cum suis conjugibus ac liberis vagari_."] (LVI.) TO CHARLES GUSTAVUS, KING OF SWEDEN, _May_ 25, 1655:--To the same effect as the last, _mutatis mutandis_.
What sovereign can be more ready to stir in such a cause than his Swedish majesty, the successor of those who have been champions of the Protestantism of Europe?
Gladly will the Protector form a league with him and with other powers to do whatever may be necessary.
(LVII.) TO THE KING OF DENMARK, May 25, 1655:[1]--An appeal in the same strain to his Danish Majesty: phraseology varied a little, But matter the same.
[Footnote 1: This and the last both so dated in official copy as printed in Morland's book, pp.

554-557; dated only "May 1655" in Skinner Transcript, Printed Collection, and Phillips.] (LVIII.) TO LOUIS XIV., KING OF FRANCE, May 25, 1655:[1]--The story recapitulated for the benefit of his French Majesty, with the addition that it is reported that some troops of his Majesty had assisted the Piedmontese soldiery in the attack on the Vaudois.
This the Protector can hardly believe: it would be so much against that policy of Toleration which the Kings of France have found essential for the peace of their own dominions.

The Protector cannot doubt, at all events, that his Majesty will use his powerful influence with the Duke of Savoy to induce him at once, as far as may be possible, to repair the outrageous wrong already done.
[Footnote 1: This Letter is omitted in the Printed Collection and in Phillips; but it is given in the Skinner Transcript (No.

38 there), and Mr.Hamilton has printed it in his Milton Papers (p.

2).