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TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN LETTERS, 



CONTAINED IN VOL. XI. FROM PAGE 480, TO PAGE 491, ARE 

 AS FOLLOW : - 



489 

 191 

 200 

 202 

 202 

 208 

 203 



To the Count Gondomar, Ambassador from the 

 Court of Spain. 



Most illustrious Lord Ambassador, 

 Your lordship s love to me, both in its warmth and 

 purity hath, I am well assured, been ever equal and unal 

 terable in prosperity as in adversity; in which regard I 

 offer you the thanks so worthily and justly claimed. Now 

 that at once my age, my fortunes, and my genius, to which 

 I have hitherto done but scanty justice, call me from the 

 stage of active life, I shall devote myself to letters, instruct 

 the actors on it and serve posterity. In such a course I 

 shall, perhaps, find honour. And I shall thus pass my 

 life as within the verge of a better. 



God preserve your Lordship in safety and prosperity, 



Your Servant, 



FR. ST. ALBAN. 



June 6th, 1621. 



To Count Gondomar. 



Most Illustrious and Excellent Lord, 

 I see and acknowledge the divine providence in raising 

 up for me under my utter desertion, such a friend sent as 

 it were from heaven, who involved in such great concerns, 



