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  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 83, cont. (p.231) |
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to make, even out of the Garrisons of their Towns. The ways of victuall to Spinolaes Army, are almost all precluded by him, and he likely to put upon the raising of Spi- nola, between whom and the Town, there are hotter disputes, then ever our times saw. The Secretary of the States here shew- ed me a Letter yesternight, that the Town spends 6000 pound of powder a day, and hath spent since the siege 250m pounds. Ar- gits Regiment and my L. Vaux, are so dimi- nished by commings away, as that both (I think) make not now in Muster above 600. Mr Gage is returning to Rome, but of his Ne- gotiation I dare say nothing by a Letter of adventure. The direction which his Maty gave for Preachers, had scandalized many; therefore he descended to pursue them with certain reasons of his proceedings therein; and I had commandment to publish them in a Sermon at the Crosse, to as great a Congregation as ever I saw together, where they received comfortable assurance of his Maties constancy in Religion, and of his de- [CW: sire] |
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