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
wise Som kind of frowns becom black eies As pointed Diamonds being set Cast greater lustre out of Iet Those peeces we esteem most rare Which in night shadows postur'd are Darknes in Churches congregats the sight Devotion straies in glaring light Black eyes in your dark Orbs by changes dweil My bane or bliss my Paradise or Hell Touching her Mask I will not be long about it Upon Clorinda's Mask SO have I seen the Sun in his full pride Orecast with sullen clouds and lose his light So have I seen the brightest stars denied To shew their lustre in som gloomy night So Angels pictures have I seen vaild ore That more deuoutly men should them adore So with a Mask saw I Clorinda hide Her face more bright than was the Lemnian Bride Whether I have hit upon your fancy or fitted your Mistresse I know noâ—… I pray let me hear what success they have So wishing you your hearts desire and if you have her a happy conferreation I rest in Verse and Prose Westmin 29. of Mar. 1629. Yours J. H. XXIV To the Right honble my La Scroop Countess of Sunderland at Langar Madam I Am newly return'd from Hunsdon from giving the Rites of buriall to my Lords Mother She made my Lord sole Executor of all I have all her Plate and houshold stuff in my custody and unles I had gon as I did much had been embezeld I have sent herewith the coppy of a Letter the King writ to my Lord upon the â—…esignation of his place which is fitting to be preserv'd for posterity amongst the Records of Bolton Castle His Majesty expresseth â—…herin that he was never better serv'd nor with more exactnes of fidelity and Justice by any therfore he intâ—…nds to set a speciall mark of his 〈◊〉 upon him â—…hen his health will â—…erve him to coâ—… to Court my Lord Carletâ—…n deliver'd it me and told me he never remembred that the King writ a more gracious Letter I have lately bought in fee Farm Wanless Park of the Kings Commissioners for my Lord I got it for six hundred pound doubling the old rent and the next day I was offer'd five hundred pound for the bargain ther were divers that put in for'â—… and my Lord of Anglesey thought himself sure of it but I found means to frustrat them all I also compounded with her Majesties Commissioners for respit of homage for Rabbi Castle ther was 120 pound demanded but I cam off for 40 shillings My Lord Wentworth is made Lord Deputy of Ireland and carries a mighty stroak at Court ther have been som clashings 'twixt him and my Lord of Peâ—…brock lately with others at Court and divers in the North and som as Sir David Fowler with others have been crush'd He pleas'd to give me the disposing of the next Attorneys place in York and Iohn Lister being lately dead I went to make use of the favor and was offer'd three hundred pound for it but som got 'twixt me and home so that I was forc'd to go away contented with one hundred pecces Mr. Ratcliff deliver'd me in his Chamber at Grays Inn and so to part with the legall instrument I had which I did rather than contest The Dutchess your Necce is well I did what your La commanded me at York House So I rest Westminster this first of Iuly 1629. Madame Your Lapps ready and faithfull Servitor J. H. XXV To D. C. Esqr. at his House in Essex My D. D. I Thank you for your last Society in London but I am sorry to have found Iack T. in that pickle and that hee had so faâ—… transgresâ—…'d the Fannian Law which allows a chirping cup to satiat not to surâ—…t to â—…irth not to madnes and upon som extraordinary occasion of som rencounters to give Nature a 〈◊〉 but not a knock as Iack did I am afraid he hath taine such a habit of it that nothing but death will mend him and I find that he is posting thither apace by this cours I have read of a King of Navarr Charles le mauvais who perishd in strong waters and of a Duke of Clarence that was drownd in a but of Malmesey but Iack T. I fear will die in a butt of Caâ—…ary Howsoever comend me unto him and desire him to have a care of the main chance So I rest York 5 Iul. 1629. Yours J. H. XXVI To Sir Thomas Lake Knight SIR I Have shewd Sir Kenelme Digby both our translations of Martialls Vitam quae faciâ—…nt beatiorem c. and to tell you true he adjudg'd yours the better so I shall pay the wager in the place appointed and try whether I can recover my self at giocod ' amore which the Italian sayth is a play to cosen the devill If your pulse beats accordingly I will wayt upon you on the River towards the evening for a floundring fit to get som fish for our supper so I rest 3 Iuly 1629. Your true Servitor I. H. XVII To Mr. Ben. Johnson FAther Ben you desir'd me lately to procure you Dr. Davies Welsh Grammer to add to those many you have I have lighted upon one at last and I am glad I have it in so seasonable a time that it may serve for a New-years gift in which quality I send it you and because 't was not you but your Muse that desir'd it of me â—…or your letter runs on feet I thought it a good correspondence with you to accompagne it with what follows Vpon Dr. Davies Brittish Grammer T' was a tough task beleeve it thus to frame A wild and wealthy language and to frame Grammatic toiles to curb her so that shee Now speaks by rules and sings by prosodie Such is the strength of Art rough things to shape ' And of rude Comons rich inclosures make Doubtles much oil and labour went to couch Into methodic rules the rugged Dutch The Rabbies pass my reach but judg I can Somthing of Clenard and Quintilian And for those modern Dames I find they three Are only lopps cut from the Latian tree And easie tâ—…as to square them into parts The Tree it self so blossoming with Arts. I have bin shewn for Irish and Bascuence Imperfect rules couchd in an Accidence But I find none of these can take the start Of Davies or that prove more men of art Whâ—… in exacter method and short way The Idioms of a language do display This is the toung the Bards sung in of old And Druids their dark knowledg did unfold Merlin in this his prophesies did vent Which through the world of fame bear such extent This spoak that son of Mars that Britain bold Who first mongst Christian worthies is inrolld This Brennus who to his desire and glut The Mistress of the world did prostitut This Arviragus and brave Catarac Sole free when all the world was â—…n Romes rack This Lucius who on angells wings did soâ—…r To Rome and would wear diadem no more And thousand Heroes more which should I tell
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
safely return'd now the second time from beyond the Seas but I have yet no employment God and good friends I hope will shortly provide one for me The Spanish Ambassador Count Gondamar doth strongly negotiat a Match 'twixt our Prince and the Infanta of Spain but at his first audience ther happen'd an ill favor'd accident I pray God it prove no ill augury for my Lord of Arundell being sent to accompany him to White Hall upon a Sunday in the afternoon as they were going over the Tarrasse it broke under them but onely one was hurt in the arm Gondamar said that he had not car'd to have dyed in so good company he saith ther is no other way to regain the Palatinate but by this match and to settle an eternall Peace in Christendom The Marquis of Buckingham continueth still in fulnes of grace and favor the Countess his Mothes sways also much at Court she brought Sir Henry Montague from delivering law on the K. Bench to look to his bags in the Exchequer for she made him Lord high Treasurer of England but he parted with his white staff before the years end though his puâ—… had bled deeply for it above 20000 l. which made a Lord of this Land to ask him at his return from Court whether he did not find that wood was extreme dear at New-market for there he receiv'd the white staff Ther is now a notable stirring man in the place my Lord Cranfield who from walking about the Exchange is com to sit chief Judge in the Chequer Chamber and to have one of the highest places at the Counsell Table He is maried to one of the Tribe of Fortune a kinswoman of the Marquis of Buckingham Thus ther is rising and falling at Court and aâ—… in our naturall pace one foot cannot be up till the other be down so is it in the affairs of the world commonly one man riseth at the fall of the other I have no more to write at this time but that with tender of my duy to you I desire a continuance of your blessing and prayers Lond. March 22. 1622. Your dutifull Son J. H. II. To the Honble M. John Savage now Earl Rivers at Florence SIR MY love is not so short but it can reach as far as Florence to find you out and further too if occasion requir'd nor are those affections I have to serve you so dull but they can clammer ore the Alps and Apennin to wait upon you as they have adventur'd to do now in this paper I am sorry I was not in London 〈◊〉 kiss your hands before you set to Sea and much more sorry that I had not the happines to meet you in Holland or Brabant for we went the very same road and lay in Dort and Antwerp in the same lodgings you had lain in a fortnight before I presume you have by this time tasted of the sweetnes of Travell and that you have wean'd your affections from England for a good while you must now think upon home as one said good men think upon heaven aiming still to go thither but not till they finish their cours and yours I understand will be three years in the mean time you must not suffer any melting tendernes of thoughts or longing desires to distract or interrupt you in that fair road you are in to vertue and to beautifie within that comly Edifice which nature hath built without you I know your reputation is precious to you as it should be to every noble mind you have expos'd it now to the hazard therfore you must be carefull it receive no taint at your return by not answering that expectation which your Prince and noble Parents have of you You are now under the chiefest clime of wisdom fair Italy the Darling of Nature the Nurse of Policy the Theater of Vertue But though Italy give milk to Vertue with one dug she often suffers Vice to suck at the other therfore you must take heed you mistake not the dug for ther is an ill favourd saying that Inglese Italionato è Diavolo incarnato An Englishman Italianat is a Devill incarnat I fear no such thing of you I have had such pregnant proofs of your ingenuity and noble inclinationâ—… to vertue and honor I know you have a mind to both but I must tell you that you will hardly get the good will of the latter unless the first speak a good word for you when you go to Rome you may haply see the ruines of two Temples one dedicated to Vertue the other to Honor and ther was no way to enter into the last but through the first Noble Sir I wish your good very seriously and if you please to call to memory and examin the circumstance of things and my carriage towards you since I had the happines to be known first to your Honorable Family I know you will conclude that I love and honor you in no vulgar way My Lord your Grandfather was complaining lately that he had not heard from you a good while By the next shipping to Ligorn amongst other things he intends to send you a whole Brawn in collers I pray be pleasd to remember my affectionat service to Mr. Tho. Savage and my kind respects to Mr. Bold for English news I know this packet coms fraighted to you therfore I forbear at this time to send any Farewell noble Heir of Honor and command always Lond. March 24. 1622. Your true Servitor J. H. III. To Sir James Crofts Knight at Saint Osith in Essex SIR I had yours upon tuesday last and wheras you are desirous to know the proceedings of the Parliament I am sorry I must write to you that matters begin to grow boysterous The King retir'd not long since to New market not very well pleasd and this week there went thither twelve from the House of Commons to whom Sir Richard Weston was the mouth the King not liking the Message they brought calld them his Ambassadors and in the large answer which he hath sent to the Speaker he saith that he must apply unto them a speech of Queen Elizabeths to an Ambassador of Poland Legatum expectavimus Heralaum accepimus We expected an Ambassador we have receivd a Herald he takes it not well that they should meddle with the match twixt his Son and the Infanta alleging an example of one of the Kings of France which would not marry his Son without the advice of his Parliament but afterwards that King grew so despicable abroad that no Forren State would treat with him about any thing without his Parliament Sundry other high passages ther were as a caveat he gave them not to touch the honor of the King of Spain with whom he was so far ingag'd in a matrimoniall treaty that he could not go back he gave them also a check for taking Cognisance of those things which had their motion in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and that Sir Edward Coke though these words were not
they could have Gentlemen of good quality that would undertake it yet if I would take it upon me they would employ no other and assur'd me that the employment should tend both to my benefit and credit Now the business is this Ther was a great Turky ship call'd the Vineyard sailing through the Streights towards Constantinople but by distress of weather she was forc'd to put into a little Port call'd Milo in Sardinia The searchers came aboard of her and finding her richly laden for her cargazon of broad cloth was worth the first peny neer upon 30000 l. they cavell'd at some small proportion of lead and tin which they had only for the use of the ship which the Searchers alleged to be ropa de contrabando prohibited goods for by Article of Peace nothing is to be carried to Turky that may arm or vittle The Vice-Roy of Sardinia hereupon seizd upon the whole ship and all her goods landed the Master and men in Spain who coming to Sir Charls Corawalles then Ambassador at the Courâ—… Sir Charles could do them little good at present therfore they came to England and complaind to the King and Counsell his Majesty was so sensible hereof that he sent a particular Commission in his own royall Name to demand a restitution of the ship and goods and justice upon the Vice-Roy of Sardinia who had so apparently broke the Peace and wrongd his Subjects Sir Charles with Sir Paul Piâ—…dar a while labourd in the business and commenc'd a sute in Law but he was calld home before he could do any thing to purpose After him Sir Iohn Digby now Lord Digby went Ambassador to Spain and amongst other things he had that particular Commission from his Majesty invested in him to prosecut the sute in his own royall Name Therupon he sent a well qualified Gentleman Mr Walsingham Gâ—…sley to Sardinia who unfortunately meeting with som men of War in the passage was carried prisoner to Algier My Lord Digby being remanded home left the business in Mr Cotingtons hands then Agent but reassum'd it at his return yet it prov'd such a tedious intricate sute that he return'd again without finishing the work in regard of the remoteness of the Island of Sardinia whence the witnesses and other dispatches were to be fetchd The Lord Digby is going now Ambassador extraordinary to the Court of Spain upon the business of the match the restitution oâ—… the Palatinate and other high affairs of State therfore he is desirous to transmit the Kings Commission to ching this particular business to any gentleman that is capable to follow it and promiseth to assist him with the utmost of his power and he saith he hath good reason to do so in regard he hath now a good round share himself in it About this busines I am now preparing to go to Spain in company of the Ambassador and I shall kiss the Kings hands as his Agent touching this particular Commission I humbly intreat that your blessing and prayers may accompany me in this my new employment which I have undertaken upon very good terms touching expences reward So with my dear love to my brothers and sisters with other kindred and friends in the countrey I rest London 8 Sept. 1623. Your dutifull Son J. H. VII To Sir Tho Savage Knight and Baronet at his house in Long-Melford honble SIR I Receivd your commands in a Letter which you sent me by Sir Iohn North and I shall not fail to serve you in those particulars It hath pleased God to dispose of me once more for Spain upon a business which I hope will make me good returns ther have two Ambassadors and a royall Agent follow'd it hitherto and I am the fourth that is employed in it I defer to trouble you with the particulars of it in regard I hope to have the happiness to kiss your hand at Tower hill before my departure which will not be till my Lord Digby sets forward He goes in a gallant splendid Equipage and one of the Kings ships is to take him in at Plymouth and transport him to the Corunnia or Saint Andeâ—…as Since that sad disaster which befell Archbishop Abbot to kill the man by the glancing of an arrow as he was shooting at a Deer which kind of death befell one of our Kings once in new Forrest ther hath bin a Commission awarded to debate whether upon this fact wherby he hath shed human bloud he be not to be depriv'd of his Archbishoprick and pronounc'd irregular som were against him but Bishop Andrews and Sir Henry Martin stood stifly for him that in regard it was no spontaneous act but a meer contingencie and that ther is no degree of men but is subject to misfortunes and casualties they declar'd positively that he was not to fall from his dignity or function but should still remain a regular and in statu quo prius during this debate he petitioned the King that he might be permitted to retire to his Almes-house at Guilford where he was born to pass the remainder of his life but he is now come to be again rectus in curia absolutely quitted and restor'd to all things But for the wife of him which was killd it was no misfortune to her for he hath endowed herself and her children with such an Estate that they say her Husband could never have got So I humbly kisse your hands and rest London 9 Nov. 1622. Your most obliged Serviâ—… J. H. VIII To Captain Nich Leat from Madrid at his house in London SIR I Am safely com to the Court of Spain and although by reason of that misfortune which befell Mr Altham and me of wounding the Sergeants in Lombardstreet we staied three weeks behind my Lord Ambassador yet we came hither time enough to attend him to Court at his first audience The English Nation is better lookd on now in Spain than ordinary because of the hopes ther are of a match which the Merchant and comunalty much desire though the Nobility and Gentry be not so forward for it so that in this point the puls of Spâ—… beats quite contrary to that of England where the people are â—…vers to this match and the Nobility with most part of the Gentry inclinable I have perusd all the papers I could get into my hands touching the business of the ship Vineyard and I find that they are higher than I in bulk though closely prest together I have cast up what iâ—… awarded by all the sentences of view and review by the Counsell of State War and I find the whole sum as wel principall as interest upon interest all sorts of damages and processall charges com to above two hundred and fifty thousand Crowns The Conde del Real quondam Viceroy of Sardinia who is adjudged to pay most part of this money is here and he is Mayordomo Lord steward to the Infante Cardinall if he hath wherwith I donbt not but to recover the money for I hope
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
knew as well as he how earnest the King their Master hath bin any time these ten years to have it don how ther could not be a better pawn for the surrendry of the Palatinat than the Infanta in the Prince his arms who would never rest till she did the work to merit love of our Nation He told him also how their owne particular fortunes depended upon 't besides if he should delay one moment to deliver the Proxy after the Ratification was com according to agreement the Infanta would hold her self so blemish'd in her honor that it might overthrow all things Lastly he told him that they incurr'd the hazard of their heads if they should suspend the executing his Majesties Commission upon any order but from that power which gave it who was the King himself hereupon both the Ambassadors proceeded still in preparing matters for the solemnizing of the mariage the Earl of Bristoll had caus'd above thirty rich Liveries to be made of watchet Velvet with silver lace up to the very capes of the Cloaks the best sorts wherof were valued at 80 l. a Livery My Lord Aston had also provided new Liveries and a fortnight after the said politic report was blown up the Ratification came indeed complete and full so the mariage day was appointed a Terrass cover'd all over with Tapestry was rais'd from the Kings Palace to the next Church which might be about the same extent as from White-Hall to Westminster Abbey and the King intended to make his sister a Wife and his daughter wherof the Queen was deliver'd a little before a Christian upon the same day the Grandes and great Ladies had been invited to the mariage and order was sent to all the Port Towns to discharge their great Ordnance and sundry other things were prepar'd to honor the solemnity but when wee were thus at the hight of our hopes a day or two before there came Mr. Killegree Gresley Wood and Davies one upon the neck of another with a new Commission to my Lord of Bristoll immediatly from his Majesty countermanding him to deliver the Proxy aforesaid untill a full and absolut satisfaction were had for the surrendry of the Palatinat under this Kings hand and Seal in regard he desir'd his Son should be married to Spain and his Son in law remarried to the Palatinat at one time hereupon all was dasht to peeces and that frame which was rearing so many years was ruin'd in a moment This news strook a damp in the hearts of all people here and they wisht that the Postillons that brought it had all broke their necks in the way My Lord of Bristoll hereupon went to Court to acquaint the King with his new Commission and so propos'd the restitution of the Palatinat the King answer'd 't was none of his to give 't is true he had a few Towns there but he held them as Commissioner only for the Emperor and he could not command an Emperor yet if his Majesty of great Britain would put a Treaty a foot hee would send his own Ambassadors to joyn In the interim the Earl was commanded not to deliver the foresaid Proxy of the Prince for the desposorios or espousall untill Christmas And herein it seems his Majesty with you was not well inform'd for those powers of Proxies expir'd before the King here said further that if his Uncle the Emperor or the Duke of Bavaria would not be conformable to reason he would raise as great an Army for the Prince Palsgrave as he did under Spinola when he first invaded the Palatinat and to secure this he would ingage his Contratation House of the West Indies with his Plate Fleet and give the most binding instrument that could be under his hand and Seal But this gave no satisfaction therfore my Lord of Bristoll I beleeve hath not long to stay here for he is commanded to deliver no more Letters to the Infanta nor demand any more audience and that she should be no more stiled Princess of England or Wales The foresaid Caution which this King offer'd to my Lord of Bristoll made me think of what I read of his Grandfather Philip the second who having been maried to our Queen Mary and it being thought she was with child of him and was accordingly prayed for at Pauls Cross though it proved afterward but a tympany King Philip prepos'd to our Parliament that they would pass an Act that he might be Regent during his or her minority that should be born and he would give good caution to surrender the Crown when he or she should com to age the motion was hotly canvas'd in the house of Peers and like to pass when the Lord Paget rose up and said I but who shall sue the Kings bond so the busines was dasht I have no more news to send you now and I am sory I have so much unless it were better for we that have busines to negotiat here are like to suffer much by this rupture welcom be the will of God to whose benediction I commend you and rest Madrid Aug. 25. 1623. Your most humble Servitor J. H. XXVII To the Right honble the Lord Clifford My good Lord THough this Court cannot afford now such comfortable news in relation to England as I could wish yet such as it is you shall receive My Lord of Bristoll is preparing for England I waited upon him lately when he went to take his leave at Court and the King washing his hands took a Ring from off his own finger and put it upon his which was the greatest honor that ever he did any Ambassador as they say here he gave him also a Cupbord of Plate â—…alued at 20000 Crowns There were also large and high promises made him that in case heâ—… feard to fall upon any rock in England by reason of the power of those who malignd him if hee would stay in any of his Dominions he would give him means and honor equall to the highest of his enemies The Earl did not only wave but disdaind these Propositions made unto him by Olivares and said he was so confident of the King his Masters justice and high judgment and of his own innocency that hee conceiv'd no power could be able to do him hurt Ther hath occurd nothing lately in this Court worth the advertisement They speak much of the strange carriage of that boisterous Bishop of Halverstad for so they term him here that having taken a place where there were two Monasteries of Nuns and Friers he caus'd divers feather-beds to be rip'd and all the feathers to be thrown in a great Hall whither the Nuns and Friers were thrust naked with their bodies â—…ld and pitchd and to tumble among these feathers which makes them here presage him an ill death So I most affectionately kiss your hands and rest Madrid Aug. 26. 1623. Your very humble Servitor J. H. XXVIII To Sir John North. SIR I Have many thanks to render you for the favor
you lately did to a kinsman of mine Mr. Vaughan and for divers other which I defer till I return to that Court and that I hope will not be long Touching the procedure of matters here you shall understand that my Lord Aston had speciall audience lately of the King of Spain and afterwards presented a Memorial wherin ther was a high complaint against the miscarriage of the two Spanish Ambassadors now in England the Marquis of Inopifa and Don Carlos Coloma the substance of it was that the said Ambassadors in a privat audience his Majesty of great Britain had given them informd him of a pernicions plot against his Person and royall authority which was that at the beginning of your now Parliament the Duke of Buckingham with others his complices often met and consulted in a clandestin way how to break the treatie both of Match and Palatinat and in case his Majesty was unwilling therunto he should have a Countrey house or two to retire unto for his recreation and health in regard the Prince is now of years judgment fit to govern His Majesty so resented this that the next day he sent them many thanks for the care they had of him and desird them to perfect the work and now that they had detected the treason to discover also the traitors but they were shy in that point the King sent again desiring them to send him the names of the Conspirators in a paper seald up by one of their own confidents which he would receive with his own hands and no soul should see it els advising them withall that they should not prefer this discovery before their own honors to be accounted false Accusers they replied that they had don enough already by instancing in the Duke of Buckingham and it might easily be guest who were his Confidents and Creatures Hereupon his Majesty put those whom he had any grounds to suspect to their oaths And afterward sent my Lord Conway and Sir Francis Cotington to tell the Ambassadors that he had left no means unassaid to discover the Conspiration that he had sound upon oath such a clearness of ingenuity in the Duke of Buckingham thâ—… satisfied him of his innocency Therfore he had just cause to conceive that this information of theirs proceeded rather from malice and som politicall ends then from truth and in regard they would not produce the Authors of so dangerous a Treason they made themselves to be justly thought the Authors of it And therfore though he might by his own royall justice and the law of nations punish this excesse and insolence of theirs and high wrong they had done to his best servants yea to the Prince his Son for through the sides of the Duke they wounded him in regard it was impossible that such a design should be attempted without his privity yet he would not be his own Judge herein but would refer them to the King their Master whom he conceiv'd to be so just that hee doubted not but he would see him satisfied and therfore hee would send an express unto him hereabouts to demand Justice and reparation this busines is now in agitation but we know not what will become of it We are all here in a sad disconsolat condition and the Merchants shake their heads up and down out of an apprehension of som fearfull war to follow so I most affectionatly kiss your hands and rest Madrid Aug. 26 1623. Your very humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXIX To Sir Kenelme Digby Knight SIR YOu have had knowledge none better of the progression and growings of the Spanish match from time to time I must acquaint you now with the rupture and utter dissolution of it which was not long a doing for it was done in one audience that my Lord of Bristoll had lately at Court whence it may be inferr'd that 't is far more easie to pull down than reare up for that structure which was so many years a rearing was dasht as it were in a trice Dissolution goeth a faster pace than Composition And it may be said that the civill actions of men specially great affairs of Monarchs as this was have much Analogie in degrees of progression with the naturall production of man To make man there are many acts must procede first a meeting and copulation of the Sexes then Conception which requires a well-disposed womb to retain the prolificall seed by the constriction and occlusion of the orifice of the Matrix which seed being first bloud and afterwards cream is by a gentle ebullition coagulated and turnd to a crudded lump which the womb by vertue of its naturall heat prepares to be capable to receive form and to be organiz'd wherupon Nature falls a working to delineat all the members beginning with those that are most noble as the Heart the Brain the Liver wherof Galen would have the Liver which is the shop and source of the bloud and Aristotle the Heart to be the first fram'd in regard 't is primùm vivens ultimùm moriens Nature continues in this labor untill a perfect shape be introduc'd and this is call'd Formation which is the third act and is a production of an organicall body out of the spermatic substance caus'd by the plastic vertue of the vitall spirits and somtimes this act is finisht thirty days after the Conception somtimes fifty but most commonly in forty two or forty five and is sooner don in the male This being done the Embryon is animated with three souls the first with that of Plants call'd the vegetable soul then with a sensitive which all brute Animals have and lastly the Rationall soul is infus'd and these three in man are like Trigonus in Tetragono the two first are generated ex Traduce from the seed of the Parents but the last is by immediat infusion from God and 't is controverted 'twixt Philosophers and Divines when this infusion is made This is the fourth act that goeth to make man and is called Animation and as the Naturalists allow Animation double the time that Formation had from the Conception so they allow to the ripening of the Embryo in the womb and to the birth therof treble the time that Animation had which hapneth somtimes in nine somtimes in ten months This Grand busines of the Spanish match may be said to have had such degrees of progression first there was a meeting and coupling on both sides for a Iunta in in Spain and som select Counsellors of State were appointed in England After this Conjunction the busines was conceiv'd then it receiv'd form then life though the quickning was slow but having had nere upon ten years in lieu of ten months to be perfected it was infortunately strangled when it was ripe and ready for birth and I would they had never been born that did it for it is like to be out of my way 30 ol And as the Embryo in the womb is wrapt in three membranes or tunicles so this
any They have another saying a French-woman in a dance a Dutch-woman in the kitchin an Italian in a window an English-woman at board and the Spanish a bed When they are maried they have a privilege to wear high shooes and to paint which is generally practised here and the Queen useth it her self They are coy enough but not so froward as our English for if a Lady go along the street and all women going here vaild and their habit so generally like one can hardly distinguish a Countess from a Coblers wife if one should cast out an odd ill sounding word and ask her a favour she will not take it ill but put it off and answer you with some wittie retort After 30 they are commonly past child-â—…earing and I have seen women in England look as youthfull at 50 as some here at 25. Money will do miracles here in purchasing the favor of Ladies or any thing els though this be the Countrey of money for it furnisheth well-near all the world besides yea their very enemies as the Turk and Hollander insomuch that one may say the Coyn of Spain is as Catholic as her King Yet though he be the greatest King of gold and silver Mines in the world I think yet the common currant Coin here is Copper and herein I beleeve the Hollander hath done him more mischief by counterfeiting his Copper Coins than by their armes bringing it in by strange surreptitious waies as in hollow Sows of Tin and Lead hollow Masts in pitcht Buckets under water and other waies But I fear to be injurious to this great King to speak of him in so narrow a compass a great King indeed though the French in a slighting way compare his Monarchy to a Beggars Cloak made up of patches they are patches indeed but such as he hath not the like The East Indies is a patch embroyder'd with Pearl Rubies and Diamonds Peru is a patch embroider'd with massie gold Mexico with silver Naples and Milain are patches of cloth of Tissue and if these patches were in one peece what would become of his cloak embroyderd with flower deluces So desiring your Lopp to pardon this poor imperfect paper considering the high quality of the subject I rest Madrid 1 Feb. 1623. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXXI To Mr Walsingham Gresly from Madrid Don Balchasar I Thank you for your Letter in my Lords last packet wherin among other passages you write unto me the circumstances of Marques Spinola's raising his Leaguer by flatting and firing his works before Berghen He is much tax'd here to have attempted it and to have buried so much of the Kings tresure before that town in such costly Trenches A Gentleman came hither lately who was at the siege all the while and he told me one strange passage how Sir Ferdinando Cary a huge corpulent Knight was shot through his body the bullet entring at the Navell and comming out at his back kill'd his man behind him yet he lives still and is like to recover With this miraculous accident he told me also a merry one how a Captain that had a Woodden Leg Booted over had it shatterd to peeces by a Cannon Bullet his Soldiers crying out a Surgeon a Surgeon for the Captain no no said he a Carpenter a Carpenter will serve the tuâ—…n To this pleasant tale I 'le add another that happen'd lately in Alcala hard by of a Dominican Fryer who in a solemn Procession which was held there upon Ascension day last had his stones dangling under his habit cut off insteed of his pocket by a cut-purse Before you return hither which I understand will be speedily I pray bestow a visit on our friends in Bishopsgate-street So I am â—… Feb. 1623. Your faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXIII To Sir Robert Napier Knight at his house in Bishops-gate-street from Madrid SIR THe late breach of the Match hatch broke the neck of all businesses here and mine suffers as much as any I had access lately to Olivares once or twice I had audience also of the King to whom I presented a memoriall that intimated Letters of Mart unless satisfaction were had from his Vice-roy the Conde del Real the King gave me a gracious answer but Olivares a churlish one viz. That when the Spaniards had justice in England we should have justice here So that notwithstanding I have brought it to the highest point and pitch of perfection in Law that could be and procur'd som dispatches the like wherof were never granted in this Court before yet I am in dispair now to do any good I hope to be shortly in England by God grace to give you and the rest of the proprietaries a punctuall account of all things And you may easily conceive how sorry I am that matters succeeded not according to your expectation and my endeavours but I hope you are none of those that measure things by the event The Earl of Bristoll Count Gondamar and my Lord Ambassador Aston did not only do courtesies but they did cooperate with me in it and contributed their utmost endeavours So I rest Madrid 19. Feb. 1623. Yours to serve you J. H. XXXIV To Mr. A. S. in Alicant MUch endeared Sir Fire you know is the common emblem of love But without any disparagement to so noble a passion me thinks it might be also compar'd to tinder and Letters are the proper'st matter wherof to make this tinder Letters again are fittest to kindle and re-accend this tinder they may serve both for flint steel and match This Letter of mine comes therfore of set purpose to strike som sparkles into yours that it may glow and burn and receive ignition and not lie dead as it hath don a great while I make my pen to serve for an instrument to stir the cinders wherewith your old love to me hath bincover'd a long time therfore I pray let no covurez-fâ—…u Bell have power hereafter to rake up and choak with the ashes of oblivion that cleer slame wherwith our affections did use to sparkle so long by correspondence of Letters and other offices of love I think I shall sojourn yet in this Court these three moneths for I will not give over this great busines while ther is the least breath of hope remaining I know you have choice matter of intelligence somtimes from thence therfore I pray impait som unto us and you shall not fail to know how matters pass here weekly So with my bâ—…sa manos to Francisco Imperiall I rest Madrid 3 Mar. 1623. Yours most affectionately to serve you J. H. XXXV To the Honble Sir T. S. at Tower-Hill SIR I Was yesterday at the Escuriall to see the Monastery of Saint Laurence the eight wonder of the World and truly considering the site of the place the state of the thing and the symmetry of the structure with divers other raritles it may be call'd so for what I have seen in Italy and other places are but bables to
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
inserted in the answer whom he thought to be the fittest instrument for a Tyrant that ever was England should be so bold as to call the Prerogative of the Crown a great monster The Parliament after this was not long liv'd but broak up in discontent and upon the point of dissolution they made a Protest against divers particulars in the aforesaid answer of his Majesties My Lord Digby is preparing for Spain in qualitie of Ambassador Extraordinary to perfect the match twixt our Prince and the Lady Infanta in which business Gondamar hath waded already very deep and bin very active and ingratiated himself with divers persons of qualitie Ladies especially yet he could do no good upon the Lady Hatton whom he desird lately that in regard he was her next neighbor at Ely House he might have the benefit of her back gate to go abroad into the fields but she put him off with a Complement wherupon in a privat audience lately with the King amongst other passages of merriment he told him that my Lady Hatton was a strange Lady for she would not suffer her Husband Sir Edward Coke to com in at her foredore nor him to go out at her back dore and so related the whole business He was also dispatching a l'ost lately for Spain and the Post having receivd his packet and kisd his hands he calld him back and told him he had forgot one thing which was that when he came to Spain he should commend him to the Sun 〈◊〉 he had not seen him a great while and in Spain he should be sure to find him So with my most humble service to my Lord of Colchester I rest London Mar. 24. 1622. Your most humble Servitor J. H. IV To my brother Mr Hugh Penry Sir THe Welsh nag you sent me was deliverd me in a very good plight and I give you a thousand thanks for him I had occasion lately to try his mettle and his lungs and every one tells me he is right and of no mongâ—…ell race but a true Mountaneer for besides his toughness and strength of lungs up a hill he is quickly curried and content with short Commons I beleeve he hath not been long a highway traveller for wheras other horses when they pass by an Inne or Alehouse use to make towards them to give them a friendly visit this nâ—…g roundly goes on and scornes to cast as much as a glance upon any of them which I know not whether I shall impute it to his ignorance or height of spirit but conversing with the soft horses of England I beleeve he will quickly be brought to be more courteous The greatest news we have now is the return of the Lord BPP of Landass Davenant Ward and Belcanquell from the Synod of Dort where the Bishop had precedence given him according to his Epâ—…scopall dignity Arminius and Vorstius were sore baited there concerning Predestination Election and Reprobation as also touching Christs death and mans Redemption by it then concerning mans Corruption and Conversion lastly concerning the perseverance of the Saints I shall have shortly the transaction of the Synod The Jesuits have put out a geeâ—…ing libell against it and these two verses I remember in 't Dordrecti Synodus nodus chorus integer aeger Conventus ventus Sâ—…ffio stramen Amen But I will confront this Distich with another I read in France of the Iesuits in the Town of Dole towards Lorain they had a great house given them calld L'arâ—… arcum and upon the river of Lâ—… Henry the fourth gave them la fleche sagittam in â—…atin where they have two stately Convents that is Bow and Arrow wherupon one made these verses Arcum Dola dedit dedit ill is alma sagittam Francia quis chordam quam meruere dabit Faire France the Arrow Dole gave them the Bow Who shall the String which they deserve bestow No more now but that with my dear love to my Sister I rest London Aprill 16. 1622. Your most affectionate brother J. H. V. To the Lord Vicount Colchester My good Lord I receivd your Lopps of the last week and according to your command I send here inclos'd the Venetian gazet for forren aviso's they write that Mansfelt hath bin beaten out of Germany and is come to Sedan and 't is thought the Duke of Bouillon will set him up again with a new Army Marquis Spinola hath newly sat down before Berghen op zoom your Lopp knows well what consequence that Town is of therfore it is likely this will be a hot Summer in the Netherlands The French King is in open war against them of the Religion he hath already cleard the Loire by taking Ier seau and Saumur where Monâ—…r du Plessis sent him the keys which are promisd to be deliverd him again but I think ad Graecas Calendaâ—… He hath bin also before Saint Iohn d' angeli where the young Cardinall of Guyse died being struck down by the puffe of a Canon bullet which put him in a burning â—…eaver and made an end of him the last Town that 's taken was Clerac which was put to 50000. Crowns ransom many were put to the sword and divers Gentlemen drownd as they thought to scape this is the fifteenth cautionary Town the King hath taken and now they say he marcheth towards Montauban and so to Montpelliâ—…r and Nismâ—… and then have at Rochell My Lord Hayes is by this time 't is thought with the Army for Sir Edward Harbert is return'd having had som clashings and counterbuffs with the Favorite Luynes wherin he comported himself gallantly ther is a fresh report blown over that Luynes is lately dead in the Army of the Plague som say of the Purples the next cousen german to it which the Protestants give out to be the just judgement of Heaven â—…aln upon him because he incited his Master to these wars against them If he be not dead let him dy when he will he will leave a fame behind him to have bin the greatest Favorit for the time that ever was in France having from a simple Faulkner com to be high Constable and made himself and his younger brother Brand Dukes and Peers and his second brother Cadenet Marshall and all three maried to Princely Families No more now but that I most humbly kiss your Lopps hands and shall be alwaies most ready and chearfull to receive your commandments because I am London 12 Aug. 1623. Your Lordships obliged Servitor I. H. VI. To my Father from London SIR I was at a dead stand in the cours of my Fortunes when it pleas'd God to provide me lately an employment to Spain whence I hope there may arise both repute and profit Som of the Capâ—… Merchants of the Turky Company amongst whom the chiefest were Sir Robert Napper and Captain Leat propos'd unto me that they had a great business in the Court of Spain in agitation many yeers nor was it now their busines but the Kings in whose name it is followed