This was the main business on which Lockhart had been re-commissioned as ambassador to the French Court, From Paris he went to St.Jean de Luz, at the foot of the Pyrenees, where Mazarin and the Spanish Prime Minister Don Luis de Haro were then holding their consultations.

He arrived there on the 1st of August, in such ambassadorial pomp as he thought likely to credit his difficult mission.

The business of that mission, was to undo the work he had done for Cromwell.

Such was the will of his new masters.

Dunkirk and the rest of Cromwell's acquisitions on the Continent were only a trouble; and, if any decent arrangement could be made for selling them either to France or back to Spain, why not be satisfied?
War with Continental Papacy and championship of Continental Protestantism were but expensive moonshine.[1] [Footnote 1: Whitlocke, from May to the end of July 1659; Parl.
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