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Dorte and the occasion of them, which indeed seems very-
much to have been the removal! of the Scotch company to
the same place; the Prince of Orange came purposely to mee
on Saturday to desire meeI would take this occasion of
writing to the King in favor of his desire, that the said
company might bee returned againe to Terveur, since Holland
had entertaind it so all as to fall upon the breaking of it
and its priviledges, before it was setled among them. All I
can say of it is that tis a thing, I beleeve, the Prince and
Holland and Zealande and the English Company at Dorte would
bee equally pleased with, and I doe not finde the Scotch ex
cept some particular persons would bee unsatisfyed with it.
Temple spreekt hier van zijli brief aan. Sir John Trevor (sedert 1668
collega van Arlington als Secretaris van Staat) van 1 Maart 1669 (gedrukt in
Letters written by Sir William Temple to the Hurl of Arlington and Sir
John Trevor published by D. Jones, London, 1699).
