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82 to be done so well as a league with Spain, and desires me to write to my Lord Sunderland so.

21st. Mr. Bracy was with me, a gentleman of Dort, of the English faction, and who desires to be of the council of Holland, which Sir W. Temple had undertaken. Afterwards, Monsieur de Groot, minister of the Elector Palatine, came to me. He is nephew of Hugo Grotius. Sir Alexander Collier was with me in the afternoon. I went to see Mr. Rockwood, who told me how the French ambassador took place of the Prince Elector's base son, that he had not yet been with him, because he did not know whether his master would suffer him to yield the pas to him.

24th.Mr. Meredith told me of one Serjeant, a priest, a friend of Coleman that fled hither, and, being asked by Mr. Rockwood if there was any plot, he said he could not be so disingenuous as to deny it absolutely to him, and therefore he would confess to him that they had thoughts of bringing in their religion, and, in order to do it, they desired that as many as could should be employed in the army. He said he believed that the Jesuits had the design of taking away the King's life, which they called