Dr. [Stephen] Goffe to Henry Lord Jermyn. Concerning the sale of the tin, Sir Wm. Boswell and I must proceed together for many reasons. It will be necessary to obtain an advance so that Her Majesty [Queen Henrietta Maria] may be enabled to pay the interest until the tin be sold to pay the sum borrowed. I proposed to the Prince of Orange immunity [for the tin] from the customs, who was very willing, and Greffier has promised to do the best he can in this business. He has also undertaken to bring Allen and Haesdonck safely out of Dunkirk, but in the meantime I am to write to them to go forth if they can, there being no Holland ship there to trouble them for the next ten days. If there were any wit and duty in those who govern about Falmouth and Truro, they do well to stay any tin until this be sold. The Queen's letters are gone to [James Kettler] Duke of Courland for assisting the Marquis of Montrose, I hope to good purpose, but it is necessary to send the copy of the Queen's letter to the King of Denmark for free passage for his ships through the Sound, and a letter of credence in the Queens's own hand to Mons. Vicford, who from time to time may do the King good service by it with him. But the thing which gives Sir Wm. Boswell and me most pain in this place is the fear of the next interest day for the jewels, May 16, on which it is necessary to continue the credit begun, but above all to redeem those parcels which lie so dangerously on Cletcher's hands, besides the acquitting ourselves of the multiplied promises made to Mr. Vicford for the redemption of his. It is evident that nothing in the world is of so great importance for the King's service as to find money for the ships for Dorp, but in the next place these occasions mentioned must be served, and therefore it is very unfit to defer any longer the ratification and procurations which Webster desires, but how to transmit them to England and receive them from thence I know not, since the Ambassadors of Holland are come away. If you please to let the King know the fitness of doing the thing this week, Sir Wm Boswell and I will prepare the instruments and send them several ways, but the likeliest is by Paris, to you, unless we may address ourselves to the Portugal Ambassador, which yet has not been done. I shall obey your order in sending "Saint Ibal's" jewels by Mr. D'Estrade, though they might be of use here, but if that design be pursued, as it must be, unless peace can be made, you will as easily send them back and more money with them by D'Estrade, as also together with them the orders from France for preparing the ships in the King of France's name. Mr Hemflett [John Kirkhoven, Lord of Hemfleet] and Lady Stanhope [Katherine, widow of Sir Henry Stanhope] are very thankful to you, for the business of their son [Charles Henry Kirkhoven], hoping that it shall be represented in the form desired, that is, for the title of Lord Wotton [not granted until 1650], which will be the greatest contentment to them in the world.
In cipher, but deciphered and numbered 12 on back, therefore probably one of the papers taken near Sherburn, and submitted to Parliament on the 3 Nov. 1645.