Feilding- Hamilton Correspondence: GD 406/1/9469 Page 03
Letter of Lord Basil Feilding to his brother-in-law James, 3rd Marquis [later 1st
Duke] of Hamilton, 7th August 1637 New Style
Letters from Basil, Viscount Feilding to James, third Marquis of Hamilton concerning collecting of art in Venice, 1635-1639.
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State, it might prove his ruin and cast
him so far behind in their opinion
here as he would never be able to recover it. However I am not so hot
upon revenge as to think it fit to com
pose it by renewing the memory of such
discontents as are ended with such mutual
satisfaction, but rather desire that Your
Lordship and the nearest of my friends, by
Your Lordship’s advice, would no ways reflect
upon these passages in Your Lordship’s and
their usage of him, and would be
pleased to show a greater forwardness to
further and assist him in his affairs,
His Majesty’s service, which is to be considered
in the first place, requiring it and
the great favours I receive daily from
this State, in the several expressions of
their esteem of me, obliging me to
honour and reverence the character of
their minister, were it placed upon
the greatest enemy I had, bends some
opinion which may be had of the Ambassador’s
innocence, if this State finding how little
His Majesty was moved with such complaints, would not seem to own them, but
rather discharge themselves upon their
Ambassador, which though I hardly believe, yet
it is not impossible or a way unpractised
and with great reason sometimes by
Transcription by Rosalind K. Marshall 2006
