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 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) 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 viz ye 19=th= 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 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 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 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 since you were pleased to do it through my hands 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)