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356 more especially for that address, promised to send away presently to you, and willed me to attend while he came to the King, that he might present me; which he did. The King was very well pleased and satisfied, much better than he was at my first appearing. He questioned me much and about many things; resolved for a dispatch, but seemed to refer it to my Lord Treasurer: he conceived you had … already, but yet should have more since you required them. Thus things have passed in shew well in this last act. By the dispatch itself you will easily judge whether really be intended or no, if, after all this delay, it be full and without reserves, the fears of all those that honour you and serve you are at an end. Howsoever, though there be some, yet the next from you (I conceive) will take them all away. The disposal of the Coferer's place after this manner makes the world think that there is some staggering in the friendship betwixt my Lord Treasurer and you, if not a breach; and those that are of Sir Thomas Roe's cabinet would persuade that you were sent over to undo the affairs of the King of Swede and your own. Many that really wish you well begin to imagine that you shall be kept there longer than you would. If there be any such thing, the causes certainly will be these. First, your greatness with my Lord Marquis, and your too strict intelligence one with another, which is here represented to the full. And howsoever your Lordship thinks things are reconciled betwixt my Lord Treasurer and him, yet they say otherwise here, and the effects speak no less. No man dares think well of him here; and, by what your son and I have observed, it is easy to believe ''the King's ears himself has been a little too open to the reports. I do him all the service I can, where I find it may do any good, though I know Jacob Ashley has lost himself about the same thing.''

'That which may in a second place be considerable will be your too lively representations, making the King of Swede to outway the Emperor more than they will allow him here to do; and, indeed, your Lordship's case in this is not much unlike that of Pharneses, for where you are they thought you too much a Spaniard, and here they think you all much a Spaniard. Then, again, the women take it ill that your son should be a statesman before theirs, and my Lady Weston has let fall in a manner so much to my Lord Vane. Besides, which I conceive has more importance, larger instructions were by him carried to the King than to my Lord Treasurer, and sooner. Last of all, whether your Lordship's clerks have in your absence followed your directions or no, or whether they have behaved themselves ill