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Rh You know the plain paths I tread. I hear his ways are such, which is the great ground of the great value I have for him, and the service I would gladly pay him on all occasions.

I do not find any great gall in the new elections, but even that not only men in places, but long parliament men, and even my Lord Danby's pensioners, come in promiscuously. So that I trust in God the same calmness in the House will answer that of the kingdom; and that we may yet live to see our poor religion unshaken, and our liberties preserved, his Majesty live in great honour and plenty, and England make that figure in the world she ought and must do, unless God, tired of his (continual blessings bestowed upon us, intend for our ingratitude to plunge us into those miseries which threaten so apparently this kingdom.

I am. Sir, Your most faithful servant,

. August 20.I was visited by the Bishop of Munster's agent; I went to see Monsieur Spiegle, the Holstein minister, and Monsieur Van Beuninghen, who is still of the same mind, that there is nothing VOL. I.