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CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
IX
LETTER FROM PARIS 1
{Extract)
Paris, t22 February, 4£.
I have formerly given you some assurance from such grounds
as I then had, that the Prince was not agreed with the Scotts.
I can now give it you upon very sure grounds, that you may
relie upon the truth of it. That the Prince hath written
letters to Montrosse,2 wherein he prays him not to be dis¬
couraged at his dealing with the Scotts, with whom he is
resolved never to agree, but upon very good and honourable
termes, and so hee shall not onely have him and all his
followers comprised in the agreement, but that he will also get
such advantagious conditions for them as they shall live in
Scotland with securitie and honour.
That indeed, in the letter that he hath written to them3
at the instance of Windram, and to satisfie his importunity,
and of some others about him, he hath given them the title of
Committee of his Estate[s], but that he hath done it onely in
order to the treaty, and, in case the same should not take
effect (whereof he saith he hath little or no hopes), that he
revoketh the same and holds it as not given at all.
He further intreats him to goe on vigorously with his
designs and preparations, it being to be imputed only to them
that the Scots have entertained any thoughts of treating with
him at all, and that this is the onely meanes to make them
condescend to reason, of this you may be very certaine.
By some that came from Jersey, and arrived here on Sunday
last, I am also inform’d, that the Prince hath sent Montrosse
the Order of the Garter; and they also say, the day for the
Treaty at Breda is to be the 15 of March, stylo vet.; and it is
doubtfull, whither there will be any or not. The Prince was
hardly drawne to consent to it.
1 A Brief Relation, Feb. 5-12 (E. 593, 2), p. 307.
2 Carte’s Orig. Letters, vol. i. p. 356; Napier’s Memoirs of Montrose, p. 752.
8 Napier’s Memoirs of Montrose, vol. i. p. 355-