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18 written by Melville to the father at Leyden, who was eagerly looking for a favourable report of his son: "Receive fra this bearer, your sonne John, his oration with thanks, and great hope he shall be a good instrument after our departing."

Leaving Sedan, John continued his studies at Leyden, and later went to Oxford. In 1628 we find him ministering to a congregation of British merchants at Elbing in West Prussia. There he fell in with Dr. Godeman, a civil judge and privy councillor of Gustavus Adolphus, who held West Prussia at the time. It is