and ecclesiastiâ—… for the maid of Orleans which is performd every year very solemnly her Statue stands upon the bridg and her cloths are proserv'd to this day which a young man wore in the Procession which makes me think that her story though it sound like a romance is very true And I read it thus in two or three Chronicles when the Englâ—…sh had made such firm invasions in France that their Armies had marchd into the heart of the Countrey besiegd Orleans and driven Charles the seventh to Bourges in Berry which made him to be calld for the time King of Berry there came to his Armie a Shepheardesse one Anne de Arque who with a confident look and language told the King that she was design'd by heaven to beat the English and drive them out of France Therefore she desired a command in the Army which by her extraordinary confidence and importunity she obtain'd and putting on mans apparell she prov'd so prosperous that the siege was raisd from before Orleans and the English were pursued to Paris and forced to quit that and driven to Normandy she usd to go on with marvellous courage and resolution and her word was hara ha But in Normandy she was taken prisoner and the English had a fair revenge upon her for by an arrest of the Parliament of Rouen she was burnt for a Witch Ther is a great busines now a foot in Paris calld the Polette which if it take effect will tend to correct at least wise to cover a great error in the French Government The custom is that all the chief places of Justice throughout all the eight Courts of Parliament in France besides a great number of other offices are set to sale by the King and they return to him unless the buyer liveth fourty dayes after his resignation to another It is now propounded that these casuall offices shall be absolutly hereditary provided that every officer pay a yearly revenue unto the King according to the valuation and perquisits of the oâ—…ice this busines is now in hot â—…gitation buâ—… the issue is yet doubtfull The last you sent I receivd by Vacandary in Paris so highly honoring your excellent parts and meâ—…it I rest now that I understand French indifferently well no more your she Servant but Orleans 3 Martii 1622. Your most faithfull Servitor J. H. XXIV To Sir James Crofts Knight SIR VVEre I to fraight a Letter with Complements this Countrey would furnish me with variety but of news a small store at this present and for Complement it is dangerous to use aâ—…y to you who have such a piercing judgment to discern semblanâ—…es from realities The Queen Mother is com at last to Paris where she hath not been since Anâ—…e's death The King is also return'd post from Boâ—…deaux having travers'd most part of his Kingdom he setled peace every where he pas'd and quash'd divers insurrections and by his obedience to his mother and his lenity towards all her partisans aâ—… pont de Câ—… where above 400 were slain and notwithstanding that he was victorious yet he gave a generall pardon he hath gain'd much upon the affections of his people His Counsell of State wenâ—… ambulatory always with him and as they say here never did men manage things with more wisdom Ther is a war questionless a fermenting against the Protestants the Duke of Espernon in a kind of Rodomontado way desired leave of the King to block up Rochell and in six weeks he would undertake to deliver her to his hands but I beleeve he reckons without his Host. I was told a merry passage of this little Gascon Duke who is now the oldest soldier of France Having come lately to Paris he treated with a Pander to procure him a â—…urtesan and if she was a Damoisell a Gentlewoman he would give so much and if a Citizen he would give so much The Pandeâ—… did his Office but brought him a Citizen clad in Damoisells apparell so she and her Maquerell were paid accordingly the neâ—… day after som of his familiars having understood hereof began to be pleasant with the Duke and to jeer him that he being a visâ—…il Routier an old tried soldier should suffer himself to be so coâ—…end as to pay for a Citizen after the rate of a Gentlewoman the little Duke grew half wild hereupon and commenc'd an action of fraud against the Pander but what became of it I cannot tell you but all Paris rung of it I hope to return now very shortly to England where amongst the â—…est of my noble friends I shall much rejoyce to see and serve you whom I honour with no vulgar affection so I am Your true Servitor J. H. Orleans 5 Martii 1622. XXV To my Cosen Mr. Will. Martin at Brussells from Paris Dear Cosen I Find you are very punctuall in your performances and a precise observer of the promise you made here to correspond with Mr. Altham and me by Letters I thank you for the variety of German news you imparted unto me which was so neatly couch'd and curiously knit together that your Letter â—…ight serve for a pattern to the best Intelligencer I am sorry the affairs of the Prince Palsgrave go so untowardly the wheel of War may turn and that Spoke which is now up may down again For French Occurrences ther is a War certainly intended against them of the Religion here and ther are visible preparations a loot already Amongst others that shrink in the shoulders at it the Kings servants are not very wel pleas'd with it in regard besides Scots and Swissers ther are divers of the Kings Servants that are Protestants If a man go to 〈◊〉 ' di sâ—…ato to reason of State the French King hath somthing to justifie this dessein for the Protestants being so numerous and having neer upon fifty presidiary wall'd Towns in their hands for caution they have power to disturb France when they please and being abetted by a forren Prince to give the King Law and you know as well as I how they have been made use of to kindle a fire in France Therfore rather than they should be utterly supprest I believe the Spaniard himself would reach them his ragged staff to defend them I send you here inclos'd another from Master Altham who respects you dearly and we remembred you lately at la pomme du pin in the best liquor of the French Grape I shall be shortly for London where I shall not rejoyce a little to meet you that English air may confirm what forren begun I mean our friendship and affections and in Me that I may return you in English the Latin Verses you sent me As soon a little little Ant Shall bib the Ocean dry A Snail shall creep about the world Ere these affections dye So my dear Cosen may Vertue be your guide and Fortune your Companion Paris 18 Martii 1622. Yours while Jam. Howell Familiar Letters SECTION III. I. To my Father SIR I Am
to have com in a favorable conjuncture of time and my Lord Ambassador who is so highly esteemd here doth assure me of his best furtherance So praying I may prove as succesfull as I shall be faithfull in this great busines I rest Madrid 28 Decem. 1622. Yours to dispose of J. H. IX To Mr Arthur Hopton from Madrid SIR SInce I was made happy with your acquaintance I have receivd sundry strong evidences of your love and good wishes unto me which have tied me unto you in no common obligation of thanks I am in despair ever to cancell this bond nor would I do it but rather endear the engagement more and more The treaty of the match twixt our Prince and the Lady Infante is now strongly a foot she is a very comely Lady rather of a Flemish complexion than Spanish fair haird and carrieth a most pure mixture of red and white in her face she is full and big lipd which is held a beautie rather than a blemish or any excefle in the Austrian Family it being a thing incident to most of that race she goes now upon 16 and is of a talness agreable to those yeers The King is also of such a complexion and is under twentie he hath two brothers Don Carlos and Don Hernaâ—…do who though a youth of twelve yet is he Cardinall and Archbishop of Toledo which in regard it hath the Chancelorship of Castile annexed to it is the greatest spirituall dignity in Christendom after the Papacy for it is valued at 300000. Crowns per annum Don Carlos is of a differing complexion from all the rest for he is black haird and of a Spanish hue he hath neither Office Command Dignitie or Title but is an individuall companion to the King and what cloaths soever are provided for the King he hath the very same and as often from top to toe he is the better belov'd of the people for his complexion for one shall hear the Spaniard sigh and lament saying O when shall we have a King again of our own colour I pray commend me kindly to all at your house and send me word when the young gentlemen return from Italy So with my most affectionat respects to your self I rest Madrid 5. â—…an 1622. Your true friend to serve you J. H. X. To Captain Nic. Leat from Madrid SIR YOurs of the tenth of this present I receiv'd by Mr. Simon Digby with the inclosed to your son in Alicant which is safely sent Since my last unto you I had access to Olivares the Favorit that rules all I had also audience of the King to whom I deliver'd two memorialls since in his Majesties name of great Britain that a particular Iunta of some of the Counsell of State and War might be appointed to determin the business the last memoriall had so good success that the Referees are nominated wherof the chiefest is the Duke of Infantado Here it is not the stile to claw and complement with the King or Idolize him by Sacred Soverain and most Excellent Majesty but the Spaniard when he petitions to his King gives him no other Character but Sir and so relating his business at the end he doth ask and demand Justice of him When I have done with the Vice-roy here I shall hasten my dispatches for Sardinia since my last I went to liquidat the account more particularly and I find that of the 250000 Crowns ther are above forty thousand due unto you which might serve for a good Aldermans estate Your son in Alicant writes to me of another mischance that is befaln the ship Amitie about Mallorca wherof you were one of the proprietaries I am very sorry to hear of it and touching any dispatches that are to be had hence I shall endeavor to procure you them according to instructions Your cosen Richard Altham remembers his kind respects unto you and sends you many thanks for the pains you took in freeing us from that trouble which the scuffle with the Sergeants brought upon us So I rest Madrid 5 Ian. 1622. Yours ready to serve you J. H. XI To the Lord Vicount Colchester from Madrid Right honble THe grand busines of the match goes so fairly on that a speciall Iunta is appointed to treat of it the names wherof I send you here inclos'd they have proceeded so far that most of the Articles are agreed upon Mr. George Gage is lately come hither from Rome a polite and prudent gentleman who hath negotiated somthings in that Court for the advance of the busines with the Cardinalls Bandino Lodovisie la Susanna who are the main men there to whom the drawing of the dispensation is referr'd The late taking of Ormus by the Persian from the Crown of Portugall keeps a great noise here and the rather because the exploit was done by the assistance of the English ships that were then therabouts my Lord Digby went to Court and gave a round satisfaction in this point for it was no voluntary but a constrain'd act in the English who being in the Persians Port were suddenly embarqu'd for the service And the Persian herein did no more than what is usuall amongst Christian Princes themselves and which is oftner put in practice by the King of Spain and his Vice-roys than by any other viz. to make an embargue of any strangers ship that rides within his Ports upon all occasion It was fear'd this surprisall of Ormus which was the greatest Mart in all the Orient for all sorts of jewells would have bred ill bloud and prejudic'd the preceedings of the match but the Spaniard is a rationall man and will be satisfied with reason Count Olivares is the main man who sways all and 't is thought he is not so much affected to an alliance with England as his Predecessor the Duke of Lerma was who set it first a foot 'twixt Prince Henry and this Queen of France The Duke of Lerma was the greatest Privado the greatest Favorit that ever was in Spain since Don Alvaro de Luna he brought himself the Duke of Uzeda his son and the Duke of Câ—…a his grand-child to be all Grandes of Spain which is the greatest Title that a Spanish Subject is capable of they have a privilege to stand cover'd before the King and at their election ther 's no other Ceremony but only these three words by the King Cobrése por Grande cover your self for a Grande and that 's all The Cardinall Duke of Lerma lives at Valladolid he officiats and sings Mass and passeth his old age in Devotion and exercises of Piety It is a common and indeed a commendable custom amongst the Spaniard when he hath pass'd his gran climacteric and is grown decrepit to make a voluntary resignation of Offices be they never so great and profitable though I cannot say Lerâ—… did so and sequestring and weaning themselves as it were from all mundan negotiations and encombrances to retire to som place of devotion and spend the residue of
their days in meditation and in preparing themselves for another world Charles the Emperor shew'd them the way who left the Empire to his brother and all the rest of his Dominions to his son Philip the second and so taking with him his two sisters he retir'd into a Monastery they into a Nunnery this doth not suit well with the genius of an Englishman who loves not to pull off his cloaths till he goes to bed I will conclude with some Verses I saw under a huge Rodomontado picture of the Duke of Lerma wherin he is painted like a Giant bearing up the Monarchy of Spain that of France and the Popedom upon his shoulders with this Stanza Sobre les ombros d'este Atlante Yazen en aquestos dias Estas tres Monarquias Upon the shoulders of this Atlas lies The Popedom and two mighty Monarchies So I most humbly kiss your Lordships hands and rest ever most ready Madrid 3 Febr. 1622. At your Lordships command J. H. XII To my Father SIR ALL affairs went on fairly here specially that of the match when Master Endymion Porter brought lately my Lord of Bâ—…istoll a dispatch from England of a high nature wherin the Earl is commanded to represent unto this King how much his Majesty of great Britain since the beginning of these German wars hath labourd to merit well of this Crown and of the whole House of Austria by a long and lingring patience grounded still upon assurances hence that care should be had of his honor his Daughters joynture and grand-childrens patrimony yet how crosly all things had proceeded in the Treaty at Bruxells manag'd by Sir Richard Weston as also that in the Palatinat by the Lord Chichester how in treating time the Town and Castle of Heidelberg were taken Manbeim besieg'd and all acts of Hostility us'd notwithstanding the fair professions made by this King the Infanta at Bruxells and other his Ministers How meerly out of respect to this King he had neglected all Martiall means which probably might have preserv'd the Palatinat those thin Garrisons which he had sent thither being rather for honors sake to keep a footing untill a generall accommodation than that he relyed any way upon their strength And since that there are no other fruits of all this but reproach and scorn and that those good Offices which he us'd towards the Emperor on the behalf of his Son in law which he was so much encouraged by Letters from hence should take effect have not sorted to any other issue than to a plain affront and a high injuring of both their Majesties though in a different degree The Earl is to tell him that his Majesty of great Britain hopes and desires that out of a true apprehension of these wrongs offerd unto them both he will as his dear and loving brother faithfully promise and undertake upon his honor confirming the same under his hand and seal either that Heidelberg shall be within seventy days rendred into his hands as also that ther shall be within the said term of seventy days a suspension of arms in the Palatinat and that a Treaty shall recommence upon such terms as he propounded in November last which this King held then to be reasonable And in case that this be not yeelded unto by the Emperor that then this King joyn forces with his Majesty of England for the recovery of the Palatinat which upon this trust hath been lost or in case his forces at this time be otherwise employ'd that they cannot give his Majesty that assistance he desires and deserves that at least he will permit a free and friendly passage through his Territories for such Forces as his Mejesty of great Britain shall employ into Germany Of all which if the Earl of Bristoll hath not from the King of Spain a direct assurance under his hand and Seal ten days after his audience that then he take his leave and return to England to his Majesties presence els to proceed in the negotiation of the match according to former instructions This was the main substance of his Majesties late letter yet there was a postill added that in case a rupture happen 'twixt the two Crowns the Earl should not com instantly and abruptly â—…way but that he should send advice first to England and carry the busines so that the world should not presently know of it Notwithstanding all these traverses we are confident here that the match will take otherwise my Cake is Dow. There was a great difference in one of the capitulations 'twixt the two Kings how long the children which should issue of this marriage were to continue sub regimine Matris under the tutele of the Mother This King demanded 14 years at first then twelve but now he is come to nine which is newly condescended unto I receiv'd yours of the first of September in another from Sir Iames Crofts wherin it was no small comfort to me to hear of your health I am to go hence shortly for Sardinia a dangerous voyage by reason of Algier Pirats I humbly desire your prayers may accompany Madrid 23 Febr. 1622. Your dutifull Son J. H. XIII To Sir James Crofts Knight SIR YOurs of the second of October came to safe hand with the inclos'd you write that there came dispatches lately from Rome wherin the Pope seems to endevour to insinuat himself into a direct treaty with England and to negotiat immediatly with our King touching the dispensation which he not only labours to evade but utterly disclaims it being by Article the task of this King to procure all dispatches thence I thank you for sending me this news You shall understand there came lately an express from Rome also to this Court touching the business of the match which gave very good content but the dispatch and new instructions which Mr. Endymion Porter brought my Lord of Bristoll lately from England touching the Prince Palatinat fills us with apprehensions of fear Our Ambassadors here have had audience of this King already about those Propositions and we hope that Master Porter will carry back such things as will satisfie Touching the two points in the Treaty wherin the two Kings differ'd most viz. about the education of the children and the exemption of the Infanta's Ecclesiastic servants from secular jurisdiction both these points are clear'd for the Spaniard is com from fourteen years to ten and for so long time the Infant Princes shall remain under the mothers government And for the other point the Ecclesiasticall Superior shall first take notice of the offence that shall be committed by any spirituall person belonging to the Infanta's family and according to the merit therof either deliver him by degradation to the secular justice or banish him the Kingdom according to the quality of the delict and it is the same that is practis'd in this Kingdom and other parts that adhere to Rome The Conde de Monterrey goes Vice-roy to Naples the Marquis de Montesclaros being
unto your Ladyship and tell you that he was going to comfort your neece the Dutches as fast as he could and so I have sent the truth of this sad story to your Ladyship as fast as I could by this post because I cannot make that speed myself in regard of som busines I have to dispatch for my Lord in the way So I humbly take my leave and rest Stamford Aug. 5. 1628. Your Lapp s most dutifull Servant J. H. IX To the right Honble Sir Peter Wichts his Majesties Ambassador at Constantinople My Lord YOurs of the 2. of Iuly came to safe hand and I did all those particular recaudos you enjoyned me to do to som of your â—…ends here The Town of Rochell hath bin fatall and infortunat to England for this is the third time that we have attempted to releeve her but our fleets and forces returnd without doing any thing My Lord of Linsey went thither with the same Fleet the Duke intended to go on but he is returnd without doing any good he made som shots at the great Boom and other baricadoes at sea but at such a distance that they conld do no hurt Insomuch that the Town is now given for lost and to be passd cure and they cry out we have betrayd them At the return of this Fleet two of the Whelps were cast away and three ships more and som five ships who had som of those great stones that were brought to build Pauls for ballast and for other uses within them which could promise no good success for I never heard of any thing that prospered which being once designed for the honor of God was alienated from that use The Queen interposeth for the releasement of my Lord of Newport and others who are prisoners of War I hear that all the colours they took from us are hung up in the great Church Nostredame as tropkeys in Paris Since I began this letter ther is news brought that Rochell hath yeelded and that the King hath dismantled the Town and razd all the fortifications landward but leaves those standing which are toward the Sea It is a mighty exploit the French King hath don for Rochell was the cheifest propugnacle of the Protestants there and now questionles all the rest of their cautionary Towns which they kept for their own defence will yeeld so that they must depend hereafter upon the Kings meer mercy I hear of an overture of Peace twixt us and Spain and that my Lord Cottington is to go thither and Don Carlos Coloma to com to us God grant it for you know the saying in Spanish Nunca vi tan mala paz que no fuera mejor que la mejor guerra It was a bold thing in England to fall out with the two greatest Monarchs of Christendom and to have them both her enemies at one time aâ—…d as glorious a thing it was to bear up against them God turn all to the best and dispose of things to his glory So I rest London 1 Sept. 1628. Your Lordships ready Servitor J. H. X. To my Cosen Mr. Stgeon at Christ-Church College in Oxford COsen though you want no incitements to go on in that fair road of vertu wher you are now running your cours yet being lately in your noble Fathers company he did intimat unto me that any thing which cam from me would take with you very much I hear so well of your proceedings that I should rather commend than encourage you I know you wer remov'd to Oxford in full maturity you wer a good Orator a good Poet and a good Linguist for your time I would not have that fate light upon you which useth to befall som who from golden Students becom silver Bachelors and Leaden Masters I am far from entertaining any such thought of you that Logic with her quiddities and Quae la vel Hipps can any way unpolish your human studies As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed so she is terrible at first sight she is like a Gorgons head to a young student but after a twelve months constancy and patience this Gorgons head will prove a meer buggbear When you have devour'd the Organon you will find Philosophie far more delightfull and pleasing to your palat In feeding the soul with knowledge the understanding requireth the same consecutif acts which nature useth in nourishing the body To the nutrition of the body ther are two Essentiall conditions requir'd assumption and retention then ther follows two more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concoction and agglutination or adhaesion So in feeding your soule with Science you must first assume and sucâ—… in the matter into your apprehension then must the memory retain and keep it in afterwards by disputation discours and meditation it must be well concocted then must it be agglutinateâ—… and converted to nutriment All this may be reduc'd to these 〈◊〉 heads tencre fideliter uti faeliciter which are two of the happiest properties in a student ther is an other act requir'd to gooâ—… concoction call'd the act of Expulsion which puts off all that is unfound and noxious so in study ther must be an expulsive vertâ—… to shun all that is erroneous and ther is no science but is full 〈◊〉 such stuff which by direction of Tutor and choice of good Book must be excernd Do not confound your self with multiplicity of Authors two is enough upon any Science provided they be plenary and orthodox Philosphy should be your substantiall food Poetry your banqueting stuff Philosophy hath more of reality in it than any knowledge the Philosopher can fadom the deep measure Mountaines reach the Starrs with a staff and bless Heaven with a girdle But amongst these studies you must not forget the unicum necessarium on Sundaies and Holy-dayes let Divinity be the sole object of your speculation in comparison wherof all other knowledg is but cobweb learning prae qua quisquiliae coetera When you can make truce with study I should be glad you would employ som superfluous hour or other to write unto me for I much covet your good because I am London 25 Octob. 1627. Your affectionat Cosen J. H. XI To Sir Sackvill Trevor Knight Noble Onkle I Send you my humble thanks for the curious Sea-chest of glasses you pleas'd to bestow on me which I shal be very chary to keep as a Monument of your love I congratulat also the great honor you have got lately by taking away the Spirit of France I mean by taking the third great Vessell of her Sea-Trinity Her Holy Spirit which had bin built in the mouth of the Texell for the service of her King without complementing with you it was one of the best exploits that was perform'd since these warrs began and besides the renown you have purchas'd I hope your reward will be accordingly from his Majesty whom I remember you so happily preserv'd from drowning in all probability at St. Anderas road in Spain Though Princes
there many daies to take up money at high interest to pay divers Tolls for their Merchandize before they had expos'd them to vent Therfore it was desired that for the future what English Merchant soever should pass through the Sound it should be sufficient for him to Register an invoice of his Cargazon in the Custom-House Book and give his Bond to pay all duties at his return when he had made his Market To this my Lord had a fair answer and so procur'd a public Instrument under that Kings Hand and Seale and sign'd by his Counsellors which he had brought over wherin the Proposition was granted which no Ambassador could obtaine before Then 't was alledg'd that the English Merchant Adventurers who trade into Hamburgh have a new Toll lately impos'd upon them at Luckstad which was desir'd to be taken ofâ—… To this also ther was the like Instrument given that the said Toll should be levied no more Lastly my Lord in regard he was to pa's by the Hague desir'd that Hereditary part which belong'd to the Lady Elizabeth out of her Gran-Mothers Estate because His Majesty knew well what Crosses and Afflictions she had pass'd and what a numerous Issue she had to maintain And my Lord of Leicester would ingage his Honour and all the Estate he hath in the World That this should no way prejudice the accounts he is to make with his Majesty of Great Britain The King of Denmark highly extoll'd the Noblenes of this motion but he protested that he had bin so drain'd in the late Wars that his Chests are yet very empty Hereupon my Lord was feasted and so departed He went then to the Duke of Holstein to Sleswick wher he found him at his Castle of Gothorp and truly I did not think to have found such a magnificent building in these bleak parts Thâ—…e also my Lord did condole the death of the late Queen that Dukes Gran-Mother and he receiv'd very Princely entertainment Then he went to Husem where the like ceremony of Condolement was perform'd at the Dutchess of Holsteins Court His Majesties our Kings Ant. Then he came back to Hamburgh wher that instrument which my Lord had procur'd for remitting of the new Toll at Gluckslad was deliver'd the Company of our Merchant Adventurers and som other good offices don for that Town as matters stood twixt them and the King of Denmark Then we came to Stode wher Lesly was Governour who carried his foot in a scarfe for a wound he had received at Bucksâ—…obo and he kept that place for the King of Sweden And som busines of consequence was don there also So we came to Broomsbottle wher we staid for a Wind som daies and in the midway of our voyage wee met with a Holland ship who told us the King of Sweden was slain and so we return'd to London in less then three moneths And if this was not busines enough for such a compass of time I leave your Lordship to judg So craving your Lordships pardon for this lame account I rest Lond. 1 Octo. 1632. Your Lordships most humble and ready Servitor J. H. VI. To my Brother Dr. Howell at his House in Horsley My good Brother I Am safely return'd from Germany thanks be to God and the news which we heard at Sea by a Dutch Skipper about the midst of our voyage from Hamburgh it seems proves too true which was of the fall of the King of Sweden One Ierbire who saies that he was in the very action brought the first news to this Town and every corner rings of it yet such is the extravagancy of som that they will lay wagers he is not yet dead and the Exchange is full of such peeple He was slain at Lutzen field battle having made the Imperiall Army give ground the day before and being in pursuance of it the next morning in a sudden Fog that fell the Cavelry on both sides being engag'd he was kill'd in the midst of the Troops and none knows who kill'd him whether one of his own men or the enemy but finding himself mortally hurt he told Saxen Waymar Cousin I pray look to the Troops for I think I have enough His body was not only rescued but his forces had the better of the day Papenheim being kill'd before him whom he esteem'd the greatest Captain of all his enemies for he was us'd to say that he had three men to deal withall a Pultron a Iesuit and a Souldier by the two first he meant Walstein and the Duke of Bavaria by the last Papenheim Questionles this Gustavus whose anagram is Augustus was a great Captain and a gallant man and had he surviv'd that last victory he would have put the Emperour to such a plunge that som think he would hardly have bin able to have made head against him to any purpose again Yet his own Allies confess that none knew the bottom of his designes He was not much affected to the English witnes the ill usage Marquis Hammilton had with his 6000 men wherof ther return'd not 600 the rest died of hunger and sicknes having never seen the face of an enemy Witnes also his harshnes to our Ambassadors and the rigid terms he would have tied the Prince Palsgrave unto So with my affectionat respects to Mr. Mouschamp and kind commendâ—… to Mr. Bridger I rest Westmin 5 Decem. 1632. Your loving Brother J. H. VII To the R. R. Dr. Field Lord Bishop of St. Davids My Lord YOur late Letter affected me with two contrary passions with gladnes and sorrow the beginning of it dilated my spirits with apprehensions of joy that you are so well recoverd of your late sicknes which I heartily congratulat but the conclusion of your Lordships Letter contracted my spirits and plung'd them in a deep sense of just sorrow while you please to write me news of my dear Fathers death Permulsit initium percussit finis Truly my Lord it is the heaviest news that ever was sent me but when I recollect my self and consider the fairnes and maturity of his Age and that it was rather a gentle dissolution than a death When I contemplat that infinit advantage he hath got by this change and transmigration it much lightens the weight of my grief for if ever human soul entred heaven surely his is there such was his constant piety to God his rare indulgence to his children his charity to his neighbors and his candor in reconciling disterences such was the gentlenes of his disposition his unwearied cours in actions of vertue that I wish my soul no other felicity when she hath shaken off these Rags of Flesh than to ascend to his and coinjoy the same bliss Excuse me my Lord that I take my leave at this time so abruptly of you when this sorrow is a little disgested you shall hear further from me for I am West 1 of May. 1632. Your Lordships most true and humble Servitor J. H. VIII To the Earl of Leicester at Penshurstâ—…
1635. Your Lopps most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XX. To my Honored Frend and Fa. Mr. Ben Johnâ—…n Fa. Bâ—…n BEing lately in France and returning in Coach from Paris to Roüen I lighted upon the Society of a knowing Gentleman who related unto me a choice Story wherâ—…f peradventure you may make som use in your way Som hundred and odd yeers since ther was in France one Captain Coucy a gallant Gentleman of an ancient extraction and Keeper of Coucy Castle which is yet standing and in good repair He fell in love with a young Gentlewoman and courted her for his wife ther was reciprocall love between them but her parents understanding of it by way of prevention they shuffled up a forced Match twixt her and one Monsieur Faiâ—…l who was a great Heir Captain Coucy hereupon quitted France in discontent and went to the wars in Hungary against the Turk where he received a mortall wound not far from Buda Being carried to his lodging hee languished som days but a little before his death he spoke to an ancient Servant of his that he had many profs of his fidelity and truth but now he had a great busines to intrust him with which hee conjur'd him by all means to do which was That after his death he should get his body to be opened and then to take his heart out of his brest and put it in an earthen Pot to be bak'd to powder then to put the powder into a hansome Box with that Bracelet of hair he had worn long about his left wrist which was a lock of Madamoisâ—…lle Faiels hair and put it amongst the powder together with a little Note he had written with his own bloud to her and after hee had given him the Rites of Buriall to make all the speed he could to France and deliver the said box to Madamoiselle Faiel The old Servant did as his Master had commanded him and so went to France and comming one day to Monsieur Faiels house he suddenly met him with one of his servants and examin'd him because he knew he was Captain Coucy's servant and finding him timerous and faltering in his speech hee search'd him and sound the â—…aid Box in his pocket with the Note which expressed what was therin He dismiss'd the Bearer with menaces that he should com no more neer his house Monsieur Faiel going in sent for his Cook and deliver'd him the Powder charging him to make a little well-relish'd dish of it without losing a jot of it for it was a very costly thing and commanded him to bring it in himself after the last cours at Supper The Cook bringing in the Dish accordingly Monsieur Faiel commanded all to void the room and began a serious discours with his wife how ever since he had married her he observ'd she was always melancholly and he feared she was inclining to a Consumption therfore he had provided for her a very precious Cordiall which he was well assured would cure her Therupon he made her eat up the whole dish and afterwards much importuning him to know what it was he told her at last she had eaten Coucy's heart and so drew the Box out of his pocket and shewed her the Note and the Bracelet in a sudden exultation of joy she with a far-fetch'd sigh said This is a precious Cordiall indeed and so lick'd the Dish saying It is so pretious that t is pity to put ever any meat upon 't So she went to bed and in the morning she was found stone-dead This Gentleman told me that this sad story is painted in Coucy-Castle and remains fresh to this day In my opinion which vails to yours this is choice and rich stuff for you to put upon your Loom and make a curious Web of I thank you for the last regalo you gave me at your Musaeum and for the good company I heard you censur'd lately at Court that you have lighted too foul upon Sir Inigo and that you write with a Porcupins quill dipped in too much Gall. Excuse me that I am so free with you it is because I am in no common way of frendship Westmin 3 of May. 1635. Yours I. H. XXI To Captain Thomas Porter Noble Captain YOu are well returned from Brussels from attending your Brother in that noble employment of congratulating the Infante Cardinalls comming thither It was well that Monsieur went a Hawking away before to France for I think those two young spirits would not have agreed A French-man told me lately that was at your Audience that he never saw so many compleat Gentlemen in his life for the number and in a neater equipage Before you go to Sea I intend to wait on you and give you a frolick So I am De todas mis entranas Yours to dispose of I. H. Westmin 1 Novemb. 163â—… To this I le add the Duke of Ossuna's Complement Quisiere aunque soy chico Ser enserville Gigante Though of the tallest I am none you see Yet to serve you I would a Giant be To my Cousin Captain Saintgeon Noble Cousin THe greatest news about the Town is of a mighty Prize that was taken lately by Peter van Heyn of Holland who had met som stragling Ships of the Plate-fleet and brought them to the â—…exel they speak of a Million of Crowns I could wish you had been there to have shared of the Booty which was the greatest â—…n money that ever was taken One sent me lately from Holland this Distic of Peter van Heyn â—…hich savors of a little profaness Roma sui sileat posthà c miracula Petri Petrus apud Batavos plura stupenda facit Let Rome no more her Peters Wonders tell For Wonders Hollands Peter bears the bell To this Distic was added this Anagram which is a good one PETRUS HAINU'S HISPANUS RUET So I rest Totus tuus Yours whole I. Howell Westmin 10 Iuly XXIII To my Lord Viscount S. My Lord HIs Majesty is lately return'd from Scotland having given that Nation satisfaction to their long desires to have him com thither to be Crownd I hear som mutter at Bishop Lauds carriage there that it was too haughty and Pontificall Since the death of the King of Sweden a great many Scotch Commanders are com over and make a shining shew at Court what trade they will take hereafter I know not having been so inur'd to the Wars I pray God keep us from commotions at home 'twixt the two Kingdoms to find them work I hear one Colonell Lesley is gon away discontented because the King would not 〈◊〉 him The old rotten Duke of Bavaria for he hath divers Issues aboâ—… his body hath married one of the Emperors Sisters a young Lady little above twenty and he neer upon fourscore ther 's another remaining who they say is intended for the King of Poland notwithstanding his pretences to the young Lady Elizabeth about which Prince Razevill and other Ambassadors have been here lately but that King being Electif must mary
house in Smithfield but now all is quiet again God grant our Excise heer have not the same fortune as yours there to becom perpetuall or as that new gabell of Orleans which began in the time of the Ligue which continueth to this day notwithstanding the cause ceas'd about threescore yeers since touching this I remember a pleasant tale that is recorded of Henry the Great who som yeers after peace was established throughout all the whole body of France going to his town of Orleans the Citizens petitioned him that his Majesty would be pleased to abolish that new tax the King asked who had impos'd it upon them they answered Monsieur de la Chatre during the civill Wars of the Ligue who was now dead the King replied Monsieur de la Cha'tre vous a liguè qu'il vous desligue Monsieur dela Chatre ligu'd you let him then unligue you for my part now that we have a kind of peace the goals are full of souldiers and som Gentlemens sons of quality suffer daily the last week Judge Rivâ—…s condemn'd four in your County at Maidstone Assizes but he went out of the world before them though they wer executed four daies after you know the saying in France that la guerre sait les larrons la paix les ameine an gibet War makes thieves and peace brings them to the gallowes I lie still heer in limbo in limbo innocentium though not in limbo infantion and I know not upon what star to cast this misfortune Others are heer for their good conditions but I am heet for my good qualities as your cosin Fortescue geer'd me not long since I know none I have unless it be to love you which I would continue to do though I tug'd at an oar in a Gallie much more as I walk in the Galleries of this Fleet In this resolution I rest Fleet 2 Sept. 1645. Your most affectionat Servitor J. H. LXXI To Mr. W. B. at Grundesburgh Gentle Sir YOurs of the seventh I received yesternight and read ore with no vulgar delight in the perusall of it mee thought to have discern'd a gentle strife 'twixt the fair respects you pleas'd to shew me therin and your ingenuity in expressing them who should have superiority so that I knew not to which of the two I should adjudge the Palm If you continue to wrap up our young acquaintance which you say is but yet in fasciis in such warm choice swadlings it will quickly grow up to maturity and for my part I shall not be wanting to contribute that reciprocall nourishment which is due from me Wheras you please to magnifie som pieces of mine and that you seem to spy the Muses pearching upon my Trees I fear 't is but deceptio visus for they are but Satyrs or happily som of the homelier sort of Wood Nymphs the Muses have choicer walks for their recreation Sir I must thank you for the visit you vouchsafed me in this simple cell and wheras you please to call it the cabinet that holds the jewell of our times you may rather term it a wicker casknet that keeps a jet ring or a horn lantern that holds a small taper of cours wax I hope this taper shall not extinguish heer and if it may afford you any light either from hence or heerafter I should be glad to impart it in a plentifull proportion because I am Sir Fleet 1 Iuly 1646. Your most affectionat frend to serve you J. H. LXXII To I. W. of Grayes Inne Esquire SIR I Was yours before in a high degree of affection but now I am much more yours since I perus'd that parcell of choice Epistles you sent me they discover in you a knowing and a candid cleer soul for familiar letters are the keys of the mind they open all the 〈◊〉 of ones breast all the cells of the brain and truly set forth the inward man nor can the pensill so lively represent the face as the pen 〈◊〉 the Fancy I much thank you that you would please to impart them unto Fleet 1 April 1645. Your most faithfull servitor J. H. LXXIII To Cap. T. P. from Madrid Captain Don Tomas COuld I write my love unto you with a ray of the Sun as once Aurelius the Roman Emperour wish'd to a frend of his you â—…ow this cleer horizon of Spain could afford me plenty which cannot be had so constantly all the seasons of the yeer in your clowdy â—…yme of England Apollo with you makes not himself so common 〈◊〉 keeps more State and doth not shew his face and shoot his â—…ams so frequently as he doth heer where 't is Sunday all the 〈◊〉 I thank you a thousand times for what you sent by Mr Gresâ—… and that you let me know how the pulse of the times bears with you I find you cast not your eyes so much southward as you were us'd to do towards us heer and when you look this way you cast a clowdy countenance with threatning looks which maket me apprehend som fear that it will not be safe for me to be longer under this meridian Before I part I will be carefull to send you those things you writ for by som of my L. Ambassadour Aston's Gentlemen I cannot yet get that Grammar which was made for the Constable of Castile who you know was born dumb wheriâ—… an Art is invented to speak with hands only to carry the Alphabâ—…t upon ones joynts and at his fingers ends which may be learn'd without any great difficulty by any mean capacity and wherby one may discours and deliver the conceptions of his mind withoâ—… ever wagging of his toung provided ther be reciprocall knowledge aud co-understanding of the art 'twixt the parties and it iâ—… a very ingenious piece of invention I thank you for the copie of verses you sent me glancing upon the times I was lately perusing som of the Spanish Poets heer and lighted upon two Epigrams or Epitaphs more properly upon our Henry the eighth and upon his daughter Queen Elizabeth which in requital I thought worth the sending you A Henrique octavo Rey de Ingalatierra Mas de esta losa fria Cubre Henrique tu valor De una Muger el amor Y de un Error la porsia Como cupo en tu grandeza Dezidme enzañado Ingles Querer una muger a lospies Ser de la yglesia cabesa Pros'd thus in English for I had no time to put it on feet O Henry more than this cold pavemeut covers thy worth thâ—… love of a woman and the pertinacy of error How could it subâ—… with thy greatness tell me O cosen'd English man to cast thâ—… self at a womans feet and yet to be head of the Church That upon Queen Elizabeth was this De Isabela Reyna de Ingalatierra Aqui yaze Iesabel Aqui lanueva Athalia Del oro Antartico Harpia Del mar incendio cruel Aqui el ingenio mas dino De loor que ha tenido el suelo Si
surprize Antwerp where he receivd an illfavord repuls yet nevertheless the united Provinces for so they termd themselfs ever after fearing to distast their next great neighbor France made a second proffer of their protection and Soverainty to that King who having too many irons in the fire at his own home the Ligue growing stronger and stronger he answerd them that his shirt was nearer to him than his dublet Then had they recours to Queen Elizabeth who partly for her own securitie partly for interest in Religion reacht them a supporting hand and so sent them men money and a Governor the Earl of Leicester who not symbolizing with their humor was quickly revokd yet without any outward dislike on the Queens side for she left her Forces still with them but upon their expence She lent them afterwards some considerable sums of moneys and she receivd Flushing and the Brill for caution Ever since the English have bin the best sinews of their war and Achievers of the greatest exploits amongst them Having thus made sure work with the English they made young Count Maurice their Governor who for five and twenty years together held rack with the Spaniard and during those traverses of war was very fortunat an overture of Peace was then propounded which the States would not hearken unto singly with the King of Spain unlesse the Provinces that yet remaind under him would engage themselfs for performance of what was Articled besides they would not treat either of Peace or Truce unless they were declar'd free States all which was granted so by the intervention of the English and French Ambassadors a Truce was concluded for 12 years These wars did so drain and discommodat the King of Spain by reason of his distance every Soldier that he sent either from Spain or Italy costing him nere upon a hundred crowns before he could be rendred in Flanders that notwithstanding his mines of Mexico and Peru it plung'd him so deeply in debt that having taken up moneys in all the chief banks of Christendom he was forcd to publish a Diploâ—…a wherein he dispens'd with himself as the Holland Story hath it from payment alleging that he had employed those moneys for the public Peace of Christendom this broak many great Banquers and they say his credit was not current in Sevill or Lisbon his own Towns and which was worse while he stood wrastling thus with his own Subjects the Turke took his opportunity to get from him Tunis and the Goletta the Tropheys of Charles the fift his Father So eager he was in this quarrell that he imployd the utmost of his strength and industry to reduce this people to his will in regard he had an intent to make these Provinces his main Randevous and Magazin of men of war which his neighbors perceiving and that he had a kind of aym to be Western Monarch being led not so much for love as reasons of State they stuck close to the revolted Provinces and this was the bone that Secretary Walsingham told Queen Elizabeth he would cast the King of Spain that should last him 20 years and perhaps make his teeth shake in his head But to return to my first discours whence this digression hath snatchd me The Netherlands who had bin formerly knit and concentred under one Soverain Prince were thus dismembred And as they subsist now They are a State and a Province The Province having ten of the 17. at least is far greater more populous better soyld and more stor'd with Gentry The State is the richer and stronger the one proceeding from their vast Navigation and Commerce the other from the qualitie of their Countrey being defensible by Rivers and Sluces by meanes wherof they can suddenly overwhelm all the whole Countrey witnes that stupendious siege of Leyden and Haerlam for most of their Towns the marks being taken away are inaccessible by reason of shelfs of sands Touching the transaction of these Provinces which the King of Spaine made as a dowry to the Archduke Albertus upon marriage with the Infanta who therupon left his red Hat and Toledo Miter the chiefest spirituall Dignity in Christendom for revenue after the Papacy it was fringd with such cautelous restraints that he was sure to keep the better end of the staff still to himself for he was to have the tutele and ward of his children that they were to marry with one of the Austrian Family recommended by Spain and in default of issue and in case Albertus should survive the Infanta he should be but Governor only Add hereunto that King Philip reserv'd still to himself all the Cittadells and Castles with the order of the golden Fleece wherof he is Master as he is Duke of Burgundy The Archduke for the time hath a very princely command all Coyns bear his stâ—…mp all Placarts or Edicts are publishd in his name he hath the election of all civill Officers and Magistrats he nominats also Bishops and Abbars for the Pope hath only ' the Confirmation of them here nor can he adjourn any out of the Countrey to answer any thing neither are his Bulls of any strength without the Princes placet which makes him have alwayes som Commissioners to execute his Authority The people here grow hotter and hotter in the Roman Cause by reason of the mixture with Spaniards and Italians as also by the example of the Archduke and the Infanta who are devout in an intense degree Ther are two supreme Counsells the Privy Counsell and that of the State this treats of confederations and intelligence with forren Princes of Peace and War of entertaining or of dismissing Colonells and Captains of Fortifications and they have the surintendency of the highest affairs that concern the Prince and the policy of the Provinces The privat hath the granting of all Patents and Requests the publishing of all Edicts and Proclamations the prising of Coin the looking to the confines and extent of the Provinces and the enacting of all new Ordinances Of these two Counsells ther is never a Spaniard but in the actuall Counsell of War their voices are predominant Ther is also a Court of Finances or Exchequer whence all they that have the fingring of the Kings money must draw a discharge Touching matters of Justice their Law is mixt between Civill and common with some clauses of Canonicall The high Court of Parliament is at Maline whither all Civill Causes may be brought by appeal from other Towns except som that have municipall Privileges and are soverain in their owne jurisdictions as Mons in Henalt and a few more The prime Province for dignity is Brabant which amongst many other privileges it enjoyeth hath this for one not to appear upon any summons out of its owne precinct which is one of the reasons why the Prince makes his residence there but the prime for extent and fame is Flanders the chiefest Earldom in Christendom which is three dayes journey in length Ghent its Metropolis is reputed the
greatest town of Europe whence arose the Proverb Les flamen tient un gan qui tiendrá Paris dedans But the beautifullest richest strongest and most privileg'd City is Antwerp in Brabant being the Marquisat of the holy Empire and drawing nere to the nature of a Hans Town for she payes the Prince no other Tax but the Impost Before the dissociation of the seventeen Provinces this Town was one of the greatest Marts of Europe and greatest bank this side the Alpes most Princes having their Factors here to take up or let out moneys and here our Gresham got all his wealth and built our Royall Exchange by modell of that here The Merchandise was brought hither from Germany France and Italy by Land and from England Spain and the Hans towns by Sea was estimated at above twenty Millions of Crowns every year but as no violent thing is long lasting and as t is fatall to all Kingdomes States Towns and Languages to have their period so this renown'd Mart hath suffer'd a shrewd eclipse yet no utter downfall the Exchange of the King of Spains money and some small land trafic keeping still life in her though nothing so full of vigor as it was Therfore there is no town under the Archduke where the States have more conceal'd friends than in Antwerp who would willingly make them her Masters in hope to recover her former commerce which after the last twelve years truce began to revive a little the States permitting to passe by Lillo's sconce which coÌ„mands the river of Skeld and lyeth in the teeth of the Town som small cross-saild ships to passe hither There is no place hath been more passive than this and more often pillag'd amongst other times she was once plunder'd most miserably by the Spaniards under the conduct of a Priest immediatly upon Don Iohn of Austria's death she had then her Stat-house burn'd which had cost a few years before above twenty thousand Crowns the building and the spoils that were carried away thence amounted to forty Tuns of gold Thus she was reduc'd not only to poverty but a kind of captivity being commanded by a Citadell which she preferr'd before a Garrison this made the Merchant retire and seek a more free Randevous som in Zeland som in Holland specially in Amsterdam which rose upon the fall of this Town as Lisbon did from Venice upon the discovery of the Cape of good Hope though Venice be not nere so much crestfall'n I will now steer my discours to the united Provinces as they term themselves which are six in number viz. Holland Zeland Frisland Overyssell Gronninghen and Utrecht three parts of Gilderland and some Frontire Towns and places of contribution in Brabant and Flanders In all these ther is no innovation at all introduc'd notwithstanding this great change in point of Government except that the College of States represents the Duke or Earl in times pass'd which College consists of the chiefest Gentry of the Countrey surintendants of Towns and the principall Magistrates Every Province and great Town choose yearly certain Deputies to whom they give plenary power to deliberat with the other States of all affairs touching the public welfare of the whole Province and what they vote stands for Law These being assembled consult of all matters of State Justice and War the Advocat who is prime in the Assembly propounds the busines and after collects the suffrages first of the Provinces then of the Towns which being put in form he delivers in pregnant and moving speeches and in case ther be a dissonance and reluctancy of opinions he labors to accord and reconcile them concluding alwayes with the major voyces Touching the administration of Justice the President who is monthly chang'd with the great Counsell have the supreme judicature from whose Decrees ther 's no appeal but a revision and then som of the choycest Lawyers amongst them are appointed For their Opidan Government they have variety of Officers a Scout Bourgmasters a Balue and 〈◊〉 The Scout is chosen by the States who with the Balues have the judging of all criminall matters in last resort without appeal they have also the determining of Civill Causes but those are appealable to the Hague Touching their chiefest Governor or Generall rather now having made proof of the Spaniard German French and English and agreeing with none of them they lighted at last upon a man of their own mould Prince Maurice now their Generall in whom concurr'd divers parts suitable to such a charge having been train'd up in the wars by his Father who with three of his Uncles and divers of his kindred sacrific'd their lives in the States quarrell he hath thriven well since he came to the Government hee clear'd Friesland Overyssell and Groninghen in lesse than 18 months He hath now continued their Governor and Generall by sea and land above 33 years he hath the election of Magistrats the pardning of Malefactors and divers other Prerogatives yet they are short of the reach of Soverainty and of the authority of the ancient Counts of Holland Though I cannot say 't is a mercenary employment yet he hath a limited allowance nor hath he any implicit command when he goes to the field for either the Counsell of War marcheth with him or els he receives daily directions from them moreover the States themselves reserve the power of nominating all Commanders in the Army which being of sundry Nations deprive him of those advantages he might have to make himself absolut Martiall-Discipline is no where so regular as amongst the States no wher are ther lesser insolencies committed upon the Burger noâ—… robberies upon the Countrey Boors nor are the Officers permitted to insult ore the common soldier When the Army marcheth not one dares take so much as an apple off a tree or a root out of the earth in their passage and the reason is they are punctually paid their pay els I believe they would be insolent enough and were not the pay so certain I think few or none would serve them They speak of sixty thousand they have in perpetuall pay by Land and Sea at home and in the Indies The King of France was us'd to maintain a Regiment but since Henry the Greats death the paiment hath been neglected The means they have to maintain these Forces to pay their Governor to discharge all other expence as the preservation of their Diâ—…es which comes to a vast expence yearly is the ancient revenue of the Counts of Holland the impropriaâ—… Church living Imposts upon all Merchandise which is greater upon exported than imported goods Excise upon all commodities as well for necessity as pleasure taxes upon every Acre of ground which is such that the whole Countrey returns into their hands every three years Add hereunto the Art they use in their bank by the rise and fall of money the fishing upon our Coasts whither they send every Autumâ—… above 700 Hulks or Busses which in the voiages they
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
Colchester Right Honble MY last to your Lordship was in Italian with the Venetian Gazetta inclos'd Count Mansfelt is upon point of parting having obtain'd it seems the sum of his desires he was lodged all the while in the same Quarter of Saint Iames which was appointed for the Infanta he supp'd yestrnight with the Counsell of War and he hath a grant of 12000 men English and Scots whom hee will have ready in the Body of an Army against the next Spring and they say that England France Venice and Savoy do contribut for the maintenance therof 60000 pound a month ther can be no conjecture much less any judgment made yet of his design Most Sthink it will be for relieving Breda which is straightly begirt by pinola who gives out that he hath her already as a Bird in a Cage and will have her maugre all the opposition of Christendom yet ther is fresh news com over that Prince Maurice hath got on the back of him and hath beleaguer'd him as he hath done the Town which I want faith to beleeve yet in regard of the huge circuit of Spinola's Works for his circumvallations are cry'd up to be neer upon twenty miles But while the Spaniard is spending Millions here â—…or getting small Towns the Hollander gets Kingdomes of him els where for he hath invaded and taken lately from the Portugall part of Brasil a rich Countrey for Sugars Cottons Balsams Dying-wood and divers commodities besides The Treaty of mariage 'twixt our Prince and the yongest daughter of France goes on a pace and my Lord of Carlile and Holland are in Paris about it we shall see now what difference ther is 'twixt the French and Spanish pace The two Spanish Ambassadors have been gon hence long since they say that they are both in prison one in Burges in Spain the other in Flanders for the scandalous information they made here against the Duke of Buckingham about which the day before their departure hence they desir'd to have one privat audience more but his Majesty denyed them I beleeve they will not continue long in disgrace for matters grow daily worse and worse 'twixt us and Spain for divers Letters of Mart are granted our Merchants and Letters of Mart are commonly the fore-runners of a War Yet they say Gondamar will be on his way hither again about the Palatinat for the King of Denmark appears now in his Necces quarrell and Arm 's apace No more now but that I kiss your Lordships hands and rest Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. London 5 Febr. 1624. IV. To my Cos Mr. Rowland Gwin Cousin I Was lately sorry and I was lately glad that I heard you were ill that I heard you are well Your affectionat Cousin I. H. V. To Thomas Iones Esq. Tom IF you are in healtâ—… 't is well we are here all so and wee should be better had wee your company therfore I pray leave the smutty Ayr of London and com hither to breath sweeter wher you may pluck a Rose and drink a Cillibub Your faithfull friend J. H. Kentis Iune 1. 1625. VI. To D. C. THe Bearer hereof hath no other errand but to know how you do in the Countrey and this paper is his credentiall Letter Therfore I pray hasten his dispatch and if you please send him back like the man in the Moon with a basket of your fruit on his back Your true friend J. H. London this Aug. 10. 1624 VII To my Father from London SIR I Received yours of the third of February by the hands of my Cousin Thomas Gwin of Trecastle It was my fortune to be on Sunday was fortnight at Theobalds wher his late Majestie King Iames departed this life and went to his last rest upon the day of rest presently after Sermon was don A little before the break of day he sent for the Prince who rose out of his bed and came in his Night-Gown the King seem'd to have som earnest thing to say unto him and so endeavour'd to rowse himself upon his Pillow but his spirits were so spent that he had not strength to make his words audible He died of a Feaver which began with an Ague and som Scotch Doctors mutter at a Plaster the Countess of Buckingham applied to the outside of his stomack T is thought the last breach of the march with Spain which for many yeers he had so vehemently defir'd took too deep an impression in him and that he was forc'd to rush into a war now in his declining Age having liv'd in a continuall uninterrupted peace his whole life except som collaterall aydes he had sent his Son in Law as soon as he expir'd the Privy Counsell sate and in less then a quarter of an hour King Charls was proclaimed at Theobalds Court Gate by Sir Edward Zouch Knight Marshall Master Secretary Conway dictating unto him That wheras it hath pleas'd God to take to his mercy our most gracious Soveraign King Iames of famous memory We proclaim Prince Charles His rightfull and indubitable Heir to be King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. The Knight Marshall mistook saying His rightfull and dubitable Heir but he was rectified by the Secretary This being don I took my Horse instantly and came to London first except one who was com a little before me insomuch that I found the Gates shut His now Majesty took Coach and the Duke of Buckingham with him and came to Saint Iames In the evening he was proclaim'd at White-Hall Gate in Cheapside and other places in a sad showre of Rain and the Weather was sutable to the condition wherin he finds the Kingdome which is Cloudy for he is left engag'd in a War with a potent Prince the peeple by long desuetude unapt for Arms the â—…leet Royall in quarter repair himself without a Queen his Siser without a Countrey the Crown pittifully laden with debts and the Purse of the State lightly ballasted though it never had better opportunity to be rich then it had these last twenty yeers But God Almighty I hope will make him emerge and pull this Island out of all these plunges and preserve us from worser times The Plague is begun in White-Chappell and as they say in the same house at the same day of the moneth with the same number that died twenty two yeers since when Queen Elizabeth departed Ther are great preparations for the Funerall and ther is a design to buy all the Cloth for Mourning White and then to put it to the Dyâ—…rs in gross which is like to save the Crown a good deal of mony the Drapers murmur extremely at the Lord Cranfield for it I am not setled yet in any stable condition but I lie Windbound at the Cape of good Hope expecting som gentle gale to launch out into an imployment So with my love to all my Brothers and Sisters at the Bryn and neer Brecknock I humbly crave a continuance of your Prayers and Blessing to
Verge Cullen is chief of the second Precinct Erurswic of the third and Danzic of the fourth The Kings of Peland and Sweden have sued to be their Protector but they refus'd them because they were not Princes of the Empire they put off also the King of Denmark with a Complement nor would they admit the King of Spain when he was most potent in the Netherlands though afterwards when 't was too late they desir'd the help of the Ragged Staff nor of the Duke of Anjou notwithstanding that the world thought he should have married our Queen who interceded for him and so 't was probable that therby they might recover their privileges in England so that I do not find they ever had any Protector but the great Master of Prussia and their want of a Protector did do them som prejudice in that famous difference they had with our Queen The old Hans had extraordinary immunities given them by our Henry the third because they assisted him in his wars with so many ships and as they pretend the King was not only to pay them for the service of the said Ships but for the Vessells themselves if they miscarried Now it happen'd that at their return to Germany from serving Henry the third ther was a great Fleet of them cast away for which according to Covenant they demanded reparation Our King in lieu of money amongst other Acts of Grace gave them a privilege to pay but one per cent which continued untill Queen Mories reign and she by advice of King Philip her husband as 't was conceiv'd enhanc'd the one to twenty per cent The Hans not onely complain'd but clamor'd loudly for breach of their ancient Privileges confirm'd unto them time out of mind by thirteen successive Kings of England which they pretended to have purchased with their money King Philip undertook to accommode the busines but Queen Mary dying a little after and he retiring ther could be nothing don Complaint being made to Queen Elizabeth she answerd That as shee would not innovat any thing so she would maintain them still in the same condition she found them hereupon their Navigation and Trafic ceas'd a while Wherfore the English tryed what they could do themselves and they thrive so well that they took the whole trade into their own hands and so divided themselves though they bee now but one to Staplers and Merchant Adventurers the one residing constant in one place wher they kept their Magazin of Wool the other stirring and adventuring to divers places abroad with Cloth and other Manufactures which made the Hans endevor to draw upon them all the malignancy they could from all Nations Moreover the Hans Towns being a body politic incorporated in the Empire complain'd hereof to the Emperor who sent over persons of great quality to mediat an accommodation but they could effect nothing Then the Queen caus'd a Proclamation to be punish'd that the Easterlings or Merchants of the Hans should be intreated and us'd as all other strangers were within her Dominions without any mark of difference in point of commerce This netled them more therupon they bent their Forces more eagerly and in a Diet at Ratisbon they procurd that the English Merchants who had associated themselves into Fraternities in Embdâ—…n and other places should bee declar'd Monopolists and so ther was a Comitiall Edict publishd against them that they should be exterminated and banisht out of all parts of the Empire and this was don by the activity of one Suderman a great Civilian Ther was there for the Queen Gilpin as nimble a man as Suderman and he had the Chancelor of Embden to second and countenance him but they could not stop the said Edict wherin the Society of English Merchants Adventurers was pronounc'd to bee a Monopoly yet Gilpin plaid his game so well that he wrought under hand that the said Imperiall Ban should not be publish'd till after the dissolution of the Diet and that in the interim the Emperor should send Ambassadors to England to advertise the Queen of such a Ban against her Merchants But this wrought so little impression upon the Queen that the said Ban grew rather ridiculous than formidable for the Town of Embden harbour'd our Merchants notwithstanding and afterwards Stode but they not being able to protect them so well from the Imperiall Ban they setled in this Town of Hamburgh After this the Queen commanded another Proclamation to be divulg'd that the Easterlings or Hansiatic Merchants should bee allowed to Trade in England upon the same conditions and payment of duties as her own Subjects provided Thaâ—… the English Merchants might have interchangeable privilege to reside and trade peaceably in Stode or Hamburgh or any wher els within the precincts of the Hans This incens'd them more therupon they resolv'd to cut off Stode and Hamburgh from being members of the Hans or of the Empire but they suspended this dessein till they saw what success the great Spanish Fleet should have which was then preparing in the yeer eighty eight for they had not long before had recours to the King of Spain and made him their own and he had don them som materiall good Offices wherfore to this day the Spanish Counsell is tax'd of improvidence and imprudence that ther was no use made of the Hans Towns in that expedition The Queen finding that they of the Hans would not be contented with that equality she had offer'd 'twixt them and her own Subjects put out a Proclamation that they should carry neither Corn Victualls Arms Timber Masts Cables Mineralls nor any other materialls or Men to Spain or Portugall And after the Queen growing more redoubtable and famous by the overthrow of the Fleet of Eighty eight the Osterlings fell to despair of doing any good Add hereunto another disaster that befell them the taking of sixty sailes of their Ships about the mouth of Tagus in Portugall by the Queens Ships that were laden with Ropas de contrabando viz. Goods prohibited by her former Proclamation into the dominions of Spain And as these Ships were upon point of being discharg'd she had intelligence of a great Assembly at Lubâ—…ck which had met of purpose to consule of means to be reveng'd of her therupon she staid and seiz'd upon the said sixty Ships only two were freed to bring news what became of the rest Hereupon the Pole sent an Ambassador to her who spake in a high tone but he was answer'd in a higher Ever since our Merchants have beaten a peacefull and free uninterrupted Trade into this Town and elswhere within and without the Sound with their Manufactures of Wool and found the way also to the White-Sea to Archangel and Mosco Insomuch that the premisses being well considered it was a happy thing for England that that clashing fell out 'twixt her and the Hans for it may be said to have been the chief ground of that Shipping and Merchandising which she is now com
30 Ian. 1633. Your much obliged Servitor J. H. XII To the Lord Vicount Wentworth Lord Deputy of Ireland and Lord Precedent of York c. My Lord I Was glad to apprehend the opportunity of this Packet to convey my humble service to your Lordship Ther are old doings in France and t is no new thing for the French to be always a doing they have such a stirring genius The Queen Mother hath made an escape to Brussells and Monsieur to Lorain wher they say he courts very earnestly the Dukes sister a young Lady under twenty they say a Contract is pass'd already but the French Cardinall opposeth it for they say that Lorain Milk seldom breeds good bloud in France Not only the King but the whole Gallican Church hath protestâ—… against it in a solemn Synod for the Heir apparant of the Crown of France cannot marry without the Royall consent This aggravats a grudg the French King hath to the Duke for siding with the Imperialists and for things reflecting upon the Dutchy of Bar for which he is hommogeable to the Crown of France as he is to the Emperor for Lorain A hard task it is to serve two Masters and an unhappy situation it is to lie 'twixt two puissant Monarchs as the Dukes of Savoy and Lorain do So I kiss your Lordships hands and rest My Lord Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. VVestmin 1 of April 1633. XIII To my most Noble Lady the Lady Cornwallis Madam IN conformity to your commands which sway with me as much as an Act of Parlement I have sent your Ladiship this small Hymn for Christmas day now neer approaching if your Ladiship please to put an Air to it I have my reward 1. Hail holy Tâ—…de VVherin a Bride A Virgin which is more Brought forth a Son The like was don Ne're in the world before 2. Hail spotless Maid Who thee upbraid To have been born in sin Do little waigh What in thee lay Before thou didst Lie-in 3. Three months thy Womb Was made the Dome Of Him whom Earth nor Air Nor the vast mould Of Heaven can hould 'Cause he 's Ubiquitair 4. O would â—…e daign To rest and raign I' th centre of my heart And make it still His domicill And residence in part 5. But in so foul a Cell Can he abide to dwell Yes when he please to move His Herbenger to sweep the Room And with rich Odors it perfume Of Faith of Hope of Love So I humbly kiss your hands and thank your Ladiship that you would command in any thing that may conduce to your contentment Westmin 3 Feb. 1633. Your Lapp s most humble Servitor J. H. XIV 〈◊〉 the Lord Clifford at Knasburgh My Lord I Receiv'd your Lordships of the last of Iune and I return mâ—… most humble thanks for the choice Nagg you pleas'd to send me which came in very good plight Your Lordship desires me to lay down what in my Travells abroad I observ'd of the present condition of the Iews once an Elect peeple but now grown contemptible and strangely squander'd up and down the World Though such a Discours exactly fram'd might make up a Volume yet I will twist up what I know in this point upon as narrow a Bottom as may be shut up within the compass of this Letter The first Christian Countrey that expell'd the Iews was England France followed our example next then Spain and afterwards Portugall nor were they exterminated these Countreys for their Religion but for Villanies and cheatings for clipping Coins poisning of Waters and counterfeiting of Seals Those Countreys they are permitted to live now most in amongst Christians are Germany Holland Bohemia and Italy but not in those parts where the King of Spain hath to do In the Levant and Turkey they swarm most for the gran Vizier and all other great Boshawes have commonly som Iew for their Counsellor or Spie who inform them of the state of Christian Princes possess them of a hatred of the Religion and so incense them to a war against them They are accounted the subtill'st and most subdolous peeple upon Earth the reason why they are thus degenerated from their primitive simplicity and innocence is their often â—…ptivities their desperat fortunes the necessity and hatred to which they have been habituated for nothing depraves ingenuous spirits and corrupts cleer wits more than want and indigence By their profession they are for the most part Broakers and Lombardeers yet by that base and servile way of Frippery trade they grow rich whersoever they nest themselves and this with their multiplication of Children they hold to be an argument that an extraordinary providence attends them still Me thinks that so cleer accomplishments of the Prophecies of our Saviour touching that peeple should work upon them for their conversion as the destruction of their City and Temple that they should becom despicable and the tail of all Nations that they should be Vagabonds and have no firm habitation Touching the first they know it came punctually to pass and so have the other two for they are the most hatefull race of men upon earth insomuch that in Turkie where they are most valued if a Musulman com to any of their houses leave his shoos at the door the Iew dare not com in all the while till the Turk hath don what he would with his Wife For the last 't is wonderfull to see in what considerable numbers they are dispers'd up and down the World yet they can never reduce themselves to such a coalition and unity as may make a Republic Principality or Kingdom They hold that the Iewes of Italy Germany and the Levant are of Benjamins Tribe ten of the Tribes at the destruction of Ieroboams Kingdom were led Captives beyond Euphrates whence they never return'd nor do they know what became of them ever after yet they beleeve they never became Apostats and Gentiles But the Tribe of Iuda whence they expect their Messias of whom one shall hear them discours with so much confidence and self-pleasing conceit they say is setled in Portugall wher they give out to have thousands of their race whom they dispense withall to make a semblance of Christianitie even to Church degrees This makes them breed up their children in the Lusitanian Language which makes the Spaniard have an odd saying that El Portuguez se criò del pedo de un Iudia A Portugues was engendred of a Iews Fart as the Mahuâ—…ans have a passage in their Alcaroâ—… That a Cat was made of a Lions breath As they are the most contemtiblest peeple and have a kind of fulsom sent no better then a stink that distinguisheth them from others so are they the most timorous peeple on earth and so utterly incapable of Arms for they are made neither Souldiers nor Slaves And this their Pusillanimity and cowardise as well as their cunning and craft may be imputed to their various thraldo us contempt and poverty which
deep into me and the more I ruminat upon 't the more I resent it But when I contemplat the order and those Adamantine laws which nature put in such strict execution throughout this elementary world When I consider that up and down this frail globe of earth we are but strangers or sojourners at best being design'd for an infinitely better Countrey when I think that our egress out of this life is as naturall to us as our ingress all which he knew as much as any these thoughts in a checking way turn my melancholy to a counter passion they beget another spirit within me You know that in the disposing of all sublunary things Nature is Gods Handmaid Fate his Commissioner Time his Instrument and Death his Executioner By the first we have generation by the second successes good or bad And the two last bring us to our end Time with his vast sith mowes down all things and Death sweeps away those mowings Well he was a rare and a compleat judicious Scholar as any that I have known born under our Meridian He was both solid and acute nor do I remember to have seen soundnes and quaintnes with such sweet straines of morality concur so in any I should think that he fell â—…ick of the times but that I knew him to be so good a Divine and Philosopher and to have studied the theory of this world so much that nothing could take impression in him to hurt himself therfore I am content to beleeve that his glass ran out without my jogging I know you lov'd him deerly well which shall make â—…e the more Fleet 3 Aug. Your most affectionat Servitor J. H. XLVI To I. W. Esq at Grayes Inne Gentle Sir I Value at a high rate the fair respects you shew me by the late ingenious expressions of your Letter But the merit you ascribe unto me in the superlative might have very well serv'd in the positive and 't is well if I deserve in that degree You write that you have singular contentment and profit in the perusall of som things of mine I am heartily glad they afforded any entertainment to a Gentleman of so choice a judgement as your self I have a foolish working braine of mine own in labour still with somthing and I can hardly keep it from superfetations though oftimes it produce a Mouse in lieu of a Mountaine I â—…ust confess it's best productions are but homely and hard faâ—…our'd yet in regard they appear handsom in your eyes I shall 〈◊〉 them the better So I am Sir Yours most obliged to serve you J. H. Fleet 3 Ian. 1644. XLVII To Mr. Tho. H. SIR THough the times abound with Schismes more than ever 〈◊〉 more is our misery yet I hope you will not suffer any 〈◊〉 creep into our frendship though I apprehend som feares therof bâ—… your long silence and cessation of literall correspondence Yoâ—… know ther is a peculiar Religion attends frendship ther is according to the Etymologie of the word a ligation and solemne 〈◊〉 the resâ—…inding wherof may be truly call'd a Schisme or a 〈◊〉 which is more Ther belongs to this Religion of frendship 〈◊〉 due rites and decent ceremonies as visits messages and 〈◊〉 sives Though I am content to beleeve that you are firm in thâ—… fundamentalls yet I find under favor that you have lately 〈◊〉 â—…en short of performing these exteriour offices as if the ceremoâ—…â—…ll law were quite abrogated with you in all things Frendsâ—… also allowes of merits and workes of supererogation somtimes 〈◊〉 make her capable of Eternity You know that pair which wer 〈◊〉 ken up into the heaven and placed amongst the brightest stamâ—… for their rare constancy and fidelity one to the other you knoâ—… also they are put among the fixed stars not the â—…ratices to 〈◊〉 â—…her must be no inconstancy in love Navigators steer their courâ—… by them and they are their best frends in working Seas 〈◊〉 nights and distresses of weather whence may be infer'd that 〈◊〉 frends should shine clearest in adversity in clowdy and doubtfâ—… times On my part this ancient frendship is still pure 〈◊〉 dox and incorrupted and though I have not the opportunity 〈◊〉 you have to perform all the â—…ites therof in regard of this recâ—… life yet I shall never erre in the essentialls I am still yours 〈◊〉 though I cannot be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for in statu quo nunc I am grown 〈◊〉 less and good for nothing yet in point of possession I am as 〈◊〉 as ever Fleet 7 Novem. 1643. Your firm inalterable Servitor J. H. XLVIII To Mr. S. B. Merchant at his house in the old Jury SIR I Returne you those two famous speeches of the late Queen Elizabeth with the addition of another from Baâ—…dius at an Embassy heer from Holland It is with languages as 't is with liâ—…uors which by transfusion use to take wind from one vessell to another so things translated into another tongue lose of their primative vigor and strength unless a paraphrasticall version be permitted and then the traduct may exceed the Originall not otherwise though the version be never so punctuall specially in these Orations which are fram'd with such art that like Vitruvius his palace ther is no place left to ad one stone more without defacing or to take any out without hazard of destroying the whole fabric Certainly she was a Princess of rare endowments for learning and languages she was bless'd with a long life and triumphant reign attended with various sorts of admirable successes which will be taken for som Romance a thousand winters hence if the world lasts so long She freed the Scot from the French and gave her successor a royall pension to maintain his Court She help'd to settle the Crown on Henry the greats head She gave essence to the state of Holland She civiliz'd Ireland and suppres'd divers insurrections there She preserv'd the dominion of the Narrow Seas in greater glory than ever She maintain'd open War against Spain when Spain was in her highest flourish for divers yeers together yet She left a mighty treasure behind which shewes that she was a notable good huswife Yet I have read divers censures of her abroad that she was ingratefull to Her Brother of Spain who had bin the chiefest instrument under God to preserve her from the block and had left her all Queen Maries jewells without diminution accusing her that afterwards She should first infringe the peace with him by intercepting his treasure in the Narrow Seas by suffering her Drake to swim to his Indies and rob him there by fomenting and supporting his Belgique Subjects against him then when he had an Ambassador resident at her Court But this was the censure of a Spanish Author and Spaine had little reason to speak well of her The French handle her worse by terming her among other contumelies l' 〈◊〉 de ses propres vassaux Sir I must much value the frequent respects you have
first I will now hoise saile for the Netherlands whose language is the same dialect with the English and was so from the beginning being both of them derived from the high Dutch The Danish also is but a branch of the same tree no more is the Swedish and the speech of them of Norway and Island Now the high Dutch or Teutonic Tongue is one of the prime and most spacious maternall languages of Europe for besides the vast extent of Germany it self with the Countreys and Kingdoms before mentioned wherof England and Scotland are two it was the Language of the Goths and Vandalls and continueth yet of the greatest part of Poland and Hungary who have a dialect of hers for their vulgar tongue yet though so many dialects and subdialects be deriv'd from her she remains a strong sinewy Language purâ—… and incorrupt in her first centre towards the heart of Germany Som of her Writers would make the World beleeve that shee was the Longuage spoken in Paradise for they produce many Words and proper names in the five books of Moses which fetch their Etymology from her as also in Persia to this day divers radicall words are the same with her as Fader Mocder Broder Star And a Germain Gentleman speaking heerof one day to an Italian that she was the Language of Paradise sure said the Italian alluding to her roughnes then it was the tongue that God Almighty chid Adam in It may be so replied the Germain but the devill had tempted Eve in Italian before A full mouthd language she is and pronounc'd with that strength as if one had bones in his tongue insteed of nerfs Those Countreys that border upon Germany as Bohemia Silesia Poland and those vast Countreyes North-Eastward as Russia and Muscovia speak the Slavonic Language And it is incredible what I have heard som Travellers report of the vast extent of that language for besides Slavonia it self which properly is Dalmatia and Libinâ—…ia it is the vulgar speech of the Macedonians Epirots Bosnians Servians Bulgarians Moldavians Rascians and Podolians nay it spreads her self over all the Easterne parts of Europe Hungary and Walachia excepted as far as Constantinople and is frequently spoken in the Seraglio among the Ianizaries nor doth â—…e rest there but crossing the Hellespont divers nations in Asia have her for their popular tongue as the Circassians Mongrelians and Gazaâ—…ites Southward neither in Europe or Asia doth she extend her self further to the North parallel of forty Degrees But those Nations which celebrate divine Service after the Greek Ceremony and profess obedience to the Patriark of Constantinople as the Russ the Muscovit the Moldavian Ruscian Bosnian Servian and Bulgarian with divers other Eastern and North-East peeple that speak Slavonic have her in a different Character from the Dalmatian Croation Istrian Polonian Bohemian Silesian and other Nations towards the West these last have the Illirian Character and the invention of it is attributed to St. Ierom the other is of Cyrists devising and is call'd the Servian Character Now although ther bee above threescore severall Nations that have this vast extended language for their vulgar speech yet the pure primitive Slavonic dialect is spoken only in Dalmatia Croatia Liburnia and the Countreys adjacent wher the ancient Slavonians yet dwell and they must needs be very ancient for ther is in a Church in Prague an old Charter yet extant given them by Alexander the great which I thought not amiss to insert heer We Alexander the great of King Philip founder of the Grecian Empire Conqueror of the Persians Medes c. and of the whole world from East 〈◊〉 West from North to South Son of great Jupiter by c. so calld Tâ—… you the noble stock of Slavonians and to your Language because 〈◊〉 have been unto us a help true in faith and valiant in war we confiâ—… all that tract of earth from the North to the South of Italie from 〈◊〉 and our Successors to you and your posterity for ever And if any other Nation be found there let them be your slaves Dated at Alexandria thâ—… 12. of the Goddess Minerva witnes Ethra and the eleven Princâ—… whom we appoint our Successors With this rare and one of thâ—… ancientest record in Europe I will put a period to this second account I send your Lordship touching Languages My next shall be of Greece Italy Fance and Spain and so I shall shake hands with Europe till when I humbly kiss your hands and rest West 2 of Aug. 1630. My Lord Your most obliged Servitor J. H. LVIII To the Right Hon. the E. R. My Lord HAving in my last rambled through high and low Germaâ—… Bohemy Denmark Poland Russia and those vast North-Eaâ—… Regions and given your Lordship a touch of their Languages foâ—… 't was no Treatise I intended at first but a cursory short literall account I will now pass to Greece and speak somthing of that large and learned Language for 't is she indeed upon whom the beanâ—… of all scientificall knowledg did first shine in Europe which she afterward diffus'd through all the Western world The Greek tongue was first peculiar to Hellas alone but iâ—… tract of time the Kingdom of Macedon and Epire had her then shâ—… arrived on the Isles of the Egean Sea which are interjacent and divide Asia and Europe that way then shee got into the fifty threâ—… Isles of the Cyclades that lye 'twixt Negrepont and Candy and so go up to the Hellespont to Constantinople She then crossed over to Anatolia wher though she prevail'd by introducing multitudes of Colonies yet she came not to be the sole vulgar speech any where therâ—… as far as to extinguish the former languages Now Anatolia is thâ—… most populous part of the whole earth for Strabo speaks of sixteen severall nations that slept in her bosom and 't is thought the two and twenty Languages which Mithrydates the great Polyglot King of Pâ—…ntus did speak wer all within the circumference of Anatolia in regard his dominions extended but a little further She glided then along the Maritime coasts of Thrace and passing Byzantium got into the out-lets of Danube and beyond her also to Taurica yea beyond that to the River Phosis and thence compassing to Trebizond she took footing on all the circumference of the Euxine Sea This was her course from East to North whence we will return to Candy Cyprus and Sycily thence crossing the Phare of Messina she got all along the Maritime Coasts of the Tirrhâ—…ne Sea to Calabria she rested her self also a great while in Apulia Ther was a populous Colony of Greeks also in Marseilles in France and along the Sea Coasts of Savoy In Afric likewise Cyrâ—…ne Alexandria and Egypt with divers other were peepled with Greeks and three causes may be alleged why the Greek tongue did so expand her self First it may be imputed to the Conquests of Alexander the Great and the Captains he left behind him for Successors Then
makes mee call to memory a saying of the Earl of Kildare in Ireland in the reign of Henry the eighth which Earl having deadly feud with the Bishop of Cassâ—…es burnt a Church belonging to that Diocess and being ask'd upon his Examination before the Lord Deputy at the Castle of Dublin why hee had committed such a horrid Sacrilege as to burn Gods Church hee answered I had never burnt the Church unles I had thought the Bishop had been in 't Lastly who would have imagined that the Accise would have taken footing heer a word I remember in the last Parliament save one so odious that when Sir D. Carleton then Secretary of State did but name it in the House of Commons hee was like to be sent to the Tower although hee nam'd it to no ill sâ—…nse but to shew what advantage of happines the peeple of England had o're other Nations having neither the Gabells of Italy the Tallies of France or the Accise of Holland laid upon them yet upon this hee was suddenly interrupted and call'd to the Bar Such a strange Metamorphosis poor England is now com unto and I am afraid our Miseries are not com to their height but the longest shadowes stay till the Evening The freshest News that I can write unto you is that the Kentish Knight of your acquaintance whom I writ in my last had an apostacy in his Brain dyed suddenly this week of an Impostume in his brest as he was reading a Pamphlet of his own that cam from the Press wherin hee shew'd a great mind to be nibling with my Trees but he only shew'd his Teeth for he could not bite them to any purpose Willi. Ro is return'd from the Wars but he is grown lame in one of his Arms so he hath no mind to bear Arms any more he confesseth himself to be an egregious fool to leave his Mercership and go to be a Musqueteer It made me think upon the Tale of the Gallego in Spain who in the Civill Wars against Aragon being in the field he was shot in the forehead and being carryed away to a Tent the Surgeon search'd his wound and found it mortall so he advis'd him to send for his Confessor for he was no man for this world in regard the Brain was touch'd the Soldier wish'd him to search it again which he did and told him that he found he was hurt in the Brain and could not possibly scape wherupon the Gallegoâ—…ell â—…ell into a chafe and said he lyed for he had no brain at all por que si tuviera seso nunca huniera venido a esta guerra for if I had had any brain I would never have com to this War All your frends heer are well except the maym'd Soldier and remember you often specially Sir I. Brown a good gallant Gentleman who never forgets any who deserv'd to have a place in his memory Farewell my dear Tom and God send you better dayes than we have heer for I wish you as much happines as possibly man can have I wish your mornings may be good your noons better your evenings and nights best of all I wish your sorrows may be short your joys lasting and all your desires end in success let me hear once more from you before you remove thence and tell me how the squares go in Flanders So I rest Fleet 3 Aug. 1644. Your entirely affectionat Servitor J. H. LXV To His Majesty at Oxon. SIR I Prostrate this Paper at your Majesties feet hoping it may find way thence to your eyes and so deâ—…cend to your Royall heart The forren Minister of State by whose conveyance this comâ—… did lately intimat unto mee that among divers things which go abroad under my name reflecting upon the times ther are som which are not so well taken your Majesty being inform'd that they discover a spirit of Indifferency and luke-warmnes in the Author This added much to the weight of my present suffrances and exceedingly imbitter'd the sense of them unto me being no other than a corrosif to one already in a hestic condition I must confess that som of them wer more moderat than others yet most humbly under favor ther wer none of them but displayed the heart of a constant true loyall Subject and as divers of those who are most zealous to your Majestics Service told me they had the good succes to rectifie multitudes of peeple in their opinion of som things Insomuch that I am not only not conscious but most confident that none of them could tend to your Majesties disservice any way imaginable Therfore I humbly beseech that your Majesty would 〈◊〉 to conceive of me accordingly and of one who by this recluse passive condition hath his share of this hideous storm yet he is in assurance rather than hopes that though divers cross-winds have blown these times will bring in better at last 〈◊〉 have bin divers of your Royall Progenitors who have had as shrewd shocks And 't is well known how the next transmarine Kings have been brought to lower ebbs At this very day he of Spain is in a far worse condition being in the midst of two sorts of peeple the Catalan and Portuguais which wer lately his Vassalls but now have torn his Seals renounc'd all bonds of allegeance and are in actuall hostility against him This great City I may say is like a Ches-board chequer'd inlayd with white and black spots though I believe the white are more in number and your Majesties countenance by returning to your great Counsell and your Court at White-Hall would quickly turn them all white That Almighty Majesty who useth to draw light out of darknes and strength out of weaknes making mans extremity his opportunity preserve and prosper your Majesty according to the Prayers early and late of your Maâ—…esties most loyall Subject Servant and Martyr Fleet 3. Septem 1644. Howell LXVI To E. Benlowes Esqr. upon the receipt of a Table of exquisit Latine Poems SIR I Thank you in a very high degree for that precious Table of Poems you pleas'd to send me When I had well viewd them I thought upon that famous Table of Proportion which Ptolomy is recorded by Aristaeus to have sent Eleazar to Hierusalem which was counted a stupendious piece of Art and the wonderment of those times what the curiosity of that Table was I have not read but I believe it consisted in extern mechanicall artifice only The beauty of your Table is of a far more noble extraction being a pure spirituall work so that it may be call'd the Table of your soul in confirmation of the opinion of that divine though Pagan Philosopher the high wing'd Plato who fancied that our souls at the first infusion wer as so many Tables they were abrasae Tabulae and that all our future knowledg was but a reminiscence But under favor these rich and elaborate Poems which so loudly eccho out your worth and ingenuity deserve a far more lasting monument to
hath been the like or such like formerly if the Liturgy is now suppress'd the Missall and Roman Breviary was us'd so a hundred yeers since If Crosses Church-Windows Organs and Fonts are now battered down I little wonder at it for Chapells Monasteries Hermitages Nunneries and other Religious Houses wer us'd so in the time of old King Harry If Bishops and Deans are now in danger to be demolished I little wonder at it for Abbots Priors and the Pope himself had that fortune heer an age since That our King is reduc'd to this pass I doe not much wonder at it for the first time I travell'd France Iewis the thirteenth afterwards a most triumphant King as ever that Countrey had in a dangerous civill War was brought to such streights for he was brought to dispence with part of his Coronation Oath to remove from his Court of Iustice from the Counsell Table from his very Bed-chamber his greatest Favourtis Hee was driven to bee content to pay the expence of the War to reward those that took Arms against him and publish a Declaration that the ground of their quarrell was good which was the â—…ame in effect with ours viz. A discontinuance of the Assembly of the three Estates and that Spanish Counsells did praedominat in France You know better than I that all events good or bad com from the all-disposing high Deity of Heaven if good he produceth them if bad he permits them Hee is the Pilot that sits at the stern and steers the great Vessell of the World and wee must not presume to direct him in his cours for he understands the use of the Compas better than we Hee commands also the winds and the weather and after a storm hee never fails to send us a calm and to recompence ill times with better if we can live to see them which I pray you may do whatsoever becomes of Your still most faithfull humble Servitor J. H. From the Fleet Lond. 3 Mar. 1646. LXXX To Sir K. D. at his house in Saint Martins Lane SIR THat Poem which you pleased to approve of so highly in a Manuscript is now manumitted and made free denizen of the World it hath gon from my Study to the Stall from the Pen to the Press and I send one of the maiden Copies heerwith to attend you 'T was your judgment which all the world holds to be sound and sterling induced me heerunto therfore if ther be any you are to bear your part of the blame Holborn 3 Ian. 1641. Your most entirely devoted Servitor J. H THE VOTE OR A POEM ROYAL Presented To His MAJESTY for a New-yeers-Gift by way of Discourse 'twixt the Poet and his Muse. Calendis Ianuarii 1641. POEMA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THe world 's bright Ey Times measurer begun Through watry Capricorn his cours to run Old Ianus hastened on his Temples bound With Ivy his gray hairs with Holly crownd When in a serious quest my thoughts did muse What gift as best becomming I should chuse To Britains Monarch my dread Soveraign bring Which might supply a New-years offering â—… rummag'd all my stores and search'd my cells Wher nought appear'd God wot but Bagatells No far fetch'd Indian Gem cut out of Rock Or fish'd in shells wer trusted under lock No piece which 〈◊〉 strong fancy hit Or Titians Pensill or rare Hylliards wit No Ermins or black Sables no such skins As the grim Tartar hunts or takes in gins No Medalls or rich stuff of Tyrian Dy No costly Bowls of frosted Argentry No curious Land-skip or som Marble piece Digg'd up in Delphos or else-where in Greece No Româ—…n Perfumes Buffs or Cordovans Made drunk with Amber by Moreno's hands No Arras or rich Carpets freighted o're The surging Seas from Asia's doubtfull shore No Lions Cub or Beast of strange Aspect Which in Numidia's fiery womb had slept No old Toledo Blades or Damaskins No Pistolls or som rare-spring Carrabins No Spanish Ginet or choice Stallion sent From Naples or hot Africs Continent In fine I nothing found I could descry Worthy the hands of Caesar or his eye My wits wer at a stand when loe my Muse None of the Quire but such as they do use For Laundresses or Handmaids of mean rank I knew somtimes on Pâ—… and Isis bank Did softly buz Muse. Then let me somthing bring May hansell the New-year to CHARLES my King May usher in bifronted Ianus Poet. Thou fond fool-hardy Muse thou silly thing Which 'mongst the shrubs and reeds do'st use to sing Dar'st thou perk up and the tall Cedar clime And venture on a King with gingling rime Though all thy words wer Pearls thy letters gold And cut in Rubies or câ—…st in a mould Of Diamonds yet still thy Lines would be Too mean a gift for such a Majesty Muse. I le try and hope to pass without disdain In New-yeers gifts the mind stands for the main The Sophy finding 't was well meant did daign Few drops of running-water from a Swain Then sure 't will please my Liege if I him bring Som gentle drops from the Castalian Spring Though Rarities I want of such account Yet have I somthing on the forked mount T is not the first or third access I made To Caesars feet and thence departed glad â—…or as the Sun with his male heat doth render Nile's muddy slime fruitfull and apt t' engender And daily to produce new kind of creatures Of various shapes and thousand differing features So is my fancy quickned by the glance Of His benign aspect and countenance It makes me pregnant and to superâ—…aete Such is the vigor of His beams and heat Once in a Vocall Forrest I did sing And made the Oke to stand for CHARLES my King The best of Trees wherof it is no vant The greatest Schools of Europe sing and chant There you shall also finde Dame ARHETINE Great Henries Daughter and great Britains Queen Her name engraven in a Lawrell Tree And so transmitted to Eternity For now I hear that Grove speaks besides mine The Language of the Loire the Po and Rhine And to my Prince my sweet Black Prince of late I did a youthfull subject dedicate Nor do I doubt but that in time my Treâ—…s Will yield me fruit to pay Apollo's Fees To offer up whole Hecatomâ—…s of praise To Caesâ—…r â—…f on them he cast his rays And if my Lamp have oil I may compile The Modern Annalls of great Albion's Isle To vindicate the truth of CHARLES his reign From scribling Pamphletors who Story stain With loose imperfect passages and thrust Lame things upon the world t'ane up in trust I have had audience in another strain Of Europs greatest Kings when German main And the Cantabrian waves I cross'd I drank Of Tagus Seine and sate at Tybers bank Through Scylla and Charybdis I have steer'd Wher restles Aeina belching flames appear'd By Greece once Palla's Garden then I pass't Now all o're-spread with ignorance and wast Nor hath fair Europ her
which should distinguish the rationall Creature from other Animalls have been lost heer a good while Nay besides this Cinicall ther â—…s a kind of Wolvish humor hath seizd upon most of this peeple a â—…u lycanthropy they so worry and seek to devour one another so â—…hat the wild Arab and fiercest Tartar may be call'd civill men in comparison of us therfore he is happiest who is furthest off from this wofull Island The King is streightned of that liberty he formerly had in the Isle of Wight and as far as I see may make up the number of Nebuchadnezzars yeers before he be restored The Parlement persists in their first Propositions and will go nothing less This is all I have to send at this time only I will adjoyn the tru respects of From the Fleet this 5 of May 1647. Your most faithfull humble Servitor J. H. XVI To Mr. W Blois in Suffolk SIR YOurs of the seventeenth current came safely to hand and 〈◊〉 kiss your hands for it you mention there two others that cannot which makes me condole the loss of such jewells for I esteem all your Letters so being the precious effects of your love which I value at a high rate and please my self much in the contemplation of it as also in the continuance of this Letter-correspondence which is perform'd on your part with such ingenuous expressions and embroder'd still with new florishes of invention I am stil under hold in this fatall Fleet and like one in a tempest aâ—… Sea who hath been often near the shoar yet is still toss'd back by contrary winds so I have had frequent hopes of freedom but som cross accident or other always intervened insomuch that I am now in half despair of an absolut release till a generall Gaoâ—… delivery yet notwithstanding this outward captivity I have inward liberty still I thank God for it The greatest News is that between twenty and thirty thousand well-armed Scots have been utterly routed riffed and all taken prisoners by less than 8000 English I must confess 't was a great exploit wherof I am not sorry in regard that the English have regain'd hereby the honor which they had lost abroad of late yeers in the opinion of the world ever since the Pacification at Berwick and divers traverses of War since What Hamiltons design was is a mystery most think that he intended no good either to King or Parlement So with my dayly more and more endeared affections unto you I rest Yours ever to love and serve you J. H. Fleet 7 May. 1647. XVII To Mr. R. Baron in Paris Gentle Sir I Receiv'd and presently ran over your Cyprian Academy with much greedines and no vulgar delight and Sir I hold my self much honor'd for the Dedication you have been pleas'd to make thereof to me for it deserv'd a far higher Patronage Truly I must tell you without any Complement that I have seldom met with such an ingenuous mixture of Prose Verse interwoven with such varieties of fancy charming strains of amorous Passions which have made all the Ladies of the land in love with you If you begin already to court the Muses so hansomly and have got such footing on Parnassus you may in time be Lord of the whole Hill and those nice Girles because Apollo is now grown unweldy and old may make choice of you to officiat in his room and preside over them I much thank you for the punctuall narration you pleas'd to send me of those commotions in Paris I believe France will never be in perfect repose while a Spaniard sits at the Stern and an Italian steers the Rudder In my opinion Mazirini should do wisely now that he hath feather'd his nest so well to truss up his Baggage and make over the Alps to his own Countrey lest the same Fate betide him as did the Marquis of Ancre his Compatriot I am glad the Treaty goes on 'twixt Spain and France for nothing can portâ—…nd a greater good to Christendom than a Conjunction of those two great Luminaries which if it please God to bring about I hope the Stars will change their Aspects and we shall see better days I send heer inclosed a second Bill of Exchange in case the first I sent you in my last hath miscarried So my dear Nephew I embrace you with both my Arms and rest Fleet this 20 of Iune 1647. Yours most entirely to love and serve you while Jam. Howell XVIII To Mr. Tho. More at York SIR I Have often partak'd of that pleasure which Letters use to carry along with them but I do not remember to have found a greater proportion of delight than yours afford me your last of the fourth current came to safe hand wherin me thought each line each word each syllable breath'd out the Passions oâ—… a cleer and candid soul of a vertuous and gentle spirit Truly Sir as I might perceive by your ingenious and patheticall expressions therin that you were transported with the heat of tru affection towards me in the writing so was I in the reading which wrought upon me with such an Energy that a kind of extasie possesâ—…'d me for tho time I pray Sir go on in this correspondence you shall find that your lines will not be ill bestowed upon me for I love and respect you dearly well nor is this love grounded upon vulgar Principles but upon those extraordinary parts of virtu and worth which I have discover'd in you and such a love is the most permanent as you shall find in Fleet 1 of Sep. 1647. Your most affectionat Oncle J. H. XIX To Mr. W. B. 3º Maii. SIR YOur last Lines to me were as delightfull as the Season they were as sweet as Flowers in May nay they were far more dragrant than those fading Vegetalls they did cast a greater suarity than the Arabian Spices use to do in the gran Cayro where when the wind is Southward they say the ayr is as 〈◊〉 as a persum'd Spanish Glove The air of this City is not so specially in the heart of the City in and about Pauls Church where Horse-dung is a yard deep insomuch that to cleanse it would be aâ—… hard a task as it was for Hercules to cleanse the Augean Stable by drawing a great River through it which was accounted one of his twelve labors but it was a bitter taunt of the Italian who passing by Pauls Church and seeing it full of Horses Now I perceive said he that in England Men and Beasts serve God alike No more now but that I am Your most faithfull Servant J. H. XXI To Sir Paul Pindar Knight upon the version of aâ—… Italian peece into English call'd St. Pauls Progress upon earth a new and a notable kind of Satyr SIR ST Paul having descended lately to view Italy and other placeâ—…â—…s you may trace him in the following Discours he would noâ—… take Wing back to Heaven before he had given you a speciall visit who have
of the King of England with other Kings 102 A Letter of respects to a Lady 104 A caution not to neglect the Latine for any vulgar Language 105 Of Praises to God and how they are the best Oblations 106 A facetious Tale of Henry the Fourth of France 107 America only free from Mahometisme 18 The Alchoran brought in by the Alfange 19 Arabic the sole Language of the Alchoran 17 Of the black Bean in Mahomets heart 3 Of vanity of beauties 2 The Mendicant Friers make a kind of amends for the excesses of the Cardinalls and Bishops 6 Of borrowing and buying of Books 34 Canary the best of Wine 74 Christianity more subject to variety of opinions than any other Religion and the cause therof 12 Advice from attempting a busines 27 Reputation like a Venice glass 26 A Fable of Fire Water and Fame 26 Advice to a young Soldier 26 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 27 Two famous sayings of Secretary Walsingham and Cecill 29 Of delay in busines 29 Of dispatch 29 The Mulberry an Embleme of Wisdom 30 The famous saying of Charles the fift 30 Of matches 'twixt England and Spain 30 Of the falling off of Catalonia and Portugall from the King of Spain and a judgment upon it 31 The vertu of money 31 A famous saying of Cap. Talbot 31 Of a hard intricat busines 32 Of the vertu of Letters 33 A Letter of reprehension for careles writing 34 Som amorous Stanza's 35 A Letter of gratitude 36 An Apology for Women 37 Of good and bad Women 37 Of free courtesies 38 A courtesie may be marr'd in the Mode 38 An Apology for silence 39 A Tale of a Nâ—…apolitan Confessor 39 A new Island discover'd hard by the Terreras 39 Of the Hill Vesuvius 39 Som rarities of Venice 40 Of the Genoways 40 Of our Indian Mariners 40 Grunnius Sophista's last VVill. 42 The Authors last Testament 43 Of Melancholy 44 A facetious tale of a Porter 45 A modest reply of a Letter of praise 46 A Letter of Patience 47 Of Chymistry 47 Of the Diseases of the time 47 A Letter of Recommendation 48 Of superfluâ—…us Servants 48 An advice to Travell 49 Of reading of Books 40 Of partiality of News 50 The History of Conanus and the 11000 Virgins mistaken 51 Of Prisoners 52 The Authors Epitaph 52 Advice to a Cambridg Scholar 53 A Letter of comfort 54 The effects of imprisonment 55 Of Chymistry 55 Of Dunkirk 56 A Letter of State 56 A Tale of the late Queen of Spain 57 The Turks Prayer 58 Of Nature Fate and Time 58 A Consolatory Letter 58 A modest reply to a Letter Encomiastic 59 A Letter of reprehension for not writing 60 Of Q. Eliz. pro con 61 How the Spaniards charge her 61 Of futilous Writers 62 Of speeding Letters 63 A Letter of Meditation 64 The advantage of Marriage 66 A Letter of Complement to a Lady 66 A Hymn to the Blessed Trinity 67 St. Austins wish in a Hymn 69 Of fearing and loving of God 68 A large Discourse of all sorts of Beverages that are us'd on earth 70 Of all sorts of Wines 71 The Riddle of the Vineyard man 70 Of German and Greek Drinkers 70 Of Sir Walter Rawleigh 95 Of the pittifull condition of England 99 A congratulatory Letter from Travell 105 Of Prayer and Praise 106 Of the Excise 107 A Tale of Monsieur de la Chatre 107 The power of Letters 109 Som Spanish Epitaphs 110 Of French Lawyers 113 A Letter Congratulatory for mariage 110 A Lettee Consolatory to a sick body 113 Stanzas of Mortality 114 Of the Passion Week 115 A Caution for imparting secrets 117 A Letter of Intelligence 118 Of Autology 120 A Letter of Consolation 121 A large Poem 122 Self-travell one of the ways that lead us to Heaven 122 Ut clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus Clauditur Haec cerâ clauditur Illa serâ As Keys do open chests So Letters open brests AN Index to the last Parcell of EPISTLES OF the use of Passions 1 Passions like Muscovia VVives expect to bee check'd 1 The conquest of ones self the greatest point of valour 1 Of the wars of Venice 2 The fearfull commotions of Naples 2 The horrid commotions in Ethiopia 2 Strange Revolutions in China 2 The monstrous Insurrections in Moscovia 2 A Prophecie of Holland 3 A Letter of correspondence 3 Letters compared to Ecchoes 4 Of Heaven 4 Endearments of love 4 Of the Presbyter and his first rise 5 Of Calvin his prophane appplications 5 Of Geneva 5 King Iames calld Presbytery a Sect. 6 Redemption the blessing paramount 6 The Eucharist the prime act of devotion 6 A Hymn upon the Holy Sacrament 7 A Rapture 8 The happiest condition of life 9 Opinion the great Lady that rules the world 9 Conceit the chiefest thing that makes one happy 9 Of the strange monster in Scotland 9 The incertain state of a Merchant Adventurer 9 A Mariner scarce to be ranked among the living 9 A rich City like a fatt Cheese subject to Maggots 10 Congratulations to a marryed couple 10 Of Tobacco and the virtu of it 11 A strange cure wrought upon my Lord Scroop by a Pipe of Tobacco 11 The way to know how much smoak ther is in a pound of Tobacco 22 Of Doctor Thorius Paetologie 12 The differing Modes of taking Tobacco 12 A Distic of Tobacco 12 Of Learning in generall 13 Handi-crafts men may well be term'd learned men 13 A wholsom peece of policy of the Chineses 13 A Tale of Bishop Grosthead 14 A meer Scholar a useless thing 14 A facetious Tale of Thomas Aquinas and Bonadventure 14 A Speech of Alexander Hales 14 The generall itching after Book-learning hurtfull to England 15 Gunpowder and Printing about a time and both hurtfull 15 The true learned men 16 A jeer upon the common Lawyer 16 Of the Physician 16 Pope Adrian's speech 16 Of the lunary world 17 Antiquity cannot priviledg an error 17 Novelty cannot prejudice truth 17 Of the Antipodes 17 The method how God powres down his blessings 18 The following day wiser than the formost 18 The Cadet older than his elder brother 18 Of experience 18 The prime Philosophers held ther was a world in the Moon 19 A notable comparison 19 VVhat kind of creatures are thought to be in the body of the Sun 19 Of Galileo's glasse 20 The Turks opinion of the Sun 20 The earth the basest of creatures 21 Of Trismegistus 21 The prerogatives of man 21 A letter of complement to a Lady 22 Of frendship 22 Of Fortunes wheel 23 The power of God 23 What use France hath made of Scotland 24 An Italian saying appliable to England 24 The old plot of the Jesuit now don in England 24 A letter of congratulation from forren travell 25 What a traveller must carry home with him besides language 25 'T is probable the Spaniard will be to hard for the French 25 A Letter complaining of the hard condition of England