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a href="target328.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 78, cont. (p.220) |
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of mine own unworthinesse, and fortune, that the example of this Lady, should work upon the Lady where you are: for though goodnesse be originally in her, and she do good, for the deeds sake, yet, per- chance, she may think it a little wisdome, to make such measure of me, as they who know no better, do. Of any new treaty of a match withSpain, I hear nothing. The warres in the Lowcountries, to judge by their present state, are very likely to go forward. No word of a Parliament, and I my self have heard words of the K. as directly a- gainst any such purpose, as any can sound. I never heard word, till in your letter, of any stirres inScotland, for that of the French K. which you aske, it hath this good ground, That in the Assembly there a pro- position hath been made, and well entertai- ned, that the K. should be declared, to have full Jurisdiction in France; and no other person to have any. It hath much of the modell and frame of our Oath of Allege- ance, but with some modification. It is [CW: true] |
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