We have, in our last, advised your High Mightinesses that we presented on the 29"" of September, a Memoir, requesting that some commissioners may be assigned us to concert together a Marine Treaty, and can assure you hereby, that we not only have fully prepared ourselves since on this matter by an examination of what has been heretofore done, and by drawing up some articles extracted therefrom, but that we have daily, without intermission, both by our Secretary and by letters to Mr. Thurloe,^ solicited some action, or even some

' The documeots referred to in preceding Resolution are, Letter, supra, p. 54], Description, p. 542, and Memoir, p. 546. Tliey were received by tlie Ambassadors in England, 8th October, 1654, and are printed in full in Verbael van Beverningk, 602. ' Jobs Thurloe, son of Rev. Thomas Thurloe, rector of Abbots Rodiug, Essex county, England, was born in 1616. Having been called to the bar, he obtained the protection of Oliver St. John, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Secretary to Commissioners from the Parliament, at the treaty of Uxbridge. In 1651, Thurloe was appointed Secretary to the Embassy to Holland; in 1652, Secretary of the Council of State, and in 1653, Secretary of State under Cromwell, the Lord Protector. In 1655, he was at the head of the Postal department; in 1656 was returned to Parliament from Ely; in 1657, was appointed a privy councillor, and after the Protector's death continued Secretary of State under Richard Cromwell, until January, 1660. In April following, he offered his services to Charles IL, and was sent to prison by the House of Commons in May, on a charge of high treason, but was soon after set at liberty, when he retired to Great Milton, Oxfordshire. He was offered several posts in the administration, after the Restoration, but declined them all, and died suddenly at Lincoln's Inn, on 21 February, 1668.