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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 29, cont. (p.83) |
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now Spa. Embassadour proceeds in the old pace, the King hath departed from his ordi- nary way so farre, as to appoint 9 of the Councell to treat with him; but when they came to any approaches, he answered, that be brought onely Commission to propose certain things, which he was ready to doe, but he had no instructions to treat, but ex- pected them upon an other return from his Master. So that there is no treaty for the marriage begun yet: for I know you have heard Olivarez his free acknowledgement, that til the Prince came, there was no thoght of it. The King in his gests of this progress, hath determined it, not as heretofore, at Windsor, but at Farnham during pleasure: so he is within a journey of Southampton; and even that circumstance addes to some other reasons, that he expects the Prince this Sum- mer, and that Sir W. Crofts, in his last dis- patches, enlarged the Prince in his liberty, from his Father, to come away, if he would. Amongst all the irregularities of this age, to me this is as strange as any, That this year [CW: there] |
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