34/90 His appointment to be Cromwell's minister at the Hague was a great promotion. His salary in the post was to be L1100 a year, worth nearly L4000 a year now. (Sibley's _Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University_. I. 583.)] (CXVI.) TO THE PROVINCIAL STATES OF HOLLAND, _Dec._ 1657:--While recommending DOWNING to the States General, his Highness cannot refrain from recommending him also specially to the States of Holland, self-governed as they are internally, and "so important a part of the United Provinces" besides. |