did rise betimes and went thither taking your brother with him they were let into the house and into the garden but the Infanta was in the orchard and there being a high partition wall between and the door doubly bolted the Prince got on the top of the wall and sprung down a great hight and so made towards her but she spying him first of all the rest gave a shâ—…eck and ran back the old Marquis that was then her gardien came towards the Prince and fell on his knees conjuring his Highnesse to retire in regard he hazarded his head if he admitted any to her company so the door was open'd and he came out under that wall over which he had got in I have seen him watch a long hour together in a close Coach in the open street to see her as she went abroad I cannot say that the Prince did ever talk with her privatly yet publickly often my Lord of Bristoll being Interpreter but the King always sat hard by to over-hear all Our cosen Archy hath more privilege than any for he often goes with his fools coat where the Infanta is with her Meninas and Ladies of honor and keeps a blowing and blustering amongst them and fluâ—…ts out what he list One day they were discoursing what a marvellous thing it was that the Duke of Bavaria with lesse then 15000 men after a long toylsom March should dare to encounter the Palsgraves army consisting of above 2500â—… and to give them an utter discomfiture and take Prague presently after Wherunto Archy answered that he would tell them a stranger thing than that was it not a strange thing quoth he that in the year 88 ther should com a Fleet of one hundred and forty sails from Spain to invade England and that ten of these could not go back to tell what became of the rest By the next opportunity I will send you the Cordovan pockets and gloves you writ for of Francisco Morenos persuming So may my dear Captain live long and love his Madrid Iuly 10. 1623. J. H. XIX To my Cosen Tho. Guin Esqr. at his house Trecastle Cosen I Received lately one of yours which I cannot compare more properly than to a posie of curious flowers ther was therin such variety of sweet strains and dainty expressions of love And though it bore an old date for it was forty days before it came to safe hand yet the flowers were still fresh and not a whit faded but did cast as strong and as fragrant a sent as when your hands bound them up first together only ther was one flower that did not savor so well which was the undeserved Character you please to give of my smal abilities which in regard you look upon me through the prospective of affection appear greater unto you than they are of themselvs yet as smal as they are I would be glad to employ them all to serve you upon any occasion Wheras you desire to know how matters pass here you shall understand that we are rather in assurance than hopes that the match will take effect when one dispatch more is brought from Rome which we greedily expect The Spaniards generally desire it they are much taken with our Prince with the bravery of his journey and his discreet comportment since and they confess ther was never Princess courted with more gallantry The wits of the Court here have made divers Encomiums of him of his affection to the L Infanta Amongst others I send you a Latin Poem of one Marnieriâ—…s a Valenciano to which I add this ensuing Hexastic which in regard of the difficulty of the Verse consisting of all Ternaries which is the hardest way of versifying and of the exactness of the translation I believe will give you content Fax grata est gratum est vulnus mihi grata catena est Me quibus astringit laedit urit Amor Sed flammam extingui sanari vulnera solvi Vincla etiam ut possem non ego posse velim Mirum equidem genus hoc morbi est incendia ictus Vinclaque vinctus adbuc laesus ustus amo Gratefull's to me the fire the wound the chain By which love burns love binds and giveth pain But for to quench this fire these bonds to loose These wounds to heal I would not could I choose Strange sickness where the wounds the bonds the fire That burns that bind that hurt I must desire In your next I pray send me your opinion of these verses for I know you are a Critic in Poetry Mr Vaugham of the Golden-grove and I were Camerades and bedfellows here many moneths together his father Sir Iohn Vaughan the Prince his Controuler is lately com to attend his Master My Lord of Carlile my Lord of Holland my Lord of Rochfort my Lord of Denbigh and divers others are here so that we have a very flourishing Court and I could wish you were here to make one of the number So my dear cosen I wish you all happiness and our noble Prince a safe and successfull return to England Madrid 13 Aug. 1623. Your most affectionate Cosen J. H. XX. To my noble friend Sir John North. SIR THe long look'd-for Dispensation is come from Rome but I hear it is clogg'd with new clauses and one is that the Pope who allegeth that the only aim of the Apostolicall See in granting this Dispensation was the advantage and case of the Catholics in the King of great Britaines Dominions therfore he desir'd a valuable caution for the performance of those Articles which were stipulated in their favor this hath much puzled the busines and Sir Francis Cotington comes now over about it Besides ther is som distast taken at the Duke of Buckingham here and I heard this King should say he will treat no more with him but with the Ambassadors who he saith have a more plenary Commission and understand the busines better As ther is som darknes hapned twixt the two Favorits so matters stand not â—…ight twixt he Duke and the Earl of Bristoll but God forbid that a busines of so high a consequence as this which is likely to tend so much to the universall good of Christendom to the restitution of the Palatinat and the composing those broils in Germany should be ranversd by differences twixt a few privat subjects though now public Ministers Mr Washington the Prince his Page is lately dead of a Calenture and I was at his buriall under a Figtree behind my Lord of Bristols house A little before his death one Ballard and English Priest went to tamper with him and Sir Edmund Varney meeting him coming down the stairs out of Washingtons chamber they fell from words to blows but they were parted The busines was like to gather very ill bloud and com to a great height had not Count Gondamar quasht it which I beleeve he could not have done unles the times had bin favorable for such is the reverence they bear to
the Spaniards 54 Of the old Duke of Larma 54 Materiall thinks of the Match 55 The witty Speech of the Marquis of Montesclares 57 Of Count Mansfields notable retreat to Breda his chiefest exploit 58 Of our Prince his arrival at the Court of Spain his usage there and som passages of Gondamars 60 Of his comportment in courting the Lady Infanta c. 64 A witty saying of a Spanish woman 63 Of their baiting of Bulls with men 64 Verses upon the Prince his wooing 66 The monstrous manner of Osman the great Turks death with som Observations theron 70 Of his ominoâ—…s dream and the grand Visiers Prediction to Sir Tho. Roe 73 A Discours 'twixt our Prince and the King of Spain 74 Of our Prince his departure thence 76 How matters stood after his departure 77 Preparations made for the wedding day 79 The Earl of Bristolls Audience upon his receiving a new Commission 80 Probabilities that the Spaniard intended a Match with England 79 My Lo. Pagetts witty Speech in Parlement 80 Of the Bishop of Halverstadt 81 The notable Plot the two Spanish Ambassadors invented to demolish the Duke of Buck. 82 The high proffers that wer made the Earl of Bristoll if he would stay in Spain 97 Of the manner of the proceedings of the Spanish Match by way of comparison 83 The breach of the Spanish Match by a Philosophical comparison 83 An Abstract of the Spanish Monarchy of its growth of the soyl and the humor of the Inhabitants from 87 to 93 Of things happen'd at the siege of Bergen op Zooma A pleasant Tale of a lame Captain 94 Of the vertu of Familiar Letters 96 Of that stupendous Monument the Escurial 96 Of the late famous Duke of Ossuna divers passages 98 Of writing by Cypher 99 A memorable Passage of the Jesuits 98 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 100 This third Section contains divers intrinsecall Passages more of the Treaties both of Match and Palatinat The fourth Section OF the Jewels that were left in the Court of Spain to be presented at the Betrothing day 101 Of the fruitfulnes of frendship 103 Of Count Mansfelt 104 An exact Relation of his late Majesties death by an eye-witnes 106 Of my Lo Verulam after his fall 108 Cautions for Marriage 109 The disasterous death of young Prince Frederic 110 Of the Treaty of a Match with France and of Cardinal Richelieu 111 How lively Letters represent the inward man 112 The Capitulation of the Match with France 114 Of Monsieurs marriage 115 The rare perfections of the late Marchioness of Winchester 116 Of Grave Maurice's death of the taking of Breda 117 The sorry success of our Fleet to Cales under the Lord Wimbledon 119 Som advertisements to the Duke of Buckingham before the Parlement 121 The tru nature of love 12â—… Of Count Mansfelt 124 Cardinall Richelieu's first rise 111 A facetious saying of the Queen of France touching Co Mansfelt 124 A clashing 'twixt Buckingham and Bristoll 124 A Comparison 'twixt the Infanta and the Daughter of France 126 A facetious Pasquil in Rome 125 The speedy conclusion of the French Match and a facetious tale of the Pope 125 Her Majesties arrivall in England 126 The dissolution of the Parlement at Oxon and of the Lord Keeper Williams 127 Of the Renvoy of her Majesties French servants c. 130 The reasons alleaged for Lone-monies 131 A memorable example in the person of a Spanish Captain how strangely a sudden conceit may work within us 132 The fifth Section A Northern Letter 135 Our breach with France and our ill success at the Isle of Rets 139 The Lord Denbighs sorry return from before Rochell 140 Of the Wars in Italy about the Dutchy of Mantoua 137 A circumstantiall relation of the D. of Buck death by an eye-witness 141 The Lord of Lindseys return from before Rochel the taking and dismantling of her by the French King 143 Colonell Grayes quick device to save his life out of a saltpit 139 A methodicall Incitement for an Oxford Student 144 Of the taking the great Royall Ship the Holy Spirit of the French by Sir Sackvil Trever 145 A dehortatory letter from swearing with examples of all sorts 147 A Hymn therupon 149 The properties of a Foot-man 151 Of Ben Iohnsons Genius 154 Of tardy Courtesies 156 Som amorous Sonnets of black eyes c. 158 A check against habit of drinking 162 A Poem upon the British language 164 A witty reply to Sir Ed Coke by a Country man 155 A character of Sir Posthumus Hobby 156 The first rise of the Lord Strafford 156 The King of Swedens first rushing into Germany 165 The King of Denmarks ill success against Tilly and the favourable peace he obtained 165 Of a ragged illegible hand 166 The proud inscription the French King left upon a triumphant Pillar on one of the Alpian hills 167 Of Sir Ken Digbies Exploits against the Venetian Galleasses c. 168 A geere put upon Sir Tho. Edmonds being Ambassadour in France 169 Another geere of the French Ambassadour 169 Of Sir Tho. Wentworth's violent rising up 170 Of the King of Swedens monstrous Progres his clashing with the English and French Ambassadors 173 A Letter of thanks 172 A discription of an Ollapodrida 174 Of the Spanish Inquisition 178 The death of the Queen Dowager of Denmark His Majesties Grandmother the richest Princess of Christendom c. 175 The sixth Section AN exact relation of the Erl of Leicesters Embassie to the King of Denmark and other Princes 188 Som remarkable passages in the Danish Court 183 Of Hamburgh and the Hans Towns their beginning and the famous quarrell they had with Queen Eliza. 184 The marvelous resemblance of Holsteyn men with the English c. 187 The King of Swedens related by an eye-witnes his aversion to the English c. 193 The Palsgraves death 193 The late Pope's compliance with him 191 A strange apparition happened in the West about a dying Gentleman 194 Of Noy the Atturney and of ship-money 196 Of the Lord Westons Embassie to Italy and a clashing 'twixt my Lord of Holland and him 196 The Queen Mothers and Monsieurs retirement to Flanders 195 A Christmas Hymn 197 Of the condition of the Jewes squanderd up and down the World how they came to be so cunning and hatefull from whence they expect their Messias c. 202 〈…〉 The sudden comfort of Letters 203 Of a strange Pattent given a Scotchman 203 Of Atturney Noy's death and the od wilâ—… he made c. 204 The arrivall of the Prince Elector and of Prince Rupert to England their designes 205 Monsieur steales from Brussells 206 A Herald of Armes sent from France to denounce War against Spaine 206 Of Mountmorencys death 206 A memorable example of the force of affection in the person of a French Lady 207 Of Peter van Heyns mighty Plaâ—…e prize c. 210 Of judgements fallen upon disobedient children 211 The Earl of Arondels return from the German
put by the gallanter man of the two I was told of a witty saying of his when the Duke of Lerma had the vogue in this Court for going one morning to speak with the Duke and having danc'd attendance a long time hee peep'd through a slit in the hanging and spied Don Rodrigo Calderon a great man who was lately beheaded here for poisning the late Queen Dowager delivering the Duke a Paper upon his knees wherat the Marquis smil'd and said Voto a tal aquâ—…l hombre sube mas a las rodillas que yo no hago a los pics I swear that man climbs higher upon his knees than I can upon my feet Indeed I have read it to be a true Court rule that descendendo ascendendum est in Aula descending is the way to ascend at Court Ther is a kind of humility and compliance that is far from any servile baseness or fordid flattery and may be term'd discretion rather than adulation I intend God willing to go for Sardinia this Spring I hope to have better luck than Master Walsingham Gresley had who some few years since in his passage thither upon the same business that I have in agitation met with some Turksmen of war and so was carried slave to Algier So with my true respects to you I rest Madrid 12 Mar. 1622. Your faithfull Servant J. H. XIV To Sir Francis Cottington Secretary to his Highnesse the Prince of Wales at Saint James SIR I Believe it will not be unpleasing unto you to hear of the procedure and successe of that business wherin your self hath been so long vers'd in I mean the great sute against the quondam Vice-roy of Sardinia the Conde del Real Count Gondamars comming was a great advantage unto me who hath don me many favors besides a confirmation of the two sentences of view and review and of the execution against the Vice-roy I have procur'd a Royall cedule which I caus'd to be printed and wherof I send you here inclos'd a Coppy by which Cedule I have power to arrest his very person and my Lawyers tell me ther was never such a cedule granted before I have also by vertue of it priority of all other his Creditors He hath made an imperfect overture of a composition and shewd me som triviall old fashion'd jewells but nothing equivalent to the debt And now that I speak of jewells the late surprisall of Ormus by the assistance of our ships sinks deep in their stomacks here and we were afraid it would have spoild all proceedings but my Lord Digby now Earl of Bristoll for Count Gondamar brought him ore his Patent hath calmd all things at his last audience Ther were luminaries of joy lately here for the victory that Don Gonzalez de Cordova got over Count Mansfelt in the Netherlands with that Army which the Duke of Bouillon had levied for him but some say they have not much reason to rejoyce for though the Infantery suffer'd yet Mansfelt got clear with all his horse by a notable retreat and they say here it was the greatest peece of service and Art he ever did it being a Maxim that ther is nothing so difficult in the Art of War as an honourable retreat Besides the report of his comming to Breda caus'd Marquis Spinola to raise the siege before Berghen to burn his tents and to pack away suddenly for which he is much censur'd here Captain Leat and others have written to me of the favourable report you pleas'd to make of my endeavors here for which I return you humble thanks and though you have left behind you multitude of servants in this Court yet if occasion were offerd none should be more forward to go on your errand then Madrid 15 Mar. 1622. Your humble and faithfull Servitor J. H. XV. To the honble Sir Tho Savage Knight and Baronet honble SIR THe great busines of the match was tending to a period the Articles reflecting both upon Church and State being capitulated and interchangeably accorded on both sides and ther wanted nothing to consummate all things when to the wonderment of the world the Prince and the Marquis of Buckingham arriv'd at this Court a friday last upon the close of the evening they lighted at my Lord of Bristols house and the Marquis Mr Thomas Smith came in first with a Portmantle under his arm then Mr Iohn Smith the Prince was sent for who staid a while the to'ther side of the street in the dark my Lord of Bristoll in a kind of astonishment brought him up to his bed chamber where he presently calld for pen and ink and dispacht a Post that night to England to acquaint his Majesty how in lesse then sixteen daies he was come safely to the Court of Spain that Post went lightly laden for he carried but three letters the next day came Sir Francis Cotington and Mr Porter and darke rumors ran in every corner how som great man was com from England and som would not stick to say amongst the vulgar it was the King but towards the evening on saturday the marquis went in a close coach to Court where he had privat audience of this King who sent Olivares to accompany him back to the Prince where he kneeld and kisd his hands and hugd his thighs and deliverd how unmeasurably glad his Catholic Majesty was of his coming with other high complements which Mr Porter did interpret About ten a clock that night the King himself came in a close coach with intent to visit the Prince who hearing of it met him halfway and after salutations and divers embraces which past in the first interview they parred late I forgot to tell you that Count Gondamar being sworn Counseller of State that morning having bin before but one of the Counsell of War he came in great hast to visit the Prince saying he had strange news to tell him which was that an Englishman was sworn privy Counseller of Spain meaning himself who he said was an Englishman in his heart On Sunday following the King in the afternoon came abroad to take the air with the Queen his two brothers and the Infanta who were all in one coach but the Infanta sat in the boot with a blew riband about her arm of purpose that the Prince might distinguish her ther were above twenty coaches besides of Grandes Noble men and Ladies that attended them And now iâ—… was publicly known amongst the vulgar that it was the Prince of Wales who was com and the confluence of people before my Lord of Bristolls house was so great and greedy to see the Prince that to clear the way Sir Lewis Divâ—…s went out and took coach and all the crowd of people went after him so the Prince himself a little after took coach wherin there were the Earl of Bristoll Sir Walter Ashton and Count Gondamar and so went to the Prado a place hard by of purpose to take the air where they stayed till the King past by as soon as
I rest Your affectionate Servent J. H. Iune the 6. 1619. XII To Sir James Crofts Antwerp SIR I Presume that my last to you from the Hague came to safe hand I am now come to a more cheerfull Countrey and amongst a People somewhat more vigorous and mettald being not so heavy as the Hollander or homely as they of Zealand This goodly ancient City me thinks looks like a disconsolat Widow or rather som superannuated Virgin that had lost her Lover being almost quite â—…erest of that flourishing Commerce wherwith before the falling off of the rest of the Provinces from Spain she abounded to the envy of all other Cities and Marts of Europ Ther are few places this side the Alps better built and so well Streeted as this and none at all so well girt with Bastions and Rampasts which in som places are so spacious that they usually take the Air in Coaches upon the very wals which are beutified with divers rows of Trees and pleasant Walks The Cittadell here though it be an addition to the Statelines and strength of the Town yet it serveâ—… as a shrew'd Curb unto her which makes her chomp upon the Bit and Foam sometimes with anger but she cannot help it The Tumults in Bohemia now grow hotter and hotter they write how the great Councell aâ—… Prague fell to such a hurliburly that soâ—… of those Senators who adherd to the Emperour were thrown ouâ—… at the windows wher som were maim'd som break their Necks 〈◊〉 am shortly to bid a farewell to the Netherlands and to bend mâ—… cours for France wher I shall be most ready to entertain anâ—… commands of yours So may all health and happines attend yoâ—… according to the wishes of Your obliged Servant J. â—… Iuly 5. 1619. XIII To Dr. Tho. Prichard at Oxford from Roüen I Have now taken firm footing in France and though France be one of the chiefest Climats of Complement yet I can use none towards you but tell you in plain down right Language That in the List of those friends I left behind me in England you are one of the prime rank one whose name I have mark'd with the whitest Stone If you have gain'd such a place amongst the choicest friends of mine I hope you will put me somwher amongst yours though I but fetch up the rear being contented to be the iâ—…fima species the lowest in the predicament of your friends I shall sojourn a good while in this City of Roüen therfore I pray make me happy with the comfort of your Letters which I shall expect with a longing impatience I pray send me ample advertisement of your welfare and of the rest of our friends as well upon the Banks of Isis as amongst the Brittish Mountains I am but a fresh man yet in France therfore I can send you no news but that all is here quiet and t is no ordinary news that the French should be quiet But some think this Calm will not last long for the Queen Mother late Regent is discontented being restrain'd from coming to the Court or to the City of Paris and the Tragicall death of her Favourit and Foster-Brother the late Marquis of Ancre lieth yet in her stomach undisgested She hath the Duke of Espernon and divers other potent Princes that would be strongly at her devotion as 't is thought if she would stir I pray present my service to Sir Eubule Theloall and send me word with what pace Iesus Colledg new Walls go up I will borrow my conclusion to you at this time of my Countrey-man Owen Uno non possum quantum te diligo versu Dicere si satis est distichon ecce duos I cannot in one Vers my love declare If two will serve the turn to here they are Wherunto I will add this sirname Anagram Yours whole I. Howel Aug. 6. 1619. XIV To Daniel Caldwall Esq. from Roüen MY dear Dan. when I came first to this Town amongst other objects of contentment which I found here wherof ther are variety a Letter of yours was brought me and 't was a Shâ—… Letter for two more were enwomb'd in her Body she had an easie and quick deliverance of that Twin but besides them she was big and pregnant of divers sweet pledges and lively evidences of your own love towards me whereof I am as fond as any Mother can be of her child I shall endeavour to cherish and foster this dear love of yours with all the tendernes that can be and warm it at the fuel of my best affections to make it grow evry day stronger and stronger untill it comes to the state of perfection because I know it is a true and real it is no spurious or adulterated love If I intend to be so indulgent and carefull of yours I hope you will not suffer mine to starve with you my love to you needs not much tending for it is a lusty strong love and will not easily miscarry I pray when you write next to sond me a dozen pair of the best White Kidskin Gloves the Royall-Exchange can afford as also two pair of the purest White Wosted Stockins you can get of Women size together with half a dozen pair of Knifs I pray send your man with them to Vacandary the French Post upon Tower-Hill who will bring them me safely When I go to Paris I shall send you som curiosities equivalent to these I have here inclos'd return'd an answer to those two that came in yours I pray see them safely delivered My kind respects to your Brother Sergeant at Court to all at Batter say ' or any wher else wher you think my Commendations may be well plac'd No more at this time but that I recommend you to the never failing Providence of God desiring you to go on in nourishing still between us that love which for my part No Traverses of Chance of Time or Fate Shall ere extinguish till our lives last date But aâ—… the Vinâ—… hâ—… lovely Elâ—… 〈◊〉 wire Grasp bâ—…th our Hearts and flame with fresh desire Roüen Aug. 13. 1619. Yours J. H. XV. To my Father from Roüen SIR YOurs of the third of August came to safe hand in an inclos'd from my Brother you may make easie conjecture how welcom it was unto me and to what a height of comfort it rais'd my spirits in regard it was the first I received from you since I cross'd the Seas I humbly thank you for the blessing you sent along with it I am now upon the fair Continent of France One of Natures choicest Master-peeces one of Ceres chiefest Barns for Corn one of Bacchus prime Wine-Cellars and of Neptuâ—…s best Salt-Pits a compleat self-sufficient Countrey wher ther is rather a superfluity then defect of any thing either for necessity or pleasure did the policie of the Countrey correspond with the bounty of Nature in the equall distribution of the Wealth amongst the Inhabitants for I think there is not upon the Earth a richer Countrey
command given that no violence should be offered him that he might be reserv'd for the law and som exquisit torture The Queen grew half distracted hereupon who had been crown'd Queen of France the day before in great tryumph but a few days after she had something to countervail if not to overmatch her sorrow for according to Saint Lewis law she was made Queen Regent of France during the Kings Minority who was then but about years of Age Many consultations were held how to punish Revillas and ther were some Italiaâ—… Physitians that undertook to prescribe a torment that should last a constant torment for three days but he scap'd onely with this His body was pull'd between four horses that one might hear his Bones crack and after the dislocation they were set again and so he was carryed in a Cart standing half naked with a Torch in that hand which had committed the murrher and in the place where the act was done it was cut off and a Gauntlet of hot Oyl was clap'd upon the stump to stanch the bloud whereat he gave a dolefull shrike then was he brought upon a stage wher a new pair of Boots was provided for him half fill'd with boyling Oyl then his body was pincer'd and hot Oyl powr'd into the holes in al the extremity of this torture he scarce shew'd any sense of pain but when the Gauntlet was clap'd upon his Arms to stanch the Flux at which time he of reaking bloud gave a shrike onely He boar up against all these torments about three hours before he dyed all the confession that could be drawn from him was That he thought to have done God good service totake away that King which would have embroil'd all Christendom in an endlesse War A fatall thing it was that France should have theee of her Kings com to such violent deaths in so short a revolution of time Henry the second running at Tilt with Monsieur Montgomery was kill'd by a Splinter of a Lance that pierc'd his eye Henry the third not long after was kill'd by a young Fryer who in lieu of a Letter which he pretended to have for him pull'd out of his long sleeve a Knife and thrust him into the Bottom of the belly as he was coming from his Close stool and so dispatcht him but that Regicide was hack'd to peeces in the place by the Nobles The same destiny attended this King by Ravillac which is becom now a common name of reproach and infamy in France Never was King so much lamented as this ther are a world not onely of his Pictures but Statues up and down France and ther 's scarce a Market Town but hath him erected in the Market place or ore some Gate not upon Sign-posts as our Henry the eight and by a publick Act of Parliament which was confirmed in the Consistory at Rome he was entiâ—…led Henry the Great and so plac'd in the Temple of Immortality A notable Prince he was and of in admirable temper of body and mind he had a gracefull facetious way to gain both love and aw he would be never transported beyond himself with choler but he would passe by any thing with some repartie som witty strain wherein he was excellent I will instance in a few which were told me from a good hand One day he was charg'd by the Duke of Bovillon to have chang'd his Religion he answer'd No cosin I have chang'd no Religion but an Opinion And the Cardinall of Perron being by he injoyn'd him to write a Treatise for his Vindication the Cardinal was long about the work and when the King ask'd from time to time where his Book was he would still answer him That he expected som Manuscripts from Rome before he could finish it It happen'd that one day the King took the Cardinall along with him to look on his Workmen and new Buildings at the Louvre and passing by one corner which had bin a long time begun but left unfinished The King ask'd the chief Mason why that corner was not all this while perfected Sir it is because I want som choice Stones no no said the King looking upon the Cardinall It is because thou want'â—… Manuscripts from Rome Another time the old Duke of Main who was us'd to play the drol with him coming softly into his Bed-Chamber and thrusting in his Bald-head and Long-neck in a posture to make the King merry it happen'd the King was coming from doing his Ease and spying him he took the round Cover of the Close-stool and clap'd it on his Bald-Sconce saying Aâ—… Cousin you thought once to have taken the Crown off of my head and wear it on your own but this of my Tail shall now serve your turn Another time when at the siege of Amiâ—…ns he having sent for the Count of Soissons who had 100000 Franks a yeer Pension from the Crown to assist him in those wars and that the Count excused himself by reason of his yeers and poverty having exhausted himself in the former wars and all that he could do now was to pray for his Majesty which he would do heartily This answer being brought to the King he replied Will my Cousin the Count of Soissons do nothing else but pray for me tell him that Prayer without Fasting is not available therefore I will make my Cousin Fast also from his Pension of 100000. per annum He was once troubled with a fit of the Gout and the Spanish Ambassador coming then to visit him and saying he was sorry to see his Majesty so lame he answered As lame as I am if ther were occasion your Master the King of Spain should no sooner have his foot in the stirrop but he should find me on Horseback By these few you may guesse at the Genius of this spritfull Prince I could make many more instances but then I should exceed the bounds of a Letter When I am in Spain you shall hear further from me and if you can think on any thing wherin I may serve you beleeve it Sir that any imployment from you shall be welcom to Your much obliged Servant J. H. Paris 12. of May 1620. XIX To my Brother Dr. Howell BROTHER BEing to morrow to part with Paris and begin my journey for Spain I thought it not amisse to send you this in regard I know not when I shall have opportunity to write unto you again This Kingdom since the young King hath taken the Scepter into his own hands doth flourish very much with quietnes and Commerce nor is there any motion or the least tintamar of trouble in any part of the Countrey which is rare in France T is true the Queen Mother is discontented since She left her Regency being confin'd and I know not what it may com unto in time for she hath a strong party and the murthering of her Marquis of Ancre will yet bleed as som fear I was lately in societie of a Gentleman who was a Spectator of
be one of the fatall events that followed the last fearfull Comet that rose in the tail of the Constellation of Virgo which som ignorant Astronomers that write of it would fix in the Heavens and that as far above the Orb of the Moon as the Moon is from the Earth but this is nothing in comparison of those hideous fires that are kindled in Germany blown first by the Bohemians which is like to be a war without end for the wâ—…ole House of Austria is interessed in the quarrell and it is not the custome of that House to sit by any asâ—…ront or forget it quickly Queen Anne left a world of brave Jewells behind but one Pâ—…ero an outlandish man who had the keeping of them embeazled many and is run away she left all she had to Prince Charles whom she eveâ—… loved best of all her Children nor do I hear of any Legacie she left at all to her daughter in Germany for that match some say lessened somthing of her affection towards her ever since so that she would often call her goody Palsgrave nor could she abide Secretary Winwood ever after who was one of the chiefest instruments to bring that match about as also for the rendition of the cautionary Towns in the Low-Countries Flushing and Bâ—…ill with the Rammakins I was lately with Sir Iohn Walter and others of your Counsell about your Law-busines and som of them told me that Master I. Lloyd your adversary it one of the shrewdest Sollicitoâ—…s in all the thirteen Shires of Wales being so habituated to Law-sutes and wrangling that he knows any the least starting hole in every Court I could wish you had made a fair end with him for besides the cumber and trouble specially to those that dwell at such a huge distance from Westminster Hall as you doe Law is a shrewd pickpuâ—…s and the Lawyer as I heard one say wittily not long since is like a Christmasse box which is sure to get whosoever loseth So with the continuance of my due and daily prayers for your health with my love to my brothers and sisters I rest Your dutifull Son J. H. March 20. 1621. VIII To Dan. Caldwall Esqr. from the Lord Savages House in Long-Melford My deare D. THough considering my former condition of life I may now be called a Countreyman yet you cannot call me a Rustiâ—… as you would imply in your Letter as long as I live in so civill and noble a Family as long as I lodg in so vertuous and regular a House as any I beleeve in the Land both for oeconomicall government and the choice company for I never saw yet such a dainty Race of Children in all my life together I never saw yet such an orderly and punctuall attendance of servants nor a great House so neatly kept here one shall see nor dog nor cat nor cage to cause any nastines within the body of the House The kitchin and gutters and other offices of noise and drudgery are at the â—…ag end ther 's a back gate for beggars and the meaner sort of swains to come in at The stables butt upon the Park which for a chearfull rising ground for groves and browsings for the Deer for rivulets of water may compare with any for its bignes in the whole land it is opposite to the front of the great House whence from the Gallery one may see much of the game when they are a hunting Now for the gardning and costly choice flowers for ponds for stately large walks green and gravelly for orchards and choice fruits of all sorts ther aâ—…e few the like in England here you have your â—…on Crâ—…en pear and 〈◊〉 â—…n perfection your Muscadell grapes in such plenty that ther are som bottles of wine sent every year to the King And one Mr. Daniel a worthy Gentleman hard by who hath â—…in long abroad makes good store in his vintage Truly this House of Long-Melford though it be not so great yet it is so well compacted and contrived with such dainty conveniences every way that if you saw the Landskip of it you would be mightily taken with it and it would serve for a choice pattern to buâ—…ld and contrive a house by If you come this Summer to your Mannor of Sheriff in Essex you will not be â—…ar off hence if your occasions will permit it will be worth your coming hither though it be only to see him who would think it a short journey to go from Saint Davids head to Dover cliffâ—… to see and serve you were ther occasion if you would know who the same is ' 〈◊〉 20 Mar. 1621. Your J. H. IX To Robert Brown Esqr. Sir THanks for one â—…rtesie is a good Vsher to bring on another Therfore it is my policie at this time to thank you most heartily for your late â—…opious Letter to draw on a second I say I thank you a thousand times over for yours of the third of this present which abounded with such variâ—…tie of news and ample well-couchâ—… relations that I made many friends by it yet I am sory for the qualitie of som of your news that Sir Robert Mansell being now in the Mediterranean with a considerable â—…avall strength of ours against the Moors to do the Spaniard a pleasure Marquis Spinola should in a hâ—…gling way change his Master for the time and taking Commission from the Emperour becom his servant for invading the Palatinat with the Forces of the King of Spain in the Netherlands I am sory also the Princes of the Union should â—…e so stupid as to suffer him to take Oppenheim by a Parthian kind of back stratagem in appearing before the Town and making semblance afterwards to go for Worms and then perceiving the Forces of the United Princes to go for succouring of that to turn back and take the Town he intended first wherby I fear he will be quickly master of the rest Surely I beleeve ther may be some treachery in 't and that the Marquis of Anâ—…back the Generall was orecom by pistolâ—… made of Indian ingots rather than of steel else an Army of 40000. which he had under his command might have made its parâ—…y good against Spinola's lesse than 10000. though never such choice Veterans But what will not gold do it will make a Pigmey too hard for a Gyant ther 's no fence or â—…ortres against an Asse laden with gold It was the saying you know of His Father whom partiall and ignorant Antiquity cries up to have conquerd the World and that â—…e sigh'd ther were no more worlds to conquer though he had never one of the three old parts of the then known World entirely to himself I desire to know what is become of that handfull of men his Majesty sent to Germany under Sir Horace Vere which he was bound to do as he is one of the Protestant Princes of the Union and what 's become of Sir Arthur Chichester who is gon Ambassador to those parts Dear Sir I
protractions and puttings off you need not wonder that private negotiations as mine is should be subject to the same inconveniences Ther shall be no means left unattempted that my best industry can find out to put a period to it and when his Highnesse is gon I hope to find my Lord of Bristoll more at leasure to continue his favour and furtherance which hath been much already So I rest Madrid Aug. 19. 1623. Yours ready to servâ—… you J. H. XXIV To Sir James Crofts SIR THe Prince is now upon his jorney to the Sea side where my Lord of Rutland attends for him with a royall fleet Ther are many here shrink in their shoulders and are very sensible of his departure and the Lady Infanta resents it more than any she hath caus'd a Mass to be sung every day ever since for his good Voyage The Spaniards themselves confess ther was never Princes so bravely wooed The King and his two Brothers accompanied his Highnes to the Escurial some twenty miles off and would have brought him to the Sea side but that the Queen is big and hath not many days to go when the King and he parted there past wonderfull great endearments and embraces in divers postures between them a long time and in that place there is a Pillar to be erected as a Monument to Posterity Ther are some Grandes and Count Gondamar with a great train besides gone with him to the Marine to the Sea side which will be many days journey and must needs put the King of Spain to a mighty expence besides his seven months entertainment here we hear that when he past through Valladolid the Duke of Lerma was retired thence for the time by speciall command from the King left he might have discours with the Prince whom he extremely desir'd to see This sunk deep into the old Duke insomuch that he said that of all the acts of malice which Olivares had ever done him he resented this more than any He bears up yet very well under his Cardinalls habit which hatâ—… kept him from many a foul storm that might have faln upon him els from the temporall power The Duke of Uzeda his son finding himself to decline in favor at Court had retir'd to the Countrey and dyed soon after of discontentment During his sickness the Cardinall writ this short weighty Letter unto him Dizen me que Mareys de necio por mi mas temo mis anos qué mis Eâ—…igos Lerma I shall not need to English it to you who is so great a Master of the Language Since I began this Letter wee understand the Prince is safely embarqu'd but not without som danger of being cast away had not Sir Sackvill Trever taken him up I pray God send him a good voyage and us no ill news from England My most humble service at Tower-hill so I am Madrid Aug. 21. 1623. Your humble Servitor J. H. XXV To my Brother Doctor Howell My Brother SInce our Prince his departure hence the Lady Infanta studieth English apace and one Mr. Wadsworth and Father Boniface two Englishmen are appointed her teachers and have access to her every day We account her as it were our Princess now and as we give so she takes that Title Our Ambassadors my Lord of Bristoll and Sir Walter Astâ—…n will not stand now covered before her when they have audience because they hold her to be their Princess she is preparing divers suits of rich Cloaths for his Highness of persum'd Amber leather some embroder'd with Pearl some with Gold some with Silver her Family is a setling apace and most of her Ladies and Officers are known already we want nothing now but one dispatch more from Rome and then the marriage will be solemnizd and all things consummated yet there is one Mr. Clerk with the lame arm that came hither from the Sea side as soon as the Prince was gon hee is one of the Duke of Buckinghams creatures yet he lies at the Earl of Bristols house which we wonder at considering the darknes that hapned twixt the Duke and the Earl we fear that this Clerk hath brought somthing that may puzzle the busines Besides having occasion to make my address lately to the Venetian Ambassador who is interressed in som part of that great busines for which I am here he told me confidently it would be no match nor did he think it was ever intended But I want faith to believe him yet for I know Saint Mark is no friend to it nor France or any other Prince or State besides the King of Denmarck whose Grandmother was of the house of Austria being sister to Charles the Emperor Touching the busines of the Palatinate our Ambassadors were lately assur'd by Olivares and all the Counsellors here that in this Kings name that he would procure his Majestie of great Britain entire satisfaction herein and Olivares giving them the joy intreated them to assure their King upon their honor and upon their lives of the reality hereof for the Infanta her self said he hath stird in it and makes it now her own busines for it was a firm peace and amity which he confest could never be without the accommodation of things in Germany as much as an alliance which his Catholic Majesty aimd at But wee shall know shortly now what to trust to we shall walk no more in mists though som give out yet that our prince shall embrace a cloud for Iuno at last I pray present my service to Sir Iohn Franklin and Sir Iohn Smith with all at the Hill and Dale and when you send to Wales I pray convey the inclos'd to my Father So my dear brother I pray God bless us both and bring us again joyfully together Madrid Aug. 12. 1623. Your very loving Brother J. H. XXVI To my noble friend Sir John North Knight SIR I Receiv'd lately one of yours but it was of a very old date we have our eyes here now all fixd upon Rome greedily expecting the Ratification and lately a strong rumor ran it was com in so much Mr Clerk who was sent hither from the Prince being a shipboard and now lies sick at my Lord of Bristolls house of a Calenture hearing of it he desired to speak with him for he had somthing to deliver him from the Prince my Lord Ambassador being com to him Mr Clerk delivered a letter from the Prince the contents wherof were that wheras he had left certain Proxies in his hand to be deliverd to the King of Spain after the Ratification was com he desir'd and requir'd him not to do it till he should receive further order from England my Lord of Bristoll hereupon went to Sir Walter Aston who was in joynt Commission with him for concluding the match and shewing him the Letter what my Lord Aston said I know not but my Lord of Bristoll told him that they had a Commission Royall under the broad Seal of England to conclude the match he
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
pictures of Moores of such men that a little after fulfilled the Prophesie Yet this last conquest of Spain was not perfect for divers parts Northwest kept still under Christian Kings specially Biscay which was never conquer'd as Wales in Britanny and the Biscayners have much Analogy with the Welsh in divers things They retain to this day the originall Language of Spain they are the most mountainous people and they are reputed the ancientst Gentry so that when any is to take the order of Knighthood ther are no Inquistors appointed to find whether he be cleer of the bloud of the Moors as in other places The King when he comes upon the confines pulls off one shoo before he can tread upon any Biscay ground And he hath good reason to esteem that Province in regard of divers advantages he hath by it for he hath his best timber to build ships his best Mariners and all his iron thence Ther were divers bloudy battells 'twixt the remnant of Christians and the Moors for seven hundreth yeers together and the Spaniards getting ground more and more drive them at last to Granada and thence also in the time of Ferdinand and Isabella quite over to Barbary their last King was Chico who when he fled from Granada crying and weeping the people upbraâ—…ded him That he might well weep like a woman who could not defend himself and them like a man This was that Ferdinand who obtaind from Rome the Title of Catholic though some Stories say that many ages before Ricaredus the first Orthodox King of the Goths was stil'd Catholicus in a Provinciall Synod held at Toledo which was continued by Alphonsus the first and then made hereditary by this Ferdinand This absolute conquest of the Moors hapned about Henry the sevenths time ' when the soresaid Ferdinand and Isabella had by alliance joynd Castile and Aragon which with the discovery of the West Indies which happend a little after was the first foundation of that greatnes wherunto Spain is now mounted Afterwards ther was an alliance with Burgundy and Austria by the first House the seventeen Provinces fell to Spain by the second Charles the fifth came to be Emperor and remarkable it is how the House of Austria came to that height from a mean Earl the Earl of Hasburgh in Germany who having bin one day a hunting he overtook â—… Priest who had bin with the Sacrament to visit a poor sick body the Priest being tyr'd the Earl lighted off his horse helpt up the Priest and so waited upon him afoot all the while till he brought him to the Church The Priest giving him his benediction at his going away told him that for this great act of humility and piety His Race should be one of the greatest that ever the world had and ever since which is som 240. yeers ago the Empire hath continued in that House which afterwards was calld the House of Austria In Philip the seconds time the Spanish Monarchy came to its highest cumble by the conquest of Portugall wherby the East Indies sundry Islands in the Atlantic Sea and divers places in Barbary were added to the Crown of Spain By these steps this Crown came to this Grandeur and truly give the Spaniard his due he is a mighty Monarch he hath Dominions in all parts of the world which none of the four Monarchies had both in Europe Asia Africa and America which he hath solely to himself though our Henry the seventh had the first proffer made him So the Sun shines all the foure and twenty houres of the naturall day upon som part or other of his countreys for part of the Antipodes are subject to him He hath eight Viceroys in Europe two in the East Indies two in the West two in Afric and about thirty provinciall soverain Commanders more yet as I was told lately in a discours twixt him and our Prince at his being here when the Prince sell to magnifie his spacious Dominions the King answer'd Sir 't is true it hath pleas'd God to trust me with divers Nations and Countreys but of all these ther are but two which yeeld me any clear revenues viz. Spain and my West Indies nor all Spain neither but Castile only the rest do scarce quit cost for all is drunk up twixt Governors and Garrisons yet my advantage is to have the opportunity to propagate Christian Religion and to employ my Subjects For the last it must be granted that no Prince hath better means to breed brave men and more variety of commands to heighten their spirits with no petty but Princely employments This King besides hath other means to oblige the Gentry unto him by such a huge number of Commendams which he hath in his gift to bestow oâ—… whom he please of any of the three Orders of Knighthood which England and France want Som Noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. some forty some thirty and divers twenty thousand pounds per annum The Church here is exceeding rich both in revenues plate and buildings one cannot go to the meanest Countrey Chappell but he will find Chalices lamps and candlesticks of silver There are some Bishopricks of 30000l per annum and divers of 10000 l. and Toledo is 100000 l. yearly revenue As the Church is rich so it is mightily reverenced here and very powerfull which made Philip the second rather depend upon the Clergy than the secular Power Therfore I do not see how Spain can be call'd a poor Countrey considering the revenues aforesaid of Princes and Prelats nor is it so thin of People as the world makes it and one reason may be that ther are sixteen Universities in Spain in one of these there were fifteen thousand Students at one time when I was there I mean Salamanca and in this Village of Madrid for the King of Spain cannot keep his constant Court in any City there are ordinarily 600000 souls T is true that the colonizing of the Indies and the wars of Flanders have much drain'd this Countrey of people Since the expulsion of the Moors it is also grown thinner and not so full of corn for those Moors would grub up wheat out of the very tops of the craggy hills yet they us'd another grain for their bread so that the Spaniard had nought els to do but go with his Ass to the Market and buy corn of the Moon Ther liv'd here also in times past a great number of Jews till they were expell'd by Ferdinand and as I have read in an old Spanish Legend the cause was this The King had a young Prince to his son who was us'd to play with a Jewish Doctor that was about the Court who had a Ball of gold in a string hanging down his brest the little Prince one day snatcht away the said gold Ball and carried it to the next room the Ball being hollow opend and within there was painted our Saviour kissing a Iews tail Hereupon they were all suddenly disterr'd
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
could not though much importun'd by Doctor Roseus and other Divines upon his death bed be induc'd to make them legitimat by marying the mother of them for the Law there is That if one hath got children of any Woman though unmaried to her yet if he mary her never so little before his death he makes her honest and them all legitimat but it seems the Prince postpos'd the love he bore to his woman and children to that which he bore to his brother Henry for had he made the children legitimat it had prejudic'd the brother in point of command and fortunes yet he hath provided very plentifully for them and the mother Grave Henry hath succeeded him in all things and is a gallant Gentleman of a French education and temper he charg'd him at his death to marry a young Lady the Count of Solms Daughter attending the Queen of Bohemia whom he had long courted which is thought will take speedy effect When the siege before Breda had grown hot Sir Edward Vere being one day attending Prince Maurice he pointed at a rising place call'd Terbay wher the enemy had built a Fort which might have bin prevented Sir Edward told him he fear'd that Fort would be the cause of the loss of the Town the Grave spatter'd and shook his head saying 't was the greatest error he had committed since he knew what belong'd to a Soldier as also in managing the plot for surprising of the Cittadell of Antwerp for he repented that he had not imployed English and French in lieu of the slow Dutch who aym'd to have the sole honour of it and were not so fit instruments for such a nimble peece of service As soon as Sir Charls Morgan gave up the Town Spinola caus'd a new Gate to be erected with this inscription in great Golden Characters Philippo quarto regnante Clara Eugenia Isabella Gubernante Ambrosio Spinola obsidente Quatuor Regibus contra conantibus Breda capta fuit Idibus c. T is thought Spinola now that he hath recover'd the honor he had lost before Berghen op Zoon three yeers since will not long stay in Flanders but retire No more now but that I am resolv'd to continue ever London Mar. 19. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XVI To Mr R. Sc. at York SIR I Sent you one of the third Current but t was not answer'd I sent another of the thirteenth like a second Arrow to find out the first but I know not what 's become of either I send this to find out the other two and if this fail ther shall go no more out of my Quiver If you forget me I have cause to complain and more if you remenber me to forget may proceed from the frailty of memory not to answer me when you minde me is pure neglect and no less than a piacle So I rest Yours easily to be recover'd J. H. Ira furor brevis est brevis est mea littera cogor Ira correptus corripuisse stylum London 19 of Iuly the first of the Dogdaies 1626. XVII To Dr. Field Lord Bishop of Landaff My Lord I Send you my humble thanks for those worthy Hospitable favours you were pleas'd to give me at your lodgings in Westminster I had yours of the fifth of this present by the hands of Mr. Ionathan Field The news which fills every corner of the Town at this time is the sorry and unsuccessfull return that Wimbledons Fleet hath made from Spain It was a Fleet that deserv'd to have had a better destiny considering the strength of it and the huge charge the Crown was at for besides a squadron of sixteen Hollanders wherof Count William one of Prince Maurice's naturall Sons was Admirall ther were above fourscore of ours the greatest joynt navall power of Ships without Gallies that ever spred sail upon Salt-Water which makes the World abroad to stand astonish'd how so huge a Fleet could be so suddenly made ready The sinking of the long Robin with 170 souls in her in the Bay of Biscay erc she had gon half the voyage was no good augury And the Critics of the time say ther were many other things that promis'd no good fortune to this Fleet besides they would point at divers errors committed in the conduct of the main design first the odd choice that was made of the Admirall who was a meer Land-man which made the Sea men much slight him it belonging properly to Sir Robert Mansell Vice-Admirall of England to have gon in case the High-Admirall went not then they speak of the incertainty of the enterprize and that no place was pitch'd upon to be invaded till they came to the height of the South Cape and to sight of shore where the Lord Wimbledon first cal'd a Counsell of War wherin som would be for Malaga others for Saint Mary-Port others for Gibraltar but most for Cales and while they were thus consulting the Countrey had an alarum given them Add hereunto the blazing abroad of this expedition ere the Fleet went out of the Downs for Mercurius Gallobelgicus had it in print that it was for the Streights mouth Now 't is a rule that great designs of State should be mysteries till they com to the very act of performance and then they should turn to exploits Moreover when the locall attempt was resolv'd on ther wer seven ships by the advice of one Captain Love suffer'd to go up the River which might have bin easily taken and being rich 't is thought they would have defrayed well neer the charge of our Fleet which ships did much infest us afterwards with their Ordnance when we had taken the Forr of Puntall Moreover the disorderly carriage and excess of our Land-men wherof ther were 10000 when they were put a shore who broke into the Fryers Caves and other Cellers of Sweet-Wines wher many hundreds of them being surprizd and found dead-drunk the Spaniards came and toar off their Ears and Noses and pluck'd out their Eies And I was told of one merry fellow escaping that kill'd an Asse for a Buck Lastly it is laid to the Admiralls charge that my Lord de la Wares Ship being infected he should give order that the sick men should be scatter'd in o divers ships which dispers'd the contagion exceedingly so that som thousands died before the Fleet return'd which was don in a confus'd manner without any observance of Sea Orders Yet I do not hear of any that will be punish'd for these miscarriages which will make the dishonour fall more fouly upon the State but the most infortunate passage of all was that though we did nothing by Land that was considerable yet if we had stayd but a day or two longer and spent time at sea the whole Fleet of Galeons and Nova Hispania had faln into our mouths which came presently in close along the Coasts of Barbary and in all likelihood we might have had the opportunity to have taken the richest prize that
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
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
I have much ado to man or maintain my self as I told you before yet notwithstanding that the better part of my daies are already threeded upon the string of time I will not despair but I may have a Wife at last that may perhaps enable me to build Hospitalls for although nine long lustres of yeers have now pass'd â—…re my head and som winters more for all my life considering the few Sun-shines I have had may be call'd nothing but winters yet I thank God for 't I find no symptom of decay either in body senses or intellectualls But writing thus extravagantly me thinks I hear you say That this Letter shews I begin to dote and grow idle therfore I will display my self no further unto you at this time To tell you the naked truth my dear Tom The highest pitch of my aym is that by som condition or other I may be enabled at last though I be put to sow the time that others use to reap to quitt scores with the World but never to cancell that precious obligation wherin I am indissolubly bound to live and die From the Fleet 28 of Aprill 1645. Your true constant Frend J. H. AD LIBRUM Sine me Liber ibis in Aulam Hei mihi quòd Domino non licet ire tuo Ovid. To his Book Thou mayest to Court and progress too and fro Oh that thy captiv'd Master could do so A New VOLUME OF FAMILIAR LETTERS Partly Philosopicall Politicall Historicall The second Edition with Additions By JAMES HOVVELL Esq. Ut 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 His Highnes IAMES Duke of YORK A Star of the greatest Magnitude in the Constellation of CHARLES-WAYN SIR THis Book was engendred in a Cloud born a Captive and bred up in the dark shades of Melancholy He is a true Benoni the son of sorrow nay which is a thing of wonderment He was begot in the Grave by one who hath been buried quick any time these five and fifty months Such is the hard condition of the Author wherin he is like to continue untill some good Angell roll off the stone and raise him up for Prisoners are capable of a double Resurrection my Faith acertains me of one but my fears make me doubtfull of the other for as far as I see yet I may be made to moulder away solong among these walls till I be carried hence with my feet forward Welcom be the will of God and the Decrees of Heaven Your Highnesses most humble and most obedient Servitr. JAMES HOWELL From the Prison of the Fleet. this May day 1647. THE STATIONER to the Reader IT pleas'd the Author to send me these ensuing Letters as a supplement to the greater volume of Epistolae Ho-Elianae wher they could not be inserted then because most of his papers whence divers of these letters are deriv'd were under sequestration And thus much I had in Commission to deliver Humphrey Moseley A New Volume of FAMILIAR LETTERS I. To Master Tho. Adams SIR I Pray stir nimbly in the busines you imparted to me last and let it not languish You know how much it concerns your credit and the conveniency of a friend who deserves so well of you I fear you will meet with divers obstacles in the way which if you cannot remove you must overcom A luke-warm irresolute man did never any thing well evry thought entangles him therfore you must pursue the Point of your design with heat and set all wheels a going T is a true badge of a generous nature being once embark'd in a busines to hoise up and spread every sayl Main â—…isen sprit and top sayl by that means he will sooner arrive at his Port If the winds bee so crosse and that ther be such a fate in the thing that it can take no effect yet you shall have wherwith to satisfie an honest mind that you left nothing unattempted to compassit for in the conduct of human affairs t is a rule That a good conscience hath always withiâ—…dores enough to reward it self though the success fall not out according to the merit of the endeavor I was according to your desire to visit the late new maried couple more than once and to tell you true I never saw such a disparity between two that wer made one flesh in all my life He handsom outwardly but of od conditons she excellâ—…otly qualified but hard favord so that the one may be compard to a cloth of Tissue Doublet cut upon course Canvas the other to a Buckram Petticoâ—…t lin'd with Sattin I think Clothâ—… had her fingers smutted in snuffing the candle when she began to spin the thread of her life and Lachesis frownd in twisting it up but Aglaia with the rest of the Graces wer in a good humor when they form'd her inner parts A blind man is fittest to hear her sing one would take delight to see her dance if mask'd and it would please you to discours with her in the dark for ther she is best company if your imagination can forbear to run upon her face when you marry I wish you such an inside of a wife but from such an outward Phisnomy the Lord deliver you and Westm. 25 of Aug. 1633. Your faithfull frend to serve you J. H. II. To Mr. B. J. F. B. The fangs of a Bear and the Tusks of a wild Bore do noâ—… bite worse and make deeper gashes than a Goose-quill somtimes no not the Badger himself who is said to be so tenacâ—…s of his bite that he will not give over his hold till hee feels his teeth meet and the bone crack your quill hath prov'd so to Mr. In-Iones but the pen wherwith you have so gash'd him it seems was made rather of a Porcupine than a Goose quill it is so keen and firm You know Anser Apis Vitulus populos Regna gubernant The Goose the Bee and the Calf meaning Wax Parchment and the Pen rule the world but of the three the Pen is most predominant I know you have a commanding one but you must noâ—… let it tyrannize in that manner as you have don lately som give out ther was a hair in 't or that your inâ—… was too thick with Gall els it could not have so bespartered and shaken the reputation of â—… Royall Architect for reputation you know is like a fair structâ—… long time a rearing but quickly ruin'd If your spirit will not let you retract yet you shall do well to repress any more copies of the Satyr for to deal plainly with you you have lost som ground at Court by it and as I hear from a good hand the King who hath so great a judgment in Poetry as in all other things els is not well pleased therwith Dispense with this freedom of Westmin 3 Iuly 1635. Your respectfull S. and Servitor J. H. III.
those of Spain one of the prime sort of white wines is that of Beaume and of Clarets that of Orleans though it be interdicted to wine the Kings Cellar with it in regard of the corrosivenes it carries with it As in France so in all other wine Countries the white is called the female and the Claret or red wine is called the male because commonly it hath more sulpher body and heat in 't The wines that our Merchants bring over upon the River of Garond near Bourdeaux in Gascogny which is the greatest Mart for wines in all France The Scot because he hath alwaies bin an usefull confederate to France against England hath among other privileges right of preemption or first choice of wines in Bourdeaux he is also permitted to carry his Ordnance to the very walls of the Town wheras the English are forc'd to leave them at Blay a good way distant down the river Ther is a hard green wine that grows about Rochâ—…ll and the Islands therabouts which the cunning Hollander somtime used to fetch and he hath a trick to put a bag of herbs or som other infusions into it as he doth bâ—…imstone in Rhenish to give it a whiter tincture and more sweetnes then they reimbark it â—…or England where it passeth for good Bâ—…hrag and this is called stooming of wines In Normandy there 's little or no wine at all grows therfore the common drink of that Countrey is cyder specially in low Normandy Ther are also many beer houses in Paris and elsewhere but though their barley and water be better then ours or that of Germany and though they have English and Dutch brewers amongst them yet they cannot make beer in that perfection The prime wines of Germany grow about the Rhine specially in the Pfalts or lower Palatinat about Backrag which hath its Etimologie from Bacchi aâ—…a for in ancient times ther was an Altar erected there to the honour of Bacchus in regard of the richnes of the wines Here and all France over 't is held a great part of incivility for maidens to drink wine untill they are married as it is in Spain for them to wear high shooes or to paint till than The Germain mothers to make their sons fall into hatred of wine do use when they are little to put som owles eggs into a cup of Rhenish and somtimes a little living eel which twingling in the wine while the child is drinking so scares him that many com to abhor and have an antipathy to wine all their lives after From Backrag the fiâ—…st stocks of vines which grow now in the grand Canary Island were brought which with the heat of the Sun and the Soyle is grown now to that height of perfection that the wine which they afford are accounted the richest the most firm the best bodied and lastingst wine and the most defecated from all earthly grossenes of any other whatsoever it hath little or no sulphur at all in 't and leaves less dreggs behind though one drink it to exces French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomack but this is the wine that disgests and doth not only breed good bloud but it nutrifieth also being a glutinous substantiall liquour of this wine if of any other may be verified that merry induction That good wine makes good bloud good bloud causeth good humors good humors cause good thoughts good thoughts bring forth good works good works carry a man to heaven ergo good wine carrieth a man to heaven if this be true surely more English go to heaven this way then any other for I think ther 's more Canary brought into England then to all the world besides I think also ther is a hundred times more drunk under the name of Canary wine then ther is brought in for Sherries and Malagas well mingled pass for Canaries in most Taverns more often then Canary it self els I do not see how 't were possible for the Vintner to save by it or to live by his calling unless he were permitted somtimes to be a Brewer When Sacks and Canaries were brought in first among us they were us'd to be drunk in Aquavita measures and 't was held fit only for those to drink of them who us'd to carry their leggs in their hands their eyes upon their noses and an Almanack in their bones but now they go down every ones throat both young and old like milk The Countries that are freest from exces of drinking are Spain and Italy If a Woman can prove her Husband to have been thrice drunk by the the ancient laws of Spain she may plead for a divorce from him Nor indeed can the Spaniard being hot brainâ—… bear much drink yet I have heard that Gondamar was once too hard for the King of Denmark when he was here in England But the Spanish Souldiers that have bin in the Wars of Flanders will take their cups freely and the Italians also when I liv'd to ' 〈◊〉 side the Alpes a Gentleman told me a merry tale of a Liguriaâ—… Souldier who had got drunk in Genoa and Prince Doria going horseback to walk the round one night the Souldier took his horse by the bridle and ask'd what the price of him was for he wanted horse the Prince seeing in what humor he was caus'd him 〈◊〉 be taken into a house and put to sleep In the morning he 〈◊〉 for him and askd him what he would give for his horse Sir 〈◊〉 the recovered Souldier the Merchant that would have bought 〈◊〉 yyesternight of your Highnesse went away betimes in the morning The boonest compagnions for drinking are the Greeks and Germains But the Greek is the merrier of the two for he will sing and dance and kiss his next compagnion but the other will drink as deep as he if the Greek will drink as many glasses as ther be letters in his Mistresses name the other will drink the number of his yeers and though he be not apt to break out into singing being not of so airy a constitution yet he will drink often musically a health to every one of these 6. notes Ut Re Mi â—…a Sol La which with his reason are all comprehended in this Exameter Ut Relevet Miserum Fatum Solitosque Labores The fewest draughts he drinks are three the first to quench the thirst pass'd the second to quench the present thirst the third to prevent the future I heard of a company of low Dutchmen that had drunk so deep that beginning to stagger and their heads turning round they thought verily they were at Sea and that the upper chamber wher they were was a ship insomuch that it being soul windy weather they fel to throw the stools and other things out of the window to lighten the vessell for fear of suffering shipwrack Thus have I sent your Lordship a dry discourse upon a fluent subiect yet I hope your Lordship will please to take all in good part because it proceeds
sorry I did not for it had let in more light upon me of the cariage of that great action and then you might have bin well assur'd that I would have don that noble Knight all the right that could be But sir the severall arguments that you urge in your Letters are of that strength I confess that they are able to rectifie any indifferent man in this point and induce him to believe that it was no Chymera but a reall Mine for you write of divers pieces of gold brought thence by Sir Walter himself and Captain Kemys and of som Ingotts that wer found in the Governours Closet at St. Thoma with divers crusibles and other refining instruments yet under favour that might be and the benefit not countervail the charge for the richest Mines that the King of Spain hath upon the whole Continent of America which are the Mines of Potosâ—… yeeld him but six in the hundred all expences defrayed You write how King Iames sent privately to sir VValter being yet in the Tower to intreat and command him that he would impart his whole designe unto him under his hand promising upon the word of a King to keep it secret which being don accordingly by Sir VValter Rawleigh that very originall paper was found in the said Spanish Governours closet at St. Thoma wherat as you have just cause to wonder and admire the activeness of the Spanish Agents about our Court at that time so I wonder no less at the miscariage of som of His late Majesties Ministers who notwithstanding that he had pass'd his royall word to the contrary yet they did help Count Gondamar to that paper so that the reproach lieth more upon the English than the Spanish Ministers in this particular Wheras you allege that the dangerous sicknes of Sir VVatler being arrived neer the place and the death of that rare sparke of courage your brother upon the first landing with other circumstances discourag'd Captain Kemys from discovering the Mine but to reserve it for another time I am content to give as much credit to this as any man can as also that Sir VValter if the rest of the Fleet according to his earnest motion had gon with him to revictuall in Virginia a Country wher he had reason to be welcom unto being of his own discovery he had a purpose to return to Guyana the Spring following to pursue his first designe I am also very willing to believe that it cost Sir VValter Rawleigh much more to put himself in equipage for that long intended voyage than would have payed for his liberty if he had gon about to purchase it for reward of money at home though I am not ignorant that many of the co-adventurers made large contributions and the fortunes of som of them suffer for it at this very day But although Gondamar as my Letter mentions calls Sir Walter Pyrat I for my part am far from thinking so because as you give an unanswerable reason the plundering of St. Thoma was an act done beyond the Equator wher the Articles of Peace 'twixt the two Kings do not extend yet under favor though he broke not the Peace he was said to break his Patent by exceeding the bounds of his Commission as the foresaid Declaration relates for King Iames had made strong promises to Count Gondamar that this Fleet should commit no outrages upon the King of Spain's Subjects by Land unless they began first and I beleeve that was the main cause of his death though I think if they had proceeded that way against him in a legall course of triall he might have defended himself well enough Wheras you alledg that if that action had succeeded and afterwards been well prosecuted it might have brought Gondamar's great Catholic Master to have been begg'd for at the Church dores by Fryars as he was once brought in the latter end of Queen Elizabeths days I believe it had much damnified him and interrupted him in the possession of his West Indies but not brought him under favor to so low an ebb I have observed that it is an ordinary thing in your Popish Countreys for Princes to borrow from the Altar when they are reduc'd to any straights for they say the â—…iches of the Church are to serve as anchors in time of a storm divers of our Kings have don worse by pawning their Plate and Jewels Wheras my Letter makes mention that Sir Walter Rawleigh mainly laboured for his Pardon before he went but could not compas it this is also a passage in the foresaid printed Relation but I could have wish'd with all my heart he had obtaind it for I beleeve that neither the transgression of his Commission nor any thing that he did beyond the Line could have shortned the line of his life otherwise but in all probability wee might have been happy in him to this very day having such an Heroic heart as he had and other rare helps by his great knowledg for the preservation of health I beleeve without any scruple what you write that Sir William St. geon made an overture unto him of procuring his pardon for 1500 l. but whether he could have effected it I doubt a little when he had com to negotiat it really But I extremely wonder how that old sentence which had lain dormant above sixteen yeers against Sir Walter Rawleigh could have been made use of to take off his head afterwards considering that the Lord Chancellor Verulam as you write told him positively as Sir Walter was acquainting him with that proffer of Sir William St. geons for a pecuniaâ—…y pardon in these words Sir the knee timber of your voiage is money spare 〈◊〉 purse in this particular for upon my life you have a sufficient parâ—… for all that is passed already the King having under his broad Seal made you Admirall of your Fleet and given you power of the Martiall Law over your Officers and Soldiers One would think that by this Royall Patent which gave him power of life and death over the Kings liege peeple Sir Walter Rawleigh should becom Rectus in â—…ia and free from all old convictions but Sir to tell you the plain truth Count Gondamar at that time had a great stroak in our Court because ther was more than a meer â—…verture of a match with Spain which makes me apt to believe that that great wise Knight being such an Anti-Spaniard was made a Sacrifice to advance the Matrimoniall Treaty But I must needs wonder as you justly do that one and the same man should be condemned for being a frend to the Spaniard which was the ground of his first condemnation should afterwards lose his head for being their enemy by the same sentence Touching his return I must consess I was utterly ignorant that those two noble Earls Thomas of Arundell and William of Pembâ—…oke wer ingaged for him in this particular nor doth the prinâ—…ed Relation make any mention of them at all therfore I must say
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
Diet. 212 Lorain taken by the French 212 Of Translations 213 The young Prince Electors ill success in Germany and Prince Rupert taken Prisoner c. 215 The most tragicall death of the Erl of Warfuzee at Liege 216 Upon Ben Iohnsons death 217 A method in devotion 217 Razevil com from Poland Ambassador 210 The Scots Comanders returning from Germany flant at the English Court 210 Of the Soveraign of the Sea her dimensions and charge 222 Of King Edgar his mighty Navall power and lofty title c. 222 Of the heat and medicinall virtu of the Bath 225 The splendor of the Irish Court 226 Of a memorable passage in Suidas touching our Saviour 227 Of Edinburgh 228 A dispute 'twixt a Vintner and a Shoomaker about Bishops 229 Of that furious Navall fight 'twixt Oquendo and the Hollanders in the Downes 231 Of Chimistry 232 The revolt of Catalonia and the utter defection of Portugal from the Spaniard 233 The dolefull casting away of Captain Limmery's ship valued at 400000 pounds 234 Of a hideous Serpent found in a young Gentlemans heart in Holborn and other ill-favoured auguries 235 Of monstrous prophane Epithets given the French Cardinall 236 Som facetious passages of the old Duke of Espernon 238 Of comfort in captivity 240 Of a miraculous accident happen'd in Hamelen in Germany 240 Of the calamities of the times 241 Of self examination 243 Of Merchant Adventurers 245 Of the late Popes death and the election of this by the Spanish faction his propensity to Peace and the impossibility of it 246 Marquis Pawlet his ingenious Motto 248 Of the Ape of Paris applied to these times Of affliction 249 Of a tru frend 250 Of a strange peeple lately discovered in Spain 251 Of Moderation and Equanimity 253 Of the fruits of affliction 253 Of Wiving 254 Epistolae Ho-Elianae Familiar LETTERS I. To Sir J. S. at LEEDS Castle SIR IT was a quaint difference the Ancients did put twixt a Letter and an Oration that the one should be attird like a Woman the other like a Man The latter of the two is allowd large side robes as long periods parenthesis similes examples and other parts of Rhetorical flourishes But a â—…etter or Epistle should be short-coated and closely couchd a Hungerlin becomes a Letter more hansomly then a gown Indeed we should write as we speak and that 's a true familiar Letter which expresseth ones mind as if he were discoursing with the party to whom he writes in succinct and short terms The Toung and the Pâ—…n are both of them Interproters of the mind but I hold the Pen to be the more faithful of the two The Toung in udo posita being seated in a moyst slippery place may fail and falter in her sudden extemporal expressions but the Pen having a greater advantage of premeditation is not so subject to error and leaves things behind it upon firm and authentic record Now Letters though they be capable of any subject yet commonly they are either Narratory Objurgatory Consolatory Monitory oâ—… Cougratulatory The first consists of relations The second of reprehensions The third of comfort The last two of counsel and joy There are some who in lieu of Letters write Homilies they Preach when they should Epistolize There are others that turn them to tedious tractats this is to make Letters degenerat from their tru nature Some modern Authors there are who have expos'd their Letters to the world but most of them I mean among your Latin Epistolizers go fraighted with meer Bartholomew ware with trite and trivial phrases only listed with pedandic shreds of Shool-boy verses Others ther are among our next transmarin neighbours Eastward 〈◊〉 write in their own language but their stile is so soft and 〈◊〉 that their Letters may be said to be like bodies of loâ—…se slesh without sinews they have neither joynâ—… of art nor 〈◊〉 in them They have a kind of simpering and â—…ank hectic expressions made up of a bombast of words and finical affected complement only â—… cannot well away with such sleazy stuff with such cobweb-compositions where there is no strength of matter nothing for the Reader to carry away with him that may enlarge the notions of his soul One shall hardly find an apotheâ—…m example simile or any thing of Philosophy History or solid knowledg or as much as one new created phrase in a hundred of them and to dâ—…aw any observations out of them were as if one went about to disâ—…il cream out of froth Insomuch that it may be said of them what was said of the Eccho That she is a meer sound and nothing else I return you your Balzaâ—… by thiâ—… bearer and when I found those Letters wherein he is so familiar with his King so flat and those to Richelieu so puff'd with prophane hyperboles and larded up and down with such gross flatteries with others besides which he sends as Urinals up and down the world to look into his water for discovery of the câ—…azie condition of his body I foâ—…bore him further so I am Your most affectionate servitor J. H. H'â—…stminster 25. Julii 1625. II. To my Father upon my first going beyond Sea SIR I Should be much wanting to my self and to thaâ—… obligation of Duty the Law of God and his Handmaid Nature hath imposed upon me if I should not acquaint you with the course and quality of my affairs and fortunes specially at this time that I am upon point of erossing the Seas to eat my bread abroad Nor is it the common relation of a Son that only induc'd me hereunto but that most indulgent and costly Care you have been pleased in so extraordinary a manner to have had of my breeding though but one child of fifteen by placing me in a choice methodicall School so far distant from your dwelling under a learâ—…ed though lashing Master and by transplanting me thence â—…o Oxford to be graduated and so holding me still up by the â—…hin untill I could swim without Bladders This Patrimony â—…f liberall Education you have been Pleased to endow me withal â—… now carry along with me abroad as a sure inseparable Treâ—…ure nor do I feel it any burden or encumbrance unto me at all And what danger soever my person or other things I have about â—…e do incur yet I do not fear the losing of this either by Shipâ—…rack or Pyrats at Sea nor by Robbers or Fire or any other Casualty ashore And at my return to England I hope at leastwâ—…â—… shall do my endeavour that you may finde this Patrimony imâ—…roved somewhat to your comfort The main of my employment is from that gallant Knight Sir Robert Mansell who with my Lord of Pembrook and divers â—…ther of the prime Lords of the Court have got the sole Patent â—…f making all sorts of Glass with Pit-cole onely to save those â—…uge proportions of Wood which were consumed formerly in the Glasse Furnaces And this Business being of that nature that â—…e Workmen are to
the Infanta saw the Prince her colour rose very high which we hold to be an impression of love and affection for the face is often times a true Index of the heart Upon Monday morning after the King sent som of his prime Nobles and other Gentlemen to attend the Prince in qualitie of Officers as oâ—…e to be his Mayordom his Steward another to be Master of the Horse and so to inferior Officers so that ther is a compleat Court now at my Lord of Bristolls house but upon Sunday next the Prince is to remove to the Kings Palace where ther is one of the chief quarters of the house providing for him By the next opportunity you shall hear more In the interim I take my leave and rest March 27. 1623. Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XVI To Sir Eubule Theloall Knight at Grayes-Inne SIR I Know the eyes of all England are earnestly fixd now upon Spain her best jewell being here but his journey was like to be spoild in France for if he had stayd but a little longer at Bayon the last Town of that Kingdom hitherwards he had bin discoverd for Monsieur Gramond the Governor had notice of him not long after he had taken Post. The people here do mightily magnifie the gallantry of the journey and cry out that he deserv'd to have the Infanta thrown into his arms the first night he came He hath bin entertaind with all the magnificence that possibly could be devis'd On Sunday last in the morning betimes he went to Saint Hieroms Monastery whence the Kings of Spain use to be fetchd the day they are crownd and thither the King came in person with his two Brothers his eight Counsells and the flower of the Nobility He rid upon the Kings right hand through the heart of the Town under a great Canopy and was brought so into his lodgings to the Kings Palace and the King himself accompanied him to his very bedchamber It was a very glorious sight to behold for the custom of the Spaniard is though he go plain in his ordinary habit yet upon som Festivall or cause of triumph ther 's none goes beyond him in gaudiness We daily hope for the Popes Breve or Dispensation to perfect the busines though ther be dark whispers abroad that it is com already but that upon this inexpected coming of the Prince it was sent back to Rome and som new clauses thrust in for their further advantage Till this dispatch comes matters are at a kind of stand yet his Highnes makes account to be back in England about the latter end of May. God Almighty turn all to the best and to what shall be most conducible to his glory So with my due respects unto you I rest Aprill 1 1623. Your much obliged Servitor J. H. XVII To Captain Leat SIR HAving brought up the Law to the highest point against the Vice-roy of Sardinia and that in an extraordinary manner as may appear unto you by that Printed cedule I sent you in my last and finding an apparent disability in him to satisfie the debt I thought upon a new design and fram'd a memoriall to the King and wrought good strong means to have it seconded that in regaâ—… that predatory act of seizing upon the ship Vinyard in Sardiâ—… with all her goods was done by his Majesties Vice-roy his soverain Minister of State one that immediatly represented his own Royall Person and that the said Vice-roy was insolvent I desir'd his Majesty would be pleas'd to grant a Warrant for the releef of both parties to lade so many thousand Sterills oâ—… measures of corn out of Sardinia and Sicily custom-free I had gonfâ—… in the business when Sir Francis Cottington sent for me and requir'd me in the Prince his name to proceed no further hereiâ—… till he was departed so his Highness presence here hath turâ—… rather to my disadvantage than otherwise Amongst other Grandezas which the King of Spain conferr'd upon our Prince one was the releasment of Prisoners and that all Petitions of grace should com to him for the first month but he hath been wonderfull sparing in receiving any specially from any English Irish or Scot. Your son Nicolas is com hither from Alicant about the ship Amity and I shall be ready to second him in getting satisfaction so I rest Madrid Iune 3. 1623. Yours ready to serve you J. H. XVIII To Captain Tho. Porter Noble Captain MY last unto you was in Spanish in answer to one of yours in the same language and amongst that confluence of English gallants which upon the occasion of his Highness being here are com to this Court I fed my self with hopes a long while to have seen you but I find now that those hopes were impd with false feathers I know your heart is here and your best affections therfore I wonder what keeps back your person but I conceive the reason to be that you intend to com like your self to com Commander in chief of one of the Castles of the Crown one of the ships Royall If you com so to this shore side I hope you wil havetime to come to the Court I have at any time a good lodging for you and my Landlady is none of the meanest and her husband hath many good parts I heard her setting him forth one day and giving this Character of him Mi marido ei buen musico buen esgrimidor buen eserivano excellente Arithmetico salvo que no multiplica My husband is a good Musitian a good Fencer a good Horse-man a good Pen-man and an excellent Arithmetician only he cannot multiply For outward usage there is all industry us'd to give the Prince and his servants all possible contentment and som of the Kings own servants wait upon them at Table in the Palace where I am sorry to hear som of them jeer at the Spanish fare and use other slighting speeches and demeanor Ther are many excellent Poems made here since the Princes arrivall which are too long to couch in a Letter yet I will venture to send you this one stanza of Lope de Vegas Carlos Estuardo Soy Que siendo Amor mi guia Al cielo d'España voy Por ver mi Estrella Maria. There are Comedians once a week com to the Palace where under a great Canopy the Queen and the Infanta sit in the middle our Prince and Don Carles on the Queens right hand the King and the little Cardinall on the Infanta's left hand I have seen the Prince have his eyes immovably fixed upon the Infanta half an hour together in a thoughtfull speculative posture which sure would needs be tedious unless affection did sweeten it it was no handsom comparison of Olivares that he watcht her as a cat doth â—… mouse Not long since the Prince understanding that the Infanta was us'd to go som mornings to the Casa de campo a summer house the King hath tother side the river to gather May dew he