should return to our Royall Soveraign without some Testimony of their respects to your self They have therefore ordered and appointed that 500 l. shall be delivered unto you to buy a Jewell as a Badge of that Honour which is due to a person whom the King hath Honoured to be the messenger of so Gracious a Message and I am commanded in the name of the House to return you their very hearty thanks And as at land such was the affections of the Seamen where Generall Mountague having received two Letters the one from His Ma esty the other from the most Illustrious Duke of Yorke as also those others sent to the House of Commons and his Excellency together with His Majesties Gracious Declaration he immediately caused a great gun to be shot off the usuall summons to call his Officers together who coming aboard he communicated His Majesties Letters unto them which being read with anunamimous consent they declared themselves for His Majesty professing their exact Loyalty to live and die in his defence deâ—â—ring the Generalls of the Fleet humbly to present the lame to His Majesty But no sooner did the under Sea-men hear thereof but their over-joy'd hearts burst forth into loud acclamations of joy this news was more welcome to them then had they taken the wealth of the West Indies for prize And now to expresse their Loyalty the Generall himself fired a great Gun crying God blesse His Majesty Then might you see the Fleet in her pride with Pendants loose Guns roaring Caps flying and loud Vive le Roys ecchoed from one ships Company to another which were answered with the great Guns from Deal and Sandwich Castles The Noble Generall gave two pipes of Canary to the Commanders and Gentlemen in his ship And as at sea so in Ireland was seen the same complyance for the Convention there hearing what was done in England send a Declaration hither wherein they first expresse their disclaime of the sinfull and exemplary force put upon the House iâ— 1648. and whereas also the said persons did presume to erect a high Court of Justice and by an ugly and execrable sentence condemn the King to death they do declare their detestation of the fact and protest against those inhuman unparallell'd and barbaâ—ous actions as being the foulest and highest assassination that ever prot hane or sacred History ever recorded May the 8. 1660. His Majesty was solemnly Proclaimed by the Loâ—ds and Commons the Lord Mayor c. in the Cities of London and Westminster with an universall testification of Loyalty from all degrees of people The manner whereof being so remarkable each â—erson in his proper Sphear contending to out-vy each other in expressions of obedience to His Sacred Majesty take as followeth Between one and two of the Clock the Lords met in the Painted Chamber where they continued till they were placed in order the Earl of Manchester Speaker first then the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Oxford c. Thus they walked all along with the Heralds before them through the Court of Requests and Westminster-Hall to the Pallace where they staid befoâ—e the Hall gate whither also presently after came the House of Commons Being placed in order both Lords and Coâ—mons stood bare whilest Mr. Bish dictated and Mr. Râ—ley king at Armes with a loud voice Proclaimed Charles the second in these words The Proclamation Although it can no may be doubted but that His Majesties Right and Title to His Crown and Kingâ—omes is and was eâ—ery way compleated by the death of his most Royall father of glorious memory without the Ceremony or solemnity of a Proclamation yet since Proclamations in such cases have been always used to the end that all good subjects might upon this occasion testify their duty and respect And since the armed violence and other the Calamities of many years last past have hitherto deprived us of any such opportunity whereby we might express our Loyalty and allegiance to His Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London and other freemen of this kingdome now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unaminously acknowledge and proclaime That immediately upon the decease of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Imperial Crown of the Realme of England and of all the Kingdomes Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth right and lawfull undoubted succession descend and come to His most Excellent Majesty Charles the second as being lineally justly and lawfully next Heir of the Bloud Royal of this Realme and that by the goodness and providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent mighty and undoubted King And thereunto we most Humbly and Faithfully do submit and obliege our selves our Heires and Posterity for ever God save the King The Proclamation being ended the Lords and Commons took their Coaches proceeding to the further solemnity of proclaiming His Sacred Majesty as followeth First the Head Bayliffe of Westminster and his Servants riding with White staves to prepare the way then followed a gallant Troop of Officers of the Army and other Gentlemen with Trumpets before them then the Life-guard very stately mounted and richly clothed after them a Class of six Trumpets and three Heralds then a Herald between the Serjeant to the Commons and the Mace of the Council next Mr. Ryley king at Armes in his rich coat of the Kings Armes between Serjeant Norfolk and Serjeant Middleton after whom came the Usher of the Black Rod and Mr. Bish together These ushering the way in the next place came the Earl of Manchester Speaker to the House of Lords in his Coach and six Horses then the Speaker of the House of Commons in his then his Excellency the Lord Generall in his after which followed both Houses of Lords and Commons in their Coaches and last of all a Troop of Horse In this manner they came to White-hall where they Proclaim'd His Majesty a second time and then in like order proceeded Being come to Arundell-House they made a stand where Mr. Ryley king at Armes taking one of the Heralds and six Trumpets with him advanced forward toward Temple-Bar which according tâ— agreement being shut he came to the gate knocked â—nd demanded entrance being asked who it was that knocked he replyed that if my Lord Mayor would come to the gate he would deliver his Message to him who accordingly coming the Trumpets sounded after which silence being made it was demanded of the king of Armes Who he was and what was his message to which he answered We are the Heralds at Armes Appointed and Commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled to demand entrance into the famous City of London to proclaime Charles the second King of England Scotland and Ireland and we expect your speedy answer to this demand to this they answered
death of King Charles the First to the re-establishment of His Son King Charles the Second wherein the Reader may see in the fall of the House of Cromwells that Greatnesse built upon perjury is of short continuance and that what ever aspiring Phaetons pretend None but Apollo is able to guide the Chariot of the Sun Charles the First of Glorious Memory being by a part of the Parliament who had usurped to themselves the power of the whole or more sentenced to death by the mouth of that audacious Traytor Bradshaw was the 30. of January 1648. in pursuance of their designes most execrably murthered before His Pallace at White-Hall by severing His head from His body A Prince whose vertues far exceeded any Eulogy we can bestow upon Him His own pencill best pourtraies Him the greatness of His worth being best expressed in the many miseries sustained by His losse But the end of their malice rested not here it reached also to His posterity whom by Proclamation they deprive of all Right in the Government of these three Kingdomes and vote the Kingly Office quite down contrary both to the Word of God and the Fundamental Laws of the Nation Yet though they cast a fair glosse on the matter every ones Comment did not agree with their Text and first Ireland saving onely Dublin and London Derry shew their dislike by revolt for the Marquesse of Ormond and the Lord Inchiquine having made a peace with the Quondam Rebels with a joynt consent Proclaime His Eldest Son King by the name of Charles the second solemnly inviting Him to come over to them being then in France with His Mother But the King though against the advice of His Mother as plausibly as he might waves this invitation because he was unwilling to distaste His better friends in England and Scotland by seeming to countenance those with His presence whom they suppos'd he had already too much countenanced with His commission And indeed it fell out much for the best considering the sudden ill successe of His friends there For their numerous Army amounting to no lesse then twenty two thousand men with which they were then beleaguering Dublin either by the carelesness of the Commanders or security of the Souldiers was beat from before it by the besieged and utterly routed by the third part of their number Soon after Cromwell also arrived there with an Army sent out of England to perfect their work of deformation who soon made the Conquest compleat putting many of the Irish to death especially at Tredagh where he continued Killing in cold blood for four days together pretending they were Rebels quite forgetting what himself and his masters were In the year 1649. a part of the Army falsly and undeservedly by Cromwell and his Faction called Levellers make a defection from the rest for they observing the exorbitant Counsels of Cromwell and his Council of State were resolved not to be instruments of bâ—inging the kingdome into further slavery but rather to assert their own and the Nations liberty and it is thought to joyn with the King whom they had fought against rather then lose their enterprise Whether such were their intentions or no I shall not debate but sure it is that those differences did not make ill for the Royall party who seeing the opportunity were not idle so that in a short time their designes were render'd so probable that His Majesty was resolved to transport himself into Jersey then in the safe hands of the Earl of Yarmouth to attend the success Whence if occasion serv'd he might with more ease waft himself into the West of England which part it is said that upon notice of the Southern disorders he was to have fallen While His Majesty stayd in Gersey he summons Guernsey but in vain and because that seemed not to be misfortune enough he received the news of the Levellers being utterly quell'd through the treachery of Aeres and Reynolds for which piece of service Cromwell was not ungratefull the forces of Cromwell falling upon them while they were in treatie suspecting nothing lâ—ss then force of Armes Upon this the King retired again into France though he were the sooner forc'd to doe it because he had certain intelligence that the Enemy was sending a fleet of ships to take from him that small remnant of His large dominions that yet remain'd unreduced But from Scotland far greater dangers threatned the Parliamentary Juncto for though the Scots had sold their King before yet feigning an abhorrency of the English proceedings and that the world might take notice they were innocent of His murther they likewise Proclaime Prince Charles King of Great Brittain France and Ireland and thereupon send Mr. Windram Laird of Libberton to treat with His Majesty about sundry articles before His reception to the Crown who having received his dispatches hasts unto Him being then in the Isle of Jersey The summe of their desires was to this effect 1. That His Majesty would graciously be pleased himself to signe the solemne League and Covenant and that he would passe an Act in Part that every person in that kingdome might take it 2. That He would passe divers Acts of the Parliament of Scotland which was concluded on the two last Sessions 1. For approving of their disclaiming Duke Hamiltons last return for receiving severall Acts made by the English for the Militia 2. That the Kings of Scotland may have no Negative voice 3 That His Majesty would recall the late Commissions given to Montrosse 4. That He would put away all Papists from about Him 5. That He would appoint some place about Holland to treate with their Commissioners An Honorable company of the most noble Lords in Scotland being to be appointed to attend His Majesty to whom likewise they send a sufficient provision to maintain Him a traine suitable to His birth and deserved greatnesse 6. That He would be graciously pleased to give a speedy answer to their desires By these proâ—ositions the Reader may perceive that notwithstanding their pretensions they intended Him a King onely conditionally and indeed those bitter pills they afterwards made him swallow may give the world just cause to think that their self ends bore greater sway with them then Love and Loyalty to His Majesty However nowithstanding the Lord Cleaveland and others alledged their Treachery unto His Father that they were Scots still and might doe the same unto Him That the Marquesse of Montrosse who had lately received Commissions to assault the North of Scotland was raising forces in Holland of whose valour and fidelity he need not to doubt of the Majority of voices carrying it for a Treaty it was resolved on and this answer returned to their Propositions That as to what was acted in the two last Sessions of Parliament He was content a generall Act of Oblivion should be passed but could not approve it That neither those of Montrosses nor Duke Hamiltons party in his last engagement should bear Office
Waller Mr. Meir Col. Waite Col. Temple Tichborn Fleetwood Col. John Temple and some few others Nor could His Majesty want employment having enough to doe to receive all these addresses which were made to him from all the Shires and Towns of England which though they throng'd in so fast yet His Majesty was still ready to entertain them with so much grace and favour that he gave satisfaction to all Nor was this joy confin'd within the limits of England other Countries partaking thereof and making themselves concern'd in our great alterations particularly at Heidelburgh Frankendale Wormes and Herldbron in all which places was a day of publick prayers and thanksgiving for the restoration of His Sacred Majesty of Great Brittain The King of Portugall also when he heard the news thereof presently gave order that the same night all the great guns of the Castle and Forts of the Town and Harbour should be fired The whole City was adorn'd with lights and in every window of the Kings Palace were set two great Torches of white wax besides Bonfires and Fireworks in the streets the King and Queen next morning with the Infanta and Nobility went forth in solemn manner to the Church of St. Anthony's of the Capuchins all the bells in the Town ringing the while By which it was plainlyseen with what reall joy and satisfaction the people of this Court and Nation receiv'd the welcome tydings of so happy a change And now we are beyond sea it may not be from the purpose to relate something of the great Marriage between the King of France and the Infanta of Spaine which happened much about this time especially the King of France being a Prince so nearly related to the Crown of England The King of Spaine being now after a tedious journey arrived at Fintarabia the Ceremonies of the Marriage being the same with the Ceremonies of ordinary marriages but more pompous were celebrated and performed by the Bishop of Pamplona with the assistance of the Patriarch of the Indies in the Church of said Town Before the performance the Infanta kneel'd twice before the King her Father first to ask him blessing and secondly before she gave her consent to the Marriage The Ceremony being ended the King of Spaine gave her all the respect due to so great a Queen giving her the right hand both in his going out of the Church and as they rode together in the Coach He likewise gave her his own lodgings and took hers where though she had not been seen before she then did ride in publick within a day or two after the two Kings had an interview where both Kings were uncovered that the grandees of Spaine might not take an occasion to be cover'd Then the King of Spaine having deliver'd his daughter into the hands of the King of France the Queen Mother took her away in her Coach which done the two Kings parted with all demonstration of amity and affection Afterwards the young Queen was presented with severall presents from her Father and Monsieur the Kings Brother and Cardinall which were so rich and so magnificent that never were more Royall presents seen In the mean time the Parliament to shew the value of that pardon from the benefit of which they were excepting so many persons came to His Majesty and in the name of themselves and the Commons of England laid hold on His Majesties gracious pardon mentioned in his Declaration from Breda wherefore on Munday being the 25. of June His Majesty publish'd a Proclamation in pursuance of his former Declaration declaring that His Majesty did graciously accept of the address of the House of Commons After this the House proceed upon the Act of Indempnity and having resolved that those persons before mentioned should be excepted from life they agree upon 20. more which though yet excluded from death should suffer all penalties and forfeitures excepting life concerning which business after they had had many debates they conclude at last upon these persons following William Lenthall Sir Hen. Vane Sir Arthur Haslerig Col. Sydenham Col. Disborough Ald. Ireton Col. Axtell Mr. Keeble Capt. Blackwell Major Creed Charles Fleetwood Alderman Pack Col. Pine Col. Cobbet Capt. Dean Oliver St. John Will. Nye Ministers John Goodwin Ministers But as the King saw them quick in their justice so he thought them too slow in their mercy and therefore having often press'd them to perfect the Act of Indempnity and nothing yet finish'd he goes himself to the House to hasten them telling them with what impatience he did expect that Act to be presented to him for his assent as the most reasonable and solid foundation of peace and security That he thought the House of Commons too long about it thanking God that he had the same intentions and resolutions which he had at Breda and then reading what he had then writ to them he added afterwards that if they did not then joyn with him in extinguishing the fear which keeps the hearts of men awake and apprehensive of safety and security they would keep him from performing his promise He then thank'd them for their justice to those who had been the immediate murderers of his Father and assured them he never thought of excepting any other and at length conjur'd them that setting all animosities aside to pass that Act without further delay His Majesty having thus put them in mind of their clemency was not forgetfull himself of that gratitude which he thought due to those who had serv'd him with a meritorious loyalty and there casting an eye of grace upon his Excellency the Lord Generall Monck for his faithfull service he was graciously pleas'd to create him Duke of Albemarly Earl of Finington Baron of Potheridge Beaucham and Teyes Captain Generall and Commander in chief of all His Majesties forces both in England Scotland and Ireland Master of His Majesties Horse Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of His Majesties most honourable privy Councill Whereupon accompanied with the Duke of Buckingham and other personages of high quality he took his leave of the House of Commons and went to take his place in the House of Peers Gen. Mountague also created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchimbrook Baron of St. Needs Master of the Wardrobe one of the Commanders of the treasurie and Knight of the Garter not long after took his place in the House of Peers Sir John Greenvile who adventur'd first to bring His Majesties Letters over to the Houses and the Lord Generall His Majesty was pleas'd to create Earl of Bath Nor was His Majesty unmindfull of Col. Carles to whom with a small alteration of his name he gave a new coat of Armes which will always be a significant record of that service wherein his Loyalty was so usefull Nor did the Penderils His Majesties faithfull servants in his shelter at Boscobel goe unrewarded of one of whom named William it is reported that being in the Park of St. James's and
Englands Triumph A MORE EXACT HISTORY OF HIS Majesties Escape After the Battle of WORCESTER WITH A Chronologicall Discourse of His Straits and dangerous Adventures into France and His Removes from place to place till His return into England with the most Remarkable Memorials since to this present SEPTEMBER 1660. LONDON Printed by J.G. for NATHANIEL BROOK and are to be sold at the Angel in Cornhill 1660. THE PREFACE BY WAY OF ARGUMENT NEver did any age in this Nation most especially of all the rest of the Christian world afford more matter for a full and copious History then these 12. last years have done wherein after a Mysterious war waged for and against the King if we look at what was pretended and what was acted the after game was playd by a party not the same with those who at first undertook the businesse for the servants taking it out of the hands of those that hir'd them and set them on work and drawing it on to a far higher pitch of violence then was at first intended brought their King a most Noble and Pious Prince to an untimely death and utterly rejecting and proscribing all the Royall race subverted the ancient government of the Nation and chang'd it into a kind of a Free-State as they call'd it or Common-wealth during which the most remarkable affair that happened was a war with the Dutch and that carried on with no bad success but not many years did this form of government hold for Oliver Cromwell Generall of this new States army having subdued the Scotch Nation and by too unequall strength of arms forced the then heir apparent to the Crown His Now gracious Majesty who came with arms after all fair means used in vain to assert his just claim to quit the Kingdome violently usurped the supream authority into his own hands which having kept with much adoe by a high hand for his own life time he also us'd such means at his death that he procured to have the chief Magistracy of the three Nations transferr'd to his Eldest Son Richard which he held for a little while till the Souldiery wanting other action to divert them or an Oliver to keep them under took an occasion to mutinie and making use of Protector Richards authority to dissolve the Parliament he had called lay'd him aside and invited in again the remnant of the long Parliament which Oliver Cromwell had some years since dissolved to make way for his own advancement to the Supreame Authority The Common wealth interest thus restor'd there seem'd now no other hopes but a Free-State must seize us without any redresse yet neither had this convention sate many months ere Lambert spirited with his success against Sir George Booth who rose in Cheshire for a Free-Parliament and thinking to have traced Olivers steps he took the same course with the Members at Westminster as he had done before that is he turn'd them out of doors and while he March'd into the North against Generall Monck who had declar'd against these proceedings he left affaires to be manag'd by the Council of Officers at Wallingford-house these sitting upon a Modell of Government at length there was fram'd a thing called a Committee of Safety which taking upon it the government of the Nation brought in a great disorder and confusion upon the face of affairs till by a strange turn of fortune all the Army on a suddain deserting Lambert and his party being inveigled thereunto by the policy of some of the late dissolved Members way is made hereby to the admiration of all men for the re-entry of our little Parliament which growing still more and more odious to the people came at length to be generally stiled in derision The Rump Immediately after which Generall Monck hastens out of Scotland with his Army toward London to make room for whose entrance the old Army is order'd to march out and dispers'd into severall quarters the City manifesting discontent and disowning the present authority Monck is commanded to pull down the City gates which he unwillingly performs but at the same time his commission being out and commissioners appointed for the government of the Army and Monck nominated the last he closeth with the City and after a while causeth the old Members who had been secluded by the Army in 1648. to be re-admitted to their seats in Parliament yet limits them to sit onely for a short time and to make preparations for the calling of a Free-Parliament no sooner is this Parliament assembled but they receive a Declaration from His present Majesty King Charles the second which unanimously they own publickly Proclaime Him King and invite Him to a speedy return and exercise of His Royal trust The King immediately comes over is receiv'd with incredible joy and brought in great glory and triumph to His Palace at Whitehall and long may He there raign with peace and tranquility to the Nation and thus you have a brief analysis of all the grand and remarkable revolutions of this Nation in this strange and capricious age which are more at large though with brevity enough deliver'd in this present History and although there are already made publick severall relations of the same nature yet neverthelesse we could not reasonably be discouraged from committing this History to the Press in regard we have a just confidence to promise a more exact and punctuall account in all the most remarkable passages then is to be found in any of the rest as namely for the manner of His Majesties escape from Worcester his transactions during his abode in severall parts beyond the seas his joyfull reception into England and his magnificent entry into his famous City of London with all the materiall passages that have happened since His Majesties restoration to his government And furthermore our chiefest aime in this History is to lay a foundation for the continuing from time to time the relation of all materiall passages that shall happen in this Kingdome for the future which of how generall a concernment it is cannot but be apparent to those who diligently inquire into the advancement of the publick good ENGLAND'S TRIUMPH A MORE EXACT HISTORY OF KING CHARLES the II. AS to the writing the affaires of these late times an Historian never met with more varietie of subjects so for the right understanding and delivery of those events he will find it a matter of much difficulty such strange changes and mutabilities of State of which no other Country can shew a parallel nor England it self produce a president A well ordered Monarchy turned into a confused Anarchy Religion hewed down by the axe of Schisme most horrid villanies acted under Religious pretences Having not onely Priests as in the time of Jeroboam but Princes also of the lowest of the people Wat Tylers Jack a Leydons and Knipper dollings as may appear by their usurping governments which I shall endeavour to deliver unto you in the transactions of England from the
in two yeares That Sir Mich. Livesey Mr. Walton Harrison Whalley Lisle Say Scroop Okey Huson Goff Berkstead Holland Ludlow Tho Chaloner Carew Jo Jones Corbet Smith Clement Scot Cawley Love Dixewell Blagrave Cooke Broughton Dendi Hewlett Peters Hacker and Axtell Sir Hardresse Waller Mr. Row Garland Harvey Smith Martin Titchburn G. Fleetwood J. Temple P. Temple Waite Mayne Heveningham Pennigton Lilburn Millington Potter Wogan and Downs and the two persons that were disguis'd upon the Scaffold when the horrible Murder of His late Majesty waâ— committed shall be wholly excluded from pardon and in case any of them shall be attainted and convicted that execution shall be delay'd in regard of the said Sir Hardresse Waller and the 18. nominated after him till new orders from His Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament That O. Cromwel H. Ireton J. Bradshaw and Tho Pride deceased shall be also excluded from this pardon and their goods and the Goods of Sir John Danvers Tho Maleverer Sir Will. Constable G. Norton Sir John Bourchier deceased and the goods of I. Eure G. Purefoy J. Blackeston R. Deane F. Alleyne P. Pelham John Moor J. Allured H. Edwards J. Venn T. Andrews A. Stapeley T. Norton J. Foy and T. Hammon shall be under such sequestrations as the Parliament shall order That Mr. F. Lastells shall pay a yeares Revenue of his Estate and be incapable of bearing any publick Office as also Sir John Hutchinson That Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. W. Lenthall G. Burton O. St. John J. Ireton W. Sydenham J. Desbrough J. Blackwell C. Pack R. Keeble C. Fleetwood J. Pine R. Deane R. Creed P. Nye J. Goodwin J. Lister and R. Cobett shall be uncapable of any publick Office and they do except them they shall lose the benefit of this present act That Lambert and Vane shall be wholly fore priz'd out of the said act That all persons sitting in illegall high Courts of Justice and that gave sentence against His Majesty shall be uncapable of bearing any publick Office except Col. Ingolsby and Col. Tomlinson That Sir Arthur Haslerig shall not be excepted for life That the Kings Queens and Bishops Lands shall be restored Some few dayes after the comming forth of this Act Hugh Peters a most notorious incendiary and of most mischievous principles was taken lurking in Southwark His appreheâ—sion is the more considerable in regard of his intimate acquaintance with Cromwells designes who is thought employ'd him in the detestable butchery of His late Majesty or if not him some other whose name and person he is able to discover As to forraign affaires relating unto this Kingdom there was not much which happen'd remarkable onely the comming of Embassadors from several parts as from Holland Denmarke France and Spaine who were sent by their several Princes to congratulate the return of His Majesty into England though there was nothing so pleasing to the Merchant as the Peace like to be with Spaine in regard that the Protectors Warre with that Nation being ill-manag'd had prov'd very fatal to them and therefore they were not a little joyfull to think they should recover their former losses by a new Peace which we must now believe cannot be long unconcluded in regard that about the beginning of this moneth a cessation of Armes between both Kingdoms was publickly Proclaimed in London to the great content of the whole Nation who before these Warres were no small gainers by their Peace with that Country Thus have I given the Reader a brief draught of the series of our affaires from the murder of Charles the first to this present time wherein may be seen how the Nation has been ridden these dozen years at switch and spur in a Common-wealth saddle I shall summe up all in a brief Character of His most Sacred Majesty though what I shall say herein will come as far short of his admirable Endowments as the Light of a Candle to that of the Sun He is of stature somewhat tall yet so exactly formed that the most Curious Eye cannot find one Error in his shape his face is rather grave then severe which is very much softned whensoever he speaks His complexion is somewhat dark but much Enlightned by his Eyes which are quick and sparkling his hair which he hath in great plenty is of a shining black not frizled but naturally curling into great Rings that it is a very comely Ornament for his acquired Endowments he understands Spanish and Italian speakes and writes French correctly he is very well versed in Ancient and Modern history hath read divers choice pieces of politicks studied some usefull parts of the Mathematicks as Fortification and the Knowledge of the Globe he is well skilled in Navigation in bâ—ief he is a true friend to Literature and to Learned men During his expulsion he hath Travelled through and Lived in the Countries of three the most potent Princes in Christendome viz. The Emperours of Germany and the Kings of Spain and France and so to the Germans Resolution the Spaniards Prudence the Frenchmans Expedition He is of a very solid judgment not carried about with every wind of Counsel so that it may be as truly said of him as of his prodecessor Henry the fourth He that would corrupt his Council must first begin with the King or as it is written of Noble Fabritius that he could resolve well and having once resolved you might as soon have put the sun out of his course as Fabritius from his resolution witness his stedfastness and constancy in the Protestant Religion notwithstanding those many specious overtures made unto him by many subtill and plausible arguments pressed upon him to pervert him from it FINIS