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Rh to Mr. Godolphin, who told me that they fancied that Monsieur Van Lewin was colder in the business of the guarantee than he had been; that he said there was no haste in concluding it, that there was now on foot. the defensive treaty, which he thought would be sufficient for the present. Upon this, he told me I was to press all I could to have the project of the guarantee finished; for, though there never had been so good alliances made all that time, they would not be liked, because they were made in my Lord Treasurer's time, and therefore it would be absolutely necessary to have some new ones made. Soon after I spoke to my Lord of Essex, who, I find, is mightily out of heart upon the King's intentions to raise new troops of musqueteers, which he says he will never consent to, nor set his hand to the establishment of. Another thing that Rh