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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654
A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654 Author:Bulstrode Whitlocke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3Whitelocke desired her Majesty to give him a copy of her objections. She told him, they were only a few things which she had written with her own hand, upon her apprehension of the article... more »s, and that he should have them in writing; but she desired him not to acquaint any person here with this conference. textit{March 10, 1653. white- Upon yesterday's conference with the Queen, White- spatchSeseto locke wrote the passages thereof at large to Thurloe, England. ^o jje commumcate(l to the Council in England, and to pray their direction in some points which are set down thus in his letters:— " I shall desire to know the pleasure of my Lord Protector and Council, whether, in case I shall conclude those articles of amity and commerce, omitting the second, fifth, and seventh articles, if his Highness will be pleased to approve thereof. I confess my humble opinion is (unless I receive commands to the contrary) that in case the peace be concluded between us and Holland, and Denmark included, it will be no disadvantage to us to conclude the alliance here, omitting the second, fifth, and that part of the seventh article against which her Majesty objected, if she shall insist upon it. " Another point wherein I pray direction is upon the sixteenth article of your treaty with the Duteh, that either Commonwealth shall be comprehended, if they desire it, in treaties with other Princes, and notice to be given of such treaties; whether in case your treaty with the Dutch shall be agreed, that then notice ought to be given to them of the treaty with the Queen of Sweden, and the Duteh to be offered to be comprehended therein; or whether, the treaty here being begun before that with the Duteh concluded, there will be any cause to give such notice to them, or togive notice to the Queen of your treaty with the ...« less