or well, in the issuing out and disposing of moneys, I cannot tell; but I suspect a sinister report has been made of all. Your person would certainly be necessary here; and I make no doubt your wisdom will find out the quickest and best way for it, unless you yourself (as it well may be after all this) know that all the world on this side of the seas are in errors. That which makes me any way stagger in my hopes of your sudden coming home, is, that the King of Suede knows too well that, England satisfied in the demands of the Palatinate, and things at a full point concerning that particular, this crown will no longer make court to him, and after it he must expect no great matters from hence. Besides, France, which in show pretends to go along with us, really perchance intends nothing less, since there is nothing but that of the Palatinate that can keep Spain and us from tying a more strict knot together, and nothing but that that [sic] has kept us so long asunder. And the ill will be that, if his Majesty of Suede make larger progress and be more fortunate, we shall here fear him as too great, or he himself will be more difficult: if he be less successful, we shall not conclude with him, as too weak. And now, my Lord, your Lordship has what we talk here. I am not peremptory that things are so, as I have here represented them; but I am certain they are thought to be so. Your Lordship's better judgment will resolve it, and, I am more than confident, will yet bring everything to its right place. You have many here that can do more towards it, but none that more sincerely wishes it than
'Jo. Sucklinge.'
'May 2d, 1632,
'Whitehall.
'If your Lordship would please to think it fit to send at random (and by any messengers rather than none) the news, it would not certainly be amiss.'
