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
H. XXXI To the Right Honourable the Lady Wichts Madam SInce I was hurl'd amongst these walls I had divers fits of melancholy and such turbid intervalls that use to attend close prisoners who for the most part have no other companions but confus'd troops of wandring cogitations Now Melancholy it far more fruitfull of thoughts than any other humour for it is like the mud of Nile which when that Enigmaticall vast River is got again to her former bed engendreth divers sorts of new creatures and som kind of Monsters my brain in this Fleet hath bin often thus overwhelmd yet I never found it so muddy nor the Region of my mind so much clowded as it was lately after notice had of the sad tidings of Master Controulers death The newes heerof struck such a damp into me that for sâ—…m space me thought the very pulse of my bloud and the motions of my heart wer at a stand for I was surpriz'd with such a consternation that I felt no pulsations in the one or palpitations in the other Well Madam he was a brave solid wise man of a noble free disposition and so great a controuler of his passions that he was alwaies at home within himself yet I much fear that the sense of these unhappy times made too deep impressions in him Truly Madam I lov'd and honour'd him in such a perfection that my heart shall wear a broad black ribband for him while I live as long as I have a retentive faculty to remember any thing his memory shal be fresh within me But the truth is that if the advantagious exchange which hee hath made were well considered no frend of his should be sorry for in lieu of a white staffe in an earthly Court he hath got a scepter of immortality He that had bin Ambassadour at the Port to the greatest Monark upon earth where he resided so many yeers an honour to his King and Countrey is is now arriv'd at a far more glorious port than that of Constantinople though as I intimated before I fear that this boysterous weather hath blown him thither before his time God Almighty give your Ladiship patience for so great a loss and comfort in your hopefull issue with this prayer I conclude my self Madam Your Lapp s most humble and sorrowfull servant J. H. From the Fleet 15 Aprill XXXII To Mr. ES. Counsellour at the middle Temple SIR I Had yours this morning and I thank you for the newes you send me that divers of my fellow sufferers are enlarg'd out of Lambeth Winchester London and Ely House wherunto I may answer you as the Cheapside Porter did one that related Court newes unto him how such a one was made Lord Treasurer another Chancellour of the Exchequer another was made an Earle another sworn privy Counsellour I said he yet I am but a Porter still So I may say I am but a prisoner still notwithstanding the releasement of so many Mistake me not as if I repin'd heerby at any ones liberty for I could heartily wish that I were the Unic Martyr in this kind that I were the figure of one with never a cypher after it as God wot ther are two many I could wish that as I am the least in value I 〈◊〉 the last in number A day may com that a favourable wind may blow that I may launch also out of this Fleet in the mean time and alwaies after I am Fleet 1 Feb. 1645. Your true constant Servâ—…tor J. H. XXXIII To Mr. R. B. at Ipswich Gentle Sir I Value at a high rate the sundry respects you have bin pleas'd to shew me for as you oblig'd me before by your visits so you have much endeerd your self unto me since by your late letter of the 11 current Beleeve it Sir the least scruple of your love is not lost because I perceive it proceeds from the pure motions of vertue but returnd to you in the same full proportion But what you please to ascribe unto me in point of merit I dare not own you look upon me through the wrong end of the prospective or rather through a multiplying glass which makes the object appear far bigger than it is in reall dimension such glasses as Anatomists use in the dissection of bodies which can make a flea look like a cow or a fly as big as a vulture I presume you are constant in your desire to travell if you intend it at all you cannot do it in a beter time ther being little comfort God wot to breath English aire as matters are carried I shall be glad to steed you in any thing that may tend to your advantage for to tell you truly I take much contentment in this inchoation of frendship to improve and perfect which I shall lie centinell to apprehend all occasions If you meet Master R Brownrigg in the Countrey I pray present my very kind respects unto him for I 〈◊〉 my self to be both his and Fleet 15 Aug. 1646. Your most affectionat Servitor J. H. XXXIV To Cap. C. Price Prisoner at Coventry Cosin YOu whom I held alwaies as my second self in affection 〈◊〉 now so in afliction beiâ—…g in the same predicament of sufferance though not in the same prison as I Ther is nothing sweetneth frendship more than a participation and identity of danger and durance The day may com that we may discourse with comfort of these sad times for adversity hath the advantage of prosperity it self in this point that the commemoration of the one is oft-times more delightsom than the fruition of the other Moreover adversity and prosperity are like vertue and vice the two foremost of both which begin with anxieties and pain but they end comically in contentment and joy the other two quite contrary they begin with pleasure and end in pain ther 's a difference in the last scene I could wish if ther be no hopes of a speedy releasement you would remove your body hither and rather than moulder away in idlenes wee will devoutly blow the coale and try if we can exâ—…lt gold and bring it o're the helm in this Fleet we will transmute metalls and give a resurrection to mortified vegetables to which end the green Lyon and the dragon ye Demogorgon and Mercury himself with all the Planets shall attend us till we com to the Elixer the true powder of projection which the vulgar call the Philosophers stone If matters hit right we may heerby get better returns than Cardigan silver mines afford but we must not melt our selves away as I. Meridith did nor do as your Countryman Morgan did I know when you read these lines you l ' say I am grown mad and that I have taken Opium in lieu of Tobacco If I be mad I am but sick of the disease of the time which reigns more among the English than the sweating siâ—…knes did som six score yeers since amongst them and only them both at home and abroad Ther 's a strange
Sophisters were the first Lawyers that ever were I shall be upon incertain removes hence untill I come to Roüeâ—… in France and there I mean to cast Anchor a good while I shall expect your Letters there with impatience I pray present my Service to Sir Iames Altham and to my good Lady your Mother with the rest to whom it is due in Bishopsgate Street and elsewhere So I am Yours in the best degree of Friendship J. H. Hague 30. of May 1619. X. To Sir James Crofts from the Hague SIR THe same observance that a Father may challenge of his child the like you may claim of me in regard of the extraordinary care you have bin pleas'd to have alwayes since I had the happines to know you of the cours of my Fortunes I am now newly come to the Hague the Court of the six and almost seven confederated Provinces the Counsell of State with the Prince of Orange makes his firm Residence here unlesse he be upon a march and in motion for some design abroad This Prince Maurice was cast in a mould suitable to the temper of this people he is slow and full of warines and not without a mixture of fear I do not mean a pusillanimous but politic fear he is the most constant in the quotidian cours and carriage of his life of any that J have ever heard or read of for whosoever knows the customs of the Prince of Orange may tell what he is a doing here evry hour of the day though he be in Constantinople In the morning he awaketh about six in Sommer and seven in Winter the first thing he doth he sends one of his Grooms or Pages to see how the wind sits and he wears or leaves off his Wascot accordingly then he is about an hour dressing himself and about a quarter of an hour in his Closet then comes in the Secretary and if he hath any privat or public Letters to write or any other dispatches to make he doth it before he stirs from his Chamber then comes he abroad and goes to his Stables if it be no Sermon day to see some of his Gentlemen or Pages of whose breeding he is very carefull ride the great Horse He is very accessible to any that hath busines with him and sheweth a winning kind of familiarity for he will shake hands with the meanest Boor of the Countrey and he seldom hears any Commander or Gentleman with his Hat on He dines punctually about twelve and his Table is free for all comers but none under the degree of a Captain useth to sit down at it after dinner he stayes in the Room a good while and then any one may accost him and tell his tale then he reâ—…res to his Chamber where he answers all Petitions that were delivered him in the Morning and towards the Evening if he goes not to Counsell which is seldome he goes either to make some visits or to take the Air abroad and according to this constant method he passeth his life Ther are great stirs like to arise twixt the Bohemians and their elected King the Emperour and they are com already to that height that they consult of deposing him and to chuse some Protestant Prince to be their King som talk of the Duke of Saxony others of the Palsgrave J beleeve the States here would rather be for the latter in regard of conformity of Religion the other being a Lutheran I could not find in Amsterdum a large Ortelius in French to send you but from 〈◊〉 I will not fail to serve you So wishing you all happines and health and that the Sun may make many progresses more through the Zodiac before those comely Gray hairs of yours go to the Grave I rest Iune the 3. 1619. Your very humble Servant J. H. XI To Captain Francis Bacon at the Glassehouse in Broad-street SIR MY last to you was from Amsterdam since which time I have travers'd the prime parts of the united Provinces and â—… am now in Zealand being newly come to this Town of Middlâ—… borough which is much crest-faln since the Staple of English Cloâ—… was removed hence aâ—… is Flishing also her next Neighbor since thâ—… departure of the English Garrison A good intelligent Gentleman told me the manner how Flishing and the Bâ—…ill our two Cautionary Towns here were redeem'd which was thus The ninâ—… hundred and odd Souldiers at Flishing and the Rammakins haâ—… by being many weeks without their pay they borrow'd diverâ—… sums of Money of the States of this Town who finding no hopeâ—… of supply from England advice was sent to the States-Generall 〈◊〉 the Hague they consulting with Sir Ralph Winwood our Ambassador who was a favourable Instrument unto them in this busines as also in the match with the Palsgrave sent Instructions to the Lord Caroon to acquaint the Earl of Suffolk then Lord Treasurer herewith and in case they could find no satisfaction there to make his addresse to the King himself which Caroon did His Majestie being much incens'd that his Subjects and Souldiers should starve for want of their pay in a Forren Countrey sent for the Lord Treasurer who drawing his Majestie aside and telling how empty his Exchequer was His Majestie told the Ambassador that if his Masters the States would pay the money they ow'd him upon those Towns he would deliver them up The Ambassador returning the next day to know whether his Majestie persisted in the same Resolution in regard that at his former audience he perceived him to be a little transported His Majesty answered That he knew the States of Holland to be his good frends and confederats both in point of Religion and Policy therefore he apprehended not the least fear of any difference that should fall out between them in contemplation whereof if they desir'd to have their Towns again he would willingly surrender them Hereupon the States made up the sum presently which came in convenient time for it serv'd to defray the expencefull progresse he made to Scotland the Summer following When that Money was lent by Queen Elizabeth it was Articled that Interest should be payed upon Interest and besides that for evry Gentleman who should lose his life in the States Service they should make good five pounds to the Crown of England All this His Majestie remitted and onely took the principall and this was done in requitall of that Princely Entertainment and great Presents which my Lady Elizabeth had received in divers of their Towns as she pass'd to Heydelberg The Bearer hereof is Sigr Antoniâ—… Miotti who was Master of a Crystall-Glasse Furnace here a long time and as I have it by good intelligence he is one of the ablest and most knowing men for the guidance of a Glasse-Work in Christendom Therefore according to my Instructions I send him over and hope to â—…ave done Sir Robert good service thereby So with my kinde respects unto you and my most humble Service where you know â—…is due
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
of the Imperiall Counsellors were hurld out at the windows you heard also I doubt not how they offer'd the Crown to the Dâ—…ke of Saxony and he waving it they sent Ambassadors to the 〈◊〉 whom they thought might prove par negotio and to be able to go through-stitch with the work in regard of his powerfull alliance the King of great Britain being his Father in Law the King of Denmark the Prince of Oâ—…nge the Marq. of Brandenburg the Duke of Boâ—…illon his Uncles the States of Holland his Confederates the French King his friend and the Duke of Bavaria his near allye The Prince Palsgrave made some difficulty at first and most of his Counsellors opposed it others incited him to it and amongst other hortatives they told him That if he had the courage to venture upon a King of Englands sole Daughter he might very well venture upon a Soveraign Crown when it was tendered him Add hereunto that the States of Holland did mainly advance the worke and ther was good reason in policy for it for their twelve years Truce being then upon point of expiring with Spain and finding our King so wedded to Peace that nothing could divorce him from it they lighted upon this design to make him draw his Sword and engage hiâ—… against the House of Austria for the defence of his sole Daughter and his Gran-Children What his Majesty will do hereafter I will not presume to foretell but hitherto he hath given liâ—…tle countenance to the busines nay he utterly misliked it at first for wheras Doctor Hall gave the Prince Palsgrave the Title of King of Bohemia in his Pulpit Prayer he had a check for his pains for I heard his Majesty should say that ther is an implicit tie amongst Kings which obligeth them though ther be no other interest or particular engagement to stick unto and right one another upon insurrection of Subjects Therfore he had more reason to be against the Bohemians than to adhere to them in the deposition of their Soveraign Prince The King of Denmark sings the same note nor will he also allow him the appellation of King But the fearfull news I told you of at the beginning of this Letter is that ther are fresh tidings brought how the Prince Palsgrave had a well appointed Army of about 25000 horse and foot near Prague but the Duke of Bavaria came with scarce half the number and notwithstanding his long march gave them a sudden Battell and utterly routed them Insomnch that the new King of Bohemia hahaving not worn the Crown a whole twelvemonth was forced to flie with his Quâ—…n and children and after many difficulties they write that they are come to the Castle of Castrein the Duke of Brandenburghs Countrey his Uncle Tâ—…is news affects both Court and City here with much heavines I send you my humble thanks for the noble correspondence you pleased to hold with me abroad and I desire to know by the nexâ—… when you come to London that I may have the comfort of the sight of you after so long an absence Maâ—…ch the 1. 1619. Yourâ—… true Servitor J. H. V. To Dr. Fra Manâ—…ell at All Soules in Oxford I Am returned safe from my forain employment from my three years travell I did my best to make what advantage I could of the time though not so much as I should for I find that Peregrination wel us'd is a very profitable school it is a running Academy and nothing conduceth more to the building up and perfecting of a man Your honorable Uncle Sir Râ—…rt Mansell who is now in the Medâ—…erranean hath been very noble to me and I shall ever acknowledg a good part of my education from him He hath melted vast sums of money in the glass busines a busines indeed more proper for a Merchant than a Courtier I heard the King should say that he wondred Robin Mansell being a Sea-man wherby he hath got so much honour should fall from Water to tamper with Fire which are two contrary Elements My Father fears that this glass-employment will be too brittle a foundation for me to build a Fortune upon and Sir Robert being now at my comming back so far at Sea and his return uncertain my Father hath advised me to hearken after some other condition I attempted to goe Secretary to Sir Iohn Ayres to Constantinople but I came too late You have got your self a great deale of good repute by the voluntary resignation you made of the Principality of Iesus College to Sir Eubule Theloall in hope that he will be a considerable Benefactor to it I pray God he perform what he promiseth and that he be not over-partiall to North-wales men Now that I give you the first summon I pray you make me happy with your correspondence by Letters ther is no excuse or impediment at all left now for you are sure where to find me wheras I was a Landloper as the Dutch-man saith a wanderer and subject to incertain removes and short sojourns in divers places before So with apprecation of all happines to you here and hereafter I rest March 5. 1618. At your friendly dispose J. H. VI. To Sir Eubule Theloall Knight and Principall of Jesus Coll. in Oxford SIR I send you most due and humble thanks that notwithstanding I have played the Truant and been absent so long from Oxford you have been pleas'd lately to make choice of me to be Fellow of your new Foundation in Iesus College wherof I was once a Member As the quality of my Fortunes and cours of life run now I cannot make present use of this your great favour or promotion rather yet I do highly value it and humbly accept of it and intend by your permission to reserve and lay it by as a good warm garment against rough weather if any fall on me With this my expression of thankfulnes I do congratulate the great honour you have purchas'd both by your own beneficence and by your painfull endeavor besides to perfect that Nationall College which hereafter is like to be a Monument of your Fame as well as a Seminarie of Learning and will perpetuat your memory to all Posterity God Almighty prosper and perfect your undertakings and provide for you in Heaven those rewards which such publick works of Piety use to be crown'd withall it is the apprecation of Your truly devoted Servitor J. H. London idibus Mar. 1621. VII To my Father SIR according to the advice you sent me in your last while I sought after a new cours of employment a new employment hath lately sought after me My Lord Savage hath two young Gentlemen to his sonâ—…es and I am to goe travell with them Sit Iames Croftes who so much respects you was the main Agent in this busines and I am to goe shortly to Longmâ—…ford in Suffolk and â—…hence to Saint Osith in Essex to the Lord Darcy Queen Anne is lately dead of a Dropsie in Denmark house which is held to
great busines you know better than I was involv'd in many difficulties and died so intangled before it could break through them There is a buzz here of a match 'twixt England and France I pray God send it a speedier Formation and Animation than this had and that it may not prove an abortive I send you herewith a letter from the Paragon of the Spanish Court Doña Anna Maria Manâ—…ique the Duke of Maquedas sister who respects you in a high Degree she told me this was the first Letter she ever writ to man in her life except the Duke her brother she was much sollicited to write to Mr. Thomas Cary but she would not I did also your Message to the Marquesa d' Inososa who put me to sit a good while with her upon her Estrado which was no simple favor you are much in both these Ladies Books and much spoken of by divers others in this Court I could not recover your Diamond hasband which the Picaroon snatched from you in the coach though I us'd all means possible as far as book bell and candle in point of Excommunication against the party in all the Churches of Madrid by which means you know divers things are recover'd So I most affectionatly kiss your hands and rest Post. Yours of the 2. of March came to safe hand Madrid Your most faithfull Servitor J. H. XXX To my Cosen Mr J. Price now Knight at the middle Temple from Madrid COsen suffer my Letter to salute you first in this Distich A Thamisi Tagus quot leucis flumine distat Oscula tot manibus porto Pricaee tuis As many miles Thames lies from Tagus Strands I bring so many kisses to thy hands My dear Jack IN the large Register or Almanack of my friends in England you are one of the chiefest red Letters you are one of my Festiâ—…all Rubriques for whensoever you fall upon my mind or my mind falls upon you I keep Holy day all the while and this happens so often that you leave me but few working days throughout the whole year fewer far than this Countrey affords for in their Calender above five Months of the twelve are dedicated to som Saint or other and kept Festivall a Religion that the London Apprentices would like well I thank you for yours of the third Current and the ample Relations you give me of London Occurrences but principally for the powerfull and sweet assurances you give me of your love both in Verse and Prose All businesses here are off the hinges for one late audience of my Lord of Bristoll pulld down what was so many years a raising And as Thomas Aquinas told an Artist of a costly curious Statue in Rome that by som accident while he was a trimming it fell down and so broke to peeces Opus triginta annoram destruxisti thou hast destroy'd the work of thirty years so it may be said that a work nere upon ten years is now suddenly shaâ—…terd to peeces I hope by Gods grace to be now speedily in England and to re-enjoy your most dear society In the mean time may all happines attend you Ad Litteram Ociùs ut grandire gradus oratio possis Prosa tibi binos jungimus ecce pedes That in thy jorney thou maist be more fleet To my dull Prose I add these Metric feet Resp. Ad mare cum venio quid agam Repl. tùm praepete penna Te ferat est lator nam levis ignis Amor But when I com to Sea how shall I shift Let Love transport thee then for Fire is swift Your most affectionat Cos. J. H. March 30. 1624. XXXI To the Lord Vicount Col. from Madrid Right Honble YOur Lopps of the third Current came to safe hand and being now upon point of parting with this Court I thought it worth the labor to send your Lopp s a short survey of the Monarchy of Spain a bold undertaking your Lopp will say to comprehend within the narrow bounds of a Letter such a huge bulk but as in the bosse of a small Diamond ring one may discern the image of a mighty mountain so I will endeavour that your Lopp may behold the power of this great King in this paper Spain hath bin alwaies esteemd a Countrey of ancient renown and as it is incident to all other she hath had her vicissiâ—…udes and turns of Fortune She hath bin thrice orecome by the Romans by the Goths and by the Moors the middle conquest continueth to this day for this King and most of the Nobility proses themselves to have descended of the Goths the Moores kept here about 700. years and it is a remarkable Story how they got in first which was thus upon good record There raignd in Spain Don Rodrigo who kept his Court then at Malaga He emploid the Conde Don Julian Ambassador to Barbary who had a Daughter a young beautifull Lady that was maid of Honor to the Queen The King spying her one day refreshing her self under an Arbour sell enamour'd with her and never left till he had deslowrd her She resenting much the dishonor writ a letter to her Father in Barbary under this Allegory That there was a fair green Apple upon the table and the Kings poignard fell upon 't and clest it in two Don Iulian apprehending the meaning got letters of revocation and came back to Spain wher he so complied with the King that he became his Favorite Amongst other things he advis'd the King that in regard he was now in Peace with all the world he would dismisse his Gallies and Garrisons that were up and down the Sea coasts because it was a superfluous charge This being don and the Countrey left open to any Invader he prevaild with the King to have leave to go with his Lady to see their friends in Tarragona which was 300. miles off Having bin there a while his Lady made semblance to be sick and so sent to petition the King that her daughter Donna Cava whom they had left at Court to satiat the Kings lust might com to comfort her a while Cava came and the gate through which she went sorth is call'd afâ—… her name to this day in Malaga Don Iulian having all his chief kindred there he saild over to Barbary and afterwards brought over the King of Morocco and others with an Army who suddenly invaded Spain lying armles and open and so conquer'd it Don Rodrigo died gallantly in the field but what became of Don Iulian who for a particular revenge betrayed his own Countrey no Story makes menâ—… A few yeers before this happend Rodrigo came to Toledo where under the great Church ther was a vault with huge Iron doors and none of his Predecessors durst open it because ther was an old Prophesie That when that vault was open'd Spain should be conquered Rodrigo slighting the Prophesie caus'd the doors to be broke open hoping to find there som Treasure but when he entred there was nothing sound but the
1500 that very week and two out of White-Hall it self Ther is high clashing again 'twixt my Lord Duke and the Earl of Bristoll they recriminat one another of divers things the Earl accuseth him amongst other matters of certain Letters from Rome of putting His Majesty upon that hazardous jorney of Spain and of som miscarriages at his being in that Court Ther be Articles also against the Lord Conway which I send your Lordship here inclosed I am for Oxford the next week and thence for Wales to fetch my good old Fathers blessing at my return if it shall please God to reprieve me in these dangerous times of Contagion I shall continue my wonted service to your Lordship if it may be done with safety So I rest Lond. 15 of Mar. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXI To the honble the Lord Viscount C. My Lord SIr Iohn North delivered me one lately from your Lordship and I send my humble thanks for the Venison you intend me I acquainted your Lordship as opportunity serv'd with the nimble pace the French Match went on by the successfull negotiation of the Earls of Carlile and Holland who outwent the Monsieurs themselves in Courtship how in less than nine Moons this great busines was propos'd pursued and perfected wheras the Sun had leasure enough to finish his annuall progres from one end of the Zodiac to the other so many years before that of Spain could com to any shape of perfection This may serve to shew the difference 'twixt the two Nations the Leaden-heeld pace of the one and the Quick-silver'd motions of the other It shews also how the French is more generous in his proceedings and not so full of scruples reservations and jealousies as the Spaniard but deales more frankly and with a greater confidence and gallantry The Lord Duke of Buckingham is now in Paris accompanied with the Earl of Montgomerie and hee went in a very splendid equipage The Venetian and Hollander with other States that are no friends to Spain did som good offices to advance this Alliance and the new Pope propounded much towards it But Richelieu the new Favorit of France was the Cardinall instrument in it This Pope Urban grows very active not onely in things present but ripping up of old matters for which ther is a select Committee appointed to examin accounts and errors pass'd not only in the time of his immediat Predecessor but others And one told me of a merry Pasquill lately in Rome that wheras ther are two great Statues one of Peter the other of Paul opposit one to the other upon a Bridge one had clapt a pair of Spurs upon Saint Peters Heels and Saint Paul asking him whither hee was bound he answered I apprehend som danger to staie now in Rome because of this new Commission for I fear they will question me for denying my Master Truly brother Peter I shall not staie long after you for I have as much cause to doubt that they will question me for persecuting the Christians before I was converted So I take my leave and rest London 3 May. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXII To my Brother Master Hugh Penry SIR I Thank you for your late Letter and the severall good tydings you sent me from Wales In requitall I can send you gallant news for we have now a most Noble new Queen of England who in true beuty is beyond the Long-Woo'd Infanta for she was of a fading Flaxen-Hair Big Lipp'd and somwhat heavy Ey'd but this Daughter of France this youngest Branch of Bourbon being but in her cradle when the great Henry her Father was put out of the World is of a more lovely and lasting complexion a dark brown shee hath eyes that sparkle like Stars and for her Physiognomy she may be said to be a mirror of perfection She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle and in Canterbury the King Bedded first with her ther were a goodly train of choice Ladies attended her coming upon the Bowling-green on Barram-Down upon the way who divided themselves into two rows and they appear'd like so many Constellations but me thought that the Countrey Ladies out-shin'd the Courtiers She brought over with her two hundred thousand Crowns in Gold and Silver as halt her portion and the other Moitie is to be payed at the yeers end Her first suit of servants by Article are to be French and as they die English are to succeed shee is also allowed twenty eight Ecclesiastics of any Order except Iesuits a Bishop for her Almoner and to have privat exercise of her Religion for her and her servants I pray convey the inclosed to my Father by the next conveniency and present my dear love to my Sister I hope to see you at Dyvinnock about Michaâ—…mas for I intend to wait upon my Father and will take my Mother in the way I mean Oxford in the interim I rest London 16 May 1626. Your most affectionat Brother J H. XXIII To my Unkle Sir Sackvill Trever from Oxford SIR â—… Am sorry I must write unto you the sad tydings of the dissolution of the Parliament here which was don suddenly Sir Iohn Eâ—…liot was in the heat of a high speech against the Duke of Buchingâ—…m when the Usher of the Black-Rod knock'd at the door and signified the Kings pleasure which strook a kind of consternation in all the House My Lord Keeper Williams hath parted with the Broad-Seal because as som say he went about to cut down the Scale by which he rose for som it seems did ill offices 'twixt the Duke and him Sir Thomas Coventry hath it now I pray God he be tender of the Kings conscience wherof he is Keeper rather than of the Seal I am bound to morrow upon a journey towards the Mountains to see som Friends in Wales and to bring back my Fathers blessing for better assurance of Lodging wher I pass in regard of the Plague I have a Post Warrant as far as Saint Davids which is far enough you 'l say for the King hath no ground further on this Island If the sicknes rage in such extremity at London the Term will be held at Reding All your friends here are well but many look blank because of this sudden rupture of the Parliament God Almighty turn all to the best and stay the fury of this contagion and preserve us from â—…urther judgements so I rest Oxford 6 Aug. 1626. Your most affectionate Nephew J. H. XXIV To my Father from London SIR I Was now the fourth time at a dead stand in the cours of my fortunes for though I was recommended to the Duke and receiv'd many Noble respects from him yet I was told by som who are neerest him that som body hath don me ill offices by whispering in his ear that I was two much Digbified and so they told me positively that I must never expect any imployment about him of any
in his tent how therby his Army much encreas'd and so rush'd further into the heart of the Countrey but passing neer Magdenburg being diffident of his own strength he suffer'd Tilly to take that great Town with so much effusion of bloud because they would receive no quarter your Lordship hath also heard of the battell of Leipsick where Tilly notwithstanding the Victory he had got ore the Duke of Saxony a few daies before receav'd an vtter discomfiture upon which victory the King sent Sir Thomas Roe a present of two thousand pounds and in his letter calls him his strenuum consultorem he being one of the first who had advis'd him to this German war after he had made peace 'twixt him and the Polander I presume also your Lordship heard how he met Tilly again neer Auspurg and made him go upon a woodden leg wher of he died and after soundly plunder'd the Bavarian and made him flee from his own house at Munchen and rifled his very Closets Now your Lordship shall understand that the said King is at Mentz keeps a Court there like an Emperour there being above twelve Ambassadors with him The King of France sent a great Marquis for his Ambassador to put him in mind of his Articles and to tell him that his Christian Majesty wondred he would cross the Rhine without his privity and wondred more that he would invade the Church-lands meaning the Archbishop of Mentz who had put himself under the protection of France The Swed answer'd That he had not broke the least title of the Articles agreed on and touching the said Archbishop he had not stood Neutrall as was promised therfore he had justly set on his skirts The Ambassador replied in case of breach of Articles his Master had eighty thousand men to pierce Germany when he pleas'd The King answer'd that he had but twenty thousand and those should be sooner at the walls of Paris then his fourscore thousand should be on the frontiers of Germany If this new Conquerer goes on with this violence I beleeve it will cast the pollicy of all Christendom into another mould and be get new maximes of State for none can foretell wher his monstrous progress will terminat Sir Henry Vane is still in Germany observing his motions and they write that they do not agree well as I heard the King should tell him that he spoke nothing but Spanish to him Sir Robert Anstruther is also at Vienna being gon thither from the Diet at Ratisbon I hear the Infante Cardinal is design'd to com Governor of the Netherlands and passeth by way of Italy and so through Germany his brother Don Carlos is lately dead So I humbly take my leave and rest My Lord Your Lopps most humble and ready Servitor J. H. Westmin 23 Apr. 1630. XXXVIII To my noble Lady the Lady Cor. Madam YOu spoke to me for a Cook who had seen the world abroad and I think the bearer hereof will fit your Ladiships â—…urn He can marinat fish make gellies he is excellent for a pickant sawce and the Haugou besides Madame he is passing good for an ollia He will tell your Ladiship that the reverend Matron the olla podrida hath intellectualls and senses Mutton Beef and Bacon are to her as the will understanding and Memory are to the soule Cabbage Turnips Artichocks Potatoes and Dates are her five senses and Pepper the common sense she must have Marrow to keep life in her and som birds to make her light by all meanes she must go adorn'd with chaines of Sausages He is also good at Larding of meat after the mode of France Madame you may make proof of him and if your Ladyship find him too sawey or wastfuli you may return him whence you had him So I rest Westmin 2 Iun. 1630. Madame Your Lapps most humble Servitor J. H XXXIX To Mr. E. D. SIR YOu write to me that T. B. intends to give money for such a place if he doth I feare it will be verified in him that a fool and his money is soon parted for I know he wil be never able to execut it I heard of a laâ—…e secretary of State that could not read the next morning his own hand writing and I have read of Caligulas horse that was made Consull therfore I pray tell him from me for I wish him well that if he thinks he is fit for that Office he looks upon himself through a fals glass a trotting hors is fit for a coach but not for a Ladies saddle and an ambler is proper for a Ladies saddle but not for a coach If Tom undertakes this place he wil be as an ambler in a coach or a trotter under a Ladies saddle when I com to town I will put him upon a far fitter and more feasable busines for him and so comend me to him for I am his and Westmin 5 Iune 1630. Your true friend J. H. XL. To my Father SIR THer are two Ambassadors extraordinary to go abroad shortly the Earl of Leycester and the Lord M'eston this latter goes to France Savoy Venice and so returns by Florence a pleasant journey for he carrieth presents with him from King and Queen The Earl of Leycester is to go to the King of Denmark and other Princes of Germany The maine of the Embassy is to condole the late death of the Lady Sophia Queen Dowager of Denmark our Kings Grandmother She was the Duke of Meclenburgs daughter and her husband Christian the third dying young her portion which was forty thousand pound was restor'd fier and living a Widdow forty four years after she grew to be so great a huswife setting three or four hundred people at worke that she died worth neer two millions of dollars so that she was reputed the richest Queen of Christendom By the constitutions of Denmark this estate is divisible amongst her children wherof she had five the King of Denmark the Dutchess of Saxony the Dutchess of Brimswick Queen Ann and the Dutchess of Holftein the King being Male is to have two shares our King and the Lady Elizabeth is to have that which should have belong'd to Queene Anne so he is to returne by the Hague It pleas'd my Lord of Leycester to send for me to Baynards Castle and proffer me to go Secretary in this Ambassage assuring me that the journey shall tend to my profit and credit So I have accepted of it for I heaâ—… very nobly of my Lord so that I hope to make a boon voyage of it I desire as hitherto your prayers and blessing may accompany me so with my love to my Brothers and Sisters I rest London 5 May 1632. Your dutifull son I. H. XLI To Mr. Alderman Moulson Governor of the Merchant adventurers SIR THe Earl of Leicester is to go shortly Ambassador extraordinary to the King of Denmark and he is to pass by Hamburgh I understand by Mr. Skinner that the Staple hath som grievances to be redress'd If this