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Lord Hyde au Prince éH Orange. Le Prince ne doit pa» songer à un biU (feaduaion.

St. James, March the 11.

I most humbly thanke your Highnesse for the honoor of your letter of the 10 of thés moneth from Dîeren, by which you will make me believe the liberty I tooke of writing to your Highnesse was not disagreable to yen, but you will give me leave to tell your Highnesse toc that I find, by one part of your letter, where you say you hâve so many reasons to hinder you from speaking of the meanes that might help to accommodate our affaires hère, that your thoughts are still upon one expédient onely, which, believe me, will never accommodate any thing. God knowes whether the King will ever thinke fitt to try itt. I hope he will not, but, if he should, then your Highnesse will be satisfyed that I informe you right in this matter. I thought it best for me to acquaint his Ma. with your Highnesses letter, which I dîd, and his answer was, there never can be a good accommodation, without bringing both the partys to some tolerable abatement of their demandes, but this that is hinted at by that part of your letter and hath been so long insisted on hère , is entirely yeilding ' on one side , and is therefore, not an accommodation, but a submission.

And therefore, for Gods sake, if there be any meanes for you to worke on the otherside to bring them to ac-

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cept of anj thing but the altération of the govemmenty lett that be tryed and, if that cannot be effected, doe not lay ail the blâme npon one side , that hath , first in particular condescentions offered to the Parliament before the last, and since in generall leaving ail things to them bat onel y the point of exclusion , shewed sufficiently that they hâve been and are willing to complj with anj thing that is reasonable. I know not what I can saj more to your Highnesse; a little time will shew at Oxford what will be the event of this meeting, and I can easily conclude with your Highnesse that, if it end not well, the King and the monarky and ail his AUys will be in a very iU condition , bat I thinke too , if the agreement must be got upon those terms onely that hath been hitherto demanded, it will be as bad for ail; for that cannot last and préserve the royall family, which I pray God for ever to blesse.

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