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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 287
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sheriff to walk with me as far as Mr Nelsons, and I prevailed
on him to go with me and speak to the high Sheriff to permit
me to stay in his House 'till I could look a little about me
next morning I wrote to Mr Peter as you will see in No 6 and
his answer in No 8 that Gentleman was so kind to come to
see me at Mr Coultis and I opened my mind very freely to
him.
When I came to write to you my Letter of the 19th Augt
No 9, I found I could not avoid using the abstract of Mr Kilbys
Letter of the 14th which Mr Howel had given me, and recol-
lecting the promise I had made of not making use of it with-
out his consent, that occasioned my writing to him No 10.
Mr Howel came up to the sheriff just at the time I heard that
Mr Chew the Kings Attorney had come to Town, and when
Mr Howel came in, I was requesting Mr Coultis to go and
speak to him to favour me with his company, we began first
with the news of the day but afterwards I enquired if he had
brought Mr Kilbys Letter with him to compare it with the
parts he had given me, to see if he chose that any addition
should be made to it or any thing struck out of it, he looked
it over but would by no means agree that I should send a
Copy of it to the General or to you, I requested of him to
write himself to the General or you and for me to refer to the
reasons he gave from Mr Kilbys Letter, but he would not even
agree to that. I then endeavoured to shew him, that it was
impossible for me to give the General or you the least Idea of
what had hapned, without referring to Mr Kilbys Letter, but
in spite of all I could say, he insisted on my promise on
Honour that I should not make use of it without his consent,
at last I told him that when we were before Mr Peters the
extract he gave me was read to inform him of the Affair, and
I begged he might allow me to mention it as from my memory
on hearing parts of it Read, and told him that as I immagined
from his whole conduct, he would rather choose to have it
mentioned in that way than any other, I had made use of it
as such in the rough Draught of what I intended to write to
your Excellency which I would shew him, and he seemed to
approve of it but required time to think on it. We then fell
into other conversation relating to the affair, I told him I was
already tired of my confinement, tho I had a very good Land-
lord in the Sheriff Mr Coultis, and would not have delayed so
long sending an Express to you, but that I wanted to consult
the Kings Attorney who had been out of Town ever since the
Affair hapned, and I shewed him the Copy of what I had
wrote to Mr Peters and his answer, and told him I hoped he
would put it in my power to dispatch the Express as soon as
possible, for by any thing I could foresee I must remain where
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