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140 King for leave for me to come over for a month, and pray let me have it as soon as I can; he said before I left England that he would not refuse it me, and I hope he hath not changed his mind; it may be between this and the seventeenth of October I may have a good opportunity; if not, I will desire a yacht, if you will have the kindness to send me one.

This is rather to tell you, I shall not write to you by the next post, than for anything I have to say to you by this, my last haying told you the method of the Queen of Spain's affairs which yet holds, and to-morrow she returns to Fontainbleau, and so does your humble servant; Madame de Mecklenbourg says she heard my Lord Sidney had arrived in Holland; she past near it, and would fain have seen him, had she not have been joined with the Duchess of Osnaburg, who could not be persuaded to pass that way. On Thursday the Duke of Pastrana makes his entry at Fontainbleau; he has three coaches, of which two are so fine that they are supposed to be for his master; I wish you saw him that you might know a person