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<HEAD>A Tran&s;late of a LETTER FROM Don Lewis de Harro</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Chief Coun&s;ellor and Mini&s;ter of State to his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> of <HI>Spaine</HI> &s;ent unto the King of <HI>Scots</HI> at <HI>Bru&s;sels</HI> concerning the affaires in <HI>England,</HI> publication of the Articles of Peace and Marriage with <HI>France, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SInce it hath plea&s;ed the Almighty Lord thus to ble&s;&s;e and crown your Maje&s;ty with pati|ence in long &s;ufferings, in which you have been a &s;trict ob&s;erver of tho&s;e graces, precepts and qualities &s;o eminent in your Royal Father, that even his and your greate&s;t enemies are driven to confe&s;s, that amid&s;t the multitude of your thoughts (as the P&s;almi&s;t de|livers it) Gods comforts doth delight your &s;oul, And while&s;t evil men who are the tor|mentors in this life &s;olace them&s;elves with all your earthly plea&s;ures, it is your greate&s;t care to pre&s;erve and keep unto your &s;elf the Te&s;timony of a good con&s;cience, which will ever &s;urmount and triumph above all the adver&s;ities of this lower world, and at la&s;t that furious zeal which hath now Dominion in your Kingdoms, will burn, and as a Canker at the root of their hopes &s;hall de&s;troy your op|po&s;ers; from hence great Sir, the Nations murmure, and your faith in tho&s;e long &s;ufferings gives you firm hopes that the day of your Redemption is nigh, for this never fails in the con&s;ent of all Nations, <HI>vox po|puli, vox Dei:</HI> And therefore &s;ince God hath &s;hewed unto the people a mark of his high di&s;plea&s;ure by your Exile, they are upon return, by which your Maje&s;ty is encouraged to &s;ay Amen. But this is not altogether my Affair, The tran&s;act promulgation of the Articles of Peace and Marriage with his Ma|je&s;ty of <HI>France</HI> is unalterably true, And what therein concerns your Maje&s;tie is al&s;o decreed, as I hope hath already in part appeared by the pre&s;ent Forces of your own Subjects drawn out by your Maje&s;ties Servants, and if need require there is other helps de&s;igned for you, yet finding an unwillingne&s;&s;e in your Councel to Alarm your Countries with Forraigners (if po&s;&s;ibly avoided) <HI>I</HI> mu&s;t forbear to urge the kindne&s;&s;e of my Ma&s;ter, otherwi&s;e there had been a freedom an&s;werable to your Maje&s;ties (I am &s;orry that I have occa&s;ion to &s;ay) nece&s;&s;ities, which indeed is rather a &s;hame to your own Subjects, of whom the Heathens can with &s;ome remor&s;e di&s;cour&s;e, and among&s;t the Chri&s;tians under his Catholick Ma|je&s;tie (although there wants union with you in matters of religious wor&s;hip) you are pitied in that the foundation is laid in Chri&s;t our Lord; Let your enemies therefore feare and tremble as in the pre|&s;ence of the Lord, for the ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of your cau&s;e heightens my belief of their A&s;toni&s;hment. And were it not for their pre&s;ent intere&s;t in ill gotten goods; I dare po&s;itively affirm there were no Enemie to give you battel, but the wonder is at an end in that &s;uch as the&s;e are foretold by that unerring Spirit in the Prophets and Apo&s;tles, which &s;aith, <HI>That Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e is the root of all evil.</HI> In conclu&s;ion the for|wardne&s;&s;e of this di&s;patch is occa&s;ioned through great de&s;ires of yeelding any thing which may contri|bute to your Maje&s;ties con&s;olation: Pure and intire affections are pardonable, although ha&s;tilie &s;cat|tered before Princes, and in confidence of that I can as well hope for as plead my excu&s;e. His Maje&s;ties Congratulations followed with all the Amba&s;&s;adors, Councellors, Commanders, Mini&s;ters of State, and <HI>Mon&s;iur Le Prince</HI> are amply in this expre&s;&s;e declared as a demon&s;tration of great joy for your Ma|je&s;ties hopeful Re&s;tauration: And that your &s;ucce&s;&s;e may fill the world with admiration, and convince all Subjects of that &s;in, is the prayer of him who is in great truth,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>1659.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Majesties most humble and faithful &s;ervant,
Lewis de Harro.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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