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much the Queen and clergy were displeased 

 with the cold reception the German translation 

 of the English Liturgy met with by the answer 

 that was given concerning it ; that we ought to 

 impute it to the character of the preseiit Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury. He added, that her 

 Majesty and the clergy were well disposed to 

 entertain a correspondence with the clergy of 

 Prussia, and to enter into any negociation, and 

 make all reasonable advances upon this subject, 

 as he himself had mentioned to the above- 

 named ambassador. And moreover, he often 

 mentioned a well writ letter of Baron Printzen's 

 to my Lord Raby, and that the Queen approved 

 of it. I told him I was not yet honoured with 

 your Majesty's commands upon this affair, nor 

 was I yet instructed in the scheme to be pro- 

 posed, no more than I was acquainted with the 

 disposition of the people, who are often jealous 

 and prepossessed against novelties, and that 

 their inclinations ought to be consulted before 

 we made any step of this nature, who must be 

 instructed and prepared by degrees, before 

 they will enter into any new measures, be they 

 ever so good. But I added, that I would not 

 fail to lay the Queen's inclinations in this affair 

 before your Majesty. 



" Before we parted, he again repeated the 

 design the Court and clergy had of entering 



