"] a consideration
sufficient to have utterly cast down a soul less sensible than hath
ever been mine of your Majesty's least show of displeasure, though not
accompanied with other punishments, if your Majesty, according to the
accustomed tenderness of your royal disposition, in which you excel
all monarchs living, to comfort an old servant to your Majesty, had
not yourself broken the blow in the descent, by this gracious
expression in the same letter: That I may assure myself, your Majesty
believes I proceeded in the articles signed by me, as aforesaid, with
integrity and regard to your royal service, and that I may be farther
assured the same will justify me towards your Majesty, whatever
exceptions may have been made to my papers.
In obedience to your Majesty's letter above-mentioned, I make account,
God willing, to be upon my way towards England some time next month;
having in the interim performed to my Lord Sandwich, as I hope I shall
to full satisfaction, those offices which your Majesty commands me in
the same; whose royal person, council, and undertakings, God Almighty
preserve and prosper many years; the daily fervent prayer of
Your Majesty's ever loyal subject, ever faithful and most obedient
servant,
RICHARD FANSHAWE.
FROM LYONEL FANSHAWE, ESQ., TO JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, ESQ.
[See MEMOIRS, p. 217.]
Madrid, Thursday, 7/17 June, 1666.
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