iend of yours that I brought along with me,
the whole instructions and all the other papers that were delivered to
the Commissioners, and by the particulars of those it appeared to us
both that they had been so solicitous, viz., in the things that related
to your Charter, and especially to the liberty of your consciences, that
I could not but wonder at it, and add to the number of those that cannot
think it becomes his Majesty to recall Commissioners sent so far with no
other instructions than those, before they have time to do any part of
the good intended you by themselves, and before they are accused of
having done any one harmful thing, even in your private letters either
to me or (as far as I know) to any of your friends here, who will be
much discouraged from appearing on your behalf; and much disabled to do
it successfully so long as such proceedings as these that relate to the
Commissioners supply others with objections which those that wish you
well are unable to answer.

"I should not have taken this liberty, which the honour of your letter
ought to have filled with little less than acknowledgment, if the
favourable construction you have made of my former endeavours to do you
good offices did not engage me to continue them, though in a way which
(in my poor apprehension) tends very directly to serve you, whether I do
or no to please you; and as I presume you will receive, both from his
Majesty and my Lord Chancellor, express assurances that there is nothing
intended in violation to your Charter, so if the Commissioners should
break their instructions and endeavour to frustrate his Majesty's just
and favourable intentions towards you, you may find that some of your
friends here were not backward to accuse the Commissioners upon general
surmises that may injure you, than they will be ready to represent your
grievances, in case they shall actually oppress you; which, that they
may never do, is not more the expectation of them that recommended them
to you than it is the hearty wish of a person who, upon the account of
your faithfulness and care of so good a work as the conversion of the
natives among you, is in a peculiar manner concerned to shew himself,
honoured Sir, your most affectionate and most humble servant,[144]

"RO. BOYLE."

But in addition to the benevolent and learned Robert Boyle and their
other friends in England, besides Lord Clarendon and the King, who
disapproved of their pretentious spirit and