telling how your dispatches are approved when they are seen, for he received them but to-day. One part which relates to the Parliament I suppose you may answer yourself before this comes to your hands out of the Gazette, where you will find the Parliament prorogued till the 11th November next.
My Lord Hallifax and Essex are once again in very good humour, and will draw again. I leave you to make what reflections you think fit upon it, but sure they don't think things so desperate by their cheerful spirits; but more of this the next. I am not able to write in cipher, but out of it I can tell you I keep still my usual desponding temper; by the next, I believe, I may write you somewhat new. I think the King neglects the Duke of Monmouth enough of all conscience; all his places are disposed of but the Master of the Horse, and that is in commission, and he has no more to do with it than you. I have not heard his name these three days, and, when I did last, it was occasioned by my Lord Huntington and Stanford drinking his health, by which you may judge how considerable he is; he makes great court to Nelly, and is shut up in her closet when the King comes, from which in time he expects
