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Rh telling how your dispatches are approved when they are seen, for he received them but to-day. One part which relates to the Parliament I suppose you may answer yourself before this comes to your hands out of the Gazette, where you will find the Parliament prorogued till the 11th November next.

My Lord HallifaxHalifax [sic] and Essex are once again in very good humour, and will draw again. I leave you to make what reflections you think fit upon it, but sure they don't think things so desperate by their cheerful spirits; but more of this the next. I am not able to write in cipher, but out of it I can tell you I keep still my usual desponding temper; by the next, I believe, I may write you somewhat new. I think the King neglects the Duke of Monmouth enough of all conscience; all his places are disposed of but the Master of the Horse, and that is in commission, and he has no more to do with it than you. I have not heard his name these three days, and, when I did last, it was occasioned by my Lord Huntington and Stanford drinking his health, by which you may judge how considerable he is; he makes great court to Nelly, and is shut up in her closet when the King comes, from which in time he expects