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Title: A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.

Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke

Editor: Charles Morton and Henry Reeve

Release Date: December 28, 2005 [EBook #17407]

Language: English

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JOURNAL
OF
THE SWEDISH EMBASSY
IN THE YEARS 1653 AND 1654.

A JOURNAL
OF
THE SWEDISH EMBASSY
IN THE YEARS 1653 AND 1654.

IMPARTIALLY WRITTEN BY THE
AMBASSADOR BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE.

FIRST PUBLISHED
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
BY
DR. CHARLES MORTON, M.D., F.S.A.,
LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

_A NEW EDITION_,
REVISED BY
HENRY REEVE, ESQ., F.S.A.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME II.

"A wicked messenger falleth into mischief, but a faithful ambassador
is health."
PROVERBS xiii. 17.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
1855.

PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

JOURNAL
OF
THE SWEDISH EMBASSY
IN THE YEARS 1653 AND 1654.

MARCH 1, 1653.

[SN: Whitelocke continues the negotiation.]

Now was the heat of Whitelocke's business, and many cross endeavours used
to render all his labours fruitless, and to bring his treaty to no
effect. But it pleased God, in whom his confidence was placed, to carry
him through all his difficulties, and to give his blessing and success to
this nego