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My Lord,
I Was glad to apprehend the opportunity of this Packet to con∣vey my humble service to your Lordship.
Ther are old doings in France, and tis no new thing for the French to be always a doing, they have such a stirring genius. The Queen Mother hath made an escape to Brussells, and Monsieur to Lorain wher they say, he courts very earnestly the Dukes sister, a young
Lady under twenty; they say a Contract is pass'd already, but the French Cardinall opposeth it; for they say that Lorain Milk sel∣dom breeds good bloud in France: Not only the King, but the whole Gallican Church hath protest•…•… against it in a solemn Synod; for the Heir apparant of the Crown of France, cannot marry without the Royall consent. This aggravats a grudg the French King hath to the Duke, for siding with the Imperialists, and for things refle∣cting upon the Dutchy of Bar; for which he is hommogeable to the Crown of France, as he is to the Emperor for Lorain: A hard task it is to serve two Masters; and an unhappy situation it is, to lie 'twixt two puissant Monarchs; as the Dukes of Savoy and Lorain do: So I kiss your Lordships hands, and rest
My Lord,
Your most humble and ready Servitor, J. H.
VVestmin. 1 of April. 1633.