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1712.1011.Tc



Addressed:
The Duke of Shrewsbury
to m.^r Prior


Windsor 30.^th Sept.^r 1712.

I was in Oxford Shire when yours of the ninth
arriv'd, at the same time I give you thanks
for it, allow me as a very sincere friend to
tell you, that I think you have it now in
y^r hands to put a speedy & an honourable
End to the great work which you began, & I
hope will happily finish. If you could prevail
with the French handſomly to give up Tournay
to the Dutch, the whole I believe may be ſo
concluded that Her ma.^ty will make good her
Speech, and no body here or abroad can find
fault; But if encourag'd by their late succeſs
they chicane upon that point, I think they
put an unreaſonable hardship upon the
Queen, in relation to what she spoke in
Parliam.^t and recede from what they themselves
protested, that their succeſs should in no manner
change their Inclination for a Peace, or the
Terms to obtain it. I hope you will employ
your utmoſt Art & Industry to surmount
this difficulty, which in my opinion will be
much for your own honour, as well as the
advantage of the publick. you will excuſe this
freedom I take unknown to any Body of
telling you my Thoughts, since I hope you be­
­lieve it comes from one who is moſt sincerely.

&c.

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Scribal notation:
M.^r Prior's looſe Papers.

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