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send hereafter. The last warre hath bin heavy, both in towne and countrey, and the
present tailles soe much augemented, that the oppression thereoff is worse than a
warre, making the people that are left abandon there howses. I shall indeavor to
procure some redresse in this abuse, which I find hath bin introduced by the neglect
of his Higness ministers on the place, for if they had made it well understood to his
Higness last or his father, their considerations were such in this state as it could not
have remained as now it doth. I am at this present obleeged for the present te pursue
a troublesome processe grownded uppon that inconsiderate lease for nine yeeres,
granted by Mons. Tassin, by virtue whereoff and a surreptitious sentence obteined
from the presidiall of Montargis, the tenant still continues his possession in the farme
of the grange, soe that for his expulsion and for the conservation of his Higness
right and interests there was necessity for our appealle to this parlement, where I
doe not doubt but wee shall have it soone determined to our advantage, and then
shall I leave it to your consideration, whether this Tassin hath faithfully discharged
his trust, or whether he was well advised to make soe long a lease at the very same
time, when he pretended to make saile of it. I am soe sensible of this grace conferred
uppon me by the Princesse Royale and confirmed by the Princesse Dowager, as
there is not anything I shall leave unattempted, that may promote there Hignesses
or the Princes service, and I shall thinke myselfe happy of some occasion to assure
you, that I am infinitely much ..... Paris, 1 of May 1654.
5352. Aan prinses Amalia van Oranje 1)
. (K.A.)
J'importune V.A. de cest escrit, pour estre enfermé par médecine, à raison de mes
incommoditez de catarrhes, qui m'affligent beaucoup sur les oreilles. Outre que je
ne mets pas volontiers V.A. dans l'apprehension de se veoir persecutée en presence
de ma sollicitation 2) . C'est ce que je feray le plus rarement qu'il sera possible,
m'asseurant que V.A. en sa bonté voudra considerer que luy demandant la moindre
chose que je puis et cependant la meilleure dont elle puisse gratifier mes enfants,
en luy ayant offert l'aisné de tous, conditionné comme tout le monde sçait qu'il est,
je ne merite pas, non plus que luy, de veoir nos honneurs flestris par le refus de si
peu de chose, ni nos malvueillants resjouïs du deplaisir et prejudice qui nous en
arriveroit. 7 May 1654.
5353. I. Gruterus 3)
. (R.A.)
Wijlen mijn broeder 4) heeft de Historie of Nature 5) van Bacon uit het
1) Ook in afschrift van andere hand. - Uitgegeven door Jorissen, Memoires de Constantin
Huygens, blz. 150.
2) Huygens vroeg voor zijn oudsten zoon de betrekking van ontvanger te Geertruidenberg.
3) No. 5353 a, b. Briefjes van 13 Juli en 5 Aug. (beide L.B.) zijn zonder eenig belang. - Zie I,
blz. 315.
4) Jacobus Gruter (1615-1652), geb. te Middelburg, was sedert 1648 verbonden aan de Latijnsche
school in zijne geboortestad.
5) Het Hs. van dit werk had behoord aan Sir William Boswell, den Engelschen resident in den
Haag (zie I, blz. 407).
Constantijn Huygens, Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663