The secret history of White-Hall, from the restoration of Charles II down to the abdication of the late K. James writ at the request of a noble lord, and conveyed to him in letters, by ̲̲̲late secretary-interpreter to the Marquess of Louvois, who by that means had the perusal of all the private minutes between England and France for many years : the whole consisting of secret memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal'd, as not being discoverable by any other hand / publish'd from the original papers, by D. Jones, gent.
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The secret history of White-Hall, from the restoration of Charles II down to the abdication of the late K. James writ at the request of a noble lord, and conveyed to him in letters, by ̲̲̲late secretary-interpreter to the Marquess of Louvois, who by that means had the perusal of all the private minutes between England and France for many years : the whole consisting of secret memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal'd, as not being discoverable by any other hand / publish'd from the original papers, by D. Jones, gent.
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Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.
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London :: Printed, and are to be sold by R. Baldwin,
1697.
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Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
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"The secret history of White-Hall, from the restoration of Charles II down to the abdication of the late K. James writ at the request of a noble lord, and conveyed to him in letters, by ̲̲̲late secretary-interpreter to the Marquess of Louvois, who by that means had the perusal of all the private minutes between England and France for many years : the whole consisting of secret memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal'd, as not being discoverable by any other hand / publish'd from the original papers, by D. Jones, gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47022.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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LETTER IX. (Book 9)
The Dutch allarm'd at the French King's Irruption into Flanders, sent a Letter to King Charles II. about it, a Copy of which Letter was transmitted to the French Court.
My Lord,
IF the Dutch underhand assisting the Spani∣ard, as I have mentioned in my last, set the French King upon Thoughts of Revenge, a perusal of the Contents of the States Let∣ter to our King upon the account of his En∣croachments, whetted his Fury to an high Degree; but all was smothered for the pre∣sent, there being many rubs that lay in his way that must first be removed; what the
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Contents of the said Letter was, may be ea∣sily guessed at, but the sight of any true Co∣py of it I could ne're get; the general ru∣mour concerning it was, that our King should send it as soon as he had read it to the French King; but the Minutes say, it was only a Co∣py of it, that was transmitted into France, and that not by the King but that it was Surreptitiously gotten from the Secretaries-Office and sent to that Court; but that how∣ever they ordered their private Agents both in Holland and England, to report that our King sent it, that they might provoke the Hollanders to use such Carriage towards him, as might dispose him to join with the French in a new War against them; which they had a Design to put him upon in revenge of that Letter, and of the Succours the Dutch had sent the Spaniards, though no more then they were obliged to do defensively, pursu∣ant to the Tenour of their Peace with Spain; of which War with the Preliminaries tend∣ing to it, I shall not fail to transmit your Lordship an account—and such in many particulars, as I do not Question, but will be very grateful to your Lordship,
Whose, Humble Servant I am.
Paris,April 18. 1676. N. St.
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