Folios 147-152. A lengthy anonymous letter endorsed 'For the King'. The letter begins:...

Folios 147-152. A lengthy anonymous letter endorsed 'For the King'. The letter begins: 'Having made it my business not only to give constant attendance in the House at this sessions, but at all the meetings to which I was called to consider how to carry on your affairs, and having thereby had an opportunity to make several observations that may prove for your service to know, I think myself obliged to lay them before you. And it being generally discoursed as if you had a peace in prospect, you will pardon me if I presume to say how much it will contribute to your future happiness that it should, if possible, be perfected before the meeting either of this or any other Parliament'. The writer goes on to considered how the King should manage the Tories and the Whigs so as to maintain himself against the enemies abroad and at the same time preserve his authority at home with particular reference to the various sources of revenue. The writer ends: 'So, upon the whole, I shall presume to conclude as I began, that the parliament that began with the war should likewise end with it, not before. And if it pleased God to grant you an honourable peace, and you would then be pleased to set up a party of your own, and let the people see that if they expected your favour they must depend upon you for it, and not let anyone hope for promotion for being true to a faction but by serving of you, I presume to say that the war being ended, a new parliament called, and such measures pursued, you would quickly find that the Jacobites would turn moderate churchmen and loyal subjects, and the Whigs much more obsequious courtiers and easy servants than they now are'.