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Court Offices are also foreign to our present purpose, the King's personal favour lay betwixt Sidney afterwards Lord Romney, & Bertink whom He created Earl of Portland.

deletion The first was a man of a gentle temper, but too fond of pleasure for application to business; He had however the secret correspondence, & the conduct of the Prince of Orange's affairs with the party in England, that brought on the Revolution, He was made Gentleman of the Bedchamber, afterwards Secretary of State & c. /deletion

deletion Benink was the person in whom the King plac'd the most cordial friendship for the first ten years of His Reign; He serv'd Him with great fidelity, but was never /deletion