LETTRE ]?I€DXIX

Le Duc d^York au Prince d Orange. Les affaires ne vont pas aussi mal que le Prince se Vimagine.

Edenburgh, August 2.

I was very glad to find by yours from Windsor that you were safly arrived there and had discoursed with his Ma. of his afFairs, but I cannot thinke they are in so ill a condition as you seeme to beleve them to be. Tis true he is not so absolut master as I could wish and as he aught to be, but still he is in much a better postur then he was some tyme since, and when the Parliament was sitting, and I thinke his aftairs will mend every day, if he continu but stedy to himself and his old frein ds, and not lett himself be deceved by those you say you were to go to speake with at London ; for, tho they should now alter their minds and become loyal subjects againe, tis not in their powers to serve his Ma. effectualy, for they have raised a [divel] they cannot lay, and, the lesse you have to do with such kind of people, is no doubt the better, and I am very confident that, before this, you are of my mind. I long to heare what they have sayd to you, which I hope to know by the next post. Things hère go on very well, and yesterday the Parliament returned a very dutifull answer to his Ma* letter to them. There are some turbulent spirits in this country, as well as in England, but I do not feare them. I could say more, but it is so late that I have not tyme to do it, nor to say any thing els but that I shall always be as kind to you as you can désire.

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Le Duc d^York au Prince d Orange. Les affaires intérieures s améliorent journellement.

Aug. 14.

I receved yesterday yours by Churchill, by which I see that those that came to speake with you at London cannot be brought to reason, at which I do not ail wonder, seing how barefaced and impudently they hâve gone about in severall Parliaments to destroy the monarky and overturne the governement; but, God be thanked, they liave not been able to compas their wicked designs, and tho tis time that, as to afFairs abroad, his Ma. yett can do but little, yett, as to his afFairs at home, you see they mend every day, and I hope in a short tyme he will be as much master, as he was presently after his restoration; as for afFairs hère, they go on very vvell, for ail the endeavors to the contrary of the party hère, as they call them. Yesterday we past two act, the fîrst for the confirming of ail the acts already made for the maintenance of the Protestant religion, as now by Law established, and the other for the declaring and asserting of the prérogative of the Crovvne and right of succession, v^^hich will not at ail please some of those who came to speake with you at London. As to what you say of my having had ill impressions given me of you, I assure you nobody ever durst say any thinge to me to your préjudice; only hâve been sorry to see you hâve been so ill informed of ifFairs in England, and by such misinformation to hâve counïnanced some people that will never be true frinds to you lor none of our family , nor loyal subjects to his Ma., and make no doubt that , when you hâve very well reflected ipon what has been sayd to you, by his Ma. himself and those he trusts, you will be of my mynd; but, whethev it dos or no , you may be assured I shall ever be as kind to vou as you can désire.