I have the honour of your Letter, which I am almost sorry to have received: some few daies before the receit thereof D[octor] _Turner_, who accompanied my L. _Carow_ [_Carey_] to _Sion_ to dinner, shewed me a Letter from you, from which I conceived good hopes that your businesses, being devolved into the hands of the Treasurer, had been in much more forwardnesse, then by your Letter to me they appear to be. I beseech God establish them, and hasten them, and with them, or without them, as he sees most conducible to his purpose upon you, continue in you a relying upon him, and a satisfaction in his waies. I know not whether any Letter from your son, or any other report, may have given you any mention of me; he writ to me from the _Compter_, that he was under a trifling arrest, and that 3{ l} and some little more would discharge him. I sent my man with that money, but bid him see it emploied for his discharge: he found more actions, and returned. Next day he writ to me that 8{ l} would discharge him, and that M{ r} _Selden_ would lay down half. But M{ r} _Selden_ and I speaking together, thought it the fittest way, to respite all, till, in a few daies, by his writing to you, we might be directed therein; and in the mean time, took order with the Keeper to accommodate him, and I bade my man _Martin_, as from himself, to serve his present want with some things. Since we told him, that we would attend a return of his Letter to you, I heard no more of him, but I hear he is out. Whosoever serves you with relations from this Town, I am sure prevents me of all I can say. The Palatinate is absolutely lost; for before this Letter come to you, we make account that _Heydelberg_ and _Frankindale_ is lost, and _Manheme_ [_Mannheim_] distressed, _Mansfield_ came to _Breda_, and _Gonzales_ to _Brussels_, with great losses on both sides, but equall. The P[rince] of _Orange_ is but now come to _Breda_, and with him, all that he is able to make, even out of the Garrisons of their Towns. The ways of victuall to _Spinolaes_ Army, are almost all precluded by him, and he likely to put upon the raising of _Spinola_, between whom and the Town, there are hotter disputes, then ever our times saw. The Secretary of the States here shewed me a Letter yesternight, that the Town spends 6000 pound of powder a day, and hath spent since the siege 250{ m} pounds. _Argits_ Regiment and my L. _Vaux_, are so diminished by commings away, as that both (I think) make not now in Muster above 600. M{ r} _Gage_ is returning to _Rome_, but of this Negotiation I dare say nothing by a Letter of adventure. The direction which his Ma{ ty} gave for Preachers, had scandalized many; therefore he descended to pursue them with certain reasons of his proceedings therein; and I had commandment to publish them in a Sermon at the Crosse, to as great a Congregation as ever I saw together, where they received comfortable assurance of his Ma{ ties} constancy in Religion, and of his desire that all men should be bred in the knowledge of such things, as might preserve them from the superstition of _Rome_. I presume it is but a little while before we shall see you here, but that little time is likely to produce many things greatly considerable. Present, I pray, my thankfull services to your good daughters. I can give them no better a room in my prayers, and wishes, then my poore _Constance_ hath, and they have that; so have you Sir, with