CERTAIN LETTERS EVIDENCING THE KING'S STEADFASTNESS IN THE Protestant Religion: SENT From the Princess of Turenne, and the Ministers of Charenton, to some Persons of Quality in LONDON.  
LONDON, Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell, and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet. 1660.   

To the READER.  
SUch hath been the unwearied malice of the enemies of our peace, that when by open force they could no longer rationally hope to hinder a settlement on the sure foundations of Righteousness and Justice, They have made lies their refuge; and laboured to poison the affections of the good people of England, whose eyes the Lord hath now opened to see what is most conducing to their peace. For though it hath pleased God by a series of wonderful and gracious providences to break the several yokes of Tyranny under which the Nation groaned, though by the courage and wisdom of the Noble Lord General Monck, the fears of good men are secured from any further violences, and their hopes raised to enjoy their ancient liberties by free Parliaments, yet those Fanatique spirits cease not to undermine our hopes, and to endeavour to involve us into new confusions: It is a lasting settlement which they fear, and therefore they bend their malice against Him whom the body of the People look upon as the Cornerstone (under God) of that settlement. His Wisdom, His Moderation, and His other eminent Virtues are so universally known at home and abroad, they are so improved in the school of affliction, which hath procured him so many eye-witnesses of those graces, even persons of the greatest quality beyond Sea (who otherwise should only have known them by fame.) That his enemies had no hope to prevail by lessening him as to those endowments. But having driven him from the places where the reformed Religion is openly professed, they have basely slandered him of late, as if he had left the Profession of that Faith of which he was born to be the Defender. This hath engaged many very considerable persons beyond the Sea to bear witness to the Truth, and to vindicate so clear and unquestionable an innocence from that false and base calumny. Divers Letters have been written, four are here presented to public view: The first is from the Princess of Turenne, Wife to one of the greatest Captains that Europe hath seen in this Age, who for the eminent services done to the Crown of France, is of late justly advanced to be Marshal-General of that kingdom, and continues constant in the reformed Religion. The Letter itself speaks sufficiently both the Wisdom and Piety of that Princess, she is the Grandchild of the famous Duke and Martial de la Force, whose Family hath always continued zealously Protestant's, and her testimony is above exception, for she speaks from her own particular knowledge. The Original is in the hands of a Noble Lady her Cousin German here in London, to whom it was written, and hath been seen by many.  
The other Letters are from three Ministers of the reformed Church at Charenton near Paris, men so famous for their learned Writings, that their names make them sufficiently known: all of them are certainly most impartial witnesses, they cannot be presumed to be biased by any private interest, they are not born his Subjects whose innocence they defend: It is only for the Truth that they engage, and for the concerns of the reformed Religion, being deeply sensible how much its Honour and Safety depends on the present transactions here, which they so fully express, that the Reader shall be no longer detained from the following Letters.   


UNE LETTRE DE S. A. MADAME De TURENNE, A Madamoiselle De CASTELNAUT, A LONDRES.  
SI vous n'esteé accoustumée de long temps, ma chere Cousine, à supporter & à pardonner ma paresse, je serors en peine du jugement que vous faites de mon silence, & de ce que j'ay tant differe à repondre a la derniere lettre que j'ay receve de vous, Mats si vostre facilite me met à couvert des reproches que vous auries droit de me faire, elle ne me garentit pas de ceux que je me dois faire a moy mesme lors que je neglige de vous donner les marques qui sont en ma puissance, de la tendresse que jay pour vous; Il est uray que j'aurois plus d'empressement à vous en donner des prevues essentielles & utiles que je n'en ay a vous en faire voir ces foibles asseurances: & je vous assure, ma chere Cousine, que les occasions m'en seront tousiours fort cheres, & que je les embrasseray de bon coeur toutes les fois que je le pourray, Jay pourtant à vous faire une plainte de vous mesme, que vous m'avéz encore escrit a vec ceremonie, & que vous n'avéz pas voulu suiure cette métode icy qui est beaucoup plus libre & plus commode, & sans mentir c'est ce qui à encore un peu aydé a ma paresse car je suis si discoutumeé d'escrire en forme & sur tout aux gens que j'ayme cordialement, qui je ne scay comēt m'y prendre et je craignois qu'ily ait trop d'in civilité apres tous les complimēts qui vous me faites d'en user avec tant de liberté. En fin pourtant jay creu Madamoiselle ma chere Cousine, que cela ne seroit pas capable de vous faire subsonner que je manquasse à joindre a l'affection qui j'ay pour vous, tous les sentemens d'honneur & de consideration qui vous sont deu, & à quoy je suis plus particulierement obligeé qu'une autre et par la proximité & par quantité d'autres raisons. Etsi pourquoy je me suis fermee a continuer den user de cette sorte dans la resolution de vous vainere & de vous obliger d'én faire de mesme autrement javoue que je prendrois ce refus pour un certein compliment qui marqueroit plus de civilite que d'amitie, & pour une espece de renoncement au commerce je veux done atendre de vous chere Cousine, une Lettre fort tendre & peu ceremonieuse & je vous les demande de cette sorte & de recevoir celle cy de la mesme affection qu'elle vous est écrite. Il me tarde fort que nous ayons la satisfaction de vous revoir en ce pays cy, vous au és bien veu desja des revolutions en celuy ou vous estes, & quelque desir que je souhaite de tout mon coeur que vous y puissiés encore voir celle que l'estat present des affaires nous donne lieu de pouvoir bien tost esperer, & que tous les gens de bien desirent avec une extreme passion, qui est le retour du Roy dans son premier éclat & sa premiere authorite jay tousiours souhaite avec grande passion le retablissement de ce Prince par diverses considerations & par le desir qu'il me semble que chacun doit avoir que les choses se fasent dans la justice, & par l'horreur du crime commis sur la personne du Roy son pere qui a depuis attiré de si terribles jugemens sur ces nations, & une li effroyable confusion parmy les Eglises que Dieu y auoit recueillies & quil y avoit fait fleurir avec tant d'eclat et de pureté, qu'on ne peut s'empescher de pleurer sur leurs ruines aussi a meremēt qu' Edras, Nehemie, & Daniel sur celles de Jerusalem, jusqu' à ce quil ait pleu au Seigneur de nous ex aucer & de les retablir, j'avoue que je ne crois point que ce peche se puisse expier, ny cet interdit estre osté du milieu d'eux que par le retablissement de leur legitime & Souerain Seigneur & en luy rendant la puissance qu'il à receue de Dieu & qui depuis long temps on usurpe sur luy, le mesme qui nous ordonne de rendre à Dieu ce qui appartient a Dieu, nous commande aussi de rendre a Cezar ce qui appartient a Cezar, de sorte que je crois que celuy qui voudroit le contenter dun de ces deux devoirs, & separer ainsy les choses qui Dieu a conjointes, ne satisferoit a aucun, & un seruice ainsy es-tropié seroit bien moins acceptable par mi les Christiens, que nestoit une offrande mutilee parmi les Juifs. Ces considerations me font souhaiter avec grande passion que Dieu inspire ces nations a faire leur devoir, mais javoue que je redouble mes voeux & mon ardeur lors qui j'oy dire que ceux qui gouvernent a present ne sont plus tous ces Sectaires, mais des gens de nostre profession. Ils ont eu le malheur d'estre calomnies par le; adversaires comme complices de la mort de leur Souverain, & cette infame acusation semble avoir noircy tous leurs freres; loué soit le Dieu de misericorde qui leur presente une si belle occasion de s'en lauer & d'en ofter la reproche d'une si sainte profession qu'est la nostre, de que nous nous sommes tous jours vantés qu' elle auoit cet auantage par dessus toutes les autres d'apprendre mieux qu' aucun ce que l'ondoit aux Souverains & de ne permettre sous aucun pretexte qu'on se dispensant du serment de fidelité qu' on leur auroit presté, j'ay une telle impatience d'apprendre qu' on l'ait retablie en honneur de ce costé la par une action si juste & si belle, que je ne vous puis dire avec combien d'affection je le demanday a Dieu le jour du jusne que nous celebrasmes le semain de Pasque a Charenton: & combien je luy demande tous les jours, & je crois quil n'y a guere de gens qui s'affectionent à la Paix de Jerusalem qui ne luy facent cette priere, & je vois tous ceux de nostre profession en ce Royaune out plus ce desir que jamais, soit que Dieu leur inspire ce mouvement dans le temps qu'il veut faire son oevure de l'en prier plus instament, comme il se plaist souuent a faire rencontrer les voeux de ses enfans avec les decrets de sa providence, soit que l'on ait mieux remarqué depuis quelque temps des effets de la pieté du Roy d' Angleterre qui fait que l'on sinteresse plus sensiblement a ce qui le touche. Pour moy j'avoue que j'en fus tres satisfaite quand j'eu l'honeur de luy faire la reverance la derniere fois qu'il a passe en ce pais, l ayant ouy parler auce tant de tes moignages de piete j'en fus tres edifiée, Il voulut aussi donner cette marque de sa communion avec nos Eglises d'aller au presche a la Rochel & Roven en passant, & sil eust sejourné icy nons eussions eu l'honeur de le voir à Charenton, il ne se peut rien ajouster a la regularité qu'a ce Prince a assister tous les jours aux exercices de piete qui se font ches luy soir & matin; en fin je loue Dieu de ce que lon void sur luy des marques de l'Election de Diu & j'espere qui'l se servira de luy pour retablir ce que nous avous veu autre fois avec tant de plaisir en ses Etats, & que ses Sujets auront lieu de benir le Seigneur de leur avoir mis au coeur de rendre a leur Roy sa couronne, mais aussi belle qu'il l'eut jamais, & sans la vouloir flestrir & gaster en la luy mettant sur la teste. Je prie Dieu de tout mon coeur qu'il leur en face la grace, & je l'ay si fort au coeur qui je me laisse aller à vous en faire une longue lettre qui a delair d'un petit volume, mais cest qui je crois, chere cousine, que comme vous estes sur les lieux, il est du devoir de contribuer tous jours autant que l'on peut a donner cette pensée a ceux qui ne l'auroient pas, & que chacun doit avoir l'ambition dapporter sa petite pierre a cet excellent ovurage. Comme je souhaite fort que ceux a qui je m'interesse s'employēt aux choses bonnes je serois rauye que Madame vostre belle soeur & vous peussiés contribuer quelque chose a cecy, obliges moy je vous supplie de I'asseurer de mon service tres humble & de me croire tout a vous  
Ox. Caumont. Cemardy 6. Auril 1660.   

A LETTER from the PRINCESS of TURENNE To a Noble Lady her Cousin German, Madam de Castelnaut; at LONDON.  
My Dear Cousin,  
IF you had not been for a long time accustomed to bear with, and to pardon my laziness, I should be in pain for the judgement you might make of my silence, and that I have delayed so long to answer the last Letter I received from you: But if your goodness protects me from the reproaches which you have reason to charge me with, it does not secure me from those which I ought to lay to my own charge, when I neglect to give you such testimonies as I am able of the tenderness I have for you. It is true that I shall be more earnest to give you real and useful proofs of it, than I am to let you see these weak assurances; and you may be confident, my dear Cousin, that I shall ever cherish such opportunities, and embrace them with all my heart as often as I am able. Yet I must complain of you to yourself, because you have again written to me with ceremony, and did not follow this method which is more frank and more convenient; and truly this was the thing which did contribute to my laziness; for I am so unacquainted with formal writing, especially to those I love so hearty, that I know not how to set myself to it, and I was afraid that it would be too uncivil to use such freedom after all those compliments you gave me; Yet at last, Madam my dear Cousin, I thought this should not make you suspect that I could fail to join to that affection I have for you, all those resentments of honour and respect which are due to you, and to which I am more particularly obleiged then another, both by nearness in blood, and by many other reasons: therefore I am fixed to continue in this way in the resolution to overcome you, and to oblige you to do so too; otherwise, I do declare, that I shall take a refusal for such a compliment as witnesses more civility than friendship, and for a kind of renouncing of this commerce. I will therefore, Dear Cousin, expect a very kind Letter with little Ceremony, such a one I do desire, and that you would receive this with the same affection wherewith I do write it. I long much for the satisfaction to see you again in this Country, you have already seen many revolutions in that where you are; and whatever my longing be for your return, I do avow it, That I wish with all my heart you may yet see there that change, which the present condition of affairs gives us reason to hope very shortly, and which all good men desire with an extreme passion: that is, The KING'S return into his former Lustre and Authority. I have ever wished with great passion the re-establishement of that Prince for divers reasons, both for the desire which I think every one ought to have, that things be done according to Justice, and for the horror of the crime committed upon the person of the King his father, which hath since drawn down such terrible judgements on those nations, and so fearful confusions in those Churches, which God had gathered there, and which he had made flourish with so much lustre and purity, that one cannot forbear to weep over their ruin as bitterly as Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel did over that of Jerusalem, until it may please the Lord to hear us & settle them. I profess I cannot believe that that sin can be expiate, nor the interdit removed from among them, but by the re-establishment of their lawful and Sovereign Lord, and by the rendering to him, that power which he received from God, and which for so long a time hath been usurped over him. The same who commands to give God the things which are Gods, commands us also to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's: So that I believe that he who would content himself with one of these two duties, and so separate the things which God hath joined, should satisfy whither, and that so lame a service should be less acceptable among Christians then a lame offering was among the Jews. These considerations make me wish with great passion that God would inspire those Nations to do their duty; but I do avow it, that I double my prayers and my zeal when I hear that the present Governors are no more those sectaries, but men of our profession. They have had the misfortune to be slandered by the adversaries, as accessary to the death of their Sovereign, and that infamous accusation seems to have blacked all their brethren. Blessed be the God of mercy who presents to them so fair an occasion to clear themselves, and to remove that reproach from so holy a profession as ours is, which we have ever bragged to have this advantage above all others, in that it did teach us better than any other that which we own to Sovereigns, and did not permit that men should under any pretext whatsoever dispense themselves of the Oath of Fidelity which they have taken. I have so great an impatiency to hear that they have there so reestablisht it by so just and so lovely an action, that I cannot tell you with how much affection I begged it of God on the Fast day which we kept at Charenton last Easter week, and how earnestly I do beg it every day: And I believe there be few lovers of the Peace of Jerusalem who make not the same prayer; and I see that all those of our profession in this kingdom are more earnest in this then ever: Whether it be that God inspires this motion to pray more earnestly in a time when he will do his work (as he is often pleased to make the prayers of his children meet with the decrees of his providence) or whether they have taken more notice of late of the effects of the Piety of the KING of England, which makes them interess themselves more sensibly in his concerns. For my own part I profess it, that I was exceedingly satisfied when I had the honour to pay my respects to him the last time he passed through this Country, having heard him speak with so great testimonies of piety, that I was extremely edified. He was also pleased to give this mark of his communion with our Churches as to go to Sermon at Rochel and at Roven in his passage; and if he had stayed here, we had had the honour to have seen him at Charenton. There can nothing be added to the regularity which this Prince keeps in assisting daily at those exercises of Piety which are kept morning and evening in his family: In a word I bless God because the marks of God's Election are seen in Him: and I hope God will use his service for re-establishing what we have before seen with so much pleasure in his Dominions, and that his Subjects will have cause to bless the Lord for putting it into their hearts, to render to their King His Crown, and as fair as ever he had it, and without spoiling or defacing it in setting it on his head; I pray God with all my heart that he may give them this Grace, and I do so lay it to heart, that I take the liberty to write you a long Letter of it, which looks like a little volume. But it is, dear Cousin, because I believe that as you are on the place, it is a point of duty to contribute always what one can to infuse these thoughts in such as have them not, and that every one ought to be ambitious to bring their little stone toward that excellent work. As I do desire very much that those in whom I am concerned may employ themselves toward what is excellent, I shall be very glad that my Lady your Sister in Law, and you might contribute somewhat to this; Oblige me by assuring her of my most humble service, and by believing me altogether  
Yours Ox Caumont Tuesday 6. of April New stile 1660.   

UNE LETTRE De Monsieur DAILLE a Monsieur LE ROY.  
Monsieur,  
UN de mes a mis m'ayant prie depuis peu de luy faire venir un exemplaire de la grand Bible de Londres, je me suis souvenu que vous nous offrites I' hyver passé, a Monsieur Duret et a moy, de nous en faire avoir une pour cinquante escus; de sorte que j' ay creu que je ne pouvois mieux m'adresser qu'àvous, dans cette rencontre, afin de servir mon amy, & jéspere que vous ne me refuserés pas la grace que je vous demande de me faire scavoir, si vous estes encore en pouvoir de nous tenir promesse & de m'envoyer ce liure au pris que vous nous aués dit: Au reste je ne puis m'empescher de me rejouir icy avec vous des heureuses nouvelles qui nous vienent du lieu oùvous estes, & qui nous aprenent que les desirs de tous les peuples y semblent rapeller, d'une commune voix, leur Roy naturel & legitime. Outre que la genorosité & I'équité mesme nous obligent à souhaiter que ce Prince rentre dans son Royaume & dans son Patrimoine, dont il a esté injustement depovillé, nous le devons encore desirer pour I'honneur de nostre Religion, qui nous doit estre plus cher que tout autre interest. Car lors que nos adversaires la voulurent charger autrefois du blasme de la mort du feu Roy d'Angleterre, vous saués que nous seumes fort bien nous deffendre de ce reproche, en le rejettāt tout entier sur les Sectaires, qui en effect estoient seules coupables de cet horrible crime: Mais aujourd'huy nous ne sommes plus dans les mesmes termes, puisque les choses ont changé de face, le Sectairisme ayant perdu son credit, ou du moins estant dechû de la puissance Souveraine, qui estoit en ses mains, & au contaire le parti Presbyterien, qui est le nostre, estant celuy qui gouverne presentement en Angleterre: De maniere que s'il laisse échaper la belle occasion que Dieu semble luy ovurir, de retablir S. M. Britanique dans ses Estats, & le faire remonter sur le trosne de ses Ancestres, il est tout clair qu'il n'y aura plus lieu de s'excuser sur les Sectaires, ny de laver nostre sainte Religion, de cette tache, dont, par la grace de Dieu, elle s'est tousjours conseruée pure & nette jusques à present: Je scay bien que l'on fact courir de mauvais bruits de la Religion de ce Prince, & je ne doute point qu'il n'y ait des gens à Londres aussi bien qu'à Paris, qui taschent de persuader au monde, qu'il à quitté nostre Communion pour embrasser celle de Rome. Mais qui pourroit croire une chose qui est si contraire à toute uray semblance? Il ne nous paroist rien de cela, au contraire, nous scavons que quoique ce Prince ait este obligé par l'Estat de sa condition presente, à viure quelque fois dans des lieur où l'exercice de nostre Religion n'est pas permis, neantmoins il a tousjours eu aupres de sa personne, ses Chapelains, qui ne sont rien moins que Papists, & qui par tout ont fact reglement en sa presence, les prieres & les autres parties du service divin. De plus tout Paris & toute la terre a seu, la colere & la juste indignation qu'il tesmoigna lors qu'il aprit les efforts qu'on avoit employés, quoy qu'inutilement pour faire revolter le Duc de Gloucester; & si d'un costé ce jeune Prince fit alors admirer sa Pieté & sa Constance, par la firme resistance qu'il oposa dans une age si tendre, à une si violante & si dangereuse persecution, aussi d'autre part ce qu'il se retira auprés du Roy son frere, & qu'il y chercha un asyle à sa Religion, est une marque bien certaine, que le Roy n'avoit pas quitté cette Religion, puis que si cela eusi esté, le Duc de Glocester au lieu d'un Protecteur eusi trouve en luy un ennemy, & la perte de sa conscience où il en cherchoit la seureté, & où il la rencontra en effet. On objecte à cela que durant tout le temps que S. M. Britanique a passé à la Cour de France, elle ne s'est jamais trovuée dans les assembleés religieuses de ceux de nostre communion, & qu' entre autres, elle n'est pas venue une seule fois à Charenton, aux jours de nos exercices. Mais quoy que cela puisse peut estre sembler d'abord etrange à ceux qui n'en scavent pas la raison, neantmoins comme nous en sommes mieux informez que personne, nous pouvons luy rendre tesmoignage, que la Religion n'en a point esté cause, & qu'il n'en a este empesche que par des considerations de Politique et de Prudence, qui sont, peut estre, particulieres à nostre Eglise; et pour preuve de cela, c'est que quand le Roy d' Angleterre a este hors de Paris, il n'a point fait difficulte d'aller au presche dans les Temples de nos freres, comme par exemple à Caën, & en quelques autres villes. Et en Holande tout de mesme, il a este ouir diverses fois les predications du celebre M. Morus, qui est à present nostre Collegue.  
Ainsy, Monsieur, il est plus clair que le jour, que tout ce que l'on a dit jusqu'icy de son changement de Religion, est une pure calomnie, semée par l'artifice de ses ennemis, pour le decrier dans l'esprit de ses Sujets, et pour aliener de luy leurs affections & leur bonne volonte, & enfin pour rompre l'effet des justes voeux, qu'ils forment aujourdhuy pour son heureux retour en Angleterre.  
Dieu vueille les exaucer, par sa justice toute puissante, & comme c'est luy qui a inspire ces bons desseins dans le coeur de son peuple, & qui semble disposer toutes choses à leur accomplissement, qu'il luy plaise benir la suite de cet ovurage, & le fair reussir a sa glorie & a celle de son oint, & sur tout à l'edification de son Eglise; je l'en prie de toute mon ame, & vous recomande particulierement à sa grace, comme estant.  
Monsieur Votre tres humble serviteur, DAILLE. A PARIS 7 Auril 1660.   

A LETTER Of Monsieur DAILLE to Monsieur LE ROY.  
SIR,  
ONe of my Friends having desired me a little while since, to send him a Copy of the great Bible Printed at London, I remembered, that the last Winter you proposed to send one to Monsieur Duret, & myself, for fifty Crowns; so that I believed, that in this occasion I could not make an Address to any with more conveniency then to you, that my friend might be provided; and I hope you will grant me the favour which I request of you, to inform me, Whether you can at present perform your promise, and send me this Book for the price which you formerly expressed. Moreover, I cannot but rejoice with you for the happy news which is conveyed to us from the place where you are; whereby we are informed, that the Universal desire of the people, seems with a common voice to recall their Natural and Lawful King. Besides that generosity and equity its self obliges us to wish, that this Prince may return into his own Kingdom and Inheritance, of which he hath been unjustly deprived; we ought also to desire it for the honour of our Religion, which should be more dear to us, than any other interest: For when our Adversaries formerly would charge the blame of the death of the late King of England on our Religion, you know we could very well guard our selus from this reproach, by casting it entirely upon the Sectaries, who indeed were only guilty of that horrible crime. But at present we do not stand upon the same terms, since there is such a chance of affairs; the Sectarians having lost their credit, or at least being fallen from that sovereign Power which they had grasped; and on the contrary the Presbyterian party which is ours, now governing in England: So that if they let slip the fair opportunity which God seems to open to them for the re-establishing of the King of Great Britain in his Dominion, and to re-advance him to the Throne of his Ancestors, it is most apparent there will be no further ground to excuse themselves upon the Sectaries, nor to wash our holy Religion from that spot, from which, by the Grace of God it hath always been preserved pure and clean to this present. I well know there are dispersed evil rumours concerning the Religion of this Prince, and I doubt not, but there are some persons at London, as well as at Paris, who endeavour to persuade the World, That he hath forsaken our Communion, to embrace that of Rome: But who can believe a thing that is so contrary to all probability? there is nothing of this appears to us: On the contrary we well know, That although this Prince hath been constrained by the circumstances of his present condition, to reside sometimes in places where the Exercise of our Religion is not permitted, yet he hath always had his Chaplains near to him, who are nothing less than Papists, and who every where have regularly in his presence prayed, and performed the other parts of Divine Service. Moreover, all Paris, and all the World, hath known the anger and the just indignation which he expressed, when he understood the endeavours which have been used (though ineffectively) for the Apostasy of the Duke of Gloucester: And if this young Prince rendered his Piety and Constancy admirable, by that firm resistance which he opposed in so tender an age, to such a violent and dangerous persecution; so also in that he retired to the King his Brother, and there sought for a Sanctuary to his Religion, it is a very certain argument, that the King had not quitted that Religion; for if this had been true, the Duke of Gloucester had found him an enemy, instead of a Protector, and had suffered the loss of his Conscience, where he had sought its security, & where he really found it. It is objected against this, that during the whole space of time which the King of Great Britain passed in the Court of France, he never came to our religious assemblies, and that amongst others, he never came to Charenton in the days of our worship. But although this may at first view appear strange to those who know not the reason of it; nevertheless, as we are better informed of this then any one, we can testify that Religion was not the cause of it, and that he abstained from coming upon politic and prudential considerations, which may be peculiar to our Church: And the proof of this appears in that when the King of England hath been out of Paris, he hath willingly gone to Sermon in the Churches of our Brethren; as for instance, in Caen, and some other Towns; and in Holland also, he hath several times heard the Sermons of the famous Monsieur More, who at present is our Colleague.  
Thus, Sir, it is more clear than the day, That whatsoever hath been reported till this time of the change of his Religion, is a mere calumny, scattered by the artifice of his enemies; for to vilify him in the judgement of his Subjects, and to alienate their affections and good will from him; and finally to render fruitless the just prayers which they make at present for his happy return into England.  
God grant their accomplishment by his Almighty Justice, and as it is he who hath inspired these good designs into the hearts of his people, and who seems to dispose all things for the effecting them. May it please him to bless what remains of this work, and to succeed it for his glory, and the honour of his Anointed; but especially for the edification of his Church. For this, I pray to him with all my Soul, and recommend you particularly to his Grace, being,  
SIR, Your most humble ServantDAILLE. PARISH, 7 April. 1660.   

VIRO CELEBERRIMO, ET PASTORI INTEGERRIMO Richardo Baxtero, Raimondus Gacheus Eccles. Ref. Paris. Pastor. S. P. D.  
ACcedo ad te, vir clarissime, & frater in Christo observantissime, neque de fa●cie, neque de famâ notus, accedo ●amen confidenter, quia te opti●mè novi, & de tua pietate mihi ●lanè persuasum est. Legi nem●●e relegi, miratus sum docta ●●la parva fateor, si ●●olem spectes, sed Deus bone! ●●uàm pretiosa, quàm vero Christianismi succo penitùs ●mbuta, quibus Britanniam tu●m beâsti, & quibus non omni●ò Gallia nostra caruit. Quis ●utem vel unius paginae seriâ ●●ctione non protinus intelligat, te spiritus Dei aflatum sensisse, te infoelicibus hisce temporibus oportunè suscitatum, qui grassantem impietatem forti pectore, armis invictis aggrediaris & compescas Nihil unquam, sanctè profiteor, nihil nec à veteribus Ecclesiae patribus, ut vulgò vocant, nec ab ultimi seculi doctoribus profectum vidi, & elucubratum, quod pari successu pietatem autoris spiret, simúlque pietatem lectoris accendat: quae de vita aeternâ, de peccatorum conversione, de justificatione, (in quâ si nonnihil à via trita deflectas, facis tamen quantùm assequi potui, non sinè ratione, non sinè Scriptura) de Poedobaptismo, de con scientiae tranquillitate, etc. in lucem emisisti, testantur luculentissimè, & quae tua sit eruditio, & quis tuus pietatis affectus. In talis, & tanti viri sinum, quis animi mei sollitas, & anxias cogitationes vetet effundere, & quae mens agitat super luctuosum Reip. vestrae & incertum statum declarare? Certè non ego sum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & potissimùm in rerum vestrarum conditionem adeò non de●onui insensus, ut nefas duxerim, ●vel de illis curiosius disputare. Dicam ampliùs, de Britannia ●non potui, non bene sperare, in ●eâ enim & fui, & permaneo sententiâ. plures sibi Deum in Anglia servâsse electos, plures pietati deditos, quàm in ull● totius Christianitatis regno vel olim floruerint, vel nunc comparare possint. De salute vestra de●perent & fratres timidi, & hostes tumidi, quaerant in incredulitate sua, Quis dabit è Zion salutare Israel? Providebit Deus non decem illic, non mille justi, sed integrae piorum Myriad. Audiam ego quid loquatur Dom. Deus, quoniam loquetur pacem in plebem suam. Verùm quandoquidem summus ille mundi arbiter, qui nullo mediorum interventu, potest & tenebras dispellere, & jucem revocare, non vult tamen (ut plurimum) immediatè virtutem suam exerere; debemus, vir reverende, studia nostra, consilia omnia conferre ad salutem Britanniae firmitèr stabiliendam. Nutabit, opinor, in perpetuum illius status, donec ad unius Imperium res tota redeat. Ut varii gentium mores, varia ingenia, ità variae apudillos administrandae R eip. rationes; non eadem omnibus est mens. Ille populus Democratiam elegit, non assuetus, non assuefaciendus Monarchiae; iste Monarchiam praetulerit, nobilitatis splendore captus, & plebis insaniam exosus. Anglia vestra ab innumeris penè seculis Reges coluit, neque aliam novi in toto urbe antiquiorem Monarchiam: Idem Sol lucet hodiernis Britannis, eosdem influuntillis affectus hodiè, quos olim aëris temperies, Astrorum aspectus, soli qualitas; Quis speret igitur vel Democratiam vel Aristocratiam facilè obtinere posse in eâ regione, in quâ unius Imperium tam altas radices egit? Mutavit tamen Anglia, inquiet aliquis, & mutavit consensu, ut videbatur, unanimi regiminis formam, quis neget commodè fieri posse, quod iam factum est commodè. Duplex mihi suppetit responsio. Primò, quaeram vicissim, utrùm Britaniae foeliciter prorsus evenerit illa mutatio, profectò si tributa, & vectigalia computentur, ea non duplicata solùm, sed in immensum ferè aucta. si religionis statum perpendas, quae haereseôn colluvies! Quis Renteros, Quakeros, etc. sub R'ege noverat? Secundò, Foelix fuerit Britannia, at certè sub unius Imperio; quid nomen morer? Protector fuit ille unus, non Rex, assentior, unus tamen, nec artis dominandi ignarus, & qui, in solvendis R eip. vestrae publicis conventibus, non minorem se rege praestitit; nec ab illius obitu, aut saltem post filium ejus ejectum quievit Anglia; continuae vicissitudines; quem heri venerabamur, execramur hodiè; & cui modò fidelitatis jusjurandum dedimus, eum mox diris devovemus. Siccine semper fluctuabit nobilissima illa Insularum Regina? neque ulla advolabit Altion, quae mare vestrum tranquillet? Equidem vereor) ut pacem unquam exploratam habeatis, vel contra domesticos tumultus, vel contra hostium externorum molimina, donec solium Avitum recipiat tandem Ille, tot Regum Nepos, qui certè hereditario jure Regis Britanniae titulum passim obtinuit, ut ut rem titulo designatam nondum possideat. Novi quae fuerit illi conflata invidia; de illius nimirum in vera religione constantia dubitant nonnulli, sive ex animo sive simulatè, Permagni autem interest Ecclesiae, eum qui reliquis praeesse debet, pietate etiam reliquos antecellere. Non dicam, quod dici sanè potest, nostrum non esse in religionem Principis inquirere: qualiscunque ille fuerit, si potestatem alioqui legitimam obtineat, si jus regnandi ad illum pertineat, caetera committenda sunt divinae povidentiae, regi verò in rebus civilibus praestandum obsequium. Pontifici Romamano lubeat, Reges è solio de●urbare, nisi ad illius nutum res religionis componant, nobis non licet esse tam superbis. Quae Dei sunt Deo, quae Coesaris sunt Coesari reddimus. Sed jam hoc totum omitto, etenim quod rei caput est, Princeps ille in vera religione natus, ritè institutus ab ejus publica professione nunquam destitit, nè in eis quidem locis in quibus inde aliquid detrimenti capturus videbatur, nec coetibus nostris sacris Rothomagi & Rugallae dedignatus est interesse; Caeterùm pietatis opinionem habet apud suos. Nunquam (fateor) Ecclesiamnostram praesentia sua decoravit, dum Lutetiae sedem suam collocaverat, quod profectò nos malè habuit; verùm quia Presbyteranorum, quos vocant, causa ad nos videbatur pertinere, qui Presbyterani sumus, & quia defuncti Regis mors Presbyteranis ascribebatur, alienum à nobis animum non potuit non habere, usque dum rerum eventus certiorem illum fecerint, non à Fratribus nostris, sed ab Anabaptistis ut plurimùm, aut saltem ab Independentibus illius inaugurationi praecipua inferri impedimenta, quos etiam calamitosum Parentis fatum promovisse anteà, planè perspectum habuit. Utinam facti istius invidia, quâ tandiu Ecclesiae nostrae conflagrarunt tandem aliquando, & à nobis, & à Fratribus Britannis prorsus amoveatur, quod nescio an unquam futurum sit, nisi rebus compositis Filius sceptrum Parentis gerat, à Presbyteranorum manibus non violenter extortum, sed amicè ac liberaliter oblatum. Age igitur, Vir Dei, belli imminentis calamitates praeverte, consilia Pacis Túque Fratrésque tui similes inite, & date Britannis. Aspirabit divina providentia, conatibus vestris benedicet, vobisque utetur veluti sacris instrumentis, ad foelicitatem Patriae vestrae restituendam. Verùm haec satis supérque. Miraris etenim quòd te adeò familiariter compellam, quae tamen me causa impulerit, dixi initio. Nempe tuâ Pietate, tuâ Charitate fretus, quae omnia meliorem in partem interpretabitur. Porrò benedicat Deus studiis tuis, laboribus tuis, Ecclesiae tuae, & toti vestrae, imò nostrae, Britanniae, quae Flos est & Gloria Regnorum in quibus Deus purè colitur.  
Lutetiae Paris. Non. April. An. 1660.   

RAIMOND GACHES Pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris, to the most Famous man and most Upright Pastor, RICHARD BAXTER, Wisheth all Health.  
THough I am neither by face nor fame known unto you, (most worthy Sir, and most reverend brother in Christ) yet I address myself to you with confidence, because I know you very well, and am fully assured of your Piety. I have read again and again, not without admiration, those learned volumes (little indeed if we respect the bulk, but exceeding precious, and througbly died with the truest tinctures of Christianity) wherewith you have blest your own Country, and with which France hath not been altogether unacquainted. Who can seriously read, though but one leaf of them, and not perceive how you felt the breathing so God's spirit, and were seasonably raised up for these unhappy times, as one who may with stout courage and invincible arms undertake and curb outrageous ungodliness. I solemnly profess, I never saw any thing studied, and come from those, commonly called The Ancient Fathers of the Church or from the Doctors of the latter times, which doth with equal success breath forth the Authors, and also kindle the Readers devotions Those things which you have al● ready put out concerning Everlasting Rest, A Call to the Unconverted, justification (in which i● you leave the beaten road a little you do it, as far as I can understand not without reason and Scripture) Infant-Baptism, Peace of Conscience, etc. do witness most clealy both what your learning is, and what your love of Religion. Wh● then may forbid me to pour forth my careful and doubtful thoughts into the bosom of such and so great a man, and to declare what runs in my mind concerning the sad and fickle state of your Common wealth? Truly I am no pryer into other men's matters; and especially as to yours, I have been so far from angrily thundering [Virulent Declaiming] against them, that I have thought it an unspeakable fault to dispute curiously of them. I will say more, I could not but hope well of Britain, for I was, and am still of this opinion, that God hath reserved to himself in England more Elect, and more godly men, than ever either flourished of old, or can be shown now in any Realm of Christendom. Let both fearful brethren and furious enemies, judge your safety desperate, and ask in their unbelief, Who will give salvation to Israel out of Zion? God will provide; there are not ten, not a thousand just men, but entire Millions of godly men. I will hear what the Lord God will say, for he will speak peace to his people. But because the most high Ruler of the world (who can indeed without the intervening of means, both scatter the darkness, and call back the Light, yet nevertheless) wills not (for the most part) to put forth his power immediately; we ought (Reverend Sir) to lay together our Studies, and all Counsels to establish firmly the safety of Britain: I suppose its condition will be perpetually tottering, until the Government return into one man's hands (Monarchy) As the customs of Nations are various, and their dispositions various, so their manners of Governing public affairs are various; they are not of the same mind. One people chooses a popular Government; and neither is, nor can be accustomed to be ruled by one man: Another people, being taken with the splendour of Nobility, and hating the madness of the Commonalty, prefers Monarchy. Your Country of England hath been a lover of Kings for almost innumerable ages; neither do I know any Monarchy in the world more ancient. The same Sun shines upon the present English men; the aspects of the stars, the quality of the soil hath the same influence upon their affections now as formerly: Who then can hope that either a Democracy or Aristocracy, will easily prevail in that Country wherein Monarchy hath taken such deep rooting? But England (may some man say) hath already changed the form of Government, and that (as it seemed) with common consent; who then can deny that may be commodiously done, which hath been done commodiously? I have a double answer hereto. First, I will in like manner query, whether that change proved very happy for England? Truly, if Taxes and Imposts be to be counted; they are not only doubled, but increased beyond almost all measure. If the State of religion be to be considered, what a common-sewer of Heresies is there! Who ever heard of Ranters, Quakers, etc. under the King? Secondly, Suppose Britain hath been happy since the change, yet it was under the Government of One: What matter's the name? this one was a Protector, not a King, I grant; but he was one, and such a one, as was neither unskilful in the art of ruling, nor behaved himself inferior to a King in dissolving Parliaments; and from his death, or at least from the casting out of his Son, England never was quiet; changes were continual: whom yesterday we reverenced, to day we loathe; whom we swore fealty to but now, him soon after we damn with curses. Shall that most noble Queen of Islands always be so tossed upon the waves? and shall no Halcyon fly thither which may calm your seas? Truly, I fear, you will never have peace ascertained either against tumults at home, or the attempts of Enemies abroad, till he, who is the Grandson of so many Kings, at length be restored to his Grandfather's Throne; he hath every where by right of inheritance the title of King of Britain, though he yet possess not the thing designed by the Title. I know what Odium hath been cast upon him; some, whether really or counterfeitly, are dissatisfied in his constancy to the true religion; and allege, that it concerns the Church very much, that he who is to rule others, should excel them in godliness. I will not answer (which truly may be said) that it belongs not to us to inquire into the Prince's religion; Be he what he will, (if his power be otherwise lawful, and the right of reigning belongs unto him) Obedience in civil matters must be performed to the King, and other matters must be committed unto Divine Providence. Let the Bishop of Rome lust to justle Kings out of the Throne unless they order affairs of religion according to his Beck; We may not be so proud. We give unto God the things that are Gods, and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's. But I pass over all this; for (which is the thing chief to be considered) this Prince being born, and duly educated in the true Religion, never departed from the public profession of it; no, not even in those places in which he was likely to suffer loss thereby; neither did he disdain to be present at our religious assembly at Rouen and Rochel; moreover be hath the estimation of godly use among those that are about him. I confess he never graced our Church with his presence while he was seated at Paris; which truly grieved us: but because the Case of those called Presbyterians seemed to concern us who are Presbyterians; and because the King's death was ascribed to the Presbyterians; he could not but be strange to us, until the event of things certified him that his instalment was principally hindered not by our brethren, but by the Anabaptists for the most part, or at least the Independents: whom also he certainly understood to have before promoted his Father's sad death. I wish the Odium of that fact, wherewith our Churches have so long been loaded, might now at length be removed both from us, and our English brethren: which I know not how it can ever be, unless matters may be so composed as the Son may bear his Father's Sceptre, not violently wrested out of the Presbyterians hands but friendly & freely proffered. Go on Reverend Sir; prevent the calanities of imminent war; do you and the brethren like you embrace peaceable counsels, and give the like to your Countrymen. Divine providence will favour and bless your endeavours, and will use you as sacred instruments for restoring happiness to your Country. Butenough and too much of this, for you may wonder that I speak so familiarly to you; but I mentioned in the beginning what cause moved me thereto, viz. relying on your piety and charity, which will take all in good part. Further, God bless your Studies, your labours, your Church, and all your, nay our England, which is the Flower and Glory of all the Kingdoms wherein God is truly worshipped.  
Paris Apr. 2. 1660.   

De PARIS ce 3. Auril 1660.  
Monsuur & tres-honoré Frere,  
IL n'est rien arriué en nos jours de plus étonnant que les Revolutions d' Angleterre, d' Ecosse, & d Irlande. Apres la mort tragique du feu Roy, l'on faisoit esperer l'établissement d'une Republique qui seroit la merveille & l'admiration du Monde. Maisles divers changemens quisont arriués de tems en tems, & les confusions qui sont a craindre, font croire a plusieurs que Dieu veut ramener les choses a leur Principe, & mettre ces trois Couronnes unies ensemble, sur la tested un seul Monarque. Ce qui nous réjouït & nous console est, qu'il semble que pour faire ce glorieux ovurage, Dieu se veuille servir de ceus avec lesquels nous auons une communion plus étroite de doctrine & de discipline. Car nous apprenons que ceus que l'on apelle Presbyteriens, ont aujourduy le plus de pouvoir, & que ce sont eus qui tiennent le timon de l'Etat. Cette Illustre Assemblée qui vouloit conserver a son Roy sa vie & sa Royauté, étoit sans doute bien éloignée de vouloir priver ses enfans du du droit qui leur est aquis par une Succession continuée en leur Maison Royale depuis plusieurs siecles. Il court icy un bruit que ce qui pourroit empescher le Roy d'a present d'estre rapellê a l heritage de ses Peres est l'opinion que l'on a qu'il est Catholique Romain, & la crainte qu'avec le tems, il ne ruine la Religion qui fleurit dans les trois Royaumes. Mais Monsieur, vous savez que nous avons toûjours detesté la doctrine des Papes & de leurs supposts qui enseignent que les Princes qu'ils apellent Heretiques, sont inhabiles a succeder aus Couronnes, & que s'ils sont en possession du Royaume, ils doivent estre deposez. Outre cela, je ne say pas sur quoy l'on fonde que ce Prince est Catholique Romain, veu qu'il n'en fait point la profession, et au contraire qu'il a refusé tous les avantages & toutes les assistances qui luy ont été ofertes a cette condition. La charité n'est point soubçonneuse; Et si elle nous defend de soub●ccedil; onner legerement des particuliers, comment pourroit elle approuver que l'on soup●ccedil; onne des Personnes si sacrées. l'Experience a asséz fait voir combien souvent de tels soup●ccedil; ons, & même les plus violens, sont mal fondez. Nos Histoires ont fait voir un exemple bien convaincant. Car la Ligue ne fonda jamais sa rebellion contre le Roy Henry 3. que sur ce qu'il étoit Heretique & fauteur d' Heretiques; Et par là on vouloit faire croire qu'l n'avoit nulle affection a la Religion Romaine, & que sous main il favorisoit la nôtre. Cependant nous n'avons point eu de plus puissant ennemy; et chacun sait qu'il a vêcu & qu'il est mort en la Communion de Rome; & qu'il y a fait paroistre autant de zele qu'aucun de ses Predecesseuss; Mais sans passer la Mer, vous aves au milieu de vous un exemple sans repartie. Carquels soup●ccedil; ons n'a on point eude la Religion du feu Roy de la grande Bretagne? Cependant a l'heure que la dissimulation n'a plus de lieu, & qu'il n'avoit plus rien a esperer ni a craindre de la part des hommes, il a fait paroître son Zele a la uraye Religion; et même cette douceur & cette patience admirable avec laquelle il a sousert le dernier suplice de la main de ses propres sujets, a bien fait voir que l Esprit de Dieu regnoit en son coeur. Il est uray que je ne vous puis rien dire de mon chef de la Religion du Prince dont il s'agit, parce que pour des considerations politiques il ne nous a point fait I honneur de venir en nos S tes Assemblées a Charenton, qui est le seul lieu où nons pouvons en corps témoigner nos respects aus Princes étrangers de nôtre Cōmunion. Pour ce qui est de moy en particulier, je suis trop peu de chose pour entreprendre de visiter un si grand Prince; Et c'est aussy la raison pour laquelle je n'ay point eu l'honneur de voir M R le Duc d Yorc. Mais comme j'apris il y déja quelques années, que M R le Duc de Glocester avoit fait paroître sa suffisance a confondre les faus Docteurs qui le vouloyent seduire, & qu'il avoit eu assez de courage & de generosité pour resister à la Reyne sa Mere et a ceux qui ce vouloyent placer en la maison des Jesuits. Je creus, veu sa grande jeunesse, que je me pouvois donner l'hōneur de le voir sans que cela peut être tiré à consequence; & je m'aquittay d'autant plus volōtiers de ce devoir, que je s●ccedil; eus que non seulement il l'auroit agreable, mais qu'il le desiroit. le ne vous s●ccedil; aurois exprimer combien je sus satisfait de ce jeune Prince. Car outre la facon obligeante de laquelle il me receut, il me donna divers témoignages de sa pieté & de son zele. Il me souvient, qu'il me dit entr'autres choses, que le feu Roy son Pere, peu avant sa mort, luy avoit recommandê ces trois choses, De ne changer iamais de Religion, d'obeïr a son Frere ainé, qui seroit son Roy, comme il eust fait aluy même si Dieu l'eust conserué au Mondé, & d'obeïr a la Reyne sa Mere en toutes choses, excepté en ce qui regarde la Religion. A quoyil ajoutoit, qu'en perseverant en la Religion il s'aquitoit de son devoir envers Dieu, & conservoit le repos de sa conscience; mais qu'avec cela il obeissoit aux dernieres volontés du feu Royson Pere & executoit les ordres du Roy son Frere, qui le rapelloit pres de sa personne pour le tirer de la tentation. Ce discours qu'il fit de fort bonne grace, me confirma dans la creance que j'avois de la Religion du Roy defunt, & me fit voir ce que je devois croire charitablement de celle du Roy son Fitz. Mais outre cela, il a en sa Maison & entre ses domestiques des gentils-hommes de nôtre Religion & de mes anciens amis, qui m'ont assuré a diverses fois de la pieté de ce Prince, & de sa fermeté en la profession qu'il fait. Il est uray qu'il y a des Anglois, qui sans y penser, luy ont fait grand tort Car sur de faux prejugez, ils se sont abstenus de nôtre communion; E par là ils ont fait naitre des soup●ccedil; ons, comme si leur Roy & toute sa Cour avoyent leur inclination au Papisme. Mais les plus sages n'en ont pas usé de la sorte. Car sachant que la creance de nôtre Eglise & celle de l'Eglise Anglicane est une même creance, il's n'ont fait nulle difficulté de se trouver en nos Assemblées; Et même le premier Chapelain du Roy de la grand ' Bretagne, nomme le Docteur Cosin, y a souvent assisté avec beacoup de devotion. Pour revenir a mon discours Dieu met aujourduy entre les mains de Messieurs vos Presbyteriens, qui ont la souveraine direction, l'honneur & la reputation de nos Eglises. Car si sans aucune intervention des Puissances étrangeres, ils rappellent ce Prince & le font asseoir sur son trône, ils acquierent pour eux & pour leur posterité une gloire immortelle; Et ils ferment â jamais la bouche a ceux qui nous accusent faussement d'estre ennemis de la Royauté; & font voir que cest a tort que l'on nous a imputé cette maxime, Point d'Euesque, point de Roy. Pour ce qui est de ma personne, Je vous confesse, que comme j'ay pleuré amérement la mort sanglante du feu Roy, aussy ce me sera une joye extréme de voir le rétablissement du Roy son Fils, pourveu que cela se puisse faire avec des conditions qui n'éffacent point le lustre & l'eclat de la Majesté Royale, & qui soyent a la glorie de Dieu & au bien & au repos des trois Royaumes. C'est dequoy je prie Dieu de bon coeur, & pour vous M R qu'ilvous conserve & vous benisse de ses plus saintes benedictions. J'ay creu que vous ne trouveries pas mauvais que je vous ovure mon coeur, et que je vous décovure mes pensées sur un sujet de si grande importance, puis que je suis.  
MONSIEUR, Vôtre tres humble frere & tres-affectionné Serviteur, DRELINCOURT, Pasteur d'Eglise de PARIS.  
A Monsieur Monsieur Stoupe f. M. D. S. E. A Londres.    

PARISH April the 3 d. 1660.  
Sr My honoured Brother,  
Nothing hath happened more strange in our days, than the revolutions of England, Scotland, and Ireland. After the tragical death of the late King, hopes were given that a Commonwealth might be established, that should become the wonder and admiration of the whole world. But the several changes that have happened since, from time to time, and the confusions that are to be feared, cause many to believe, that God will reduce affairs to their first state, and set the three Crowns united, upon the head of one Monarch. That which in this doth most rejoice and comfort us: is, that it seems for the doing of this glorious work, God will use the Service of those with whom we have more strict Communion in doctrine and discipline. For we understand, that such as are called Presbiterians, are now possessed of the greatest Power, and sit at the Helm of State. That illustrious Assembly which would have preserved to their King his life, and his Royalty was without doubt very fare from designing to rob his Children of that right which is conveyed to them by a continued succession in their Royal Family for many ages. A report is here, that the thing from being recalled to the Inheritance of his Fathers, is, the Opinion conceived by some, of his being turned to the Roman Catholic Profession, and the fear that in time he might ruin the Religion now flourishing in those three Kingdoms. But Sir, you know that we have ever detested the doctrine of Popes and their Instruments, who teach that all Princes, called by them Heretics, are incapable of succession of Crowns, and if in possession, to be turned out. And more than this, I see not any ground there is for calling this Prince a Roman Catholic, he making no profession of it; but on the contrary hath rejected all the advantages and all the aides offered to him upon that condition. Charity is not jealous, and if it forbidden us to suspect on slight grounds private persons, how can it approve jealousies upon Persons so sacred? Experience hath taught us how little reason hath in the end appeared, for the like, and even the greatest apprehensions of that kind, our History doth furnish us with a convincing example. The League never pretended other cause for their rebellion against King Henry the Third, but for his being an Heretic, and a maintamer of Heretics. And thence was inferred, that he was no ways affected to the Roman, and a Favourer of our Religion. In the mean time, we never had a more potent Enemy; and to all men's knowledge he lived and died in the Communion of Rome, and therein showed as much zeal as any of his Predecessors. But not pass the Seas, you have in the midst of you an instance against all contradiction: For what jealousies have not been raised against the Religion of the late King of Great Britain, and yet at the hour when there was no place for dissembling, as being void of fears and hopes from man, he made his zeal to the true Religion appear, and even that sweetness and that admirable patience with which he suffered death by the hands of his own Subjects, hath made it very visible that the Spirit of God reigned in his heart. True it is that from myself, I am not able to relate any thing touching the Religion of that Prince: Because for reasons of State, we had not the honour of his presence in our Assemblies of Charenton, the only place where in a formal body we are able to witness the respect we bear to stranger Princes in communion with us. And as to myself, I am not considerable enough to have made a visit to so great a Prince, which was also the reason why I had not the honour to see the Duke of York: But two year since being informed, how the Duke of Gloucester, had manifested his ability to confound the false Doctors that had undertaken to seduce him, and that he had courage and generosity enough to resist those who would have placed him in the College of the Jesuits: I thought considering how very young he was, that I might have the honour to give him a visit, without apprehending any disadvantage. And I performed it the work freely because: I knew that not only he would accept it, but did also desire it. I cannot express how much I was satisfied with that young Prince. For besides the obliging manner wherewith he received, and he gave me several proofs of his zeal and piety. I remember that among other discourses, he told me, how the late King his Father, a little before his death, had charged him with three things.? Never to change his Religion, to obey his elder Brother, who was to be his King, in the same manner as he would have obeyed himself if God had spared his life. And to continue obedient to the Queen his Mother, in all: but what related to Religion. To which he added, that in persevering in his Religion, he did not only do his duty towards God, and preserve the peace of his conscience; but also perform the last will of the King his Father, and follow the order of the King his Brother, who had sent for him, to free him of future temptations. This discourse which he delivered with a very good grace, confirmed me in the belief I had of the late King's Religion, and made me see what I ought in charity to believe of the King his Son. But over and above there be in his family among his domestics, some gentlemen of our Religion, and my ancient friends, who at several times have given me assurances of the piety of this Prince, and his stability in the profession he makes. True it is English men have unadvisedly done him great wrong; for upon false prejudices they have stayed from Communion with us, and so have raised jealousies, as if their King and all his Court, were inclined to Popery: But the more discreet behave themselves otherwise, for knowing that the belief of our Church, and that of that Church of England is the same they willingly came to our Churches and even Dr Cousin the King of Great Britain's Chapplain hath joined with us with great devotion. To return to my discourse, God entrusts at this day your Presbyterians; the Gentlemen now in power with the honour and reputation of our Churches: For if without the intervening of any foreign power, they recall this Prince and seat him in his Throne, they acquire to themselves, and to their posterity an immortal glory, and stop their mouths for ever: who charge us falsely as enemies of Royalty, and make appear, that the Maxim, of no Bishop no King is injuriously imputed to us. For my part I confess, that as I have deplored with bitter tears the bloody death of the late King: So shall it be to me an exceeding joy, to behold the reestablishment of the King his Son: if performed with circumstances not lessening the splendour of Royal Majesty: And which may be to the glory of God, and the good and rest of the three Kingdoms. 'Tis for this that I will offer up my hearty prayers to God: and for you Sir, that he will preserve and bless you. I have persuaded myself, that you would not take it ill that I open my heart to you, and discover my thoughts upon a subject of such moment: since I am.  
SIR, Your Most humble, and Most affectionate Brother and Servant, DRELINCOURT, Minister of the Church of PARIS.  
A Monsieur Monsieur Stroupe f. M. D. S. E. A Londres.  
FINIS.