that well could be
to gain every body, and I hope God will touch their hearts. His
Majestie is very sensible of the service you have done him and he
desires you may continue, for which he hopes he may yet be able to
reward you. He wrote to France as soon's he landed, and sent it with
the shipe he came in, which we hope got safe there long ago. It is
not often that we can have opportunity of writeing or sending there,
and the Queen and others will be mighty impatient to hear
frequently; therefore his Majestie expects you should write there
frequently, and give them all the accounts you can. I have reason to
hope we shall very quickly see a new face on affairs abroad in the
King's favour, which is all I dare comitt to paper. The Government
will nott certainly send all the strength against us they can, but
e'er long, perhaps, they may have ocasion for their troups else
where.

"I belive one wou'd speak to you lately of a kind of comisary of the
Dutch, that may be spoke to, which by no means ought to be
neglected, and he being on your side the watter, it is left to you,
and you must not stick at offering such a reward as he himself can
desire, which I shall see made good: there should no time be lost in
this, and I'll be glad to know soon if there be any hopes that way.

"Tho' the way of sending letters betwixt us be now much more
difficult than ever, yet you must write as often as you possiblie
can get any probable way of sending of them safe; and pray give us
all the accounts you can. I have ordred some of the King's
declarations for England to be sent you, and when they come to your
hands you wou'd get some way of sending them to London and other
places of England. Send the enclosed for my wife under a cover, as
you used to do; by my not hearing from her, I am affraid my last has
not come to her hands. When any comes from her for me, pray take
care that you send them a safe way. We long to know what effects the
news of the King's arivall had at London, Stirling, and Edinburgh. I
suppose you still hear from Kate Bruce. I do not understand what she
means by going to the country, which she mentions in her letter to
you.

"I see in one of the prints that Lawrance is come off from London,
so by this time he must certainly be in Scotland; pray let me know
what you hear of him. I