
Young particularly requested that the messengers might be ordered to examine the Bishop's flowerpots. The ministers were seriously alarmed. The story was circumstantial; and part of it was probable. Marlborough's dealings with Saint Germains were well known to Caermarthen, to Nottingham, and to Sidney. Cornbury was a tool of Marlborough, and was the son of a nonjuror and of a notorious plotter.
The descendant of the king-hating Ludlows, as the Lord Cornbury had styled the race of the commander of the Coquette, was quite as much surprised by the appearance of him who put this question, as he was by the coolness with which a mariner of ordinary condition presumed to address an officer who bore so high a commission as his own.
Young and his accomplice were brought before the Privy Council. They there accused Marlborough, Cornbury, Salisbury, Sancroft and Sprat of high treason. These great men, Young said, had invited James to invade England, and had promised to join him.
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