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Diary of the times of Charles the Second / by the Honourable Henry Sidney, (afterwards earl of Romney) including his correspondence with the Countess of Sunderland and other[s] distinguished persons at the English court; To which are added, letters illustrative of the times of James II and William III. Edited, with notes, by R.W. Blencowe.

  • Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 1641-1704.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Diary of the times of Charles the Second / by the Honourable Henry Sidney, (afterwards earl of Romney) including his correspondence with the Countess of Sunderland and other[s] distinguished persons at the English court; To which are added, letters illustrative of the times of James II and William III. Edited, with notes, by R.W. Blencowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    order of the States-General; and after making me a little compliment upon my indisposition, they told me they were come in the name of the States- General to assure the King of their friendship, and they would never do any thing contrary to what they professed in their resolution; and then they gave it me in writing. I told them I received it with great satisfaction, and that I could assure them that my master did endeavour nothing so much as to give them fresh marks every day of his friendship and good-will towards them. At night I was with the Prince, and I told him what had ' « passed to-day, and showed him my letter out of Spain. 16th. Count Waldeck1 was with me ; he seems to be mightily in the interest of the Prince, and as to offer him the sovereignty, and he such a fool as to accept it, he was very sure they were all undone.—Orig. Note. A great rogue, the Prince saith.—Orig. Note. 1 “ Prince Waldeck was their (the States) Chief General, a man of a great compass and a true judgment, equally able in the Cabinet and the Camp ; but he was always unsuccessful, because he was never furnished according to the schemes that he had laid down. The opinion that armies had of him, as an unfortunate general, made him really so ; for soldiers cannot have much heart, when they have not an entire confidence in him that has the chief command.”—Burnet’s Hist. i. 569.