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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 51, cont. (p.157) |
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security, and they say, it is so transacted; which is a good signe of a possibility in the restitution of the Palatinate. For any thing I discern, their fears are much greater from Hungary, then from Bohemia; and the losse of Canon, in a great proportion, and other things, at the death of Bucquoy, was much greater, then they suffered to be published. We here Spinola is passed over at Rhenebery; if it be so, they are no longer distracted, whe- ther he would bend upon Juliers, or the Palatinate. I know not what you hear from your noble son in law, who sees those things clearly in himself, and in a near distance; but I hear here, that the King hath much lost the affection of the English in those parts. Whether it proceed from any sowrenesse in him, or that they be o- therwise taken off, from applying them- selves to him, I know not. My Lord of S. Albons hath found so much favour as that a pension of 2ooo l. will be given him; he desires that he might have it for years, that so he might transferre it upon his cre- [CW: ditors,] |
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