Moreover, the singular benignity and moderation of your Eminence, always manifest hitherto in the most important transactions of the Kingdom relating to the French Protestants, causes me to hope much from your own prudence and magnanimity." [Footnote 1: Utterly undated in Printed Collection and in Phillips, and quite misplaced in both; properly dated "May 25, 1655" in Skinner Transcript.] (LX.) TO THE STATES-GENERAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, _May_ 25, 1655:[1]--To the same effect as the letters to the Swiss Cantons and the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, but with emphatic expression of his Highness's peculiar confidence In the Dutch Republic in such a crisis.

He offers in the close to act in concert with the States-General and other Protestant powers for any interference that may be necessary.
[Footnote 1: So dated in official copy, as printed in Morland's book, pp.

558-560; but undated in Printed Collection and in Phillips, and dated "_West., Junii_--1655" in Skinner Transcript (No.

41 there).

This last is a mistake; for Thurloe speaks of the letter as already written May 25 (Thurloe to Pell, _Vaughan's Protectorate_, I.185).