told you in my last a pretty late experiment in Arthritical pains It is cheap enough Take a rosted Turnip for if you boyl it it will open the pores and draw too much apply that in a Poultice to the part affected with change once in an hour or two as you finde it dryed by the heat of the flesh and it will in little time allay the pain Thus much in our private way wherein I dare swear if our Medicines were as strong as our wishes they would work extreamly Now for the Publick where peradventure now and then there are distempers as well as in natural bodies The Earl of Holland was on Saturday last the day after your Posts departure very solemnly restored at Council-Table the King present from a kinde of Eclipse wherein he had stood since the Thursday fortnight before All considered the obscuration was long and bred both various and doubtful discourse but it ended well All the cause yet known was a verbal challenge sent from him by Mr Henry Germain in this form To the now Lord Weston newly returned from his forraign imployments That since he had already given the King an account of his Embassage he did now expect from him an account of a Letter of his which he had opened in Paris and he did expect it at such a time even in the Spring-garden close under his fathers Window with his sword by his side It is said I go no farther in such tender points that my Lord Weston sent him by Mr Henry Percy between whom and the said L. Weston had in the late journey as it seems been contracted such friendship as overcame the memory that he was Cosin-German to my L. of Holland a very fair and discreet answer That if he could challenge him for any injury done him before or after his Ambassage he would meet him as a Gentleman with his sword by his side where he should appoint But for any thing that had been done in the time of his Ambassage he had already given the King an account thereof and thought himself not accountable to any other This published on Thursday was fortnight the Earl of Holland was confined to his Chamber in Court and the next day morning to his house at Kensington where he remained without any further circumstance of restraint or displeasure Saturday and Sunday on which dayes being much visited it was thought fit on Munday to appoint M. Dickenson one of the Clerks of the Council to be his Guardian thus far that none without his presence should accost him This made the vulgar judgements run high or rather indeed run low That he was a lost and discarded man judgeing as of Patients in Feavers by the exasperation of the fits But the Queen who was a little obliquely interrested in this business for in my Lord of Hollands Letter which was opened she had one that was not opened nor so much as they say as superscribed and both the Queens and my L. of Hollands were inclosed in one from M. Walter Mountague whereof I shall tell you more hereafter The Queen I say stood nobly by him and as it seems pressed her own affront It is too intricately involved for me so much as to guess at any particulars I hear generally discoursed that the opened dispatch was only in favour if it might be obtained of Mons r de Chateau Neuf and the Cheval r de Jarr who had both been here but written with caution and surely not without the Kings knowledge to be delivered if there were hope of any good effect and perchance not without order from His Majesty to my Lord Weston afterwards to stop the said Letters upon advertisement that both Cateau Neuf de Jarr were already in the Bastille But this I leave at large as not knowing the depth of the business Upon Munday was seven-night fell out another quarrel nobly carried branching from the former between my L. Fielding and M. Goring son and heir to the Lord of that name They had been the night before at supper I know not where together where M. Goring spake something in diminution of my L. Weston which my L. Fielding told him it could not become him to suffer lying by the side of his sister Thereupon these hot hearts appoint a meeting next day Morning themselves alone each upon his Horse they pass by Hide-Park as a place where they might be parted too soon and turn into a lane by Knights-bridge where having tyed up their Horses at a hedge or gate they got over into a Close there stripped into their shirts with single Rapiers they fell to an eager Duel till they were severed by the Host and his servants of the Inn of the Prince of Orange who by meer chance had taken some notice of them In this noble encounter wherein blood was spent though by Gods providence not much on either side there passed between them a very memorable interchange of a piece of courtesie if that word may have room in this place Sayes my Lord Fielding M. Goring If you leave me here let me advise you not to go back by Piccadillia-hall lest if mischance befall me and be suddenly noised as it falleth out in these occasions now between us you might receive some harm by some of my friends that lodge thereabouts My Lord replyes Goring I have no way but one to answer this courtesie I have here by chance in my pocket a Warrant to pass the Ports out of England without a name gotten I suppose upon some other occasion before If you leave me here take it for your use and put in your own name This is a passage much commended between them as proceeding both from sweetness and stoutness of spirit which are very compatible On the solemn day of Saturday last both this difference and the Original between the Earl of Holland and the Lord Weston were fairly reconciled and forgiven by the King with shaking of hands and such Symbols of agreement And likewise Sir Maurice Dromand who had before upon an uncivil rupture on his part between him and my Lord of Carlile been committed to the Tower was then delivered at the same time and so it all ended as a merry fellow said in a Maurice But whether these be perfect cures or but skinnings over and Palliations of Court will appear hereafter Nay some say very quickly for my Lord Westons Lady being since brought to bed of a daughter men stand in a kind of suspence whether the Queen will be the Godmother after so crude a reconcilement which by the Kings inestimable goodness I think may pass in this forgiving week For forraign matter there is so little and so doubtful as it were a misery to trouble you with it The States confuted Treaty is put to the stock and the Prince of Orange by account gone to the field two dayes since having broken the business as they say by three demands the resignment of Breda and Guelder the dismantling
LETTERS OF Sir Henry Wotton TO Sir Edmund Bacon LONDON Printed by R. W. for F. T. at the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1661. THE PRINTER TO THE READER TO remove all suspicion that may arise concerning these Letters published so long after the Authors death these are to assure you that they are printed from the Originals written with his own hand though without this assurance the spirit of them will sufficiently discover their Author Farewell Letters SIR IT is very just since I cannot Personally accompany this Gentleman yet that I do it with my Letter wherein if I could transport the Image of mine own minde unto you as lively as we have often represented you unto our selves abroad then I should not think us asunder while you read it But of my longing to see you I am a better feeler then a describer as likewise of my Obligations towards you whereof it is not the least that I have been by your mediation and judgement and love furnished with so excellent a Comforter of my absence and so loving and discreet a divider and easer of my Travels after whose separation from me I am ready to say that which I remember the younger Pliny doth utter with much feeling after the loss of his venerable and dearest friend Corollius Rufus Vereor saith he ne posthac negligentius vivam But herein my case is better then his for I cannot but hope that some good occasion will bring him again nearer me And I must confess unto you I should be glad to see him planted for a while about the King or Prince that so if his own fortune be not mended by the Court yet the Court may be bettered by him in that which it doth more desperately want Now Sir Besides himself there cometh unto you with him an Italian Doctor of physick by name Gaspero Despotini a man well practised in his own faculty and very Philosophical and sound in his discourses By birth a Venetian which though it be not Urbs ignobilis as St. Paul said of his own Mother-City yet is his second birth the more excellent I mean his illumination in Gods saving Truth which was the only cause of his remove and I was glad to be the conductor of him where his conscience may be free though his condition otherwise till he shall be known will be the poorer This stranger I was desirous to present unto you as my friend in his company whose testimony may more value him then mine own And so committing them both to your love and your self with all that family to Gods blessing hand I rest Your poor friend and Servant HENRY WOTTON From my Lodging in King-street this 2d. Apr. 1611. Sir IT is late at night and I am but newly come to the knowledge that my Lord is to send a Messenger unto you to morrow morning yet howsoever I have resolved not to be left out of this dispatch though in truth I had rather be the footman my self then one of the Writers But here I am tyed about mine own business which I have told you like a true Courtier for Right-Courtiers indeed have no other business but themselves Our Lord Jesus bless you all as you are now together and wheresoever you shall be Your Uncle by your own Election and your servant by mine HENRY WOTTON From Greenwich the 27. May 1611. March the last 1613. Sir I Returned from Cambridge to London some two hours after the King The next day was celebrated with 20 Tilters wherein there entred four fraternities the Earls Pembrock and Mongommery my Lord Walden Thomas and Henry Hawards the two Riches and the two Alexanders as they are called though falsly like many things else in a Court The rest were Lenox Arundel Rutland Dorcet Shandowes North Hey Dingwel Clifford Sir Thomas Sommerset and Sir John Harrington The day fell out wet to the disgrace of many fine Plumes Some Caparisons seen before adventured to appear again on the Stage with a little disguisement even on the back of one of the most curious So frugal are the times or so indigent The two Riches only made a speech to the King the rest were contented with bare Imprese whereof some were so dark that their meaning is not yet understood unless perchance that were their meaning not to be understood The two best to my fancy were those of the two Earls Brothers The first a small exceeding white Pearl and the word Solo candore valco The other a Sun casting a glance on the side of a Pillar and the Beams reflecting with this Motto Splendente refulget In which devices there seemed an agreement the elder brother to allude to his own nature and the younger to his fortune The day was signalized with no extraordinary accident save only between Sr Thomas Haward and Sr Thomas Sommerset who with a counter-buff had almost set himself out of the saddle and made the others Horse sink under him but they both came fairly off without any further disgrace Of the merits of the rest I will say nothing my Pen being very unfit to speak of Launces To this solemnity of the publick Ambassadors only the Arch-Dukes was invited for the healing of the distaste he had taken for the preference of the Venetian at the marriage But I doubt the Plaister be too narrow for the sore which he seemed not much discontented that men should note in his whole countenance that day Towards the Evening a challenge passed between Archie and a famous Knight called Sr Thomas Parsons the one a fool by election and the other by necessity which was accordingly performed some two or three dayes after at Tylt Tornie and on foot both compleatly armed and solemnly brought in before their Majesties and almost as many other meaner eyes as were at the former Which bred much sport for the present and afterwards upon cooler consideration much censure and discourse as the manner is The departure of the Count Palatine and my Lady Elizabeth is put off from the Thursday in the Easter-week till the Tuesday following which day I think will hold The Commissioners that accompany her have the titles of Ambassadors to give them precedency before Sir Ralph Winwood at the Hague and likewise in any encounters with Almaigne Princes Sir Edward Cecil goeth as Treasurer to keep up that Office in the name though it be otherwise perhaps from a General rather a fall then an ascent Before this journey there is a conceit that the Duke of Lenox will be naturalized a Peer of our Parliament and my Lord of Rochester be created Earl of Devonshire The forraign matter is little increased since my last unto you from Cambridge The Savoy Ambassador not yet arrived The Turks designs hitherto unknown and marching slowly according to the nature of huge Armies In which suspence the Venetians have augmented their guard in the Gulf enough to confirm unto the world that States must be conserved even with ridiculous fears This is all that
called honest liberty so as upon the whole matter No excesses want pretious names You shall have it in Pliny's language which I like better then mine own translation Nullis vitiis desunt pretiosa nomina The third is a silly and simple creature God himself knows and though his Father was by Queen Elizabeth at the time of a Parliament likewise put into the place where the son now is yet hath he rather inherited his fortune then his understanding His fault was the application of certain Texts in Ezekiel and Daniel to the matter of impositions and saying that the French King was kill'd like a Calf with such like poor stuff Against which the French Ambassador having gotten knowledge of it hath formed a complaint with some danger of his wisdom The last is a young Gentleman fresh from the School who having gathered together divers Latin sentences against Kings bound them up in a long speech and interlarded them with certain Ciceronian exclamations as O Tempora O Mores Thus I have a little run over these accidents unto you enough only to break out of that silence which I will not call a symptome of my sickness but a sickness it self How soever I will keep it from being hectical and hereafter give you a better account of mine own observations This week I have seen from a most dear Neece a Letter that hath much comforted one Uncle and a Postscript the other Long may that hand move which is so full of kindeness As for my particular Take heed of such invitations if you either love or pity your selves For I think there was never Needle toucht with a Load-stone that did more incline to the North then I do to Redgrave In the mean time we are all here well and so our Lord Jesus preserve you there Your faithfullest poor Friend and Servant HENRY WOTTON Sir I pray remember my hearty affection to my Cosin Nicolas Bacon and all joy to the new conjoyned I shall propound unto you the next week a very possible Probleme unto which if you can devise how to attain Non scriveremo al Papa fratello London June 16. 1614. Sir THe Earl of Northampton having after a lingring feaver spent more spirits than a younger body could well have born by the incision of a wennish tumor grown on his thigh yesternight between eleven and twelve of the clock departed out of this world where as he had proved much variety and vicissitude of fortune in the course of his life so peradventure he hath prevented another change thereof by the opportunity of his end For there went a general voyce through the Court on Sunday last upon the commitment of Doctor Sharp and Sir Charles Cornwallis to the Tower that he was somewhat implicated in that business whereof I will give you a little accompt at the present as far as I have been hitherto able to penetrate John Hoskins of whose imprisonment I wrote unto you by the last Carrier having at a reexamination been questioned whether he well understood the consequence of that Sicilian vesper whereunto he had made some desperate allusion in the House of Parliament made answer and I think very truly that he had no more then a general information thereof being but little conversant in those Histories that lay out of the way of his profession whereupon being pressed to discover whence he then had recieved this information since it lay not within his own reading he confessed to have had it from Doctor Sharp who had infused these things into him and had solicited him to impress them in the Parliament And further that Hoskins hereupon demanding what protection he might hope for if afterwards he were called into question the said Doctor should nominate unto him besides others whose names I will spare that Earl who hath now made an end of all his reckonings assuring him of his assistance by the means of Sir Charles Cornwallis with whom the Doctor was conjoyned in this practice Thus came Sir Charles into discovery who being afterward confronted with the Doctor himself though he could not as they say justifie his own person yet did he clear my Lord of Northampton from any manner of understanding with him therein upon his Salvation which yet is not enough as I percieve among the people to sweep the dust from his Grave Thus you see Sir the natural end of a great man and the accidental ruine of others which I had rather you should see in a letter then as I did on Sunday at Greenwich where it grieved my soul to behold a grave and learned Divine and a Gentleman of good hopes and merits carried away in the face of the whole Court with most dejected countenances and such a greediness at all windows to gaze at unfortunate spectacles The Earl of Northampton hath made three of his servants his Executors with a very vast power as I hear and for Overseers of his will my Lord of Suffolk my Lord of Worcester and my Lord William Haward to the Earl of Arundel he hath left all his land which will amount to some 3000. of yearly revenue besides three or four hundred to Mr. Henry Haward whereof he had before assured him at the time of his marriage but neither of them to enjoy a penny thereof as yet this eight year all which time he intendeth the fruits of his estate shall be collected and distributed in legacies and pious uses according to his will which hath not yet been seen but thus much as I have told you was understood before his expiration To my Lord of Suffolk he hath left his house but hath disposed of all the moveables and furniture from him And it is concieved that he dyed in some distastful impression which he had taken against him upon the voyces that ran of my Lord of Suffolcks likelihood to be Lord Treasurer which place will now assuredly fall upon him and the world doth contemplate my Lord of Rochester for Lord Privy Seal and Lord Warden of the five Ports As for the Lord Chamberlainship it is somewhat more questionable between my Lord of Pembroke the Duke of Lenox and my Lord Knowels A few daies will determine these ambitions In the mean time I commit you who have better objects to the contemplation of them and to the mercy of our loving God in all your waies Your faithfullest poor friend and Servant HENRY WOTTON Sir I have I know not how mislayed the character which I left you therefore I pray send me in your very next a copy Therefore I have deferred the matter which I am to propound unto you till the next week because I must send you some oar of lead and iron withall which I have not yet gotten Is there no room left for the remembrance of that dear Neece God forbid And I pray Sir tell her besides that a certain Uncle here whom yet I will not suffer to love her better then my self doth greedily expect some news from her The 7. of
better assemble my spirits and call the aid of the Muses Sir AFter the rest of your trouble at the present there remaineth a proposition to be consulted with you about which I should esteem the charge of an express messenger not ill expended though you were at Jerusalem And both Mr. Harison and my self think no man living more proper to solve it then our Sir Edmund Bacon The Question is this whether there may not be found some natural Philosophical way to determine the measure of a minute or quarter or half or intire hour or any portion of time more precisely and uniformly and infallibly then hath been yet invented by any Mechanical and Artificial motion And particularly whether it may not be done by the descent of drops through a Filter either in Manica Hippocratis or in a Tongue of cloth equally thick with consideration likewise of all circumstances in that liquid substance which must sink through it If this may be done there will be a mighty point obtained in the rectifying of the Longitudes of the Earth which depend upon the thoment of the Lunar Eclipses and Mose upon the exact determination of the beginning and ending of an hour for which purpose the great Tycho Brach composed divers Horologies and hour-glasses some running with simple water some with distilled spirits some with pulverized metals and some with crude Mercury but never to any infallible satisfaction of the point propounded which likewise would be of singular use in divers Astronomical observations if it could be once justly regulated This we commend to your curious judgement My servant Nicolas and I hope to send you some good Flints to be Agatized by your miraculous invention I pray Sir If you have any of those Island stones which you mentioned unto me at Canterbury bestow a few upon me But above all forget not to let me know where you will be about the beginning of Lent Iterum Iterum vale A late letter written towards the end of Lent by Sir Henry Wotton Provost of his Majesties Colledge at Eaton To the Right worthy his ever truly honoured Sir Edmund Bacon Knight and Baronet touching the loss of friends and final resignation of our selves Sir ALL the faculties of my minde if they had ever been of any value and all the strength of my body must yield to the seignory and soveraignty of time over us But the last thing that will die or decay in me is the remembrance how amidst that inestimable contentment which I enjoyed as all others do in the benefit and pleasure of your Conversation being then with you at Redgrave in Suffolk both your delightful Mansion and Philosophical retreat where you are best because there you are most your self though every where well imparted to your friends I was then surprized with advertisement from Court of the death of Sir Albertus Morton my dear Nephew in the vernality as I may term it of his employments and fortunes under the best King and Master of the World And how no great time after as adversities are seldom solitary there succeeded in the same place the departure of my no less dear Neece your long and I dare say your still beloved Consort for love and life are not conterminable as well appeareth by your many tender expressions of that disjuncture and by that Monument of your own excellent invention which you have raised to her memory This Sir ever freshly bleeding in me and withall revolving often in my retired thoughts how I have long since overlived my loving Parents all mine Uncles Brothers and Sisters besides many of mine especial Friends and Companions of my youth who have melted away before me and that I am now my self arrived near those years which lie in the suburbs of Oblivion being the sole Masculine Branch of my good Fathers house in the County of Kent So as that poor Name and Reputation which my Ancestors have heretofore sustained by Gods permission must expire and vanish in my unworthiness I say Sir again and again debating often these Circumstances with my self and truly not without the common weaknesses passions of humanity from which I am of all men least exempted an extream desire did lately assail me to entertain between my other Private Studies some such discourse as might work upon mine own minde and at least abstract awhile if not elevate my cogitations above all earthly objects Whereupon towards the end of this last Lent a time of contracted thoughts I fell to think of that Theam which I have now entituled The loss of Friends and final Resignation of our selves Intending though it be the highest and uttermost point of Christian Philosophy to familiarize it between us as much as I can and to address it in form of a letter to your self For with whom can I treat of this matter more properly being both of us almost precisely of equal age and by the love which you are pleased to bear me all Joy in the Fruition and all Grief in the Privation of Friends common between us Now Sir c. Sir NOw I begin but why not before That question shall be answered by the next Carrier or by a special messenger the next week at which time you shall have an account of all that hath passed and some prognostication also upon the future for my pen is grown bold and eager with rest as dogs that are tyed up At the present all my care is to let you know that I have received your last with the enclosed which although I well understand my self yet I have not had time since the decyphering to acquaint the party with it which shall be done as soon as I have sealed this and sent it to the Carriers I thought now to have said no more but lest it lose the grace of freshness I pray let me tell you that yesterday morning the Vicount Rochester was very solemnly in the Banqueting-hall in the sight of many great ones and small ones created Earl of Somerset and in the afternoon for a farther honouring and signalizing of the day my Lord Cook brought in by the said Earl was sworn a privy Counseller to counterpoise the difference of the profit between the Common pleas and the Kings Bench. I will turn over the leaf though I die for it to remember the heartiest love of my soul to that good Neece to that sweet Neece to whom I have much to say by the next opportunity Our dear Saviour keep you both in his continual love Your faithfullest Servant HENRY WOTTON Touching the project of our house believe it Sir I boyl in it and am ready to begin again that I may tell you how busie I have been in the matter but let this also be put over till the following week which is likely to fall heavy upon you Written on the day of our great preservation for which our God be ever glorified On Midsummer morning Sir LIke a woman great with childe I have threatened you almost
every week with a proposition of profit in which kind of breedings methinks I am of hard birth but I hope to be brought to bed by the next Carrier This week hath yet yielded in the publick small effects to entertain you withall only some change of opinion about the future great Officers which are now thus discoursed The Earl of Suffolk is still beheld as a Lord Treasurer and that conjecture hath never fainted since the very first rising of it But it is thought that the dignity of Privy Seal shall lie vacant as it did in the Cecilian times and that the execution thereof with the title of Lord Chamberlain shall be laid on my Lord of Somerset for if my Lord of Suffolk should remove from the Kings Privacy to a place of much distraction and cumber without leaving a friend in his room he might peradventure take cold at his back which is a dangerous thing in a Court as Ruygomez de silva was wont to say that great Artisan of humours Of the Office of five Ports I dare yet pronounce nothing My Lord my brother will none of it as I heard him seriously say though it were offered him for reasons which he reserveth in his own breast yet the late Northampton did either so much esteem it or thought himself to receive so much estimation from it as he hath willed his body to be laid in the Castle of Dover Chute Hoskins Sharp Sir Charles Cornwallis are still in the Tower and I like not the complexion of the place Out of France we have the death of Doctor Carrier whose great imaginations abroad have had but a short period And so Sir commending you and that dearest Neece to Gods continual blessings and love I rest Your own in faithfullest affection HENRY WOTTON John Hoskins to his little child Benjamin from the Tower Sweet Benjamin since thou art young And hast not yet the use of tongue Make it thy slave while thou art free Imprison it lest it do thee A Hymne made by H. W. in the nights of a great sickness abroad ETernal MOVER whose diffused glory To show our groveling reason what THOU art Unfolds it self in clouds of Natures Story Where Man thy proudest Creature acts his part Whom yet alas I know not why we call The worlds contracted summ the little All. For what are we but lumps of walking clay Where lie our vauntes whence should our spirits rise Are not brute beasts as strong and birds as gay Trees longer liv'd and creeping things as wise Only was given our souls more inward light To feel our weakness and confess thy might THOU then our strength FATHER of life and death To whom our thanks our vows our selves we owe From me thy Tenant of this fading breath Accept these lines which by thy goodness flow And thou that wert thy Regal Prophets Muse Do not thy praise in weaker strains refuse Let these poor notes ascend unto thy THRONE Where Majesty doth sit with Mercy crown'd Where my REDEEMER lives in whom alone The errors of my wandring life are drown'd Where all the QUIRE of Heaven resound the same That none but THINE THINE is the saving Name Therefore my SOUL joy in the midst of pain Thy CHRIST that conquer'd Hell shall from above With greater Triumph yet return again And conquer his own justice with his love Commanding Earth and Seas to render those Unto his bliss for whom he paid his woes Now have I done now are my thoughts at peace And now my joyes are stronger then my grief I feel those comforts that shall never cease Future in hope but present in belief THY words are true THY promises are just And THOU wilt know thy dearly bought in dust My dearly and worthily ever honoured Nephew THis is that Saturnine time of the year which most molesteth such splenetick bodies as mine is by the revolution of melancholike blood which throweth up fastidious fumes into the head whereof I have had of late my share Howsoever this trusty fellow of our Town being hired by one about some business to Cambridge as he is often hither and thither and acquainting me commonly with his motions I have gladly stretched his present journey as far as the Redgrave hoping by him to have an absolute account of your well being which Nicolas my servant left in a fair disposition Let me therefore by this opportunity entertain you with some of our newest things but briefly for I dare not trust my brains too much First for the affairs of Scotland Est bene non potuit dicere dixit Erit The wisest Physitians of State are of opinion that the Crisis is good and I hope your Sir Jacob Ashley and my Sir Thomas Morton will have a fine employment upon the borders Honour by the choice of their persons money by their journal pay little pains and no danger Our Court mourneth this whole Festival with sad frugality for the untimely death of the young Duke of Savoy our Queens Nephew hastened they say by the Cardinal his Uncle who would first have illegitimated him and that not taking effect by the supportment of Spain he fell to other Roman Arts so as the said Cardinal to decline this black report is gone a wandring and as it is thought will visite bare-foot the Holy-Land In the mean time methinks I see him with a crew of Banditi and Bravi in his company and his own conscience a continual Hangman about him The Queen Mother stirreth little between Majesty and age She hath published a short Manifesto touching the reasons of her recess from Bruxels wherein is one very notable conceit That she had long born silently the affronts done her by the Prince Cardinals Counsellors and under-Officers upon no other reason then the very shame to have received them Of himself she speaketh with good respect but I know not how the Character of Humility which she giveth him will be digested For perchance he had rather have been painted like a Lion then a Lamb. Our Queens delivery approacheth in a good hour be it spoken There is newly sworn her servant a lovely Daughter of Sir Richard Harisons our neighbour in Barkshire to answer Madamoiselle Darci on her Mothers side The Count Palatine since his late defeat is gotten in disguised habit to Hamborough and as they say hath been there visited by the King of Denmark amidst that cold assembly of Ambassadors But in his passage between the said Town and Bremen was like to have been taken by an ambush of Free-booters who no doubt would have made sale of him Certain it is that his Brother Prince Rupert fought very nobly before he yielded Whereof such notice was taken even by the Count of Hatfeld himself that he hath ever since been kept by him in a strong place rounded day and night with a guard of naked Swords yet in the Tablets of one that had leave to visit him the Prince made a shift to comfort the Queen his Mother with a