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The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and the State of Europe During the Early Part of the Reign of Louis Xiv. Illustrated in a Series of
The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and the State of Europe During the Early Part of the Reign of Louis Xiv Illustrated in a Series of Author:Robert Vaughan Title: The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and the State of Europe During the Early Part of the Reign of Louis Xiv. Illustrated in a Series of Letters Between Dr. John Pell, Resident Ambassador With the Swiss Cantons, Sir Samuel Morland, Sir William Lockhart, Mr. Secretary Thurloe, and Other Distinguished Men of the Time General Books publicat... more »ion date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 16541] SAMUEL HARTLIB. 7 Mr. Hartlib hath sent us the articles of the peace in French. By the dates of your letters, it is manifest, that when 1 write to London I must not expect an answer here in less than seven weeks, so that it is now high time for me to beseech you to take order for some supplies of money for me. If you cause any sum to be delivered to Mr. Haak, he can make it over to me, without further trouble to you ; or, if he be not in the way, be pleased to send it to Nicholas Corsellis, a merchant well known on the Exchange, who will take order for the payment of it here. SECRETARY THURLOE TO MR, PELL. 2-12 June, 1654. Sir, -- I received yours from Basle of the 16-26 May; the next I shall expect from Zurich. You8 Gerard's Conspiracy. [june Mr. Samuel Hartlib is the person to whom Milton dedicated his "Treatise on Education." Sir William Petty also subsequently inscribed one of his works to the same person. -- (Symons's Life of Milton, page 179.) Evelyn, in a letter to Mr. Wotton, in 1703, gives the following account of him : -- " Mr. Hartlib was, I think, a Lithuanian, who, coming for refuge hither to avoid the persecution in his country, with much industry recommended himself to m...« less