alleg'd 't was his duty to officiat in that Church but the dignity of Cardinall and the quality of his Office being the Kings great Almner which makes him chief Curat of the Court gave him the prerogative I doubt not but your Lordship hath heard of the Capitulations but for better assurance I will run them over briefly The King of France oblig'd himself to procure the Dispensation the mariage should be celebrated in the same form as that of Queen Margaret and of the Dutchess of Bar her Dowrie should be 800000 Crowns six shillings a peece the one moitie to be paied the day of the Contract the other a twelvemonth after The Queen shall have a Chappell in all the Kings Roiall houses and any wher else where she shall recide within the Dominions of his Majestie of great Britain with free exercise of the Roman Religion for her self her Officers and all her Houshold for the celebration of the Mass the Predication of the Word Administration if the Sacraments and power to procure Indulgences from the Holy Father That to this end she shall be allow'd 28 Priests or Ecclesiasticks in her House and a Bishop in quality of Almoner who shall have jurisdiction over all the rest and that none of the Kings Officers shall have power over them unless in case of Treason therfore all her Ecclesiastics shall take the Oath of fidelitie to His Majestie of great Britain ther shall be a Cymitier or Church-yard clos'd about to burie those of her Family That in consideration of this mariage all English Catholics as well Ecclesiastics as Lay which shall be in any prison meerly for Religion since the last Edict shall be set at libertie This is the eighth Alliance we have had with France since the Conquest and as it is the best that could be made in Christendom so I hope it will prove the happiest So I kiss your hands being Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. Lond. Mar. 1 1625. XIII To the honble Sir Tho. Saâ—… SIR I Convers'd lately with a Gentleman that came from France who amongst other things discours'd much of the Favourit Richelieu who is like to be an active man and hath great designs The two first things he did was to make sure of England and the Hollander he thinks to have us safe enough by this mariage and Holland by a late League which was bought with a great sum of money for he hath furnish'd the States with a Million of Liures at two shillings a peece in present and six hundred thousand Liures every year of these two that are to com provided That the States repay these sums two years after they are in peace or truce The King press'd much for Liberty of Conscience to Roman Catholics amongst them and the Deputies promis'd to do all they could with the States Generall about it they Articled likewise for French to be associated with them in the trade to the Indies Monsieur is lately maried to Mary of Bourbon the Duke of Monpensiers Daughter he told her That he would be a better Husband than he had been a Suter to her for hee hung off a good while This mariage was made by the King and Monsieur hath for his apennage 100000 Liures annuall Rent from Chartres and Blois 100000 Liures Pension and 500000 to be charg'd yearly upon the generall receipts of Orleans in all about 70000 pounds Ther was much ado before this match could be brought about for ther were many opposers and ther be dark whispers that ther was a deep plot to confine the King to a Monastery and that Monsieur should govern and divers great ones have suffered for it and more are like to be discover'd So I take my leave for present and rest Lond. Mar. 10 1626. Your very humble and ready Servitor J. H. XIV To the Lady Jane Savage Marchioness of Winchester Excellent Lady I May say of your Grace as it was said once of a rare Italian Princess that you are the greatest Tyrant in the World because you make all those that see you your slaves much more them that know you I mean those that are acquainted with your inward disposition and with the faculties of your soul as well as the Phisnomy of your face for Vertue took as much pains to adorn the one as Nature did to perfect the other I have had the happines to know both when your Grace took pleasure to learn Spanish at which time when my betters far had offer'd their service in this kind I had the honor to be commanded by you often Hee that hath as much experience of you as I have had will confess that the handmaid of God Almighty was never so prodigall of her gifts to any or labour'd more to frame an exact modell of Femal perfection nor was dame Nature onely busied in this Work but all the Graces did consult and co-operat with her and they wasted so much of their Tresure to in rich this one peece that it may be a good reason why so many lame and defective fragments of Women-kind are daily thrust into the world I return you here inclos'd the Sonnet your Grace pleas'd to send me lately rendred into Spanish and fitted for the same Ayr it had in English both for cadence and number of feet With it I send my most humble thanks that your Grace would descend to command me in any thing that might conduce to your contentment and service for ther is nothing I desire with a greater Ambition and herein I have all the World my Rival than to be accounted Madame Your Grace's most humble and ready Servitor J. H. Lond. Mar. 15. 1626. X. To the Right honble the Lord Clifford My Lord I Pray be pleas'd to dispence with this slownes of mine in answering yours of the first of this present Touching the domestic occurrences the Gentleman who is Bearer hereof is more capable to give you account by discourse than I can in paper For forrain tidings your Lordship may understand that the Town of Breda hath bin a good while making her last will and testament but now ther is certain news com that she hath yeelded up the Ghost to Spinalo's hands after a tough siege of thirteen months and a circumvallation of neeâ—…r upon twenty miles compas My Lord of Southampton and his eldest son sickned at the siege and died at Berghen the adventrous Earl Henry of Oxford seeming to tax the Prince of Orange of slacknes to fight was set upon a desperat Work wher he melted his grease and so being carried to the Hague he died also I doubt not but you have heard of Graye Maurice's death which happen'd when the Town was pass'd cure which was his more than the States for he was Marquis of Breda and had neer upon thirty thousand dollars annual rent from her Therfore he seem'd in a kind of sympathy to sicken with his Town and died before her He had provided plentifully for all his Naturall children but
pray make me happy still with your Letters it is a mightie pleasure for us Countrey folks to hear how matters passe in London and abroad you know I have not the opportunity to correspond with you in like kind but may happily hereafter when the tables are turnd when I am in London and you in the West Wheras you are desirous to hear how it fares with me I pray know that I live in one of the noblest Houses and best Air of England Ther is a daintie Park adjoyning wher I often wander up and down and I have my severall walks I make one to represent the Royall Exchange â—…he other the middle Isle of Pauls another Westminster Hall and when I passe through the herd of Deer methinks I am in â—…apside So with a full return of the same measure of love as you pleas'd to send me I rest 24 Marâ—…ij 1621. Yours J. H. X. To R. Altham Esqr. from Saint Osith SIR LIfe it self is not so dear unto me as your friendship nor Vertue in her best colours aâ—… precious as your Love which was lately so lively pourtraied unto me in yours of the fifth of this present Me thinks your letter was like a peece of Tissue richly embroderd with rare flowers up and down with curious representationâ—… and Landskips Albeit I have as much stuff as you of this kind I mean matter of Love yet I want such a Loom to work it upon I cannot draw it to such a curious web therfore you must be content with homely Polldavie ware from me for you must not expect from us Countrey folks such urbanities and quaint invention that you who are daily conversant with the wits of the Court and of the Inns of Court abound withall Touching your intention to travell beyond the Seas the next Spring and the intimation you make how happy you would be in my company I let you know that I am glad of the one and much thank you for the other and will think upon it but I cannot reâ—…olve yet upon any thing I am now here at the Earl Rivers a â—…oble and great knowing Lord who hath seen much of the World â—…broad My Lady Savage his Daughter is also here with divers of 〈◊〉 children I hope this Hilary Term to be merry in London and amongst others to re-enjoy your conversation principally for I esteem the societie of no soul upon Earth more than yours till then I bid you Farewell and as the season invites me I wish you a merry Christmas resting December 20. 1622. Yours while Jâ—…m Howell XI To Captain Tho Porter upon his return from Algier voyage Noble Captain I Congratulat your safe return from the Streights but am sory you were so streighâ—…ned in your Commission that you could not attempt what such a brave navall power of â—…o men of War such a gallant Generall and other choice knowing Commanders might have performed if they hâ—…d had line enough I know the lightnesse and nimblenesse of Algier ships when I lived lately in Alicant and other places upon the Mediterranean we should every week hear som of them chas'd but very seldom taken for a great ship following one of them may be said to be as a Mastiff dog running after a hare I wonder the Spaniard came short of the promised supply for furtherance of that notable adventurous design you had to fire the Ships and Gallies in Algier road And according to the relation you pleased to send me it was one of the bravest enterprises and had prov'd such a glorious exploit that no story could have paralleld But it seems their Hoggies Magitians and Maribotts were tampring with the ill Spirit of the Air all the while which brought down suâ—… a still cataract of rain waterâ—… suddenly upon you to hinder the working of your fire-works such a disaster the story tells us bâ—…fell Charles the Emperour but far worse than yours for he lost ships and multitudes of men whâ—… were made slaves but you came off with losse of eight men only and Algier is another gets thing now than she was then being I beleeve a hundred degrees stronger by Land and Sea and for the latter strength we may thank our Countreyman Ward and 〈◊〉 the butterbag Hollander which may be said to have bin two of the fatallest and most infamoust men that ever Christendom bâ—…ed for the one taking all Englishmen and the other all Dutchmen and bringing the Spips and Ordnance to Algier they may be said â—…o have bin the chief Raysers of those Picaroons to be Pirats which are now come to that height of strength that they daily endammage and affront all Christendom When I consider all the circumstances and successe of this your voyage when I consider thâ—… narrownes of your Commission which was as lame as the Clâ—… that kept it when I find that you secured the Seas and â—…rafick all the while for I did not hear of one Ship taken while you were abroad when I hear how you brought back all the Fleet without the least disgrace or dammâ—…ge by foe or â—…oul weather â—…o any ship I conclude and so doe far bâ—…ter judgements than mine that you did what possibly could be done let those that repine at the one in the hundred which was impos'd upon all the Levant 〈◊〉 for the support of this Fleet mutter what they will that you went first to Gravesend then to the Lands end and after to no end I have sent you for your welcome home in part two barrells of Colchester oysters which were provided for my Lord of Colchester himself therfore I preâ—…ume they are good and all green finnd I shall shortly follow but not to stay long in England for I thinâ—… I must over again speedily to push on my fortunes so my dear Tom I am de todas mâ—…s entranâ—…s from the center of my heart I am St. Osith December Yours J. H. XII To my Father upon my secona going to Travell SIR IAm lately returned to London having been all this while in a very noble Family in the Countrey where I found far greater repects than I deserv'd I was to go with two of my Lord Savagâ—… Sons to travell but finding my self too young for such a charge and our Religion differing I have now made choice to go over Camerade to a very worthy Gentleman Baron Althams Son whom I knâ—…w in Sâ—…anes when my brother was there Truly I hold him to be one of the hopefullest young men of this Kingdom for parts and person he is full of excellent solid knowledg as the Mathematics the Law and other materiall studies besides I should have beed tied to have staid three years abroad in the other imployment at least but I hope to go back from this by Gods grace before a twelvemonth be at an end at which time I hope the hand of Providence will settle me in some stable home-fortunâ—… The news is that the Prince Palsgrave with his Lady and Children are come to
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
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
viz. that his Excellency should not think it strange that he had so few French Gentlemen to attend in this service to accompany him to the Court in regard ther were so many killd at the Isle of â—…hee The Marquis of Chasteau neuf is here from France and it was an odd speech also from him reflecting upon Mr. Controuler that the King of great Britain us'd to send for his Ambassadors from abroad to pluck Capons at home Mr. Buâ—…lemach is to go shortly to Paris to recover the other moity of her Majesties portion wherof they say my Lord of Holland is to have a good share The Lord Treasurer Weston is he who hath the greatest vogue now at Court but many great ones have clash'd with him He is so potent that I hear his eldest Son is to marry one of the bloud Royall of Scotland the Duke of Lenox Sister and that with his Majesties consent Bishop Laâ—…d of London is also powerfull in his way for hee sits at the helm of the Church and doth more than any of the two Arch bishops or all the rest of his two and twenty brethren besides In your next I should be glad your Lordship would do me the favor as to write how the grand Signor is like to speed before Bagdaâ—… in this his Persian expedition No more now but that I always rest Westmin 1 Ian. 1629. Your Lordships ready and most faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXIV To my Father SIR SIr Tho. Wentworth hath been a good while Lord President of York and since is sworn Privy Counsellor and made Baron and Vicount the Duke of Buckingham himself flew not so high in so short a revolution of time Hee was made Vicount with a great deale of high ceremony upon a Sunday in the afternoon at VVhite-Hall My Lord Powis who affects him not much being told that the Heralds had fetch'd his Pedigree from the bloud Royall viz. from Iohn of Gaunt said Dammy if ever he com to be King of England I will turn Rebell When I went first to give him joy he pleas'd to give me the disposing of the next Attorney's place that falls void in York which is valued at three hundred pounds I have no reason to leave my Lord of Sunderland for I hope hee will bee noble unto me the perquisits of my place taking the Kings see away caâ—… far short of what he promis'd me at my first comming to him in regard of his non-residence at York therfore I hope he will consider it som other way This languishing sicknes still hangs on him and I fear will make an end of him Ther 's none can tell what to make of it but he voided lately a strange Worm at VVickham but I fear ther 's an impostume growing in him for he told me a passage how many years ago my Lord VVilloughby and he with so many of their servants de gayete de câ—…ur played a match at foot-ball against such a number of Countrey men where my Lord of Sunderland being busie about the ball got a bruise in the brest which put him in a swond for the present but did not trouble him till three months after when being at Bever Castle his brother-in-laws house a quaume took him on a sudden which made him retire to his bed-chamber my Lord of Rutland following him put a Pipe full of Tobacco in his mouth and he being not accustomed to Tobacco taking the smoak downwards fell a casting and vomiting up divers little impostumated bladders of congeal'd bloud which sav'd his life then and brought him to have a better conceit of Tobacco ever after and I fear ther is som of that clodded bloud still in his body Because Mr. Hawes of Cheâ—…p-side is lately dead I have remov'd my brother Griffith to the Hen and Chickens in Pater Noster Row â—…o Mr. Taylors as gentile a shop as any in the City but I gave a peece of Plate of twenty Nobles price to his Wife I wish the Yorkshire horse may be fit for your turn he was accounted the best saddle Gelding about York when I bought him of Captain Phillips the Mustar-master and when he carried me first to London there was twenty pounds offered for him by my Lady Carlile No more now but desiring a continuance of your blessing and prayers I rest Lond. 3 Decem. 1630. Your dutifull Son J. H. XXXV To the Lord Cottington Ambassador Extraordinary for his Majesty of great Britain in the Court of Spaine My Lord I Receiv'd your Lordships lately by Harry Davies the Correo Santo and I return my humble thanks that you were pleas'd to be mindfull amongst so many high negotiations of the old busines touching the Viceroy of Sardinia I have acquainted my Lord of Bristoll accordingly Our eyes here look very greedily after your Lordship and the success of your Embassie and we are glad to hear the busines is brought to so good a pass and that the capitulations are so honorable the high effects of your wisdom For News The Sweds do notable featâ—… Germany and we hope they cutting the Emperour and Bavarian so much work to do and the good offices we are to expect from Spain upon this redintegration of Peace will be an advantage to the Prince Palatin and facilitat matters for restoring him to his Country Ther is little news at our Court but that ther fell an ill-favoured quarrell 'twixt Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Goring Mr. Iermin and others at St. Iames lately about Mrs Baker the Maid of honor and Duells were like to grow of it but that the busines was taken up by the Lord Treasurer my Lord of Dorset and others appointed by the King My Lord of Sunderland is still ill dispos'd he will'd me to remember his hearty service to your Lordship and so did Sir Arthur Ingram and my Lady they all wish you a happy and honorable return as doth Lond. 1 March 1630. Your Lopps most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXXVI To my Lo Vicount Rocksavage My Lord SOm say the Italian loves no favor but what 's future though I have convers'd much with that Nation yet I am nothing infected with their humor in this point for I love favors pass'd as well the remembrance of them joyes my very heart and makes it melt within me when my thoughts reflect upon your Lordship I have many of these fits of joy within me by the pleasing speculation of so many most noble favors and respects which I shall daily study to improve and merit My Lord Your Lopps most humble and ready Servitor J. H. Westmin 22 Mar. 1630. XXXVII To the Earl of Bristol My Lord I Doubt not but your â—…ordship hath had intelligence from time time what firm invasions the King of Sweds hath made into Germany and by what degrees he hath mounted to this height having but six thousand foot and five hundred horse when he entred first to Meclenburg and taken that Town while Commissioners stood treating on both sides
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
makes mee call to memory a saying of the Earl of Kildare in Ireland in the reign of Henry the eighth which Earl having deadly feud with the Bishop of Cassâ—…es burnt a Church belonging to that Diocess and being ask'd upon his Examination before the Lord Deputy at the Castle of Dublin why hee had committed such a horrid Sacrilege as to burn Gods Church hee answered I had never burnt the Church unles I had thought the Bishop had been in 't Lastly who would have imagined that the Accise would have taken footing heer a word I remember in the last Parliament save one so odious that when Sir D. Carleton then Secretary of State did but name it in the House of Commons hee was like to be sent to the Tower although hee nam'd it to no ill sâ—…nse but to shew what advantage of happines the peeple of England had o're other Nations having neither the Gabells of Italy the Tallies of France or the Accise of Holland laid upon them yet upon this hee was suddenly interrupted and call'd to the Bar Such a strange Metamorphosis poor England is now com unto and I am afraid our Miseries are not com to their height but the longest shadowes stay till the Evening The freshest News that I can write unto you is that the Kentish Knight of your acquaintance whom I writ in my last had an apostacy in his Brain dyed suddenly this week of an Impostume in his brest as he was reading a Pamphlet of his own that cam from the Press wherin hee shew'd a great mind to be nibling with my Trees but he only shew'd his Teeth for he could not bite them to any purpose Willi. Ro is return'd from the Wars but he is grown lame in one of his Arms so he hath no mind to bear Arms any more he confesseth himself to be an egregious fool to leave his Mercership and go to be a Musqueteer It made me think upon the Tale of the Gallego in Spain who in the Civill Wars against Aragon being in the field he was shot in the forehead and being carryed away to a Tent the Surgeon search'd his wound and found it mortall so he advis'd him to send for his Confessor for he was no man for this world in regard the Brain was touch'd the Soldier wish'd him to search it again which he did and told him that he found he was hurt in the Brain and could not possibly scape wherupon the Gallegoâ—…ell â—…ell into a chafe and said he lyed for he had no brain at all por que si tuviera seso nunca huniera venido a esta guerra for if I had had any brain I would never have com to this War All your frends heer are well except the maym'd Soldier and remember you often specially Sir I. Brown a good gallant Gentleman who never forgets any who deserv'd to have a place in his memory Farewell my dear Tom and God send you better dayes than we have heer for I wish you as much happines as possibly man can have I wish your mornings may be good your noons better your evenings and nights best of all I wish your sorrows may be short your joys lasting and all your desires end in success let me hear once more from you before you remove thence and tell me how the squares go in Flanders So I rest Fleet 3 Aug. 1644. Your entirely affectionat Servitor J. H. LXV To His Majesty at Oxon. SIR I Prostrate this Paper at your Majesties feet hoping it may find way thence to your eyes and so deâ—…cend to your Royall heart The forren Minister of State by whose conveyance this comâ—… did lately intimat unto mee that among divers things which go abroad under my name reflecting upon the times ther are som which are not so well taken your Majesty being inform'd that they discover a spirit of Indifferency and luke-warmnes in the Author This added much to the weight of my present suffrances and exceedingly imbitter'd the sense of them unto me being no other than a corrosif to one already in a hestic condition I must confess that som of them wer more moderat than others yet most humbly under favor ther wer none of them but displayed the heart of a constant true loyall Subject and as divers of those who are most zealous to your Majestics Service told me they had the good succes to rectifie multitudes of peeple in their opinion of som things Insomuch that I am not only not conscious but most confident that none of them could tend to your Majesties disservice any way imaginable Therfore I humbly beseech that your Majesty would 〈◊〉 to conceive of me accordingly and of one who by this recluse passive condition hath his share of this hideous storm yet he is in assurance rather than hopes that though divers cross-winds have blown these times will bring in better at last 〈◊〉 have bin divers of your Royall Progenitors who have had as shrewd shocks And 't is well known how the next transmarine Kings have been brought to lower ebbs At this very day he of Spain is in a far worse condition being in the midst of two sorts of peeple the Catalan and Portuguais which wer lately his Vassalls but now have torn his Seals renounc'd all bonds of allegeance and are in actuall hostility against him This great City I may say is like a Ches-board chequer'd inlayd with white and black spots though I believe the white are more in number and your Majesties countenance by returning to your great Counsell and your Court at White-Hall would quickly turn them all white That Almighty Majesty who useth to draw light out of darknes and strength out of weaknes making mans extremity his opportunity preserve and prosper your Majesty according to the Prayers early and late of your Maâ—…esties most loyall Subject Servant and Martyr Fleet 3. Septem 1644. Howell LXVI To E. Benlowes Esqr. upon the receipt of a Table of exquisit Latine Poems SIR I Thank you in a very high degree for that precious Table of Poems you pleas'd to send me When I had well viewd them I thought upon that famous Table of Proportion which Ptolomy is recorded by Aristaeus to have sent Eleazar to Hierusalem which was counted a stupendious piece of Art and the wonderment of those times what the curiosity of that Table was I have not read but I believe it consisted in extern mechanicall artifice only The beauty of your Table is of a far more noble extraction being a pure spirituall work so that it may be call'd the Table of your soul in confirmation of the opinion of that divine though Pagan Philosopher the high wing'd Plato who fancied that our souls at the first infusion wer as so many Tables they were abrasae Tabulae and that all our future knowledg was but a reminiscence But under favor these rich and elaborate Poems which so loudly eccho out your worth and ingenuity deserve a far more lasting monument to
be had from Italy and the chief Materials from Spain France and other Forren Countries there is need â—…f an Agent abroad for this use and better then I have offered their service in this kind so that I believe I shall have Employment in all these Countreys before I return Had I continued still Steward of the Glasse-house in Broadstreet where Captain Francis Bacon hath succeeded me I should in a short time have melted away to nothing amongst those hot Venetians finding my self too green for such a Charge therefore it hath pleased God to dispose of me now to a Condition more sutable to my yeers and that will I hope prove more advantagious to my future Fortunes In this my Peregrination if I happen by some accident to be disappointed of that allowance I am to subsist by I must make my addresse to you for I have no other Rendevous to flee unto but it shall not be unlesse in case of great indigence Touching the News of the Time Sir George Villiers the new Favorit tapers up apace and grows strong at Court His Predecessor the Earl of Somerset hath got a Lease of ninety years for his life and so hath his articulate Lady called so for articling against the frigidity and impotence of her former Lord. She was afraid that Coke the Lord chief Justice who had used extraordinary an and industry in discovering all the circumstances of the poisoning of Overbury would have made white Broth of them but that the Prerogative kept them from the Pot Yet the subservient instruments the lesser flyes could not break thorow but lay entangled in the Cobweb amongst others Mistris Turner the first Inventress of yellow-Starch was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff of that color at Tyburn and with her I believe that yellow-Starch which so much disfigured our-Nation and rendered them so ridiculous anâ—… fantastic will receive its Funerall Sir Gervas Elwayes Lieutenanâ—… of the Tower was made a notable Example of Justice and Terrâ—… to all Officers of Trust for being accessory and that in a passiâ—… way only to the murder yet he was hanged on Tower-hill anâ—… the Caveat is very remarkable which he gave upon the Gallowâ—… That people should be very cautious how they make Vows 〈◊〉 heaven for the breach of them seldome passe without a Judgement whereof he was a most ruthfull Example for being in thâ—… Low-Countreys and much given to Gaming he once made a solemn Vow which he brake afterwards that if he played abovâ—… such a sum he might be hanged My Lord William of Pembrook diâ—… a most noble Act like himself for the King having given hiâ—… all Sir Gervas Elway's estate which came to above 1000 pound 〈◊〉 he freely bestowed it on the widow and her children The later end of this week I am to go a Ship-board and first 〈◊〉 the Low-Countreys I humbly pray your Blessing may accompany me in these my Travels by Land and Sea with a conâ—…uance of your prayers which will be as so many good Gales to â—…ow me to safe Port for I have been taught That the Parents Beâ—…udictions contribute very much and have a kind of prophetic vertue â—…o make the childe prosperous In this opinion I shall ever rest Broad-street in London this 1. of March 1618. Your dutifull Son J. H. III. To Dr. Francis Mansell since Principall of Jesus Colledge in Oxford SIR BEing to take leave of England and to lanch out into the world abroad to Breath forren air a while I thought it very â—…andsom and an act well becoming me to take my leave also of â—…ou and of my dearly honoured Mother Oxford Otherwise both â—…f you might have just grounds to exhibite a Bill of Complaint or rather a Protest against me and cry me up you for a forgetfull friend she for an ingratefull Son if not some spurious Issue To â—…revent this I salute you both together you with the best of my â—…ost candid affections her with my most dutifull observance â—…nd thankfulnesse for the milk she pleased to give me in that Exuberance had I taken it in that measure she offered it me while â—… slept in her lap yet that little I have sucked I carry with me â—…ow abroad and hope that this cours of life will help to concoct 〈◊〉 to a greater advantage having opportunity by the nature of â—…y employment to study men as well as Books The small time I â—…upervis'd the Glasse-house I got amongst those Venetians some â—…atterings of the Italian Toung which besides the little I have â—…ou know of School-languages is all the Preparatives I have made â—…or travell I am to go this week down to Gravesend and so â—…mbarque for Holland I have got a Warrant from the Lords of â—…he Councell to travell for three years any where Rome and S. Omer excepted I pray let me retain some room though never so little in your thoughts during the time of this our separation and let our souls meet sometimes by intercours of letters I promise you that yours shall receive the best entertainment I can make them for I love you dearly dearly well and value your friendship at a very high raâ—…e So with apprecation of as much happiness to you at home as I shall desire to accompany me abroad I rest ever Your friend to serve you J. H. London this 〈◊〉 of March 1618. IV. To Sir James Crofts Knight at S. Osith SIR I Could not shake hands with England without kissing your hands also and because in regard of your distance now from London I cannot do it in person I send this paper for my deputy The News that keeps greatest noise here now is the return of Sir Walter Raleigh from his myne of Gold in Guiana the South parts of America which at first was like to be such a hopeful boon Voyage but it seems that that golden myne is proved a meer Chymerâ—… an imaginary aiâ—…y myne and indeed his Majestie had never any other conceipt of it But what will not one in Captivity as Sir Walter was promise to regain his Freedom who would not promise not onely mynes but mountains of Gold for Liberty t is pity such a knowing well-weigh'd Knight had not had a better Fortune for the Destiny I mean that brave Ship which he built himself of that name that carried him thither is like to prove a fatall Destiny to him and to some of the rest of those gallant Adventurers which contributed for the setting forth of thirteen Ships more who were most of them his kinsmen and younger brothers being led into the said Expedition by a generall conceipt the world had of the wisedom of Sir Walter Raleigh and many of these are like to make Shipwrack of their estates by this Voyage Sir Walter landed at Plymouth whence he thought to make an escape and some say he hath tampered with his body by Phisick to make him look sickly that he may be the more pitied and permitted to lie in his own
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
any They have another saying a French-woman in a dance a Dutch-woman in the kitchin an Italian in a window an English-woman at board and the Spanish a bed When they are maried they have a privilege to wear high shooes and to paint which is generally practised here and the Queen useth it her self They are coy enough but not so froward as our English for if a Lady go along the street and all women going here vaild and their habit so generally like one can hardly distinguish a Countess from a Coblers wife if one should cast out an odd ill sounding word and ask her a favour she will not take it ill but put it off and answer you with some wittie retort After 30 they are commonly past child-â—…earing and I have seen women in England look as youthfull at 50 as some here at 25. Money will do miracles here in purchasing the favor of Ladies or any thing els though this be the Countrey of money for it furnisheth well-near all the world besides yea their very enemies as the Turk and Hollander insomuch that one may say the Coyn of Spain is as Catholic as her King Yet though he be the greatest King of gold and silver Mines in the world I think yet the common currant Coin here is Copper and herein I beleeve the Hollander hath done him more mischief by counterfeiting his Copper Coins than by their armes bringing it in by strange surreptitious waies as in hollow Sows of Tin and Lead hollow Masts in pitcht Buckets under water and other waies But I fear to be injurious to this great King to speak of him in so narrow a compass a great King indeed though the French in a slighting way compare his Monarchy to a Beggars Cloak made up of patches they are patches indeed but such as he hath not the like The East Indies is a patch embroyder'd with Pearl Rubies and Diamonds Peru is a patch embroider'd with massie gold Mexico with silver Naples and Milain are patches of cloth of Tissue and if these patches were in one peece what would become of his cloak embroyderd with flower deluces So desiring your Lopp to pardon this poor imperfect paper considering the high quality of the subject I rest Madrid 1 Feb. 1623. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXXI To Mr Walsingham Gresly from Madrid Don Balchasar I Thank you for your Letter in my Lords last packet wherin among other passages you write unto me the circumstances of Marques Spinola's raising his Leaguer by flatting and firing his works before Berghen He is much tax'd here to have attempted it and to have buried so much of the Kings tresure before that town in such costly Trenches A Gentleman came hither lately who was at the siege all the while and he told me one strange passage how Sir Ferdinando Cary a huge corpulent Knight was shot through his body the bullet entring at the Navell and comming out at his back kill'd his man behind him yet he lives still and is like to recover With this miraculous accident he told me also a merry one how a Captain that had a Woodden Leg Booted over had it shatterd to peeces by a Cannon Bullet his Soldiers crying out a Surgeon a Surgeon for the Captain no no said he a Carpenter a Carpenter will serve the tuâ—…n To this pleasant tale I 'le add another that happen'd lately in Alcala hard by of a Dominican Fryer who in a solemn Procession which was held there upon Ascension day last had his stones dangling under his habit cut off insteed of his pocket by a cut-purse Before you return hither which I understand will be speedily I pray bestow a visit on our friends in Bishopsgate-street So I am â—… Feb. 1623. Your faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXIII To Sir Robert Napier Knight at his house in Bishops-gate-street from Madrid SIR THe late breach of the Match hatch broke the neck of all businesses here and mine suffers as much as any I had access lately to Olivares once or twice I had audience also of the King to whom I presented a memoriall that intimated Letters of Mart unless satisfaction were had from his Vice-roy the Conde del Real the King gave me a gracious answer but Olivares a churlish one viz. That when the Spaniards had justice in England we should have justice here So that notwithstanding I have brought it to the highest point and pitch of perfection in Law that could be and procur'd som dispatches the like wherof were never granted in this Court before yet I am in dispair now to do any good I hope to be shortly in England by God grace to give you and the rest of the proprietaries a punctuall account of all things And you may easily conceive how sorry I am that matters succeeded not according to your expectation and my endeavours but I hope you are none of those that measure things by the event The Earl of Bristoll Count Gondamar and my Lord Ambassador Aston did not only do courtesies but they did cooperate with me in it and contributed their utmost endeavours So I rest Madrid 19. Feb. 1623. Yours to serve you J. H. XXXIV To Mr. A. S. in Alicant MUch endeared Sir Fire you know is the common emblem of love But without any disparagement to so noble a passion me thinks it might be also compar'd to tinder and Letters are the proper'st matter wherof to make this tinder Letters again are fittest to kindle and re-accend this tinder they may serve both for flint steel and match This Letter of mine comes therfore of set purpose to strike som sparkles into yours that it may glow and burn and receive ignition and not lie dead as it hath don a great while I make my pen to serve for an instrument to stir the cinders wherewith your old love to me hath bincover'd a long time therfore I pray let no covurez-fâ—…u Bell have power hereafter to rake up and choak with the ashes of oblivion that cleer slame wherwith our affections did use to sparkle so long by correspondence of Letters and other offices of love I think I shall sojourn yet in this Court these three moneths for I will not give over this great busines while ther is the least breath of hope remaining I know you have choice matter of intelligence somtimes from thence therfore I pray impait som unto us and you shall not fail to know how matters pass here weekly So with my bâ—…sa manos to Francisco Imperiall I rest Madrid 3 Mar. 1623. Yours most affectionately to serve you J. H. XXXV To the Honble Sir T. S. at Tower-Hill SIR I Was yesterday at the Escuriall to see the Monastery of Saint Laurence the eight wonder of the World and truly considering the site of the place the state of the thing and the symmetry of the structure with divers other raritles it may be call'd so for what I have seen in Italy and other places are but bables to
Father who had bin in Amsterdam to look how his bank of money did thrive and coming for more frugality in the common Boat which was oreset with Merchandize and other passengers in a thick Fog the Vessell turn'd ore and so many perish'd the Prince Palsgrave sav'd himself by swimming but the young Prince clinging to the Mast and being intangled among the Tacklings was half drown'd and half frozen to death A sad destiny Ther is an open rupture twixt us and the Spaniard though he gives out that he never broke with us to this day Count Gondamar was on his way to Flanders and thence to England as they say with a large Commission to treat for a surrender of the Palainat and so to peece matters together again but he died in the journey at a place call'd Bunnol of pure apprehensions of grief as it is given out The match twixt his Majesty and the Lady Henrietta Maria youngest Daughter to Henry the great the eldest being maried to the King of Spain and the second to the Duke of Savoy goes roundly on and is in a manner concluded wherat the Count of Soissons is much discontented who gave himself hopes to have her but the hand of Heaven hath predestin'd her for a far higher condition The French Ambassadors who were sent hither to conclude the busines having privat audience of his late Majesty a little before his death he told them pleasantly That he would make war against the Lady Henrietta because she would not receive the two Letters which were sent her one from himself and the other from his son but sent them to her Mother yet he thought he should easily make peace with her because he understood she had afterwards put the latter Letter in her bosome and the first in her Coshionet wherly he gather'd that she intended to reserve his son for her Affection and him for Counsell The Bishop of Lucon now Cardinall de Richelieu is grown to be the sole Favorit of the King of France being brought in by the Queen-Mother he hath hin very active in advancing the match but 't is thought the wars will break out afresh against them of the Religion notwithstanding the ill fortune the King had before Mountauban few yeers since wher he lost above 500 of his Nobles wherof the great Duke of Main was one and having lain in person before the Town many months and receiv'd som affronts as that inscription upon their Gates shew Roy sans foy ville sans peur a King without faith a town without fear yet he was forc'd to raze his works and raise his siege The Letter which Mr. Ellis Hicks brought them of Mountauban from Rechell through so much danger and with so much gallantry was an infinit advantage unto them for wheras ther was a politic report rais'd in the Kings Army and blown into Mountauban that Rochell was yeelded to the Count of Soissons who lay â—…hen before her this Letter did inform the contrary and that Rochell was in as good a plight as ever wherupon they made a sally the next day upon the Kings Forces and did him a great deal of spoil Ther be summous out for a Parliament I pray God it may prove more prosperous than the former I have been lately recommended to the Duke of Buckingham by som noble friends of mine that have intimacy with him about whom though he hath three Secretaries already I hope to have som employment for I am weary of walking up and down so idly upon London streets The Plague begins to rage mightily God avert his judgments that meance so great a Mortality and turn not away his face from this poor Island So I kiss your Lordships hands in quality of Lond. 25. Feb. 1625. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XI To Rich. Altham Esqr. SIR THe Eccho wants but a face and the Looking-Glass a voice to make them both living creatures and to becom the same body they represent the one by repercussion of sound the other by reflection of sight Your most ingenious Letters to me from time to time do far more lively represent you than either Eccho or Crystall can do I mean they represent the better and nobler part of you to wit the inward man they clearly set forth the notions of your mind and the motions of your soul with the strength of your imagination for as I know your exterior person by your lineaments so I know you as well inwardly by your lines and by those lively expressions you give of your self insomuch that I beleeve if the interior man within you were so visible as the outward as once Plate wish'd that vertue might be seen with the corporeal eyes you would draw all the world after you or if your well-born thoughts and the words of your Letters were eccho'd in any place wher they might rebound and be made audible they are compos'd of such sweet and charming strains of ingenuity and eloquence that all the Nymphs of the Woods and the Valleys the Dryades yea the Graces and Muses ' would pitch their Pavillions there nay Apollo himself would dwell longer in that place with his Rays and make them reverberat more strongly than either upon Pindus or Parnassus or Rhodes it self whence he never removes his Eye as long as he is above this Hemispher I confess my Letters to you which I send by way of correspondence com far short of such vertue yet are they the true Idaeas of my mind and of that reall and inbred affection I bear you one should never teach his Letter or his Laquay to lie I observe that rule but besides my Letters I could wish ther were a Crystall Casement in my Brest thorow which you might behold the motions of my heart Utinamque oculos in pectore pesses Inserere then should you clearly see without any deception of sight how truely I am and how intirely 27 of Febr. 1625. Yours J. H. And to answer you in the same strain of Vers you sent me First Shall the Heavens bright Lamp forget to shine The Stars shall from the Azurd skie decline First Shall the Orient with the West shake hand The Center of the world shall cease to stand First Wolves shall ligue with Lambs the Dolphins flie The Lawyer and Physitian Fees deny The Thames with Tagus shall exchange her Bed My Mistris locks with mine shall first turn red First Heaven shall lie below and Hell above Ere I inconstant to my Altham prove XII To the R. honble my Lord of Calingford after Earl of Carberry at Colden Grove 28 May. 1625. My Lord VVE have gallant news now abroad for we are sure to have a new Queen ere it be long both the Contract and mariage was lately solemniz'd in France the one the second of this month in the Louvre the other the eleventh day following in the great Church of Paris by the Cardinall of Rochefoucand ther was som clashing 'twixt him and the Archbishop of Paris who
ever was taken on salt-water Add hereunto that while we were thus Masters of those Seas a Fleet of fifty sail of Brasil men got safe into Lisbon with four of the richest Caraâ—…ks that ever came from the East-Indies I hear my Lord of Saint Davids is to be remov'd to Bath and Wells and it were worth your Lordships comming up to endeavor the succeeding of him So I humbly rest Lond. 20 Novem. 1626. Your Lordships most ready Servitor J. H. XVIII To my Lord Duke of Buckinghams Grace at New-Market MAy it please your Grace to peruse and pardon these few Advertisements which I would not dare to present had I not hopes that the goodnes which is concomitant with your greatnes would make them veniall My Lord a Parliament is at hand the last was boisterous God grant that this may prove more calm A rumor runs that ther are Clouds already ingendred which will break out into a storm in the lower Regionâ—… and most of the drops are like to fall upon your Grace This though it be but vulgar Astrology is not altogether to bee contemn'd though I believe that His Majesties countenance reflecting so strongly upon your Grace with the brightnes of your own innocency may be able to dispell and scatter them to nothing My Lord you are a great Prince and all eyes are upon your actions this makes you more subject to envy which like the Sun beams beats alwayes upon rising grounds I know your Grace hath many sage and solid heads about you yet I trust it â—… will prove no offence if out of the late relation I have to your Grace by the recommendation of such Noble personages I put in also my Mite My Lord under favor it were not amiss if your Grace would be pleased to part with som of those places you hold which have least relation to the Court and it would take away the mutterings that run of multiplicity of Offices and in my shallow apprehension your Grace might stand more firm without an Anchor The Office of High Admirall in these times of action requires one whole man to execute it your Grace hath another Sea of businesses to wade through and the voluntary resigning of this Office would fill all men yea even your enemies with admiration and affection and make you more a Prince than detract from your greatnes If any ill successes happen at Sea as that of the Lord Wimbledons lately or if ther be any murmur for pay your Grace will be free from all imputations besides it will afford your Grace more leasure to look into your own affairs which lie confus'd and unsetled Lastly which is not the least thing this act will be so plausible that it may much advantage His Majesty in point of Subsidy Secondly it were expedient under correction that your Grace would be pleas'd to allot som set hours for audience and access of Suters and it would be less cumber to your Self and your Servants and give more content to the World which often mutters for difficulty of access Lastly it were not amiss that your Grace would settle a standing Mansion-house and Family that Suters may know whither to repair constantly and that your Servants evry one in his place might know what belongs to his place and attend accordingly for though confusion in a great Family carry a kind of state with it yet order and regularity gains a greater opinion of vertue and wisdom I know your Grace doth not nor needs not affect popularity It is true that the peoples love is the strongest Cittadell of a Soveraign Prince but to a great subject it hath often prov'd fatall for he who pulleth off his Hat to the People giveth his Head to the Prince and it is remarkable what was said of a late infortunat Earl who a little before Queen Elizabeths death had drawn the Ax upon his own Neck That he was grown so popular that he was too dangerous for the times and the times for him My Lord now that your Grace is threatned to be heav'd at it should behove evry one that oweth you duty and good will to reach out his hand som way or other to serve you Amonst these I am one that presumes to doe it in this poor impertinent Paper for which I implore pardon because I am Lond. 13 Febr. 1626. My Lord Your Grace's most humble and faithfull Servant J. H. XIX To Sir J. S. Knight SIR THer is a saying which carrieth no little weight with it that Parvus amor loquitur ingens stapet Small love speaks while great love stands astonish'd with silence The one keeps a tatling while the other is struck dumb with amazement like deep Rivers which to the eye of the beholder seem to stand still while small shallow Rivulets keep a noise or like empty Casks that make an obstreperous hollow sound which they would not do were they replenish'd and full of Substance T is the condition of my love to you which is so great and of that profoundnes that it hath been silent all this while being stupified with the contemplation of those high Favours and sundry sorts of Civilities wherwith I may say you have overwhelm'd me This deep Foard of my affection and gratitude to you I intend to cut out hereafter into small currents I mean into Letters that the cours of it may be heard though it make but a small bubling noise as also that the clearnes of it may appear more visible I desire my Service be presented to my noble Lady whose fair hands I humbly kiss and if shee want any thing that London can afford she need but command her and Lond. 11. of Febr 1626. Your most faithfull and ready Servitor J. H. XX. To the Right honble the Earl R. My Lord ACcording to promise and that portion of obedience I ow to your commands I send your Lordship these few Avisos som wherof I doubt not but you have received before and that by â—…bler pens than mine yet your Lordship may happily find herein somthing which was omitted by others or the former news made clearer by circumstance I hear Count Mansfelt is in Paris having now receiv'd three routings in Germany 't is thought the French King will peece him up again with new recruits I was told that as he was seeing the two Queens one day at Dinner the Queen-Mother said they say Count Mansfelt is here amongst this Croud I do not believe it quoth the young Queen For whensoever he seeth a Spaniard he runs away Matters go untowardly on our side in Germanie but the King of Denmark will be shortly in the field in person and Bethlem Gabor hath been long expected to do somthing but som think he will prove but a Bugbear Sir Charls Morgan is to go to Germanie with 6â—…00 Anxiliaries to joyn with the Danish Army The Parliament is adjourn'd to Oxford by reason of the sicknes which increaseth exceedingly and before the King went out of Town ther dyed
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
from the Isle of Ree or as soâ—… call it the I le of Rue for the bitter success wee had there for we had but a â—…t entertainment in that salâ—… Island Our first invasion was magnanimous brave wherat neer upon 200 French Gentlemen perished and divers Barons of quality My Lord Newport had ill luck to disorder our Cavalry with an unruly Horse he had His brother Sir Charls Rich was slain and divers more upon the retreat amongst others great Golonell Gray fell into Salt-pit and being ready to be drownd he cryed out Cens mill escus pour ma rançon a hundred thousand Crowns for my ransom the French-men hearing that preserv'd him though he was not worth a hundred thousand pence Another merry passage a Captain told me that when they were rifling the dead bodies of the French Gentlemen after the first invasion they found that many of them had their Mistresses favors tyed about their genitories The French do much glory to have repell'd us thus and they have reason for the truth is they comported themselves gallantly yet they confess our landing was a notable piece of courage and if our Retreat had been answerable to the Invasion we had lost no honor at all A great number of gallant Gentlemen fell on our side as Sir Iohn Heyden Sir Io. Burrowes Sir George Blundell Sir Alex. Brett with divers Veteran Commanders who came from the Netherlands to this service God send us better success the next time for ther is another Fleet preparing to be sent under the Command of the Lord Denbigh so I kiss your hands and am Lond. 24 of Sept 1627. Your humble Servitor J. H. VI. To the Right Honble the Lord Scroop Earl of Sunderland Lord President of the North. My Lord MY Lord Dâ—…nbigh is returned from attempting to relieve Rochell which is reduc'd to extreme exigent And now the Duke is preparing to go again with as great power as was yet rais'd notwithstanding that the Parliament hath flown higher at him than ever which makes the people here hardly wish any good success to the Expedition because he is Generall The Spaniard stands at a gaze all this while hoping that we may do the work otherwise I think he would find som way to relieve that Town for ther is nothing conduceth more to the uniting and strengthning of the French Monarchy than the reduction of Rochell The King hath been there long in person with his Cardinall and the stupendious works they have rais'd by Sea and Land are beyond belief as they say The Sea-works and booms were traced out by Marquis Spinola as he was passing that way for Spain from Flanders The Parliament is prorogued till Michaelmas term ther weâ—… five Subsidies granted the greatest gift that ever Subjects gave their King at once and it was in requitall that his Majesty pass'd the Petition of Right wherby the liberty of the free-born subject is so strongly and clearly vindicated So that ther is a fair correspondence like to be 'twixt his Majesty and the two Houses The Duke made a notable Speech at the Counsell Table in joy hereof amongst other passages one was that hereafter his Majestie would please to make the Parliament his Favorit and he to have the honor to remain still his servant No more now but that I continue Lond. 25. Sept. 1628. Your Lordships most dutifull Servant J. H. VII To the Right Honble the La Scroope Countess of Sunderland from Stamford Madam I Lay yesternight at the Post House at Stilton and this morning betimes the Post-master came to my beds head and told me the Duke of Buckingham was slain my faith was not then strong enough to believe it till an hour ago I met in the way with my Lord of Rutland your Brother riding Post towards London it pleas'd him to alight and shew me a Letter wherin ther was an exact relation of all the circumstances of this sad Tragaedy Upon Saturday last which was but next before yesterday being Bartholmew yeeve the Duke did rise up in a well disposed humor out of his bed and cutt a Caper or two and being ready and having been under the Barbers hands wher the Murtherer had thought to have don the deed for hee was leaning upon the Window all the while hee went to breakfast attended by a great Company of Commanders where Monsieur Soubize came unto him and whispered him in the ear that Rochell was relieved the Duke seem'd to slight the news which made som think that Soubize went away discontented After Breakfast the Duke going out Colonell Fryer stepped before him and stopping him upon som busines one Lieutenant Felton being behind made a thrust with a common tenpeny knife over Fryers arm at the Duke which lighted so fatally that hee slit his heart in two leaving the knife sticking in the body The Duke took out the knife and threw it away and laying his hand on his Sword and drawn it half out said the Villain hath killd me meaning as som think Colonell Fryer for ther had been som difference 'twixt them so reeling against a Chimney hee fell down dead The Dutchess being with child hearing the noise below cam in her night geers from her Bed Chamber which was in an upper room to a kind of Rayl and thence beheld him weltering in his own bloud Felton had lost his Hat in the croud wherin ther was a Paper sowed wherin he declared that the reason which mov'd him to this act was no grudg of his own though hee had been far behind for his pay and had bin put by his Captains place twice but in regard he thought the Duke an enemy to the State because he was branded in Parliament therfore what he did was for the public good of his Countrey Yet he got clearly down and so might have gon to his horse which was tied to a hedg hard by but he was so amazed that he missd his way and so struck into the pastry where though the cry went that som Frenchman had don 't he thinking the word was Felton he boldly confessed t was he that had don the deed and so he was in their hands Iack Stamford would have run at him but he was kept off by Mr. Nicholas so being carried up to a Tower Captain Minâ—…e toare off his spurrs and asking how he durst attempt such an act making him beleeve the Duke was not dead he answerd boldly that he knew he was dispatchd for â—…was not he but the hand of heaven that gave the stroak and though his whole body had bin coverd over with armour of proof he could not have avoyded it Captain Charles Price went Post presently to the King four miles off who being at prayers on his knees when it was told him yet he never stirrd nor was he disturbd a whit till all divine service was don This was the relation as far as my memory could bear in my Lord of Rutlands Letter who willd me to remember him
Ambassage may be an advantage to the Company I will solicit my Lord that he may do you all the favor that may stand with his honor so I shall expect your instructions accordingly and rest Westmin 1 Iune 1632. Yours ready to serve you J. H. XLII To Mr. Alderman Clethero Governor of the Eastland Company SIR I Am inform'd of som complaints that your Company hath against the King of Denmarks Officers in the Sound The Earl of Leicester is nominated by his Majesty to go Ambassador extraordinary to that King and other Princes of Germany If this Embassy may be advantagious unto you you may send me your directions and I will attend my Lord accordingly to do you any favor that may stand with his honor and conduce to your benefit and redress of grievances so I take my leave and rest Westmin 1 of Iune 1632. Yours ready to do you service J. H. XLIII To the Right honble the Earl of Leicester at Pettworth Mr Lord SIR Iohn Pennington is appointed to carry your Lordship and your company to Germany and he intends to take you up at Margets I have bin with Mr Bourlamach and receiv'd a bill of exchange from him for ten thousand dollars payable in Hamburgh I have also receiv'd two thousand pounds of Sir Paul Pinder for your Lordships use and he did me the favor to pay it me all in old gold your allowance hath begun since the twenty five of Iuly last at eight pound per diem and is to continue so till your Lordship return to his Majesty I understand by som Merchants to day upon the Exchange that the King of Denmark is at Luckstadt and staies there all this somer if it be so 't will save half the voyage of going to Copenhagen for in lieu of the Sound we need go no further then the River of Elve so I rest Westmin 13 Aug. 1632. Your Lopp s most humble and faithfull Servitor J. H. XLIIII To the Right honble the Lord Mohun My Lord THough any comand from your Lordship be welcom to me at all times yet that which you lately injoynd me in yours of the twelfth of August that I should inform your Lordship of what I know touching the Inquisition is now a little unseasonable because I have much to do to prepare my selfe for this employment to Germany therfore I cannot satisfie you in that fulnes as I could do otherwise The very name of the Inquisition is terrible all Christendom over and the King of Spaint himself with the chiefest of his Grandes tremble at it It was sounded first by the Catholic King Ferdinand our Henry the eighths Father-in-law for he having got Granada and subdued all the Moors who had had firm sooting in that Kingdom about 700. years yet he suffer'd them to live peaceably a while in point of conscience but afterwards he sent a solemn Mandamus to the Jacobin Fryars to endeavour the conversion of them by preaching and all other meanes They finding that their paines did little good and that those whom they had converted turn'd Apostats obtain'd power to make a research which afterwards was call'd Inquisition and it was ratified by Pope Sâ—…xtus that if they would not conform themselves by faiâ—…e mâ—…anes they should be forc'd to it The Jacobins being sound too severe herein and for other abuses besides this Inquisition was taken from them and put into the hands of the most sufficient Ecclesiasticks So a Counsell was established and Officers appointed accordingly Whosoever was found pendulous and branling in his Religion was brought by a Serjeant call'd Familiar before the said Counsell of Inquisition His accuser or delator stands behind a peece of Tapistry to see whether he be the party and if he be then they put divers subtill and entrapping interrogatories unto him and whether he confess any thing or no he is sent to prison When the said Familiar goes to any house though it be in the dead of night and that 's the time commonly they use to com or in the dawn of the day all doors and trunks and chests fly open to him and the first thing he doth he seizeth the parties breeches searcheth his pockets and take his keyes and so rummageth all his closets and trunks and a public Notary whom he carrieth with him takes an Inventory of every thing which is sequestred and despositated in the hands of som of his next neighbours The party being hurried away in a close Coach and clapâ—… in prison he is there eight daies before he makes his appearance and then they present unto him the Cross and the Missall book to swear upon if he refuseth to swear he convinceth himself and though he sweare yet he is remanded to prison This Oath commonly is presented before any accusation be produc'd His Goaler is strictly comanded to pry into his actions his deportment words and countenance and to ser spies upon him and whosoever of his fellow prisoners or others can produce any thing against him he hath a reward for it At last after divers apparances examinations and scrutinies the Information against him is read but the witnesses names are conceal'd then is he appointed a Proctor and an Advocat but he must not confer or advise with them privatly but in the face of the Court The Kings Attorney is a party in 't and the accusers commonly the solé witnesses Being to name his own Lawyers oftentimes others are discovered and fall into trouble while he is thus in prison he is so abhor'd and abandoned of all the world that none will atleast none dare visit him Though one cleer himself yet he cannot be freed till an Act of â—…aith pass which is don seldom but very solemnly Ther are few who having fallen into the gripes of the Inquisition do scape the rack or the Sambenito which is a streight yellow coat without sleeves having the pourtrait of the Devill painted up and down in black and upon their heads they carry a Miâ—…er of paper with a man frying in the flames of hell upon 't they gag their mouths and tie a great cord about their necks The Iudges meet in som uncouth dark dungeon and the Executioner stands by clad in a close dark garment his head and face cover'd with a Chaperon out of which ther are but two holes to look through and a huge Link burning in his hand When the Ecclesiastic Inquisitors have pronounced the Anathema against him they transmit him to the secular Iudges to receave the sentence of death for Church-men must not have their hands imbru'd in bloud the King can mitigat any punishment under death nor iâ—… a Noble-man subject to the rack I pray be pleas'd to pardon this rambling imperfect relation and take in good part my Conformity to your Commands for I am Westmin 30 Aug. 1632. Your Lopps most ready and faithfull Servitor J. H. Familiar Letters SECTION VI. I. To P. W. Esq at the Signet Office from the English House in Hamburgh WE
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
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
My Lord I Have deliverd Mr. Secretary Coke an account of the whole legation as your Lordship inordred me which contain'd neer upon twenty sheets I attended him also with the Note of your extraordinaries wherin I find him somthing difficult and dilatory yet The Governor of the Eastland Company Mr. Alderman Clethero will attend your Lordship at your return to Court to acknowledge your favor unto them I have delivered him a Copy of the transactions of things that concern'd their Company at Rhensberg The news we heard at Sea of the King of Swedens death is confirm'd more and more and by the computation I have been a little curious to make I find that he was kill'd the same day your Lordship set out of Hamburgh But ther is other news com since of the death of the Prince Palatin who as they write being return'd from visiting the Duke De deux Ponts to Mentz was struck there with the Contagion yet by speciall ways of cure the malignity was expelld and great hopes of recovery when the news came of the death of the King of Sweden which made such impressions in him that he dyed few dayes after having overcom all difficulties by concluding with the Swede and the Governor of Frankindall and being ready to enter into a repossession of his Countrey A sad destiny The Swedes bear up still being somented and supported by the French who will not suffer them to leave Germany yet A Gentleman that came lately from Italy told me that ther is no great joy in Rome for the death of the King of Sweden The Spaniards up and down will not stick to call this Pope Lutherano and that he had intelligence with the Swede T is true that he hath not been so forward to assist the Emperor in this quarrell and that in open Consistory when ther was such a contrasto 'twixt the Cardinalls for a supply from Saint Peter he declard That he was well satisfied that this war in Germany was no war of Religion which made him dismiss the Imperiall Ambassadors with this short answer That the Emperor had drawn these mischiefs upon himself for at that time when he saw the Swedes upon the Frontires of Germany if he had imployed those men and moneys which he consum'd to trouble the peace of Italy in making war against the Duke of Mantova against them he had not had now so potent an enemy So I take my leave for this time being Westm. 3 Iune 1632. Your Lordships most humble and obedient Servitor J. H. IX To Mr. E. D. SIR I Thank you a thousand times for the Noble entertainment you gave me at Berry and the pains you took in shewing me the Antiquities of that place In requitall I can tell you of a strange thing I saw lately here and I beleeve 't is true As I pass'd by St. Dunstans in Fleet street the last Saturday I stepp'd into a Lapidary or Stone-cutters shop to treat with the Master for a stone to be put upon my Fathers Tomb and casting my eyes up and down I might spie a huge Marble with a large Inscription upon 't which was thus to my best remembrance Here lies John Oxenham a goodly young man in whose Chamber as he was strugling with the pangs of death a Bird with a white brest was seen fluttering about his Bed and so vanish'd Here lies also Mary Oxenham the sister of the said John who died the next day and the same Apparition was seen in the Room Then another Sister is spoke of Then Here lies hard by James Oxenham the son of the said John who died a child in his Cradle a little after and such a Bird was seen fluttering about his head a little before he expir'd which vanish'd afterwards At the bottom of the Stone ther is Here lies Elizabeth Oxenham the Mother of the said John who died sixteen years since when such a Bird with a white brest was seen about hex Bed before her death To all these ther be divers Witnesses both Squires and Ladies whose names are engraven upon the Stone This Stone is to be sent to a Town hard by Exeter wher this happen'd Were you here I could raise a choice Discours with you hereupon So hoping to see you the next Term to requite som of your favors I rest Westmin 3 Iuly 1632. Your true frend to serve you J. H. X. To W. B. Esq. SIR THe upbraiding of a courtesie is as bad in the Giver as ingratitude in the Receiver though which you think I am loath to believe be faulty in the first I shall never offend in the second while VVestmin 24. Octob. 1632. J. Howell XI To Sir Arthur Ingram at York SIR OUr greatest news here now is that we have a new Attorney Generall which is news indeed considering the humor of the man how hee hath been always ready to entertain any cause wherby he might clash with the Prerogative but now as Judg Richardson told him his head is full of Proclamations and Divices how to bring money into the Exchequer Hee hath lately found out amongst the old Records of the Tower som precedents for raising a tax cald Ship-money in all the Port Towns when the Kingdom is in danger Whether we are in danger or no at present 't were presumption in me to judg that belongs to his Majesty and his Privy Counsell who have their choice Instruments abroad for Intelligence yet one with half an eye may see wee cannot be secure while such huge Fleets of men of War both Spanish French Dutch and Dunkâ—…rkers som of them laden with Ammunition Men Arms and Armies do daily â—…ail on our Seas and confront the Kings Chambers while we have only three or four Ships abroad to guard our Coasts and Kingdom and to preserve the fairest Flower of the Crown the Dominion of the Narrow-Seas which I hear the French Cardinall begins to question and the Hollander lately would not vail to one of his Majesties ships that brought over the Duke of Lenox and my Lord Weston from Bullen and indeed we are jeer'd abroad that we send no more ships to guard our Seas Touching my Lord Ambassador Weston he had a brave journey of it though it câ—…st dear for 't is thought 't will stand his Majesty in 25000 pounds which makes som Criticks of the times to censure the Lord Tresurer That now the King wanting money so much hee should send his son abroad to spend him such a sum only for delivering of Presents and Complements but I believe they are deceiv'd for ther were matters of State also in the Ambassie The Lord Weston passing by Paris intercepted and open'd a Packet of my Lord of Hollands wherin ther were some Letters of Her Majesties this my Lord of Holland takes in that scorn that he defied him since his comming and demanded the combat of him for which he is confin'd to his House at Kensinton So with my humble service to my Noble Lady I rest Westmin
pence for every Oath which the Justices of Peace and Constables had power to raise and have still but this new Patentce is to quicken and put more life in the Law and see it executed He hath power to nominat one or two or three in som Parishes which are to have Commission from him for this Public Service and so they are to be exempt from bearing Office which must needs deserve a gratuity And I beleeve this was the main drift of the Scot Patentce so that he intends to keep his Office in the Temple and certainly he is like to be mighty gainer by it for who would not give a good peece of money to be freed from bearing all cumbersom Offices No more now but that with my dear love to my sister I rest Westmin 1 Aug. 1633. Your most affectionat Brother J. H. XVII To the Right honble the Lord Vicount Savage at Long-Melford My Lord THe old Steward of your Courts Master Attorney-Generall Noy is lately dead nor could Tunbridg-waters do him any good Though he had good matter in his brain he had it seems ill materialls in his body for his heart was shrivelled like a Leather peny-purse when he was dissected nor were his lungs sound Being such a great Clerk in the Law all the World wonders he left such an odd Will which is short and in Latin The substance of it is that having bequeathd a few Legacies and left his second son 100 Marks a year and 500 pounds in Money enough to bring him up in his Fathers Profession he concludes Reliqua meorum omnia progenito meo Edoardo dissipanda nec meliùs unquam speravi lego I leave the rest of all my goods to my first-born Edward to be consum'd or scatterd for I never hoped better A strange and scarce a Christian Will in my opiniâ—… for it argues uncharitablenes Nor doth the World wonder less that he should leave no Legacie to som of your Lordships children considering what deep Obligations he had to your Lordship for I am confident he had never bin Attorney Generall els The Vintners drink Carowses of joy that he is gon for now they are in hopes to dress Meat again and sell Tobacco Beer Sugar and Fagots which by a sullen Capricio of his he would have restraind them from He had his humors as other men but certainely he was a solid rational man and though no great Orator yet a profound Lawyer and no man better versd in the Records of the Tower I heard your Lordship often say with what infinit pains and indefatigable study he came to this knowledge And I never heard a more pertinent Anagram then was made of his name William Noye I moyle in law If ans be added it may be applied to my Country-man Judge Iones an excellent Lawyer too and a far more Gentile man William Iones I moile in laws No more now but that I rest Westmin 1 Octo. 1635. Your Lopps most humble and obliged Servitor J. H. XVIII To the Right honble the Countess of Sunderland Madam HEre inclos'd I send your Ladiship a Letter from the Lord Deputy of Ireland wherin he declares that the disposing of the Attorniship in York which he passed over to me had no relation to my Lord at all but it was meerly don out of a particular respect to me your Ladyship may please to think of it accordingly touching the accounts It is now a good while the two Nephew-Princes have bin here I mean the Prince Elector and Prince Robert The King of Swedens death and the late blow at Norlingen hath half blasted their hopes to do any good for recovery of the Palatinat by land Therfore I hear of som new designes by Sea That the one shall go to Madagascar a great Island 800 miles long in the East Indies never yet coloniz'd by any Christian and Captain Boâ—…d is to be his Lieutenant the other is to go with a considerable Fleet to the West Indies to seize upon som place there that may countervail the Palatinat and Sir Henry Mervin to go with him But I hear my Lady Elizabeth opposeth it saying that she will have none of her sons to be Knights-errant Ther is now professed actuall enmity twixt France and Spain for ther was a Herald at Arms sent lately to Flanders from Paris who by sound of Trumpet denounced and proclaimed open War against the King of Spain and all his Dominions this Herald left and fixed up the Defiance in all the Townes as he passed so that wheras before the War was but collaterall and auxiliary there is now proclaim'd Hostility between them notwithstanding that they have one anothers sisterâ—… in their beds evry night What the reason of this War is truly Madame I cannot tell unlesse it bee reason of state to preveâ—… the further growth of the Spanish Monarchy and ther be multitude of examples how Preventive Wars have been practisâ—… from all times Howsoever it is too sure that abundance of Christian bloud will be spilt So I humbly take my leave and rest Westminster 4 Iune 1635. Madame Your Ladiships most obedient and faithfull Servitor I. H. XIX To the Earl of Leicester at Penshurst My Lord I Am newly returned out of France from a flying Journey as far as Orleans which I made at the request of Mr. Secretary Windâ—… bank and I hope I shall receive som fruits of it hereafter Ther is yet a great resentment in many places in France for the beheading of Montmorency whom Henry the fourth was us'd to say to be a better Gentleman than himself for in his Colors he carry'd this Motto Dieu ayde le premier Chevalier de France God help the first Knight of France Hee dyed upon a Scaâ—…told in Tholouze in the flower of his years at 34 and hath left no Issue behind so that noble old Family extinguish'd in a snust His Treason waâ—… very foul having received particular Commissions from the King to make an extraordinary Levy of men and money in Languedoc which he turn'd afterwards directly against the King against whose person he appear'd arm'd in open field and in a hostile posture for fomenting of Monsieurs Rebellion The Insante Cardinall is com to Brussells at last thorow many difficulties and som few days before Monsieur made semblance to go a Hawking and so fled to France but left his mother behind who since the Arch-Dutchess death is not so well look'd on as formerly in that Countrey Touching your busines in the Exchequer Sir Robert Pye weâ—… with me this morning of purpose to my Lord Tresurer about it and told me with much earnestnes and assurance that ther shall be a speedy cours taken for your Lordships satisfaction I deliverd my Lord of Linsâ—…y the Manuscript he lent your Lordship of his Fathers Embastie to Denmark and herewith I present your Lordship with a compleat Diaâ—…y of your own late legation which hath cost me som oil and labor So I rest always Westm. 19 Iune
thus engendring and in solutis principiis in their liquid formes and not consolidated into hard bodies for then they have not that vertue they impart heat to the neighbouring Waters So then it may be concluded that this soyl about the Bath is a minerall vein of earth and the fermenting gentle temper of generative heat that goes to the production of the said Mineralls do impart and actually communicat this balneal vertue and medicinall heat to these Waters This subject of Minerall Waters would afford an Ocean of matter wer one to compile a solid discours of it And I pray excuse me that I have presum'd in so narrow a compas as a Letter to comprehend so much which is nothing I think in comparison of what you know already of this matter So I take my leave and humbly kiss your hands being allwayes From the Bath â—…3 Iuly 1638. Your most faithfull and ready Servitor J. H. XXXVI From Dublin to Sir Ed Savage Knight at Tower-Hill SIR I Am com safely to Dublin over an angry boysterous Sea whether 't was my voyage on Salt-water or change of Ayr being now under another clime which was the cause of it I know not but I am suddenly freed of the pain in my Arm when neither Bath nor Plasters and other remedies could do me good I deliver'd your Letter to Mr. Iames Dillon but nothing can be don in that busines till your brother Pain coms to Town I meet heer with divers of my Northern frends whom I knew at York Heer is a most splendid Court kept at the Castle and except that of the Vice-roy of Naples I have not seen the like in Christendom and in one point of Grandeza the Lord Deputy heer goes beyond him sor he can confer honours and dub Knights which that Vice-roy cannot or any other I know of Trafic encreaseth heer wonderfully with all kind of bravery and buildings I made an humble motion to my Lord that in regard businesses of all sorts did multiply here daily and that ther was but one Clerk of the Counsell Sir Paul Davis who was able to dispatch busines Sir Will. Usher his Collegue being very aged and bed-rid his Lordship would please to think of me My Lord gave me an answer full of good respects to succeed Sir William after his death No more now but with my most affectionat respects unto you I rest Dublin 3 May 1639. Your faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXVII To Dr. Vsher Lo Primat of Ireland MAy it please your Grace to accept of my most humble Acknowledments for those Noble favours I receiv'd at Droghedah and that you pleas'd to communicat unto me those rare Manuscripts in so many Languages and divers choice Authors in your Library Your learned Work De primordiis Ecclesiarum Britannicarum which you pleas'd to send me I have sent to England and so it shall be conveyd to Iesus College in Oxford as a gift from your Grace I hear that Cardinal Barberino one of the Popes Nephews is setting forth the works of Fastidius a British Bishop call'd De vita Christiana It was written 300 yeers after our Saviour and Holstenius hath the care of the Impression I was lately looking for a word in Sâ—…idas and I lighted upon a strange passage in the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That in the Reign of Iustinian the Emperour one Theodosius a Jew a man of great Authority liv'd in Ierusalem with whom a rich Goldsmith who was a Christian was in much favour and very familiar The Goldsmith in privat discours told him one day that be wondred â—…e being a man of such a great understanding did not turn Christian considering how he found all the Prophecies of the Law so evidently accomplish'd in our Saviour and our Saviours Prophecies accomplish'd since Theodosius answered That it did not stand with his security and continuance in Authority to turn Christian but he had a long time a good opinion of that Religion and he would discover a secret unto him which was not yet com to the knowledg of any Christian It was That when the Temple was founded in Ierusalem ther wer 22 Priests according to the number of the Hebrew letters to officiat in the Temple and when any was chosen his name with his fathers and mothers wer us'd to be registred in a fair Book In the time of Christ a Priest died and he was chosen in his place but when his name was to be entred his father Ioseph being dead his mother was sent for who being ask'd who was his father she answered that she never knew man but that she conceiv'd by an Anâ—… So his name was registred in these words IESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD AND OF THE VIRGIN MARY This Record at the destruction of the Temple was preserved and is to be seen in Tyberias to this day I humbly desire your Graces opinion heerof in your next They write to me from England of rare news in France which is that the Queen is delivered of a Daulphin the wonderfull'st thing of this kind that any Story can parallel for this is the three and twentieth yeer since she was married and hath continued childles all this while so that now Monsieurs cake is dough and I beleeve he will be more quiet heerafter So I rest Dublin 1 March 1639. Your Graces most devoted Servitor J. H. XXXVIII To my Lord Clifford from Edenburgh My Lord I Have seen now all the King of Great Britain's Dominions he is a good Traveller that hath seen all his Dominions I was born in Wales I have bin in all the four corners of England I have traveâ—…sed the Diameter of France more than once and now I am com thorow Ireland into this Kingdom of Scotland This Town of Edinburgh is one of the fairest streets that ever I saw exepting that of Palermo in Sicily it is about a mile long coming sloping down from the Castle call'd of old the Castle of Virgins and by Pliny Castrum alatum to Holy-Rood-House now the Royall Palace and these two begin and terminat the town I am com hither in a very convenient time for heer 's a Nationall Assembly and a Parlement my Lord Traquair being His Majesties Commissioner The Bishops are all gon to wâ—…ack and they have had but a sorry Funerall the very name is grown so contemptible that a black Dog if he have any white marks about him is call'd Bishop Our Lord of Canterbury is grown heer so odious that they call him commonly in the Pulpit The Priest of Baal and the son of Belial I 'll tell your Lordship of a passage which happened lately in my lodging which is a Tavern I had sent for a Shoo-maker to make me a pair of Boots and my Landlord who is a peâ—…t smart man brought up a chopin of Whitewine and for this particular ther are betteâ—… French-wines heer than in England and cheaper for they are but at a Groat a quart and it is a crime of a high
Commands before I go So I am Lond. 2 May 1640. Your most humble Servitor J. H. XLIV To my Lord Herbert of Cherbery from Paris My Lord I Send herewith Dodonas Grove couch'd in French and in in the newest French for though the main version be mine yet I got one of the Academie des beaux Esprits heer to run it over to correct and refine the language and reduce it to the most modern Dialect It took so heer that the new Academy of wits have given a public and far higher Elogium of it than it deserves I was brought to the Cardinall at Ruelle wher I was a good while with him in his privat Garden and it were a vanity in me to insert here what Propositions he made me Ther be som sycophants heer that idolize him and I blush to read what profane Hyperboles are Printed up and down of him I will instance in a few Cedite Richelio mortales cedite Divi Ille homines vincit vincit ille Deos. Then Et si nous faisons des ghirlandes C'est pour en couronner un Dieu Qui soubs le nom de Richelieu Resoit nos â—…oeus nos offrandes Then Richelii adventu Rupellae porta patescit Christo Infernales ut patuere fores Certainly he is a rare man and of a transcendent reach and they are rather miracles than exploits that he hath don though those miracles be of a sanguin Dy the colour of his habit steep'd in bloud which makes the Spaniard call him the gran Caga-fuego of Christendom Divers of the scientific all'st and most famous win here have spoken of your Lordship with admiration and of your great work De veritate and wer those excellent notions and theoricall precepts actually applyed to any particular Science it would be an infinit advantage to the Common-wealth of learning all the World over So I humbly kiss your hands and rest Paris April 1. 1641. Your Lordships most faithfull Servitor J. H. XLV To the Right honble M â— Elizabeth Altham now Lady Digby Madam THer be many sad hearts for the loss of my Lord Robert Digby but the greatest weight of sorrow falls upon your Ladiship Amongst other excellent vertues which the world admires you for I know your Ladiship to have that measure of high discretion that will check your passions I know also that your patience hath been often exercis'd and put to triall in this kind For besides the Baron your Father and Sir Iames you lost your Brother Master Richard Altham in the verdant'st time of his age a Gentleman of rare hopes and I beleeve this sunk deep into your heart you lost Sir Francis Astlâ—…y since a worthy vertuous Gentleman And now you have lost a noble Lord. We all owe nature a debt which is payable som time or other whensoever she demands it nor doth Dame Nature use to seal Indentures or pass over either Lease or Patent for a set term of yeers to any For my part I have seen so much of the world that if she offer'd me a lease I would give her but a small fine for 't specially now that the times are grown so naught that peeple are becom more than half mad But Madam as long as ther are men ther must be malignant humors ther must be vices and vicissitudes of things as long as the world wheels round ther must be tossings and tumblings distractions and troubles and bad times must be recempenc'd with better So I humbly kiss your Ladiships hands and rest Madam Your constant Servant J. H. York 1 of Aug. 1642. XLVI To the Honorable Sir P. M. in Dublin SIR I Am newly return'd from France and now that Sir Edw. Nicholas is made Secretary of State I am put in fair hopes or rather assurances to suceed him in the Clerkship of the Counsell The Duke de la Valette is lately fled hither for sanctuary having had ill luck in Fonta-rabia they say his Proces was made and that he was executed in Effigie in Paris T is true he could never square well with his Eminency the Cardinall for this is a peculiar Title he got long since from Rome to distinguish him from all othér nor his father neither the little old Duke of Espernon the ancient'st Soldier in the world for hee wants but one yeer of a hundred When I was last in Paris I heard of a facetiâ—…us passage ' 〈◊〉 him and the Archbishop of Bourdeaux who in effect is Lord High Admirall of France and 't was thus The Archbishop was to go Generall of a great Fleet and the Duke came to his House in Bourdeaux one morning to visit him the Archbishop sent som of his Gentlemen to desire him to have a little patience for hee was dispatching away som Sea-Commanders and that he would wait on him presently The little Duke took a pett at it and went away to his house at Cadâ—…llac som fifteen miles off The next morning the Archbishop came to pay him the visit and to apologize for himself being com in and the Duke told of it he sent his Chaplain to tell him that he was newly fallen upon a Chapter of Saint Austins de civitate Dei and when he had read that Chapter hee would com to him Som yeers before I was told he was at Paris and Richelieu came to visit him he having notice of it Richelieu found him in a Cardinals Cap kneeling at a Table Altar-wise with his Book and Beads in his hand and Candles burning before him I hear the Earl of Leicester is to com shortly over and so over to Ireland to be your Deputy No more now but that I am Lond. Sept. 7. 1641. Your most faithfull Servitor J. H. XLVII To the Earl of B. from the Fleet. My Lord I Was lately com to London upon som occasions of mine own and I had bin divers times in Westminster-Hall wher I convers'd with many Parlement men of my acquaintance but one morning betimes ther rush'd into my Chamber five armed men with Swords Pistolls and Bills and told me they had a Warrant from the Parlement for me I desir'd to see their Warrant they denyed it I desired to see the date of it they denied it I desired to see my name in the Warrant they denied all at last one of them pull'd out a greasie Paper out of his Pocket and shew'd me only three or four names subscrib'd and no more so they rush'd presently into my Closet and seiz'd on all my Papers and Letters and any thing that was Manuscript and many Printed Books they took also and hurl'd all into a great Hair Trunk which they carried away with them I had taken a little Physic that morning and with very much ado they suffer'd me to stay in my Chamber with two Guards upon me till the Evening at which time they brought me before the Committee for Examination wher I confess I found good respects and being brought up to the close Committee I was order'd to be
from Westmin 17 Octo. 1634. Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. LVI To the R. H. the E. R. My Lord YOur desires have bin alwaies to me as commands and your commands as binding as Acts of Parliament Nor do I take pleasure to employ head or hand in any thing more then in the exact performance of them Therfore if in this crabbed difficult task you have bin pleas'd to impose upon me about languages I com short of your Lorships expectation I hope my obedience will apologize for my disability But wheras your Lordship desires to know what wer the originall Mother Tongues of the Countreys of Europe and how these modern speeches that are now in use wer first introduced I may answer hereunto that it is almost as easie a thing to discover the source of Nile as to find out the originall of som languages yet I will attempt it as well as I can and I will take my first rise in these Islands of great Britain and Ireland for to be curious and Eagle-eyd abroad and to be blind and ignorant at home as many of our Travellers are now a dayes is a curiosity that carrieth with it more of affectation than any thing els Touching the Isle of Albion or great Britany the Cambrian or Cymraccan tongue commonly call'd Welsh and Italian also is so call'd by the Dutch is without controversie the prime maternall tongue of this Island and connaturall with it nor could any of the four conquests that have bin made of it by Roman Saxon Dane or Norman ever extinguish her but she remaines still pure and incorrupt of which language ther is as exact and methodicall a Grammar with as regular precepts rules and institutions both for prose and verse compild by Doctor David Rice as I have read in any tongue whatsoever som of the authentiquest Annalists report that the old Gaules now the French and the Britains understood one another for they came thence very frequently to be instructed heer by the Brittish Druydes which were the Philosophers and Divines of those times and this was long before the latin tongue came a this side the Alps or books written and ther is no meaner man 〈◊〉 Caesar himself records this This is one of the fourteen vernacular and independent tongues of Europe and she hath divers dialects the first is the Cornish the second the Armonicans or the inhabitants of Britany in France whither a colony was sent over hence in the time of the Romanes Ther was also another dialect of the British language among the Picts who kept in the North parts in Northumberland Westmeâ—…land Cumberland and som parts beyond Tweed untill the whole Nation of the Scot poured upon them with such multitudes that they utterly extinguish'd both them and their language Ther are som which have been curious in the comparison of tongues who believe that the Irish is but a dialect of the ancient British and the learnedst of that Nation in a privat discourse I happened to have with him seemd to incline to this opinion but this I can assure your Lordship of that at my being in that Country I observ'd by a privat collection which I made that a great multitude oâ—… their radicall words are the same with the Welsh both for seale and sound the tone also of both the Nations is consonant â—…or when I first walked up and down Dublin markets me thought verily I was in Wales when I listened unto their speech but I found that the Irish tone is a little more querulous and whining than the British which I conjecturd with my self proceeded from their often being subjugated by the English But my Lord you would think it strange that divers pure Welsh words should be found in the new found World in the West Indies yet it is verified by som Navigators as Grando hark Nâ—…f heaven Lluynog a fox Pengwyn a bird with a white head with sundry others which are pure British nay I have read a Welsh Epitaph which was found there upon one Madoc a British Prince who som yeers before the Norman conquest not agreeing with his brother then Prince of South Wales went to try his fortunes at sea imbarquing himself at Milford haven and so carried on those coasts This if well prov'd might well intitle out crown to America if first discovery may claim a right to any country The Romans though they continued heer constantly above 300 yeers yet could they not do as they did in France Spain and other Provinces plant their language as a mark of Conquest but the Saxons did coming in far greater numbers under Hengist from Holstein land in the lower circuit of Saxony which peeple resemble the English more than any other men upon earth so that 't is more than probable that they came first from thence besides ther is a town there call'd Lundâ—…n and another place named Angles whence it may be presum'd that they took their new denomination heer Now the English though as Saxons by which name the Welsh and Irish call them to this day they and their language is ancient yet in reference to this Island they are the modernst nation in Euâ—…pe both for habitation speech and denomination which makes â—…e smile at Mr Fox his error in the very front of his Epistle before the Book of Martyrs wher he calls Constantine the first Christian Emperour the son of Hellen an English woman wheras she was 〈◊〉 British and that ther was no such Nation upon earth calâ—…ed English at that time nor above 100 yeers after till Hengist invaded this Island and setling himself in it the Saxons who came with him took the appellation of English men Now the English speech though it be rich copious and significant and that ther be diâ—…ers Dictionaries of it yet under favour I cannot call it a regular language in regard though often attempted by som choice â—…its ther could never any Grammar or exact Syntaxis be made of it yet hath she divers subdialects as the Western and Northern English but her chiefest is the Scotic which took footing beyond Tweed about the law conquest but the ancient Language of Scotland is Irish which the mountaineers and divers of the plain retain to this day Thus my Lord according to my small modell of observation have I endeavoured to satisfie you in part I shall in my next go on for in the pursuance of any command from your Lordships my minde is like a stone thrown into a deep water which never rests till it goes to the bottom so for this time and alwayes I rest My Lord Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. VVest 9 Aug. 1630 LVII To the Right Hon. the Earl R. My Lord IN my last I fulfild your Lordships commands as far as my reading and knowledge could extend to inform you what wer the radicall primitive Languages of those Dominions that belong to the Crown of great Britaine and how the English which is now predominant entred in
vaâ—…t bounds throughout An Academe of note I found not out But now I hope in a successfull proâ—…e The Fates have fix'd me on sweet Englands shore And by these various wandrings 〈◊〉 I found Earth is our comâ—…n Mother every ground Maâ—… be one's Countrey for by birth each man Is 〈◊〉 this world a Cosmopolitan A free-born Buâ—…gess and receives therby Hâ—… 〈◊〉 frâ—…m Nativety Nor is this lower world but a huge Inne And men the rambling pâ—…ssengers wherin Sâ—…m do warm lodgings find and that as soon As out of natures â—…lossets they see noon Anâ—… find the Table ready laid but som Must for their commons trot and trudg for room With easie pace som climb Promotions Hill Som in the Dale do what they can stick still Som through false glasses Fortune smiling spy Who still keeps off though she appears hard by Som like the Ostrich with their wings do flutter But cannot fly or soar above the gutter Som quickly fetch and double Good-Hopes Cape Som ne'r can do 't though the same cours they shape So that poor mortalls are so many balls Toss'd som o'r line som under fortun 's walls And it is Heavens high pleasure Man should ly Obnoxious to this partiality That by industrious ways he should contend Nature's short pittance to improve and menâ—… Now Industry ne'r fail'd at last t' advance Her patient sons above the reach of Chance Poet. But whither rov'st thou thus Well since I see thou art so strongly bent And of a gracious look so confident Go and throw down thy self at Caesars fâ—…et And in thy best attire thy Soveraign greet Go an auspicious and most blissefully yeer Wâ—…sh Him as e'r sh n'd o'r this Hemisphear Good may the Entrance better the middle be And the Conclusion best of all the three Of joy ungrudg'd may each day be a debter And evry morn still usher in a better May the soft gliding Nones and every Ide With all the Calends still som good betide May Cynthia with kind looks and 〈◊〉 rays One clear his nights the other gild his days Free limbs unpâ—…ysic'd health due appetite Which no sauce else but Hunger may excite Sound sleeps green dreams be his which represent Symptomes of health and the next days content Chearfull and vacant thoughts not always bound To counsell or in deep Idea's drown'd Though such late traverses and tumults might Turn to a lump of care the airiest wight And since while fragile flesh doth us array The humors stil are combating for sway Which wer they free of this reluctancie And counterpois'd Man would immortall be May sanguin o'r the rest predominate In Him and their malignant fiux abate May his great Queen in whose Imperious ey Reigns such a world of winning Majesty Like the rich Olive or Falernian Vine Swell with more gems of Cians masculine And as her fruit sprung from the Rose and Luce The best of stems Earth yet did e'r produce Is tied already by a Sanguin lace To all the Kings of Europe's high-born race So may they shoot their youthfull branches o'r The surging seas and graff with every Shore May home-commerce and trade encrease from far That both the Indies meet within his bars And bring in Mounts of Coin His Mints to feed And Banquers trafics chief suporters breed Which may enrich his Kingdoms Court and Town And ballast still the coffers of the Crown For Kingdoms are as ships the Prince his chests The ballast which if empty when distres't With storms their holds are lightly trimm'd the keel Can run no steedy cours but toss and reel May his Imperiall chamber always ply To his desires her wealth to multiply That she may prize his Royall favour more Than all the wares fetch'd from the great Mogor May the Grand Senate with the Subjects right Put in the Counter-scale the Regall might The flowrs o' th' Crown that they may prop each other And like the Grecians twin live love together For the chief glory of a people is The power of their King as theirs is His May He be still within himself at home That no just passion make the reason rome Yet passions have their turns to rouse the Soul And stir her slumbring spirits not controul For as the Ocean besides ebb and flood Which Nature 's greatest Clerk ne'r understood â—…s not for sail if an impregning wind Fill not the flagging canvas so a mind Too calm is not for Action if desire Heats not it self at passion's quickning fire For Nature is allow'd somtimes to muster Her passions so they only blow not bluster May Iustice still in her true scales appear And honour fix'd in no unworthy sphear Unto whose palace all access should have Through virtues Temple not through Plutos Cave May his tru subjects hearts be his chief Fort Their purse his tresure and their Love his Port Their prayers as sweet Incense to draw down Myriads of blessings on his Queen and Crown And now that his glad presence did asswage That fearfull tempest in the North did rage May those frog vapours in the Irish skie Be scatter'd by the beams of Majesty That the Hybernian lyre give such a sound May on our coasts with joyfull Ecchoes bound And when this fatall planet leaves to lowr Which too too long on Monarchies doth powr His direfull influence may Peace once more Descend from Heaven on our tottering shore And ride in triumph both on land and main And with her milk white steeds draw Charles his wain That so for those Saturnian times of old An Age of Pearl may com in lieu of Gold Virtu still guide his cours and if ther be A thing as Fortune Him accompanie May no ill genius haunt him but by 's side The best protecting Angell ever bide May He go on to vindicate the right Of holy things and make the Temple bright To keep that Faith that sacred Truth entire Which he receiv'd from Salomon his Sire And since we all must hence by th' Iron Decree Stamp'd in the black Records of Destinie Late may his life his Glory ne'r wear out Till the great year of Plato wheel about So Prayeth The worst of Poets to The best of Princes yet The most loyall of His Votaries and Vassalls JAMES HOVVILL FINIS Additionall LETTERS Of a fresher Date Never Publish'd before And Composed By the same AUTHOR Vt clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus LONDON Printed by W. H. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Right Honorable EDVVARD Earl of DORSET c. My Lord THe two preceding Dedications being the one to a King the other to a Prince I hope this Third consisting all of new Matter will be the more excusable that I make to your Lpp who if ther were a generall Muster of Mankind and due regard had to Gallantry and worth would appear like a King among Princes and a Prince among Peers I humbly
pray that for want of a better thing to comply with the Season this may pass for a New-years gift which I wish may carry with it as many good Omens as it doth Orizons that a thousand benedictions may fall upon you and your Noble Family this New yeer and all the yeers of your life which I pray may be many many many because I have long since resolv'd to live and die My Lord Your most humble and obedient faithfull Servit r JAMES HOVVEL Calendis Ian. 1650. Additionall Letters Of a fresher Date I. To the R. H. Ed. Earl of Dorset Lo. Chamberlain of His Majesties Household c. at Knowles My Lord HAving so advantagious a hand as Doctor S. Turner I am bold to send your Lordship a new Tract of French Philosophy call'd L'usage de Passions which is cryed up to be a choice peece It is a Morall Discours of the right use of Passions the Conduct wherof as it is the principall Employment of Virtu so the Conquest of them is the difficultst part of Vaâ—…or To know one's self is much but to conquer one's self is more We need not pick quarrells and seek enemies without doors we have too many Inmates at home to exercise our Prowess upon and ther is no man let him have his humors never so well ballanc'd and in subjection unto him but like Muscovia wives they will oftentimes insult unless they be check'd yet wee should make them our Servants not our Slaves Touching the occurrences of the times since the King was snatch'd away from the Parlement the Army they say use him with more civility and freedom but for the main work of restoring him he is yet as one may say but Tantaliz'd being brought often within the sight of London and so off again ther are hopes that somthing will be don to his advantage speedily because the Gregarian Soldiers and gross of the Army is well-affected to him though som of the chiefest Commanders be still averss For forren News they say St. Mark bears up stoutly against Mahomet both by land and sea In Dalmatia he hath of late shaken him by the Turban ill-favoredly I could heartily wish that our Army heer were there to help the Republic and combat the Common enemy for then one might be sure to dye in the bed of Honor. The Commotions in Sicily are quash'd but those of Naples increase and 't is like to be a more raging and voracious â—…ire than Vesuvius or any of the sulphurious Mountains about her did ever belch out The Catalan and Portuguez bait the Spaniard on both sides but the first hath shrewder teeth than the other and the French and Hollander find him work in Flanders And now my Lord to take all Nations in a lump I think God Almighty hath a quarrell lately with all Man kind and given the reines to the ill Spirit to compass the whole earth for within these twelve yeers ther have the strangest revolutions and horridst things happen'd not only in Europe but all the world over that have befallen man-kind I dare boldly say since Adam fell in so short a revolution of time Ther is a kind of popular Planet reigns every where I will begin with the hottest parts with Afric where the Emperor of Ethiopia with two of his Sons was encountred and kild in open field by the Groom of his Camells and Dromedaries who had leavied an Army our of the dreggs of the peeple against him and is like to hold that ancient Empire in Asia The Tartar broke o're the four hundred mil'd wall and rush'd into the heart of China as far as Quinzay and beleagerd the very Palace of the Emperor who rather than to becom Captif to the base Tartar burnt his Castle and did away himself his thirty wives and children The great Turk hath been lately strangled in the Seraglio his own house The Emperor of Moscovia going in a solemn Procession upon the Sabbath day the rabble broke in knock'd down and cut in peeces divers of his chiefest Counsellors Favorits and Officers before his face and dragging their bodies to the Market-place their heads were chopp'd oft thrown into Vessells of hot water and so set upon Poles to burn more bright before the Court gate In Naples a common fruteâ—…er hath raised such an Insurrection that they say above 60M have bin slain already upon the streets of that City alone Catalonia and Portingall have quite revolted from Spain Your Lordship knows what knocks have been 'twixt the Pope and Parma The Pole and the Cosacks are hard at it Venice wrastleth with the Turk and is like to lose her Maiden head unto him unless other Christian Princes look to it in time and touching these three Kingdoms ther 's none more capable than your Lordship to judge what monstrous things have happend so that it seems the whol earth is off the hinges and which is the more wonderful all these prodigious passages have fallen out in less than the compas of 12 yeers But now that all the world is together by the eares the States of Holl would be quiet for advice is com that the peace is concluded and interchangably ratified 'twixt them and Spain but they defer the publishing of it yet till they have collected all the Contribution money for the Army The Spaniard hopes that one day this Peace may tend to his advantage more than all his Wars have don these fourscore yeers relying upon the old Prophecie Marte triumphabis Batavia Pace peribis The King of Denmark hath buried lately his eldest Son Christian so that he hath now but one living viz. Frederic who is Arch-Bishop of Breme and is shortly to be King Elect. My Lord this Letter runs upon Universalls because I know your Lordship hath a public great soul and a spacious understanding which comprehends the whole world so in a due posture of humility I kiss your hands being My Lord Your most obedient and most faithfull Servitor J. H. From the Fleet this 20 of Ian. 1646. II. To Mr. En. P. at Paris SIR SInce we are both agred to truck Intelligence and that you are contented to barter French for English I shall bee carefull to send you hence from time to time the currentest and most staple stuff I can find with weight and good measure to boot I know in that more subtill air of yours tinsell somtimes passes for Veniceâ—…eads â—…eads for Perl and Demicastors for Bevers But I know you have so discerning a judgment that you will not suffer your self to be so cheated they must rise betimes that can put tricks upon you and make you take semblances for realities probabilities for certainties or spurious for tru things To hold this litterall correspondence I desire but the parings of your time that you may have somthing to do when you have nothing els to do while I make a busines of it to be punctuall in my answers to you let our Letters be as Eccho's let them bound back and make
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
there many daies to take up money at high interest to pay divers Tolls for their Merchandize before they had expos'd them to vent Therfore it was desired that for the future what English Merchant soever should pass through the Sound it should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book and give his Bond to pay all duties at his return when he had made his Market To this my Lord had a fair answer and so procur'd a public Instrument under that Kings Hand and Seale and sign'd by his Counsellors which he had brought over wherin the Proposition was granted which no Ambassador could obtaine before Then 't was alledg'd that the English Merchant Adventurers who trade into Hamburgh have a new Toll lately impos'd upon them at Luckstad which was desir'd to be taken ofâ—… To this also ther was the like Instrument given that the said Toll should be levied no more Lastly my Lord in regard he was to pa's by the Hague desir'd that Hereditary part which belong'd to the Lady Elizabeth out of her Gran-Mothers Estate because His Majesty knew well what Crosses and Afflictions she had pass'd and what a numerous Issue she had to maintain And my Lord of Leicester would ingage his Honour and all the Estate he hath in the World That this should no way prejudice the accounts he is to make with his Majesty of Great Britain The King of Denmark highly extoll'd the Noblenes of this motion but he protested that he had bin so drain'd in the late Wars that his Chests are yet very empty Hereupon my Lord was feasted and so departed He went then to the Duke of Holstein to Sleswick wher he found him at his Castle of Gothorp and truly I did not think to have found such a magnificent building in these bleak parts Thâ—…e also my Lord did condole the death of the late Queen that Dukes Gran-Mother and he receiv'd very Princely entertainment Then he went to Husem where the like ceremony of Condolement was perform'd at the Dutchess of Holsteins Court His Majesties our Kings Ant. Then he came back to Hamburgh wher that instrument which my Lord had procur'd for remitting of the new Toll at Gluckslad was deliver'd the Company of our Merchant Adventurers and som other good offices don for that Town as matters stood twixt them and the King of Denmark Then we came to Stode wher Lesly was Governour who carried his foot in a scarfe for a wound he had received at Bucksâ—…obo and he kept that place for the King of Sweden And som busines of consequence was don there also So we came to Broomsbottle wher we staid for a Wind som daies and in the midway of our voyage wee met with a Holland ship who told us the King of Sweden was slain and so we return'd to London in less then three moneths And if this was not busines enough for such a compass of time I leave your Lordship to judg So craving your Lordships pardon for this lame account I rest Lond. 1 Octo. 1632. Your Lordships most humble and ready Servitor J. H. VI. To my Brother Dr. Howell at his House in Horsley My good Brother I Am safely return'd from Germany thanks be to God and the news which we heard at Sea by a Dutch Skipper about the midst of our voyage from Hamburgh it seems proves too true which was of the fall of the King of Sweden One Ierbire who saies that he was in the very action brought the first news to this Town and every corner rings of it yet such is the extravagancy of som that they will lay wagers he is not yet dead and the Exchange is full of such peeple He was slain at Lutzen field battle having made the Imperiall Army give ground the day before and being in pursuance of it the next morning in a sudden Fog that fell the Cavelry on both sides being engag'd he was kill'd in the midst of the Troops and none knows who kill'd him whether one of his own men or the enemy but finding himself mortally hurt he told Saxen Waymar Cousin I pray look to the Troops for I think I have enough His body was not only rescued but his forces had the better of the day Papenheim being kill'd before him whom he esteem'd the greatest Captain of all his enemies for he was us'd to say that he had three men to deal withall a Pultron a Iesuit and a Souldier by the two first he meant Walstein and the Duke of Bavaria by the last Papenheim Questionles this Gustavus whose anagram is Augustus was a great Captain and a gallant man and had he surviv'd that last victory he would have put the Emperour to such a plunge that som think he would hardly have bin able to have made head against him to any purpose again Yet his own Allies confess that none knew the bottom of his designes He was not much affected to the English witnes the ill usage Marquis Hammilton had with his 6000 men wherof ther return'd not 600 the rest died of hunger and sicknes having never seen the face of an enemy Witnes also his harshnes to our Ambassadors and the rigid terms he would have tied the Prince Palsgrave unto So with my affectionat respects to Mr. Mouschamp and kind commendâ—… to Mr. Bridger I rest Westmin 5 Decem. 1632. Your loving Brother J. H. VII To the R. R. Dr. Field Lord Bishop of St. Davids My Lord YOur late Letter affected me with two contrary passions with gladnes and sorrow the beginning of it dilated my spirits with apprehensions of joy that you are so well recoverd of your late sicknes which I heartily congratulat but the conclusion of your Lordships Letter contracted my spirits and plung'd them in a deep sense of just sorrow while you please to write me news of my dear Fathers death Permulsit initium percussit finis Truly my Lord it is the heaviest news that ever was sent me but when I recollect my self and consider the fairnes and maturity of his Age and that it was rather a gentle dissolution than a death When I contemplat that infinit advantage he hath got by this change and transmigration it much lightens the weight of my grief for if ever human soul entred heaven surely his is there such was his constant piety to God his rare indulgence to his children his charity to his neighbors and his candor in reconciling disterences such was the gentlenes of his disposition his unwearied cours in actions of vertue that I wish my soul no other felicity when she hath shaken off these Rags of Flesh than to ascend to his and coinjoy the same bliss Excuse me my Lord that I take my leave at this time so abruptly of you when this sorrow is a little disgested you shall hear further from me for I am West 1 of May. 1632. Your Lordships most true and humble Servitor J. H. VIII To the Earl of Leicester at Penshurstâ—…