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NEWS FROM ROME
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the duty of my place in attending the Parliament so long as it
was sitting (where I did endeavor to be more serviceable to
your Majesty than I could be elsewhere) and the distemper of
my health not permitting me to travel, I hope will plead
pardon at your Majesties hand, that I have not come to wait
upon you; but so soon as I shall be any ways able to travel,
I shall attend your Majesty; and shall not presume to trouble
your Majesty with any particulars till then, resolving to make
it my chief care and study how to improve the happy agree¬
ment (laid upon so pious and well-grounded a Foundation of a
Covenant with God and your People) to the best advantage, as
may conduce most to his honour, and the recovery of your
Majesties just and undoubted right of all your kingdoms ; than
which, nothing shall be more faithfully and really endeavored
by, Your Majesties most Loyal Subject and humble Servant,
Loudoun.
Edinburgh, 9 Julii, 1650.
[Indorsed.] A Copy of my Letter to the Kings
Majesty, 9 Julii 1650.
LXXXI
ROBERT MEYNELL TO LORD COTTINGTON 1
My good Lord,—I was honored with one from your Lord- 1650.
ship at your first arriveall at Madrid, with one other from my ^uly
Lord Embassador Hyde of March the 25, and now I have one
from your Honour of June the 18, which are all the lettres I
ever had from Spaine since I came hether, and consequently I
cannot leave any thing of those directed to Father Wilfrid or
Father Rowe, neyther can the fault be in their miscarriage if
1 Clarendon MSS. vol. ii. p. 364. There are many other letters of Meynell
amongst the Clarendon MSS., several of which have been printed in the Claren¬
don State Papers. It seemed appropriate to insert this one here, as showing the
effect of Charles’s agreement with the Scots in his relations with Rome.
Meynell was a priest, and Charles’s agent at Rome.
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the duty of my place in attending the Parliament so long as it
was sitting (where I did endeavor to be more serviceable to
your Majesty than I could be elsewhere) and the distemper of
my health not permitting me to travel, I hope will plead
pardon at your Majesties hand, that I have not come to wait
upon you; but so soon as I shall be any ways able to travel,
I shall attend your Majesty; and shall not presume to trouble
your Majesty with any particulars till then, resolving to make
it my chief care and study how to improve the happy agree¬
ment (laid upon so pious and well-grounded a Foundation of a
Covenant with God and your People) to the best advantage, as
may conduce most to his honour, and the recovery of your
Majesties just and undoubted right of all your kingdoms ; than
which, nothing shall be more faithfully and really endeavored
by, Your Majesties most Loyal Subject and humble Servant,
Loudoun.
Edinburgh, 9 Julii, 1650.
[Indorsed.] A Copy of my Letter to the Kings
Majesty, 9 Julii 1650.
LXXXI
ROBERT MEYNELL TO LORD COTTINGTON 1
My good Lord,—I was honored with one from your Lord- 1650.
ship at your first arriveall at Madrid, with one other from my ^uly
Lord Embassador Hyde of March the 25, and now I have one
from your Honour of June the 18, which are all the lettres I
ever had from Spaine since I came hether, and consequently I
cannot leave any thing of those directed to Father Wilfrid or
Father Rowe, neyther can the fault be in their miscarriage if
1 Clarendon MSS. vol. ii. p. 364. There are many other letters of Meynell
amongst the Clarendon MSS., several of which have been printed in the Claren¬
don State Papers. It seemed appropriate to insert this one here, as showing the
effect of Charles’s agreement with the Scots in his relations with Rome.
Meynell was a priest, and Charles’s agent at Rome.
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| Description | Edited, with notes and introduction, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Spine title: Charles II and Scotland in 1650. 16 pages immediately following text contain List of members of the Scottish History Society, July 1894. Last 16 pages contain Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Scottish History Society. |
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