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Comfortable nevves from Breda, in a letter to a person of honour.
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1660
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Wing L70; ESTC R211868
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Comfortable Nevves from BREDA In a LETTER to a Person of Honour My LORD I Read your last Leter to a Friend of mine very neer his Majesties Person and gave it him to peruse by himself or shew it if he thought fit He told me your Lordships account of Affairs in England As it is in it self very satisfactory so it well agrees with severall Letters and Relations from others and confirms our hope That his Majesties undoubted Right will shortly be in signal manner attested and asserted by the universal suffrage of the People of England in Parliament And that after long Oppression we shall once more flourish under a King for all Vertues requisite in the Greatest Prince I dare say inferior to none of his Predecessors Many passages in your Letter my Friend observed but one above all the rest viz The surmise of many disaffected Persons and jealousie even of some of our Friends That the King in his late great Extremities either to procure some Assistance or perhaps a bare Livelihood which then he wanted may possibly be Engaged in Contracts with Foraign Princes not altogether consistent with the true English Interest This he thought was not to be sleighted in regard it seemed to carry with it much danger and some colour And therefore forthwith reported it to his Majesty Who did me the Honor to take notice of it as my Intelligence and assure me upon his Royal word That he is so far from having Contracted with any Prince to the prejudice of his Countrey as he never yet in all his Distresses entertained any Treaty which would not become the best of Protestants and English-men Or which had it been otherwise fit he should not have wished the whole Nation might have heard That he stands obliged only upon the account of hospitality and great Civility which he hopes he shall shortly be in a condition to requite My Lord since the King hath been pleased so far to condescend as to trust me in a matter of such importance I hold my self obliged in Duty and Gratitude to his Majesty in friendship and service to your Lordship to transmit it to you That your Lordship may as I doubt not but you will make your utmost use of it for his Majesties service And surely my Lord you may do well industriously to Court Occasions of publishing and propagating a Newes so Honourable to the King so Significant to the People so Seasonable to the Time and Comfortable I doubt not to all Loyall English hearts For whether we reflect on the mighty Providence of God who hath brought his Majesty out of a fiery Furnace as it were without the singing of his Hair or Cloathes Or the incomparable Vertue of our King who next to his Blessed Father deserves to be ever Celebrated as the chiefest Martyr of his Countrey Or our own unmerited happiness in such multiplyed Deliverances and especially in the injoyment of so Excellent a Prince The thing is every way most considerable and must needs appear so even to the meanest Capacity By the middle of the next Week I intend God willing to wait on your Lordship at London and shall then endeavour to satisfie your Curiosity For the present this place affords little publick Newes That being a Commodity now expected only from England you will therefore herein excuse My LORD Your most humble and affectionate Servant T. L. Breda April 26. S. N. 1660. London Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet May 3. 1660.