this week, whose name is Lucklama; he is deputy for the province of Frise; afterwards I came home. Mr. Car, who knows a good deal of the affairs of this country, came. In the afternoon I went to Hounslerdyke. When I came home, Mr. Meredith came to see me; he showed me the States' answer to Monsieur de Lira's[1] memorial about Maestricht. I writ to my Lord Sunderland, Lord Essex, Lord Halifax, and Mr. Hide.
MR. SIDNEY TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.
My Lord,
Your Lordship made me so melancholy at my coming away, that I could not recover till I came hither; but, finding the Prince in so good humour, and that he hath reason to be so, hath cheered up my spirits extremely. He saith his affairs here go well enough, and if ours did so in England he should be perfectly satisfied. He had little hopes of this when I came to him, but I have now given him a good deal; I never saw a man more pleased than he was when I told him of the kindness of some of his friends in England; and I believe,
- ↑ The Spanish ambassador at the Hague.
