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— 365 — [|fi78. Mars.

liETTRE mCCEJLW.

M. Godolphin ' au Prince d Orange. Arrangements financiers.

I doe not find it practicable to gett your H* money secnred, eîther by merchants in HoUand or bj merchants in London, but tbere is a goldsmith in London, one m' Dnncomb, who is a man in great creditt, that will take this sum of monej at 6 p' cent, and give your Highnesse bis bond, to pay it at any time upon three months warning. This is the best private secnrity that can bee gotten; if your 'Highnesse likes better to accept of security upon the Kings revenue, you may hâve 8 per cent; but you cannot bee at liberty to bave your money at soe short warning; your Highnesse will please to consider wether you like either of thèse propositions or not; I will not présume to offer any of my advice upon it, but my opinion is that hère is as little hazard in either of them as can bee in any proposai! of this nature. I hâve named severall times to your Highnesse, when I did beleive this money would bave corne in course to bee payd, which hâve ail fayled, and therefore I will venture no more to assigne any particular time , but only say in generall that the money will corne to bee payd very quickly, if your Highnesse likes better to bave it retumd to you , as it shall corne in , than to dispose of it upon interest hère in Engeland, by either of the ways which I bave mentioned to you. I doe not trouble your Highnesse with any other matter but this , because I bave seen m' Hyde's letter by this post, which give you a very full accompt of every thing hère.

liETTMB MCCIiJCTI.

La Princesse d Orange au Prince Jean^ Maurice de Nassau^ Siegen. Compliments.

Monsieur. H y a si longtemps depuis que j'ay receu

* Sidney-Godolphio , m 1678 lord-irétorier , en 1684 êeerétaire ttÉtal.

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vostre lettre que je suis honteuse de ne l'avoir pas répondu plus tost, ce que je n'aurois pas manqué de faire, si je n'avois pas esté toujours empesché. J'aj beaucoup de remercimant à vous vair * pour le bonne souhaitts que vous me &itte et j'espëre que dans l'esté vostre santé vous permettent de venir icy à la Haye, où je puis moimesme vous assuré corne bien je suis,

vostre très-afectioné cousine et servante,