He is therefore recommended separately, by this note, to the authorities of that city.

His letters of credence to the King of Denmark had, doubtless, already been made out,--possibly by himself.

They are not among Milton's State-letters.
[Footnote 1: Whitlocke, under Aug.

1657.] (CVIII.) To M.DE BORDEAUX, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY FOR THE FRENCH KING, _August_ 1657:--There has been presented to the Lord Protector a petition from Samuel Dawson, John Campsie, and John Niven, merchants of Londonderry, stating that, shortly after the Treaty with France in 1655, a ship of theirs called _The Speedwell_ ("name of better omen than the event proved"), the master of which was John Ker, had been seized, on her return voyage from Bordeaux to Derry, by two armed vessels of Brest, taken into Brest harbour, and sold there with her cargo.

The damages altogether are valued at L2,500.