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March 26,
April 5.
1650.
March 26,
April 5.
42 CHARLES II. AND SCOTLAND IN 1650
the Commissioners, and some Speeches made to him pressing to
union with them against the common enemy; since which first
enterview there have beene some meetings, but nothing yet
delivered from them, being onely of ceremony and complement
and mutuall entertaynments. The letters say further, that
they are not so violent in pressing the Covenant, nor in
expressing against his party.
XXXV
LETTER FROM BREMEN 1
(Extract)
Bremen, 26 March.
Montrosse his frigate with ten guns and forty men is gone
from Gottenburgh into Norway to meet him, who is gone
thither by land, where he hath also levied some souldiers, but
what numbers I cannot yet learne, nor how long he intends to
stay there, or to what part he will steere his course from
thence. I doe not heare that the Swedes doe anything more in
concurring with his designes, nor doe I believe they are in a
condition to doe it.
Sir John Cockrame is still at Dantzig. What he hath got in
Poland wee yet know not, but if ’twere much wee should heare
of it with noyse enough ; ’tis said he will be shortly at Ham¬
burg and bring with him five thousand pounds to pay his debts
there, which, they say, are very great.
XXXVI
THE MARQUIS OF MONTROSE TO THE KING 2
Kirkwall in Orkney, 26 Mertch, Vet. 1650.
May it please y* Majesty.
I receavied .yr Mas of the 12 of Januar, by Mr May the 23
1 A Brief Relation, April 9-16 (E. 598, 6), p. 473.
2 State Papers Domestic, Interregnum, vol. ix. No. 16.