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London (OSBORNE-E3-H,21.3)

1st June 1675 (OSBORNE-E3-H,21.4)

My Lord . I acknowledge ye great honour and favour of yr Excellency's
letter by Mr Godolphin , (OSBORNE-E3-H,21.5)

and concurre with you yt itt would be of <P_22> great use to have yr
Excellency here to conferr with his Ma=tie= upon those important
matters mentioned therein . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.6)

I have nothing to object agt itt , if yr Excellency have not ;
(OSBORNE-E3-H,22.7)

but on ye contrary as I believe his Ma=tie= will receive advantage by
itt , so I should take itt for an happy occasion to give yr Excellency
a confirmation of my readinesse to pay you all manner of service and
respect . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.8)

Yr Excellency is so well knowing to ye present Constitution of our
Court , that no body can give you better measures of itt than yr
Excellency is able to give yr selfe , (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.9)

and though itt bee very difficult to steere amongst so many rocks of
faction , without striking upon some ; I doubt not but yr Excellency by
yr great prudence may bee soe happy as to do itt . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.10)

The news of yr Excellencie's intentions to come for England arrived
here two or three days before Mr Godolphin , (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.11)

and I have heard that some who hope in time to bee yr successors were
glad of itt , (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.12)

but I conceave yr Excellency is so well assured of all our services to
you , how little so ever wee afford of good ones to one another , that
you can bee in no danger of that kind , although in a matter so nice as
this yr Excellency must needs bee ye best Judge . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.13)

I believe ye Parliament is like to sitt longer than was expected
(OSBORNE-E3-H,22.14)

for ye differences between ye houses are so widened , and yett itt is
so necessary they should come to some composure before they part that
itt looks as if their sitting would yett bee of a month's continuance
at least . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.15)

The King has directed me to attend him tomorrow about the matters of yr
Excellencie's last letter (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.16)

and I shall not bee wanting to acquainte you with his Ma=ties= pleasure
so soon as I know itt , (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.17)

and in ye meane time I desire yr Excellency will continue to mee ye
happinesse of being esteemed My Lord Your Excellencie's most faithfull
and most humble servant Danby . (OSBORNE-E3-H,22.18)

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Wallingford House (OSBORNE-E3-H,45.21)

March ye 25=th= 1676 (OSBORNE-E3-H,45.22)

My Lord Perhaps your Excellency may think it unnecessary to trouble you
with an answer to yours of ye 14=th= instant because I have since
<paren> viz ye 19=th= </paren> communicated it to his Ma=tie= in ye
presence of his Royall Hignesse , Yourself and my Lord Ranelagh , and
your excellency did then receive his Ma=ties= Pleasure as to all ye
matters contained in itt , saving that part wch relates to ye , for
which my Lord Ranelagh desires his discharge ; (OSBORNE-E3-H,45.23)

and I hope your Excellency will receive your orders in that also before
your departure , it being by no means proper for mee to determine till
your Excellency have received satisfaction of ye equity of his Demand
in that particular . (OSBORNE-E3-H,45.24)

But because your excellency will remember I then told you I differd in
somethings your letter charged my memory withall it may bee convenient
for avoiding future mistakes to acquaint your excellency that I
remember no greater summe out of ye advance-money for arms than
(OSBORNE-E3-H,45.25)

and I very well remember yt ye for ye Repairs of Windsor was never
intended out of ye advance-money , but out of ye yearly reserved during
ye <P_46> whole Farme to his Ma=ties= private dispose
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.26)

and for yt reason it was yt neither my Lord Ossory's nor my Lord
Duras's Grants were to take place upon itt ye first Year .
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.27)

I told your Excellency then also yt I rememberd nothing of your desire
to have ye first remitted in specie into Ireland till a good while
after ye old Farmers' Privy Seale was pass'd for itt , but that <paren>
as it was long before agreed they should have their Defalcations , and
for ye Kings use payd out of ye first of ye Advance-money </paren> Your
Excellency agreed ye same , (OSBORNE-E3-H,46.28)

and it was my motion y=t= for ye quickening their payments to ye Army
in Ireland , ye money might remain deposited in ye hands of ye
Treasurer of ye Navy though it could bee apply'd to no other use then
Privy Seale directs ; so that although both ye old Farmers and my Lord
Ranelagh insisted upon having ye Kings Engagement made good of being
payd yt summ out of ye first of the advance , yet there was nothing
done in itt , but with your Excellency's consent and approbation .
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.29)

For ye September and Christmas Pay of ye Army , I know what posture
Your Excellency hath said it to bee in (OSBORNE-E3-H,46.30)

and your Excellency has shewd mee Letters to ye same effect out of
Ireland , (OSBORNE-E3-H,46.31)

and finding of ye Michas Pay unpaid about a month or six weeks ago , I
remember Your Excellency would then fain have remitted that sum into
Ireland out of ye deposited money here , (OSBORNE-E3-H,46.32)

and I would have been as glad of it if it could have been done ;
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.33)

but as that was not practicable so your Excellency and my Lord Ranelagh
has always differd in ye quantum of what was in arrear for ye Michas
Pay , as well as for ye severall Pays due to ye Army before that time
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.34)

and my Ld Ranelagh did then undertake before his Ma=tie= to give him a
particular account in a short time of what hee agreed to be a true
state of ye Present Debt to each troop and Company .
(OSBORNE-E3-H,46.35)

As your Excellency has been very prudent in laying before his Ma=tie=
ye condition and state of Ireland and <paren> since you were pleased
<P_47> to do it through my hands </paren> I hope you will pardon my
endeavour to rectify any mistake which might remaine concerning myself
in that Representation , who am Your Excellency's most faithfull humble
servant Danby . (OSBORNE-E3-H,47.36)

