By the hands of my Lord of Sandwich, who arrived in this Court, upon
Friday last, was delivered to me a letter of Revocation from your
Majesty, directed to the Queen Regent; and at the same time another,
with which your Majesty honoured me for myself, implying the
principal, if not the only, motive of the former to have been, some
exceptions that had been made to the papers which I signed with the
Duke of Medina de las Torres, upon the 17th of December last
past;[Footnote: Sir Richard Fanshawe wrote in the margin of the rough
transcript, "Relating to the Commerce of this Crown, and the
establishing a Truce between these and Portugal."] a consideration
sufficient to have utterly cast down a soul less sensible than hath
ever been mine of your Majesty's least show of displeasure, though not
accompanied with other punishments, if your Majesty, according to the
accustomed tenderness of your royal disposition, in which you excel
all monarchs living, to comfort an old servant to your Majesty, had
not yourself broken the blow in the descent, by this gracious
expression in the same letter: That I may assure myself, your Majesty
believes I proceeded in the articles signed by me, as aforesaid, with
integrity and regard to your royal service, and that I may be farther
assured the same will justify me towards your Majesty, whatever
exceptions may have been made to my papers.
In obedience to your Majesty's letter above-mentioned, I make account,
God willing, to be upon my way towards England some time next month;
having in the interim performed to my Lord Sandwich, as I hope I shall
to full satisfaction, those offices which your Majesty commands me in
the same; whose royal person, council, and undertakings, God Almighty
preserve and prosper many years; the daily fervent prayer of
Your Majesty's ever loyal subject, ever faithful and most obedient
servant,