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282 you may be I will ever follow all your advice, and never leave employing all my skill to keep our friend steady to that which can only render him a happy man, and make us all so; indeed he needs no pressing in this case, and you will find he is a sure honest Englishman. Don't think me very impertinent for writing all this. I think you like it, and that's a great temptation to me, for I am more sincerely yours than you can imagine. God send us a happy meeting.

Honoured Sir,

By letters from Edinburgh of the 14th instant, we have an account that the yachts which were ordered to attend their Royal Highnesses arrived this morning, and that they intended to go on board on Monday, which is the last advice we have from thence. My Lord Huntington, who was one of the humble petitioners for a Parliament, is dismist from being Gustos Rotulorum for Warwickshire, and the Earl of Denby is to succeed him. Upon last Tuesday died here my Lord Hollis, and the same day, or a day after, died Sir W.