to, and makes several towns of Alsatia do him homage. Mr. Ancell, an English Colonel, was to see me, and Monsieur Monpolian, and Count Noaille. Mr. Bracey came, and told me that the States were up without doing any thing, for Leyden was not there. Delf would enter into a league with France as well as with us. Dort and Brill for us. Pats, and the rest of the Arminian faction at Rotterdam against us, but they were overruled. In the evening I went to the Prince; he told me I was better informed than he, for the town of Amsterdam was changed; that now they would not admit of a guarantee with us, without entering into a league defensive with France, which the Prince hath no mind to consent to, for these reasons: because it would make a perpetual division in the Commonwealth; and if there should be any difference between England and them, it would be a disputable case of whose side it should be. On the other side, if they should refuse it, it may be they, with their industry, might get the Dutch of their side, and leave us out. He seemed to be mightily out of humour. I told him all I knew of the Duke of Monmouth, and what I fancied was to be the cause of the Duke's coming. I gave him my opinion upon it, which he thanked
