Paris: Henry Lord Jermyn to George Lord Digby. Yesterday I received yours of April 29 from Oxford, whereby I must needs observe that our [letters] are received in half the time that yours are in coming hither. Now you are removed from Oxford I fear it will yet be harder for you to send to London; above all things the Queen [Henrietta Maria] recommends this to you. I send you here inclosed Dr. Goff's last despatch, word for word, by which you will see the state of that business. Sir H. de Vic is now here, [having] arrived yesterday with the Duke [of Lorraine's] last demands; to-morrow he attends Cardinal Mazarin, and as soon as the answer is got and the Queen Regent's resolution [known touching] a supply of arms and ammunition we have now demanded, to which already we have some promises advanced, Petit shall be despatched, who is staid [here] to that end. He will return to us with some information of the state you are in, which the last letters speak so variously of, that we are in much pain. Arms and ammunition, I am confident, we shall speedily get again, but for money I can give no good hopes of it, although the clergy be now [assembled] together, from whom we have so many expectations. Sir Kenelm Digby is arrived at Rome, and has had audience with the Pope, who has given him the best reception that the first visit was capable of, that is, the fairest promises in general that can be wished; if he may be relied on, there are good hopes of money there, but you know he is of a sanguine family, and himself yet the melancholiest of it; he has visited some other of the petty princes of Italy, but they are a frugal generation. [Sir Gilbert] Talbott is coming from Venice without any effect of his voyage. A man the Queen sent four months ago into Scotland to the Marquis of Montrose this day arrived; it grieves me Haesdonck did not obey the Queen's order for his supply, but now again that shall be suddenly attempted, I hope with better success; yet his [Haesdonck's] arrival in the west [of England] has been very opportune for the designs of the Prince of Wales there, which I observe to you is a service solely of the Queen's; for nothing but her commands could prevail with him to undertake this supply, therefore pray give him what help you can to get his money. Pray commend my service to Prince Rupert and make my excuse, [as] I write not to him; by something I hear I hope you two are good friends, which I much rejoice at, and conjure you to do all you can for the continuance of it, if it be so, and to the making of it so, if it be otherwise. P.S. - The Queen has written herself to the King. You will find in Dr Goff's letter [of May 19/May 29] several things desired to be sent from England, all in my judgement most material, and therefore to be hastened to him or Sir Wm Boswell with the greatest expedition that can be. He proposes the sending of my man, Carterett, being already gone to Holland with instructions for the business of the tin, to attend that in England; [he] may, perhaps, not follow the Doctor's order in coming to you for these things, therefore pray, as soon as you receive this, let them be despatched and sent by an express of yours.
This letter was originally written in cipher, but deciphered, and read in Parliament on the 3rd Nov 1645. It is numbered on the back 26 and 140, showing it to have been amongst the papers taken at Sherburn, and it is printed in Ludlow's Memoirs, ed 1751, pp 489, 490.