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I refer it to be notified by some other's Relation; Sith it was not unknown to any of any Calling, that then were acquainted with the State of that Government. For at my first coming thither, the People of that Country stood in dangerous Terms of discontentment; partly for some Courses that were held in England, as they thought to their singular Prejudice, but most of all in respect of the insolent Demeanour of some of her Highness's Ministers, which only respected their private Emolument; little weighing in their Dealing, what the Queen had contracted with the States of the Country: Whereupon was conceived a mighty Fear on every side, that both a