to Mr. Godolphin, who told me that they fancied that Monsieur Van Lewin was colder in the business of the guarantee than he had been; that he said there was no haste in concluding it, that there was now on foot. the defensive treaty, which he thought would be sufficient for the present. Upon this, he told me I was to press all I could to have the project of the guarantee finished; for, though there never had been so good alliances made all that time, they would not be liked, because they were made in my Lord Treasurer's time, and therefore it would be absolutely necessary to have some new ones made. Soon after I spoke to my Lord of Essex, who, I find, is mightily out of heart upon the King's intentions to raise new troops of musqueteers, which he says he will never consent to, nor set his hand to the establishment of. Another thing that
one entirely opposed to your majesty's interests, and attached to those of the Prince of Grange. I can hardly think that this circumstance is invented. I well know that my Lord Sunderland can, through Mr. Sidney, keep up his connexion with the Prince of Orange, which may come to light in future times; but, in the mean time, he keeps a course entirely favourable to the Catholics, and which alienates the King his master from all other attachments but to the interests of your majesty."—Dalrymple. The whole of this statement of Sunderland was probably false, with the exception of the visit, and that is misrepresented.
