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cern myself in, and your Lordship also, who 

 made me the Queen's almoner. I have received 

 since I came to York two letters from the Van- 

 dois ministers in German, wherein they set forth 

 their great necessities, and earnestly petition 

 for the continuance of that pension, which was 

 settled upon them by King William and Queen 

 Mary in 1689. The first of these I have sent 

 up to Dr. Battle, the sub-almoner, and desired 

 him to move the Queen on their behalf. The 

 other I now make bold to send to your Lord- 

 ship, together with a memorial of the state of 

 these poor people, which I received this last 

 week from Sir John Chardin. I find that those 

 ministers and schoolmasters, who are upon the 

 Dutch establishment receive their pensions duly 

 and are well maintained. Sure, then, my Lord, 

 those that the Crown of England promised to 

 provide for, should not be quite abandoned," 

 &c. He obtained at last a promise from her 

 Majesty, that this matter should be taken 

 care of. 



But when the treaty of peace was on foot in 

 the year 1709, then was the season for doing 

 true service to the foreign Protestants ; and he 

 was not wanting to remind either her Majesty 

 or her ministers of it. As, May 1, 1709: " /// 

 the evening, at the Queens appointment, I waited on 



her Majesty T pressed heart i 1 1^, that now, in 



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