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14 CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
of his owne head, but that he had secret order from Jersey
for it.
It having been judged necessary to publish that letter, least
the expectation of the Treaty, and the good conclusion thereof,
should hinder the people of Scotland from coming in to Mon-
trosse, and from closing with him, for the carrying on of his
enterprise; the resolution being certaine that he shall be in¬
strument they will use to obtaine their end, and that this
Treaty shall serve for no other purpose but to annoye them,
and keepe them from joyning with or seeking help from the
Parliament of England till Montrosse shall have taken but a
little surer footing, and be but in a posture to give head and
beginning to all the licentiated and disobliged Souldiery, the
engagers of the yeare 48, and all the rest of his Party, by
which they think it facile that he may, and probable that he
will, give as great a change to the State of that kingdome as
he did formerly, and for these reasons they rather choose to
lose the Argylians in Scotland by the discoverie, than the
Montrossians by the concealment of their intentions.1
XIV
LETTER FROM PARIS 2
(Extract)
i6f9. The little Queen is gone this morning for Beauvais, where
Charles Stuart is to arrive next Friday.
XV
LETTER FROM BREMEN
(Extract)
I have notice from Gottenburgh that Montrosse was in
March'g. Person there, and kept himselfe very private in Macleere’s
1 This is followed by retranslations from Charles’s letters to the Scottish Com¬
mittee of Estates and to Montrose, ‘printed in French at Paris by Guillaume
Sassier, printer to the King of France.’
2 A Brief Relation, Feb. 26-March 5 (E. 594, 20), p. 37-8.
3 Id. March 12-19 (E. 595, 11), p. 406.