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our freinds of the effect of my negotiation; Now I haue nothing
to adde except I would speake of conjectures & complayntes, but
these are subiects wherein I take no delight, I must depend vpon
a prouidence for to subsist.
When I am out of this Laborinth I will bee more carefull to
enforme ni}r Lord Prim[ate] & my Lord of Duresme, then hitherto
I haue been & I hope giue them occasion in this worke, to shewe
themselues more then hitherto I haue been able. I hope Sr [-Tho-[mas]-] {+Tho-
[mas]+} wonted fauour & Patronage to recom[m]end & relieue mee
in tymes of want & extremity whereinto 1 seeme to precipitate my
selfe carelesly, will not bee wantinge soe longe as I walk vprightly
without partiality; God is able to turne all to the best, Let vs
therefore trust to him in well doeinge and p[er]seuere vnto the end.
Com[m]end mee to all freinds, pray instantly for mee that I may
come fairely off from hence, for if it please God to appease the
euill will and hatred, of a fewe, It is likely a great doore will bee
opened here, of w:ch more God willinge hereafter.
[John Durie].
To [William Laud].1
(Stockholm, 21 April 1638.)
Stockholme the 21. Aprill [1638].
The meetinge is past at least a moneth agoe, & I haue
deferred to write because I would not write of particular broyles &
difficulties, and could not write of any good resolutions or
satisfactory conclusions neyther can I as yet write much of the latter, but
yet least I should forget my duty I cannot forbeare any longer to
write some thing. Thus it is then. At this parliament besides the
Lords Bishops the whole flowre of the Clergie of Sweden was
gathered together till the number of an hundred p[er]sons at least. I
finding ye multitude soe extreame great & knowing the p[re]iudices
w:ch they had already, and what might bee wrought further vpon
them by the popular insinuations & p[er]swasions of the B[isho]pp
of Westerose I thought it necessary to giue vp a twofold information,
the one concerninge my hope, and the grounds of my solicitacon
shewing that with p[erjmission and foreknowledge of my sup[er]iours,
and with consent of other forrayne Churches, I laboured for a
Theo-logicall way of Composinge differences, in Religion, the other
Concerninge the particular heads &: passages of my treatie with the
diuines of this Church shewinge with whom I had dealt & what
was proposed summarily to euery one, what answere was giuen, how
the B[isho]pp of Westerose had stopped the proceedings, and that
’ Copy in Rawl. Ms. C. 911 (BL), fol. 397 ff. Cf. below, Durie to Laud,
*/« 1638.
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