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THE TIMES OF CHARLES THE SECOND.
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and to stay for an answer to our despatch at the Hague, in case the Prince judges any thing amiss or necessary in his instructions for Berlin.

I know not what to say for my Lord Bodmin, but that he is my Lord President's son, and has had, it seems, a long promise of this commission, but that and twenty other things would not have passed with me, and therefore I take myself to be better at Sheen than in the Secretary's place, though my Lord Sunderland pressed me upon it again so late as Saturday last ; but you know, I suppose, that I am fixed, because you know several of the reasons I have for it. The Prince will be pleased, I hope, with the resolutions he finds when here in all the foreign matters, which are so exactly upon his own plan ; and my Lord Sunderland and his friends answer to you that they will last.

I will repeat nothing that I write in the enclosed to the Prince, but relieve your eyes as soon as I can by telling you that I am ever and perfectly yours,

William Temple.

4th.Monsieur Graham, alias the Baron D'Arly, came to me, and told me that the Duke de Vitry had told him that the King his master had a de-