he said, “admit of such dishonour to his master”; he had to be pacified by an apology.  Then, when he did see the Protector, he had fresh cause for dissatisfaction.  The propositions of the Treaty, as agreed upon so far between the Commissioners and the Ambassador, having been reported to the Council, and there having been a discussion on them there, Thurloe taking a chief part, new hesitations and difficulties had arisen, so that, when Cromwell conversed with Count Bundt, the Count was amazed to find his Highness cooler about the Treaty altogether than he had expected, and again harping on Protestant interests and the necessity of including the Dutch.  The Count seems then to have broken bounds in his talk about the Protector to Whitlocke and others.  In his own country, Sweden, he said, “when a man professed sincerity, they understood it to be plain and clear dealing”; if a man meant Yea he said Yea, and if he meant No he said No; but in England it seemed to be different.  The explanations and soft words of Whitlocke and the rest having calmed him down again, the Treaty proceeded.—­One of the most important meetings at Dorset House, by Whitlocke’s account, was on the 8th of April.  Mr. Jessop, as one of the Clerks of the Council, was there by appointment, and read “the new Articles in English as they were drawn up according to the last resolves of the Council.”  A long debate on the Articles followed.  The Ambassador begged “to be excused if he should mistake anything of the sense of them, they being in English, which he could not so well understand as if they had been in Latin, which they must be put into in conclusion; but he did observe,” &c.  In fact, he restated his objections to making pitch, tar, hemp, flax, and sails, contraband, as they were the staple produce of Sweden.  Lord Fiennes, in reply, premised:  “that the Articles were brought in English for the saving of time, and they should be put in Latin when his Excellency should desire,” and then discussed the main subject.  Whitlocke followed, and the Ambassador again, and Fiennes again, all in English; and “Mynheer Coyet then spake in Latin, that pitch, tar, and hemp were not in their own nature, nor by the law of nations, esteemed contraband goods,” &c.  Strickland said a few words in reply, and then Whitlocke made a longer and more lawyer-like answer to Mynheer Coyet,—­also, as he takes care to tell us, speaking in Latin.  The discussion, which was long protracted, and extended to other topics, was closed by the Ambassador; who said “he desired a copy of these Articles now debated, and, if they pleased, that he might have it in Latin, which he would consider of.”  This was promised.—­The meeting so described was nearly the last in which the Swedish Resident, M. Coyet, took part.  He was on the eve of his departure from England, leaving his principal, Count Bundt, to finish the Treaty; and the present brief letter of Milton for Cromwell to his Swedish Majesty