Excerpt from A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Vol. 1 of 2: First Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683
I may mention that I have myself carefully examined in the French Foreign Office the despatches of the French Ambassadors in England for the years 1659 to 1665, 1669, 1672 to 1674, and 1679 to 1681.
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