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Correspondence (1716–1725)
Eastern Patriarchs and the Nonjurors, ed. Williams, 1868
28. No. 28: The High Chancellor of Russia to the Nonjurors
MY LORDS,
Your Lordships’ most esteemed Letter of the 11th of April past I received from your Messenger Cassano, by which is understood here your Regret for the Death of his Imperial Majesty of Blessed and Glorious Memory, as also congratulation for her Imperial Majesty’s Accession to the Throne, for which your Kindness and Affection I return you many Thanks. As to the Affair you have mentioned of an Union, you may assure yourselves that her Imperial Majesty will support the same in such a Manner as his Imperial Majesty hath supported; only at these mournfull Times your Lordships will please to have some longer Patience, till the first Opportunity I can have to represent to her Imperial Majesty of all more at large, and then I do assure you I will not fail to acquaint you thereof, and be persuaded that I shall be always ready to serve you. I am,
My Lords,
Your Lordships’
Most affectionate Servant,
EARL GL. OF GALLOWKIN.
St Petersburgh,
the 16th September, 1725.
To the most Reverend Lords Bishops JEREMIAS Primus, ARCHIBALDUS and JOHANNES.