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Title: Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... [1693]

Author: Monsieur de Cros

Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32656]

Language: English

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LETTER
FROM

Monsieur _de CROS_,

Who was an Embassador at the Treaty of _Nimeguen_, and a
Resident at _England_, in K. _Charles_ the Second's Reign.)
To the Lord ----

BEING AN
ANSWER
TO
Sir _Wm TEMPLE_'s
MEMOIRS,

Concerning what passed from the Year 1672, until the Year 1679.

LONDON,

Printed for _Abel Roper_ at the _Mitre_, near _Temple-Bar_, 1693,

A LETTER from Mons. _de Cros_, &c.

_My Lord_,

I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir _W. T._ hath caused to
be Printed against me. I know very well that Sir _W._ is of great
Worth, and deserves well; and that he hath been a long time employed,
and that too upon important occasions; but I am as certain, that he
had but a small share in the Secrecy of the late King _Charles_'s
Designs in the greatest part of the Affairs, for which he was
employed, from 72, till 79, which is the main Subject of his Work.

This Consideration alone might not perhaps have given me the
curiosity, or at least, any great earnestness to read his Memoirs; and
I might have very well judged that I could draw from them no
sufficient light and insight for the discovery of so many Intrigues.

Nay besides, I might have doubted whether or no these Memoirs might
not have been his own Panegyrick upon himself, and the diminution and
undervaluing of the real Worth