their days in meditation and in preparing themselves for another world Charles the Emperor shew'd them the way who left the Empire to his brother and all the rest of his Dominions to his son Philip the second and so taking with him his two sisters he retir'd into a Monastery they into a Nunnery this doth not suit well with the genius of an Englishman who loves not to pull off his cloaths till he goes to bed I will conclude with some Verses I saw under a huge Rodomontado picture of the Duke of Lerma wherin he is painted like a Giant bearing up the Monarchy of Spain that of France and the Popedom upon his shoulders with this Stanza Sobre les ombros d'este Atlante Yazen en aquestos dias Estas tres Monarquias Upon the shoulders of this Atlas lies The Popedom and two mighty Monarchies So I most humbly kiss your Lordships hands and rest ever most ready Madrid 3 Febr. 1622. At your Lordships command J. H. XII To my Father SIR ALL affairs went on fairly here specially that of the match when Master Endymion Porter brought lately my Lord of Bâ—…istoll a dispatch from England of a high nature wherin the Earl is commanded to represent unto this King how much his Majesty of great Britain since the beginning of these German wars hath labourd to merit well of this Crown and of the whole House of Austria by a long and lingring patience grounded still upon assurances hence that care should be had of his honor his Daughters joynture and grand-childrens patrimony yet how crosly all things had proceeded in the Treaty at Bruxells manag'd by Sir Richard Weston as also that in the Palatinat by the Lord Chichester how in treating time the Town and Castle of Heidelberg were taken Manbeim besieg'd and all acts of Hostility us'd notwithstanding the fair professions made by this King the Infanta at Bruxells and other his Ministers How meerly out of respect to this King he had neglected all Martiall means which probably might have preserv'd the Palatinat those thin Garrisons which he had sent thither being rather for honors sake to keep a footing untill a generall accommodation than that he relyed any way upon their strength And since that there are no other fruits of all this but reproach and scorn and that those good Offices which he us'd towards the Emperor on the behalf of his Son in law which he was so much encouraged by Letters from hence should take effect have not sorted to any other issue than to a plain affront and a high injuring of both their Majesties though in a different degree The Earl is to tell him that his Majesty of great Britain hopes and desires that out of a true apprehension of these wrongs offerd unto them both he will as his dear and loving brother faithfully promise and undertake upon his honor confirming the same under his hand and seal either that Heidelberg shall be within seventy days rendred into his hands as also that ther shall be within the said term of seventy days a suspension of arms in the Palatinat and that a Treaty shall recommence upon such terms as he propounded in November last which this King held then to be reasonable And in case that this be not yeelded unto by the Emperor that then this King joyn forces with his Majesty of England for the recovery of the Palatinat which upon this trust hath been lost or in case his forces at this time be otherwise employ'd that they cannot give his Majesty that assistance he desires and deserves that at least he will permit a free and friendly passage through his Territories for such Forces as his Mejesty of great Britain shall employ into Germany Of all which if the Earl of Bristoll hath not from the King of Spain a direct assurance under his hand and Seal ten days after his audience that then he take his leave and return to England to his Majesties presence els to proceed in the negotiation of the match according to former instructions This was the main substance of his Majesties late letter yet there was a postill added that in case a rupture happen 'twixt the two Crowns the Earl should not com instantly and abruptly â—…way but that he should send advice first to England and carry the busines so that the world should not presently know of it Notwithstanding all these traverses we are confident here that the match will take otherwise my Cake is Dow. There was a great difference in one of the capitulations 'twixt the two Kings how long the children which should issue of this marriage were to continue sub regimine Matris under the tutele of the Mother This King demanded 14 years at first then twelve but now he is come to nine which is newly condescended unto I receiv'd yours of the first of September in another from Sir Iames Crofts wherin it was no small comfort to me to hear of your health I am to go hence shortly for Sardinia a dangerous voyage by reason of Algier Pirats I humbly desire your prayers may accompany Madrid 23 Febr. 1622. Your dutifull Son J. H. XIII To Sir James Crofts Knight SIR YOurs of the second of October came to safe hand with the inclos'd you write that there came dispatches lately from Rome wherin the Pope seems to endevour to insinuat himself into a direct treaty with England and to negotiat immediatly with our King touching the dispensation which he not only labours to evade but utterly disclaims it being by Article the task of this King to procure all dispatches thence I thank you for sending me this news You shall understand there came lately an express from Rome also to this Court touching the business of the match which gave very good content but the dispatch and new instructions which Mr. Endymion Porter brought my Lord of Bristoll lately from England touching the Prince Palatinat fills us with apprehensions of fear Our Ambassadors here have had audience of this King already about those Propositions and we hope that Master Porter will carry back such things as will satisfie Touching the two points in the Treaty wherin the two Kings differ'd most viz. about the education of the children and the exemption of the Infanta's Ecclesiastic servants from secular jurisdiction both these points are clear'd for the Spaniard is com from fourteen years to ten and for so long time the Infant Princes shall remain under the mothers government And for the other point the Ecclesiasticall Superior shall first take notice of the offence that shall be committed by any spirituall person belonging to the Infanta's family and according to the merit therof either deliver him by degradation to the secular justice or banish him the Kingdom according to the quality of the delict and it is the same that is practis'd in this Kingdom and other parts that adhere to Rome The Conde de Monterrey goes Vice-roy to Naples the Marquis de Montesclaros being
of the King of England with other Kings 102 A Letter of respects to a Lady 104 A caution not to neglect the Latine for any vulgar Language 105 Of Praises to God and how they are the best Oblations 106 A facetious Tale of Henry the Fourth of France 107 America only free from Mahometisme 18 The Alchoran brought in by the Alfange 19 Arabic the sole Language of the Alchoran 17 Of the black Bean in Mahomets heart 3 Of vanity of beauties 2 The Mendicant Friers make a kind of amends for the excesses of the Cardinalls and Bishops 6 Of borrowing and buying of Books 34 Canary the best of Wine 74 Christianity more subject to variety of opinions than any other Religion and the cause therof 12 Advice from attempting a busines 27 Reputation like a Venice glass 26 A Fable of Fire Water and Fame 26 Advice to a young Soldier 26 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 27 Two famous sayings of Secretary Walsingham and Cecill 29 Of delay in busines 29 Of dispatch 29 The Mulberry an Embleme of Wisdom 30 The famous saying of Charles the fift 30 Of matches 'twixt England and Spain 30 Of the falling off of Catalonia and Portugall from the King of Spain and a judgment upon it 31 The vertu of money 31 A famous saying of Cap. Talbot 31 Of a hard intricat busines 32 Of the vertu of Letters 33 A Letter of reprehension for careles writing 34 Som amorous Stanza's 35 A Letter of gratitude 36 An Apology for Women 37 Of good and bad Women 37 Of free courtesies 38 A courtesie may be marr'd in the Mode 38 An Apology for silence 39 A Tale of a Nâ—…apolitan Confessor 39 A new Island discover'd hard by the Terreras 39 Of the Hill Vesuvius 39 Som rarities of Venice 40 Of the Genoways 40 Of our Indian Mariners 40 Grunnius Sophista's last VVill. 42 The Authors last Testament 43 Of Melancholy 44 A facetious tale of a Porter 45 A modest reply of a Letter of praise 46 A Letter of Patience 47 Of Chymistry 47 Of the Diseases of the time 47 A Letter of Recommendation 48 Of superfluâ—…us Servants 48 An advice to Travell 49 Of reading of Books 40 Of partiality of News 50 The History of Conanus and the 11000 Virgins mistaken 51 Of Prisoners 52 The Authors Epitaph 52 Advice to a Cambridg Scholar 53 A Letter of comfort 54 The effects of imprisonment 55 Of Chymistry 55 Of Dunkirk 56 A Letter of State 56 A Tale of the late Queen of Spain 57 The Turks Prayer 58 Of Nature Fate and Time 58 A Consolatory Letter 58 A modest reply to a Letter Encomiastic 59 A Letter of reprehension for not writing 60 Of Q. Eliz. pro con 61 How the Spaniards charge her 61 Of futilous Writers 62 Of speeding Letters 63 A Letter of Meditation 64 The advantage of Marriage 66 A Letter of Complement to a Lady 66 A Hymn to the Blessed Trinity 67 St. Austins wish in a Hymn 69 Of fearing and loving of God 68 A large Discourse of all sorts of Beverages that are us'd on earth 70 Of all sorts of Wines 71 The Riddle of the Vineyard man 70 Of German and Greek Drinkers 70 Of Sir Walter Rawleigh 95 Of the pittifull condition of England 99 A congratulatory Letter from Travell 105 Of Prayer and Praise 106 Of the Excise 107 A Tale of Monsieur de la Chatre 107 The power of Letters 109 Som Spanish Epitaphs 110 Of French Lawyers 113 A Letter Congratulatory for mariage 110 A Lettee Consolatory to a sick body 113 Stanzas of Mortality 114 Of the Passion Week 115 A Caution for imparting secrets 117 A Letter of Intelligence 118 Of Autology 120 A Letter of Consolation 121 A large Poem 122 Self-travell one of the ways that lead us to Heaven 122 Ut clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus Clauditur Haec cerâ clauditur Illa serâ As Keys do open chests So Letters open brests AN Index to the last Parcell of EPISTLES OF the use of Passions 1 Passions like Muscovia VVives expect to bee check'd 1 The conquest of ones self the greatest point of valour 1 Of the wars of Venice 2 The fearfull commotions of Naples 2 The horrid commotions in Ethiopia 2 Strange Revolutions in China 2 The monstrous Insurrections in Moscovia 2 A Prophecie of Holland 3 A Letter of correspondence 3 Letters compared to Ecchoes 4 Of Heaven 4 Endearments of love 4 Of the Presbyter and his first rise 5 Of Calvin his prophane appplications 5 Of Geneva 5 King Iames calld Presbytery a Sect. 6 Redemption the blessing paramount 6 The Eucharist the prime act of devotion 6 A Hymn upon the Holy Sacrament 7 A Rapture 8 The happiest condition of life 9 Opinion the great Lady that rules the world 9 Conceit the chiefest thing that makes one happy 9 Of the strange monster in Scotland 9 The incertain state of a Merchant Adventurer 9 A Mariner scarce to be ranked among the living 9 A rich City like a fatt Cheese subject to Maggots 10 Congratulations to a marryed couple 10 Of Tobacco and the virtu of it 11 A strange cure wrought upon my Lord Scroop by a Pipe of Tobacco 11 The way to know how much smoak ther is in a pound of Tobacco 22 Of Doctor Thorius Paetologie 12 The differing Modes of taking Tobacco 12 A Distic of Tobacco 12 Of Learning in generall 13 Handi-crafts men may well be term'd learned men 13 A wholsom peece of policy of the Chineses 13 A Tale of Bishop Grosthead 14 A meer Scholar a useless thing 14 A facetious Tale of Thomas Aquinas and Bonadventure 14 A Speech of Alexander Hales 14 The generall itching after Book-learning hurtfull to England 15 Gunpowder and Printing about a time and both hurtfull 15 The true learned men 16 A jeer upon the common Lawyer 16 Of the Physician 16 Pope Adrian's speech 16 Of the lunary world 17 Antiquity cannot priviledg an error 17 Novelty cannot prejudice truth 17 Of the Antipodes 17 The method how God powres down his blessings 18 The following day wiser than the formost 18 The Cadet older than his elder brother 18 Of experience 18 The prime Philosophers held ther was a world in the Moon 19 A notable comparison 19 VVhat kind of creatures are thought to be in the body of the Sun 19 Of Galileo's glasse 20 The Turks opinion of the Sun 20 The earth the basest of creatures 21 Of Trismegistus 21 The prerogatives of man 21 A letter of complement to a Lady 22 Of frendship 22 Of Fortunes wheel 23 The power of God 23 What use France hath made of Scotland 24 An Italian saying appliable to England 24 The old plot of the Jesuit now don in England 24 A letter of congratulation from forren travell 25 What a traveller must carry home with him besides language 25 'T is probable the Spaniard will be to hard for the French 25 A Letter complaining of the hard condition of England
the Spaniards 54 Of the old Duke of Larma 54 Materiall thinks of the Match 55 The witty Speech of the Marquis of Montesclares 57 Of Count Mansfields notable retreat to Breda his chiefest exploit 58 Of our Prince his arrival at the Court of Spain his usage there and som passages of Gondamars 60 Of his comportment in courting the Lady Infanta c. 64 A witty saying of a Spanish woman 63 Of their baiting of Bulls with men 64 Verses upon the Prince his wooing 66 The monstrous manner of Osman the great Turks death with som Observations theron 70 Of his ominoâ—…s dream and the grand Visiers Prediction to Sir Tho. Roe 73 A Discours 'twixt our Prince and the King of Spain 74 Of our Prince his departure thence 76 How matters stood after his departure 77 Preparations made for the wedding day 79 The Earl of Bristolls Audience upon his receiving a new Commission 80 Probabilities that the Spaniard intended a Match with England 79 My Lo. Pagetts witty Speech in Parlement 80 Of the Bishop of Halverstadt 81 The notable Plot the two Spanish Ambassadors invented to demolish the Duke of Buck. 82 The high proffers that wer made the Earl of Bristoll if he would stay in Spain 97 Of the manner of the proceedings of the Spanish Match by way of comparison 83 The breach of the Spanish Match by a Philosophical comparison 83 An Abstract of the Spanish Monarchy of its growth of the soyl and the humor of the Inhabitants from 87 to 93 Of things happen'd at the siege of Bergen op Zooma A pleasant Tale of a lame Captain 94 Of the vertu of Familiar Letters 96 Of that stupendous Monument the Escurial 96 Of the late famous Duke of Ossuna divers passages 98 Of writing by Cypher 99 A memorable Passage of the Jesuits 98 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 100 This third Section contains divers intrinsecall Passages more of the Treaties both of Match and Palatinat The fourth Section OF the Jewels that were left in the Court of Spain to be presented at the Betrothing day 101 Of the fruitfulnes of frendship 103 Of Count Mansfelt 104 An exact Relation of his late Majesties death by an eye-witnes 106 Of my Lo Verulam after his fall 108 Cautions for Marriage 109 The disasterous death of young Prince Frederic 110 Of the Treaty of a Match with France and of Cardinal Richelieu 111 How lively Letters represent the inward man 112 The Capitulation of the Match with France 114 Of Monsieurs marriage 115 The rare perfections of the late Marchioness of Winchester 116 Of Grave Maurice's death of the taking of Breda 117 The sorry success of our Fleet to Cales under the Lord Wimbledon 119 Som advertisements to the Duke of Buckingham before the Parlement 121 The tru nature of love 12â—… Of Count Mansfelt 124 Cardinall Richelieu's first rise 111 A facetious saying of the Queen of France touching Co Mansfelt 124 A clashing 'twixt Buckingham and Bristoll 124 A Comparison 'twixt the Infanta and the Daughter of France 126 A facetious Pasquil in Rome 125 The speedy conclusion of the French Match and a facetious tale of the Pope 125 Her Majesties arrivall in England 126 The dissolution of the Parlement at Oxon and of the Lord Keeper Williams 127 Of the Renvoy of her Majesties French servants c. 130 The reasons alleaged for Lone-monies 131 A memorable example in the person of a Spanish Captain how strangely a sudden conceit may work within us 132 The fifth Section A Northern Letter 135 Our breach with France and our ill success at the Isle of Rets 139 The Lord Denbighs sorry return from before Rochell 140 Of the Wars in Italy about the Dutchy of Mantoua 137 A circumstantiall relation of the D. of Buck death by an eye-witness 141 The Lord of Lindseys return from before Rochel the taking and dismantling of her by the French King 143 Colonell Grayes quick device to save his life out of a saltpit 139 A methodicall Incitement for an Oxford Student 144 Of the taking the great Royall Ship the Holy Spirit of the French by Sir Sackvil Trever 145 A dehortatory letter from swearing with examples of all sorts 147 A Hymn therupon 149 The properties of a Foot-man 151 Of Ben Iohnsons Genius 154 Of tardy Courtesies 156 Som amorous Sonnets of black eyes c. 158 A check against habit of drinking 162 A Poem upon the British language 164 A witty reply to Sir Ed Coke by a Country man 155 A character of Sir Posthumus Hobby 156 The first rise of the Lord Strafford 156 The King of Swedens first rushing into Germany 165 The King of Denmarks ill success against Tilly and the favourable peace he obtained 165 Of a ragged illegible hand 166 The proud inscription the French King left upon a triumphant Pillar on one of the Alpian hills 167 Of Sir Ken Digbies Exploits against the Venetian Galleasses c. 168 A geere put upon Sir Tho. Edmonds being Ambassadour in France 169 Another geere of the French Ambassadour 169 Of Sir Tho. Wentworth's violent rising up 170 Of the King of Swedens monstrous Progres his clashing with the English and French Ambassadors 173 A Letter of thanks 172 A discription of an Ollapodrida 174 Of the Spanish Inquisition 178 The death of the Queen Dowager of Denmark His Majesties Grandmother the richest Princess of Christendom c. 175 The sixth Section AN exact relation of the Erl of Leicesters Embassie to the King of Denmark and other Princes 188 Som remarkable passages in the Danish Court 183 Of Hamburgh and the Hans Towns their beginning and the famous quarrell they had with Queen Eliza. 184 The marvelous resemblance of Holsteyn men with the English c. 187 The King of Swedens related by an eye-witnes his aversion to the English c. 193 The Palsgraves death 193 The late Pope's compliance with him 191 A strange apparition happened in the West about a dying Gentleman 194 Of Noy the Atturney and of ship-money 196 Of the Lord Westons Embassie to Italy and a clashing 'twixt my Lord of Holland and him 196 The Queen Mothers and Monsieurs retirement to Flanders 195 A Christmas Hymn 197 Of the condition of the Jewes squanderd up and down the World how they came to be so cunning and hatefull from whence they expect their Messias c. 202 〈…〉 The sudden comfort of Letters 203 Of a strange Pattent given a Scotchman 203 Of Atturney Noy's death and the od wilâ—… he made c. 204 The arrivall of the Prince Elector and of Prince Rupert to England their designes 205 Monsieur steales from Brussells 206 A Herald of Armes sent from France to denounce War against Spaine 206 Of Mountmorencys death 206 A memorable example of the force of affection in the person of a French Lady 207 Of Peter van Heyns mighty Plaâ—…e prize c. 210 Of judgements fallen upon disobedient children 211 The Earl of Arondels return from the German
and poorer peeple T is true England hath a good repute abroad for her fertility yet be our Harvests never so kindly and our Crops never so plentifull we have evry yeer commonly som Grain from hence or from Danzic and other places imported by the Marchant Besides ther be many more Heaths Commons Bleak-bâ—…rren-Hills and waste Grounds in England by many degrees then I find here and I am sorry our Countrey of Wales should give more instances hereof then any other part This Province of Normandy once an Appendix of the Crown of England though it want Wine yet it yeelds the King as much desmeans as any one of the rest The lower Norman hath Syder for his common drink and I visibly observ'd that they are more plump and replet in their bodies and of a clearer complexion then those that drink altogether Wine In this great City of Roüen ther be many Monuments of the English Nation yet extant In the outside of the highest Steeple of the great Church ther is the word GOD engraven in huge Golden Characters evry one almost as long as my self to make them the more visible In this Steeple hangs also the greatest Bell of Christendom call'd d' Amboise for it weighs neer upon fourty thousand pound weight Ther is also here Saint Oen the greatest Sanctuary in the Citie founded by one of our Compatriots as the name imports This Province is also subject to Wardships and no other part of France besides but whither the Conqueror transported that Law to England from hence or whither he sent it over from England hither I cannot resolve you Ther is a marvailous quick trade beaten in this Town because of the great Navigable River Sequana the Seine that runs hence to Paris wheron ther stands a strange Bridge that ebbs and flows that riseth and fall's with the River it being made of Boats whereon Coach and Carts may passe over as well as men Besides this is the neerest Mercantil City that stands twixt Paris and the Sea My last unto you was from the Low-Countreys wher I was in motion to and fro above four months but I fear it miscarried in regard you make no mention of it in yours I begin more and more to have a sense of the sweetnes and advantage of forren Travell I pray when you com to London to find a time to visit Sir Robert and acknowledge his great favours unto me and desire a continuance thereof according as I shall endeavour to deserve them So with my due and daily Prayers for your health and a speedy successefull issue of all your Law-businesses I humbly crave your blessing and rest Your dutifull Son J. H. Septemb. the 7. 1619. XVI To Cap. Francis Bacon from Paris SIR I Received two of yours in Roüen with the Bills of Exchange ther inclos'd and according to your directions I sent you those things which you wrote for I am now newly com to Paris this huge Magazin of men the Epitome of this large populous Kingdom and rendevouz of all Forreners The structures here are indifferently fair though the Streets generally foul all the four Seasons of the yeer which I impute first to the Position of the Citie being built upon an Isle the Isle of France made so by the branching and serpentin cours of the River of Seine and having som of her Suburbs seated high the filth runs down the Channell and settles in many places within the body of the Citie which lieth upon a flat as also for a world of Coaches Carts and Horses of all sorts that go to and fro perpetually so that somtimes one shall meet with a stop half a mile long of those Coaches Carts and Horses that can move neither forward nor backward by reason of some sudden encounter of others coming a crosse-way so that oftentimes it will be an hour or two before they can dis-intangle In such a stop the great Henry was so fatally slain by Ravillac Hence comes it to passe that this Town for Paris is a Town a City and an university is alwayes dirty and 't is such a dirt that by perpetual motion is beaten into such a thick black onctious Oyl that wher it sticks no art can wash it off of some colours insomuch that it may be no improper comparison to say That an ill name is like the Crot the dirt of Paris which is indelible besides the stain this dirt leaves it gives also so strong a sent that it may be smelt many miles off if the wind be in ones face as he comes from the fresh Air of the Countrey This may be one cause why the Plague is alwayes in som corner or other of this vast Citie which may be call'd as once Sâ—…ythia was Vagina Populorum or as mankind was call'd by a great Philosopher a great Mole-hill of Ants Yet I believe this Citie is not so populous as she seems to be for her form being round as the whole Kingdom is the Passengers wheel about and meet oftner then they use to do in the long continued Streets of London which makes London appear lesse populous then she is indeed so that London for length though not for latitude including Westminster exceeds Paris and hath in Miâ—…hnelmas Term more souls moving within her in all places T is under one hundred yeers that Paris is becom so sumptuous and strong in Buildings for her houses were mean untill a Myne of White Stone was discover'd â—…ard by which runs in a continued Vein of Earth and is digg'd out with ease being soft and is between a White-Clay and Chalk at first but being pullied up with the open Air it receives a Crusty kind of hardnes and so becomes perfect Freestone and before it is sent up from the Pit they can reduce it to any form Of this Stone the Louvre the Kings Palace is built which is a vast Fabric for the Gallerie wants not much of an Italian mile in length and will easily lodg 3000 men which some told me was the end for which the last King made it so big that lying at the fag end of this great mutinous Citie if she perchance should rise the King might powre oâ—…t of the Louvre so many thousand men unawares into the heart of her I am lodg'd here hard by the Bastile because it is furthest off from those places where the English resort for I would go on to get a little Language as soon as I could In my next I shall impart unto you what State-news France affords in the interim and alwayes I am Your humble Servant J. H. Paris 30. of March 1620. XVII To Richard Altham Esquire from Paris Dear Sir LOve is the marrow of Friendship and Letters are the Elixir of Love they are the best fuell of affection and cast a sweeter odour then any Frankincense can do such an odour such an Aromatic perfume your late Letter brought with it proceeding from the fragrancy of those dainty Flowers of eloquence which I found
in regard it is comâ—…only so with all Republic and Hans Towns wherof this smels â—…ery rank nor indeed hath any Englishman much cause to love 〈◊〉 Town in regard in Ages pass'd she played the most trecherous part with England of any other place of France For the Story tells us That this Town having by a perfidious stratageâ—… by forging a counterfeit Commission from England induc'd the English Governour to make a general Muster of all his Forces ouâ—… of the Town this being one day done they shut their Gateâ—… against him and made him go shake his ears and to shift for his lodging and so rendred themselves to the French King who senâ—… them a blank to write their own conditions I think they have the strongest Ramparts by Sea of any place of Christendom noâ—… have I seen the like in any Town of Holland whose safety depends upon Water I am bound to morrow for Bourdeaux then through Gascogny to Tholouse so through Languedoc ore the Hillâ—… to Spain I go in the best season of the yeer for I make an Autumnall journey of it I pray let your Prayers accompany me all along they are the best Offices of Love and Fruits of Friendship So God prosper you at home as me abroad and send us in good time a joyfull conjuncture Rochell 8. of October 1620. Yours J. H. XXII To Mr. Tho. Porter after Cap. Porter from Barcelone MY dear Tom I had no sooner set foot upon this Soyl and breath'd Spanish ayr but my thoughts presently reflected upon you Of all my frends in England you were the first I met here you were the prime object of my speculation me thought the very Winds in gentle whispers did breath out your name and blow it on me you seem'd to reverberat upon me with the Beams of the Sun which you know hath such a powerfull influence and indeed too great a stroke in this Countrey And all this you must ascribe to the operations of Love which hath such a strong virtuall force that when it fastneth upon a pleasing subject it sets the imagination in a strange fit of working it imployes all the faculties of the Soul so that not one Cell in the Brain is idle it busieth the whole inward man it affects the heart amuseth the understanding it quickneth the fancy and leads the will as it were by a silken thred to cooperat with them all I have felt these motions often in me specially at this time that my memory fixed upon you But the reason that I fell first upon you in Spain was that I remembred I had heard you often discoursing how you had received part of your education here which brought you to speak the Language so exactly well I think often of the Relations I have heard you make of this Countrey and the good instructions you pleas'd to give me I am now in Barcelona but the next week I intend to go on through your Town of Valencia to Alicant and thence you shall be sure to hear from me further for I make account to Winter there The Duke of Ossuna pass'd by here lately and having got leave of Grace to release some slaves he went aboard the Cape-Gallie and passing through the Churmâ—… of slaves He ask'd divers of them what their offences were evry one excus'd himself one saying That he was put in out of malice another by bribery of the Judge but all of them injustly amongst the rest ther was one sturdy little black man and the Duke asking him what he he was in for Sir said he I cannot deny but I am justly put in here for I wanted money and so took a Purse hard by Tarragona to keep me from starving The Duke with a litte staff he had in his hand gave him two or three blows upon the shoulders saying You Rogue what do you do amongst so many honest innocent men get you gone out of their company so he was freed and the rest remain'd still in statu quo prius to tugg at the Oar. I pray commend me to Signor Camillo and Mazalao with the rest of the Venetians with you and wher you go aboard the Ship behind the Exchange think upon Barcelona 10. of November 1620. Your J. H. XXIII To Sir James Crofts SIR I Am now a good way within the Body of Spain at Barcelona a proud wealthy Citie situated upon the Mediterranean and is the Metropolis of the Kingdom of Catalunia call'd of old Hispania â—…raconensis I had much ado to reach hither for besides the monstrous abrupâ—…es of the way these parts of the Pyreneys that border upon the Mediterranean are never without Theeves by Land call'd Baâ—…doleros and Pyrats on the Sea side which liâ—… sculking in the Hollows of the Rocks and often surprize Passengers unawares and carry them slaves to Barbary on the other side The safest way to passe is to take a Bordon in the habit of a Pilgrim wherof ther are abundance that perform their vows this way to the Lady of Monserrat one of the prime places of pilgrimage in Christendom It is a stupendous Monastery built on the top of a huge Land Rock whither it is impossible to go up or come down by a direct way but a path is cut out full of windings and turnings and on the Crown of this Craggy-hill ther is a flâ—… upon which the Monastery and Pilgrimage place is founded wher ther is a Picture of the Virgin Mary Sunburnt and Tann'd it seems when she went to Egypt and to this Picture a marvallous confluence of people from all parts of Europe resort As I pass'd between soâ—… of the Pyrency Hills I observ'd the poor Labradors som of the Countrey people live no better then bruit Animals in point of food for their ordinary commons is Grasse and Water onely they have alwayes within their Houses a Bottle of Vinegar and another of Oyl and when Dinner or Supper time comes they go abroad and gather their Herbs and so cast Vinegar and Oyl upon them and will passe thus two or three dayes without Bread or Wine yet are they strong lusty men and will stand stiffly under a Musket Ther is a Tradition that ther were divers Mynes of Gold in Ages pass'd amongst those Mountains And the Shepherds that kept Goats then having made a small fire of Rosemary stubs with other combustible stuff to warm themselves this fire graz'd along and grew so outragious that it consum'd the very Entrails of the Earth and melted those Mynes which growing fluid by liquefaction ran down into the small Rivelets that were in the Valleys and so carried all into the Sea that monstrous Gulph which swalloweth all but seldom disgorgeth any thing and in these Brooks to this day som small Grains of Gold are found The Viceroy of this Countrey hath taken much pains to clear these Hills of Robbers and ther hath bin a notable havock made of them this yeer for in divers Woods as I pass'd I might spie som Trees
extoll Tyber beyond the Main both Towns behold R 〈…〉 men thou 'lt say Venice the Gods did mould Sanzâ—â—â—â—â—â— had given him by Saint Mark a hundred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 evry one of these Verses which amounts to about 300 pounds It would be long before the 〈◊〉 of London would do the like Witneâ—… that â—…old reward or rather those cold drops of Wâ—… which were cast upon my Countreyman Sir Hugh Middletoâ—… for beinging Ware River through her Streets the most serviceable and 〈◊〉 sorâ—…est benefit that ever she received The parcell of Italian Books that you writ for you shall receive 〈◊〉 Master Leat if it please God to send the Ship to safe Port and I take it as a favour that you imploy me in any thing that mâ—…y â—…nduce to your contentment because I am your serious Servitor J. H. Ven 12. Aug. 1621. XXXVII To Cap. Thomas Porter from Venice My dear Captain AS I was going a Shipboard in Alicant a Letter of yours in Spanish came to hand I discovered two things in it first what a master you are of that Language then how mindfull you are of your frend for the first I dare not correspond with you yet for the second I shall never com short of you for I am as mindfull of you as possibly you can be of me and som hours my Puls doth not beat more often then my memory runs on you which is often enough in conscience for the Physitians hold that in evry well dispos'd body ther be above 4000 Pulsations evry hour and some Pulses have bin known to beat above 30000 times an hour in acute Feavours I understand you are bound with a gallant Fleet for the Mediterranean if you com to Alicant I pray commend me to Francisco Marco my Land-lord he is a merry drole and good company One night when I was ther he sent his Boy with a Borracho of Leather under his Cloak for Wine the Boy coming back about ten a clock and passing by the Guard one ask'd him whither he carried any Weapons about him for none must wear any Weapons there after ten at night No quoth the Boy being pleasant I have but a little Dagger the Watch came and search'd him and finding the Barracho full of good Wine drunk it all up saying Sirrah You know no man must carry any Weapons so late but because we know whose Servant you are ther 's the Scabbard of your Dagger again and so threw him the empty Borracho but another passage pleas'd me better of Don Beltran de Rosa who being to marry a rich Labradors a Yeomans daughter hard by which was much importun'd by her parents to the match because their Family should be thereby ennobled he being a Cavalier of Saint Iago the young Maid having understood that Don Beltran had bin in Naples and had that disease about him answered wittily En verdad pro adobar mi la sangre no quiero danar mi la carne Truely Sir To better my blood I will not hurt my flesh I doubt I shall not be in England before you set out to Sea if not I take my leave of you in this Paper and wish you a prosperous voyage and an honourable return It is the hearty Prayers of Ven 21. Aug. 1621. Your J. H. XXXVIII To Sir William Saint John Knight from Venice SIR HAving seen Antâ—…nors Tomb in Padoiia and the Amphitheater of Flaminius in Verona with other brave Towns in Lombardy I am now coâ—… to Rome and Rome they say is evry mans Countrey she is call'd Communis Patria for evry one that is within the compasse of the Latin Church finds himself here as it were at hom and in his Mothers house in regard of interest in Religion which is the cause that for one Native ther be five strangers that sojourn in this City and without any distinction or mark of strangenes they com to preferments and offices both in Church and State according to merrit which is more valued and sought after here then any where But whereas I expected to have found Rome elevated upon seven Hills I met her rather spreading upon a Flat having humbled her self since she was made a Christian and descended from those Hills to Campus Martius with Trasteren and the Suburbs of Saint Peter she hath yet in compasse about fourteen miles which is far short of that vast circuit she had in Claudius his time for Vopiscuâ—… writes she was then of fifty miles circumference and she had five hundred thousand free Citizens in a famous cense that was made which allowing but six to evry Family in Women Children and Servants came to three Millions of souls but she is now a Wildernes in comparison of that number The Pope is grown to be a great Temporall Prince of late yeers for the state of the Church extends above 300. miles in length and 200 miles in breadth it contains Ferrara Bologna Romagnia the Marquisat of Ancona umbria Sabina Perugia with a part of Toscany the Patrimony Rome her self and Latium In these ther are above fifty Bishopricks the Pope hath also the Dutchy of Spoleto and the exarchat of Ravenna he hath the Town of Beneventa in the Kingdom of Naples and the County of Venisse call'd Avignon in France he hath title also good enough to Naples it self but rather then offend his Champion the King of Spain he is contented with a white Mule and Purse of Pistols about the neck which he receives evry yeer for a heriot or homage or what you will call it he pretends also to be Lord Paramount of Sicily â—…rbin Parâ—…a and Masserâ—… of Norway Ireland and England since King Iohn did prostrat our Crown at Pandelfo his Legat's Feet The State of the Apostolie See here in Italy lieth twixt two Seas the Adriatiâ—… and the Tyrrhâ—… and it runs through the midst of Italy which makes the Pope powerfull to do good or harm and more capable then any other to be an Umpire or an Enemy His authority being mixt twixt Temporall and Spirituall disperseth it self into so many members that a young man may grow old here before he can well understand the form of Government The Consistory of Cardinals meet but once a week and once a week they solemnly wait all upon the Pope I am told ther are now in all Christendom but sixty eight Cardinals wherof ther are six Cardinall Bishops fifty one Cardinall Priests and eleven Cardinall Deacons The Cardinall Bishops attend and sit neer the Pope when he celebrats any Festivall The Cardinall Priests assist him at Masse and the Cardinall Deacons attire him A Cardinall is made by a short Breve or Writ from the Pope in these words Creamus te Socium Regibus superiorem ducibus fratrem â—…ostrum We creat thee a Companion to Kings Superior to Dukes and our Brother If a Cardinall Bishop should be questioned for any offence ther must be twenty four Witnesses produc'd against him The Bishop of Oâ—…ia hath most priviledg of any other
Governour of Milan Eats but the Viceroy of Naples devoures Our English Merchants here beat a considerable Trade and their Factors live in better Equippage and in a more splendid manner as in all Italy besides then their Masters and Principalls in London they ruffle in Silks and Sattins and wear good Spanish Leather-Shooes while their Masters-Shooes upon our Exchange in London shine with Blacking At Puzzoli not far off amongst the Grotts ther are so many strange stupendous things that nature her self seem'd to have studied of purpose how to make her self there admir'd I reserve the discoursing of them with the nature of the Tarantola and Manna which is gatherd'd here and no wher else with other things till I shall see you for they are fitter for discours then a Letter I will conclude with a Proverb they have in Italy of this people Napolitano Largo di bocca stretto di mano The Neapolitans Have wide mouths but narrow hands They make strong Masculin promises but Femal performances for deeds are men and words are women and if in a whole floud of complements one find a drop of reality t is well The first acceptance of a Courtesie is accounted the greatest incivility that can be amongst them and a ground for a quarrell as I heard of a German Gentleman that was baffled for accepting one onely invitation to a dinner So desiring to be preserv'd still in your good opinion and in the rank of your seravants I rest alwayes most ready At Your disposing J. H. Naples Octob. the 1. 1621. XL. To Christopher Jones Esq at Grayes-Inne from Naples Honoured Father I Must still stile you so since I was adopted your Son by so good a Mother as Oxford My mind lately prompted me that I â—…ould commit a great Soloecisme if amongst the rest of my frends 〈◊〉 England I should leave you unsaluted whom I love so dearly â—…ell specially having such a fair and pregnant opportunity as â—…e hand of this worthy Gentleman your Cousin Morgan who 〈◊〉 now posting hence for England He will tell you how it fares â—…ith me how any time these thirty and odd months I have bin â—…ss'd from shore to shore and pass'd under various Meridians â—…d am now in this voluptuous and luxuriant City of Naples â—…nd though these frequent removes and tumblings under climes 〈◊〉 differing temper were not without som danger yet the deâ—…ght which accompanied them was far greater and it is impossiâ—…e for any man to conceive the true pleasure of Peregrination â—…t he who actually enjoyes and puts it in practise Beleeve it 〈◊〉 that one yeer well employed abroad by one of mature judgment which you know I want very much advantageth more in â—…int of usefull and solid knowledge then three in any of our â—…iversities You know Running Waters are the purest so they â—…t traverse the VVorld up and down have the cleerâ—…st underâ—…ndings being faithfull ey-witnesses of those things which â—…her receive but in trust whereunto they must yeeld an intuitive â—…nsent and a kind of implicit faith VVhen I pass'd through 〈◊〉 parts of Lombardy amongst other things I observ'd the Phyâ—…gnomies and Complexions of the peeple men and women â—…d I thought I was in VVales for divers of them have a cast of â—…untenance and a neerer resemblance with our Nation then â—…y I ever saw yet And the reason is obvious for the Romansâ—…ing â—…ing bin neer upon three hundred yeers amongst us where â—…ey had four Legions before the English Nation or Language â—…d any being by so long a coalition and tract of time 〈◊〉 two Nations must needs copulat and mix Insomuch that I beleeve ther is yet remaining in Wales many of 〈◊〉 Roman race and divers in Italy of the Brittish Amongst 〈◊〉 resemblances one was in their prosody and vein of 〈◊〉 or riming which is like our Bards who hold agnominations aâ—… enforcing of consonant words or syllables one upon the otherâ—… be the greatest elegance As for example in Welsh Tewgris 〈◊〉 dyrris ty'r derrin gwillt c. So have I seen divers old rimes Italian running so as Donne O danno â—…he Febo affranto 〈◊〉 In selva salvo a me Piu caro cuore c. Being lately in Rome amongst other Pasquills I met with 〈◊〉 that was against the Scot though it had som gawl in 't yet it 〈◊〉 a great deal of wit specially towards the conclusion so that think if King Iames saw it he would but laugh at it As I remember som yeers since ther was a very abusive 〈◊〉 in Vers brought to our King and as the passages were a 〈◊〉 before him he often said That if ther were no more men England the rogue should hang for it at last being com to 〈◊〉 conclusion which was after all his railing Now God preserve the King the Queen the Peers And grant the Author long may wear his Ears This pleas'd His Majesty so well that he broke into a 〈◊〉 and said By my Sol so thou shalt for me Thou art a bitter 〈◊〉 thou art a witty Knave When you write to Monmouthshire I pray send my respects my Tutor Master Moor Fortune and my service to Sir 〈◊〉 Williams and according to that relation which was 'twixt us Oxford I rest Naples 8. Octob. 1621. Your Constant Son to serve you J. H. XLI To Sir J. C. from Florence SIR THis Letter comes to kisse your hands from fair Florence a Citie so beutifull that the great Emperour Charls the fifth said That she was fitting to be shewn and seen onely upon Holidayes She marvailously flourisheth with Buildings with Wealth and Artisans for it is thought that in Serges which is but one commodity ther are made two millions evry yeer All degrees of people live here not onely well but splendidly well notwithstanding the manifold exactions of the Duke upon all things For none can buy here Lands or Houses but he must pay eight in the hundred to the Duke none can hire or build a House but he must pay the tenth penny none can marry or commerce suite in Law but ther 's a Fee to the Duke none can bring as much as an Egg or Sallet to the Market but the Duke hath share therinna Moreover Ligorn which is the Key of Toscany being a Maritim and a great Mercantil Town hath mightily inrich'd this Countrey by being a Frank Port to all comers and a safe rendevouz to Pyrats as well as to Marchants Add hereunto that the Duke himself in som respect is a Marchant for he somtimes ingrosseth all the Corn of the Countrey and retails it at what rate he pleaseth This inables the Duke to have perpetually 20000 men inroll'd train'd up and payed and none but they can carry Arms he hath 400 Light-Horse in constant pay and 100 men at Arms besides and all these quartered in so narrow a compasse that he can command them all to Florence in twenty four hours He hath twelve Gallies two Galeons and six Galeasses besides and
I part with this famous City of Lions I will relate unto you a wonderfull strange accident that happen'd here not many yeers ago Ther is an Officer call'd Le Chevalier du Guet which is a kind of Night-guard here as well as in Paris and his Lieutenant call'd Iaquette having supp'd one night in a rich Marchants house as he was passing the round afterwards he said I wonder what I have eaten and drunk at the Marchants house for I find my self so hot that if I met with the Divels Dam to night I should not forbear using of her hereupon a little after he overtook a young Gentlewoman mask'd whom he would needs usher to her lodging but discharg'd all his Watch except two she brought him to his thinking to a little low lodging hard by the City Wall wher ther were only two Rooms and after he had enjoyed her he desir'd that according to the custom of French Gentlemen his two Camerads might partake also of the same pleasure so she admitted them one after the other And when all this was don as they sat together she told them if they knew well who she was none of them would have ventur'd upon her thereupon she whissel'd three times and all vanish'd The next morning the two souldiers that had gon with Lieutenant Jaquette were found dead under the City Wall amongst the ordure and excrements and Iaquette himself a little way off half dead who was taken up and coming to himself confess'd all this but died presently after The next week I am to go down the Loire towards Paris and thence as soon as I can for England wher amongst the rest of my frends whom I so much long to see after this Trienniall separation you are like to be one of my first objects In the mean time I wish the same happinesse may attend you at home as I desire to attend me hom-ward for I am Truly yours I. H. Lions 5. Decemb. 1621. Familiar Letters SECTION II. I. To my Father SIR IT hath pleased God after almost three yearâ—… peregrination by Land and Sea to bring me back safely to London but although I am com safely I am com sickly for when I landed in Venice after so long a Sea-voyage from Spain I was afraid the same defluxion of salt rheum which fell from my Temples into my throat in Oxford and distilling upon the uvula impeached my utterance a little to this day had found the same chanâ—…ell again which caused me to have an Issue made in my left â—…rm for the diversion of the humour I was well ever after till I came to Rouen and there I fell sick of a pain in the head which with the Issue I have carried with me to England Doctor Harvy who is my Physitian tells mee that it may turn to a Consumption therfore he hath stopped the Issue telling me there is no danger at all in it in regard I have not worn it a full twelvemonth My Brother I thank him hath been very carefull of me in this my sicknes and hath come often to visit me I thank God I have pass'd â—…he brunt of it and am recovering and picking up my crums â—…pace Ther is a flaunting French Ambassador com over lately and I believe his errand is nought else but Complement for the King of France being lately at Calais and so in sight of England â—…e sent his Ambassador Monsieur Cadenet expresly to visit our King â—…e had audience two dayes since where he with his Train of ruffling long-haird Monsieurs carried himself in such a light garb that after the audience the King askd my Lord Keeper Bacon what he thought of the French Ambassador he answer'd that he was a tall proper man I his Majesty replied but what think you oâ—… his head-peece is he a proper man for the Office of an Ambassador Sir said Bacon Tall men are like high Houses of four or five Stories wherin commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished So desiring my brothers and sisters with the rest of my 〈◊〉 and friends in the Countrey may be acquainted with my safe return to England and that you would please to let me hear from you by the next conveniency I rest Lond. 2 Febr. 1621. Your dutifull Son J. H. II. To Rich. Altham Esqr. at Norberry SAlve pars animae dimidiata meâ—…ae Hail half my soul mâ—… dear Dick c. I was no sooner returned to the sweet bosom of England and had breath'd the smoak of this Town but my memory ran suddenly on you the Idea of you hath almost ever since so fill'd up and ingroft my imagination that I can think on nothing els the Iove of you swells both in my breast and brain with such a pregnancy that nothing can deliver me of this violent high passion but the sight of you Let me despair if I lye ther was never 〈◊〉 long'd more after any thing by reason of her growing 〈◊〉 than I do for your presence Therfore I pray you make 〈◊〉 to save my longing and Tantalize me no longer t is but three hours riding for the sight of you will be more precious to me than any one Object I have seen and I have seen many rare ones in all my three yearâ—… T â—…vell and if you take this for a Complemenâ—… because I am newly com from France you are much mistâ—…ken in London 1 〈◊〉 1621. Your J. H. III. To D. Caldwall Esqr. at Battersay MY dear Dan. I am com at last to London but not without som danger and through divers difficulties for I fell sick in France and came so over to Kent And my journey from the Sea side hither was more tedious to me than from Rome to Rouen where I grew first indisposed and in good faith I cannot remember any thing to this hour how I came from Gravesend hither I was so stupified and had lost the knowledg of all things But I am com to myself indifferently well since I thank God for it and you cannot imagin how much the sight of you much more your society would revive me your presence would be a Cordiall unto me more restorative than exalted Gold more precious than the powder of Pearl wheras your absence if it continue long will prove unto me like the dust of Diamonds which is incurable poyson I pray be not accessary to my death but hasten to comfort your so long weather beaten friend Lond. Febr. 1. 1621. J. H. IV. To Sir James Crofts at the L. Darcy's in St. Osith SIR I am got again safely this side of the Sea and though I was in a very sickly case when I first arriv'd yet thanks be to God I am upon point of perfect recovery wherunto the sucking in of English air and the sight of som friends conduc'd not a little Ther is fearfull news com from Germany you 〈◊〉 how the Bohemians shook off the Emperors yoak and how the great Counsell of Prague fell to such a hurly bâ—…rly that som
be one of the fatall events that followed the last fearfull Comet that rose in the tail of the Constellation of Virgo which som ignorant Astronomers that write of it would fix in the Heavens and that as far above the Orb of the Moon as the Moon is from the Earth but this is nothing in comparison of those hideous fires that are kindled in Germany blown first by the Bohemians which is like to be a war without end for the wâ—…ole House of Austria is interessed in the quarrell and it is not the custome of that House to sit by any asâ—…ront or forget it quickly Queen Anne left a world of brave Jewells behind but one Pâ—…ero an outlandish man who had the keeping of them embeazled many and is run away she left all she had to Prince Charles whom she eveâ—… loved best of all her Children nor do I hear of any Legacie she left at all to her daughter in Germany for that match some say lessened somthing of her affection towards her ever since so that she would often call her goody Palsgrave nor could she abide Secretary Winwood ever after who was one of the chiefest instruments to bring that match about as also for the rendition of the cautionary Towns in the Low-Countries Flushing and Bâ—…ill with the Rammakins I was lately with Sir Iohn Walter and others of your Counsell about your Law-busines and som of them told me that Master I. Lloyd your adversary it one of the shrewdest Sollicitoâ—…s in all the thirteen Shires of Wales being so habituated to Law-sutes and wrangling that he knows any the least starting hole in every Court I could wish you had made a fair end with him for besides the cumber and trouble specially to those that dwell at such a huge distance from Westminster Hall as you doe Law is a shrewd pickpuâ—…s and the Lawyer as I heard one say wittily not long since is like a Christmasse box which is sure to get whosoever loseth So with the continuance of my due and daily prayers for your health with my love to my brothers and sisters I rest Your dutifull Son J. H. March 20. 1621. VIII To Dan. Caldwall Esqr. from the Lord Savages House in Long-Melford My deare D. THough considering my former condition of life I may now be called a Countreyman yet you cannot call me a Rustiâ—… as you would imply in your Letter as long as I live in so civill and noble a Family as long as I lodg in so vertuous and regular a House as any I beleeve in the Land both for oeconomicall government and the choice company for I never saw yet such a dainty Race of Children in all my life together I never saw yet such an orderly and punctuall attendance of servants nor a great House so neatly kept here one shall see nor dog nor cat nor cage to cause any nastines within the body of the House The kitchin and gutters and other offices of noise and drudgery are at the â—…ag end ther 's a back gate for beggars and the meaner sort of swains to come in at The stables butt upon the Park which for a chearfull rising ground for groves and browsings for the Deer for rivulets of water may compare with any for its bignes in the whole land it is opposite to the front of the great House whence from the Gallery one may see much of the game when they are a hunting Now for the gardning and costly choice flowers for ponds for stately large walks green and gravelly for orchards and choice fruits of all sorts ther aâ—…e few the like in England here you have your â—…on Crâ—…en pear and 〈◊〉 â—…n perfection your Muscadell grapes in such plenty that ther are som bottles of wine sent every year to the King And one Mr. Daniel a worthy Gentleman hard by who hath â—…in long abroad makes good store in his vintage Truly this House of Long-Melford though it be not so great yet it is so well compacted and contrived with such dainty conveniences every way that if you saw the Landskip of it you would be mightily taken with it and it would serve for a choice pattern to buâ—…ld and contrive a house by If you come this Summer to your Mannor of Sheriff in Essex you will not be â—…ar off hence if your occasions will permit it will be worth your coming hither though it be only to see him who would think it a short journey to go from Saint Davids head to Dover cliffâ—… to see and serve you were ther occasion if you would know who the same is ' 〈◊〉 20 Mar. 1621. Your J. H. IX To Robert Brown Esqr. Sir THanks for one â—…rtesie is a good Vsher to bring on another Therfore it is my policie at this time to thank you most heartily for your late â—…opious Letter to draw on a second I say I thank you a thousand times over for yours of the third of this present which abounded with such variâ—…tie of news and ample well-couchâ—… relations that I made many friends by it yet I am sory for the qualitie of som of your news that Sir Robert Mansell being now in the Mediterranean with a considerable â—…avall strength of ours against the Moors to do the Spaniard a pleasure Marquis Spinola should in a hâ—…gling way change his Master for the time and taking Commission from the Emperour becom his servant for invading the Palatinat with the Forces of the King of Spain in the Netherlands I am sory also the Princes of the Union should â—…e so stupid as to suffer him to take Oppenheim by a Parthian kind of back stratagem in appearing before the Town and making semblance afterwards to go for Worms and then perceiving the Forces of the United Princes to go for succouring of that to turn back and take the Town he intended first wherby I fear he will be quickly master of the rest Surely I beleeve ther may be some treachery in 't and that the Marquis of Anâ—…back the Generall was orecom by pistolâ—… made of Indian ingots rather than of steel else an Army of 40000. which he had under his command might have made its parâ—…y good against Spinola's lesse than 10000. though never such choice Veterans But what will not gold do it will make a Pigmey too hard for a Gyant ther 's no fence or â—…ortres against an Asse laden with gold It was the saying you know of His Father whom partiall and ignorant Antiquity cries up to have conquerd the World and that â—…e sigh'd ther were no more worlds to conquer though he had never one of the three old parts of the then known World entirely to himself I desire to know what is become of that handfull of men his Majesty sent to Germany under Sir Horace Vere which he was bound to do as he is one of the Protestant Princes of the Union and what 's become of Sir Arthur Chichester who is gon Ambassador to those parts Dear Sir I
the Hague in Holland having made a long progres or rather a pilgrimage about Germany from Prague The old Duke of Bavaria his Uncle is chosen Elector and Arch sâ—…wer of the Roman Empire in his place but as they say in an imperfect Diet and with this proviso that the transferring of this Election upon the Bavarian shall not prejudice the next heir Thâ—…r is one Count Mansfelt that begins to get a great name in Germany and he with the Duke of Brunswick who is a temporall Bpp. of Halverstade have a considerable Army on foot for the Lady Elizabeth which in the low Countreys and som parts of Germany is called the Queen of Boheme and for her winning Princely comportment thâ—… Queen of Hearts Sir Arthur Chichester is come back from the Palatinate much complaining of the small Army that was sent thither under Sir Horace Vere which should have been greater or none at all My Lord of Buckingham having been long since Master of the Horse at Court is now made Master also of all the woodâ—…n Horses in the Kingdom which indeed are our best Horses for he is to be High Admirall of England so he is becom Dominus Equorum Aquarum The late Lord Threâ—… Cranfield grows alâ—…o very powerfull but the City hates him for having betrayed their greatest secrets which he was capable to know more than another having been formerly a Merchant I think I shall have no opportunity to write to you again till I bet other side of the Sea therfore I humbly take my leave and ask your blessing that I may the better prosper in my proceedings So I am Your dutifull Son J. H. March 19. 1621. XIII To Sir John Smith Knight SIR THe first ground I set foot upon after this my second transmaâ—… voyage was Trevere the Scots Staple in Zeland thence 〈◊〉 sail'd to Holland in which passage we might see divers Steeples and Turâ—…ets under water of Towns that as we were told were swallowed up by a Dâ—…luge within the memory of man we went afterwards to the Hague where ther are hard by though in severall places two wonderfull things to be seen one of Art the other of Nature That of Art is a Waggon or Ship or a Monster mixâ—… of both like the Hippocentaure who was half man and half horse this Engin hath wheels and sayls that will hold above twenty people and goes with the wind being drawn or mov'd by nothing els and will run the wind being good and the sayls hois'd up above fifteen miles an hour upon the even hard sands they say this invention was found out to entertain Spinola when he came hither to treat of the last Truce That wonder of Nature is a Church-Monument where an Earl and a Lady are engraven with 365 Children about them which were all delivered at one birth they were half male half femal the Bason hangs in the Church which carried them to be Christned and the Bishops Name who did it and the Story of this Miracle with the year and the day of the month mentioned which is not yet 200 years ago and the Sâ—…ory is this That Countesse walking about her door after dinner ther came a Begger-woman with two children upon her back 〈◊〉 beg alms the Countesse asking whether those children were her own she answered she had them both at one birth and by one father who was her husband The Countesse would not onely give her aâ—…y alms but revil'd her bitterly saying it was impossible for one man to get two children at once The begger-woman being thus provok'd with ill words and without alms fell to imprecations that it should please God to shew his judgment upon her and that she might bear at one birth aâ—… many children as ther be dayes in the year which she did before the same years end having never born child before We are now in North Holland where I never saw so many amongst so few sick of Lâ—…prosies and the reason is because they commonly eat abundance of fresh Fish A Gentleman told me that the women of this Countrey when they are delivered ther comes out of the womb a living creature besides the child call'd Zuâ—…chie likest to a Bat of any other creature which the Midwiâ—…s throw into the 〈◊〉 holding sheets before the chimney lest iâ—… should fly away Master Altham desires his service be presented to You and your Lady to Sir Iohn Franklin and all at the Hill the like doe I humbly crave at your hands the Italian and French Manuscripts you pleas'd to favour me withall I leâ—… at Mr. Seiles the Stationer whence if you have them not already you may please to send for them So in all affection I kisse your hands and am Your humble Servitor J. H. Trevere 10th of Apr. 1622. XIV To ' the Right honble the Lord Vicount Colchester after Earl Rivers Right honble THe commands your Lopp pleas'd to impose upon me when I left England and those high favors wherin I stand bound to your Lopp call upon me at this time to send your Lopp â—…om small fruits of my forren Travell Marquis Spinola is return'd from the Palatinat where he was so fortunat that like Caesar 〈◊〉 came saw and overcame notwithstanding that huge Army of the Princes of the Union consisting of forty thousand men wheras his was under twenty but made up of old â—…ough blades and veteran Commanders He hath now chang'd his coaâ—… and taken up his old Commission again from Don Philippo wheras during that expedition he call'd himself Caesars servant I hear the Emperor hath transmitted the upper Palatinat to the Duke of Bavaria as caution for those moneys he hath expended in these wars And the King of Spain is the Emperors Commissary for the lower Palatinat They both pretend that they were bound to obey the Imperiall summons to assist Caesar in these wars the one as he was Duke of Burgundy the other of Bavaria both which Countreys are â—…eudetarie to the Empire els they had incurr'd the Imperiall bun It is'fear'd this German war will be as the Frenchman saith de longue halaine long breath'd â—…or ther are great powers on both sides and they say the King of Denmark is arming Having made a leasurely so journ in this Town I had spare houâ—… to couch in writing a survay of these Countreys which I have now traversd the second time but in regard it would be a great bulk for a Letter I send it your Lopp apart and when I return to England I shall be bold to attend your Lopp for correction of my faults In the interim I rest Antwerp May 1. 1622. My Lord Your thrice humble Serviv J. H. XV A survey of the seventeen Provinces My Lord TO attempt a precise description of each of the seventeen Provinces and of its Progression Privileges and Primitive government were a task of no lesse confusion than labour Let it suffice to know that since Flanders and Holland were erected to Earldoms and
they could have Gentlemen of good quality that would undertake it yet if I would take it upon me they would employ no other and assur'd me that the employment should tend both to my benefit and credit Now the business is this Ther was a great Turky ship call'd the Vineyard sailing through the Streights towards Constantinople but by distress of weather she was forc'd to put into a little Port call'd Milo in Sardinia The searchers came aboard of her and finding her richly laden for her cargazon of broad cloth was worth the first peny neer upon 30000 l. they cavell'd at some small proportion of lead and tin which they had only for the use of the ship which the Searchers alleged to be ropa de contrabando prohibited goods for by Article of Peace nothing is to be carried to Turky that may arm or vittle The Vice-Roy of Sardinia hereupon seizd upon the whole ship and all her goods landed the Master and men in Spain who coming to Sir Charls Corawalles then Ambassador at the Courâ—… Sir Charles could do them little good at present therfore they came to England and complaind to the King and Counsell his Majesty was so sensible hereof that he sent a particular Commission in his own royall Name to demand a restitution of the ship and goods and justice upon the Vice-Roy of Sardinia who had so apparently broke the Peace and wrongd his Subjects Sir Charles with Sir Paul Piâ—…dar a while labourd in the business and commenc'd a sute in Law but he was calld home before he could do any thing to purpose After him Sir Iohn Digby now Lord Digby went Ambassador to Spain and amongst other things he had that particular Commission from his Majesty invested in him to prosecut the sute in his own royall Name Therupon he sent a well qualified Gentleman Mr Walsingham Gâ—…sley to Sardinia who unfortunately meeting with som men of War in the passage was carried prisoner to Algier My Lord Digby being remanded home left the business in Mr Cotingtons hands then Agent but reassum'd it at his return yet it prov'd such a tedious intricate sute that he return'd again without finishing the work in regard of the remoteness of the Island of Sardinia whence the witnesses and other dispatches were to be fetchd The Lord Digby is going now Ambassador extraordinary to the Court of Spain upon the business of the match the restitution oâ—… the Palatinate and other high affairs of State therfore he is desirous to transmit the Kings Commission to ching this particular business to any gentleman that is capable to follow it and promiseth to assist him with the utmost of his power and he saith he hath good reason to do so in regard he hath now a good round share himself in it About this busines I am now preparing to go to Spain in company of the Ambassador and I shall kiss the Kings hands as his Agent touching this particular Commission I humbly intreat that your blessing and prayers may accompany me in this my new employment which I have undertaken upon very good terms touching expences reward So with my dear love to my brothers and sisters with other kindred and friends in the countrey I rest London 8 Sept. 1623. Your dutifull Son J. H. VII To Sir Tho Savage Knight and Baronet at his house in Long-Melford honble SIR I Receivd your commands in a Letter which you sent me by Sir Iohn North and I shall not fail to serve you in those particulars It hath pleased God to dispose of me once more for Spain upon a business which I hope will make me good returns ther have two Ambassadors and a royall Agent follow'd it hitherto and I am the fourth that is employed in it I defer to trouble you with the particulars of it in regard I hope to have the happiness to kiss your hand at Tower hill before my departure which will not be till my Lord Digby sets forward He goes in a gallant splendid Equipage and one of the Kings ships is to take him in at Plymouth and transport him to the Corunnia or Saint Andeâ—…as Since that sad disaster which befell Archbishop Abbot to kill the man by the glancing of an arrow as he was shooting at a Deer which kind of death befell one of our Kings once in new Forrest ther hath bin a Commission awarded to debate whether upon this fact wherby he hath shed human bloud he be not to be depriv'd of his Archbishoprick and pronounc'd irregular som were against him but Bishop Andrews and Sir Henry Martin stood stifly for him that in regard it was no spontaneous act but a meer contingencie and that ther is no degree of men but is subject to misfortunes and casualties they declar'd positively that he was not to fall from his dignity or function but should still remain a regular and in statu quo prius during this debate he petitioned the King that he might be permitted to retire to his Almes-house at Guilford where he was born to pass the remainder of his life but he is now come to be again rectus in curia absolutely quitted and restor'd to all things But for the wife of him which was killd it was no misfortune to her for he hath endowed herself and her children with such an Estate that they say her Husband could never have got So I humbly kisse your hands and rest London 9 Nov. 1622. Your most obliged Serviâ—… J. H. VIII To Captain Nich Leat from Madrid at his house in London SIR I Am safely com to the Court of Spain and although by reason of that misfortune which befell Mr Altham and me of wounding the Sergeants in Lombardstreet we staied three weeks behind my Lord Ambassador yet we came hither time enough to attend him to Court at his first audience The English Nation is better lookd on now in Spain than ordinary because of the hopes ther are of a match which the Merchant and comunalty much desire though the Nobility and Gentry be not so forward for it so that in this point the puls of Spâ—… beats quite contrary to that of England where the people are â—…vers to this match and the Nobility with most part of the Gentry inclinable I have perusd all the papers I could get into my hands touching the business of the ship Vineyard and I find that they are higher than I in bulk though closely prest together I have cast up what iâ—… awarded by all the sentences of view and review by the Counsell of State War and I find the whole sum as wel principall as interest upon interest all sorts of damages and processall charges com to above two hundred and fifty thousand Crowns The Conde del Real quondam Viceroy of Sardinia who is adjudged to pay most part of this money is here and he is Mayordomo Lord steward to the Infante Cardinall if he hath wherwith I donbt not but to recover the money for I hope
put by the gallanter man of the two I was told of a witty saying of his when the Duke of Lerma had the vogue in this Court for going one morning to speak with the Duke and having danc'd attendance a long time hee peep'd through a slit in the hanging and spied Don Rodrigo Calderon a great man who was lately beheaded here for poisning the late Queen Dowager delivering the Duke a Paper upon his knees wherat the Marquis smil'd and said Voto a tal aquâ—…l hombre sube mas a las rodillas que yo no hago a los pics I swear that man climbs higher upon his knees than I can upon my feet Indeed I have read it to be a true Court rule that descendendo ascendendum est in Aula descending is the way to ascend at Court Ther is a kind of humility and compliance that is far from any servile baseness or fordid flattery and may be term'd discretion rather than adulation I intend God willing to go for Sardinia this Spring I hope to have better luck than Master Walsingham Gresley had who some few years since in his passage thither upon the same business that I have in agitation met with some Turksmen of war and so was carried slave to Algier So with my true respects to you I rest Madrid 12 Mar. 1622. Your faithfull Servant J. H. XIV To Sir Francis Cottington Secretary to his Highnesse the Prince of Wales at Saint James SIR I Believe it will not be unpleasing unto you to hear of the procedure and successe of that business wherin your self hath been so long vers'd in I mean the great sute against the quondam Vice-roy of Sardinia the Conde del Real Count Gondamars comming was a great advantage unto me who hath don me many favors besides a confirmation of the two sentences of view and review and of the execution against the Vice-roy I have procur'd a Royall cedule which I caus'd to be printed and wherof I send you here inclos'd a Coppy by which Cedule I have power to arrest his very person and my Lawyers tell me ther was never such a cedule granted before I have also by vertue of it priority of all other his Creditors He hath made an imperfect overture of a composition and shewd me som triviall old fashion'd jewells but nothing equivalent to the debt And now that I speak of jewells the late surprisall of Ormus by the assistance of our ships sinks deep in their stomacks here and we were afraid it would have spoild all proceedings but my Lord Digby now Earl of Bristoll for Count Gondamar brought him ore his Patent hath calmd all things at his last audience Ther were luminaries of joy lately here for the victory that Don Gonzalez de Cordova got over Count Mansfelt in the Netherlands with that Army which the Duke of Bouillon had levied for him but some say they have not much reason to rejoyce for though the Infantery suffer'd yet Mansfelt got clear with all his horse by a notable retreat and they say here it was the greatest peece of service and Art he ever did it being a Maxim that ther is nothing so difficult in the Art of War as an honourable retreat Besides the report of his comming to Breda caus'd Marquis Spinola to raise the siege before Berghen to burn his tents and to pack away suddenly for which he is much censur'd here Captain Leat and others have written to me of the favourable report you pleas'd to make of my endeavors here for which I return you humble thanks and though you have left behind you multitude of servants in this Court yet if occasion were offerd none should be more forward to go on your errand then Madrid 15 Mar. 1622. Your humble and faithfull Servitor J. H. XV. To the honble Sir Tho Savage Knight and Baronet honble SIR THe great busines of the match was tending to a period the Articles reflecting both upon Church and State being capitulated and interchangeably accorded on both sides and ther wanted nothing to consummate all things when to the wonderment of the world the Prince and the Marquis of Buckingham arriv'd at this Court a friday last upon the close of the evening they lighted at my Lord of Bristols house and the Marquis Mr Thomas Smith came in first with a Portmantle under his arm then Mr Iohn Smith the Prince was sent for who staid a while the to'ther side of the street in the dark my Lord of Bristoll in a kind of astonishment brought him up to his bed chamber where he presently calld for pen and ink and dispacht a Post that night to England to acquaint his Majesty how in lesse then sixteen daies he was come safely to the Court of Spain that Post went lightly laden for he carried but three letters the next day came Sir Francis Cotington and Mr Porter and darke rumors ran in every corner how som great man was com from England and som would not stick to say amongst the vulgar it was the King but towards the evening on saturday the marquis went in a close coach to Court where he had privat audience of this King who sent Olivares to accompany him back to the Prince where he kneeld and kisd his hands and hugd his thighs and deliverd how unmeasurably glad his Catholic Majesty was of his coming with other high complements which Mr Porter did interpret About ten a clock that night the King himself came in a close coach with intent to visit the Prince who hearing of it met him halfway and after salutations and divers embraces which past in the first interview they parred late I forgot to tell you that Count Gondamar being sworn Counseller of State that morning having bin before but one of the Counsell of War he came in great hast to visit the Prince saying he had strange news to tell him which was that an Englishman was sworn privy Counseller of Spain meaning himself who he said was an Englishman in his heart On Sunday following the King in the afternoon came abroad to take the air with the Queen his two brothers and the Infanta who were all in one coach but the Infanta sat in the boot with a blew riband about her arm of purpose that the Prince might distinguish her ther were above twenty coaches besides of Grandes Noble men and Ladies that attended them And now iâ—… was publicly known amongst the vulgar that it was the Prince of Wales who was com and the confluence of people before my Lord of Bristolls house was so great and greedy to see the Prince that to clear the way Sir Lewis Divâ—…s went out and took coach and all the crowd of people went after him so the Prince himself a little after took coach wherin there were the Earl of Bristoll Sir Walter Ashton and Count Gondamar and so went to the Prado a place hard by of purpose to take the air where they stayed till the King past by as soon as
the Church here and so holy a conceit they have of all Ecclesiastics that the greatest Don in Spain will tremble to offer the mean'st of them any outrage or affront Count Gondamar hath also helpt to free som English that were in the Inquisition in Toledo and Sevill and I could allege many instances how ready and chearfull he is to assist any Englishman whatsoever notwithstanding the base affronts he hath often receivd of the London buys as he calls them At his last return hither I heard of a merry saying of his to the Queen who discoursing with him about the greatnesse of London and whether it was as populous as Madrid yes Madame and more populous when I came away though I beleeve ther 's scarce a man left there now but all women and children for all the mem both in Court and City were ready booted and spurd to go away And I am sorry to hear how other Nations do much tax the English of their incivility to public Ministers of State and what ballads and pasquils and fopperies and plays were made against Gondamar for doing his Masters busines My Lord of Bristoll coming from Germany to Brussells notwithstanding that at his arrivall thither the news was fresh that he had reliev'd Frankindale as he past yet was he not a whit the less welcom but valued the more both by the Archdutchess her self and Spinoâ—… with all the rest as also that they knew well that the said Earl had bin the sole adviser of keeping Sir Robert Mansell abroad with that Fleet upon the coast of Spain till the Palsgrave should be restord I pray Sir when you go to London wall and Tower hill be pleas'd to remember my humble service where you know it is due So I am Madrid Aug. 15. 1623. Your most faithfull Servitor J. H. V. To the right honble the Lord Vicount Colchester My very good Lord I Receiv'd the letter and commands your Lopp pleas'd to send me by Mr Walsingham Gresley and touching the Constitutions and Orders of the Contratation House of the West Indies in Sevill I cannot procure it for love or money upon any terms though I have done all possible diligence therin And som tell me it is dangerous and no less then Treason in him that gives the copy of them to any in regard 't is counted the greatest Mystery of all the Spanish government That difficulty which hapned in the busines of the match of giving caution to the Pope is now overcome for wheras our King answer'd that he could give no other caution than his Royall word and his sons exemplified under the great Seal of England and confirm'd by his Counsell of State it being impossible to have it done by Parliament in regard of the aversnes the common people have to the alliance And wheras this gave no satisfaction to Rome the King of Spain now offers himself for caution for putting in execution what is stipulated in behalf of the Roman Catholics throughout his Majestie of great Britain's Dominions but he desires to consult his ghostly fathers to know whether he may do iâ—… without wronging his conscience hereupon there hath bin a Iâ—…ta form'd of Bishops and Iesuits who have bin already a good while about it and the Bishop of Segovia who is as it were Lord Threasurer having written a Treatise lately against the match was outed of his Office banisht the Court and confin'd to his Diocess The Duke of Buckingham hath bin ill dispos'd a good while and lies sick at Court where the Prince hath no public exercise of devotion but only bedchamber prayers and some thinâ—… that his lodging in the Kings house is like to prove a disadvantagâ—… to the main business for wheras most sorts of people here hardly hold us to be Christians if the Prince had had a Palace of his own and bin permitted to have us'd a room for an open Chappell to exercise the Liturgy of the Church of England it would have brought them to have a better opinion of us And to this end ther were som of our best Church plate and vestments brought hither but never us'd The slow place of this Iunta troubles us a little and to the Divines ther are som Civilians admitted lately and the quaere is this whether the King of Spain may bind himself by oath in the behalf of the King of England to perform such and such Articles that are agreed on in favour of the Roman Catholics by vertue of this match whether the King may doe this salva conscientia Ther was a great show lately here of baiting of bulls with men for the entertainment of the Prince it is the chiefest of all Spanish sports commonly ther are men killd at it therfore ther are Priests appointed to be there ready to confess them It hath hapned oftentimes that a Bull hath taken up two men upon his horns with their guts dangling about them the horsemen run with lances and swords the foot with goads As I am told the Pope hath sent divers Bulls against this sport of bulling yet it will not be left the Nation hath taken such an habituall delight in it Ther was an ill favord accident like to have hapned lately at the Kings house in that part wher my Lord of Carlile and my Lord Denbigh were lodg'd for my Lord Denbigh late at night taking a pipe of Tobacco in a Balcone which hung over the Kings garden he blew down the ashes which falling upon som parchd combustible matter began to flame and spread but Master Davis my Lord of Carliles Barber leapt down a great height and quencht it So with continuance of my most humble service I rest ever ready Madrid Aug. 16. 1623. At your Lopps commands J. H. XXI To Sir James Crofts from Madrid SIR THe Court of Spain affords now little news for ther is a Remora sticks to the busines of the match till the Iunta of Divines give up their opinion But from Turky ther came a Letter this week wherin ther is the strangest and most tragicall news that in my small reading no Sory can parallell or shew with more pregnancie the instability and tottering estate of human greatnes and the sandy foundation wheron the vast Ottoman Empire is reard upon For Sultan Osman the grand Turk a man according to the humor of that Nation warlike and fleshd in bloud and a violent hater of Christians was in the flower of his yeers in the heat and height of his courage knockt in the head by one of his own slaves and one of the meanest of them with a battle axe and the murtherer never after proceeded against or questioned The ground of this Tragedy was the late ill success he had against the Pole wherin he lost about 100000. horse for want of forrage and 80000. men for want of fighting which he imputed to the cowardize of his Ianizaries who rather than bear the brunt of the battell were more willing to return home to their
in every corner for this Asiatic voyage and what ill consquences might ensue from it therfore it might well stand with his great wisdom to stay it but if it held he desir'd him to leave a charge with the Chimacham his Deputy that the English Nation in the Port should be free from outrages wherunto the Grand Visier answer'd Trouble not your self about that for I will not remove so far from Constantinople but I wil leave one of my legs behind to serve you which prov'd too true for he was murther'd afterwards and one of his legs was hung up in the Hippodrome This fresh Tragedy makes me to give over wondring at any thing that ever I heard or read to shew the lubricity of mundan greatnes as also the fury of the vulgar which like an impetuous Torrent gathereth strength by degrees as it meets with divers Dams and being come to the hight cannot stop it self for when this rage of the soldiers began first there was no design at all to violat or hurt the Emperor but to take from him his ill Counsellors but being once a foot it grew by insensible degrees to the utmost of outrages The bringing out of Mustapha from the Dungeon where he was prisoner to be Emperor of the Musulmans puts me in mind of what I read in Mr. Camden of our late Queen Elizabeth how she was brought from the Scaffold to the English Throne They who profess to be Criticks in policy here hope that this murthering of Osman may in time breed good bloud and prove advantageous to Christendom for though this be the first Emperor of the Turks that was dispatcht so he is not like to be the last now that the soldiers have this precedent others think that if that design in Asia had taken it had been very probable the Constantinopolitans had hoisd up another King and so the Empire had been dismembred and by this division had lost strength as the Roman Empire did when it was broken into East and West Excuse me that this my Letter is become such a Monster I mean that it hath past the sise and ordinary proportion of a Letter for the matter it treats of is monstrous besides it is a rule that Historicall Letters have more liberty to be long than others In my next you shall hear how matters pass here in the mean time and always I rest Madrid Aug. 17. 1623. Your Lordships most devoted Servitor J. H. XXII To the Right honble Sir Tho. Savage Knight and Baronet honble SIR THe procedure of things in relation to the grand busines the match was at kind of a stand when the long winded Iunta deliver'd their opinions and fell at last upon this result that his Catholic Majesty for the satisfaction of St. Peter might oblige himself in the behalf of England for the performance of those capitulations which reflected upon the Roman Catholics in that Kingdom and in case of non-performance then to right himself by war since that the matrimoniall Articles were solemnly sworne unto by the King of Spain and his Highness the two Favorits our two Ambassadors the Duke of Infantado and other Counsellors of State being present hereupon the eighth of the next September is appointed to be the day of Desposorios the day of affiance or the betrothing day ther was much gladnes exprest here and luminaries of joy were in every great street throughout the City but there is an unlucky accident hath interven'd for the King gave the Prince a solemn visit since and told him Pope Gregory was dead who was so great a friend to the match but in regard the busines was not yet com to perfection he could not proceed further in it till the former Dispensation were ratified by the new Pope Vrban which to procure he would make it his own task and that all possible expedition should be us'd in 't and therfore desir'd his patience in the interim The Prince answer'd and prest the necessity of his speedy return with divers reasons he said ther was a generall kind of murmuring in England for his so long abseuce that the King his Father was old and sickly that the Fleet of shipe were already he thought at Sea to fetch him the winter drew on and withall that the Articles of the match were sign'd in England with this proviso that if he be not com back by such a month they should be of no validity The King replyed that since his Highness was resolv'd upon so suddain a departure he would please to leave a Proxy behind to â—…ish the marriage and he would take it for a favor if he would depute Him to personat him and ten days after the ratification shal come from Rome the busines should be don and afterwards he might send for his wife when he pleas'd The Prince rejoyn'd that amongst those multitudes of royall favors which he had receiv'd from his Majesty this transcended all the rest therfore hee would most willingly leave a Proxy for his Majesty and another for Don Carlos to this effect so they parted for that time without the least ombrage of discontent nor do I hear of any engendred since The last month 't is true the Iunta of Divines dwelt so long upon the busines that ther were whisperings that the Prince intended to go away disguis'd as he came and the question being ask'd by a person of quality ther was a brave answer made that iâ—… love brought him thither it is not fear shall drive him away There are preparations already a foot for his return and the two Prexies are drawn and left in my Lord of Bristolls hands Notwithstanding this ill favord stop yet we are here all confident the busines will take effect In which hopes I rest Madrid 18 Aug. 1623. Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXIII To Captain Nich Leat at his house in London SIR THis Letter comes to you by Mr. Richard Altham of whose sudden departure hence I am very sorry it being the late death of his brother Sir Iames Altham I have been at a stand in the busines a gond while for his Highness comming hither was no advantage to me in the earth He hath done the Spaniards divers courtesies but he hath been very sparing in doing the English any It may be perhaps because it may be a diminution of honor to be beholden to any forraign Prince to do his own Subjects favors but my busines requires no favor all I desire is justice which I have not obtain'd yet in reality The Prince is preparing for his jorney I shall to 〈◊〉 again closely when he is gone and make a shaft or a bolt of it The Popes death hath retarded the proceedings of the match but we are so far from despairing of it that one may have wagers thirty to one it will take effect still He that deals with this Nation must have a great deal of phlegme and if this grand busines of State the match suffer such
knew as well as he how earnest the King their Master hath bin any time these ten years to have it don how ther could not be a better pawn for the surrendry of the Palatinat than the Infanta in the Prince his arms who would never rest till she did the work to merit love of our Nation He told him also how their owne particular fortunes depended upon 't besides if he should delay one moment to deliver the Proxy after the Ratification was com according to agreement the Infanta would hold her self so blemish'd in her honor that it might overthrow all things Lastly he told him that they incurr'd the hazard of their heads if they should suspend the executing his Majesties Commission upon any order but from that power which gave it who was the King himself hereupon both the Ambassadors proceeded still in preparing matters for the solemnizing of the mariage the Earl of Bristoll had caus'd above thirty rich Liveries to be made of watchet Velvet with silver lace up to the very capes of the Cloaks the best sorts wherof were valued at 80 l. a Livery My Lord Aston had also provided new Liveries and a fortnight after the said politic report was blown up the Ratification came indeed complete and full so the mariage day was appointed a Terrass cover'd all over with Tapestry was rais'd from the Kings Palace to the next Church which might be about the same extent as from White-Hall to Westminster Abbey and the King intended to make his sister a Wife and his daughter wherof the Queen was deliver'd a little before a Christian upon the same day the Grandes and great Ladies had been invited to the mariage and order was sent to all the Port Towns to discharge their great Ordnance and sundry other things were prepar'd to honor the solemnity but when wee were thus at the hight of our hopes a day or two before there came Mr. Killegree Gresley Wood and Davies one upon the neck of another with a new Commission to my Lord of Bristoll immediatly from his Majesty countermanding him to deliver the Proxy aforesaid untill a full and absolut satisfaction were had for the surrendry of the Palatinat under this Kings hand and Seal in regard he desir'd his Son should be married to Spain and his Son in law remarried to the Palatinat at one time hereupon all was dasht to peeces and that frame which was rearing so many years was ruin'd in a moment This news strook a damp in the hearts of all people here and they wisht that the Postillons that brought it had all broke their necks in the way My Lord of Bristoll hereupon went to Court to acquaint the King with his new Commission and so propos'd the restitution of the Palatinat the King answer'd 't was none of his to give 't is true he had a few Towns there but he held them as Commissioner only for the Emperor and he could not command an Emperor yet if his Majesty of great Britain would put a Treaty a foot hee would send his own Ambassadors to joyn In the interim the Earl was commanded not to deliver the foresaid Proxy of the Prince for the desposorios or espousall untill Christmas And herein it seems his Majesty with you was not well inform'd for those powers of Proxies expir'd before the King here said further that if his Uncle the Emperor or the Duke of Bavaria would not be conformable to reason he would raise as great an Army for the Prince Palsgrave as he did under Spinola when he first invaded the Palatinat and to secure this he would ingage his Contratation House of the West Indies with his Plate Fleet and give the most binding instrument that could be under his hand and Seal But this gave no satisfaction therfore my Lord of Bristoll I beleeve hath not long to stay here for he is commanded to deliver no more Letters to the Infanta nor demand any more audience and that she should be no more stiled Princess of England or Wales The foresaid Caution which this King offer'd to my Lord of Bristoll made me think of what I read of his Grandfather Philip the second who having been maried to our Queen Mary and it being thought she was with child of him and was accordingly prayed for at Pauls Cross though it proved afterward but a tympany King Philip prepos'd to our Parliament that they would pass an Act that he might be Regent during his or her minority that should be born and he would give good caution to surrender the Crown when he or she should com to age the motion was hotly canvas'd in the house of Peers and like to pass when the Lord Paget rose up and said I but who shall sue the Kings bond so the busines was dasht I have no more news to send you now and I am sory I have so much unless it were better for we that have busines to negotiat here are like to suffer much by this rupture welcom be the will of God to whose benediction I commend you and rest Madrid Aug. 25. 1623. Your most humble Servitor J. H. XXVII To the Right honble the Lord Clifford My good Lord THough this Court cannot afford now such comfortable news in relation to England as I could wish yet such as it is you shall receive My Lord of Bristoll is preparing for England I waited upon him lately when he went to take his leave at Court and the King washing his hands took a Ring from off his own finger and put it upon his which was the greatest honor that ever he did any Ambassador as they say here he gave him also a Cupbord of Plate â—…alued at 20000 Crowns There were also large and high promises made him that in case heâ—… feard to fall upon any rock in England by reason of the power of those who malignd him if hee would stay in any of his Dominions he would give him means and honor equall to the highest of his enemies The Earl did not only wave but disdaind these Propositions made unto him by Olivares and said he was so confident of the King his Masters justice and high judgment and of his own innocency that hee conceiv'd no power could be able to do him hurt Ther hath occurd nothing lately in this Court worth the advertisement They speak much of the strange carriage of that boisterous Bishop of Halverstad for so they term him here that having taken a place where there were two Monasteries of Nuns and Friers he caus'd divers feather-beds to be rip'd and all the feathers to be thrown in a great Hall whither the Nuns and Friers were thrust naked with their bodies â—…ld and pitchd and to tumble among these feathers which makes them here presage him an ill death So I most affectionately kiss your hands and rest Madrid Aug. 26. 1623. Your very humble Servitor J. H. XXVIII To Sir John North. SIR I Have many thanks to render you for the favor
and exterminated yet I beleeve in Portugall there lurks yet good store of them For the soil of Spain the fruitfulnes of their vallies recompences the sterillity of their hills corn is their greatest want and want of rain is the cause of that which makes them have need of their neighbors yet as much as Spain bears is passing good and so is every thing else for the quality nor hath any one a better horse under him a better cloak on his back a better sword by his side better shooes on his feet than the Spaniard nor doth any drink better Wine or eat better fruit than he nor flesh for the quantity Touching the People the Spaniard looks as high though not so big aâ—… a German his excesse is in too much gravity which som who know him not well hold to be a pride he cares not how little he labours for poor Gascons and Morisco slaves do most of his work in field and vineyard he can endure much in the war yet he loves not to fight in the dark but in open day or upon a stage that all the world might be witnesses of his valor so that you shall seldom hear of Spaniards employed in night service nor shall one hear of a Duell here in an age He hath one good quality that he is wonderfully obedient to Government for the proudest Don of Spain when he is prancing upon his Ginet in the streets if an Alguazil a Sargeant shew him his Vare that is a little white staff he carrieth as badge of his Office my Don will down presently off his horse and yeeld himself his prisoner He hath another commendable quality that when he giveth Alms he puls off his Hat and puts it in the beggars hand with a great deal of humility His gravity is much lessned since the late Proclamation came out against ruffs and the King himself shewd the first example they were come to that hight of excess herein that twenty shillings were us'd to be paid for starching of a ruff and som though perhaps he had never a shirt to his back yet would be have a toting huge swelling ruff about his neck He is sparing in his Ordinary diet but when he makes a Feast he is free and bountifull As to Temporall Authority specially Martiall so is be very obedient to the Church and beleeves all with an implicit faith he is a great servant of Ladies nor can he be blam'd for as I said before he coms of a Gotish race yet he never brags of nor blazes abroad his doings that way but is exceedingly carefull of the repute of any woman A civility that we much want in England Hee will speak high words of Don Philippo his King but will not endure a stranger should do so I have heard a Biscayner make a Rodomontado that he was as good a Gentleman as Don Philippo himself for Don Philippo was half a Spaniard half a German half an Italian half a Frenchman half I know not what but he was a pure Biscayner without mixture The Spaniard is not so smooth and oyly in his Complement as the Italian and though hee will make strong protestations yet he will not swear out Complements like the French and English as I heard when my Lord of Carlile was Ambassador in France there came a great Monsieur to see him and having a long time banded and sworn Complements one to another who should go first out at a dore at last my Lord of Carlile said ô Monseigneur ayez pitie de mon ame O my ' Lord have pity upon my soul. The Spaniard is generally given to gaming and that in excesse he will say his prayers before and if he win he will thank God for his good fortune after their common game at cards for they very seldom play at dice is Primera at which the King never shews his game but throws his cards with their faces down on the Table He is Merchant of all the cards and dice through all the Kingdom he hath them made for a penny a pair and he retails them for twelve pence so that 't is thought he hath 30000 l. a year by this trick at cards The Spaniard is very devout in his way for I have seen him kneel in the very dirt when the Ave Mary bell rings and som if they spy two straws or sticks lie cross-wise in the street they will take them up and kisse them and lay them down again He walks as if he marcht and seldom looks on the ground as if he contemnd it I was told of a Spaniard who having got a fall by a stumble and broke his nose rose up and in a disdainfull manner said Voto a tal esto es caminar por la tierra This is to walk upon earth The Labradors and Countrey Swains here are sturdy and rationall men nothing so simple or servile as the French Peasan who is born in chains T is true the Spaniard is not so conversable as other Nations unlesse hee hath travel'd els hee is like Mars among the Planets impatient of Conjunction nor is he so free in his gifts and rewards as the last Summer it hapned that Count Gondamar with Sir Francis Cotington went to see a curious house of the Constable of Castiles which had been newly built here the keeper of the house was very officious to shew him every room with the garden grotha's and aqueducts and presented him with some fruit Gondamar having been a long time in the house comming out put many Complements of thanks upon the man and so was going away Sir Francis whisper'd him in the ear and askd him whether he would give the man any thing that took such pains Oh quoth Gondamar well remembred Don Francisco have you ever a double Pistoll about you If you have you may give it him and then you pay him after the English manner I have paid him already after the Spanish The Spaniard is much improv'd in policy since hee took footing in Italy and there is no Nation agrees with him better I will conclude this Character with a saying that he hath No ay bombre debaxo d'el sol Como el Italiano y el Español Wherunto a Frenchman answerd Dizes la verdad y tienes razon El uno es puto el otro ladron Englished thus Beneath the Sun ther 's no such man As is is the Spaniard and Italian The Frenchman answers Thou tell'st the truth and reason hast The first 's a Theef a Buggerer the last Touching their women nature hath made a more visible distinction twixt the two sexes here than else where for the men for the most part are swarthy and rough but the women are made of a far finer mould they are commonly little and wheras there is a saying that to make a compleat woman let her be English to the neck French to the wast and Dutch below I may add for hands and feet let her be Spanish for they have the least of
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
Familiar Letters SECTION V. I. To Dan. Caldwall Esqr from York My dear D. THough I may be tearmed a right Northern man being a good way this side Trent yet my love to you is as Southern as ever it was I mean it continueth still in the same degree of heat not can this bleaker air or Boreas chilling blasts cool it a whit I am the same to you this side Trent as I was the last time we cross'd the Thames together to see Smugg the Smith and so back to the Still-yard But I fear that your love to me doth not continue in so constant and intense a degree and I have good grounds for this fear because I never receiv'd one syllable from you since I left London if you ridd me not of this scruple and send to me speedily I shall think though you live under a hotter clyme in the South that your former love is not only coold but frozen For this present condition of life I thank God I live well contended I have a fee from the King diet for my self and two servants livry for a horse and a part of the Kings house for my lodging and other privileges which I am told no Secretary before me had but I must tell you the perquisits are nothing answerable to my expectation yet I have built me a new study since I came wherin I shall amongst others meditat somtimes on you and whence this present Letter coms So with a thousand thanks for the plentifull Hospitality and Joviall farewell you gave me at your House in Essex I rest York 30 Iulii 1627. Yors yors yors J. H. II. To Mr. Richard Leat SIgnor io it is now a great while me thinks since any act of friendship or other interchangeable offices of love hath pass'd between us either by Letters or other accustomed ways of correspondence And as I will not accuse so I go not about to clear my self in this point let this long silence be tearm'd therfore a cessation rather than neglect on both sides A bow that lies awhile unbent and a field that remains fallow for a time grow never the worse but afterwards the one sends forth and arrow more strongly the other yeelds a better crop being recultivated Let this be also verified in us let our friendship grow more fruitfull after this pawse let it be more active for the future you see I begin and shoot the first shaft I send you herewith a couple of red Dear pies the one Sir Arthur Ingram gave me the other my Lord Presidents Cook I could not tell where to bestow them better In your next let me know which is the best season'd I pray let the Sydonian Merchant Io. Bruckburst be at the eating of them and then I know they will be well soak'd If you please to send me a barrell or two of Oysters which we want here I promise you they shall be well eaten with a cup of the best Clarret and the best Sherry to which Wine this Town is altogether adicted shall not be wanting I understand the Lord Weston is Lo. Treasurer we may say now that we have Treasurers of all tences for ther are four living to wit the Lord Manchester Middlesex Malborough and the newly chosen I hear also that the good old man the last hath retir'd to his lodgings in Lincolns Inn and so reduc'd himself to his first principles which makes me think that he cannot bear up long now that the staff is taken from him I pray in your next send me the Venetian Gazetta So with my kind respects to your Father I rest York 9. Iuly 1627. Yours J. H. III. To Sir Ed. Sa. Knight SIR 'T was no great matter to be a Prophet and to have foretold his rupture 'twixt us and France upon the sudden renvoy of her Majesties servants for many of them had sold their estates in France given money for their places and so thought to live and die in England in the Queens service and so have pittifully complained to that King therupon he hath arrested above 100 of our Merchant men that went to this Vintage at Bourdeaux We also take som straglers of theirs for ther are Letters of Mart given on both sides Ther are Writs issued out for a Parliament and the Town of Richmond in Richmond shire hath made choise of me for their Burgess though Master Christopher Wansford and other powerfull men and more deserving than I stood for it I pray God send fair weather in the House of Commons for ther is much murmuring about the restraint of those that would not conform to loan-moneys Ther is a great Fleet a preparing and an Army of Land-men but the design is uncertain whether it be against Spain or France for we are now in enmity with both those Crowns The French Cardinall hath been lately tother side the Alpes and setled the Duke of Nevers in the Duchy of Mantoua notwithstanding the opposition of the King of Spain and the Emperor who alleg'd that he was to receive his investiture from him and thaâ—… was the chief ground of the War but the French Arms have dâ—… the work and com triumphantly back over the Hills again No more now but that I am as always Your true friend J. H. March 2. 1627. IV. To the Worp ll Mr Alderman of the Town of Richmond and the rest of the worthy Members of that ancient Corporation SIR I Receiv'd a public Instrument from you lately subscrib'd by your self and divers others wherin I find that you have made choice of me to be one of your Burgesses for this now neer-approaching Parliament I could have wish'd that you had not put by Master Wandesford and other worthy Gentlemen that stood so earnestly for it who being your neighbors had better means and more abilities to serve you Yet since you have cast these high respects upon me I will endeavor to acquit my self of the trust and to answer your expectation accordingly And as I account this Election an honor unto me so I esteem it a great advantage that so worthy and well experienc'd a Knight as Sir Talbot Bows is to be my Collegue and fellow Burgess I shall steer by his compas and follow his directions in any thing that may concern the welfare of your Town and of the Precincts therof either for redress of any grievance or by proposing som new thing that may conduce to the further benefit and advantage therof and this I take to be the true duty of a Parliamentary Burgess without roving at randum to generalls I hope to learne of Sir Talbot what 's fitting to be don and I shall apply my self accordingly to joyn with him to serve you with my best abilities So I rest Your most assured and ready friend to do you service J. H. Lond. March 24 1627. V. To the Right honble the Lo Clifford at Knasbrugh My Lord THe news that fill all mouths at present is the return of the Duke of Buckingham
This new-year scarce would serve me so farewell Cal. Apr. 1629. Your son and servitor J. H. XXVIII To the right honble the Earl of Bristol at Sherburn Castle My Lord I Attended my Lord Cottington before he went on his journey towards Spain and put him in mind of the old busines against the Vice-roy of Sardinia to see whether any good can be don and to learn whether the Conde or his son be Solvent He is to land at 〈◊〉 one of the Kings ships attends him and som Merchant men take the advantage of this Convoy The news that keeps greatest noise now is that the Emperour hath made a favourable peace with the Dane for Tilly had cross'd the Elve and entred deep into Holstein land and in all probability might have carried all before him yet that King had honorable termes given him and a peace is concluded though without the privity of England But I beleeve the King of Denmarc far'd the better because he is Granchild to Charles the Emperours sister Now it seems another spirit is like to fall upon the Emperour for they write that Gustavus King of Swâ—…thland is struck into Germany and hath taken Meclenburgh the ground of his quarrell as I hear is that the Emperour would not acknowledg much less give audience to his Ambassadors he also gives out to com for the assistance of his Allies the Dukes of Pomerland and Meclenburgh nor do I hear that he speaks any thing yet of the Pr. Palsgraves business Don Carlos Coloma is expected here from Flanders about the samâ—… time that my Lord Cottington shall be arriv'd at the Court of Spain God send us an Honourable peace for as the Spaniard saies Nunâ—…avi tan mala paz que no fuesse mejor que la mejor guerra London 20 May. 1629 Your Lordships most humble and ready Servant J. H. XXX To my Cosen I. P. at Mr. Conradus Cousin A Letter of yours was lately deliverd me I made a shift to read the superscription but within I wonderd what language it might be in which 't was written at first I thought 't was Hebrew or som of her Dialects and so went from the liver to the heart from the right hand to the left to read it but could maâ—…e nothing of it then I thought it might be the Chineses language and went to read the words perpendicular and the lines were so crooked and distorted that no coherence could be made Greekâ—… â—… perceiv'd it was not nor Latin or English So I gave it for meere gibbrish and your characters to be rather Hieroglyphicks then Letters The best is you keep your lines at a good distance like those in Chancery-bills who as a Clerk said were made so wide of purpose because the Clients should have room enough to walk between them without justling one another yet this widenes had bin excusable if your lines had bin streight but they were full of odd kind of Undulations and windings If you can write no otherwise one may read your thoughts as soon as your characters It is som excuse for you that you are but a young beginner I pray let it appear in your next what a proficient you are otherwise som blame may light on me that placed you there Let me receive no more Gibbrish or Hieroglyphicks from you but legible letters that I may acquaint your friends accordingly of your good proceedings So I rest Westminst 20 Sept. 1629. Your very loving Cosen J. H. XXXI To the Lo. Viscount Wentworth Lo. President of York My Lord MY last was of the first current since which I receiv'd one from your Lordship and your comands therin which I shall ever entertain with a great deal of cheerfulnes The greatest news from abroad is that the French King with his Cardinal are com again on this side the Hills having don his business in Italy and Savoy and reserv'd still Pignerol in his hands which will serve him as a key to enter Italy at pleasure Upon the highest Mountain 'mongst the Alps he left this ostentous inscription upon a great Marble piller A la memoire eternelle de Lovis treiziesme Roy de France de Navarre Tres-Auguste tres-victorieux tres-heureux Conquerant tres-juste Lequel apres avoir vaincu toutes les Nations de l'Europe Il à encore triumphé les elements Du ciel de la terre Ayant passé deux fois ces-monts au mois de Mars avec son Armee Victorieuse pour remmettre les Princes d'Italie en leurs estats Defendre protegerses Alliez To the eternall memory of Lewis the thirteenth King of France and Navarr most gracious most victorious most happy most just a Conquerer who having orecom all Nations of Europ he hath also triumph'd over the Elements of Heaven and Earth having twise pass'd ore these hills in the month of March with his victorious Army to restore the Princes of Italy to their estates and to defend and protect his Allies So I take my leave for the present and rest Westmin 5 Aug. 1629. Your Lopp most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXXII To Sir Keneime Digby Knight SIR GIve me leave to congratulat your happy return from the Levant and the great honour you have acquir'd by your gallant comportment in Algier in reescating so many English slaves by bearing up so bravely against the Venetian Fleet in the bay of Scanderoon and making the Pantaloni to know themselves and you better I do not remember to have read or heard that those huge Galleasses of Saint Mark were beaten afore I give you the joy also that you have born up against the Venetian Ambassadour here and vindicated your self of those foule scandalls he had cast upon you in your absence Wheras you desire me to joyne with my Lord Cottington and others to make an Affidavit touching Bartholomew Spinola whither he be Vezino de Madrid viz. free Denison of Spaine I am ready to serve you herein or to do any other office that may right you and tend to the making of your prize good Yet I am very sorry that our Aleppo Merchants suffer'd so much I shall be shortly in London and I will make the greater speed because I may serve you So I humbly kiss my noble Ladies hand and rest Westmin 25 Novemb. 1629. Your thrice-assured Servitor J. H. XXXIII To the Right honble Sir Peter Wicths Ambr. at Constantple. SIR MAster Simon Digby delivered me one from your Lordship of the first of Iune and I was extremely glad to have it for I had receav'd nothing from your Lordship a twelvemonth before Mr. Controuler Sir Tho. Edmonds is lately return'd from France having renew'd the peace which was made up to his hands before by the Venetian Ambassadors who had much labour'd in it and had concluded all things beyond the Alps when the King of France was at Susa to relieve Casal The Monsieur that was to fetch him from Saint Denis to Paris put a kind of jeering complement upon him
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
Verge Cullen is chief of the second Precinct Erurswic of the third and Danzic of the fourth The Kings of Peland and Sweden have sued to be their Protector but they refus'd them because they were not Princes of the Empire they put off also the King of Denmark with a Complement nor would they admit the King of Spain when he was most potent in the Netherlands though afterwards when 't was too late they desir'd the help of the Ragged Staff nor of the Duke of Anjou notwithstanding that the world thought he should have married our Queen who interceded for him and so 't was probable that therby they might recover their privileges in England so that I do not find they ever had any Protector but the great Master of Prussia and their want of a Protector did do them som prejudice in that famous difference they had with our Queen The old Hans had extraordinary immunities given them by our Henry the third because they assisted him in his wars with so many ships and as they pretend the King was not only to pay them for the service of the said Ships but for the Vessells themselves if they miscarried Now it happen'd that at their return to Germany from serving Henry the third ther was a great Fleet of them cast away for which according to Covenant they demanded reparation Our King in lieu of money amongst other Acts of Grace gave them a privilege to pay but one per cent which continued untill Queen Mories reign and she by advice of King Philip her husband as 't was conceiv'd enhanc'd the one to twenty per cent The Hans not onely complain'd but clamor'd loudly for breach of their ancient Privileges confirm'd unto them time out of mind by thirteen successive Kings of England which they pretended to have purchased with their money King Philip undertook to accommode the busines but Queen Mary dying a little after and he retiring ther could be nothing don Complaint being made to Queen Elizabeth she answerd That as shee would not innovat any thing so she would maintain them still in the same condition she found them hereupon their Navigation and Trafic ceas'd a while Wherfore the English tryed what they could do themselves and they thrive so well that they took the whole trade into their own hands and so divided themselves though they bee now but one to Staplers and Merchant Adventurers the one residing constant in one place wher they kept their Magazin of Wool the other stirring and adventuring to divers places abroad with Cloth and other Manufactures which made the Hans endevor to draw upon them all the malignancy they could from all Nations Moreover the Hans Towns being a body politic incorporated in the Empire complain'd hereof to the Emperor who sent over persons of great quality to mediat an accommodation but they could effect nothing Then the Queen caus'd a Proclamation to be punish'd that the Easterlings or Merchants of the Hans should be intreated and us'd as all other strangers were within her Dominions without any mark of difference in point of commerce This netled them more therupon they bent their Forces more eagerly and in a Diet at Ratisbon they procurd that the English Merchants who had associated themselves into Fraternities in Embdâ—…n and other places should bee declar'd Monopolists and so ther was a Comitiall Edict publishd against them that they should be exterminated and banisht out of all parts of the Empire and this was don by the activity of one Suderman a great Civilian Ther was there for the Queen Gilpin as nimble a man as Suderman and he had the Chancelor of Embden to second and countenance him but they could not stop the said Edict wherin the Society of English Merchants Adventurers was pronounc'd to bee a Monopoly yet Gilpin plaid his game so well that he wrought under hand that the said Imperiall Ban should not be publish'd till after the dissolution of the Diet and that in the interim the Emperor should send Ambassadors to England to advertise the Queen of such a Ban against her Merchants But this wrought so little impression upon the Queen that the said Ban grew rather ridiculous than formidable for the Town of Embden harbour'd our Merchants notwithstanding and afterwards Stode but they not being able to protect them so well from the Imperiall Ban they setled in this Town of Hamburgh After this the Queen commanded another Proclamation to be divulg'd that the Easterlings or Hansiatic Merchants should bee allowed to Trade in England upon the same conditions and payment of duties as her own Subjects provided Thaâ—… the English Merchants might have interchangeable privilege to reside and trade peaceably in Stode or Hamburgh or any wher els within the precincts of the Hans This incens'd them more therupon they resolv'd to cut off Stode and Hamburgh from being members of the Hans or of the Empire but they suspended this dessein till they saw what success the great Spanish Fleet should have which was then preparing in the yeer eighty eight for they had not long before had recours to the King of Spain and made him their own and he had don them som materiall good Offices wherfore to this day the Spanish Counsell is tax'd of improvidence and imprudence that ther was no use made of the Hans Towns in that expedition The Queen finding that they of the Hans would not be contented with that equality she had offer'd 'twixt them and her own Subjects put out a Proclamation that they should carry neither Corn Victualls Arms Timber Masts Cables Mineralls nor any other materialls or Men to Spain or Portugall And after the Queen growing more redoubtable and famous by the overthrow of the Fleet of Eighty eight the Osterlings fell to despair of doing any good Add hereunto another disaster that befell them the taking of sixty sailes of their Ships about the mouth of Tagus in Portugall by the Queens Ships that were laden with Ropas de contrabando viz. Goods prohibited by her former Proclamation into the dominions of Spain And as these Ships were upon point of being discharg'd she had intelligence of a great Assembly at Lubâ—…ck which had met of purpose to consule of means to be reveng'd of her therupon she staid and seiz'd upon the said sixty Ships only two were freed to bring news what became of the rest Hereupon the Pole sent an Ambassador to her who spake in a high tone but he was answer'd in a higher Ever since our Merchants have beaten a peacefull and free uninterrupted Trade into this Town and elswhere within and without the Sound with their Manufactures of Wool and found the way also to the White-Sea to Archangel and Mosco Insomuch that the premisses being well considered it was a happy thing for England that that clashing fell out 'twixt her and the Hans for it may be said to have been the chief ground of that Shipping and Merchandising which she is now com
to and wherwith she hath flourish'd ever since But one thing is observable that as that Imperiall or Comitial Bat pronounc'd in the Diet at Ratisbon against our Merchants and Manufactures of Wooll incited them more to industry So our Proclamation upon Alderman Cockeins project of transporting no white Cloths but Died and in their full manufacture did cause both Dutch and German to turn necessity to a vertue and made them far more ingenious to find ways not only to Die but to make Cloth which hath much impair'd our Markers ever since for ther hath not been the third part of our Cloth sold since either here or in Holland My Lord I pray be pleas'd to dispense with the prolixity of this Discours for I could not wind it up closer nor on a lesser bottom I shall be carefull to bring with me those Furrs I had instructions for So I rest Hamburgh 20 Octob. 1632. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. IV. To Cap. J. Smith at the Hague Captain HAving so wishfull an opportunity as this Noble Gentleman Mr. Iames Crofts who coms with a Packet for the Lady Elizabeth from my Lord of Leicester I could not but send you this frendly salute We are like to make a speedier return than we expected from this Ambassie for we found the King of Denmark in Heâ—…stein which shortned our voyage from going to the Sound The King was in an advantagious posture to give audience for ther was a Parlement then at Rhensburg wher all the Younkers met Amongst other things I put myself to mark the carriage of the Holstein Gentlemen as they were going in and out at the Parlement House and observing well their Physiognomies their Complexions and Gate I thought verily I was in England for they resemble the English more than either Welsh or Scot though cohabiting upon the same Island or any other peeple that ever I saw yet which makes me verily believe that the English Nation came first from this lower circuit of Saxony and ther is one thing that strengthneth me in this belief that ther is an ancient Town hard by call'd Lunden and an Island call'd Angles whence it may well be that our Country came from Britannia to be Anglia This Town of Hamburgh from a Society of Brewers is com to be a huge wealthy place and her new Town is almost as big as the old Ther is a shrewd jar 'twixt her and her Protector the King of Denmark My Lord of Leicester hath don som good Offices to accommode matters She chomps extremely that ther should be such a Bit put lately in her mouth as the Fort at Luckstadit which commands her River of Elve and makes her pay what Toll he please The King begins to fill his Chests apace which were so emptied in his late marches to Germany He hath set a new Toll upon all Ships that pass to this Town and in the Sound also ther be som extraordinary duties impos'd wherat all Nations begin to murmure specially the Hollanders who say that the old Primitive Toll of the Sound was but a Rose-noble for evry Ship but by a new Sophistry it is now interpreted for evry Sail that should pass thorow insomuch that the Hollander though he be a Low-Countrey man begins to speak high-Dutch in this point a rough language you know which made the Italian tell a German Gentleman once That when God Almighty thrust Adam out of Paradise he spake Dutch but the German retorted wittily Then Sir if God spake Dutch when Adam was ejected Eve spake Italian when Adam was seduced I could be larger but for a sudden auvocation to busines so I most affectionatly send my kind respects unto you desiring when I am rendred to London I may hear from you So I am Hamburg 22 Octob. 1632. Your faithfull Frend to serve you J. H. V. To the Right honble the Earl of Br. My Lord I Am newly return'd from Germany whence ther came lately two Ambassadors extraordinary in one of the Ships Royall the Earl of Leicester and Sir Robert Anstruther the latter came from Vienna and I know little of his negotiations but for my Lord of Leicester I beleeve ther was never so much busines dispatch'd in so short a compas of time by any Ambassador as your Lordship who is best able to judg will find by this short relation When my Lord was com to the King of Denmarks Court which was then at Rhensberg a good way within Holstein The first thing he did was to condole the late Queen Dowagers death our Kings Gran-Mother which was don in such an equipage that the Danes confess'd ther was never Queen of Denmark so mourn'd for This ceremony being pass'd my Lord fell to busines and the first thing which he propounded was That for preventing of further effusion of Christian blood in Germany and for the facilitating a way to restore peace to all Christendom His Majesty of Denmark would joyn with his Nephew of great Britain to send a solemn Ambassie to the Emperour and the King of Sweden the ends of whose proceedings were doubtfull to mediat an accommodation and to appear for him who will be found most conformable to reason To this that King answer'd in writing for that was the way of proceeding that the Emperour and the Swede were com to that height and heat of war and to such a violence that it is no time yet to speak to them of peace but when the fury is a little pass'd and the times more proper he would take it for an Honour to joyn with his Nephew and contribut the best means he could to bring about so good a Work Then ther was computation made what was due to the King of great Britain and the Lady Elizabeth out of their Gran-Mothers Estate which was valued at neer upon two Millions of Dollars and your Lordship must think it was a hard task to liquidat such an account This being don my Lord desird that part which was due to his Majesty our King and the Lady his Sister which appear'd to amount unto eightscore thousand pounds sterling That King answer'd That he confess'd ther was so much money due but his Mothers Estate was yet in the hands of Commissioners and neither he nor any of his Sisters had receiv'd their portions yet and that his Nephew of England and his Neere of Holland should receive theirs with the first but he did intimat besides that ther were som considerable accounts 'twixt him and the Crown of England for ready moneys he had lent his Brother King Iames and for the thirty thousand pounds a moneth that was by Covenant promis'd him for the support of his late Army in Germany Then my Lord propounded That His Majesty of Great Britains Subjects were not well us'd by his Officers in the Sound for though that was but a Transitory passage into the Baltic Sea and that they neither bought nor sould any thing upon the place yet they were forc'd to stay
hath cow'd and dastâ—…rdiz'd their courage Besides these properties they are light and giddy headed much symbolizing in spirit with our Apolalypticall zelots and fiery interpreters of Daniel and other Prophets wherby they often sooth or rather fool themselves into som illumination which really proves but som egregious dorage They much glory of their mysterious Cabal wherin they make the reality of things to depend upon Letters and Words but they say that Hebrew onely hath this priviledg This Cabal which is nought else but Tradition they say being transmitted from one age to another was in som measure a reparation of our knowledge lost in Adam and they say â—…was reveal'd four times First to Adam who being thrust out of Paradise and sitting one day very sad and sorrowing for the loss of the knowledg he had of that dependance the creatures have with their Creator the Angell Raguel was sent to comfort him and to instruct him and repair his knowledg herein And this they call the Caball which was lost the second time by the Floud and â—…abell then God discover'd it to Moses in the bush The third time to Solomon in a dream wherby he came to know the beginning mâ—…diety and coasummatiâ—… of times and so wrote divers Books which were lost in the gran captivity The last time they hold that God restor'd the Cabal to Esdras a Book they value extraordinarily who by Gods command withdrew to the Wildernes forty daies with five Scribes who in that space wrote two hundred and four Books The first one hundred thirty and four were to be read by all but the other seventy were to pass privatly amongst the Levites and these they pretend to be Cabalistic and not yet all lost Ther are this day three Sects of Iews the Africans first who besides the holy Scriptures embrace the Talmud also for authentic the second receive only the Scriptures the third which are call'd the Samaritans wherof ther are but few admit only of the 〈◊〉 the five Books of Moses The Iews in generall drink no Wine without a dispensation when they kill any creature they turn his face to the East saying Be it sanctified in the great name of God they cut the throat with a knif without a gap which they hold very prophane In their Synagogs they make one of the best sort to read a Chapter of Moses then som mean Boy reads a peece of the Prophets in the midst ther 's a round place arch'd over wherin one of their Rabbies walks up and down and in Poâ—…tuguez magnifies the Messias to com comforts their captivity and rails at Christ. They have a kind of Cupboard to represent the Tabernacle wherin they lay the Tables of the Law which now and then they take out and kiss they sing many Tunes and Adonai they make the ordinary name of God Iehovah is pronounc'd at high Festivalls at Circumcision Boys are put to sing som of Davids Psalms so lowd as drowns the Infants cry The Synagog is hung about with Glass Lamps burning every one at his entrance puts on a Linnen-Cope first kissing it else they use no manner of reverence all the while their Elders sometimes fall together by the ears in the very Synagog and with the Holy Utensiles as Candlesticks Incense-Pans and such-like break one anothers Pates Women are not allow'd to enter the Synagog but they sit in a Gallery without for they hold they have not so divine a soul as men and are of a lower creation made only for sensuall pleasure and propagation Amongst the Mahumetans ther is no Iew capable of a Turkish habit unless he acknowledg Christ as much as Turks do which is to have bin a great Prophet wherof they hold ther are three onely Moses Christ and Mahomet Thus my Lord to perform your commands which are very prevalent with me have I couch'd in this Letter what I could of the condition of the Iews and if it may give your Lordship any satisfaction I have my reward abundantly So I rest Westmin 3 of Iune 1633. Your Lordships most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XV. To Mr. Philip Warrick at Paris SIR YOur last unto me was in French of the first current and I am glad you are com so safe from Swisserland to Paris as also that you are grown so great a Proficient in the Language I thank you for the variety of news you sent me so hansomly couch'd and knit together To correspond with you the greatest news wee have here is that we have a gallant Fleet-Royall ready to set to sea for the security of our Coasts and Commerce and for the Soverainty of our Seas Hans said the King of England was asleep all this while but now he is awake nor do I hear doth your French Cardinall tamper any longer with our Kings Title and Right to the Dominion of the Narrow-Seas These are brave fruits of the ship-moneys I hear that the Inâ—…ante Cardinall having bin long upon his way to Brussells hath got a notable Victory of the Swedes at Nordlinghen where 8000 were slain Gustavus Horn and other of the prime Commanders taken prisoners They write also that Monsieurs marriage with Madame of Lorain was solemnly celebrated at Brussels she had follow'd him from Nancy in Pages apparell because ther were forces in the way It must needs be a mighty charge to the King of Spain to maintain Mother and Son in this manner The Court affords little news at present but that ther is a Love call'd Platonick love which much swayes there of late It is a love abstracted from all corporeall gross impressions and sensuall appetit but consists in contemplation and Idaeas of the mind not in any carnall fruition This love sets the wits of the Town on work and they say there will be a Masko shortly of it whereof Her Majestie and her Maids of Honour will be part All your friends here in Westminster are well and very mindfull of you but none more often then Westmin 3 Iune 1634. Your most affectionate Servitor J. H. XVI To my brother Mr H. P. Brother MY brain was ore cast with a thick clowd of melancholy I was becom a lump I know not of what I could scarce find any palpitation within me on the left side when yours of the first of September was brought me it had such a vertue that it begot new motions in me like the Load-stone which by its attractive occult quality moves the dull body of Iron and makes it active so dull was I then and such a magnetic property your Letter had to quicken me Ther is som murmuring against the Shipmonâ—…y because the tax is indefinit as also by reason that it is levied upon the Countrey Towns as well as Maritim and for that they say Nâ—… himself cannot shew any record Ther are also divers Patents granted which are mutter'd at as being no better then Monopolies Amongst others a Scotchman got one lately upon the Statute of levying twelve
mutuall repereussions I know you that breath upon the Continent have cleerer ecchoes there witnes that in the Twilleries specially that at Charenton Bridge which quavers and renders the voice ten times when 't is open weather and it were a virtuous curiosity to try it For news the world is heer turn'd upside down and it hath bin long a going so you know a good while since we have had leather Caps and Bever shoos but now the Arms are com to be leggs for Bishops Laun-sleeves are worn for Boot-hose tops the wast is com to the knee for the Points that wer used to be about the middle are now dangling there Boots and Shoos are so long snouted that one can hardly kneel in Gods House where all Genuflexion and Postures of devotion and decency are quite out of use The Devill may walk freely up and down the streets of London now for ther is not a Cross to fright him any where and it seems he was never so busie in any Countrey upon earth for ther have been more witches Arraign'd and Executed heer lately than ever were in this Island since the Creation I have no more to communicate unto you at this time and this is too much unless it were better God Almighty send us patience you in your Banishment me in my Captivity and give us Heaven for our last Countrey wher Desires turn to Fruition Doubts to Certitudes and dark Thoughts to cleer Contemplations Truly my dear Don Antonio as the times are I take little contentment to live among the Elements and wer it my Makers pleasure I could willingly had I quit scores with the World make my last account with Nature and return this small skinfull of Bones to my common Mother If I chance to do so before you I love you so entirely well that my Spirit shall visit you to bring you som tidings from the other World and if you preceed mee I shall expect the like from you which you may do without affrighting mee for I know your Spirit will be a bonus Genius So desiringo know what 's becom of my Manuscript I kiss your hands and rest most passionately Your faithfull Servitor J. H. The Fleet 20 Febr. 1646. III. To Master W. B. SIR I Had yours of the last week and by reason of som sudden encombrances I could not correspond with you by that Carrier As for your desire to know the Pedigree and first rise of those we call Presbyterians I find that your motion hath as much of Piety as Curiosity in it but I must tell you 't is a subject fitter for a Treatise than a Letter yet I will endeavor to satisfie you in som part Touching the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is as ancient as Christianity it self and every Church-man compleated in holy Orders was called Presbyter as being the chiefest name of the Function and so 't is us'd in all Churches both Eastern and Occidentall to this day Wee by contraction call him Priest so that all Bishops and Arch-Bishops are Priests though not vice versa These holy Titles of Bishop and Priest are now grown odious among such poor Sâ—…iolists who scarce know the Hoties of things because they savor of Antiquity Though their Minister that officiats in their Church be the same thing as Priest and their superintendent the same thing as Bishop but because they are lovers of novelties they change old Greek words for new Latine one 's The first broacher of the Presbyterian Religion and made it differ from that of Rome and Luther was Calvin who being once banished Geneva was revok'd at which time he no less petulantly than prophanely applyed to himself that Text of the Holy Prophet which was meant of Christ The Stone which the Builders refused is made the head stone of the corner c. Thus Geneva Lake swallowed up the Episcopall See and Church Lands wer made secular which was the white they levell'd at This Geneva Bird flew thence to France and hatch'd the Huguenoâ—…s which make about the tenth part of that peâ—…ple it took wing also to Bohemia and Germany high and low as the Palatinate the land of Hesse and the Conâ—…ederat Provinceâ—… of the States of Holland whence it took flight to Scotland and England It took first footing in Scotland when King Iames was a child in his Cradle but when he came to understand himself and was manumitted from Buchanan he grew cold in it and being com to England hee utterly disclaim'd it terming it in a public Speech of his to the Parliament a Sect rather than a Religion To this Sect may bee imputed all the scissures that have happen'd in Christianity with most of the Wars that have laceâ—…ated poor Europe ever since and it may be câ—…ll'd the source of the civill distractions that now afflict this poor Island Thus have I endeavoured to fulfâ—…l your desires in part I shall enlarge my self further when I shall be made happy with your conversation heâ—…r till when and always I rest Yours most affectionatly to love and serve you J. H. From the Fleet this 29 of Novem. 1647. IV. To Sir J. S. Knight at Rouer SIR OF all the blessings that ever dropt down from Heaven upon Man that of his Redemption may be call'd the Blessing-paramount And of all those comforts and exercises of devotion which attend that blessing the Eucharist or holy Sacrament may claim the prime place but as ther is Devotion so ther is Danger in 't and that in the highest degree 't is rank poison to som though a most soveraign cordiall to others ad modum recipientis as the Schoolmen say whether they take panem Dominum as the Roman Catholic or panem Domini as the Reformed Churches The Bee and the Spider suck honey and poison out of one Flower This Sir you have divinely express'd in the Poem you pleas'd to send me upon this subject and wheras you seem to wooe my Muse to such a task somthing you may see she hath don in pure obedience only to your commands Vpon the Holy Sacrament 1. Hail Holy Sacrament The Worlds great Wonderment Mysterious Banquet much more rare Than Manna or the Angels fare Each crumm though Sinners on Thee feed Doth Cleopatra's Perl exceed Oh how my soul doth hunger thirst and pine After these Cates so precious so divine 2. Shee need not bring her stool As sone unbidden fool The Master of this heavenly Feast Invites and woos her for his Guest Though deaf and lame forlorn and blind Yet welcom heer shee 's sure to find So that she bring a Vestment for the day And her old tatterd rags throw quite away 3. This is Bethsaida's Pool That can both clense and cool Poor leprous and dâ—…seased souls An Angel heer keeps and coâ—…trouls Descending gently from the Heavens above To stir the Waters may He also move My mind and rockie heart so strike and rend That tears may thence gush out with them to blend This Morning
is dead who was the chiefest Oracle of that Country yet though the light of the Gospell chas'd away those great Owls ther be som Bats and little night birds that fly still abroad I mean petty spirits that by secret pactions which are made alwaies without witnes enable men and women to do evill In such compacts beyond the seas the party must first renounce Christ and the extended woman meaning the blessed Virgin he must contemn the Sacraments tread on the cross spit at the host c. Ther is a famous story of such a paction which Fryer Louis made som half a hundred yeers ago with the Devill in Marseilles who appear'd to him in shape of a Goat and promis'd him the enjoyment of any woman whom he fancied with other pleasures for 41. yeers but the Devill being too cunning for him put the figure of I before and made it 14 yeers in the contract which is to be seen to this day with the Devills claw to it at which time the Fryer was detected for Witchcraft and burnt and all those children whom he had christned during that term of 14 yeers were rebaptized and the Gentlewomen whom he had abus'd put themselves into a Nunnery by themselves Heerunto may be added the great rich Widdow that was burn'd in Lions because 't was prov'd the Devill had lain with her as also the history of Lieutenant Iaquette which stands upon record with the former but if I should insert them heer at large it would make this letter swell too much But we need not cross the sea for examples of this kind we have too too many God wot at home King Iames a great while was loth to beleeve ther were Witches but that which happend to my Lord Francis of Rutlands children convinc'd him who were bewitch'd by an old woman that was servant at Belvoir Castle but being displeas'd she contracted with the Devill who convers'd with her in form of a cat whom she call'd Rutterken to make away those children out of meer malignity and thirst of revenge But since the beginning of these unnaturall Wars ther may be a clowd of witnesses produc'd for the proof of this black tenet for within the compas of two yeers neer upon three hundred Witches were arraign'd and the major part executed in Essex and Suffolk only Scotland swarmes with them now more than ever and persons of good quality executed daily Thus sir have I huddled together a few arguments touching this subject because in my last communication with you me thought I found you somwhat unsatisfied and staggering in your opinion touching the affirmative part of this thesis the discussing wherof is far fitter for an elaborat large treatise than a loose letter Touching the new Common-wealth you intend to establish now that you have assign'd me my part among so many choice legislators somthing I shall do to comply with your desires which shall be alwaies to me as comands and your comands as lawes because I love and honoâ—…r you in a very high degree for those gallant free-born thoughts and sundry parts of virtu which I have dis cern'd in you which makes me entitle my self Fleet this 20 of Febr. 1647. Your most humble and affectionat faithfull Servant J. H. XXIV To Sir William Boswell at the Hague SIR THat black tragedy which was lately acted heer as it hath fill'd most hearts among us with consternation and horror so 〈◊〉 believe it hath bin no less resented abroad For my own particular the more I ruminat upon it the more it astonisheth my imagination and shaketh all the cells of my brain so that somtimes I struggle with my faith and have much adoe to believe it yet I shal give over wondring at thing any heerafter nothing shall seem strange unto me only I will attend with patience how England will thrive now that she is let bloud in the basilicall veine and cur'd as they say of the Kings Evill I had one of yours by Mr. Iacob Bâ—…eue and I much thank you for the account you please to give me of what I sent you by his conveyance Holland may now be proud for ther is a younger Common-wealth in Christendom than her self No more now but that I alwaies rest Sir Your most humble Servitor J. H. Fleet 20 of Mar. 1648. XXV To Mr. W. B. at Grundsburgh SIR NEver credit me if Liberty it self be as dear to me as your Letters they com so full of choice and learned applications with such free unforc'd strains of ingenuity insomuch that when I peruse them me thinks they cast such a kind of fragrancy that I cannot more aptly compare them than to the flowers which are now in their prime season viz. to Roses in Iune I had two of them lately which me thought were like quivers full of barb'd arrowes pointed with gold that penetrated my breast Tali quis nollet ab ictu Ridendo tremulas mortis non ire sub umbras Your expressions were like those Mucrones and Melliti globuli which you so ingenuously apply mine unto but these arrowes of yours though they have hit me they have not hurt me they had no killing quality but they were rather as so many cordialls for you know gold is restorative I am suddenly surpriz'd by an inexpected occasion therfore I must abruply break off with you for this time I will only add my most dear Nephew that I rest Iune the 3. 1648. Yours entirely to love and serve you J. H. XXVI To R. K. Esquire at St. Giles SIR DIfference in opinion no more than a differing complexion can be cause enough for me to hate any A differing fancy is no more to me than a diffring face If another hath a fair countenance though mine be black or if I have a fair opinion though another have a hard favourd one yet it shall not break that common league of humanity which should be betwixt rational creatures provided he corresponds with me in the generall offices of morality and civill uprightnes this may admit him to my acquaintance and conversation though I never concur with him in opinion He beares the Image of Adam and the Image of the Allmighty as well as I He had God for his Father though he hath not the same Church for his Mother The omniscient Câ—…cator as He is only Kardiognostic so He is the sole Lord of the whole inward man It is he who reignes ore the faculties of the soul and the affections of the heart 'T is He who regulates the will and rectifies all obliquities in the understanding by speciall illuminations and oftentimes reconciles men as opposit in opinion as Meridians and Parallells are in point of extension wherof the one drawes from East to West the other from North to South Som of the Pagan Philosophers specially Themistius who was Praetor of Byzantium maintain'd an opinion that as the pulchritud and preservation of the world consisted in varieties and dissimilitudes as also in Eccentric and contrary
27 Another of the miseries of the time 27 A conjunction 'twixt Spain and France the wholsom'st for Christendom 29 A letter of endearment 30 Of Paul's Church 31 Of translations 33 The English and Italian compar'd 33 Translations like wines taken off the lees and powr'd into botells 33 How the English language grows rich 54 What is chiefely expected from a faithfull Translator 34 Of Prophecies 35 The strange prediction of Nostredamus 35 Som wonderfull Prophecies of the Welsh Bards reflecting upon these times 35 A Prophecie of White-Hall 35 A Prophecie for the soldier 36 Of Witches 36 How perverse men must be used in disputation 37 All nations enacted laws against witchcraft 37 The Act of Parlement in England against Witches 37 The Imperiall law against witches 37 The Judaicall and Roman law against witches 37 Nostredamus his notable prediction reflecting upon England 38 A notable story of Charlemain 38 Saint Austin and Danaeus his opinion of Witches 38 Olaâ—…s Magnus his opinion of King Ericus case that could comand the winds 38 Of the Oracles 38 A memorable story out of Plutarch 38 The oath that witches use to take 39 The famous tale of Frier Louis in France 39 Of Rutterkin the witch that inchanted my Lord of Rutlands children 39 A letter of frendly endearments 41 England cur'd of the Kings evill 40 Of differences in opinion 42 Difference in opinion should not dissolve the bonds of human society 42 One of the speciall priviledges of God Allmighty 42 Themistius his opinion touching the worship of the Creator 43 Of Spirituall pride the greatest engin the devill useth to destroy peeple 43 TEAOâ—… THer are divers other private short leters which may be said to be as small Shallops attending greater Ships therfore they must not be expected to carry so much Ballast And this hath bin the usuall method of Epistolizing amongst the Ancients FINIS To the Intelligent Reader AMongst other reasons which make the English Language of so small extent and put strangers out of conceit to learn it one is That we do not pronounce as we write which proceeds from diuers superfluous Letters that occur in many of our words which adds to â—…e difficulty of the Language Therfore the Author hath taken pains to â—…trench such redundant unnecessary Letters in this Work though the Printer hath not bin so carefull as he should have bin as amongst mulâ—…itudes of other words may appear in these few done some come which though wee to whom the speech is connaturall pronounce as moâ—…syllables yet when strangers com to read them they are apt to make â—…em dissillabls as do-ne so-me co-me therfore such an e is superfluous Moreover those words that have the Latin for their originall the Author prefers that Orthography rather then the French wherby diâ—…ers letters are spar'd as Physic Logic Afric not Physique Logique Afrique favor honor labor not favour honour labour and very many more as also he omits the Dutch k in most words here you â—…all read peeple not pe-ople tresure not treasure toung not ton-gue c. Parlement not Parliament busines witnes sicknes not businesse witnesse sicknesse star war far not starre warre farre â—…nd multitudes of such words wherin the two last Letters may well be â—…ar'd Here you shall also read pity piety witty not piti-e pieti-e â—…itti-e as strangers at first sight pronounce them and abundance of such 〈◊〉 words The new Academy of wits call'd l'Academie de beaux esprits which â—…he late Cardinall de Richelieu founded in Paris is now in hand to â—…form the French Language in this particular and to weed it of all suâ—…erfluous Letters which makes the Toung differ so much from the Pen 〈◊〉 they have expoâ—…'d themselves to this contumelious Proverb The â—…renchman doth neither pronounce as he writes nor speak as he â—…inks nor sing as he pricks Aristotle hath a topic Axiom that Frustra fit per plura quod fiâ—… potest per pauciora When fewer may serve the turn more is in â—…in And as this rule holds in all things els so it may be very well 〈◊〉 in Orthography FINIS Capitoll Liv. Powder-Plot Ital. Spanish French Arthur QuodaÌ„ cum Streptu as Pliny saith a Arhetine id est virtuous Anagram of Henrieta b The Parlement c Hippocrates d King Iames.
protractions and puttings off you need not wonder that private negotiations as mine is should be subject to the same inconveniences Ther shall be no means left unattempted that my best industry can find out to put a period to it and when his Highnesse is gon I hope to find my Lord of Bristoll more at leasure to continue his favour and furtherance which hath been much already So I rest Madrid Aug. 19. 1623. Yours ready to servâ—… you J. H. XXIV To Sir James Crofts SIR THe Prince is now upon his jorney to the Sea side where my Lord of Rutland attends for him with a royall fleet Ther are many here shrink in their shoulders and are very sensible of his departure and the Lady Infanta resents it more than any she hath caus'd a Mass to be sung every day ever since for his good Voyage The Spaniards themselves confess ther was never Princes so bravely wooed The King and his two Brothers accompanied his Highnes to the Escurial some twenty miles off and would have brought him to the Sea side but that the Queen is big and hath not many days to go when the King and he parted there past wonderfull great endearments and embraces in divers postures between them a long time and in that place there is a Pillar to be erected as a Monument to Posterity Ther are some Grandes and Count Gondamar with a great train besides gone with him to the Marine to the Sea side which will be many days journey and must needs put the King of Spain to a mighty expence besides his seven months entertainment here we hear that when he past through Valladolid the Duke of Lerma was retired thence for the time by speciall command from the King left he might have discours with the Prince whom he extremely desir'd to see This sunk deep into the old Duke insomuch that he said that of all the acts of malice which Olivares had ever done him he resented this more than any He bears up yet very well under his Cardinalls habit which hatâ—… kept him from many a foul storm that might have faln upon him els from the temporall power The Duke of Uzeda his son finding himself to decline in favor at Court had retir'd to the Countrey and dyed soon after of discontentment During his sickness the Cardinall writ this short weighty Letter unto him Dizen me que Mareys de necio por mi mas temo mis anos qué mis Eâ—…igos Lerma I shall not need to English it to you who is so great a Master of the Language Since I began this Letter wee understand the Prince is safely embarqu'd but not without som danger of being cast away had not Sir Sackvill Trever taken him up I pray God send him a good voyage and us no ill news from England My most humble service at Tower-hill so I am Madrid Aug. 21. 1623. Your humble Servitor J. H. XXV To my Brother Doctor Howell My Brother SInce our Prince his departure hence the Lady Infanta studieth English apace and one Mr. Wadsworth and Father Boniface two Englishmen are appointed her teachers and have access to her every day We account her as it were our Princess now and as we give so she takes that Title Our Ambassadors my Lord of Bristoll and Sir Walter Astâ—…n will not stand now covered before her when they have audience because they hold her to be their Princess she is preparing divers suits of rich Cloaths for his Highness of persum'd Amber leather some embroder'd with Pearl some with Gold some with Silver her Family is a setling apace and most of her Ladies and Officers are known already we want nothing now but one dispatch more from Rome and then the marriage will be solemnizd and all things consummated yet there is one Mr. Clerk with the lame arm that came hither from the Sea side as soon as the Prince was gon hee is one of the Duke of Buckinghams creatures yet he lies at the Earl of Bristols house which we wonder at considering the darknes that hapned twixt the Duke and the Earl we fear that this Clerk hath brought somthing that may puzzle the busines Besides having occasion to make my address lately to the Venetian Ambassador who is interressed in som part of that great busines for which I am here he told me confidently it would be no match nor did he think it was ever intended But I want faith to believe him yet for I know Saint Mark is no friend to it nor France or any other Prince or State besides the King of Denmarck whose Grandmother was of the house of Austria being sister to Charles the Emperor Touching the busines of the Palatinate our Ambassadors were lately assur'd by Olivares and all the Counsellors here that in this Kings name that he would procure his Majestie of great Britain entire satisfaction herein and Olivares giving them the joy intreated them to assure their King upon their honor and upon their lives of the reality hereof for the Infanta her self said he hath stird in it and makes it now her own busines for it was a firm peace and amity which he confest could never be without the accommodation of things in Germany as much as an alliance which his Catholic Majesty aimd at But wee shall know shortly now what to trust to we shall walk no more in mists though som give out yet that our prince shall embrace a cloud for Iuno at last I pray present my service to Sir Iohn Franklin and Sir Iohn Smith with all at the Hill and Dale and when you send to Wales I pray convey the inclos'd to my Father So my dear brother I pray God bless us both and bring us again joyfully together Madrid Aug. 12. 1623. Your very loving Brother J. H. XXVI To my noble friend Sir John North Knight SIR I Receiv'd lately one of yours but it was of a very old date we have our eyes here now all fixd upon Rome greedily expecting the Ratification and lately a strong rumor ran it was com in so much Mr Clerk who was sent hither from the Prince being a shipboard and now lies sick at my Lord of Bristolls house of a Calenture hearing of it he desired to speak with him for he had somthing to deliver him from the Prince my Lord Ambassador being com to him Mr Clerk delivered a letter from the Prince the contents wherof were that wheras he had left certain Proxies in his hand to be deliverd to the King of Spain after the Ratification was com he desir'd and requir'd him not to do it till he should receive further order from England my Lord of Bristoll hereupon went to Sir Walter Aston who was in joynt Commission with him for concluding the match and shewing him the Letter what my Lord Aston said I know not but my Lord of Bristoll told him that they had a Commission Royall under the broad Seal of England to conclude the match he
motions that as it was replenish'd with such numberles sorts of severall species and that the Individualls of those species differ'd so much one from the other specially Mankind amongst whom one shall hardly find two in ten thousand that have exactly though twins the same tone of voice similitude of face or idaeas of mind Therfore the God of Nature ordain'd from the beginning that he should be worship'd in various and sundry forms of adorations which neretheles like so many lines should tend all to the same centre But Christian Religion prescribes another Rule viz. that ther is but 〈◊〉 via una veritas ther is but one tru way to Heaven and that â—…ta narrow one wheras ther be huge large roads that lead to â—…ell God Allmighty guid us in the first and guard us from the seâ—…d as also from all cross and uncouth by-paths which use to â—…ead such giddy brains that follow them to a confus'd laberinth of â—…rors where being intangled the Devill as they stand gaping 〈◊〉 new lights to lead them out takes his advantage to seize on â—…em for their spirituall pride and insâ—…briety in the search of more â—…owledge 28. Iuly 1648. Your most faithfull Servant J. H. Ut clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus Clauditur Haec cerâ clauditur Illa serâ As Keys do open chests So Letters open brests AN Index of the principall matters contained in this Second Tome of FAMILIAR LETTERS ENcouragements to hasten a busines 1 A strange disparity 'twixt a married couple 2 The power of the pen. 2 â—…dvice against detraction 2 â—…f the generall infirmities of men 3 â—…f naturall corruption 4 â—…f the passions of Love and the humor of Women 5 â—…f a clash that happen'd 'twixt Leo the tenth and the French King and their witty answers and replies 6 â—…he saying of Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln touching the Pope 6 â—…dvice to silence 7 â—… Letter of thanks and for forgiving injuries 8 â—…f Religion in generall 9 â—…f the Religion of the Jewes and their sevâ—… all Sects 10 Of Christianity and the difficulties that attend it 1â—… England one of the first Christian Countries 1â—… The cause of the first division 'twixt the Eastern anâ—… Western Churches 1â—… Of the Eastern Church 1â—… The extent of Christianity 1â—… The lamentable decay of Christianity in Afric 1â—… Of Mahometism with the beginning and policy therof 15 The reverend opinion the Turks have of Christ and thâ—… Virgin Mary 16 The vast extent of Mahometism 17 The concurrence of the Jew with the Christian anâ—… Jew 1â—… Of the Pagans or Heathens Religion and their extent 19 The best sort of Pagans 20 The degrees how Phylosophy did propagate it selfe 2â—… A comparison in point of extent 'twixt all Religions 23 Som advices for a young traveller Of vaine gloâ—…y 2â—… Of the Arrogance of the Romanes 2â—… Advice to a young soldier 26 The fable of fire water and fame 26 A letter of advice to give over a businesse 2â—… Of Secretary Walsingham and Secretary Cecill 2â—… A rare comparison of Charles the Emperor 3â—… The Mulberry a pattern of wisdom 3â—… Of the falling off of Catalonia and Portugall from thâ—… King of Spain 3â—… Of extravagant humors 3â—… A letter of reprehension for silence 33 Of the virtu of letters 33 Advice to be carefull in epistolizing 34 An amorous Poem 35 A letter of gratitude 36 An apologie for women and of their virtues and vices 37 Of the mode of entertainment 38 An apologie for not answering a letter 39 A facetious tale of a Neapolitan 39 Of a monstrous new Island sprung up in the Atlantic sea 39 Of the fearfull earthquakes in Italy 39 Of Genâ—…a Venice c. 40 A letter of love 41 Of Grunnius Sophista's last will 42 Of melancholy 44 A facetious tale of a Porter 45 A letter of frendly respects 46 The difference twixt prosperity and adversity 47 A letter of recommendation for a servant 48 What a supernumerary servant is like to 48 Advice to forren travell 49 Of partiality of newes 50 Of the abuse of a great picture taken at Arundell 51 An Epitaph upon the Author 52 An encouragement to an Vniversity scholar 53 Of crosses and troubles 54 Of chymicall knowledg 55 Of Dunkirk and the taking of it 37 The Turks prayer 57 Of the Peace 'twixt Spain and Holland 58 A letter of condolement and mortality 58 The Authors apologie for himself 59 A letter of frendly reprehension for neglect 60 Of Qu. Elizabeths virtues and vices 61 The French Satyr of her 62 Of the exorbitant liberty of Printing 62 For the speeding of a letter 63 Of post Pidgeons 63 Privat contemplations of the Author upon divers objects 64 A remedy against melancholy 66 A letter of complement to a Lady 66 A Hymn to the Trinity 67 Saint Austins notable wish couch'd in verse 68 Of the fear and love of God 68 Of wines in generall 71 Of Ale Beer and all sorts of beverages drunk in the known world 70 Of the Wines of Spain Italy France and Germany 74 Of the Nile water 73 Of Metheglin Meath and Braggot Sider and Perry 74 How the Germans drink healths 77 The difference 'twixt the Greek and German in drinking 77 A strange tale of som Dutch drunkards 77 Of toungs in generall 78 Of the British toung and her dialects 78 The Irish a dialect of the Welsh 78 Welsh words found in America 79 The ground of the appellation of Englishmen 79 Fox his gross error at the beginning of the book of Martyrs 79 When the English toung took footing in Scotland 80 Of the German Toung and the extent of it 80 Som Persian words consignificant with the Dutch 81 Of the Slavonic Language her Dialects and vast extent of it 81 Above all other Languages the Slavonic hath two Characters 81 A Charter of Alexander the Great yet extant upon the walls of a Church in Prague 82 Of the Greek Toung her growth and Progress 82 The pittifull decay of the Greek Toung 83 How strangely the Greeks are degenerated above all other nations 84 The ancient monstrous extent of the Greek Toung 84 Of the Latine Toung and her degrees of Perfection 85 The Greek always more esteem'd than Latine in the East and West 86 How the Latine did refine her self 86 Of the sundry Barbarous peeple that invaded Italy 87 Of the Italian Spanish and French Languages 88 Of the Arcadians 89 Where to find the tru ancient Speech of any Countrey 89 Of the mother Toung of Europe 91 A Philosophicall reason of the diversity of Toungs 92 Of the vast extent of the Arabian Toung 93 Of the Hebrew 93 Languages subject to corruption and change as other things 93 Of Sir Walter Rawleigh's Voyage to Guiana and a judgment upon 't 94 Of the Excise 100 A facetious Tale of the Earl of Kildare 100 Of my Lord Carleton 100 A facetious Tale of a Spanish Soldier 101 Frendly wishes 101 A comparison 'twixt the case