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Jan. 18/28.
Frankfort. |
1. John Durie to Sir Thomas Roe. Since I have been in the
Palatinate with the Duke of Two-brigges [Deuxponts] I have
received yours, in which you show me your care to advance the
work with the best divines, and in particular with my Lord of
Canterbury, to offer me necessary maintenance, and to clear the
name of the King of Sweden concerning the restitution of the
Palatinate. You tell me that I must have letters not only from
our side but from the Lutherans to the Divines of our Church,
which, in respect to the death of the King of Sweden, will be more
difficult than formerly. I wrote to you from Offenbach last
November that I had an open entrance to the King himself and his
chief preachers, but now that door is shut. I will seek out all
means, but it will be a hard matter for me as a private man, for
they are all disjointed among themselves. Some means have been
used to procure a meeting of the reformed divines. The Landgrave of Hesse did labour to this before the King went to
Nuremberg to meet Wallenstein; but partly the strait in which all
public affairs were then, partly Pappenheim's march through Hesse
to Saxony, partly the absence of the Elector of Brandenburg in
Prussia hindered the meeting. I then took the next course, to
procure letters from each church by itself, hoping that one side
might be united under the King of Bohemia, and dealing with the
other side by means of the King of Sweden, but it has pleased
God to disappoint all these purposes by their doleful deaths. I am
now dealing with every province severally, and if they write to
entreat our church to join in this work and take the lead of it, I
hope it will not be refused. The ground I have for believing that
the King of Sweden would have united the Churches is his own
promise to me at Wurzburg, when he told me that he thought
himself called of God and bound in conscience to do it and offered
to give me address to Sweden if I might further the work there,
and letters to the Princes of Germany, which I should have got if
he had lived. If you will hear more of this, ask of Sir Thomas
Dishington, who was with him before his death, and can give you
better assurance. Touching the restitution of the Palatinate, I
know it with such evidence as no impartial man can make doubt
of. You know Sir James Ramsay, who reconciled the mistake
between you and the King of Sweden at your first meeting in
Prussia. He is my author, and I have debated the matter
thoroughly with him. As concerning any public edict against
Calvinists, it was never heard of, but by command of the Lord
Chancellor the revenues of the Palatinate are taken up for his use,
or for levies of men, so that the preachers have been defrauded of
maintenance. I have written to Mr. Hartlib and sent him printed
verses. The Administrator, the Palsgrave Ludovic [Duke of
Simmeren], has got a son who is to be baptized next week and
named after our King. [3 pp.] |
| Jan. 29. |
2. Receipt signed by Edward Hodgson, clerk of Robert Bateman,
Chamberlain of London, for 30l. from the Bishop of Chichester,
being his second payment towards the repair of St. Paul's. |
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Underwritten.—Note by Clement Mosse that it was entered in a
ledger book in Merchant Taylor's Hall. [Printed form filled
in. ½ p.] |
| Jan. 30. |
3. Receipt by A. C. of the bond of John Scott, D.D., delivered
up by John Payne. [Scrap.] |
| [Jan.] |
4. Ellen Underwood to George Gardiner, at the sign of the
"Golden Anchor," above York House. We are continually
threatened about this business [margin: the murdering of Browne]
by one especially [margin: Morgan, a priest] who has been
censured for taxing the judges of the circuit where he lived with
treason, and now he says the King had need look about him that
his crown and life be not brought to the stake, by whom we know
not, nor for what cause. [This letter is alluded to, Vol. CCXXXI.,
No. 65, under date 28th January]. Underwritten. |
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4. i. "George Gardiner: 7th Feb. 1632/3. John Broadbent
prisoner in the Fleet, wrote this letter by direction
of Ellen Underwood, and he heard the words mentioned in this letter, and divers more of worse nature,
and he likewise saith that divers more heard the same
words." [¾ p.] |
