Comfortable nevves from Breda, in a letter to a person of honour.

Comfortable nevves from Breda, in a letter to a person of honour.

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Comfortable Nevves from BREDA, In a LETTER to a Person of Honour.

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Comfortable Nevves from BREDA, In a LETTER to a Person of Honour.

My LORD,

I Read your last Leter to a Friend of mine very neer his Majesties Person, and gave it him to peruse by himself, or shew it, if he thought fit. He told me your Lordships account of Affairs in England. As it is, in it self, very satisfactory, so it well agrees with severall Letters and Relations from others, and confirms our hope, That his Majesties undoubted Right, will shortly be in signal manner, attested and asserted, by the universal suffrage of the People of England in Parliament: And that after long Oppression, we shall once more flourish under a King, for all Vertues, requisite in the Greatest Prince, I dare say inferior to none of his Predecessors. Many passages, in your Letter my Friend observed, but one above all the rest, (viz) The surmise of many disaffected Persons, and jealousie, even of some of our Friends, That the King, in his late great Extremities, either to procure some Assistance, or, perhaps a bare Livelihood, which then he wanted, may possibly be Engaged, in Contracts with Foraign Princes, not altogether consistent with the true English Interest. This he thought, was not to be sleighted, in regard it seemed to carry with it much danger, and some colour: And therefore forthwith reported it to his Majesty, Who did me the Honor to take notice of it as my Intelligence, and assure me upon his Royal word, That he is so far from having Contracted with any Prince, to the prejudice of his Countrey, as he never yet in all his Distresses, entertained any Treaty, which would not become the best of Protestants and English-men; Or which, (had it been otherwise fit) he should not have wished, the whole Nation might have heard; That he stands obliged only upon the account of hospitality and great Civility, which, he hopes he shall shortly be in a condition to requite.

My Lord, since the King hath been pleased so far to condescend, as to trust me in a matter of such importance, I hold my self obliged in Duty, and Gratitude to his Majesty, in friendship and service to your Lordship, to transmit it to you, That your Lordship may (as I doubt not but you will) make your utmost use of it for his Majesties service; And surely, my Lord, you may do well industriously to Court Occasions of publishing, and propagating a Newes so Honourable to the King, so Significant to the People, so Seasonable to the Time, and Comfortable, I doubt not, to all Loyall English hearts: For, whether we reflect on the mighty Providence of God, who hath brought his Majesty out of a fiery Furnace, as it were, without the singing of his Hair or Cloathes; Or, the incomparable Vertue of our King, who, next to his Blessed Father, deserves to be ever Celebrated, as the chiefest Martyr of his Countrey; Or our own unmerited happiness in such multiplyed Deliverances, and especially in the injoyment of so Excellent a Prince, The thing is every way most considerable, and must needs appear so even to the meanest Capacity.

By the middle of the next Week, I intend, God willing to wait on your Lordship at London, and shall then endeavour to satisfie your Curiosity. For the present this place affords little publick Newes, That being a Commodity now expected only from England, you will therefore, herein, excuse,

My LORD, Your most humble, and affectionate Servant,

T. L.

Breda, April 26. S. N. 1660.

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London, Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, May 3. 1660.

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Comfortable nevves from Breda, in a letter to a person of honour.

T. L.

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1660

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A88830

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171401

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— Comfortable nevves from Breda, in a letter to a person of honour., T. L..

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Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet,. London, :: May 3. 1660.. (Signed: T.L.) (Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries.)

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