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the treaty of peace that is on foot, her Majesty would 

 order her pienipotetitiaries to concern themselves about 

 the Protestant ixligion, both in France, the Palati- 

 nate, the Vaudois, Silesia, 8§c. that we might not be 

 served as ive were at the great treaty of Bertvick. 

 She saith, over and over again, that she will take 

 care of that matter. I recommended to her, that 

 she should send a minister on purpose, who would be 

 content with a very small salary, and such a one as 

 understood the state of the Protesta7its abroad. Aiid 

 that it should be his business to manage that affair. 

 I prevailed with her, that she ivould receive a memo- 

 7'ial about the state of religion in foreign parts, 

 which Mr. Hales is preparing, and which the Bishop 

 of Ely has promised to present ; and to solicit the 

 Queefi and my Lord Treasurer about that affair."" 



To omit the kind assistance he gave to the 

 distressed Greek Churches in Armenia and 

 Egypt, in 1706, when the Armenian bishops 

 came over to solicit a contribution in England, 

 for printing bibles and some other books in the 

 Armenian language and character, and were 

 recommended by him to the Queen ; and, in 

 1713, when Arsenius, Archbishop of Thebais, 

 in Egypt, came over with Greek letters to the 

 Queen, and to himself, which were afterwards 

 translated and published by M. La Roche, in 

 his Menioirs of Literature, as also to omit the 

 share he had in procuring the settlement of an 



