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