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. Your High Mightinesses Most obedient and Most faithful servants, In London, this 23^ May, 1632. (Signed) Alb: Joachimi. Stylo, novo. Govert Brassek.

Remonstrance of the Ambassadors of the States General to King Charles I.

[ From the MS. In the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; File, entitled Engeland. 1682. ]

To the Most Serene King of Great Britain, &c.

Sire In the audience which it pleased Your Sacred Majesty to give us at Newmarket, we represented that their Lordships, the States General, our Masters, aware that the enemy labored to foment some misunderstanding between Your Sacred Majesty and their Lordships, endeavoring, for that purpose, to create a belief that their Lordships did not entertain the respect due to Your Sacred Majesty, and even that they leaned more towards some other Prince

56 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. than towards Your Majesty, had deemed it necessary to send expressly to Your Sacred Majesty to assure you of their respect for Your person, and of the affection they bore Your Majesty's Sacred Person and State, and to pray you not to condescend to lend an ear to such like calumnies, which, tending only to disturb an existing union, they have the greater cause to fear. That, in confirmation of the respect our said Lords cherish for Your Sacred Majesty, they had been pleased to communicate to Your Majesty the subject of the embassy they had sent to France, and that they had, on the earliest notice, ordered that the vessel be sent back which their Captains had captured near Roculvers ; they pray the aflfection they entertain for Your Sacred Majesty may be measured by that they manifest towards your nearest of kin.