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A67123
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Letters of Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon
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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.; Bacon, Edmund, Sir.
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1661
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Wing W3644; ESTC R25222
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book intituled The Hog hath lost his Pearl took up the White-Fryers for their Theatre and having invited thither as it should seem rather their Mistresses then their Masters who were all to enter per buletini for a note of distinction from ordinary Comedians towards the end of the Play the Sheriffs who by chance had heard of it came in as they say and carried some six or seven of them to perform the last act at Bridewel the rest are fled Now it is strange to hear how sharp-witted the City is for they will needs have Sir John Swinerton the Lord Maior be meant by the Hog and the late Lord Treasurer by the Pearl And now let me bid you good night from my Chamber in King-street this Tuesday at Eleven of the night Your faithfullest to serve you HENRY WOTTON Francesco hath made a proof of that green which you sent me against which he taketh this exception That being tryed upon glass which he esteemeth the best of tryals it is not translucent arguing as he saith too much density of the matter and consequently less quickness and spirit then in colours of more tenuity Sir BY the next Carrier for yet I must say so again you shall hear when this Ambassador will be gone The mean while let me entertain you with the inclosed Paper which the Duke of Savoy hath published in his own defence joyning together the Sword and Reason Sir Robert Mansfeld is still in restraint Sir Thomas Overbury not only out of liberty as he was but almost now out of Discourse We have lately started at a dispatch from Ireland importing a variance there about the choice of a Speaker in the summoned Parliament which came to so sharp a point that the Deputy was fain to fetch wisdom from hence Sure it is that the humors of that Kingdom are very hovering and much awaked with an apprehension taken that we mean to fetter them with Laws of their own making which in truth were an ingenious strain of State My Lord and Lady are stollen down into Kent for a few dayes to take in some fresh ayr They go not this next Progress if my Brother can get leave of the King to see his Grand-children where he intends to spend some fortnight and the rest of the time between Boughton and Canterbury A match treated and managed to a fair probability between my Lord Cooks heir and the second Daughter of Sir Arthur Throckmorton is suddainly broken the said Lord Cook having underhand entertained discourse about the Daughter of the late Sir Thomas Bartlet who in defect of her Brother shall be heir of that name I have nothing more to say and therefore God keep you and my sweet Neece in his continual love Your poor Uncle faithfull Friend and Willing Servant HENRY WOTTON Albertus God be thanked groweth better and better And in the midst of his own pains hath remembred those in Suffolk whom we both so much honour From my Chamber this Thursday St. George his Eve Sir THe last week by reason of my being in Kent was a week of silence and this I think will appear unto you a week of wonder The Court was full of discourse and expectation that the King being now disincumbred of the care of his Daughter would towards this Feast of St. George fill up either all or some at least of those places that had lien vacant so long and had been in this time of their emptiness a subject of notorious opposition between our great Vicount and the House of Suffolk Thus I say ran the opinion When yesterday about six of the Clock at Evening Sir Thomas Overbury was from the Council-Chamber conveighed by a Clerk of the Council and two of the Guard to the Tower and there by Warrant consigned to the Lieutenant as close Prisoner Which both by the suddainness like a stroak of thunder and more by the quality and relation of the person breeding in the Beholders whereof by chance I was one very much amazement and being likely in some proportion to breed the like in the Hearers I will adventure for the satisfying of your thoughts about it to set down the fore-running and leading Causes of this accident as far as in so short a time I have been able to wade in so deep a water It is conceived that the King hath a good while been much distasted with the said Gentleman even in his own nature for too stiff a carriage of his fortune besides that scandalous offence of the Queen at Greenwich which was never but a palliated cure Upon which considerations His Majesty resolving to sever him from my Lord of Rochester and to do it not disgracefully or violently but in some honourable fashion He commanded not long since the Arch-Bishop by way of familiar discourse to propound unto him the Ambassage of France or of the Arch-Dukes Court whereof the one was shortly to be changed and the other at the present vacant In which proposition it seemeth though shadowed under the Arch-Bishops good will that the King was also contented some little light should be given him of His Majesties inclination unto it grounded upon his merit At this the Fish did not bite whereupon the King took a rounder way commanding my Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Pembrock to propound joyntly the same unto him which the Arch-Bishop had before moved as immediately from the King and to sweeten it the more he had as I hear an offer made him of assurance before his going off the place of Treasurer of the Chamber which he expecteth after the death of the Lord Stanhop whom belike the King would have drawn to some reasonable composition Notwithstanding all which Motives and impulsives Sir Thomas Overbury refused to be sent abroad with such terms as were by the Council interpreted pregnant of contemptin a case where the King had opened his will which refusal of his I should for my part esteem an eternal disgrace to our occupation if withall I did not consider how hard it is to pull one from the bosom of a Favorite Thus you see the point upon which one hath been committed standing in the second degree of power in the Court and conceiving as himself told me but two hours before never better then at that present of his own fortunes ends Now in this whole matter there is one main and principal doubt which doth travail all understandings that is Whether this were done without the participation of my Lord of Rochester A point necessarily infolding two different consequences for if it were done without his knowledge we must expect of himself either a decadence or a ruine if not we must then expect a reparation by some other great publick satisfaction whereof the world may take as much notice These clouds a few dayes will clear In the mean while I dare pronounce of Sir Thomas Overbury that he shall return no more to this Stage unless Courts be governed every year by a new Philosophy for our old Principles will not bear it I have shewed my Lord and Ladies Sister your Letter of the 18. of April who return unto you their affectionate remembrances and I many thanks for it The King hath altered his journey to Thetford and determineth to entertain himself till the progress nearer London The Queen beginneth her journey upon Saturday towards Bathe Neither the Marquess di villa who cometh from Savoy nor Don Pedro disarmiento who shall reside here in the room of the present Spanish Ambassador are yet either arrived or near our Coast though both on the way So as I can yet but cast towards you a longing and in truth an envious look from this place of such servility in the getting and such uncertainty in the holding of fortunes where me-thinks we are all over-clouded with that sleep of Jacob when he saw some ascending and some descending but that those were Angels and these are men For in both what is it but a Dream And so Sir wishing this Paper in your hands to whom I dare communicate the freest of my thoughts I commit you to Gods continual Love and Blessings Your faithfull poor Friend and Servant HENRY WOTTON I pray Sir let me in some corner of every Letter tell my sweet Neece that I love her extreamly as God judge me FINIS