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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 4 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions
About this period Sir John Digby, lately created a Baron, and soon after Earl of Bristol, was sent to join Aston at Madrid. The business of the treaty was intrusted in com mon to their Wisdom, and the management of correspondence with James and his ministers committed separately to Aston. They were both earnest friends to the match, and for the first two years of their embassy received the highest appro bation and praise from the King, the Prince, and the fa vourite; when, on Charles's wild expedition to the court of Spain, and Buckingham's quarrel with Olivares, and couse quent resolution to revenge himself by preventing the pro jected marriage, they found all their measures suddenly broken by a new scheme of policy, if it deserved that name, at home, the reasons for which were studiously concealed from them. In this dilemma, Aston, on the first of November, 1623, addressed to the Duke a long letter, doubtless one of many to the same effect, which concludes with'these honest, friendly, and spirited, remonstrances.
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