Having thus delivered the truth of my condition in matter of fact, I
presume there will need nothing farther of argument, with so good a
friend and brother, to quicken and keep alive your constant endeavours
for me, or indeed with such others whose concurrence is necessary to
render your brotherly offices effectual, to afford the same
accordingly, upon the mere account of our Master's honour and service,
without other relation to the person that bears his image in this
particular.
I pray you, as you have done hitherto, permit my brother Turnor to
remind you of these things as often as occasion shall require.
My Lord Sandwich, according to our computation here, will begin his
journey towards us to-morrow from the Corunna, and if his Excellency
makes no stop by the way will arrive in this Court about twenty days
hence, hardly sooner. I rest, dear brother, your most affectionate
brother and faithful servant,
RICHARD FANSHAWE.--Ibid.
TO HIS MAJESTY.
Madrid, Thursday, 3rd of June, 1666, stilo loci.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
By the hands of my Lord of Sandwich, who arrived in this Court, upon
Friday last, was delivered to me a letter of Revocation from your
Majesty, directed to the Queen Regent; and at the same time another,
with which your Majesty honoured me for myself, implying the
principal, if not the only, motive of the former to have been, some
exceptions that had been made to the papers which I signed with the
Duke of Medina de las Torres, upon the 17th of December last
past;[Footnote: Sir Richard Fanshawe wrote in the margin of the rough
transcript, "Relating to the Commerce of this Crown, and the
establishing a Truce between these and Portugal.
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