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A67912	The Lord George Digby's cabinet and Dr Goff's negotiations; together with His Majesties, the Queens, and the Lord Jermin's, and other letters: taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorkshire about the 15th of October last. Also observations upon the said letters. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the letters taken at Sherborn in Yorkshire, with observations thereupon, be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.; Goffe, Stephen, 1605-1681.; St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of, ca. 1604-1684.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing B4763A; ESTC R200703	49,468	67

of a temper much different from that she was larely in besides great desires for that which concerns themselves most there are the same desire● for His Maj●sties affairs vehement invectives against the Rebels great satisfaction in the Ambass●dors much sollicitousnesse what is now to be done That the Prince of Orange must do somewhat before he go into the field that some course must be taken to bring the businesse to a Committee of States that Sir William Bosw●l well affected is slow and so accustomed to receive denials that it were unfit to use him that an extraordinary Ambassador from the King Ought to appear but not yet till the businesse be better prepared that she will advise both with the Prince of Orange and all others best affected to the King that if I have any Proposition to make I should bring it to her This was the sum of yesterdayes discourse yet after all this I must not conceal That the Ambassadors complain that the Prince of Orange is much colder then they expected as Mr. Hemflet sayes if he be a good Author This is all I have to say of our condition here this week which indeed is nothing positive but that very shortly it will appear what is to be expected from hence and that the Prince of Orange and Princesse do now as it seems to me apply themselves very seriously to that end An Extract of Dr. Goffs Letter to the Lord JERMIN May 1. I Have discovered this last week a thing which hath perhaps given me all the impediments I have met with and is without doubt the cause of that sudden and positive demand which Hugh made me from the Prince of Orange it is the overture of the match with Brandenburg revived and pursued now these last four weeks by an Expresse from the Marquesse returned last Wednesday in all haste with Order to bring the Marquesse of Brandenburg to Cleve or thereabouts by the end of this moneth of May for which purpose he said he would ride day and night This is that you may be assured of The party himself having discovered the whole businesse of Mo●●ieur Hemflet who with much passion for the Kings interest told me what he had ●ound and afterwards as it was concerted between us made the same relation to the Princesse of Orange and said that he had it from me she was extremely amazed as he sayes how I could get knowledge thereof but in conclusion confessed the thing How far the businesse hath proceeded appears not yet but by what the Prince of Orange discovered● last night with me I am confident that nothing is done to the prejudice of the Prince of Wales pretentions nor shall be if our demands can be performed by them with ease I say with ease for I cannot promise any violence and h●z●rd of ruine to effect it notwithstanding all this I do hope upon particular Instructions to give a better account of the businesse however it shall cleerly appear that there was perfect integrity on Her Majesties part and that the frustration did wholly owe it self to them not so much for want of desire for that is not to be doubted of but that they did not endeavour to effect those things which were most reasonable for the King to demand and perhaps not impossible for them to do in the opinion of all that shall come hereafter to examine what hath passed The Prince of Orange with many testimonies of his great desire of the honour of it fell to speak of the Garter and in sum professeth how glorious an addition it will be to him and his son and if it may be sent the begining of this Campagne that his son who hath the honour to be allied to the King will think himself as long as he lives much honoured in wearing that Order after the manner that it is worn in England wherein he was very particular in describing the several marks used and gave me an account of his own election to that Order which was managed with so much insolency by the Ambassador Carlson that it is easie to collect that was the cause of his not wearing it at first and because not at first never since he added likewise That Henry the fourth wore it always he adviseth that a Letter should be written from the King after the usual manner under the Signer to the States wherein His Majesty may be pleased to expresse the honour he hath done his Son in law Such a Letter was written concerning Prince Maurice and himself and is to be kept by the States This ought to be presented by Sir Will Boswel if no Ambassador be here And after that either an Herald with the Robes and the Order should be sent with Sir W. Boswel into the field where it may be done with more triumph as he sayes or in sending to Sir W. Boswel an excuse may be made for deferring the Formalities and the Order worn presently I told the Prince that I hoped after the return of the Dutch Ambassadors our Affairs here would be in so good a condition that it would be necessary for the Lord Iermine to appear here as Ambassador not onely to present that but to conclude all other Affairs which he said he hoped and that now in short time we should see what was to be expected from hence with which after many kinde promises he ended Since my writing this Letter I have been with the Princesse of Orange where I finde such froideurs and objections now that the portion is like to be accorded against the whole businesse publike and private that I beleeve what I write hath taken place and our businesse at an end Dr. Goff to the Lord Iermin May 1. Since the writing of my other Letter I have been with Secretary Muys who gives great hopes of the States inclining to the King and adviseth the Queen to use all means which hath been spoken of that that alone though the Duke o●Lorrain should ●ail will bring all about that we desire He confessed the Treaty of Brand●nburg but that he knew for certain the minde of the Prince of Orange was if possibly he could to make the match with the Prince of Wales so that however the Prince be wavering and fearful in regard of the Kings Affairs yet the Prince of Orange is resolved to try what may be done rather for the Prince of Wales then any other Lord Jermine to the Lord Digby Paris May 19. I Wrote to you yesterday by Colonel Fitz-Williams I conceive you will finde cause to take the businesse that concerned him into consideration I have sent you now a Copy of Dr. Gaffe's dispatch out of Holland by which you will see the state of that businesse reduced to this onely hope that the return of the Ambassadors out of England may not onely give Prince Orange a disposition to set on foot that which before he was not confident enough of his own strength to attempt but also afford him some hopes

Mr. Hemflet and the Lady Stanhope are very thankfull to you for the businesse of their son hoping that it shal be represented in the form desired that is for the title of Lord Wotton which will be the greatest contentment to them in the world I am Sir Goff Dr. Goff to the Lord Iermin April 17. THe Prince of Orange was very inquisitive this week after my Letters from Paris hoping to be resolved precisely concerning the sum of the Portion as I perceived by his discourse for that point I gave him this answer that the Portion alone could not be of that consideration as to conclude the Mariage unlesse it were able to give the King such succours as might probably restore his affairs which the sum demanded could not do and that therefore I was ordered to assure him that if the other Articles were accorded the Treaty should not break off upon the sum of the Portion from thence we came off of the other particulars and the resolution was this that the affairs of the Duke of Lorrain was to be pursued with all vigour and for that end ships should be sent from hence to meet at the time perfixt that when the Ambassadors are returned all endeavours shall be used to induce the States to a League defensive and offensive and that Mr. D'estrade shall return home fully instructed in these particulars that is to remonstrate the impossibility as they call it of the passage for Holland and to facilitate the other to and from Deipe And for the second to persawde the sending of an Ambassadour from France hither to that purpose which yet notwithstanding the prince of Orange thinks wil be very difficult by reason of the King of Denmarks war to which the Hollanders are violently carried however the rumours all endeavours are and shal be used to bring them to our desires for which end I proposed that in the mean time we might at least have Justice from them and such acts of amity as by their past Alliance they were bound unto such as are First the liberty of their Ports to our men of war and the freedome of them now detained 2. The liberty to sell our Prizes here as we may do in Flanders at least that both sides may sell in their Ports 3. The di●missian of Strickland 4. The permitting of Arms and money to be exported for the King both from hence and from Dunkirk with the denyal of the same to the Rebels 5. An open and Publique Declaration of the dislike of the Rebells late Propositions sent to the King according as in conscience they are bound to declare thereby to preserve this People from the guilt of approving the rebellion in England that in so doing they should declare no war against the Parliament and it would be a great preparation for the work in hand this the Prince of Orange seemed very much to approve of and hath ordered me to prepare my papers in this kind against the time that their Ambassadors come from England began to ask me concerning the design and whether I had received any Orders about it for that I told him I should be particularly instructed by the next Post he likes this very well and D'estrade shall be instructed about it this was all that past since the receipt of yours besides that for conclusion the Prince of Orange would know whether if the Duke should fail us our Treaty were at an end I answered No for if the states would be brought to declare for the King and with shipping and in other particulars as should be presented to them I did not doubt but the King would quickly subdue the Rebels which was the end we pursued in this affair to which when he replyed with more cheerfulnesse then has been usual of late That all indeavors should be used I took my leave of him and do of your There 's no danger in discoursing as you find concerning the Portion for the conditions for the Princesse must be proportionable to it and if other things be accorded they will be solicitous themselvs to inlarge the portion for that end the Princesse of Orange is very civill to me and desires much the businesse should go on I should be instructed what to say concerning the condition and habitation of the Princesse before her going into England Dr. Goff to the Lord Iermin April 24. I Will not doubt but that all my Letters of last week are received and if so your Lordship doth perceive the whole Negotiation here depends upon full instructions how to proceed in the particular Treaty of the Marriage wherein the several circumstances being understood and agreed it will quickly appear what the Prince of Orange is at and willing to do with the States for the Kings assistance without the actual performance whereof it is to be declared that the private Articles shall not be signed For this purpose if the Copies of former Treaties cannot be had it were necessary to set down particularly what Houses and what Dowry the Queen will prescribe for the Princesse and for the Portion the lowest sum that must be admitted of with the times of payment Yet herein it cannot be prejudicial to leave much unto Debate here it being resolved That nothing shall be concluded till the States do fully declare in defence of the King whilest their hands are bufie against Denmark whither they are now sending sixty men of War and Six thousand foot it cannot be expected that they should be induced to supply the King with any forces presently but yet these things following will be in their power and may be expected from the Pr of Oranges Negotiation with them as soon as their Ambassadors return 1. To enter into a League offensive and defensive with the King against all Enemies whatsoever And though the effect hereof cannot be the present preparing and sending of Forces by Sea and Land yet they will be brought by it 2. To publish a Declaration of dislike of the Rebels ●ater Propositions sent to the King● together with the ill usage of their Ambassadors 3. To set at liberty those Ships of ours which are now detained and to offer the liberty of their Ports hereafter 4. To permit the selling of our prizes in their Ports and for that end such officers for the King as shall be necessary 5. To cause Arms and Powder to be Exported for the King with denying the same to the Rebels 6. To give Letters of reprisal to such of their own people as have been injured by the Parliament 7. To permit the King to hire or buy men of War in these Countreys to set to Sea against the Rebels 8. To admit of no Agents from England and Scotland that are not sent by the King and to dismisse them that pretend from the Parliament of either And in pursuance of these points if His Majesty pleaseth to put out of His Protection all such of His Subjects which dwell or Trade here as have

foure moneths agoe into Scotland to Marques Montross● this day arrived It greeves me H●sdonckes did not obey the Queenes order for his supply but now againe that shall be suddainly attempted I hope with better successe yet his arrivall in the West hath beene very opportune for the designes of the Prince of Wales there which I observe to you as a service solely of the Queenes for nothing but her cōmands could prevaile with him to undertake this supply therefore pray give him what help you can to get his money pray commend my service to Prince Rupert and make my excuse I write not unto him by something I heare I hope you two are good friends which I much rejoyce at and conjure you to doe all you can to the continuance of it if it be so and to the making of it so if it be otherwise I rest yours The Queene hath written her selfe to the King You will find in Doctor Goffs letter severall things desired to be sent from England all in my judgement most materiall and therfore to be hostned to him or Sir William Boswell with the greatest expedition that can bee ●e proposeth the sending of my ma● Carteret being already gone to Holland with instructions for the business of the Tinn to attend that in England may perhaps not follow the Doctors order in coming to you for these things therefore I pray you as soone as you receive this let them be dispatched and sent by an expresse of yours Lord Iermin to the Lord Digby St. Iermin August 5.1645 I Wrot to you yesterday by the ordinary Something I have to adde by this expresse the Queene sends to visit the King and to bring her backe an account of his health and of the state of his affaires her resolution of sending Cockeram into Denmarke is without doubt very oportune for upon the conclusion of the peace with the Sweedes cannot but be in condition to help us and if as it shall be in the first place demanded he could be prevailed with to give us such an Army as might Land in any place where the King hath no Forces without fearing who they mett their descent at Searberough or Burlington would give a new turne to all but this is a felicity I dare not hope That which with more assurance I looke upon which in the second place shall be sollicited would be of infinite use That is a small number of men with some money Armes and Ammunition and all to goe to Scotland to Marquesse Montrosse but the men in that case must some of them be horsemen five hundred at least and these horse to passe with them This I conceive would enable Marquesse Montrosse to make his victoryes profitable as well as miraculous But in the meane estate he is for want of Horse for of that he complaines in his Letter to me and of Armes and Ammunition his advantages have brought almost none to the King his affaires for he advances not into the good parts of Scotland nor is so considerable to the Army in England as that they have forborne for feare of him to leave their Country exposed to him I cannot send you by this bearer so great a volume as cock●ram● instructions would be but you shall have them by the next he shall have order to offer the Islands that Po●ly had order to offer to the King of Denmarks The Winter growing on makes me not apprehend that all our losses can bring us so soone to an end as this Summer and the ill weather will reprive us untill either this or some other help be found out The Queene is therefore now more industrious then ever and hath found meanes to get twenty thousand pistols for I once wrote to you of so that if the persons that should have undertaken it be still of the same mind and the Prince of Orange which we have written to know That businesse will go● forward and may prove of great use in many considerations But the importantest ayme in it is the insensible ingaging the Hollanders in the Warre Sir Kenel●e D●gby writes hopefully of supplyes of money from Rome but concludes nothing the Irish troubling all our solas untill the Peace be made with them I feare all Catholique helpe will be drawne that way Upon this purpose I must tell you with what amazement the delayes of the peace in Ireland is considered here and you leave us so ignorant of the condition of the treaty that we know not what to say of it Pray by the returne of this bearer or the first likely passage send me the state of it their demand the King of England his offers and what you know of the difficulties If yet it be not concluded it is not like that ever it will be by those that mannage it now And therefore it seemes to me for satisfaction of those that so much presse it of the Irish and to satisfy this state who are much of that opinion and to secure our hopes at Rome and lastly to put that businesse into a possibility of being concluded that the proposition long since made to the King of having the treaty made here by the Queene and Queene Regent were not unfitly resumed For I am confident the King by this meanes might have the peace upon better tearmes and might limit the Queene by the same instructions that those that now treate are bound by and upon this one of these fruits would follow that either should have the peace or the exorbitancy of their demands would be so apparent to the Queene Regent that we should have great advantage by that The only thing I feare is that the King his party in Ireland might possibly not acquiesse in such a peace as would be fit for the King to make and then he would have the scandall of it for it will be a scandalous one that is unavoidable without the benefit of an assistance from Ireland to conclude if nothing be done in Ireland I think it most necessary that the offers of treating be withdrawne from thence and that the Queene may be trusted to Treate and conclude with the Queene Regent here with such as the Catholiques from Ireland shall appoint This I write to you to consider of it by the returne of Sir D Wyit you shall know more of this particular This bearer send backe immediately and wri●e without flattering your selfe or us the pure and naturall state of affaires God of Heaven keep you and give us if he please some other punishment for our faults then that of our Countries falling into the hands of these Rebells I am most entirely yours I have given Petit thirty pounds for his Journey The Accompt BOrrowed at Rotterdam of the Burgomasters 400000 More of the Banke in Rotterdam 25000 In all from Rotterdam 425000 Borrowed of the Bank at Amsterdam by Mr. Sandys 84500 At the Hague of Eletcher clftcher 126000 More of him 40000 At the Hague of Van. Cyren by Sir William Boswell

THe Reader comparing Cabinet with Cabinet the Kings with the Lords Digby's will easily observe how the unnatural Enemies to this their Native Country imitating their General The grand Enemy to mankinde have gone about seeking how they may devour it by their restlesse Endeavours to bring in Forraign Ayds from Holland Curland Denmark Portugal Ireland France and from Rome it self of Shipping Arms Ammunition Men Moneys Horse and Foot and that in no small proportions 4000. Foot and 1000. Horse expected from France 10000. Men from Ireland and 10000. more from Lorrain A strange Conjuncture to concur in the ends pretended The King and Pope to defend the Protestant Religion Denmark and Lorrain to maintain Laws and Lioerties Bloody Rebels in Ireland to uphold the Priviledges of Parliament in England But blessed be God who hath discovered the Counsels of the Enemy and thereby hath in a great part opened the eyes and undeceived not onely multitudes of their principal Adherents at home but also Forraign Princes and States abroad and hath withal defeated their Forces and Expectations both abroad and at home This is Gods work and it is marvellous in our eyes Soli Deo Gloria The Lord George Digby's CABINET And Dr GOFF'S Negotiations Together with His Majesties the Queens and the Lord JERMIN's and other LETTERS Taken at the Battel at Sherborn in Yorkshire about the 15th of October last ALSO OBSERVATIONS upon the said Letters ORdered by the COMMONS assembled in Parliament that The Letters taken at Sherborn in Yorkshire with Observations thereupon be forthwith printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com LONDON Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons dwelling in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Golden Dragon March 6. 1646. AN INTRODVCTION OR OBSERVATIONS concerning the Letters taken at Sherborn in Yorkshire about the 15th of October 1645. VVAr is carried on as well by Policy as by Power by Councels as by Forces and therefore the goodness of God appears as well when he discloses the Councels as when he discomfits the Forces of an Enemy when both mercies are obta●ned both must be acknowledged for a thankful heart with external exaltations of joy the issues of it are Gods due and mans debt for both The great and most memorable Victory at Nazeby was an instance of both on Gods part and the setting then apart a Solemn day of Thanksgiving with the publishing the Kings Cabinet Letters then taken the more to manifest Gods mercy were the endeavoured returns of a thankful heart on the Parliaments part God hath again used the same method in his mercies at the Battel near Sherborn in Yorkshire defeating the Forces and delivering up to the Parliament the Cabinet and Councels of the Lord Digby principal Secretary to the King and a pestilent Traytor to the Kingdom When God repeats over the same method in his mercies he cals as it were for the same method in thankfulnesse in answer to which call a day was devoted for a publick Thanksgiving and an Order made not long after for publishing the principal Letters and Papers Orders are sooner made then executed a throng of intervening occasions with some unhappy neglects retarded that till now but now at last they appear many of them with an imperfect sense especially of those written with Cyphers and more especially these of D. Goffs Negotiation the cyphered Letters were uncyphered when taken all except two and the cyphers and uncypherings blotted out in many places why Digby who in all likelihood did it can best tell others may guesse it to be done that all the mystery of iniquity might not be known to all all are not equally his Confidents Where there were Duplicates use is made of the most perfect copy The Reader need no warning to observe in what a forlorn condition they were in before Sherborn fight even themselves being Iudges its too too often repeated over to escape time for the present their drooping hopes were for so in sence they expresse it to shelter themselves under the Mantle of the approaching Winter a season not sutable to Action and thereby faintly expecting a reprival till the next Spring and then to be piec'd up again by Forrain Forces but God the God of all seasons and of all successes hath given the Parliament Forces Summer successes even in this last Winter season and therein befool'd their hopes as almost all the considerable Encounters since Sherborn fight do aver As also the late great Victory in Wales near Cardiff and each Garrison and Town taken in since by the Parliament Forces bears witnesse as Lankford Garrison Tiverton Carmarthen Monmouth Shelford Worton Bolton Beeston-Castle Hereford Skipton-Castle Dartmouth Belvoir-Castle Chester and Corf-Castle Launceston Ashby-de-la-Zouch Cherk-Castle and St. Maws most of these of great importance during which time the Enemy hath taken none or none worth the naming Besides these the Parliament Army hath reduced many other Forts in the West And the 16 of February last God the God of Hosts gave a fresh Victory at Torrington in the County of Devon to the Parliament Army under the Command of their General Sir Tho Fairfax the gallantry and unwearied Activity orderly Discipline fidelity and successe of which Army puts this Age to their admiration and may put the next past their belief By this great successe at Torrington and others of later date the tottering Remnant of their fugitive Army was coop'd up into Cornwal a Corner of the Kingdom and into a Corner of that Corner and is since by Gods goodnesse totally reduc'd and with it the very hearts of the Countrey too who now own the Parliament Forces as their Friends and pursue the others as Enemies Besides the Gallant service of Colonel Morgan at Stow in the Wold in Glocestershire in totally Routing of the Army Sir Jacob Ashley gathered up in Wales to joyn with Oxford Forces to make a new Army against the Parliament where Sir Jacob and most of his Officers in Commission and One thousand six hundred Horse and Foot were taken Prisoners with Two thousand Arms and all their Bag and Baggage They who confess'd their desperate condition even before the Victory near Sherborn what may be thought of them now after all these subsequent Successes and Victories Certainly God hath fill'd up even to the brim their cup of Trembling What 's then their next work They 'll tell you 't is to implore Forraign Ayds and to let in Forraign Forces into the Kingdom and of what destructive consequence that is let Him tell whom they hold themselves most bound to believe even the King Himself for Habemus confitentem reum He in His Printed Declaration Dated at Newark 9 of March 1641. speaking to the Parliament says Whatsoever You are advertised from Rome Venice Paris of the Popes Nuncio solieiting France Spain c. for Forraign Ayds We are confident no sober honest man in Our Kingdom so He calls it but Advertè Rem publicam non esse tuam sed

is necessary that His Majesty think of some new Councels this ungrateful and will never serve Him My last was sent by Paris next week your Lordship shall receive another Letter from me Your Lordships most devoted faithful Servant Steph. Goff Lord Jermin to the Lord Digby Paris May 5. 1645. My Lord THere is this week come one from you another from the King by the way of the Portugal Ambassador of the 21 and 20 of March All your Letters that way are very long we perceive by them that some of ours go in ten dayes therefore your Messenger may be faulty I had another from you to day of the fourth of April sent me by one G. Martin you will do well to continue to write by that way there is in it onely the proposition for the Duke of Yorks going to Ireland to which the Queen not being yet well enough to speak of businesse desires you to stay till the next week for Her resolution She is now recovered of all but weaknesse a little cough and loosnesse do remain but neither are of danger or trouble You say that if the Queen could have been in estate to have sent the King any money if Her ship had come in time that would have kept Her from the want She spake of induced by the stop the credit that would have been raised by the return of the ship would certainly have enabled Her to have sent some So the thing is true She might have sent and yet that did not necessarily keep Her from wanting in the mean time She was reduced to pawn some little things for Her present supply but you shall hear no more of this matter She was promised some other wayes of supplying the King upon which were also built the assurances you received from Her in which She hath been delayed beyond expectation and what will yet be the issue is not to be known Hasdouck She hath found means at last to send away I hope he is before this arrived he hath good proportions of Arms and Ammunition I know not yet what I send you Doctor Goffs Letters of this week by which you will see and by those of the last what hopes there are of his Negotiation The next week will absolutely determine the Duke of Lorrains resolution the way proposed by the Prince of Orange of Treatying the Marriage a part and all the other matters by themselves ought to finde no difficulty on our part for he doth not expect no more then it is reasonable or possible we should that any thing be concluded in the Marri●ge until we have our reckoning in the rest The Queen doth therefore● desire that the King would send to Her with all the speed he can particular instructions for this Treaty of the Marriage wherein there may be only such things as according to their fancy in Holland for so they have expressed it pertain to a Treaty of Marriage as demands of portion assurance of joynture and what houses will be comprised in that joynture how Her own house shall be settled what officers She shall have and if you please to send a project of something in this kinde it will be very necessary and in the mean time they shall be entertained from hence with assurances that these things are coming and that if we can agree in others there can be no difficulty in those The Propositions of the execution which you will finde in Doctor G●ffs Letters is undoubtedly a great and useful designe and if we could by this Marriage bring that about and a Conjunction of France and Holland with the King that should be accompanied but with those advantages that inevitably ●low out of such a conjunction it would be a foundation laid against all possibility of ruining in this cause and it would give us certainly time and breath to overcome at last even if the present great helps of forces from either of them or the means of passing the Duke of Lorrain should fail For I must confesse by the last dispatch I am least confident of his intentions then I was I make you all this discourse to the end you should see that I conceive though the present fruits were expected from this Negotiation are not in so good hopes as I thought them heretofore Yet the Treaty in these more remote ones is to be continued and the news of this week doth much encourage me to this opinion for I finde all things in England in another kinde of posture then a moneth ago which I look on with great comfort the reputation of our affairs is increased to that point that if we decline not I should not despair that they might be willing here to proceed in the conjunction and ●●at would certainly bring in the States the onely reason why they here are so litt●e disposed to it is the apprehension of the Parli●ment ships believing that the onely power able to trouble them in their Designs of if our Design for our effect in Holland could be gone through with that might perchance be the greatest inducement here of any other to embark them in our affairs for which purpose I desire to know your opinion in one particular There must go on our part 200+0 Pistols to the setting forth of this execution if we should get the money here I would know whether you would chuse to have it imployed to that effect or sent to you We hear nothing yet of our Tin stayed at Falmouth there is 196 blocks pray remember to send an Order to Sir Nicholas Crisp and others who may be concerned in it to deliver it to any whom the Queen shall appoint to receive it if before she send they can have no good occasion to send it This Bearer Sir William Davenant is infinitely faithful to the Kings cause he hath been lately in Holland so that he met there the knowledge of our Treaty so that it was neither possible nor needful to conceal it from him the Treaty of the Marriage and the Proposition he knows the Design of the Duke of Lorrain he does not of the other two he will speak to you but charge him with secrefie for the Q●een doth still desire that the businesse of the Marriage may not be divulged and the other is destroyed if yet it should take vent Pray if Davenant have need of your favour in any thing use him very kindely for my sake and let him know I conjured you to do so you see by this I retain an opinion of some credit with you though your Letters be cold and lesse kinde then they were wont I am still in the same degree I have been most entirely Yours I hear Th Elliot is yet at Hanure de Grace which I am glad of you will have had by my former wherein I sent you my Letter to him and his Answer time to have resolved what to do in case my Letter should not be come it is not unfit to tell you again he received the Kings

of effecting it of this we shall see a sudden issue the other advantages we expect from thence as the Ships for the Duke of Lorrain Supplies of money by the marriage are in an estate not much to be relied on for the businesse of the Duke I much fear will fall away the money of the marriage will not be considerable enough to conclude ●t for that Reason it may be we may single that advantage from the rest even without the consideration of the marriage so that we have no more to do but to attend the issue of the hopes of the Declaration and according to that proceed or let fall the whole businesse and look after as a thing to be managed according to the means we shall finde here to go through with it We shall know next week what to depend upon for the Duke of Lorrain which failing we shall presume our pretensions here for moneys in place of that which that expedition would have cost them here The Clergy Assembles next week with whom we shall set on foot the liberty the French Queen Regent hath given us to try their inclinations for the support of the Affairs of England Trasdunk is gone from Dunkirk three weeks since with four Frigots 6040 Muskets 2000 Pair of Pistols 1200 Carabines Swords 400 Shovel● 27000 pounds of Match and 50000 pounds of Brimstone I hope he is arrived before now His Arms were all embarked before Allen arrived there so that I cannot assure you that Allen will be provided with that proportion which I sent you word would be sent to Marq. Montrosse The Queen hath sent 400 Barrels of Powder to Dartmouth she hath advise of the arrival of 200 and hopes the other will speedily arrive She could not get the Merchants to undertake the carriage of them without engaging Her self for them i● case they were not paid in England The Queen hath now received a● I wrote before the Kings Order for shipping for the Tin from time to time whereupon l●st week She gave Order for 4000 pounds sterling to be sent to Falmouth for that proportion which she was advertised by Sir Nicholas Crisp would be ready there at the end of May and hath demanded a Ship of the Prince of Orange for that purpose She had advised last week that the ship is accorded so that it is undoubtedly upon the way The Kings Order concerning the Tin was but during pleasure therfore pray have a care there be no change without giving the Queen timely advise of i● Her Majesty having been served by Sir Nicholas Crisp at Her coming out of England with affection and diligence is desirous to make him some return and therefore intreats you to assist him in his Affairs as he shall prese●t them to you particularly for the transportation of some Wools the proceed of which he undertakes to return in Ammunitio● He is also a suitor to the Queen for Her Recommendation to the King to be a Collector of the Customes in the West in which he had formerly a promise Pray advise me in your next how far the Queen may reasonably enterpose in that particular For the proposition concerning the Duke of York's going into Ireland the Queen bids me tell you that She cannot yet for any reason She can discern approve of it The businesse of Her Majesties Jewels is so pressing upon Her that unlesse in the future She be as fortunate as She hath been hitherto She will undergo great trouble and inconvenience That you may perceive this I send you a short Note of the parcels engaged in Holland for which there must be Use duly paid every six moneths or the Jewels must be lost For these sums for which they are pawned for is very inferior to their value For this Reason it is most necessary to continue the Tin in the Queens hands least She should fail of those other means that hitherto She hath had for the discharge of these Instructions if otherwise She findes means to do it then all the profits of the Tin will be duly accounted for to the King Just now your Letter of April the 11 and the Kings of the 10 are come to which you can have no Answer this week they alwaye● come to us not under a moneths time whereas I perceive you receive ours in a fortnight Pray rectifie this if you can Paris Lord Iermin to the Lord Digby Paris May 26. 1645. YEsterday I received yours of the seventeenth of Aprill by the Portugall Ambassadour by which you may please to observe that all your Letters by that way are still a Moneth at least a comming it will be good to inquire where the stop is made At the same time I received the Kings of the 3●th of Aprill by Sabra● and I marke that by him they come still quicker By both and by all other concurring I see that our affaires in England if they had received any competent assistance from abroad would have been in an excellent condition that which I most lament is the Queenes inability in the reliefe of M. Montrosse for which I conceived she had provided by ordering Hasdo●ck to furnish him out of the Proportions he had provided for England The proportions designed for him I have mentioned in my former Letters but Hasdo●●k would not obey the Queens directions but carryed all he had provided into England so that the Queen remaining without credit or other meanes to do that worke it remaines now imperfect untill she be furnished with one or the other Something she hath since attempted but it is not to be relyed on this May that no possible things within her power shall be omitted for this purpose for she conceives the importance of it even beyond that which you have represented Our Holland news from Scotland which we have often● doe no lesse then yours confirme the necessitie and moment of this consideration I send you herewithall what I had last week from Dr. Goffe by which you will perceive there is since the returne of the Ambassadour some new hopes of prevailing with the States for the Declaration against the Rebells which is a thing of so great concernment that we must make it our endeavour not to f●ustrate the hopes of it by a sudden breaking off the Treaty and to defend our selves against the prejudices we sustaine by the expectation of the successe for that cannot be assured enough to rely on it for great present utilities and me thinkes it were an hard thing being thus awaked in the consideration to provide against both the inconveniences The Duke of Lorai●e hath againe this last weeke made so many new Protestatious of his intentions that the most positive commands that could be to Sir H●n de Vic. have not prevailed with him to break off the Treaty but his Troopes now march though himselfe do not remaine at Bruxells so that it will be impossible for any art to prolong the businesse beyond foure or five dayes but there is no hopes to

be allowed to it The businesse here to be done which shall be carefully attended are That of Holland the forme I have proposed in this Letter the supply of Marq. Montrosse with Armes and Ammunition the West with the same for the Prince his new Levyes and for the supply of the Kings and Prince Ruperts Army and the relife of G●rnsey Castle for the Prince of Wales his Army Will Godolphin is very sollicitous what he will be able to effect is as doubtfull as the Queenes expectation in all the other particulars Money for the King is also in her thoughts and pretentions and now the Clergy is assembled upon which many of our hopes have depended She will with all the instance and care that may bee have that way attempted Wee are at this time strangely sollicitous for you for there seemes to be a gathering together on both sides neere Oxford like to produce some notable encounter which cannot well be followed but with great event God make them prosperous and enable us here to contribute something more hereunto then our prayers I am yours Your last concerning Th●. Elly●tt where you seeme to take notice we had not here provided according to order is answered in my former ones so as I am confident you are fully satisfied in that point Dr. Goffe to the Lord Iermine the 29. of May NOw that the Prince of Orange is gone into the Field your Lordship will have reason to expect some certaine and good conclusion of all the Propositions which have been offered hitherto and in summe it is That the affaires of the King are now put into a way of consideration Here I sent you a Copy of those Articles presented to the Princesse of Orange and Master Borrell a fortnight since out of them the Ambassadours have this last weeke given in a Paper of their owne believing it impossible to procure the acceptance of them all at one time The Prince of Orange with more warmth and chearfulnesse then ever before told me upon my returne from Rotterdam that he did not doubt but a good beginning would be made for my purpose Hee had given Sir William Roswell his taske to propose the liberty of their Havens and hiving of Ships and the Ambassadours theirs to urge the necessity of granting of Letters of Reprizall to the many complaints received in England from their owne People and then he added Believe me by this means they shall be engaged insensible in a warre Croyes moy par ce moy ●n ils serent engages in sensiblement dans une guerre Both these things have been done● only the Ambassadours as you may see by this inclosed memoriall which Reynswood gave me have thought fit to insist upon the whole businesse pretending out of their recredentialls that his Majesty requires answer to these particulars It has been thought a more probable way of operating upon this jealous people to permit the Propositions to proceed the ordinary way which is by sending Copies of them to their principalls in the severall Provinces and Towns then to make a Close Committee for the English affaires but this will prove a very slow remedy for our evills for the answers must be had from the severall places and a new Assembly of the States who separate this Whitsontide before any conclusion can be made this is all that could bee effected though they were awakened by a very seasonable intelligence that the Houses of Parliament at Westminster intended to send not only a Remonstrance against the two Ambassadours but also severall envoyes to their respective Provinces to Treat with them apart● thereby in ending ●o divide the Provinciall States from the Generall and to fo●nent the quarrell which hath been already begun amongst them in that point for remedy of this the Prince of Orange told me they had resolved two things First that Letters should be dispatched to the particular Provinces to declare the danger of admitting any such Agents and then an order to Ioachim at London to declare that all such Envoyes should be rejected and for their Remonstrance it is a thing much longed fo● by these Ambassadours who are prepared to repay them in that kind with liberall interest But it falls out very il that whilest these things are in agitation here Sabran hath written hither not concealing his great dislike of the matter that France hath layed aside their intentions about Reprizalls and are contented with the empty promises of the Houses that reparation shall be made which by these Ambassadours are presented to the States as things to be despised forasmuch as they have been told plainly that it was not in their power to performe them and were advised by the Lords themselves to take from them of London and others of their Association five times as much as they demanded by which their pious protecting government hath discovered how much they consider any particular mans safety and interest that lives amongst them it is uncertaine what were the best remedy for this for if your Lordship should complaine of this before that reprizall were granted here perhaps in stead of finding amendment in France some means might be used under-hand to divert these here from good intentions if there were not feare of this it would be of great advantage to the proceedings here if Sabran were commanded presently to demand performance of the promises or else after a fit time to resume their purpose of reprizalls this businesse alone if it be obtained will set ships to Sea against the Rebells before this Summer be ended as the Ambassadours say but the Princesse of Orange told me that she feared France would deceive us and the Ambassadours imputed all the timerousnesse of the Prince of Orange to private discouragements the Prince of Orange receives from France and doe therefore counsell that the Queen should now endeavour to get something done by the Queene Regent and Cardinall Mazerine at this time which might give assurance to the States here of their future concurrence with them as for example The publick and certaine rejection of A●gier the granting Letters of Reprizall or some more imediate promise of joying with them there they have not ●or at the same time that out of your Letters I declare to the Prince of Orange what hopes the Queene hath in that kind he tells me the Letters that he received form Paris are very silent in the businesse your Lordship will by this perceive in what state our affaires are and will by the next I hope give me order how to dispose of my selfe for after I have fully informed my selfe of the state of her Majesties debts here and have settled the businesse of this present Time and seene the Ship under sayle fully instructed for England I cannot imagine what I can doe in this place separate from the Prince of Orange for whatsoever is to be pursued here will be as cordially done by the Ambassadour and Mui● Sir William Boswell attending them as can be

desired And with the Prince of Orange as soone as the Instructions come for the private Treaty of the Marriage I shall quickly dispatch that businesse and leave the matter in this condition that her Majesty hath proceeded with most cleare intentions and that it is their own imbecillity or unwillingnesse which might admit of a worse name that frustrates so great and important a Proposition both for themselves and us I have now received your Lordships full Instructions concerning the dispatch for England wherein the Prince of Orange hath complyed as well as could be desired Coulster is judged the fittest man both for his appetite to the worke and courage You may presume the ship will be at Callice by Gods assistance about the last of May old Stile and then Master Carteret may imbarque without the toyle and expence of a journey hither if this Letter come time enough to prevent him if my last hath not done it already since Sir William Coulster is imployed you may be confident of a speedy return and dexterous mannagement of that businesse for by his last he hath gotten great experience about the Tynn so that if I durst venture upon it I would charge Mr. Carteret with a journey to England to the King to whom it is necessary by this ship to make a large and various dispatch and from the King to receive againe answers to many particulars as the ratification for Mr. Webster upon which depends the whole Jewell businesse and the good successe of that which is to be done hereafter A Commission under the broad Seale to receive the Ruby Collar with a blanke for what name the Queen will put into it with a procuration to pawne it for that good thing is not like to produce money amongst Merchants A Letter to Sir William Boswell from the K. that he obey the Queens instructions in making such Propositions to this State as his Majesty shall ordain him as likewise some particular Instructions to be sent him from the King concerning the Leag●e proposed by him in the mean time till an extraordinary Ambassadour appeare here for without some such Instructions as he cannot confidently doe any thing so will the States lesse consider what he proposes The Instructions for the private Treaty with the Prince of Orange concerning Marriage the Copy of their Ambassadours report and Propositions which B●rrel hath promised to give me within six dayes The Copy of the Ducth Commission for ships of war that mutatis mutandis his Majesties Commission may runne in that forme and not so strangely as some which are showne here A Letter from the King to the Duke of Curland with instructions to Mr. Vicforl about him Some blanke Commissions for ships of war to be left in Sir William Boswells hands or mine for that divers are ready upon their owne charges to put to Sea if they had them to the certaine ruine of the trade of London Letters from his Majesty to the States concerning the Order of the Garter for Prince William if they be not already obtained Besides that it were fit that I should give an account to the Lord Digby of all the proceedings here since the returne of the Ambassadours and in what state the other businesse is For all these uses I conceive Carteret might better imploy his time with the King then at Truro since without doubt Sir Nicholas Crispe and Sir William Coulster can perfectly doe all that is there to be done and especially since her Majesty ought as soone as conveniently it may be to perfect the grant of the Tynn pre-emptions to have a Pattent for it under the broad Seale without which perhaps Merchants will make scruple to contract about it and for her Majestie to buy all the Tynn with her owne money it is thought will prove a thing impossible for her and if possible it would not bee the way of quickest and greatest gaine Wherefore all these things being so necessary to be dispatched to the King if upon Carterets arriving hither it appears unfit to imploy him Sir William Boswell is of opinion some other person ought of purpose to be sent which shall be done aswell and thristily as can be contrived Sir William Boswell doth desire your Lordship to persue this inclosed Copy of the Kings Letter to him concerning the Garter wherein the best way as he thinkes is prescribed that it be done without the pompe of an Herauld which way soever it be done it will cost money and there is nothing more certaine then that Sir William Boswell is one of the poorest● and worthiest and most contented servant that the King hath he hath a long time lived here upon borrowing and his thrifty Lady and he make a little goe farre For his last imployment in this kind for the Prince Elector the King allowed him one hundred pounds in consideration of the journey hee tooke which now is like to be every way as expencefull the Prince of Orange intending for Flanders I have not seene Muis since your Lordships last Letter but shall suddenly obey the order supposing Master Webster will make no difficulty to hasten the money one thousand Crowns that is as I take it three thousand Guilders Lord Iermin to the Lord Digby Paris Iune 9. 1645. YEasterday I received yours of Aprill the twenty ninth from Oxford whereby I must needs observe to you ours are received in halfe the time that yours are comming hither now you are removed from Oxford I feare it will yet be harder for you to send to London about all things the Queen recommends it to you I send you here enclosed Doctor Goffs last dispatch word for word by that you will see the estate of that busines Sir H. de vic is now here yesterday arrived with the Dukes last demands tomorrow he attends Cardinall M●z and as soone as the answer is gotten and Queene Regents resolution in a supply of Armes and Ammunition we have now demanded to which already we have some promises advanced Petit shall be dispatched who is stayed for that end and to returne to us with some information of the state you are in where the last letters speake so variously of that wee are in much paine Armes and Ammunition I will be againe confident we shall speedily get but for money I can give no good hopes of it although the Clergy be now together from whom we have so many expectations Sir Kenel●e Digby is arrived at Roome hath had audience of the Pope who hath given him the best reception that the first visit was capeable of that is the fairest promises in generall that can be wished if he may be relyed on there are good hopes of money there but you know he is of a sanguine family and himselfe yet the melancholliest of it he hath visited some other of the petty Princes of Italy but they are a frugall generation Talbott is comming from Venice without any effect of his voyage A man the Queene sent