Keep a good lookout for the countermine which is now working against the good advice of his Majesty for mutual toleration.

The publication of the letters was done without order, but I believe with good intent, in the hope that the vehemence and exorbitance of some precise Puritans in our State should thereby be checked.

That which is now doing against us in printed libels is the work of the aforesaid Puritans and a few Jesuits.

The pretence in those libels, that there are other differences in the matter of doctrine, is mere fiction designed to make trouble and confusion." In the course of the autumn, Sir Ralph Winwood departed from the Hague, to assume soon afterwards in England the position of secretary of state for foreign affairs.

He did not take personal farewell of Barneveld, the Advocate being absent in North Holland at the moment, and detained there by indisposition.