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A44716	Epistolæ Ho-elianæ familiar letters domestic and forren divided into sundry sections, partly historicall, politicall, philosophicall, vpon emergent occasions / by James Howell.; Correspondence	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing H3072; ESTC R711	386,609	560

that Tragedie and he pleas'd to relate unto me the particulars of it which was thus When Henry the fourth was slain the Queen Dowager took the Reins of the Government into her hands during the young Kings Minority and amongst others whom she advanc'd Signor Conchino a Florentin and her Foster-Brother was one Her countenance came to shine so strongly upon him that he became her onely confident and favourit insomuch that she made him Marquis of Ancre one of the twelve Marshals of France Governour of Normandy and conferr'd divers other Honours and Offices of trust upon him and who but he The Princes of France could not endure this domineering of a stranger therefore they leagu'd together to suppresse him by Arms The Queen Regent having intelligence hereof surpriz'd the Prince of Conde and clap'd him up in the Bastile the Duke of Main fled hereupon to Peronne in Pycardie and other great men put themselves in an Armed posture to stand upon their guard The young King being told that the Marquis of Ancre was the ground of this discontentment commanded Monsieur de Vitry Captain of his Guard to Arrest him and in case of resistance to kill him This busines was carried very closely till the next morning that the said Marquis was coming to the Louvre with a ruffling train of Gallants after him and passing over the Draw-Bridge at the Court-Gate Vitry stood there with the Kings Guard about him and as the Marquis entred he told him that he had a Commission from the King to apprehend him therefore he demanded his Sword the Marquis hereupon put his hand upon his Sword some thought to yeeld it up others to make opposition in the mean time Vitry discharg'd a Pistoll at him and so dispatch'd him The King being above in his Gallery ask'd what noise that was below one smilingly answer'd nothing Sir but that the Marshall of Ancre is slain who slew him The Captain of your Guard why Because he would have drawn his Sword at Your Majesties Royall Commission then the King replied Vitry hath done well and I will maintain the act Presently the Queen Mother had all her Guard taken from her except six men and sixteen Women and so she was banish'd Paris and commanded to retire to Blois Ancre's Body was buried that night in a Church hard by the Court but the next morning when the Laquays and Pages who are more unhappy here then the Apprentises in London broke up his Grave tore his Coffin to peeces rip'd the Winding-Sheet and tied his Body to an Asses Tail and so dragg'd him up and down the Gutters of Paris which are none of the sweetest they then slic'd off his Ears and nail'd them upon the Gates of the City they cut off his Genitories and they say he was hung like an Asse and sent them for a present to the Duke of Main the rest of his Body they carried to the New-Bridg and hung him his Heels upwards and Head downwards upon a new Gibbet that had bin set up a little before to punish them who should speak ill of the present Government and it was his chance to have the Maiden-head of it himself His Wife was hereupon apprehended imprisond and beheaded for a Witch som few dayes after upon a surmise that she had enchanted the Queen to dote so upon her Husband and they say the young Kings Picture was found in her Closet in Virgin-Wax with one Leg melted away a little after a processe was form'd against the Marquis her Husband and so he was condemn'd after death This was a right act of a French popular fury which like an angry torrent is irresistible nor can any Banks Boundaries or Dike●… stop the impetuous rage of it How the young King will prosper after so high and an unexampled act of violence by beginning his Raign and embr●…ing the Walls of his own Court with blood in that manner ther are divers censures When I am settled in Spain you shall hear from me in the interim I pray let your Prayers accompany me in this long journey and when you write to Wales I pray acquaint our frends with my welfare So I pray God blesse us both and send us a happy enterview Paris 8. of September 1620. Your loving Brother J. H. XX. To my Cousin W. Vaughan Esq from Saint Malo Cousin I Am now in French Britany I went back from Paris to Roüen and so through all low Normandy to a little Port call'd Granville wher I embark'd for this Town of Saint Malo but I did purge so violently at Sea that it put me into a Burning Feavour for some few dayes wherof I thank God I am newly recovered and finding no opportunity of shipping here I must be forc'd to turn my intended Sea voyage to a long land journey Since I came to this Province I was curious to converse with some of the lower Bretons who speak no other Language but our Welsh for their radicall words are no other but 't is no wonder for they were a Colony of Welsh at first as the name of this Province doth imply as also the Latin name Armorica which though it passe for Latin yet it is but pure Welsh and signifies a Countrey bordring up the Sea as that arch Heretick was call'd Pelagius a Pelago his name being Morgan I was a little curious to peruse the Annals of this Province and during the time that it was a Kingdom ther wer four Kings of the name Hoell whereof one was call'd Hoell the Great This Town of Saint Malo hath one rarity in it for ther is here a perpetuall Garrison of English but they are of English Dogs which are let out in the night to guard the Ships and eat the Gardens up and down the Streets and so they are shut up again in the morning It will be now a good while before I shall have conveniency to send to you or receive from you howsoever let me retain still some little room in your memory and somtimes in your meditations while I carry you about me perpetually not onely in my head but in heart and make you travell all along with me thus from Town to Countrey from Hill to Dale from Sea to Land up and down the World and you must be contented to be Sub●…ect to these incertain removes and perambulations untill it shall please God to fix me again England nor need you while you are thus my concomitant through new places evry day to fear any ill usage as long as I farewell St. Malo 25. of September 1620. Yours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 J. H. XXI To Sir John North Kt. from Rochell SIR 〈◊〉 Am newly com to Rochell nor am I sorry that I went somwhat out of my way to see this Town not to tell you true out of ●…ny extraordinary love I bear to the people for I do not find ●…em so gentle and debonnair to strangers nor so Hospitable a●…●…e rest of France but I excuse them for it

delights in a far higher degree to succeed after death to the religious observers of it as the fruition of beautifull damsells with large rowling eyes whose virginity shall renew after every act their youth shall last alwaies with their lust and love shall be satiared with onely one where it shall remain inalienable They concu●… with the Christian but only in the acknowledgment of one God and in his attrib●…tes With the Iew they symbolize in many things more as in circumcision in refraining from swines flesh in detestation of images and somwhat in the quality of future happines which as was said before they place in Venerean pleasure as the Jew doth in feasting and banquetings so that neither of their lawes have punishment enough to deter mankind from wickednes and vice nor do they promise adaequat rewards for vertue and piety for in the whole Alcoran and through all the writings of Moses ther 's not a word of Angelicall joyes and eternity And herein Christianity far excels both these Religions for she placeth future happines in spirituall everlasting and unconceivable bliss abstracted from the fading and faint grossenes of sense The Jew and Turk also agree in their opinion of women whom they hold to be of an inferiour creation to man which makes the one to exclude them from his Moscoes and the other from his Synagogues Thus far have I rambled through the vast Ottoman Empire and taken a cursary survey of Mahomets Religion In my next I shall tak the best view I can of Pagans and Idolaters with those who go for Atheists And in this particular this earth may be said to be worse then Hell it self and the Kingdom of the Devill in regard there are no Atheists there for the very damned soules find and feel in the midst of their tortures that ther is a God by his justice and punishments nay the Prince of darknes himself and all the cacadaemons by an historicall faith beleeve ther is a God wherunto the Poet alludes very divinely Nullos in Inferno est Atheos ante fuit So I very affectionatly kiss your hand and rest westmin 17. Aug. 1635 Your faithfull ready Servitor J. H. XI To Doctor B. SIR HHaving in my three former letters washed my hands of the Mahometan and the Iew and attended Christianity up and down the earth I com now to the Pagan Idolater or Heathen who the more to be lamented make the greatest part of mankind Europe her self though the beames of the cross have shin'd upon her above these sixteen ages is not free of them for they possess to this day Lappia Corelia Biarmia Scrifinnia and the north parts of Finmark there are also som shreds of them to be found in divers places of Lutuania and Somogitia which make a region nine hundred miles in compas But in Afric their number is incredible for from cape Blanc the most westerly Point of Afric all southward to the Cape of good Hope and thence turning by the back of Afric to the Cape of Mozambric all these coasts being about the one half of the circumference of Afric is peepled by Idolaters though in som places intermixt with Mahometans and Christians as in the Kingdom of Congo and Angola But if we survey the inland territories of Afric between the river of Nile and the west sea of Ethiopia even all that Countrey from about the north paralell of ten degrees to the south paralell of six degrees all is held by Idolaters besides the Kingdom of Borno and a great part of Nubia and Lybia continue still in their old Paganisme so that by this account above one half of that immence continent of Afric is peepled by Idolaters But in Asia which is far more spatious and more populous then Afric Pagans Idolaters and Gentiles Swarm in greater numbers for from the River Pechora Eastward to the Ocean and thence Southward to the Cape of Cincapura and from that point returning Westward by the South coasts to the out-lets of the River Indus all that maritine tract which makes a good deal more then half the circumference of Asia is inhabited by Idolaters so are the inland parts Ther are two mighty mountaines that traverse all Asia Taurus and Imaus the first runs from West to East the other from North to South and 〈◊〉 quarter and cut that huge mass of earth into equall parts this side those mountaines most of the peeple are Mahometans but tother side they are all Idolaters And as on the firm continent Paganisme thus reigns so in many thousand Islands that lye squandred in the vast Ocean on the East and South east of Asia Idolatry orespreads all except in some few Islands that are possess'd by Spaniards and Arabs Lastly if one take a survey of America as none hath done yet exactly which is estimated to be as big as all the old earth Idolaters ther possesse four parts of five 'T is true som years after the first Navigation thither they were converted daily in great multitudes but afterwards observing the licentious lives of the Christians their greedines for gold and their cruelty they came not in so fast which made an Indian answer a Spanish Fryer who was discoursing with him of the joyes of Heaven and how all Spaniards went thither after this life Then said the Pagan I do not desire to go thither if Spaniards be there I had rather go to Hell to be free of their Company America differs from the rest of the earth in this that she hath neither Iew nor Mahometan in her but Christians and Gentiles only Ther are besides all those Religions and peeple before mentioned an irregular confus'd nation in Europe call'd the Morduits which occupy the middle confines betwixt the Tartars and the Russe that are mingled in Rites of Religion with all those that have been fore-spoken for from the privy members upward they are Christians in regard they admit of Baptisme from the Navell downward they are Mahometans or Iews for they are circumcis'd and besides they are given to the adoration of heathenish Idolls In Asia ther are the Card●… which inhabit the mountanous Country about Mozall between Armenia and Mesop●…tamia and the Druci in Syria who are demi Mahometans and Christians Now concerning Pagans and heathenish Idolaters wherof ther are innumerable sorts up and down the surface of the earth in my opinion those are the excusablest kind who adore the Sun and Moon with the Host of Heaven and in Ireland the kerns of the mountains with some of the Scotch Isles use a fashion of adoring the new Moon to this very day praying she would leave them in as good health as she found them this is not so gross and Idolatry as that of other Heathens for the adoration of those glorious Celestiall bodies is more excusable than that of Garlick and Onions with the Egyptian who I think with the Sicyonian was the ancientest Idolater upon earth which he makes thrice older than we do for Diodorus S●…culus reports