nd recommend JEPHSON; who, on his route
from Oldenburg eastwards, would pass through Bremen.

(CIV.) TO THE CONSULS AND SENATE OF HAMBURG, _August_
1657:--Still requesting attention to JEPHSON on his transit.

(CV.) TO THE CONSULS AND SENATE OF LUBECK, _August_
1657:--Still recommending JEPHSON; who, at Lubeck, would be near
his destination, the camp of Charles Gustavus.

(CVI.) TO FREDERICK-WILLIAM, MARQUIS OF BRANDENBURG, _August_
1657:--At first this Prince, better known now as "The Great
Elector, Friedrich-Wilhelm of Prussia," had been on the side of
Sweden against Poland; and, in conjunction with Charles Gustavus,
he had fought that great Battle of Warsaw (July 1656) which had
nearly ruined the Polish King, John Casimir. Having been detached
from his alliance with Sweden, however, in a manner already
explained (ante p. 313), he had now a very difficult part to play
in the Swedish-Polish-German-Danish entanglement.--As Jephson had
instructions to treat with this important German Prince, as well as
with the King of Sweden, Cromwell begs leave to introduce him
formally. "The singular worth of your Highness both in peace and in
war, and the greatness and constancy of your spirit, being already
so famed over the whole world that almost all neighbouring Princes
are eager for your friendship, and no one could desire for himself
a more faithful and constant friend and ally, in order that you may
understand that we also are in the number of those that have the
highest and strongest opinion of your remarkable services to the
Christian Commonweal, we have sent to you the most Honourable
WILLIAM Jephson," &c.: so the note opens; and the rest is a mere
request that the Elector will hear what Jephson has to say.--The
relations between the Elector and the Protector had hitherto been
rather indefinite, if not cool; and hence perhaps the highly
complimentary strain of this letter.

(CVII.) TO THE CONSULS AND SENATE OF HAMBURG, _August_
1657:--All the foregoing, for Jephson, must have been written
between August 13, when the news of the proclamation of war between
Sweden and Denmark reached London, and August 29, when Jephson set
out on his mission. MEADOWS left London, on his distinct mission,
two days afterwards.[1] His route was not to be quite the same as
Jephson's; but he also was to pass through Hamburg. He is therefore
recommended separately, by