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a href="target320.html">  The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 77, cont. (p.214) |
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lates it. That day in the morning, there was some end made, by the E. of Salisbury and others, who were Arbitrators in some differences between Herford and Mountegle, Herford was ill satisfied in it, and declared himself so farre as to say, he expected bet- ter usage in respect not only of his cause but of his expence and service in his Ambassage: to which Salisbury replied, that considered how thinges stood between his Majesty and Herford house at the Kings enterance, the King had done him especiall favour in that employment of honour and confidence, by declaring in so publique and great an act and testimony, that he had no ill affections toward him. Herford answered, that he was then and ever an honest man to the King: and Salisbury said, he denied not that, but yet solemnly repeated his first words again. So that Herford seemed not to make answer, but pursuing his own word, said, that whosoever denied him to have been an honest man to the King, lyed. Salisbury asked him if he directed that upon [CW: him,] |
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