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40 of Navarre, now Henry the IVth of France. My next Imployment was to Henry the Third at such time as he was forced by the Duke of Guise to fly out of Paris: Which I performed in such sort as I had in Charge, with extroardinaryextraordinary [sic] Secrecy, not being accompanied with any one Servant, (for so I was commanded) nor with any other Letters, than such as were written with the Queen's own Hand to the King, and some selected Persons about Him. The effect of that Message it is fit I should conceal, but it tended greatly to the Advantage, not only of the King, but of all the Protestants in France, and to the Duke's apparent overthrow; which also followed soon