are safely com to Germany Sir Iohn Penington took us aboard in one of His Majesties Ships at Margets and the Wind stood so fair that wee were at the mouth of the Elve upon Munday following It pleas'd my Lord I should Land first with two Footmen to make haste to Glukstad to learn wher the King of Denmark was and he was at Rensburgh som two daies journey off at a Richsdagh an Assembly that corresponds our Parliament My Lord the next day Landed at Glukstad wher I had provided an accommodation for him though he intended to have gon for Hamburgh but I was bold to tell him that in regard ther were som ombrages and not only so but open and actuall differences 'twixt the King and that Town it might be ill taken if he went thither first before he had attended the King So I left my Lord at Glukstad and being com hither to take up 8000 rich Dollars upon Mr. Burlamacâ—… Bils and fercht Mr. Avery our Agent here I return to morrow to attend 〈◊〉 Lord again I find that matters are much off the Hinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 King of Denmark and this Town The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sweden is advancing apace to find out Wallestein and Wallestein 〈◊〉 and in all apparance they will be shortly engag'd No more now for I am interpell'd by many businesses when you write deliver your Letters to Mr. Railton who will see them safely convey'd for a little before my departure I brought him acquainted with my Lord that he might negotiat som things at Court So with my service and love to all at Westminster I rest Hamburgh Octo. 23. 1632. Your faithfull servitor J. H. II. To my Lord Viscount S. from Hamburgh My Lord SInce I was last in Town my Lord of Leicester hath attended the King of Denmarke at Rensburg in Holsteinland he was brought thither from Glukstad in indifferent good equipage both for Coaches and Waggons but he stayed som dayes at Rensburg for Audience we made a comly gallant shew in that kind when we went to Court for wee were neer upon a hundred all of one peece in mourning It pleas'd my Lord to make me the Orator and so I made a long Latin Speech alta voce to the King in Latin of the occasion of this Ambassie and tending to the praise of the deceased Queen and I had better luck then Secretary Nanton had som thirty yeers since with Roger Earl of Rutland for at the beginning of his Speech when he had pronounc'd Serenissime Rex he was dash'd out of countenance and so gravell'd that he could go no further I made another to Christian the fifth his eldest Son King elect of Denmark for though that Crown be purely electif yet for these three last Kings they wrought so with the people that they got their eldest Sons chosen and declar'd before their death and to assume the Title of Kings elect At the same Audience I made another Speech to Prince Frederic Archbishop of Bâ—…eme the Kings third Son and he hath but one more besides his naturall Issue which is Prince Ulriâ—… now in the Warrs with the Duke of Sax and they say ther is an alliance contracted already 'twixt Christian the fifth and the Duke of Sax his Daughter This ceremony being perform'd my Lord desir'd â—…o find his own diet and then he fell to divers businesses which is â—…ot fitting for me to forestall or impart unto your Lordship now 〈◊〉 wee staied there neer upon a moneth The King feasted my Lord once and it lasted from eleven of the clock till towards the Evening during which time the King began thirty five healths the first to the Emperour the second to his Nephew of England and so went over all the Kings and Queens of Christendom but he never remembred the Prince Palsgraves health or his Neece's all the while The King was taken away at last in his Chair but my Lord of Leicester bore up stoutly all the while so that when ther came two of the Kings Guard to take him by the Arms as he was going down the stairs my Lord shook them off and went alone The next morning I went to Court for som dispatches but the King was gon a hunting at break of day but going to som other of his Officers their servants told me without any apparance of shame That their Masters were drunk over night and so it would be late before they would rise A few daies after we went to Gothorp Castle in Sâ—…eswickland to the Duke of Holsteins Court where at my Lords first audience I made another Latin Speech to the Duke touching his Gran-Mothers death our entertainment there was brave though a little fulsom my Lord was log'd in the Dukes Castle and parted with Presents which is more then the King of Denmark did thence we went to Husem in Ditzmarsh to the Dutchess of Holsteins Court our Queen Anns youngest Sister wher we had also very ful entertainment I made a speech to her also about her Mothers death and when I nam'd the Lady Sophia the tears came down her cheeks Thence we came back to Rhensburg and so to this Town of Hamburgh where my Lord intends to repose som daies after an abrupt odd journey wee had through Holsteinland but I beleeve it will not be long in regard Sir Iohn Pennington stayes for him upon the River We expect Sir Robert Anstruther to com from Viâ—… hither to take the advantage of the Kings Ship We understand that the Imperiall and Swedish Army have made neer approaches one to the other and that som skirmishes and blows have bin already twixt them which are the forerunners of a battle So my good Lord I rest Hamburgh 9 Octo. 1632. Your most humble and faithfull Sâ—…vitor J. H. III. To the Right honble the Earl R. from Hamburgh My Lord THough your Lordship must needs think that in the imployment I am in which requires a whole man my spirits must be distracted by multiplicity of businesses yet because I would not recede from my old method and first principles of travell when I came to any great City to couch in writing what 's most observable I sequestred my self from other Affairs to send your Lordship what followeth touching this great Hans-Town The Hans or Hansiatic lâ—…gue is very ancient som would derive the word from hand because they of the society plight their faith by that action Others derive it from Hansa which in the Gothic toung is Counsell Others would have it com from Han der see which signifies neer or upon the Sea and this passeth for the best Etymology because their Towns are all seated so or upon som navigable River neer the sea The extent of the old Hans was from the Nerve in Livonia to the Rhin and contain'd 62 great Mercantil Towns which were divided to four Precincts The chiefest of the first Prâ—…cinct was Lubâ—…ck wher the Archiss of their ancient Records and their prime Chancery is still and this Town is within that
Your dutifull Son J. H. London Decem. 11. 1625. VIII To Dr. Prichard SIR SInce I was beholden to you for your many favours in Oxford I have not heard from you ne gry quidem I pray let the wonted correspondence be now reviv'd and receive new vigor between us My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weaknes he died so poor so that he scarce left money to bury him which though he had a great Wit did argue no great Wisdom it being one of the essentiall properties of a Wiseman to provide for the main chance I have read that it hath bin the fortunes of all Poets commonly to die Beggars but for an Orator a Lawyer and Philosopher as he was to die so 'c is rare It seems the same fate befell him that attended Demosthenes Seneca and Cicero all great men of whom the two first fell by corruption the falrest Diamond may have a flaw in it but I beleeve he died poor out of a contempt of the pelf of Fortune as also out of an exeess of generosity which appear'd as in divers other passages so once when the King had sent him a Stag he sent up for the Underkeeper and having drunk the Kings health unto him in a great Silver Guilt-Bowl he gave it him for his fee. He writ a pittifull Letter to King Iames not long before his death and concludes Help me dear Soverain Lord and Master and pity me so far that I who have bin born to a Bag be not now in my age forc'd in effect to bear a Wallet nor I that desire to live to study may be driven to study to live Which words in my opinion argued a little abjection of spirit as his former Letter to the Prince did of prophanes wherin be hoped that as the Father was his Creater the Son will be his Redeemer I write not this to derogat from the noble worth of the Lord Viscount Verulam who was a rare man a man Reconditae scientiae ad salutem literarum natus and I think the eloquentst that was born in this Isle They say he shall be the last Lord Chancelor as Sir Edward Coke was the last Lord Chief Iustice of England for ever since they have bin term'd Lord Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench so hereafter ther shall be onely Ketpers of the Great Seal which for Title and Office are deposable but they say the Lord Chancelors Title is indelible I was lately at Grayes-Inne with Sir Eubule and he desir'd me to remember him unto you as I do also salute Meum Prichardum ex imis praecordiis Vale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Ian. 6. 1625 Yours most affectionately while I. H. IX To my welbeloved Consin Mr. T. V. Cousin YOu have a great work in hand for you write unto me that you are upon a treaty of mariage a great work indeed and a work of such consequence that it may make you or marr you it may make the whole remainder of your life uncouth or comfortable to you for of all civill actions that are incident to man ther 's not any that tends more to his infelicity or happines therfore it concerns you not to be over-hasty herein not to take the Ball before the Bound you must be cautious how you thrust your neck into such a yoke whence you will never have power to withdraw it again for the toung useth to tie so hard a knot that the teeth can never untie no not Alexanders Sword can cut asunder among us Christians If you are resolv'd to marry Choose wher you love and resolve to love your choice let love rather than lucre be your guide in this election though a concurrence of both be good yet for my part I had rather the latter should be wanting than the first the one is the Pilot the other but the Ballast of the Ship which should carry us to the Harbour of a happy life If you are bent to wed I wish you another gets wife then Socrates had who when she had scoulded him out of doors as he was going through the Portall threw a Chamber pot of stale Urine upon his head wherat the Philosopher having bin silent all the while smilingly said I thought ofter so much Thunder we should have Rain And as I wish you may not light upon such a Xantippe as the wisest men have had ill luck in this kind as I could instance in two of our most eminent Lawyers C. B. so I pray that God may deliver you from a Wife of such a generation that Strowd our Cook here at Westminster said his Wife was of who when out of a mislike of the Preacher he had on a Sunday in the Afternoon gon out of the Church to a Tavern and returning towards the Evening pretty well heated with Canary to look to his Roast and his Wife falling to read him a lowd lesson in so furious a manner as if she would have basted him insteed of the Mutton and amongst other revilings telling him often Thut the devill the devill would fetch him at last he broke out of a long silence and told her I prethee good Wife hold thy self content for I know the devill will do me no hurt for I have married his Kinswoman If you light upon such a Wife a Wife that hath more bene then flesh I wish you may have the same measure of patience that Socrates and Strowd had to suffer the Gray-Mare somtimes to be the better Horse I remember a French Proverb La Maison est miserable Meschante Où la Poule plus haut que le Coc chante That House doth every day more wretched grow Wher the Hen lowder than the Cock doth crow Yet we have another English Proverb almost counter to this That it is better to marry a Shrew then a Sheep for though silence be the dumb Orator of beuty and the best ornament of a Woman yet a Phlegmatic dull wife is fulsom and fastidious Excuse me Cousin that I Jest with you in so serious a busines I know you need no counsell of mine herein you are discreet enough of your self nor I presume do you want advice of Parents which by all means must go along with you So wishing you all conjugall joy and a happy confarreation I rest London Feb. 5. 1625. Your affectionat Cousin J. H. X. To my Noble Lord the Lord Clifford from London My Lord THe Duke of Buckingham is lately return'd from Holland having renewed the peace with the States and Articled with them for a continuation of som Navall forces for an expedition against Spain as also having taken up som moneys upon privat jewells not any of the Crowns and lastly having comforted the Lady Elizabeth for the decease of his late Majesty her Father and of Prince Frederic her eldest Son whole disasterous manner of death amongst the rest of her sad afflictions is not the least For passing over Haerlam Mere a huge Inland Lough in company of his
Father who had bin in Amsterdam to look how his bank of money did thrive and coming for more frugality in the common Boat which was oreset with Merchandize and other passengers in a thick Fog the Vessell turn'd ore and so many perish'd the Prince Palsgrave sav'd himself by swimming but the young Prince clinging to the Mast and being intangled among the Tacklings was half drown'd and half frozen to death A sad destiny Ther is an open rupture twixt us and the Spaniard though he gives out that he never broke with us to this day Count Gondamar was on his way to Flanders and thence to England as they say with a large Commission to treat for a surrender of the Palainat and so to peece matters together again but he died in the journey at a place call'd Bunnol of pure apprehensions of grief as it is given out The match twixt his Majesty and the Lady Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to Henry the great the eldest being maried to the King of Spain and the second to the Duke of Savoy goes roundly on and is in a manner concluded wherat the Count of Soissons is much discontented who gave himself hopes to have her but the hand of Heaven hath predestin'd her for a far higher condition The French Ambassadors who were sent hither to conclude the busines having privat audience of his late Majesty a little before his death he told them pleasantly That he would make war against the Lady Henrietta because she would not receive the two Letters which were sent her one from himself and the other from his son but sent them to her Mother yet he thought he should easily make peace with her because he understood she had afterwards put the latter Letter in her bosome and the first in her Coshionet wherly he gather'd that she intended to reserve his son for her Affection and him for Counsell The Bishop of Lucon now Cardinall de Richelieu is grown to be the sole Favorit of the King of France being brought in by the Queen-Mother he hath hin very active in advancing the match but 't is thought the wars will break out afresh against them of the Religion notwithstanding the ill fortune the King had before Mountauban few yeers since wher he lost above 500 of his Nobles wherof the great Duke of Main was one and having lain in person before the Town many months and receiv'd som affronts as that inscription upon their Gates shew Roy sans foy ville sans peur a King without faith a town without fear yet he was forc'd to raze his works and raise his siege The Letter which Mr. Ellis Hicks brought them of Mountauban from Rechell through so much danger and with so much gallantry was an infinit advantage unto them for wheras ther was a politic report rais'd in the Kings Army and blown into Mountauban that Rochell was yeelded to the Count of Soissons who lay â—…hen before her this Letter did inform the contrary and that Rochell was in as good a plight as ever wherupon they made a sally the next day upon the Kings Forces and did him a great deal of spoil Ther be summous out for a Parliament I pray God it may prove more prosperous than the former I have been lately recommended to the Duke of Buckingham by som noble friends of mine that have intimacy with him about whom though he hath three Secretaries already I hope to have som employment for I am weary of walking up and down so idly upon London streets The Plague begins to rage mightily God avert his judgments that meance so great a Mortality and turn not away his face from this poor Island So I kiss your Lordships hands in quality of Lond. 25. Feb. 1625. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XI To Rich. Altham Esqr. SIR THe Eccho wants but a face and the Looking-Glass a voice to make them both living creatures and to becom the same body they represent the one by repercussion of sound the other by reflection of sight Your most ingenious Letters to me from time to time do far more lively represent you than either Eccho or Crystall can do I mean they represent the better and nobler part of you to wit the inward man they clearly set forth the notions of your mind and the motions of your soul with the strength of your imagination for as I know your exterior person by your lineaments so I know you as well inwardly by your lines and by those lively expressions you give of your self insomuch that I beleeve if the interior man within you were so visible as the outward as once Plate wish'd that vertue might be seen with the corporeal eyes you would draw all the world after you or if your well-born thoughts and the words of your Letters were eccho'd in any place wher they might rebound and be made audible they are compos'd of such sweet and charming strains of ingenuity and eloquence that all the Nymphs of the Woods and the Valleys the Dryades yea the Graces and Muses ' would pitch their Pavillions there nay Apollo himself would dwell longer in that place with his Rays and make them reverberat more strongly than either upon Pindus or Parnassus or Rhodes it self whence he never removes his Eye as long as he is above this Hemispher I confess my Letters to you which I send by way of correspondence com far short of such vertue yet are they the true Idaeas of my mind and of that reall and inbred affection I bear you one should never teach his Letter or his Laquay to lie I observe that rule but besides my Letters I could wish ther were a Crystall Casement in my Brest thorow which you might behold the motions of my heart Utinamque oculos in pectore pesses Inserere then should you clearly see without any deception of sight how truely I am and how intirely 27 of Febr. 1625. Yours J. H. And to answer you in the same strain of Vers you sent me First Shall the Heavens bright Lamp forget to shine The Stars shall from the Azurd skie decline First Shall the Orient with the West shake hand The Center of the world shall cease to stand First Wolves shall ligue with Lambs the Dolphins flie The Lawyer and Physitian Fees deny The Thames with Tagus shall exchange her Bed My Mistris locks with mine shall first turn red First Heaven shall lie below and Hell above Ere I inconstant to my Altham prove XII To the R. honble my Lord of Calingford after Earl of Carberry at Colden Grove 28 May. 1625. My Lord VVE have gallant news now abroad for we are sure to have a new Queen ere it be long both the Contract and mariage was lately solemniz'd in France the one the second of this month in the Louvre the other the eleventh day following in the great Church of Paris by the Cardinall of Rochefoucand ther was som clashing 'twixt him and the Archbishop of Paris who