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40 pilot on board, who brought us into the river Mayse; and, about two o'clock, the tide being almost spent, we came to anchor within three leagues of the Brill, and in sight of the Hague.

25th.We had a dead calm in the morning; but, about twelve, it began to blow, and at four we got to Delf Haven, and at seven to the Hague, where I heard that the Prince was gone to Dieren. As soon as I came, I writ to Lord Sunderland and Sir William Temple short letters. I spoke with Mr. Meredith.

26th.I waited upon the Pensioner; and, after I had made him my compliments, he told me I could not have come at a time when any proposition from England would be better received, for every body here was now much disposed that way; that he thought the King would do well to put the