1500 that very week and two out of White-Hall it self Ther is high clashing again 'twixt my Lord Duke and the Earl of Bristoll they recriminat one another of divers things the Earl accuseth him amongst other matters of certain Letters from Rome of putting His Majesty upon that hazardous jorney of Spain and of som miscarriages at his being in that Court Ther be Articles also against the Lord Conway which I send your Lordship here inclosed I am for Oxford the next week and thence for Wales to fetch my good old Fathers blessing at my return if it shall please God to reprieve me in these dangerous times of Contagion I shall continue my wonted service to your Lordship if it may be done with safety So I rest Lond. 15 of Mar. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXI To the honble the Lord Viscount C. My Lord SIr Iohn North delivered me one lately from your Lordship and I send my humble thanks for the Venison you intend me I acquainted your Lordship as opportunity serv'd with the nimble pace the French Match went on by the successfull negotiation of the Earls of Carlile and Holland who outwent the Monsieurs themselves in Courtship how in less than nine Moons this great busines was propos'd pursued and perfected wheras the Sun had leasure enough to finish his annuall progres from one end of the Zodiac to the other so many years before that of Spain could com to any shape of perfection This may serve to shew the difference 'twixt the two Nations the Leaden-heeld pace of the one and the Quick-silver'd motions of the other It shews also how the French is more generous in his proceedings and not so full of scruples reservations and jealousies as the Spaniard but deales more frankly and with a greater confidence and gallantry The Lord Duke of Buckingham is now in Paris accompanied with the Earl of Montgomerie and hee went in a very splendid equipage The Venetian and Hollander with other States that are no friends to Spain did som good offices to advance this Alliance and the new Pope propounded much towards it But Richelieu the new Favorit of France was the Cardinall instrument in it This Pope Urban grows very active not onely in things present but ripping up of old matters for which ther is a select Committee appointed to examin accounts and errors pass'd not only in the time of his immediat Predecessor but others And one told me of a merry Pasquill lately in Rome that wheras ther are two great Statues one of Peter the other of Paul opposit one to the other upon a Bridge one had clapt a pair of Spurs upon Saint Peters Heels and Saint Paul asking him whither hee was bound he answered I apprehend som danger to staie now in Rome because of this new Commission for I fear they will question me for denying my Master Truly brother Peter I shall not staie long after you for I have as much cause to doubt that they will question me for persecuting the Christians before I was converted So I take my leave and rest London 3 May. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXII To my Brother Master Hugh Penry SIR I Thank you for your late Letter and the severall good tydings you sent me from Wales In requitall I can send you gallant news for we have now a most Noble new Queen of England who in true beuty is beyond the Long-Woo'd Infanta for she was of a fading Flaxen-Hair Big Lipp'd and somwhat heavy Ey'd but this Daughter of France this youngest Branch of Bourbon being but in her cradle when the great Henry her Father was put out of the World is of a more lovely and lasting complexion a dark brown shee hath eyes that sparkle like Stars and for her Physiognomy she may be said to be a mirror of perfection She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle and in Canterbury the King Bedded first with her ther were a goodly train of choice Ladies attended her coming upon the Bowling-green on Barram-Down upon the way who divided themselves into two rows and they appear'd like so many Constellations but me thought that the Countrey Ladies out-shin'd the Courtiers She brought over with her two hundred thousand Crowns in Gold and Silver as halt her portion and the other Moitie is to be payed at the yeers end Her first suit of servants by Article are to be French and as they die English are to succeed shee is also allowed twenty eight Ecclesiastics of any Order except Iesuits a Bishop for her Almoner and to have privat exercise of her Religion for her and her servants I pray convey the inclosed to my Father by the next conveniency and present my dear love to my Sister I hope to see you at Dyvinnock about Michaâ—…mas for I intend to wait upon my Father and will take my Mother in the way I mean Oxford in the interim I rest London 16 May 1626. Your most affectionat Brother J H. XXIII To my Unkle Sir Sackvill Trever from Oxford SIR â—… Am sorry I must write unto you the sad tydings of the dissolution of the Parliament here which was don suddenly Sir Iohn Eâ—…liot was in the heat of a high speech against the Duke of Buchingâ—…m when the Usher of the Black-Rod knock'd at the door and signified the Kings pleasure which strook a kind of consternation in all the House My Lord Keeper Williams hath parted with the Broad-Seal because as som say he went about to cut down the Scale by which he rose for som it seems did ill offices 'twixt the Duke and him Sir Thomas Coventry hath it now I pray God he be tender of the Kings conscience wherof he is Keeper rather than of the Seal I am bound to morrow upon a journey towards the Mountains to see som Friends in Wales and to bring back my Fathers blessing for better assurance of Lodging wher I pass in regard of the Plague I have a Post Warrant as far as Saint Davids which is far enough you 'l say for the King hath no ground further on this Island If the sicknes rage in such extremity at London the Term will be held at Reding All your friends here are well but many look blank because of this sudden rupture of the Parliament God Almighty turn all to the best and stay the fury of this contagion and preserve us from â—…urther judgements so I rest Oxford 6 Aug. 1626. Your most affectionate Nephew J. H. XXIV To my Father from London SIR I Was now the fourth time at a dead stand in the cours of my fortunes for though I was recommended to the Duke and receiv'd many Noble respects from him yet I was told by som who are neerest him that som body hath don me ill offices by whispering in his ear that I was two much Digbified and so they told me positively that I must never expect any imployment about him of any
Work of night Credentiall Letters States and Kingdoms tie And Monarchs knit in ligues of Amitie They are those golden Links that do enchaiâ—… Whole Nations though discinded by the Main They are the soul of Trade they make Commerce Expand it self throughout the Univers Letters may more than History inclose 〈◊〉 choicest learning both for Vers and Prose â—…ey knowledg can unto our souls display â—… amore gentle and familiar way â—…e highest points of State and Policy â—…e most severe parts of Philosophy â—…ay be their subject and their Themes eâ—…rich â—… well as privat businesses in which â—…nds use to correspond and Kindred greet â—…rchants negotiat the whole World meet â—…n Seneca's rich Letters is inshrin'd 〈◊〉 ere the Ancient Sages left behind â—…y makes his the secret symptomes tell â—… those distempers which proud Rome befell 〈◊〉 in her highest flourish she would make 〈◊〉 Tyber from the Ocean homage take â—…at Antonin the Emperor did gain â—…re glory by his Letters than his raign 〈◊〉 Pen out-lasts his Pike each golden linâ—… â—…is Epistles do his name inshrine 〈◊〉 clius by his Letters did the same 〈◊〉 they in chief immortallize his fame â—…ords vanish soon and vapour into Ayr â—…e Letters on Record stand fresh and fair 〈◊〉 tell our Nephews who to us wer dear 〈◊〉 our choice frends who our familiars were â—…he bashfull Lover when his flammering lips â—…er and fear som unadvised slips 〈◊〉 boldly court his Mistris with the Quill 〈◊〉 his hot passions to her Brest â—…still Pen can furrow a fond Femals heart pierce it more than Cupide feigned dart Letters a kind of Magic vertu have And like strong Philtres human souls inslave Speech is the Index Letters Ideas are Of the informing soul they can declare And shew the inward man as we behold A face reflecting in a Chrystall mould They serve the dead and living they becom Attorneys and Administers In somm Letters as Ligaments the World do tie Else all commence and love 'twixt men would die J. H. An Extract of the Heads of the choicest matters that goe interwoven 'mongst the Letters of the first Volume The first Section OF Abusers of Familiar Letters Page 1 Of Somersets fall and Buckinghams rise 4 â—…listris Turner executed in yellow starch at Tyburn and Sir Gervas Elwayes on Tower-hill his memorable caution against swearing and the Lo. Wil. of Pembrâ—…ks noble act to his Lady and children 4 Sir Walter Rawleigh's sorry return from Guiana Count Gondamars violent prosecution of him and a facetious Tale of Alphonso King of Naples c. 7 Of the study of our Common Law and what Genius is aptest for it 16 â—…he tru manner of the surrendry of the cautionary towns Flishing and Brill 18 The force of Letters 20 A Letter of love 26 Som choice Observations of Amsterdam 9. 13 14 Of the University of Leyden and a clash 'twixt Arminius and Baudius 14 Of Grave Maurice Prince of Orenge and of his regulâ—… cours of life 1â—… Of Antwerp and her Cittadell 2â—… Of France of Normandy and thâ—… City of Rouen 2â—… Of Paris and an odd mischance that befell a Secretaâ—… of State there 2â—… Of Luines the the Favorite 2â—… An exact Relation from an eye-witnes of the assassâ—… nat committed on the person of Henry the Greaâ—… 3â—… His rare Perfections and divers wittie Speeches 〈◊〉 his 3â—… An exact Relation of that Monstrous death of the Maâ—… quis of Ancre by an eye-witnes 3â—… Of St. Malos and the Province of Britany the viciniâ—… of their Language with the Welsh 3â—… Of Rochell and the humors of the peeple 3â—… The strong operations of love and a facetious Tale 〈◊〉 the Duke of Ossunas 37 Of the Pyreney Hills 38 Of the noble City of Valentia and various effects 〈◊〉 the Sun 4â—… Of Alicant and the Grapes thereof 4â—… Of Carthagena 4â—… Of Scylla and Charybdis Mount Aetna and the vulgaâ—… Greek c. 4â—… Of the admirable City of Venice her Glass Furnaces with a speculation rays'd theron her renowned Arsenall and Tresury her age and constitution her famous Bucentoro with a Philosophical notion arising thence c. from 45 to 6â—… Of the vertu of Letters 52 A Letter of gratitude 53 Some witty sayings of Spaniards 60 Some witty Observations of Rome the manner of creating Cardinals 61 Of forren Travell 67 Of the gentle City of Naples 65 A saying of King Iames. 68 A resemblance 'twixt the old Lombards and the Welsh 68 A witty saying of Lewis the 11. 70 Of Florence Genoa Luca c. 70 Of Milan and the Duke of Savoy 73 Of the Italian Toung 74 Of the humor of the Italian 85 Of the hideous mountains the Alps and of Lion in France 77 Of Geneva and a strange thing that happend at Lion 79 The six famous Verses made of Venice 59 A notable magnanimous Speech of a Turk 56 The second Section MY Lord Bacons opinion of Monsieur Cadenet the French Ambassador about little men 2 Two Letters of Endearments 3 A notable saying of the La. Elizabeth 4 Of Sir Robert Mansels return from Algier 11 Queen Anns death and the last Comet 7 M. of Buckingham made Lord Admirall c. 13 The beginning of the Bohemian Wars 4 The Palsgraves undertaking that Crown 4 Prague lost 5 Spinola's going to the Palatinat the manner of taking Oppenheim and the unworthines of the Marq. of Ansbuck the German Generall 9 The strange wonder in Holland of a Lady that brought forth as many Children as days in the yeer c. 14 Of the sailing Waggon 1â—… An elaborat survey of the seventeen Provinces the ground of their quarrell with the Spaniard the difference of Government and humors of peeple from 15 to 26 The difference 'twixt the Flemin Walloon and Hollander 26 The last French Kings piety to his Mother 29 Phlebotomy much used in France 33 A congratulatory Letter for Marriage 27 A Satyrical Play in Antwerp about the Prince Palsgraves proceedings 28 Wars 'twixt the French King and the Protestants 31 A famous Speech of St. Lewis 33 Of the French Favorite Luines and his two brothers Cadenet and Brand. 47 The strange story of the Maid of Orleans and how the English wer reveng'd of her 36 A facetious passage of the Duke of Espernon 38 The opinion of a French Doctor of English Ale 34 The French Polette 37 The third Section GOndamars first audience about the Spanish Match and the ill Augury that befell 49 Sir Henry Montague made Lord Tresurer a facetious question ask'd him 41 Cautions for travelling Italy 43 K. Iames his sharp answer to the Parlement from Newmarket about the Spanish Match c. His facetious Speech of my Lady Hatton 44 Of the Synod of Dort 54 Archb. Abbots disaster to kill a Keeper c. 49 The French Kings proceedings against the Protestants and the death of Luines 56 Of the Infanta of Spain and her two brothers 51 The bold manner of Petitioning the King of Spain 52 Som comendable qualities of
rupture of the Treaties with Spain which was done by the advice of both Houses This is the ground that His Majesty hath lately sent out privy Seals for Loan Moneys untill a Parliament may be calld in regard that the King of Denmark is distress'd the Sound like to be lost the Eastland Trade and the Staple at Hamborough in danger to be destroied and the English Garrison under Sir Charls Morgan at Stoâ—…d ready to be starv'd These Loan moneys keep a great noise and they are imprison'd that deny to conform themselves I fear I shall have no more opportunity to send to your Lordship till I go to York therfore I humbly take my leave and kiss your hands being ever My Lord Your obedient and ready Servitor J. H XXVIII To Mr. R. L. Merchant I Met lately with I. Harris in London and I had not seen him two years before and then I took him and knew him to be a man of thirty but now one would take him by his Hair to be near threescore for he is all turnd gray I wonderd at such a Metamorphosis in so short a time hee told me 't was for the death of his Wife that nature had thus antidated his years 't is true that a weighty setled sorrow is of that force that besides the contraction of the Spirits it will work upon the radicall moisture and dry it up so that the Hair can have no moisture at the Root This made me remember a Story that a Spanish Advocat told me which is a thing very remarkable When the Duke of Alva was in Brussels about the beginning of the tumults in the Netherlands he had sat down before Hulst in Flanders and ther was a Provost Marshall in his Army who was a Favorit of his and this Provost had put som to death by secret Commission from the Duke Ther was one Captain Bolea in the Armie who was an intimat friend of the Provosts and one evening late he went to the said Captains Tent and brought with him a Confessor and an Executioner as it was his custom He told the Captain that he was com to execut his Excellencies Commission and Marshall Law upon him the Captain started up suddenly his hair standing at an end and being struck with amazement ask'd him wherin he had offended the Duke the Provest answer'd Sir I com not to expostulat the busines with you but to execut my Commission therfore I pray prepare your self for ther 's your Ghostly Father and Executioner so he fell on his knees before the Priest and having don the Hangman going to put the Halter about his neck the Provost threw it away and breaking into a laughter told him ther was no such thing and that he had don this to try his courage how be could bear the terror of death the Captain lookâ—… ghastly upâ—… him and said then Sir get you out of my Tent for you have don me â—… very ill office The next morning the said Captain Bolea though â—… young man of about thirtie had his hair all turnd grav to the admiration of all the world and of the Duke of Alva himself who questioâ—… him about it but he would confess nothing The next year the Duâ—… was revok'd and in his journey to the Court of Spain he was to pasâ—… by Saragossa and this Captain Bolea and the Provost went alonâ—… with him as his Domestics The Duke being to repose some days in S. ragossa the young old Captain Bolea told him that ther was a thing in that Town worthy to be seen by His Excellency which was a Casa de Locos a Bedlam-house for ther was not the like in Christendom Well said the Duke go and tell the Warden I will be there to morrow in the afternoon and wish him to be in the way The Captain having obtaind this went to the Warden and told him that the Duke would com to visit the House the next day and the chiefest occasion that mov'd him to it was that he had an unruly Provost about him who was subject oftentimes to fits of frenzie and because he wisheth him well he had tried divers means to cure him but all would not do therfore he would trie whether keeping him close in Bedlam for som days would do him any good The next day the Duke came with arâ—…ffling train of Captains after him amongst whom was the said Provost very shining brave being entred into the house about the Dukes person Captain Bolea told the Warden pointing at the Provost that 's the man so hee took him aside into a dark Lobby wher he had plac'd som of his men who muffled him in his Cloak seiz'd upon his gilt Sword with his Hat and Feather and so hurried him down into a Dungeon My Provost had lain there two nights and a day and afterwards it happen'd that a Gentleman comming out of curiosity to see the house peep'd in at a small grate where the Provost was The Provost conjur'd him as he was a Christian to go and tell the Duke of Alva his Provost was there clap'd up nor could be imagin why The Gentleman did the Arrand wherat the Duke being astonish'd sent for the Warden with his prisoner so he brought my Provost en cuerpo Madman like full of straws and Feathers before the Duke who at the sight of him breaking out into a laughter ask'd the Warden why he had made him his Prisener Sir said the Warden 't was by vertue of your Excellenciâ—…s Commission brought me by Captain Bolea Bolea step'd forth and told the Duke Sir you have ask'd me oft how these hairs of mine grew so suddenly gray I have not reveal'd it yet to any soul breathing but now I le tell your Excellency and so sell a relating the passage in Flanders And Sir I have been ever since beating my Brains how to get an equall revenge of him and I thought no revenge to be more equall or corresponding now that you see he hath made me old before my time than to make him mad if I could and had he staied som days longer close Prisoner in the Bedlam House it might haply have wrought som impressions upon his pericranium The Duke was so well pleas'd with the Story and the wittines of the revenge that he made them both friends and the Gentleman who told me this passage said that the said Captain Bolea was yet living so that he could not be less than ninety years of age I thank you a thousand times for the Câ—…phalonia Muscadell and Botargo you sent me I hope to be shortly quit with you for all courtesies in the interim I am York this 1 of May. 1626 Your obliged friend to serve you J H. Postscript I Am sorry to hear of the trick that Sir Iohn Aires put upon the Company by the Box of Hailshot sign'd with the Ambassadors Seal that he had sent so solemnly from Constantinople which he made the world beleeve to be full of Chequins and Turky gold
from the Isle of Ree or as soâ—… call it the I le of Rue for the bitter success wee had there for we had but a â—…t entertainment in that salâ—… Island Our first invasion was magnanimous brave wherat neer upon 200 French Gentlemen perished and divers Barons of quality My Lord Newport had ill luck to disorder our Cavalry with an unruly Horse he had His brother Sir Charls Rich was slain and divers more upon the retreat amongst others great Golonell Gray fell into Salt-pit and being ready to be drownd he cryed out Cens mill escus pour ma rançon a hundred thousand Crowns for my ransom the French-men hearing that preserv'd him though he was not worth a hundred thousand pence Another merry passage a Captain told me that when they were rifling the dead bodies of the French Gentlemen after the first invasion they found that many of them had their Mistresses favors tyed about their genitories The French do much glory to have repell'd us thus and they have reason for the truth is they comported themselves gallantly yet they confess our landing was a notable piece of courage and if our Retreat had been answerable to the Invasion we had lost no honor at all A great number of gallant Gentlemen fell on our side as Sir Iohn Heyden Sir Io. Burrowes Sir George Blundell Sir Alex. Brett with divers Veteran Commanders who came from the Netherlands to this service God send us better success the next time for ther is another Fleet preparing to be sent under the Command of the Lord Denbigh so I kiss your hands and am Lond. 24 of Sept 1627. Your humble Servitor J. H. VI. To the Right Honble the Lord Scroop Earl of Sunderland Lord President of the North. My Lord MY Lord Dâ—…nbigh is returned from attempting to relieve Rochell which is reduc'd to extreme exigent And now the Duke is preparing to go again with as great power as was yet rais'd notwithstanding that the Parliament hath flown higher at him than ever which makes the people here hardly wish any good success to the Expedition because he is Generall The Spaniard stands at a gaze all this while hoping that we may do the work otherwise I think he would find som way to relieve that Town for ther is nothing conduceth more to the uniting and strengthning of the French Monarchy than the reduction of Rochell The King hath been there long in person with his Cardinall and the stupendious works they have rais'd by Sea and Land are beyond belief as they say The Sea-works and booms were traced out by Marquis Spinola as he was passing that way for Spain from Flanders The Parliament is prorogued till Michaelmas term ther weâ—… five Subsidies granted the greatest gift that ever Subjects gave their King at once and it was in requitall that his Majesty pass'd the Petition of Right wherby the liberty of the free-born subject is so strongly and clearly vindicated So that ther is a fair correspondence like to be 'twixt his Majesty and the two Houses The Duke made a notable Speech at the Counsell Table in joy hereof amongst other passages one was that hereafter his Majestie would please to make the Parliament his Favorit and he to have the honor to remain still his servant No more now but that I continue Lond. 25. Sept. 1628. Your Lordships most dutifull Servant J. H. VII To the Right Honble the La Scroope Countess of Sunderland from Stamford Madam I Lay yesternight at the Post House at Stilton and this morning betimes the Post-master came to my beds head and told me the Duke of Buckingham was slain my faith was not then strong enough to believe it till an hour ago I met in the way with my Lord of Rutland your Brother riding Post towards London it pleas'd him to alight and shew me a Letter wherin ther was an exact relation of all the circumstances of this sad Tragaedy Upon Saturday last which was but next before yesterday being Bartholmew yeeve the Duke did rise up in a well disposed humor out of his bed and cutt a Caper or two and being ready and having been under the Barbers hands wher the Murtherer had thought to have don the deed for hee was leaning upon the Window all the while hee went to breakfast attended by a great Company of Commanders where Monsieur Soubize came unto him and whispered him in the ear that Rochell was relieved the Duke seem'd to slight the news which made som think that Soubize went away discontented After Breakfast the Duke going out Colonell Fryer stepped before him and stopping him upon som busines one Lieutenant Felton being behind made a thrust with a common tenpeny knife over Fryers arm at the Duke which lighted so fatally that hee slit his heart in two leaving the knife sticking in the body The Duke took out the knife and threw it away and laying his hand on his Sword and drawn it half out said the Villain hath killd me meaning as som think Colonell Fryer for ther had been som difference 'twixt them so reeling against a Chimney hee fell down dead The Dutchess being with child hearing the noise below cam in her night geers from her Bed Chamber which was in an upper room to a kind of Rayl and thence beheld him weltering in his own bloud Felton had lost his Hat in the croud wherin ther was a Paper sowed wherin he declared that the reason which mov'd him to this act was no grudg of his own though hee had been far behind for his pay and had bin put by his Captains place twice but in regard he thought the Duke an enemy to the State because he was branded in Parliament therfore what he did was for the public good of his Countrey Yet he got clearly down and so might have gon to his horse which was tied to a hedg hard by but he was so amazed that he missd his way and so struck into the pastry where though the cry went that som Frenchman had don 't he thinking the word was Felton he boldly confessed t was he that had don the deed and so he was in their hands Iack Stamford would have run at him but he was kept off by Mr. Nicholas so being carried up to a Tower Captain Minâ—…e toare off his spurrs and asking how he durst attempt such an act making him beleeve the Duke was not dead he answerd boldly that he knew he was dispatchd for â—…was not he but the hand of heaven that gave the stroak and though his whole body had bin coverd over with armour of proof he could not have avoyded it Captain Charles Price went Post presently to the King four miles off who being at prayers on his knees when it was told him yet he never stirrd nor was he disturbd a whit till all divine service was don This was the relation as far as my memory could bear in my Lord of Rutlands Letter who willd me to remember him
thus engendring and in solutis principiis in their liquid formes and not consolidated into hard bodies for then they have not that vertue they impart heat to the neighbouring Waters So then it may be concluded that this soyl about the Bath is a minerall vein of earth and the fermenting gentle temper of generative heat that goes to the production of the said Mineralls do impart and actually communicat this balneal vertue and medicinall heat to these Waters This subject of Minerall Waters would afford an Ocean of matter wer one to compile a solid discours of it And I pray excuse me that I have presum'd in so narrow a compas as a Letter to comprehend so much which is nothing I think in comparison of what you know already of this matter So I take my leave and humbly kiss your hands being allwayes From the Bath â—…3 Iuly 1638. Your most faithfull and ready Servitor J. H. XXXVI From Dublin to Sir Ed Savage Knight at Tower-Hill SIR I Am com safely to Dublin over an angry boysterous Sea whether 't was my voyage on Salt-water or change of Ayr being now under another clime which was the cause of it I know not but I am suddenly freed of the pain in my Arm when neither Bath nor Plasters and other remedies could do me good I deliver'd your Letter to Mr. Iames Dillon but nothing can be don in that busines till your brother Pain coms to Town I meet heer with divers of my Northern frends whom I knew at York Heer is a most splendid Court kept at the Castle and except that of the Vice-roy of Naples I have not seen the like in Christendom and in one point of Grandeza the Lord Deputy heer goes beyond him sor he can confer honours and dub Knights which that Vice-roy cannot or any other I know of Trafic encreaseth heer wonderfully with all kind of bravery and buildings I made an humble motion to my Lord that in regard businesses of all sorts did multiply here daily and that ther was but one Clerk of the Counsell Sir Paul Davis who was able to dispatch busines Sir Will. Usher his Collegue being very aged and bed-rid his Lordship would please to think of me My Lord gave me an answer full of good respects to succeed Sir William after his death No more now but with my most affectionat respects unto you I rest Dublin 3 May 1639. Your faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXVII To Dr. Vsher Lo Primat of Ireland MAy it please your Grace to accept of my most humble Acknowledments for those Noble favours I receiv'd at Droghedah and that you pleas'd to communicat unto me those rare Manuscripts in so many Languages and divers choice Authors in your Library Your learned Work De primordiis Ecclesiarum Britannicarum which you pleas'd to send me I have sent to England and so it shall be conveyd to Iesus College in Oxford as a gift from your Grace I hear that Cardinal Barberino one of the Popes Nephews is setting forth the works of Fastidius a British Bishop call'd De vita Christiana It was written 300 yeers after our Saviour and Holstenius hath the care of the Impression I was lately looking for a word in Sâ—…idas and I lighted upon a strange passage in the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That in the Reign of Iustinian the Emperour one Theodosius a Jew a man of great Authority liv'd in Ierusalem with whom a rich Goldsmith who was a Christian was in much favour and very familiar The Goldsmith in privat discours told him one day that be wondred â—…e being a man of such a great understanding did not turn Christian considering how he found all the Prophecies of the Law so evidently accomplish'd in our Saviour and our Saviours Prophecies accomplish'd since Theodosius answered That it did not stand with his security and continuance in Authority to turn Christian but he had a long time a good opinion of that Religion and he would discover a secret unto him which was not yet com to the knowledg of any Christian It was That when the Temple was founded in Ierusalem ther wer 22 Priests according to the number of the Hebrew letters to officiat in the Temple and when any was chosen his name with his fathers and mothers wer us'd to be registred in a fair Book In the time of Christ a Priest died and he was chosen in his place but when his name was to be entred his father Ioseph being dead his mother was sent for who being ask'd who was his father she answered that she never knew man but that she conceiv'd by an Anâ—… So his name was registred in these words IESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD AND OF THE VIRGIN MARY This Record at the destruction of the Temple was preserved and is to be seen in Tyberias to this day I humbly desire your Graces opinion heerof in your next They write to me from England of rare news in France which is that the Queen is delivered of a Daulphin the wonderfull'st thing of this kind that any Story can parallel for this is the three and twentieth yeer since she was married and hath continued childles all this while so that now Monsieurs cake is dough and I beleeve he will be more quiet heerafter So I rest Dublin 1 March 1639. Your Graces most devoted Servitor J. H. XXXVIII To my Lord Clifford from Edenburgh My Lord I Have seen now all the King of Great Britain's Dominions he is a good Traveller that hath seen all his Dominions I was born in Wales I have bin in all the four corners of England I have traveâ—…sed the Diameter of France more than once and now I am com thorow Ireland into this Kingdom of Scotland This Town of Edinburgh is one of the fairest streets that ever I saw exepting that of Palermo in Sicily it is about a mile long coming sloping down from the Castle call'd of old the Castle of Virgins and by Pliny Castrum alatum to holy-rood-Holy-Rood-House now the Royall Palace and these two begin and terminat the town I am com hither in a very convenient time for heer 's a Nationall Assembly and a Parlement my Lord Traquair being His Majesties Commissioner The Bishops are all gon to wâ—…ack and they have had but a sorry Funerall the very name is grown so contemptible that a black Dog if he have any white marks about him is call'd Bishop Our Lord of Canterbury is grown heer so odious that they call him commonly in the Pulpit The Priest of Baal and the son of Belial I 'll tell your Lordship of a passage which happened lately in my lodging which is a Tavern I had sent for a Shoo-maker to make me a pair of Boots and my Landlord who is a peâ—…t smart man brought up a chopin of Whitewine and for this particular ther are betteâ—… French-wines heer than in England and cheaper for they are but at a Groat a quart and it is a crime of a high