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Biographical Sketch
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through the influence of this Dr. Godeman that the thoughts which must have long been taking shape in Dury's mind seem to have finally crystallized, for the privy councillor invited him to cooperate in an effort to bring about ecclesiastical peace among Protestants, and Dury eagerly threw himself into the enterprise, which had received the ready sanction of Gustavus Adolphus.
It happened that Sir Thomas Roe, the English ambassador, was at Elbing, and he entered into the scheme to reconcile the Lutherans and the Reformed churches with lively interest. He persuaded the great Oxenstiern
