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meddelanden och aktstycken
To Thomas Roe.1
(Stockholm, 9 Dec. 1637.)
Right Worship full,
Y:t w:ch I did promise the last weeke in my large letter w:ch
I wrote unto yow in answer to yours of the 10. of Octob. I haue
endevoured to performer for I haue acquainted the L:d Chancelour
with the passages of your letter w:ch concerneth ye matter of State
& the intended treaties. & to relate all unto yow Circumstantially;
yow may take notice y:t it fell out on a tyrne wherin they
hadde gotten very ill newes from Pomerania; at w:ch I did find
him not a little troubled, for they satte till two of the klock in the
afternoone in Counsell: after hee was come out I dined with him;
& hauing prepared an extract out of your letter I gaue it him to
read, hee &: I beeing priuat: when hee hadde redde it & considered
it a prettie while hee smiled & in a louing manner did beginne to
speake of your good zeale & affection to the common cause & of
your faithfulnesse & uprightnesse in your dealings exceeding much
to your praise. Then hee said I would y:t hee were now here, &
I would putte him in mind of some thinges w:ch passed betwixt us
in Prussia at Elbing: I would ask him said hee whether euer
any thing of the most materiall promises haue beene performed:
here hee did runne out a while upon this subiect; & then came to
complaine how y:t they hadde beene so long deserted, by all their
confederates who made use of them for their owne ease & sought
only to keep them in the fire to warm the[m]selues at it; & y:t they
could haue hadde long ago honorable & good conditions of peace
for themselues if they would haue letten the respect of their
confederates fall to the ground & not stood upon the businesse of a
generall restitution & Amnestia towards the protestant Princes; & now
for their good will towards the common they are like to pay well
for it in their priuat. I told him y:t their friends were now desirous
to ioyne with them; & y:t it seemed they stood in their owne way,
in not making use of the oportunitie w:ch was offered of these
treaties to w:ch they were invited. Hee told me y:t I did not
understand this businesse; & y:t hee considered not the formalitie
of a treatie but the effect & realitie w:ch was licklye to bee in
them; & then againe hee mentioned the small effect w:ch other
treaties hadde taken & the small reall assistance w:ch they hadde
gotten from any Confederates: except said hee these leauies w:ch
haue beene permitted lately by his Maiestie, for w:ch wee are bound
to thank him & doe acknowledge it as a favour; wee haue not
gotten any reall supply, from thence: then hee spoke of the treaties
1 In the Durie Collection, House of I.ords. Endorsed by Laud: »Rece.
Janua. 28. ’ff. Fro[m] Mr. Durye to Sr Tho: Rowe. His Conference with
Oxenstearne about the affaires of Sweden in Relatio[n] to England.»
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