JFh.  Indeed,  Madam,  I  can  hardly  consent  to  any
alteration  upon  the  subject  of  contraband  goods,  whilst
the  edict  of  the  Hollanders  is  in  force  thereupon.
Qu,  After  you  have  considered  these  new  articles,
we  will  speak  together  again  about  them.
Then  the  Queen  retired  to  her  chamber,  and  White-
locke being  come  home,  the  Secretary  Canterstein
came  to  him  from  the  Chancellor  to  excuse  his  not
coming  to  visit  Whitelocke,  and  said  that,  by  the
Queen's  command,  the  Chancellor  had  sent  a  new
copy  of  articles  to  Whitelocke.  He  presently  read
them,  and  had  much  discourse  with  the  secretary
upon  them,  who  said  he  did  not  doubt  but  that,  after
communication  with  the  Chancellor,  Whitelocke  would
receive  satisfaction.
April  ^y  1654.
Whitelocke  visited  Piementelle,  and  they  had  this
discourse : —

Piementelle.  The  Ambassador  of  Denmark  did  me


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the  honour  to  visit  me,  and  we  had  much  discourse  to-
gether about  the  English  fleet  now  at  sea ;  he  told  me
that  in  it  were  ten  thousand  foot  soldiers  embarked
for  the  North,  which  would  occasion  great  trouble  to
the  King  his  master,  if  it  should  be  so,  which  I  ac-
knowledged.
Whitelocke.  Your  Excellence  knows  that  I  have  not
been  at  the  Council  of  State  in  England  for  six  months
last  past,  so  that  I  know  not  the  secret  designs  of  my
Lord  Protector ;  but  I  believe  it  is  no  very  difficult
matter  to  land  men  in  Denmark.
