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Rh upon it. It so befel after this, in the Year Eighty Eight, that for the better Conduct of her Highness's Affairs in the Provinces United, I was thought a fit Person to reside in those Parts, and was sent thereupon to the Hague in Holland; where according to the Contract that had formerly past between her Highness and the States, I was admitted for one of their Counsel of State, takeing Place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice, and yielding my Suffrage in all that was proposed: During all that time, what Approbation was given of my painful Endeavours by the Queen, Lords in England, by the States of the Country there, and by all the English Soldiery,