Envoys or Ambassadors constantly here to this end, tho' some of them, as France or Spain, have little or no Trade with them, and therefore your Lordship's Resolutions to keep a constant Resident here, which has been so much neglected of late Years, is certainly extreamly necessary. Your Informations of the great Influence the present Pope and his Jesuites have gain'd here, are but two well grounded, and I make no doubt, but in a little time, if they go on as they have of late Years, by bribing the leading Clergy and Nobility, by Places and Promises of Preferment, and by keeping up a constant Body of Missionaries to disperse their Opinions among the People and lower Clergy; but this Church and her Emperour and Patriarch, will be more obedient Sons to the triumphant Latin, than they were to the militant Greek Church.
I have nothing more to add to my last Dispatches, but to shew my Obedience to your Commands, in procuring you as exact an Account as I could, of the Affair which you say has made so much Noise in London, to wit, the Laplanders Sun-shine. It is certain then, my Lord, that this matter, which begun about twenty Years ago, nearNovo-
