The letter was written to Lord Arlington,
then Secretary of State. Monmouth was at the time commanding the
English force serving under Louis XIV. against the Dutch, and was in
his twenty-third year. Mr. Ross had been his tutor; and was at this
time, I believe, employed in the Secretary of State's office.
"ffrom the Camp nigh
"Renalle the 29 Jun
"M'r Ross has tolld mee how mutch I am obliged to you for
your kindness w'ch I am very sensible of and shall try to sho
it upon all occations. I will asur you the effects of your
kindness will make me live within compas for as long as I
receave my mony beforehand I shall do it w'th a greadell of
easse.
"I wont trouble you w'th news becaus Mr. Aston will tell you
all ther is. I will try to instrokt him all as well as I can.
I wont trouble you no longer, only I doe asur you ther is
nobody mor your humble servant than I am.
"MONMOUTH."
C.
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LYDGATE AND COVERDALE, AND THEIR BIOGRAPHERS.
Dan John Lydgate, as Warton truly observes, was not only the poet
of his monastery, but of the world in general. Yet how has he been
treated by his biographers? Ritson, in his _Bibliographia Poetica_,
says, "he died at an advanced age, after 1446." Thomson, in his
_Chronicles of London Bridge_, 2nd edition, p.
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