Dat ex aula nostra Westmonasterii, 25 Mail, anno 1655.
" Oliver, P."



sit CROMWBLL'S LETTEE TO THE KING OF FRAHCB.
mending a general tubscription'^. He himtelf eel the ex-
ample of liberality, by contribating 2fi00l. fipom the privy
puree, and a sum was shortly raised, amounting to38,24R
lOs. 6d. Another measure was to address letters of urgent
recommendation to the Protestant sovereigns and states^
that they should come forward in support of the Protestant
interest. To the King of Sweden he represented the noUe
conduct which his royal progenitors had pursued, when
the reformed religion was menaced in Germany. In a
strain of equal eloquence^ he explained to the King of
Denmark the motives of policy which should induce all
Protestant princes to make a common cause with those
who were defending such as were peraecuted lor the re-
formed faith. '' We proclaim/' said he, in a tone which
was likely to fix the resolution of the wavering, '^ that #e
are prepared, in conjunction with your majesty, and our
other aUies of the reformed religion, to use every flMans in
our power to relieve the vrants, and secure the safety and
liberty of the unhappy sufferers/*

In a letter to the States-General, he reminds their High
Mightinesses of the effectual struggles, which they them^
selves had happily made, in the adverse times of tiie Pro-
testant church in their own country, and declares his rea-
diness to take any measures, in conjunction with them, for
the preservation of the same faith in the valleys of Piemont.
