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ces the Ambassador was honoured with) then
I made no question but what I shall
add will be worthy of belief, that this
State, taking very ill that their ambassador,
by undervaluing me to the King, should
let himself loose so far, and exceed
his instructions, gave him a great check
for it by a most sharp reprehension
which is esteemed a grave blot here and may
lie heavy upon him, insomuch as his
father was much dejected at it, and
complaining to some of the chief senators for the hard usage, and disreputation
cast upon his son in what he inten-
ded only for the public service, wherein
his son pretended by his dextrous and
discreet carriage to the honour of allaying
His Majesty’s first heat and sense of the
injury and of removing the secretaries from their first
demands to such fair terms of accommodation, the Procurator Justiniano being
one of them, gave him this answer:
‘Mandiamo I nostri Ambassiatori
legati, e non sciolti’. For the
two last accidents, I am told from a
very good hand that the Ambassador had
no order to represent them to His Majesty
and that, if it were known here that
he had made such complaints or that
I should give account thereof to the

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the 7/17 of July, I shall speedily put
in execution, and have great care in observing
punctually those advertisements which for the
[?buying] and packaging them up, His Majesty
hath been pleased by Your Lordship to give me
notice of. The price hath been since
raised by the Spanish Ambassador offering
for them 14m ducats, so that I
shall not be able to compass them
at 12m. However if they can be
got at any reasonable rate, I
shall presently conclude the bargain and dare assure you that Mr Petty
shall not take them out of my hands
for My Lord of Arundel. Daniel
Nice’s cabinet, which My Lord of
Arundel hath agreed for at an excessive
rate is not worth three thousand
pound, which Mr Petty being much troubled at, would fain bring My Lord
of Arundel off, and break the treaty. This news I
am sure will not displease the King
in that he will not have cause to
repent the loss of such rarities as
are esteemed so far above their
true value. Your Lordship will be
pleased farther to let [erroneously written as ‘tell’] His Majesty
know that I may have Procurator

Transcription by Rosalind K. Marshall 2006