succeeds well, I hope we shall maintain our English
Rights, and secure our Land by the increase
of Traffick, Navigation, and Fishing, whereby
they are grown so mighty, and we decayed, that
we are hard put tout by them, whom we under
God hoped to raise out of the dust. We are
glad to hear of an amicable correspondence with
Sweden, who with the Hans-Towns labour much for
freedom of Trade, being therein impeded by
the Dane and Hollander, which are their Samsons
locks, and therefore would have none to have
inspection therein. The King of Denmark, it
seems, hath put out a Manifest, to colour over
his unrighteous dealing with the English, which
will cause the truth of things to be laid more
plainly open before the world. Out of Poland
we have nothing that's certain: The Dyet or
Parliament is prolonged, and the Country in a
bad condition, having neither Peace nor Warr,
but wasting and consuming it self by great
contributions and Free quarters. If we reduce
the Hollander to his due bounds, we Merchants
hope to see happy days in these parts.
Edenburgh, April 30.
Here was a Letter agreed on, and sent to the
Lord Generall Cromwell and his Councell of
Officers, a Copy where of is as followeth:
May it please your Honors,
Having perused your Declaration,
entituled, A Declaration of the Lord