Lord Treasurer to recommend them more particularly to Sir
_Leoline Jenkyns_.

Moreover, you may see Sir _W.T._ mentions in his Memoirs all the
Potentates that had any interest in the Peace of _Nimeguen_, except
the Duke of _Holstein Gottorp_, notwithstanding he had two Ministers
at the Congress, and although _France_ had stipulated for his
re-establishment in the second Article or Condition of the Peace, such
who shall peruse the Memoirs of Sir _W_ might be apt to think that the
Duke of _Holstein_ was reckoned as no body in the World, and that he
had no part at all in what pass'd in Christendoom, from the commencing
of the War in 1672, until the conclusion of the Peace 1679. But Thanks
be to God Sir _W._ is not the Steward of Glory and Immortality.

Sir _W._ therefore must have often read my Name and Character in the
Letters, and Orders of the Court, and cannot have forgot that he came
to render me a Visit at my Lodgings, at such time as he, by the King's
Order, was to confer with me upon what account Monsieur _Olivencrantz_
might be obliged to pass from _Nimeguen_ into _England_. That
_Swedish_ Embassador lodg'd at that time in my house.

'Tis true indeed, as the Interests of my Master were inseparable from
those of _Sweden_, I found my self engaged to be very much concerned
in the Interests of that Crown in whatsoever might depend on my care:
There was an Envoy extraordinary from _Sweden_ at _London_; and yet
for all that, the _Swedish_ Ambassadors did me the Honour to maintain
a very regular Correspondence by Letters with me: The King of
_England_ was also graciously pleased to hear me in what concerned the
Affairs of the _Swede_, although I was no otherwise authorized for it.
Monsieur _Olivencrantz_, his Voyage to _London_ was contrived first of
all by the King and my self, without the least medling or intervention
of any one of his Ministers; and then again in the Negotiation,
whereof my Voyage to _Nimeguen_ was a Consequence, the Restitution of
_Sweden_ was especially insisted upon.

All this made many Men believe, that I was intrusted with the
Management of the Affairs of this Crown; and Monsieur _Van Beuninguen_
believed it so to be, in the Letter he writ to the Lords
States-General, which hath since been printed; where he speaks with so
much uncertainty concerning the Voyage I was about to make to
_Nimeguen_, and about this Negotiation, that it was evident it was a
very great Secret.

_Since his being at