honest, but a foole: The other is more a foole, and I doubte not so honest, though yett I do not take him for a spy: nor can I imagyne it possible for to them to make any sober vsefull proposicons 667. the Ambassr and 668.95. The Kinge will follow the aduice, 407. 13.27.12. 42. still, till 668 . 95. 20 17.7.62.502.667.577. Wilmott into Germany1 is 529. Lord 532.667. 186. is not declared, 407.531. 501 . goe hee 491. 13. (which will not be yett) 501. shall not goe haue the by Holand, the King would not 491.415. 192. 668. 220. 728. 589. 615. 654. to the Ambass Bishop 99. propose any such thinge 667.668.95. Though that as low as his power is, 501. 429. 615. 654. places in Irland and Scotland 618. 13. 532. 204. 407.363. into the handes of Holand 598. 192. as would inable them to torment their enimyes Ther is no opinion of the good nature and gratitude of 308 . 452. 598. 103. 707. called 1 How well the King's motions were now watched by the Parliament, is evident from the fact that a journal of the 5th August, 1652, was enabled to state-"The late King of Scots is at St. German's, and expects daily to bee sent for by the Hollanders. The Lord Wilmot is designed to go Ambassador from him into Germany." 2 This extraordinary fact receives confirmation from another of Sir Edward's letters to Secretary Nicholas, published in the Clarendon State Papers, vol. iii. p. 86. Fortunately for the honour and credit of all concerned, the idea was finally abandoned. 3 The Elector Palatine abundantly justified this opinion; for, when the German Princes subsequently made up a sum of ten thousand pounds for Charles, the Elector, though 667. 121. as an old 121. 599 his father:1 and it would haue bene greate pitty he should not: he is Ld Digby a good old man, and much my frende. 155. intends his owne businesse and lookes not after what con cernes us: I thinke I haue answered all yours: and I am able to add nothinge of this place: god of heaven præserue you, and me as I am heartily, Sir, Your very affectionate huble Serut, EDW. HYDE, ST. GERMAINS, Wensday July 31. 8 at night. 1652. Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Richard Browne, Since I writt last to you (though it was but on ffryday night) I haue receaued 5 letters from you, two of the 2d, one of the 3. of the 4. and the 5. of this moneth, all which are now before me to be answered in order, after I have exceedingly thanked you for your diligent and very punctuall correspondence, which is so greate a virtue, that it is high iniustice not to rewarde and gratify it, which I hope will one day be done. I have informed the Kinge of the Venetian Ambassadors complainte against Mr. Killegrew, with which his May is very much troubled, and resolues under great obligations both to his father and grandfather, did not contribute a single stiver. See Clarendon's History, vol. iii. p. 418. 1 In tracing the conduct of the Earl of Bristol throughout these letters the reader will derive amusement from Walpole's account of him as a Noble Author. 2 In his Life, p. 116, Hyde says that Charles had been at first unwilling to send Killigrew to Venice; but afterwards was prevailed upon simply to gratify him, that in the capacity of Envoy "he might borrow money of English merchants for his owne subsistence, which he did, and nothing to the honour of his master." The letter in the text contributes some interesting detail upon an incident but slightly noticed in history. Francis Erizzo was the Doge who acted thus cavalierly to the representative of the exiled monarch. upon his returne hither, to examyne his miscarriage, and to proceed therin in such a manner as shall be worthy of him, and as may manifest his respecte to that Commonwealth, with which the Crowne of Englande hath alwayes held a very stricte amity, and his Ma's Ministers haue in all places præserued a uery good correspondence with the Ministers of that State, and therefore his Ma' is the more sensible of this misdemeanour of his Resident: However his Ma wishes that the Republic had proceeded accordinge to the vsuall custome, and first acquainted him with ther iust exception against his Minister, that therupon his Ma" might haue testifyed his respecte to them by recallinge and punishinge him, and that they had not by a judgement of ther owne compelled him to retyre, which being so vnusuall a way, his Ma" doubts will not be cleerely and generally understoode, but may be interpreted to the Kings disaduantage as a declininge in this tyme of tryall that auntient friendshipp with the Crowne of Englande, which his Ma" is gladd to finde by the Ambassadour is not in truth the purpose or intention of that Commonwealth, and you are to thanke the Ambassadour in the Kings name for his particular affection to his Maty, which he desyres him to continue.-After I had shewed the Kinge your letter, he appointed me 667.36.23.4.25.7.530. 532. 121. and the resolucon was ther taken for the answer, so that the very wordes which I haue used upon this argument, were consider'd and perused by the Kinge.-I have bene very much troubled for poore Mr. Douglasse's beinge sicke, and am much comforted with your good newes of his amendment: If ther had not bene 3 or 4 persons of quality heare very sicke, as my Lo: Wentworth,'... Schomburgh, younge Mr. Jarmin,2 Lord Wentworth, of whom some particulars may be found in a former note, was shortly after this sent as agent to Denmark, where he remained until the ensuing year. He 2 Son of Thomas, elder brother of Lord Jermyn. succeeded his uncle, after the Restoration, in the Barony of Jermyn, but not in the Earldom of St. Alban's, and died without issue male. who hath the small pox, and others, who would not indure the absence of ther physicon, Dr: ffrayser1 had gone over to Paris to looke to him: I pray when you go next remember my seruice to him, and desyre him to be very carefull of himselfe that he fall not into relapse: I could willingly be of your minde for the certainty of one avowed messenger, but I finde it harde to lay the worke upon one man, which your passe must suppose; besydes the askinge such a warrant might possibly shutt the doore against all others, and that would not be well, for betweene the English and Dutch Letters, and the particular businesses from this place, ther is no day passes without a messenger to Paris, and an authority graunted to one might cause all the rest to be in more daunger; the conclusion is, that wee will Wensday morninge, or Tuesday night, send an honest fellow to you, and agayne on Saturday morninge, and in those two only I will take my selfe to be most concerned. I hope the Kinge of Spayne2 is not deade, and then the arryvall of the ffleete will indeede prooue a cordiall. I haue the same reproaches fro’ the Hague for not writinge things which I doe not know, and sometymes that are not.-You must explayne this; you say, I have not yet seene 95. both he and I haue bene to [too] busy. What do you meane by that, sure you haue not bene so, nor does euery the any wise man thinke you can be soe: I haue 668. Fraser was a Scotchman, and mingled much in the religious politics of that country; he also had some political besides his medical influence at the exiled Court. In another letter (State Papers, iii. 119) Clarendon says of him, “I am glad you have so good a correspondent as Dr. Frayser, who is grown (God knows why) an absolute stranger with me; he is great with Lord Gerard and Mr. Attorney, but he will speedily leave us and go for England, which truly I am sorry for, for the King's sake: for no doubt he is good at his business, otherwise the maddest fool alive." Elsewhere also he expresses himself very kindly as to Fraser; yet the doctor took great offence against him on account of this trip to England, actually asserting that it was Hyde's wish to have him murdered when there, or that he might languish in prison until he should die of grief and hunger. 2 Philip IV. He did not die until 1665. requyred and the 220. gaue 269. two dayes since: I will keepe them till you order me to dispose them. As I was much startled my selfe with yours of yesterday, which my Lady Harberte1 sent me late 493.30 some derections quite contrary to what I understoode to be his minde, so I gave my selfe the his Maty pleasure of perplexinge 502. 239. by readinge only the first parte of your letter: and when he was in trouble, and protested that he had neuer gaue any such order, I reade him that which was in cypher, with which he was wonderfully pleased, and exceedingly 530. intirely 667. 502. 440. 15 .36 . 23 12. ion 437. and frendshipp, for as he hath hitherto accordinge to his aduice forborne in the least degree to stirr, or moue any thinge, for feare of doinge it vnseasonably, so he very well knowes, that such an ouerture as this, timely made,571. 493. 502.488.13.532. 192. opportunity. 667. 13. 21. 10. somewhat on his behalfe, which of themselues originally they the K. the could not doe, and therefore 668.220.committs 668. 1 Wife of the Attorney-General, afterwards Lord Keeper, Sir Edward Herbert. 2 Comparing a letter of the 2nd August to Secretary Nicholas, now residing in Holland, it is evident that this passage refers to the former proposals for the delivery of certain places, both in Scotland and Ireland, to the Dutch. |
