"My Grandfather's turning short upon the Court (as[[5]] Sir William Temple expresses it) had only this plain reason for it; that he discoverd the King to be a Papist, through that disguise of an Esprit fort, wch was a character his Vices and over fondness of Witt made him affect and act very naturally. Whatever Complyances my Grandfather, as a States-man, might make before this discovery, to gain the King, from his Brother and ye French Party, he broke off all, when by the Duke of Buckingham's means, he had gaind this secret. For my Grandfather's Aversion and irreconcileable Hatred to Popery, was (as Phanaticisme,) confessd by his greatest Enemyes to be his Master-Passion. Nor was it ever said that the King left him: but He the King, for nothing was omitted afterwards by that Prince to regain him; nor nothing to destroy him, when that was found impossible——
"But I must end: least I fail this Post."
The superscription is:
"A Monsieur
Monsieur Le Clerc
sur le Keiser Gracht
près de l'Eglise Arminienne
a Amsterdam"
Footnote 1:[(return)]
"A Gentleman of a Sound Protestant Family allways in great Friendship with ours. Both Father and Son were members of Parlement for that Town, and were Stewards to my Gd Father." (In a marginal note.)