The Duke of Buckingham to Sir Wa. Aston.
I Had not leisure in my former dispatch, being hastie to write the reason why I wondered at, the errour you commited in the last dispatch of my Lord of Bristols and yours; for the matter is, that his Majestie having plainely written unto you both in his former di∣spatch, that he desired to be assured of the restitution of the Palati∣nate, before the Deposorium was made, seeing he would be sorrie to welcome home one Daughter with a smiling cheer, and leave his own onely Daughter at the same time weeping and disconsolate. And the Prince having also written unto you, that he never meant to match there, and be frustrated of the restitution of the Palatinate so often promised, that notwithstanding this clear Language, you should have joyned with my Lord of Bristol in a resolution of so hastie a de∣livery of the Prince's Proxie, before you had received his Majesties answer to your former dispatch, wherein my Lord of Bristol urged of his Majestie a harsh answer and direction, and his Majestie cannot but take it for a kind of Scorn, that within 4. dayes after ye had urged his Majesties answer, ye should in the mean time take resolutions of your own heads. You may do well, because there is no leisure in this hastie dispatch for his Majestie to answer my Lord of Bristols last Letter (which wil be done by the next duplicate of this same dispatch) to acquaint him in the mean time with this Letter, which his Majestie himself hath dictated unto me. And so in haste I bid you fare∣well.
Yours, &c. G. B.