The owners are also much importuned thereunto. Your aforesaid High Mightinesses, in your profound wisdom, will best understand what ought to be done in this matter. We shall most respectfully await your commands, and will most dutifully and faithfully obey them. Regarding the inquiry about the little ship taken near the Recolvers, we do not, and cannot think what is wanting. The long delay in sending that over, does your High Mightinesses' affairs here no good.

Lieutenant Colonel Ashley has requested us to inform your High Mightinesses, that he has gone hence, by express orders from his Majesty, to the King of Sweden that if your High ;

Mightinesses require him to join his regiment, he shall do so immediately; he intends to convey his Majesty's final resolution to his Ambassador, Lord Faen, and entertains no doubt but the subsidy of 100™ guilders a month will be paid from here to the King of Sweden. His Majesty seems resolved to dotate his niece, the Duke of Lenox's daughter, and to give her in marriage to the Lord High Treasurer's son, whose oldest sister is married to the Earl of Arundel's eldest son. The Treasurer will be not a little strengthened by this connexion with his Majesty's next of kin, and the friendship between him and the Earl of Arundel, which is considerable, will apparently be further increased. The aforesaid High Treasurer's son goes by the first opportunity to Savoy, with a message of condolence on the death of the late Duke; as the Earl of Lycester goes to the King of Denmark to condole on the death of his Majesty's wife's mother. And herewith, commending ourselves, most humbly, to Your High Mightinesses' good graces, we will pray God Almighty, High and Mighty Lords, that He may bless your High Mightinesses' wise government more and more.