In my last of the xii instant, I wrote that a certain Judge had distinctly advised that, under present circumstances, the ship money may not be levied off the inhabitants of England, without consent of Parliament. It is since rumored, that a Divine, who hath a good prebend and visits the house of one of the aristocracy, had intruded into a chamber at Westminster where the Judges sat; among the rest Into his whose advice is mentioned above. And the aforesaid Divine there told the said Judge openly, that he had committed high treason. I

have not since heard whether he hath made public in what the Judge's guilt consisted. The aforesaid Divine was thereupon arrested. A lord of the Council told me on the xx"" of this month, that the Scotch Lords, mentioned in a previous letter, have gone to Scotland with some Bishops, except the Marquess of Hamilton,^ who has remained here on account of the sickness of his wife, who died on the above mentioned day. The duchess of Chevreuse is still at Court, whither she was brought at the King's expense. The Landgrave John of Darmstadt, as I have it from source certain, has had no business herehe came hither, fearing that an effort ;

would be made to use him against the Duke of Wymar, his father fvetier), whom he respects. The Heer Roo^ proceeded hence to Gravesend on Friday, on his way to Hamburgh, and Sir Richard Keeff to Holland, with money, cannon, and munition of war for the Elector Count Palatine. Said Roo told me that he is well assured of the good intention of the King, his master, and that he hopes to make quick business if the other ambassadors are as willing and as fully authorized as he. There is not so much opposition here to the double toll or custom which the King of Denmark exacts in the Sound from those who frequent the Bailie, as to the toll on the Elbe at Glukstad.