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 the Travels of the right honourable V 
 
 Thomas Lord Howard, Earl^ of 
 Arundclland Surrey, Primer Earle, and Earle 
 Mmjhtll.of Eng t and, 
 
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 Ambaffadour Extraordinary to his facred Msj?fty 
 Ferdimvdo the feeond,Emperourof Germanse* * 
 
 (tAnm Domim 2636. 
 
 By WiUim Cromer Gentleman. 
 
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TO 
 
 THE TRUE NOBLE 
 
 AND MY HONOURA- 
 BLE MASTER, MASTER Tho- 
 
 mas H o vv a r d T Sonne and He ire to the 
 Right Honourable Hem y Lord Matra vers , 
 Grandchild? to the Right Honourable Thomas 
 
 Earle of At undid and £»wy,Lord high Mar- 
 fa. iU of England, and his Majcfties 
 \ late ■ Ambajfadour to the 
 
 Emperourof Germany. 
 
 Oile Sir, l know your in- 
 nate goodnes isfueb, that 
 cannot contemne this 
 
 by an 
 
 infirme hand, cmfideritog x it reporteth the 
 difficult Smbafie of no lejfe per f on than 
 your moll ennobled Grandfather, my dred 
 Lord, from rpho/e fage feps, when cur 
 Kjng foall bleaje to incite you, to give~> 
 
 A z Cxlac 
 
The Epiftle dedicatory. 
 
 Cadar a fecond vifit,you nitty the better 
 know the way, and be fecured from many 
 imminent dangers by fuch a provident 
 care : pardon me, deare Sir , that Intake 
 your choice tendernejje my ‘ Tatron (fince 
 the 'Difcourfe is no more pleafing') my 
 aimes and endeavours being ad bent to 
 ferveyou- and therefore the effects mull . 
 needs be yours:, truly Sir ,your early be- 
 ginnings promife fuch a rare proceeding, 
 that you feeme to anticipate your age by 
 out-flripping time in your wife dome and 
 Jweet difcretion, tAnd iff may obtainc 
 your beloVedfmiles in thisboldyhough ho- 
 nefl , action , f fh all not fedrewhat the 
 Jharpe jerkeof any malignant tongue can 
 doe unto me, but will glory in my Cha- 
 r alter. Happy Servant in fuch a zfAAa- 
 fter , 
 
 William Crowne. 
 
RELATION BY WAY 
 
 OF 
 
 fOV%JN^ALL t (?c. 
 
 H E fevcnth of K^Aprd being 
 T burfdaj i \6i6. His Excellency 
 departed from Greenwich for 
 Germanize, tooke Barge about 
 three of the clocke in the mor- 
 ning, and landed *at Gravtfeud, 
 from thence by Coach to Can- 
 terbury to bed, the next day to 
 CMargate where wee dined, and about three of the 
 clocke in the afternoone, hee tooke (hipping in one of 
 *the Kings Ships called the Happy Entrance, and landed 
 the tenth day being Sunday at Hclver.Jluce, and from 
 thence to the^/'^there failing over a lake moMafans- 
 Jluce , and fo on by waggons to Dclpb, and to the Hage •• Hage. 
 but a mile before wee came thither, there met us fome 
 of tht^ueene of Bohemias Coaches, which her Ma jetty 
 fent for his Excellency, and in one of them his Excel- 
 lency went to her Majefty that night, the time we ftaid 
 there, was fpent in vifits betweene the Prince of Orange, 
 
 g his 
 
Utresbt. 
 
 (at ton byway 
 
 his Excellency and the States, with Tome other Am- 
 baffadours, that were then there, as the French, Veneti- 
 an, znd the Swedtjh, heere we ftaid three daies, and de- 
 parted the fourteenth day by wagons, palling through 
 Letden to Woerden , and then entred the Bifhopricke of 
 Utrecht , and fo to the City it felfe where wee lay, the 
 Pnnces being there at fchoole, his Excellency went 
 to fee them that night,; the next day thence to Rhenem 
 to dine, where the Queene hath an houfe adjacent to 
 the Rhine, on the left fide, which wee viewed, having 
 faire roomes and gardens belonging to it, after diner 
 wee entered into Gelder-land, fo through Wagening to 
 K^trnhelm to bed, palling that afternoone through 
 much danger, by reafon of Out-lyers from the Army 
 at Schenckenfchans, which was not farre off, the Princt 
 of Brandebttrgb being heere in Towne, vifited his Ex- 
 cellency the next day, and the day after his Excellen- 
 cy vifited him, who was Ihewed by him, thealhes of 
 fome Romanes preferved in pots, that were found 
 inaMountainecallcd Zanten, which wee afterward 
 palfed by, heere wee lay Eafier-day and the CMtwday 
 following , and did fee the fmoake and fire out of 
 the great Peeces from the Sconce, as they were in 
 skirmilh, thecher his Excellency fent the Steward 
 and a Trumpeter to demand palfage of the Spanyard 
 in the S chans, and Grave William for: the Hollander, 
 but the Spaniard would not grant it, without order 
 
 t *pm Brtifjels, Grave William hearing their anfwer,fent 
 is Excellency word, hee made no doubt, but to give 
 him free paffage the next day, for herefolvcd to make 
 an alfaulc that night upon the Sconce, upon the allault, 
 the Spaniardsyeelded it up os conditions, and heere 
 
 his 
 
o/fournab , &c. 2 
 
 his Excellency publilhed certaine orders, to be gene- 
 rally obferved amongft us, one reafon was, the ficke- 
 nefle, being heere very much, wee ftaid heere three 
 daies and departed the nineteenth in waggons for the 
 Schans,fa(i crolfcdover the Rhine juft by the towne on 
 to the right fide into Cleveland, and fo to the Tolbouft, 
 a Caftle where the Hollanderstake toUat,adjoyning 
 to the Rhine on the fame fide, then palling through all 
 their workes and Army, leaving the Behans at a di- 
 fiance which was miferably battered, untill wee came 
 to Grave William his Tent, where fome of the Spa- schcnck- 
 niards were fealing of their agreements what quarter 
 they Ihould have, who inftantly left them, to bring 
 his Excellency over the Rhine on a Bridge of flat bot- 
 tom’d Boates, guarded with all his Troopes of Horfe, 
 untill wee came at the Barke wherein his Excellency 
 lay that night, then returned and fenc a Company of 
 Englilh Souldiers to guard it, the next day earely wee 
 weighed Anchor and failed up the Rhine , having a 
 Guard of Souldiers along the Ihore, by reafon the 
 Enemy went out of the Schans that morning, fo paf- 
 fing by Emmerich and Rees, Townes with ftrong fcon- 
 ces adjoyning to thcRhineon the left fide,then in fight 
 of the Mounraine Zantm on the other fide, fo by Bu- 
 rick , on the fame fide, to We/ell a Towne on the Idt WcfeJ *' 
 fide of thelttof, againft which wee caft Anchor, and 
 lay on fbip-board all night, for they died there of the 
 fickendTemore than thirty a day, ncvertheldfe the 
 next morning we tooke waggons in number eighteen 
 and difplaied our Englilh colours in three feverall 
 wagons 3 palTing over a little River in Boats call’d Lipp, 
 f hen by Rheinhergh on the right hand being the laft 
 
 s * Towne 
 
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 Towne of the States, then by Dinjlicken, on the fame 
 fide toDimburgh to dinner, where none of our carriage 
 might enter in, for as his Excellency entered the gate, 
 one of the watch difcharged his peece neere unto the 
 Miles breaft, the reft being inftantly commanded to 
 the contrary, but the Gates were {hut up, and wee 
 kept out, untilltheTownc werefatisfied, wee were 
 no Enemy, our carriage and Company being great, 
 frightenedthem a: the firft after diner we paft through 
 a long Wood in much danger, and in the view of 
 Rogues, who did not fee upon us becaufe our Com- 
 pany was great, yet we fearing the worft, had fent for 
 a Convoy of Muske tiers to the next Tow-ne before, 
 who met us not until! we were out of the Wood. 
 
 Then wee entered into Btrgi\b4dvd % and went by 
 Ketferfwert to Dttjftldbrpjo bed, which ad joynes to the 
 Rhine on the It ft fide, where the Duke of Ntiuburgb lay, 
 who was with his Dutcheffe abroad taking theatre, 
 but efpying us comming , returned backe into the 
 Towne with f'peed, and fent to have the Ports fhut up, 
 thinking wee had beene fome Enemy, but hearing it 
 was his Excellency was very joyfull,and fent Coaches 
 for him, to come and fuppe with him, and to make his 
 houfehis lodging the time he ftaid, but the next mor- 
 ning after breake-faft, perceiving his Excellency would 
 goeaway, hid three Coaches waiting at thedoore, 
 into one hee put his Excellency, and us into the reft, 
 and brought us out of Towne, with a Company of 
 Horfemenand Foote in Armes,anda Troopeof Lan- 
 ces going before, and Trumpets founding about the 
 Coach, his ow ne Guard . being thus brought with- 
 out the Gates, hcetooke his leave of his Excellency 
 
of lour nail, &c. 5 
 
 and returned, and as wee were departing* there went 
 
 0ff Ke e n«rf^S a aS' then croffed over the 
 *M«atalittIeDorpecalM Bimy, the Terrtt^ 
 rv of Ctlltin, andthencothe City where we lay. It is 
 feare d on the right fide of the Xfe>, ^ere the Bifliop 
 of Ouems was, whofenconeof his Privie Counfell 
 to invite his Excellency the next day to diner, be then 
 fent three of his Coaches for us, and gave his Excel- 
 lencv very noble entertaineraent ; the firft night his 
 Excellency came, were prefented unto him twenty 
 foure Flaggons of feverall kindesof Wine, the next 
 day twenty eight, and at every Prefent there was a 
 Iona fpeech made to his Excellency m Latine by one 
 that came with the Wine, which came all Iromthe 
 Magiftrates of the City in Flaggons with the City 
 Armesonthem, the Jefuiis there have built them a 
 very (lately Church and richly adorned it with gil- 
 dings and credit d an Altar one of the ftatelieft, lever 
 faw, in the City likewife there is a great Church cal- 
 fed the wherein lye the Bodies of three Kings, 
 
 call cd The three Kings of CoBein, which went to wo?- 
 fliip our Saviour, then is there another Church called 
 Saint in which lyeththe bones of i too.Af»- 
 
 einsin places locked up, and Saint Urfuia mafaire 
 
 Tombe bythem, which came all thither withher tor 
 
 their Devotion, there is befides a Nunnery and fornc 
 
 EnglifhNunnes there. ...... 
 
 ! Heere we ftaid a weeke, and the twenty eighth day 
 wee to* ke a Boate drawne with nine horfes and went 
 tip th tRhinfUy by many Villages pillaged and (hot 
 downe, and many brave Vineyards on Mountames, & 
 
 B 3 l°ng 
 
o <iA 'Relation by way 
 
 long the R ivers fide, patting by Bom on the right fide, 
 ?“ d ^ Vt " Burghem with old Cattles on them 
 f ? l d the °' her £ de of the R iver, and to Drachin- 
 
 (aft Anrho° n ^ e r kft u f the *&"> a S 3inft wkicb "*e 
 call Anchor and lay that night on (hip-board, the aext 
 
 morning earely weighed Anchor, patting by an SB 
 
 !? w * c bisaMonaftery of Nunnes called Tisniimer- 
 
 tber, Co on by Hammer Hein Cattle by Ktigrmagm An. 
 
 t£t'T' hreeT0TO! 0n thefighffideof 
 (hi>board Sal ° ft0mW WCC “ ft Anchor;m dlay on 
 
 d »y earely weighed Anchorand went by 
 
 Coblcncz, uidt and ft rnrlf' “ d I? 0 * be8 , Unne Tritri fi^ 
 
 - t0 L 3 To woe adjoyning to the 
 
 he^ n then8h L fid f> whichthe French lately loft, 
 being driven out by the Emperours Forces into a Ca- 
 rl?, , if ted M 0r ] a very high Rocke, oppofite to the 
 ne catted HcrmanUdn , which commandeth the 
 owne, wno were thenskirmiflring when wee came, 
 wherefore wee caft Anchor about halfe anEnglilh 
 c t c [ GIC ’ a i ld Fent.a Trumpeter defiring paflage, 
 
 u''ii- n8ly granted = ceafm S their fight on 
 both fides, the Generali in the Towne making prepa- 
 ration to entertame his Excellency, did but open the 
 Oate, thinking to cleare the paflage for his Excelled 
 cies entrance, prefeotly they in the Cattle letflyea 
 Cannon and were like to have flainefome of them, 
 wherefore they withdrew from (hewing of them- 
 felves, untill his Excellency came againft the Gate, 
 and then came forth and intreated his Excellency to 
 dine with him 3 but heeftaid noc having a long way to 
 goe that nighty they in the Caftle are befieged on 
 
 every 
 
of Journal 
 
 every fide, before them are Cannons placed juft by 
 the R ivers fide, behinde them are a great company of 
 Horfemen called Crabbats, beyond them in a plaine 
 great field, are other Horfemen and Footemen, and 
 likewife in Iflands in the Rhine , all watching that they 
 cannot be relieved, they in the Towne, if they doe but 
 looke out of their windowes, have a bullet prefehtly 
 prefented at their heads, yet the Towne is fomewhac 
 the ftronger for a R tver called the iMofcll , which run- 
 neth along one fide of the Towne into* he Rhine, over 
 which there did ftand a faire Bridge, though part of 
 it now be beaten downe, that there is no paflage over, 
 but have made a little lower on the c Moffid a paftage 
 on Boates, to relieve the Towne , under the Caftle 
 there is a very beautifull houfe, which the Emperour 
 gave to the Elettor of T ryer , and hee refigned it to the 
 French, whereupon the Spaniard befieged him, when 
 he lay in a faire Caftle on the iMoffed called Tryer, 
 and tooke him prifoner, and is prifoner now : as wee 
 were departing from hence, the French gave us a brave 
 vollieof ihotas hath beene heard, with foure or five 
 peeces of Ordnance , from hence up the Rhine, by 
 Lontteinmd Branbachtwo Townes on the left fide,and 
 Capede a Caftle on a R ocke on the other fide, to Roppart 
 a Towne on the fame fide,againft which wee caft An- 
 chor and lay aboard. 
 
 The firft of May being Sunday, and their Whic- 
 funday, we departed, palling by Villages fhot downe, 
 and by many pidures of our Saviour and the Virgin 
 iMary, fet up at the turnings of the water, untill we 
 entered the Land of Hejfcwhetc we ftill viewed plea- 
 fant Vines on the Mountains, f© by Saint Gomre, and 
 
 by 
 
Hon 
 
 byvrdy 
 
 Bacharach. 
 
 by Rhine fdas Caftle both on the -right fide, fo Catzt- 
 nelbegon Caftle on the other fide, then by Oberwejeli 
 on the right fide • then begins the Lower Paginate, 
 foby C*ub on the left fide, which is the firfi Towne 
 in the Pfaltz, and fo to P/ait & Caftle, feared in a lirtle 
 Hand in the River, ft om hence to BAcbsrach, a Towne 
 where we landed, it isfeated on the right fide of the 
 Rhine, having a Caftle on a high Rocke within the 
 walls, and unde* that a Church , which is from the 
 plaine ground ion. fteps before one can come into it, 
 heerc the poore people are found dead withgraffe in 
 their mouthes; from hence by a Village on the fame 
 fide, in which none but Leapers are , being notfarre 
 off the Towne, and fo to Bombech on the fame fide 
 by Drechsbaufen on the other fide, to ^irmanjh^fin, 
 a Towne on the left fide of the Rhine , againft which 
 we caft Anchor and lay on Ship-board. 
 
 The next morning departed hence, and then be- 
 gun OAomtXjiBsdand, foby a little ToWer in the wa- 
 ter, called ciUufe Tbour, which one Otto a Bifhoppe 
 of CMentz, having lived not well-, being much troub- 
 led with Mice, buil t this, and lived in it,thinking ther e 
 tobefecure, but even thither they purfued him alfo, 
 and eate him up : then b y Bingen, a faire Towne on 
 the right fide,and by Ehrenfels Caftle on the other fid e 
 to Rudejbetn, a Towne on the left fide pf the Rhine, in- 
 to which I entered, and did fee poore people praying 
 where dead bones were in a little old houfe , and 
 here his ExcelJencie gave fome reliefe to the poore 
 which were almoftftar vedas it appeared by the vio- 
 lence they ufed to get it from one another : from 
 thence by Geifenbem, El/eld, and Wothff, three Townes 
 
 on 
 
of Iournall, &c. p 
 
 on the left fide of the River, and then we croffed over 
 the Rhine , unto the other fide . 
 
 Then to c jMtniz, a great City fcated clofe by the Meow. 
 Rhine on the right fide againft which wee caft Anchor 
 and lay on (hip-board, for there was nothing in the 
 Towne to relieve us, fince it was taken by the King of 
 Sweden, and miferably battered, there the King of Bo- 
 hemia dyed, in a faire corner houfe towards the Ri- 
 vers fide,heere like wife the poore people wcrealmoft 
 ftarved, and thofe that could relieve others before* 
 now humbly begged to bee relieved, and after fupper 
 allhadreliefe,fenc from the Ship aftiore, at the fight 
 of which they ftrovefo violently, thatfomeof them 
 fell into th t Rhine and were like to have bin drowned. 
 
 The next day being the third of May, from hence 
 wee departed, leaving the Rhine halfe a league above 
 the City on our right hand, and entered into a (hal- 
 low River called the c Maine, palling by a place which 
 she King of Sweden was building for a Fort, but could 
 notfinilhit, then by CafeB, ontheleftfide,thenceby 
 Flerjhem on the left fide to Ruffil/heim on the right 
 of the Maine, and then to the (lately City of Franc- Francfuit* 
 fart, adjacent to the Maine on the left fide, where we 
 landed and lay : from CoBein hither, all the Townes, 
 Villages, and Caftles bee battered, pillaged or burnt, 
 and every place wee lay at on the Rhine on (hip-board, 
 we watched, taking every man his turne 5 heere wee 
 Raid foure daies, untill our carriages were made ready: 
 where we faw the place wherein they keepe the s 
 
 afterward entered into the Church called Saint Bar* 
 tholmtws , where the Bmfemrs ufe to bee crowned and 
 take their oath * the City is inhabited with Lutherans 
 
 C and 
 
Ncunkirchen. 
 
 l© ajf ^lationby way 
 
 and laves, for in the Ierves Synagogue, I entered in to fee 
 themanner of their fer vice, which is an undeccnt way, 
 making a hideous noife, having on their heads and a! 
 bout their neckes things called Capuchins, x he women 
 are not admitted into their Synagogue, but in places a- 
 bout.And on Sunday the feventh of May, by waggons 
 through the City over two Bridges which are alwaies 
 guarded with Souldiers,IeaviDg the O'daint on our left 
 hand, from hence we tooke a Convoy of Musketiers a- 
 long, being wee went through much danger, by Offen- 
 bach, Selgenftat, feated beeweene us and the CMaine, 
 palling thus along through a great Fore ft in much dan- 
 ger, , hewing the great Peoces fo fwif dy difebarge off 
 at /^annatv, which the &bdu*d 3 and now befieged 
 
 by the Emperors Forets, being not above three fcng- 
 lifh miles off, then by a very great Mountaine two Eng- 
 lifti miles long, all befet with Vines, un till we came ac 
 a poore little V illage where weeftaid and dined with 
 prpvifion of our owne, and after dinner departed,pa£ 
 fing through Plaines untill wee came at the Maine ^ and 
 there ferried over into a towne called KUnge»bcrg,yti- 
 fing through this, we came to a very high hill the way 
 up being all ftone & 2.Englifti miles up to the top,and 
 then through a Wood,after we were paft this, we came 
 to a poore little V illage called T^eunkirchen^ where we 
 found one houfe a burning when we came and not any 
 body in the Village, heere we were conftrained rorarry 
 all night, for it grew very late, and no Towne neere 
 by 4. Englilh miles, fpendibg die night in walking up 
 and downe in feare, with Carrabines in our hands,be- 
 caufe we heard Peeces difeharg’d off in Woods about 
 us, and with part of the coles of the confumed houfe 
 
 his 
 
his Excellency had his meat rafted for fupper,the nex« 
 morning earely , his Excellency wenc to view the 
 Church, which we found rifled with thcphfturesand 
 Altars abufed, in the Church-yard, wefaw a dead bo- 
 dy (craped out of the grave, in another place out of the 
 Church-yard,there lay another d_ead body^into many 
 of the houfes wee entered, and found them all empty. 
 
 From th is miferable place we departed, and heard after, 
 that they in the Village fled by reafbhof the ficknefle, 
 and fee that houfe on fire at their departure, riiatPaf- 
 fengers might not bftinfeded. ** 
 
 Then came we into fV^rs&^ssrgdand^tnidefcended 
 downe another ftecpbill and there eroded over a little 
 River calfd Tauber, and through Keicbeljheim^to 
 bruitq a poor* VtH age where wee dined, after dinner 
 pafli' jg by the fide df che Maine, and through Woods 
 and Plaines, until] we came to Mfytzbvrgi a faire City Wurzburg,; 
 p iling over a bridge firfftftanding over the Maine into 
 the Towne,leated on the left fide of the River, and a 
 faire Caftle oppofite to the Towne on the other fide, 
 in which the Towne put all their riches when they 
 heard the king of Sweden was comming, thinking there 
 it would not be gain d,but they hearing of it,furprifed 
 and pillaged it in j.daies,and it was 3. or 4.moneths be?- 
 fore the Emperors forces could regaine it, the next day 
 earely departed, being the io.of\A/4jr, and entered 
 Marggrafen-iand, and to Ktteugen to diner, after diner, 
 thence through Ipz,<t a City, and fo to Marckbibrack , Matckblferacki 
 where we lay all night on the p!ancher,for the Village 
 was pillaged but the day before, earely the nexr mor- 
 ning wee went away and palled through HieuHad^ 
 which hath beene a faire City, though now pillaged 
 
 C * r and 
 
Ml 
 
 Noremberg. 
 
 ix <*A Illation by way 
 
 and burnt miferably, beere we fiw poore children fit- 
 ting at their doores almoft ftarv'd to death, to whom 
 Iiis Excellency gave order for to relieve them with 
 meat and money to their Parents,from hence we went 
 to Eilfkbchn a poore Village where wee dined, with 
 fome refer v’d meat of our owne/or there was not any 
 thing to be found, after diner,thence we pafied by ma- 
 ny Villages pillag’d and burnt down,and fbinto 2 ^r#- 
 btrger-lmd , pafiiog through the place where the King 
 of Swedcns Leaguer lay, when the King of Bohemia was 
 with him and my Lord Craven, and in fight of the place 
 the Emperors Army had intrenched the mfelves by the 
 fide of a great wood,here the King of Sweden fet upon 
 poles alive three of his fouldier$,for killing 2. of their 
 Comminders,and flying prelently to his Enemy, and 
 at the end of a Battaile that was then fought,he tooke 
 them prifoners, and fo executed them, then drawing 
 neere Tdjarnburg a great City feated in a Plaine, which 
 the King of Sweden relieved at that time againft the Em- 
 peror, being not above two Englifh miles off, heere we 
 pafied by fomc of their workes before the Towne,and 
 then entered the Gate into the City being very ftately 
 built,and one of the dronged in Germany, and fo to his 
 Excellencies lodging, the next day the Lords of the 
 City came and vificed his Excellency 5 here we ftaid 11 . 
 daies untill hisExcellency had word for certain where 
 the Emperor was, the mod part of our time was fpent 
 in feeing of the rare things in the Towne, as a very 
 brave Magazine wherein all their munition lieth, which 
 the Governours of the towne (heived his Excellency, 
 at our fird entrance wee paded through a large Court 
 where there lay on our left hand 4*great Cannons by 
 
 the 
 
of a hum all, 15 
 
 the' Walks fide, which were 6 p ecs long, and a.foore 
 broad and worke-houfes there like wife, then entered 
 we into a long roome where there hung on both fides 
 armour for foot and ho<fe,and then into the place it felfe, 
 where there were 6 . partitionseach 28.paces long and 
 abroad, all full of braffe Peeces and other fnaall ones 
 of fe verall rare inventions, from hence we went to fee 
 a very rare water-worke which fupplieth all the City, 
 adjoyning clofeto the wall of the Towne s returning 
 homewards,we entered into their great Church call d 
 thcDomejhcxe hisExcellency was (hewed a very ftate- 
 ly picture of ihzAmtinciationof the Virgin Mor^ which 
 hung in the middle of the Quire,drawne up, which had 
 not bin (hewed to any in 1 8*yeeres before 5 and then re- 
 turn'd homeland the Lords with him,whofupped with 
 hisExcellency,the next day they dined with him like- 
 wife,and after diner defired his Excellency to goe and 
 take the aire in fome of thcirGardens without rhe Ci- 
 ty,which he did:theCity is very ftrong being encom- 
 paflfed without the wals with bulwaikes and a mighty 
 deepe and wide ditch, and within are many curiofities 
 and (lately buildings : the ancient men (called Lords) 
 governe by turnes.not acknowledging any particular 
 Prince their Soveraigne,but hold correfpondency with 
 all /or in the time of thofe great wars between the Em- 
 ter or and the King of Sweden, they would refigne to the 
 Emperor one while,and to the R .another,paying great 
 taxes & ini politicos to their halfe undoing. Fro hence 
 we departed May 22. being Sunday, for Regenfputgh, 
 thinking there to meete with the Emperor, fir 11 p (Eng 
 through a^part of the upper Palotinate to LLjwmark, cvvm * r 
 
 where welay/eated in a plaine where the king of Bt- 
 
 {*! 5 htmU 
 
Kegenrpufg. 
 
 14 . <iA Relation by may 
 
 bence,by 
 
 Churches demohfted to the ground and through 
 Woods in danger, undemanding that Crabbats were 
 lying heere about, untill we came at a poore little Vil- 
 lage called Hemm»w where we ftafcd and dined, which 
 hath beene pillaged eight and twenty times in two 
 yeeres and twice in one d ry, and they have there no 
 water but that which they have when it raineth •. af ter 
 dinner, to Etterjhmfin a poore Village where we roff- 
 ed over a little River in Boates , the Bridge being 
 burnt downe by the W„ f orccs . f romht g nce w | 
 
 afeended up a high hill, being defended downe. wee 
 pafled a long on an high banke, having rbe River Da- 
 mbius on our right band, and high Mountains with 
 Vines on our left, palling thus through feverall Villa- 
 
 | cs kf at r en do L WI Jf burnt \ untill we came at a round 
 Fort before the Bridge which a guard kept, and fo o- 
 ver it through a Tower in the middle {landing over 
 the Danube which runneth with asiwift a current as at 
 London Budge dmding it felfe into feverall Hands 
 which have had howfes oh them, but now burnt, and 
 alfo boufes on the Arches which were demolilhed 
 likewife, then mto the Citie Regenfturgx ohis Excel- 
 lencies lodging, the Citie hath bin taken by thcSwedflt 
 forehand regained by the King of Hungary. 
 
 . . Th u 2 j y ^Excellency went to take the ayre on 
 the other fide of the Towne, and as we went did fee 
 therum^of many boufes and Churches, and one Car. 
 taonaftery not fo much ruinated as the reft, in- 
 
 to 
 
of lour nail } &c. 15 
 
 to which his Excellency entered to fee theroomes 
 wherein the King of Hungary did lie all the time hec 
 was regaining of the Citie, being not above two Eng- 
 1 i(h miles off it, and hcere likewife the old Duke of Ba- 
 varia, this Dukes Father lived in a Cell for many yeers 
 together, againe his Excellency went to take the ayre 
 the 28. day, and entered into a Jefuites Monaftery, in 
 which there is one Altar dedicated toS. George . here 
 his Excellency ftaied a weeke, and departed thence 
 for Lintz, where the Emperour was , taking foure 
 Boates and went downe the Danow thorough Bavaria, 
 palling by a Cattle called Donaftauff, feated on a high 
 Mountaine, with a Dorpe at the foote of it, adjoyning 
 tothe Danubij on the left fide, and by Wcrth Cattle on 
 the fame fide, to Straubingen on the fame fide where we Strawbingen. 
 landed about eleuen at night and lay that night 5 the 
 next morning from thence, ftill by many ruines to Po- 
 gen on the right fidc,at the foote of a very high Moun- 
 taine, and on the top of it a Church with a few houfe? 
 about it 5 then by 'Huternbtrg Cattle leated on a high 
 Mountaine on the right fide of the River, andjby peek* 
 cndorjfoti the other fide, againft which wee met with 
 thirty horfes fattened all to one rope drawing of fixe 
 great boats which were going to Regenjfurg, then by a 
 Cattle called T amino feated on a high Mountaine,and 
 below atthe botcome is a Towne walled round,qlle 4 
 Overwinter on the left fide, and fo to Vtljboven, a towne Vilftoven, 
 on the right of the Danuby where wee landed ahd lay 
 that night. The next morning as his Excellency was 
 taking Boate,hc fpied a poore Boy ftanding among o- 
 ther poore people begging for reliefe,who looked ve- 
 ry ftrangely and could neither Ipeake norheare, buta 
 
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 little at his mouth and nofc, having neither eares nor 
 patfage to hearc with, and his face very thin & drawne 
 afide, yet when one hallowed hee heard and anfwered 
 againe with a noife, there was with him his lifter, a pret- 
 ty gir!e,who when one fpake to himjtnade him under- 
 ftand byftgnes,thefetwo his Excellency tooke along 
 with him in his Boate to aCity call cdPaJJaw feated on 
 the right fide of the Dannby, where we landed & lay, 
 and there cominan ded to have new clothes made for 
 them & gave them monieand fent them home to their 
 freinds,and a little before we came thither, endeth Ba - 
 varidi this Citie is feated very fwcetly, having 3. rivers 
 running neereit,thel> 4 ^; which is of a green color, 
 incompafieth it of one fide,and afwift river called/#*, 
 on the other fide, which commeth out of /fii/y, and is 
 of a white color, the third is //**, which is very blacke, 
 and commeth out of BebemU, and both runne into the 
 Danuby at the end of the towne, the next day his Ex- 
 cellency went to view a Capucbine Monaftery, feated 
 very pleafantly on a high bill, neere unto the T owne, 
 firft we pafled over a bridge made of little rafrs which 
 ftandeth over the river Inn, and fo through lnttadt, and 
 then afeended up the hill upon which the Monaftery 
 Bands, and then entered into the Chappell called our 
 Ladies Chappell, being built in the yeere 163 6. where 
 we faw a neat Altar, -and a pidure of the Virgin Maries 
 fet up in the Altar, and many fine reliqaes, left there 
 of thofe that are faid to have been healed of fevcrall 
 difeafes, comming but thither to doe their Devotion, 
 and returned thence found, from hence we defeended 
 to another Chappell at the bottome of the hill, palling 
 downe 274, fteps, being fet in order, ro.and 11. toge- 
 ther. And 
 
byVPAyof Iournall, &c. if 
 
 and as much plaine ground as containeth the fteps 
 thorowoutthe whole decent and in the middle of 
 the defcent is a Crucifix, at which one daily fits to re- 
 ceive the almes of charitable people, which Cruci- 
 fix one rude perfon palling by ,-ftrucke it, and fell 
 downe dead and never revived, as thefe Capvcbms re - 
 lated, and then returned. And oppofite to the citie 
 on the other fide of the Damtby on a very high rocke .is 
 feated a ftrong Caftle Which cannot b^ fcaled, called 
 FefHttgeverhoufe , commanding all the Townes and Mo- 
 nafteries^ at the foot of this is another ftrong built 
 Fort, by which the river Ilu falleth into the !><*- 
 mbji betweene the towne Ilze and this : the citie is 
 governed by Leopotdusi he Emperours (econd fbnne, 
 who isBilhopof it 5 here we ftayed three day es, and 
 departed the fourth of Iune, and entred into upper 
 Auftm, palling by Schattmberg caftle on the left fide of 
 the river, and by Effertingen on the other fide, and 
 Withering Monaftery on the fame fide, to tint* where Linlz , 
 the Emperour was, who fent to receive his Excellence 
 at his landing the Count of Hawick* Marlhall of 
 the Court, with fome other Courtiers 5 after his gra- 
 tulation with his Excellence,there came ten or twelve 
 coaches, which waited on his Excellence to his lodg- 
 ing which the Emperour had provided, and then re- 
 turned. Prefently after came the Count M egm , high 
 Steward to the Emperour, to vifit his Excellence ^ and 
 the next day Count Mans felt Captaine of the Foot- 
 Guard to vifit his Excellence, and after him Father 
 Lemmamatty hisMajefties ConfelTour. 
 
 The fixth of Iune, being the fecond day after wee 
 came, his Excellence had audience of the Emperour 
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 and Emprdfe, who fent their coaches forus^being 
 come to his palace, which is feated on a hill, we went 
 up foure afcents of ftaires 3 the Guard {landing on each 
 fide of us, with halberds and carrabines in their hands, 
 palling thus thorow roomes, untill wee came at. the 
 dooreof the chamber in which the Emperour was, 
 and when his Excellence came at the doore, out came 
 the little Count of Kezell, high CharoberJaine to his 
 Majeftie, and ^brought in hit Excellence, and then 
 withdrew and fhut the doore after him, that none 
 might enter in : after his Excellence had beene within 
 a while, we were all admitted,and killed his Majefties 
 a hand, and then withdrew, and palled thorow other 
 roomes and a gallerie, where the Guard (food in like 
 manner , to the Emprclfes chamber , where none 
 might enter neither, dealing a fight of her as wee 
 fiood, and then returned. * 
 
 The eighth day his Excellence had hisfecond au- 
 dience of the Emperour, as private as the firft : and 
 the tenth day audience againe of the Emprefle 3 and 
 then wee were admitted tokifle her hand; the fame 
 day there were feven men beheaded which were Re- 
 bels, forrifingup in armes with foure hundred other 
 Boores againft the Emperour the firft that was exe- 
 cuted, was faid to be one that had inchanted himfelfe, 
 that no bullet could hurt him, andtheonely feducer 
 of the others: after he was upon the fcaffold and his 
 face covered, two men held him faft to the blocke, 
 then came the Executioner with a red hot paire of 
 pincers, and violently clapt hold of both his brefts, 
 that done, nailed his right hand faft to the blocke,and 
 chopc it off, then prefently whipt out his (Word from 
 
by x»0j »f lour nail, 1 9 
 
 his fide 9 and cut off his head, one of the hangmen 
 prefently tookeitup, and cryedat the eares of the 
 htxAjIefwJefuf^ then the lefuite which came a long 
 With him admonifbing of him, defiredeverie one to 
 joyne in prayers with him for him 5 then came the 0- 
 cher, and a Boy which was beheaded likewife, all ma- 
 king their private confeffions to Priefts, at the foot of 
 the fcafold, having a Crucifix in their hand, killing 
 their hands 8c feet at the end of everie prayer : After 
 all thole men were beheaded, ard quartered, there 
 went two of their confederates a foot to bee hanged 
 about an Englifti mile of, coa place where aPrieftof 
 theiTs bung upon a pole , and his head on the top, 
 which was taken in a Church a yeere before called 
 Brings which we afterward pafled by. 
 
 The twelfth day being Sunday , the fcmperour,Em- 
 preffe, and the Arch-DurchefTe, dined at thelefuires 
 Cojkge}butbefore,they heard Made in their Church, 
 and after dinner a play was prefented to them by the 
 hoofe, and fome young fchollers, confiftingof many 
 varieties. The fifteenth day his Excellence dined at 
 the Count Megw$) and was nobly entertained : the 
 fixteenth day as we were at dinner, there came a mtgh- 
 tie clap of thunder and lightning, which burnt downe 
 three houfes prelently, being not above an English 
 mile of, otitheother fide of the water, and fuch ac- 
 cidents happen here often 5 by reafon all their honfes 
 be covered with thin boord, in themanner of tile $ 
 and about foure of the clocke in the after noone, his 
 Excellence had audience the third time,and we all in- 
 vited toz BrftO) by theEmprefles command, to the 
 Count Slavataes, who is Chancellour of Prague, where 
 
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 ali the Ladies afiembled, and there (pent the time in 
 dancing : in Moravia not farre from this place, there 
 was a Baron whofe name was Rabell s having, a wife, 
 which couple had beene married fortie yeeres toge- 
 ther^ and had many children,and when he waseightie 
 two yeeres old, and his wife feventie five, fhe concei- 
 ved and brought him forth two children ata birth, a 
 funne and a daughter, which children lived a yeere 
 and died, and then prefently after their parents both 
 died, and was buried i n S. Michaels Church, a Church 
 of the Dominicans in Brme, a towne in Moravia : this 
 ftorie was related to us by a Prieft of the Emprefles 
 for certaine .5 here his Excellence fiayed mrleteene 
 dayes, and all the time at the Eraperours charge, and 
 ferved by his Majcfties fervanrs, in as much Bate as he 
 himfelfe^ at the firft courfe the Drums beat up, and 
 at the fecond, raufike with voyces. 
 
 F rom hence we tookeboat for Vienna, the three and 
 twentieth day of Iune, palling downe the fwift river 
 Danubj 3 neere the Church called Ering, wherein the 
 Boores aftembled andchofe that Prieft, who was ta- 
 ken and executed as afore-mentioned, foby a faire ca- 
 ttle called Spittllarfyfivhere the Duke ofBavaria makes 
 his Toll-place feated on the left fide of the ri ver, then 
 by Markhwfen on the fame fide, by Wakig a faire ca- 
 ttle feated on the other fide on a high hill, and the 
 towne at the foot a little beyond, fo by another faire 
 caftle called Crajne, feated on a high roeke clofe by the 
 Danubh on the left fide, the towne at the foot of it, 
 both belonging to the Count Megaw : then thorow a 
 place in the water called the Stridden, where k run- 
 neth very fwift, with a great fall amongft the rockes. 
 
bj 7»a y of four nail, (yc. 1 1 
 
 and dangerous to pafle, haVingno more /pace than the 
 bveadrh o/ aboat, whichific touchetfy brjrakes into 
 many peeccs, and over this place on a hi^h rocke, is a 
 CrolFe ft: tup, having paft this danger, juft , by on the 
 left fide of the River is an old Chappell called S. Nicfr 
 lasy out of u hich came 'two men with hispi&ure in a 
 box, to rea. we an accuftomed reward dtie from thole 
 which palfe by lafe ; from, hence by a faire cable cal- 
 led Bejinboe, feated on the fame fide on a rocke,and by 
 fetyem on the lame fide, then by tfed0kfozfk\e feated 
 on a rockeon the left fide, witb a village beneath it, 
 foby a caftle and monafterre encircled with a wall, # 
 feated on a verie high rocke called and the 
 towne at the foot of the rocke along by the Damb j on 
 the right fide, part of it burntby an accident when 
 the King of Hungary was in it, and by Sable caftle on a 
 high rocke on the fame fide, with a faire banquetting 
 houfe, which be longeth fo the Grave Sturbutz 5 and 
 a little further on the fame fide, is another banquet- 
 ting-houfe, called the Devils banquetting-houfe, by 
 reafon of many apparitions there leene. Then to a 
 little poore E)orp called ^fpagb on the left fide of 
 the Danuby , where wee went a (hare and lay that 
 night. 
 
 Earely the next morning , being the foure and 
 twentieth day, we went up theriver by a caftlecalled 
 the Spitz, feated on the fame fide, lo by Stinnglhim, a 
 faire towne on a rocke adjoyning to the river on the 
 lame fide, with a ruinated caftle over the towne on a 
 hill, with rocks on both fides, which are the Grave > 
 
 V mSeldingz: then by another faire towne feated on 
 the lame fide called Stm 3 from which there ftandeth a 
 
 & 3 bridge 
 
1 1 dJ %e l at ton 
 
 bridge over the Damtbj made of rafts, having thirtie 
 f!*veu arches, under which wee pafled, andac the end 
 of it, oppofite to the towne is a monafterie with ma- 
 ny faire houfo belonging to i t, and behinde this is an- 
 other (lately built monafterie, called Kitm , feared oq 
 a hill : fromchisan Engiitf) mile diftance, with a de* 
 lightfuUprofpea , juft by are two other faire towne?, 
 the one Crcmpz., and the other ^/^//,(eated both on 
 the left fide of the Dannby in a plaine, which rfiree 
 townes are within the compafle of an Englifh mile- 
 then by Tolnic a towne on the other fide, which is the 
 oldeft towne in all the Empire, againft which wee lay 
 awhile and dined on fhip-boord: after dinner wee 
 entred into lower Auftria, and went by qn old caftle 
 called Grtffopftam , feared on a rocke on the fame fide, 
 in which all Priefts that offend are imprifoned and 
 tried. 
 
 Then a Dutch mile further, on the left fide, the 
 Damtbiits runneth out to a faire ToWne called Corny- 
 brought jfeated an Englifti mile off m a Plaine with 
 faire Monafteries therein, then on the other fide of 
 the river is Cloyfternybrough, full of Cloy ftefs and Mo- 
 nafteries^ fo by Nuftorffe on the fame fide, from 
 whence we difcoveredtffem^ (eared in a Plaine, then 
 left the which divides its feife intofeverall bran- 
 
 ches and meet beyond the Towne, and run thorow 
 Hmgary into the blacke Sea, and went up in an arme 
 of it to theCicie, where wee landed, feated on the 
 right fide of the Dam, which is very well fortified 
 round the wals, befides a compleat Regiment of 1500 
 mesial wayes ready in armes, part watching at everie 
 gate, fame about the Emperours palace, others about 
 
 the 
 
f 
 
 by may of fournaU, (?c. 
 
 
 the place where the Iewes keep their fhops in the Ci- 
 tie 5 for they are hoc fuffered to lye in the Towne a 
 night, but conftrained to keepe within a place on the 
 other fide of the River oppofice ip the Citie, which 
 they have built-, andiscalled the Iewes Burg$ for if 
 any one be found all night in the Towne, he is mifera- 
 bly punifbed, if not put to death : there are likewife 
 7000 Burgers in the dtie, which are to be in armcsac 
 an houres warning. 
 
 The next day being Sunday, his Excellencehad au- 
 dience of the Queene of Hungary and the Arch-Duke 
 Leopold™, the Emperours fecond fonne, being the 26. 
 day, and nothing wee faw note- worthy at his palace, 
 but a fpacious Court-yard : the next day againe his 
 Excellence went to fee the Dukes lodging, where we 
 fawonely a few pi&ures •, from hence he went to fe- 
 verall houfes of the Iefuites 5 the firft was a Univerfity, 
 where was prefen ted to his Excellence a kinde of Co- 
 medy by young Schollers in masking attire,and one of 
 the houfe playing on an inftrument like a Virginal!, 
 feverall kindes of mufieke * after that, a banquet 
 brought in by the A&ors; this ended, we went to the 
 fecond houfe called the Probation- houfe,where none 
 bur young men are, about fifcie in number, there to 
 be tried whether they may bee made capable of holy 
 orders : thence to the third houfe, called the Profeft- 
 houfe, where none but the ancient Fathers are, where 
 as foon as his Excellence enrred,an oration was made 
 to him by one of thechiefe,8c after viewed the houfe 
 and Church, in which there was an hymne fungby 
 their beft fingers, with very fweet rnuficke, and they 
 have an organ of five thoufand pipes. From hence 
 
 wee 
 
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 wee Returned hgme.to our lodgings where there 
 came- prefencly after the Priflceof Ducardm tomtit 
 his Excellence, 
 
 J he eight atid twentieth day his Excellence went 
 to fee a garden of the Emperours about a Dutch mile 
 off. called Nigebath, upon which place the Turke once 
 intrenched himfelfe, when hee would have taken Vi* 
 enm } and was then twrt hundred thoufind men ftrong 
 in the Emperour Rodolphus his time, and after they 
 were driven out of the countrey, the Emperour built 
 thison their works for a memorial^ the garden is al- 
 mo(ifoure*fquare, encircled with a ftrong (lone wall, 
 andat every corner a faire Tower, and in the middle 
 two, withthree partitions in evcrie one, -and the cops 
 covered wichbraffe, round within the wall is a walks 
 for two to goe a brefl,covered with brafle, and under- 
 fct thicke with pillars of flpne: then returned wee to 
 another very lately large garden of the Empreffes 
 neere unto the citie, called her Favorita^ having feve- 
 rall finall gardens adjoining to it and a faire houfe : 
 the. next day his Excellence went to fee the Queene 
 againe, and the two Princes her Sonne and Daughter, 
 here we (laid a weeke, and departed the firil of luly 
 by waggons fox Prague, palling firfl over three long 
 bridges handing over feverall branches of theD**#- 
 bms : fb by the wals of Cornyburgh the town e afore-, 
 mentioned, to Stackay a poore village where wee di- 
 Holtbmm. ned, after dinner by Kilderfdorf to Hokbrum a poore 
 village, where wee lay all night on the draw, having 
 travelled feven Dutch miles, and every Dutch mile 
 isfoure Englifh, where fix and twentie houfeswere 
 burntthat day fortnight wee came, by thunder and 
 
 lightning. 
 
by way of Journal!, &c. j 5 
 
 lightning# the next day early from hence palling tfoo- 
 row plaines and corne-fields which were a reaping, 
 we came to Kadordorp, where Moravia begins in a great 
 plaine, where two ftones are fet in the ground,, divi- 
 ding Lower Auflria and Moravia , then pafl we thorow 
 Colendor^ the firft towne in Moravia, and by a Crofle 
 (landing in a plaine not neere any towne, with many 
 graves about it, then to Smmh a prettie towne where Smmb . 
 we dined, having part that fore-noone in danger neere 
 a great company of Crabats, who were thereabouts,, 
 who frighted the towne: for when his Excellencies 
 Harbenger entred the gates an houre before us, they 
 were all (hutting up of their (hops., and running out 
 to defend the towne. After dinner thorow moft 
 plaines and corne fields which were a reaping, untill Bodtmch. 
 wee came at Bodtmch , a poore village, where wee lay 
 on the plancher, and travelled that day (even Dutch 
 miles. 
 
 The next day being Sunday, and the third of Iuly, 
 we flayed there untill dinner , and thence thorow 
 part of a wood called Hertz-waldt ^ on a caufey two En- 
 glifh miles long, the wood being three hundred miles 
 in length (as we were credibly informed') palling tho- 
 row we (aw (everall fires in it , & many ftrange things 
 are likewife feene, *nd foby Bcmet*, , a little towne at 
 the end of the wood, to Iglo 0 a beautifull built towne 
 feared on a little hill, where we lay that night, having jr^. 
 gone foure Dntch miles and anhalfe. Earely the next 
 morning from thence paffingovera River at the end 
 i of the towne, which parteth Moravia and Bohemia , and 
 then thorow sticker rhc firft towne in Bohemia , to tho- 
 row Haibeireitz a village, in which an Oaft killed at fe- 
 
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 vmll tihaes of h&gnefts ffinetie men, and made meat 
 of them loco Djtckbrade a towne where wee dined, 
 and then departed, parting thorow a plaine wooddie 
 countrey to Holebrum where we lay that night on the 
 plancher, whfch was amort: fearefull night of thunder 
 and lightning, having travelled feven Dutch miles. 
 
 The next morning wee departed, and went tho- 
 row a wooddie countrey againe, and thorow a towne 
 Shasfiaw. called shasfhaw where in the ftreet we parted thorow, 
 liech buried the body of one lohn Ztik** who made 
 war again® the Emperour Kodolphus^n the defence of 
 bis deere friend lohn Hus , who died a Martyr: this 
 lohn Ziskp in all his wars wa$ a vi&cr, and when hee 
 was biinde defired to bee Carried up and downe the 
 wars,and arhis death commanded that a Drum might 
 be made of his -kin, which was do he, and wherelb- 
 ever that was, they fibdued like wile * then byafilver 
 Mine of the King of Hmgarks> which was by the way 
 fide on a litcle hill* into which wee entredtofee their, 
 works, theoare being two hundred and fiftiefkhom 
 deepe, and behind*? this place is a citie callad Cetten - 
 burgh, whkh wee left two Englifh miles of omr left 
 hand, and thence to Cokn two Englifh mites off like- 
 wife where we dined • about part of .the towne runs 
 the River Elk: after dinner we part: thorow a plaine 
 Bm'ikbrade. colln tre ) 7 ro ^m/hbrade^'w here wee lay on the pkn- 
 cher againe, having travelled 'eight Dutch miles, 
 which hath beene a faire built towne, and very plea- 
 fan tly feated, but now burnt almoft downe by a Car- 
 penter, when the Emperour was in if, and fince been 
 pillaged twto, by the Svvedilhjand che Duke of 5^- 
 vam his forces. 
 
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by way of IdurnaU, &c. ty 
 
 The next morning earely, being the fixth of Iuly, 
 from thence to Prague to dinner, being five Dutch Prague . 
 miles, pafling firft thorow very pleafant plaines and 
 meddowes,vntill we came neere the citie,which is en- 
 compaffed on both (ides with rocks and fails, all plan - 
 ted with vines, having three townes belonging to it, 
 Uwftadt, Oldfladt, and the Slopadt $ at Newftadt wee 
 entred in at a faire gate, pafling thorow into Vldftadt , 
 to his Excellencies lodging, which (aid Stadt Is inha- 
 bited chiefly by Iewes, who have there foure Syna- 
 gogues, and in one Ifawtherea Rabbi circumcife a 
 child, here we were told that all their fruits in the fur- 
 ther parts of the countrey were fpoykd, as corne, 
 vineyards, and the like, by the aforefald thunder and 
 lightning, wirh haileftones as big as ones fift, and alfo 
 divers cattell were then loft : betweene this and the 
 slofladt runneth a pleafant river called the Muldovc ^ and 
 over it ftandeth a faire Bridge of ftotie, as long as Lon+ 
 don Bridge, over which his Excellence patted, going 
 to view the Caftle, being a ftately large built Fort, 
 feated on a high hill within the Slofidt.c ailed Ketfihm, 
 in which the King of Bohemia lived a firft wee paffed 
 thorow three faire Court-yards, bav'ng at one of the 
 gates a guard of Souldiers,in which Court-yard there 
 isaftatue of S. George on horfe-backe in braffe, and a 
 fountaine 0 then entred we into a fpacious hall, having 
 many faire fjiops in it like unto Weftminfter, but that 
 their Courts ofludicature are in other roomes by it : 
 from hence wee went up and paffed thorow many 
 faire roomes well bung, and pi&ures in them, and one 
 roome furnifhed with Englifh pi&ures of our Nobili- 
 tie, which the King of Bohemia was forced to leave, 
 
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 palling thus untill wee came at one roome two ftories 
 high, which was their Councell-chamber, where the 
 Bohmm being fat at Councell, and three of the Em- 
 perours Couucell With them, there rofe a mutiny, in- 
 fomuch that they threw them three out on the 
 ground, which was fiftie five foot high, and {hot pi- 
 ftols after them, yet none of them killed, andtwoof 
 them ftill alive, and upon that ground they fell on, are 
 fetfet up three gilt erodes : then went wedowne in- 
 to a ffoteiy lower roome, which ufed tobee their ma£ 
 king roome, upholden with feverall faire pillars, in the 
 middle, and ftatues of braffe placed by them 5 by the 
 wals hang pi&ures of Indian horfes which were there 
 then } adjoyning to this is a large dining roome, ha- 
 ving a table in \t of Mozaique worke, and muficke 
 within it nor to be difeerned, then at the end of this 
 roome is a little place where choyce armour is, and 
 one Piece which I faw (hot off a bullet, not having any 
 powder in it : then into the Schant-kamber, where the 
 treafurewas, andamoft noble colle&ion of theEm- 
 perour Rodolphus, 
 
 In the firit roome was cup-boords placed in the 
 wals on our right hand} the firft was of corail} the 
 lecond, of Putfiaine} the third, of mother of pearle} 
 the fourth, of curious brafle-plates engraven } the fifth 
 and fixch, Mathematicali Inftruments 5 the feventh, 
 Bafbns, Ewers, and cups of Amber.} the eighth, cups 
 of Aggets, Gold and Chryftall; the ninth of rocks } 
 the tenth, of Mozaique worke in ftone }the eleventh, 
 cups of i vorie, and a great Unicornes borne a yard in 
 length} the twelfth, ofimbofling worke} the thir- 
 teenth, of Braffe piftures} the foureteenth^of antick 
 x things 
 
bj way of Journal! } % ? 
 
 things caft in filver $ the fifteenth, ^abinets of Bohewig 
 Diamonds, and little chefts of Bohrni* pearle^ the 
 fixteenth, things belonging to Aftronomy, the k- 
 venteentn and eighteenth, Indian worke^ the nine- 
 teenths Turkey- worke ^ the twentieth , of a lively 
 ftatueofa woman covered with taffatie. Then in the , 
 middleof theroome are rare clocks of all kinds 5 the 
 fi ft was like a globe with mufike ; thefecond was let 
 routid about the middle with little pillars^ and a bullet 
 runninground in a crefleout and in, and over it hung 
 two little cords* which being puld, wee heard Iwcet 
 mufike, but could not difeerne from whence it was; 
 thethirdhadafaire lively face and hand looking out, 
 and mufike wich voyces finging,not to be di/covered^ 
 the fourth,a clofe clocke,and by it a faire table of Mo- 
 zaiqueworke; the fifth, with foure afeents letleve- 
 rally with pillars, and a bullet running round in a 
 crefeupco the top, playing with mufike^ thefixth, 
 like the top of a globe, the gold coloured like a green 
 field , and a Bucke running round in and out, and 
 hounds after making a noyfe,an4 beneath mufike.and 
 Anticks, dancing in a round within it • the feventh ,a 
 docke with a globe : by the wals on the other fide an- 
 ticke things fet up, and pi&ures, together with a fteele 
 chaire very curioufly wrought and cut thorow. Then 
 ' entred wee into another little clofet, whereiil^ were 
 more cabbins placed in the wals on thefircne fide, of 
 prefents lent to the Emperour, as gilt helmets and 
 head-peeces, and ftatues. 
 
 In the third roome, foure cup-boords in the wals 
 fullofrarepi$ures, and in the middle of the roome 
 anticke things, as a Bore rough caft to the life, and a 
 
 E 3 ftatue 
 
jo <<zA Relation 
 
 ftatue of a ftrong Maid to the life, who went to war 
 and a preffeof ancient bookes. The fourth roome* 
 three cup-boords full of the Anatomies of feveral] 
 rarities, as Cockatrices, and fifhes part refembling 
 men • and the fourth cup-boord of rare great (hels- 
 the fifth, of fine difhes ^ the fixrh,of all kinde of little 
 fhels, and a Libarie, with one mightie great booke in 
 folio, written by a Fryar in a dungeon, who was there 
 put in, upon, fbme hainons offence there to fuffer, and 
 fortie yeeres after difcoveredby fomeFryars going 
 neere, hearing a noyfe, had fearchmade, and found 
 him, whdbrought forth this booke, confiding of the 
 old and new Teftament, and many ftrange hiftories 
 which hee was all that time a writing, and affifted by 
 the Devill(as he conceivedjand fpake very little more 
 before he died. 
 
 Here islikewife all the skins ofthofe Indian horfes 
 whofe pidures hung up in the masking roome : then 
 did wee enter into a brge Church, ftanding neerea- 
 bout the middle oftheCaftle, where about the Quire 
 are cut in wood many fine thins:?, and a tombe of the 
 Queenes Confeflonr, called Ioha».Nepomm>j,who was 
 miferably tortured by Wtneeflam the fourrh King of 
 Bohemia, to revealeher Majefties confeffion, and at 
 Iaft put to death by him, ArntoDm. 1383, from hence 
 his Excellence went to view a garden behind the ca- 
 lf le within rhe wall, where wee went in a waike cove- 
 red arbour-like, halfe an Englilh mile long, untill we 
 i-dine ar a if atefy old building, with walkes round the 
 houie, andiet thicke with pillars and likewife on the 
 topofthehoufe, with a delightfull profpeiS over all 
 the C! tie, and then his Excellence returned backe to 
 
 the 
 
by v>a? of fournall, &c. 3 j 
 
 the Keepers houfe, and there dined, having fent pro- 
 Vifion before : dinner being paft,his Excellencie went 
 to fee a Partce two Englifh miles off the Citie,in which 
 there is a Friarie of white Friars, who were leaping 
 then in the Parke, as wee paffed by to fee a great bead 
 called taBuffule, which is kept there, and then retur- 
 ned home by Wallenftdws new houfe, into which his 
 ' Excellencie entred to view ir, firft palling thorow a 
 large hall of eight and thirtie paqes, or more in length, 
 and one and twentie in breadth, we went up thorow 
 galleries having pi& tires hung up , and painted on the 
 wals with ftories of Hercules ^ above head divers (lories 
 of ovids, then to the Audience-roome , where the 
 foure elements are in the middle above head,and tfoo- 
 row other faire chambers * then downe into the gar- 
 den, where there are fivefountaines, and great figures 
 of brafie placed on them, and on the great fountame 
 Neptune^ with foure Nymphs above him, and a faire 
 Grott- houfe the waters run not $ then into the lia- 
 
 ble, being curiouhy Mh,whe?e fix and twentie hor- 
 (es may hand , the pillars and manger au’l ef red mar- 
 ble, and thirtie eight in number^ and each pillar coft 
 twentie five pounds, there are foure Court-yards 
 which encompaffeth the houfe , which is now the 
 King of Hungariet. 
 
 This Wallenfteim was foie Commander of the Em- 
 pire, under the Emperour, and grew fo great, which 
 caufed his Majeftie to be jealous of him, as be had juft 
 caufe confidering his plots which hee had laid againft 
 the Crowne$ but to prevent the word: ^privately 
 tooke order with fome of his Irifh Captaines, who 
 were appointed to keepe watch of him that night, to 
 
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 cut him off; which was effe&edin the evening, prefc 
 ting on the fudcfen into his chamber found him oneiy 
 m his fhirtj and laid, Live F erditi&ndo 3 but dye tmytout 
 mlktiflem $ atwhich he opened his armes and cried, 
 Oh my God , embracing the ftabs of the halberds, which 
 done, they cut off his head, and prefently poftedto 
 theEmperour with it, who gave them great rewards, 
 and they (till continue much in his favour. 
 
 The next day his Excellence was invited to a play 
 at the Iefuites College, where the Senior of the houfe 
 is anlrilh man, and there entertained Prince-like* 
 firft, an oration by a young Scholier , then palling 
 downeby a Guard of Souldiers, who difeharged their 
 muskets : his Excellence being paft to the roome 
 where the Comedy wasafced, which aftion did pleafe 
 exceedingly, not oneiy in refpeft of fubftance, but 
 alio for the goodnefle of rheaftion and feverall ha- 
 bits, in number more than fiftie, the chiefe part were 
 young Scholkrs, and divers of them Barons Ions, and 
 being ended, defi red to kifle his Excellencies hand 
 kneeling, in teftimony of his approbation. And here 
 is the argument annexed in the page following. 
 
bj Mj. of IournaU } (?c. ^ 
 
 ■rSt* 
 
 Pax in eAnglia, diu exul in Cjerma - 
 
 niam poftliminio rcdicura. 
 
 Drama, 
 
 Cum lllujirifyntes & ExceUentipmt Thomas Howar- 
 dus, Arundellia* & Sarrise Comes , & Poteniijsimi 
 Carols Uagm Britannia: Regis ad Auguflipmum impe- 
 ratorem Ferdinandum Jecundum > & Imperii Principes 
 L egatus Extraordwams^ Collegium Societat is lefts in- 
 viferit, a Collegiiftudiojts datum Praga?, 1 636, ' 
 Prologus. 
 
 r Mercian \ famulus in theatro apparando occHpaturjn par - 
 wt pueros inddit Regis Anglic Legatum v'tdere cupidos : 
 negat ex theatro jpeffaripoffe nifi advent um eigratulentur y 
 cum Latine per Statens tenellm non po ftint 0 diver fo Idioma- 
 te vernaculo id pr reflect. ' , 
 
 Pars prima. 
 
 Scena prima. 
 
 ^ j 
 
 Scena fecunda. • 
 
 A fir a' a apud Iovem Deofque de mortalium fctleribus 
 qutritnr . Iupiter auditjs fenpentiis , orhem Marti, Vulca- 
 noque puniendum tradit . 
 
 Scena certia. 
 
 Pax defolata quarit locum ubi Mart is furdrem decli- 
 nes ^ Meptaaus in Angliam marina choncha earn vehit , 
 
 F Scena 
 
34 . <i 4 'Relation 
 
 Scena quarra. 
 
 Mars ghbnm terra in v rm partes dwidk } <£• Bellonse 
 fttrori catcrif jn^eclis diftribnit* 
 
 sm'me 
 
 s*aa 
 
 Parsfecunda. 
 
 Scena priroa. 
 
 Ceres, Apollo, & Bacchus dcplorant apui lovem, 
 illamqnam a Marre patiuntur ealamtatem: lupicer ad 
 Nepcunum eos deftinat. 
 
 Scena (ecunda. 
 
 Neptunus/e Carolo Britannia zRegi marts imperium 
 commijtjfi nunciat , ilium adeant pro pace orbi reddenda • 
 Scena tertia. 
 
 Mercurius bene fperare Cererem c^Phoebum jabet> 
 Carolum Regem Pacem brevi reduUurum per Legatum 
 Howardum Arundellise Comitem : vriflinit Jedibus fe 
 reftituendam Pax ajferit : gratulantur fibi omms i & Ho- 
 wardo applaudunu 
 
 Epilogus 
 
 Ad Gentilkia Howardicae Familia Symbol a alludem 
 fielicia omnia Legato & apprecatur & ominatur , & eum 
 ®eneratut,fvo& omnium nomine gr atlas agit. 
 
 plaudite* 
 
b y way of lournall, (?c. y> 
 
 Teace is ^England, which baying beene 
 a long while exiled , and giyen oyer as gone , it , 
 now about to return into Germany. 
 
 A Mefqae 
 
 When the moft Illuftrious and mod Excellent, The- 
 met Howard Eaile of Arnndell and Surrey, Extraor- 
 dinatie Ambaffadour from his Puiffant Majeftie of 
 Great BriUine, to the moft Augnft Emperour Fer- 
 dinand the Second, and to the reft of the Ponces 
 of Germany i came to vifit the Iefintes College, 
 prefentedby the Students at Prague, 1636. 
 
 1 7 he Vruloguc-J. 
 
 Mercurkt fervant imployed about making ready of 
 the Theatre, fate upon little children, who would 
 fame* fee the Ambaffadour of the King of England: 
 he tels them that they cannot fee him in the Theatre, 
 nnleffe they will congratulate his cotnmmg : whom 
 when by reafon of their tender age they cannot falute 
 in Latine, they doe performe it in their native lan- 
 guage in a differing Idiome. 
 
 fhefirfl ?4rt. 
 
 rkfirfisem. 
 
 Uercnri entertaines the Gods and Goddefles with 
 their feverall attendants, in a proper habit, commmg 
 to Goancell, and appoints to every one their places. 
 
zA Relation 
 
 1 
 
 The fecond Scene. 
 
 Aftraa eomplaines to lupiter and the reft of the Gods 
 of the crimes of men. Jupiter having heard their opi- 
 nioms.dejivers over the world to be punifhed by Mm 
 and Vulcan. 
 
 The third Scene . 
 
 Peace now forlorne feeks out for a place where flie 
 may fecure herfelfe from the fury of Mari, Neptune 
 carries her over into England in a fea-fbelJ. 
 
 The fourth Scene, 
 
 Mars divides the globe of the earth into divers 
 parts, and diftributes them to th« furie of Bellona and 
 his other agents. 
 
 Thefecosd Part . 
 
 m Scene . 
 
 Certs, Apollo 0 and Bacchus bewaile before lupiter the 
 calamkie which they faffer from Mars : lupiter fends 
 them unto Neptune, 
 
 The fecond Scene. 
 
 Neptune te Is them that hee hath committed the Im- 
 perial! government of the fea to Charles King of Great 
 Britaine 3 and that they muff make fuit to him to re- 
 ft ore peace unto the world . 
 
 The third Scene. 
 
 Mercury bids Ceres and Apollo to be of good cheere, 
 and wils them not to doubtjbut that King ehurJsfwill 
 Shortly by his^AmbalTadour Homrd Earleof Arundle> 
 reduce Peace. Peace affirmeth that Ih&e fbali be rcfto- 
 
 . . red 
 
bj my offournaU, <&c. 57 
 
 red to her former dwelling$,they doe all gratqlate one 
 another, and give their acclamations to Howard, 
 
 The Epilogue 
 
 Alluding to the Armes of the Houfe of the Ho . 
 wards > both wifh and prefage ail happineffe to the 
 Ambafiadour, and having made obeyfance to him, 
 give him thanks for himfeife, and for all the reft. 
 
 Here we Hayed (even dayes, and departed the thir- 
 teenth of July for Rgge&fpttrg by waggons, over the 
 plaine where the great battell was fought, betweene 
 the Emperour and the King of ^e^/^hot above two 
 Englifo miles from the citie, there wee did obferve 
 many places in the ground, wherein the dead bodies 
 were put, and a great compahy of bones lying by on a 
 were ilaine in ail on both fides abdut 
 thirtie thou/and : from thence thorow a plaine come 
 countrey, to a little towne three Dutch miles from 
 Prague, called Beroum, where wee lay, which towne 
 hath beene burnt by thr®dS« : <# SaM fiKlfe. 
 1 he next morning earely wee went thofow plaine 
 corne- fields 2 nd meddowes, until! wetaiae tp Mattib, 
 a poore village where we dined : from thence choroyv 
 wooefe, and by poore villages burnt 7 to a pretcie 
 towne called Pilfers, where we lay that night, having 
 travelled feven Dutch miles, ft is feared in a plaine, 
 
 F 3 with 
 
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 with three little rivers running by ir, as Aiifen, Glatm 
 and P*/(*/*, taking the name from the towne. 
 
 The next morning thorow a wooddie cduntrey 
 and corne-fields to Swabexo dinner 3 after dinner to 
 Bijhoffteine. BiJhojfteimtobed, having this day travelled butfoure 
 Dutch miles, in which the Count Dorfmjtaff hath a 
 little caftie pleafantly feared, and the river igm run- 
 ning about part of it, the towne was never pillaged as 
 yet. Earely the next morning from thence palling 
 thorow a very ftony hill, and a wood foure Englilh 
 miles in length, called Bemer-mldt 9 wherein about the 
 middeft there is a s charts 9 in which Count Mansfelt and 
 his Armie lay two moneth$,at which Sc ham the upper 
 Palatinate begins. Then to Waldminikgn^ little towne 
 to dinner, the firft in the upper Palatinate 3 and the 
 Oaft of the houfe did ferve Count Mans felt as Anci- 
 ent at that time: after dinner thorow a wooddie 
 poore countreytotfo/te a little towne where we lay 
 that night, having travelled fix Dutch miles. 
 
 The feventeenth day being Sunday,early we depar- 
 ted, paffing thorow great woods, in danger of the 
 Crabats lying thereabouts, and carried out of our 
 way by by chance through an ignorant guide, until! 
 t we came toBruke s a towne miferably ruinated, feated 
 pleafantly in a plain e , where there was not above 
 foure poore houfholds remaining : not long fince it 
 was in great prolperitie 3 for when wee were a little 
 paft the towne, there was a gallowesand Icaffoldby 
 the way, whereon the Burgers of the towne lufFered, 
 and many hanging Bill, who were Lutherans: then to 
 a towne called Nettenov to dinner, and from thence 
 after dinner to Regenfpurg , having travelled fe- 
 
 ven 
 

 by w? offournall, &c. 39 
 
 vcn Dutch miles this day, parting firft thorow many 
 pleafant places of landskips, and over rbe river Regeo, 
 
 (which runneth into the Danuby juft by the citie) paf- 
 ling over on rafters, the bridge being beaten downe 
 then with the other form°r batteries : between Vienna 
 and this place, are many faire built townes promifing. 
 much, by reafonof their feverall Piazza's, or Market- 
 places 9 and Fouwaines, with other fiich expredions, 
 but entring the houfes, fcarie finde men, lodging, or 
 people of underftanding to exchange difiourfe with. 
 
 The next day after his Excellence came hither, the 
 Ambafladour of the Eleftor of Brandenburg vifited 
 him; and the day after his Excellence vifited him a- 
 gaine ; here his Excellence (fayed but foure dayes, 
 becaufe the Emperour was not come, and departed 
 for Augufta, on Thurfday the one and twentieth of 
 Iuly, and dined that day at Sail -, - a fmall towne on the 
 Danuby, thence thorow Bavaria to Augsburg , a verie 
 fine towne (landing on the river Volga, which a little 
 before fals into the Danuby, and thence that night to 
 UJftadt, a faire towne ten miles from Regenfpurg , 
 where his Excellence lay that night. 
 
 Next day earelv parting thorow a fine wooddie 
 countrey to Bezanzon, where my Lady Abbefie gaVe 
 his Excellence a banquet, from thence after, dinner to 
 Palermo , a (lately towne, and there lay that night, ha- 
 ving, crave lied feven Dutch miles. Satturday being Palermo* 
 the three and twentieth of July, we departed for An- 
 gufla , parting thorow part of T troll co Mumantia^ burnt 
 fbme two yeeTes fince by Generali Cleandor , one of the 
 King of Sweden* Colonels; and from thence to Dole , 
 
 which hath been a verie pleafant fituated towne, (lan- 
 ding 
 
4 ° Relation 
 
 dkigon the brow of a hill, from whence at the di- 
 fhnceof three Englifh miles we beheld Augvfta, which 
 towne of Dole was alio with Bezznzw burnt by Colo- 
 nel! chattdor two yeeres fince, palling thorow this 
 towne, we defcended into a goodly valley, but ere we 
 Rat into it, wentover .a (trail arme of rheriver tanais 
 (which encompafieth Augupa on the Weft, as the ri- 
 ver Vittlilicontm doth on the Eaft) palling this valley 
 which is the more famous, in refpe& at the upper end 
 of it was fought the great battell of Plwfalia, between 
 Powpcy SciulwCtfar, from whence it takes the name 
 of the Plaine of vhdrfadto: drawing neere Auguji^ we 
 palled over five bridges ftanding over the fiver vindi- 
 licomm,, , which is divided into fo mfany branches fo 
 running with fo many Bulwarks : the river water is of 
 an excellent greene colour, which is caufod (as they 
 fay) running out of Copperas mines, which are in 
 the mounyaines of Dalmatia^ from whence it (brings, 
 raking its name from Vindix a famous Captaine, who 
 firft rebelled againft'Nm?, palling over allthefe brid- 
 ges, we entred the outer towne, which is well built, 
 and fo in at a broad port thorow the high ftreet to his 
 Excellenceslodging. that day and the next was (pent 
 in feeing pi&ures : Munday being the five and twen- 
 tieth day, his Excellence went to foe the Stadt-houfo 
 Firft youmtift underftand it to bee afquare pile, of 
 at lead one hundred foot (qua re $ in the middeft a- 
 gainftthe (freer, yee enter by a large paire of (hires 
 of thir^eene fteps, into a ftarely lower foome ftippor- 
 ted by twelve Calcidonian pillars, oppofifero Which 
 agarrtft the wals ftand the images of the firft C£- 
 w bich becatife they were written under, 
 
 we 
 
of four nail, &c. 41 
 
 I will mention asfirft, Augustus the City Foun- 
 der, from whence it takes the name, then Tiberu 
 us, 7S[ero , Sergius , Andronicus , c Meleager , The - 
 mtftocUs , Lyfimachus, Orion , Phoebus , Enobarbus, and 
 Barbarojfa, over it in another roome which to come 
 to, wee pafled up fixe and thirty ftaires which" as 
 the other was fupported by twelve Pillars of Co- 
 rinthian worke and Jafper ftone , in which is pain- 
 ted to the life ( which they fay , was done by 
 impedes and UUichad Angelo, the one themafter 
 the other the man ) are the Images of Lycurgw, 
 Zeno, AriHocrates, {Aristides, Agathocles, P hod- 
 on, Anaxagoras , the firft Triumvirat of Rome, 
 thence by thirty fteppes more into the State- houfe 
 it felfe, which is a moft curious peece of Worke, 
 without Pillers , peeced with Onyx and Smarage , 
 two excellent kindcs of CMarble, found in the 7V- 
 neriffe a mountaine of T troll, it is about the Walles 
 painted with the Stories of all the gods, painted 
 by Raphael Urbine, fbme twelve yeeres fince , a - 
 gainft this State-houfe ftands a goodly Fountaine 
 in the middle on a Pedaftall of Braflfe , the Statue 
 o£ Augustus environed with all the gods and god- 
 defles to the number of forty in Brafie in Polonian 
 Caflbckes and Turkijh Scymiters by their fides 3 in 
 themiddeft of the high ftreet is another of c Met* 
 curie , and at the farther end Hercules in a Lions 
 skinne killing of Hydra with his feventy heads all 
 inBraffe, which as foone as he ftrikes off one hea<j 9 
 two arifeth in the place, there are befideS in this 
 ToWfle many other rare things, as an Arfcnall brave 
 
 G Mona- 
 
4-Z <id 'Relation by Way 
 
 MonafieriesFuggerhoufe, water workcs mod in- 
 numerable and admirable rare and curious buil- 
 dings and what not to delight the eye,heere his Ex- 
 cellency ftaied a weeke. And thence on Sunday, 
 hearing the Emperour was a comming to Regen- 
 jp ur g» departed that day being the one and thir- 
 ty of luly another way for Regetifpurg through the 
 Mountaincs of TiroR to ^Qbnrg, where wee lay 
 being feven Dutch miles ; a (lately Towne from 
 whence the Duke of Hiburg takes his name , it 
 (lands on a fmall River BeriBines which is of a 
 blacke colour, as riling out from the cole Mines 
 Of Eftrm, t 
 
 The next day through Swaben and tolngolBate 
 the ftrongeft Towne in all CMefia, which is apart 
 of Bavaria, which Towne kept out the King of Swe- 
 den and killed his Horfe under him, whofe skinne is 
 preferved (lill for a Relique in the Arfenall, ir is 
 the ftronger having the Danu and a large Plaine on 
 the South , and the fwifc River Rhodamu on the 
 North, which not above a mile before falles into 
 the Dam. 
 
 The next day which was the third tA%AuguB 
 his Excellency tooke Boateand that night arrived 
 at Regenfparg, palling firft by many fmall places not 
 worth the naming except Rekin, a great Towne 
 which had anciently beene a Colony De Corvb* 
 mu, the Dilators, as it is (aid. The Emperours 
 comming to Towne wasin this manner: when he 
 entered thefitR Gate of the City , twelve of the 
 Magiftratcs, Handing there, made a long Orati- 
 
o/foumaBj&c. 45 
 
 on to hisMajefty after their duty done, then paft 
 through a round where Muficke and voy ces were, 
 ' and a Canopic borne by fixe men having his Maje- 
 fties Armes thereon, parting thus along the Streets 
 through feven hundred Souldiers placed in order 
 
 and his owne Guard of an hundred men about his 
 
 Coach , the Emprefle being with him, and after 
 his Coach were an hundred Horfemen, with Ca- 
 rabines and PiftoUj who aiwayes guard his Per- 
 fon, called Harjhers, clothed alike, then followed 
 the Archdutchefle, in her Coach, and ail the reft in 
 their degrees, until! they came at the great C hurch, 
 where his Majefty alighted and went in, where 
 the Bifhoppe of the City met him at the entei 
 ranee , being clothed in his robes, with his Mi- 
 ter Cope and Croyfers Staffe, burnt incenfe to 
 them, being upon their knees, after went up to 
 the high Altar , and there heard Te Deum fung 
 with Drummesand Trumpets, this ended, re- 
 cyred into his Pallas which doth adjoyne tothe 
 
 Church. .. r 
 
 The fifth day his Excellency had audience or 
 the Emperonr and Empereffe, the next day Condi 
 iOnuto the Spanifh Ambafladour Extraordinary 
 vifitedhis Excellency guarded by twelve Polakes 
 having Carabines on their fhoulders and fablesby 
 their fides, whofe fonne is now Ambafladour Ex- 
 traordinary in England. . * 
 
 The nineth day his Excellence vifited him, 
 the fame day the Duke of Bdvaria came, and ms 
 Dutchefle, being bigge with chUdc, was brought 
 
 G 2 m 
 
44 ^ 'Relation by my 
 
 in her chaire from the waters fide, attended with 
 eight hundred thirty and feven perfons, and fe- 
 ven hundred fixty and foure horfes, and have ta- 
 ken five hundred quarters for them heerc in the 
 Towne. 
 
 The next day being Sunday, the Bifiiop qtMciHz 
 came in the evening with an hundred feventy and 
 nine horfes, and one hundred eighty and five per- 
 fons. ! 
 
 The fixeteenth day*the Poland Ambafladour 
 vifited his Excellency having thirty followers be- 
 ing all clothed in feverall coloured Sattin dublets 
 and red cloth hole with long Poland red coates, 
 rood of woven filke, without fleeves bands or 
 hats, but redde cappes on their heads with a fea- 
 ther like unto a Turkey’s in every one of them, 
 their haire all cut off their heads , but one long 
 locke left on their crowne, and all yellow fliort 
 bootes, nofpurres but iron heele$,and the Ambaf 
 fadour in the fame falhion , and twelve footemen 
 clothed in the fame kinde in a meaner habit, having 
 great Pole-axes in their hands and fables by their 
 fides* 
 
 The eighteenth day- being the Emperours Co- 
 ronation day, his Majeftie went to vifite the Ele- 
 ^or of UMentz, about eight of the clockejin the 
 morning, and all his Nobles and Servants atten- 
 ding on his Perfon going before him afoote by two 
 and two together. 
 
 The fame day alfo as foone as his Majefty de- 
 parted, his Excellency vifited him; and the one and 
 
 twen- 
 
of lournatt \ &c. 45 
 
 twenty «being Sunday the Venetian Ambafiadour 
 vifited his Excellency, and after him the Floren- 
 tine Agent. 
 
 The next day in the afternoone his Excellen- 
 cy was vifited by the Ek&or of Mentz, and the Bi- 
 fliop of Vienna after him, and Marquis Falavicino, 
 
 The five and twenty day in theforenoonethe 
 Holland Ambafiadour vifited his Excellency. 
 
 And the next day the Spantfh Ambafiadour gave 
 his Excellency the fecond vifite, and after him the 
 Count SUvata Chancellour of Fragnc^. 
 
 The eight and twenty day being Sunday in 
 the forenoone, the Emperoiir and Emprefie went 
 todoe homage for peace, accompanied with the 
 Bifhop of Mentz, the Duke of Bavaria, his Dut- 
 chefle, and the Archduchefie her filler, from his 
 Palace to a little old Church in the Towne, going 
 all a foote, and their Nobles and fervants atten- 
 ding in their orders $ firft Bannors, then all the 
 Cavaleers, then fingers, and ail the Priefts with 
 their Orders, and the Bifhop of the Towne in his 
 Church Robes, then the Emperour following, 
 led by the Count Kezell Lord high Chamberlaine, 
 an dDon-Baltazar, a great Commander: theEm- 
 perefie led by Count Slavata and Prince Vie- 
 trthhttain , Lord high Chamberlaine to her Ma- 
 jeftie ^ the Bilhopof Mentz^ht Duke of Bavaria, 
 his Dutchefle, and the Archdutchefie her filler, led 
 by their fervants, and all the Nobles and Ladies 
 following in their degrees : after their devotions 
 ended, returned in the fame manner. 
 
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 The fame day in the afternoon e, his Excellency 
 vifited the Spirit/}) Ambaffadour. 
 
 And the next day the Bifliop of iMttntz, gave his 
 Excellencie the fccond vifite. 
 
 This day after great fearch, were found the loft 
 Bodies of his Excellencies fervant$ 3 the Gentleman 
 ofhishorfe, his Trumpeter, together with their 
 Guide, the Poftmafter : fixe daies after the mur- 
 der committed, being moft barbarouflie flaine 
 and tied to feverail trees in the Wood , the di- 
 fiance of about a Piftols fhot off from the High- 
 way, as it was conceived td bee (pe&ators each 
 one of anothers end, and not foure Engliih miles 
 from aringbnrge, taken as they were returning 
 for Regenjparge, and thus murthered : the head of 
 the Gentleman of the Horfe fhotte thorough with 
 a Piftoll , the Trumpeters head cut off , and the 
 Guides cloven in funder, and the next day after 
 they were found were nobly interred at Ttyr/ng- 
 barge , accompanied with all the Lords and Burgers 
 of the Citie. ' 
 
 The firft of September being Thurfday in the 
 morning, cametheBifhoppeof Fietfnamd Dodor 
 G chard, one of the Emperors Counfel !,and a Clarke 
 of the Counfell, to conferre together about his Ex- 
 cellencies Ambaffagc. 
 
 The fourth day being Sunday, the Emperour, 
 Empereffe, the DucchefTe of Bavaria, and the 
 Archducheffej her lifter, went to the holy Crofle 
 to heare a Vefpcr fung, and the Nobles a- 
 foote by their Coaches 5 the next day about ten 
 
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of Imrnallj&c. 47 
 
 of the clocke in the forenoone all the Electors or 
 their Ambaffadours mette privately at Court, 
 the fame day , the Countefle of TyreonnelL an I* 
 rifli Lady , and Sir Griffin CMarkham an Englifh 
 Gentleman dined with his Excellency, and ma- 
 ny Scotifh and Irilh Colonels hath vifited his 
 Excellencie and dined with him like wife 5 and 
 they fay a great part of the Emperours Army bee 
 our Kings Subieds. 
 
 The next day the Spanijh Ambafladour gave his 
 Excellency the fecond vifir, and after him, the Le- 
 gerof Genoa, ~ 
 
 The eighth day being Thurfday, about eight of 
 the clocke in the morning, all the Eledors or their 
 Ambafladours met in the State-houfe,beingalit~ 
 tie meane houfe where the Magiftratcs of the 
 Towne fit to doe Juftlce, comming in this man- 
 ner; firft the Eledor of Cotten his Ambafladour, 
 the Eledor of Brandebnrgh his Ambafladour , E- 
 ledor of OJ ientz, the Duke of Bavaria, and the 
 Eledor of Saxon his Ambafladour, but the Eledor 
 of Tryer who was taken prifoner by the Spaniard 
 as afore mentioned was not admitted, all in their 
 Coaches, having but few attendants, and fewer 
 fpedators,they being fat,twochaincs were drawne 
 over the Street and guarded that none might pafle 
 neere, having fat two hower$ departed in the fame 
 manner they came, the Eledor of OUontz, is Chaii- 
 cellourof Germanics, the Eledor of Gotten Chan- 
 cellour of Italy, cheKingof Bohemia Cup-bearer of 
 the Empires, the Eledbr Palatine of the Ebines 
 
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 high Shtwv^oiGemam^ the Elcdor of Saxon 
 high Marlhall of the Empire, and the Eledor of 
 Brandcburg high Chamberlaine of the Empire : this 
 day the Emperours propofitions were opened and 
 read to them. 
 
 \h. s ^ ' v ? s s that they fiiouid depofe Tryer from 
 his Ele&orlhip, and eledi Lcopddm his Maiefties fe* 
 cond fonne in his place. 
 
 The fecond, to crowne his fonne King of the 
 Kbmanes,who is now King of Hungary , 
 
 r ra *f c U P ^ orces to clearc the Empire 
 
 . , , lr nemies vvhich detalne and keepe any Impe- 
 rial! Townes. v r 
 
 allSrift°Srin«r ClUde 3 *“* With 
 
 The tenth day, they all fat againe, and in a mea- 
 ner falhion than before. 
 
 The fifteenth day, fatagaine, in the forenoone 
 there was a man beheaded for committing inceft 
 with ms owne daughter,from nine yeeres old until!' 
 this time, (he being now of the age of twelve yeeres, 
 and with childe by him. 
 
 In the afternoone about foure of the clocke, came 
 the Poland AmbafTadour, to vifice his Excellency, 
 being his fecond time. 
 
 c ? e n , exC 1Tl the morning earely, the Duke 
 o Bavaria and his Dutcheffe departed for 
 
 ****** cighteene Dutch miles off, there to re- 
 maine until! fhee bee delivered * in fo meane a 
 
 almon not worthy fo much as to bee named, onely 
 
 
 fhe 
 
fhcc was carled in a Chaire by her Coaches fide. 
 
 The two and twentieth day, the Eltttors ftteggsiine, 
 and due mofi: part oftheDyet they fpenc by way of 
 private vifits , with one another. 
 
 # T he next day, the Brandenburgs Ambaffacjor, gave 
 his Excellences xhz fecond vifice. 
 
 The foure and twentieth day , the Ambaffador of 
 Bed and vifited his Excellences againe. 
 
 o Bo for the fourth day, the Count MegawYifncd his 
 Excel fence the fecond time. 
 
 : The fift day in the morning, the Empercmr, Em- 
 prefle,and all the Court, went to the Church o£ 
 the Carmelites , to celebrate rhe Feaft of St.Ts r s z a, 
 by whofe Prayers and interctfiions, it is fayd, cer- 
 tainc Captives were delivered out of Tttrkies, era re- 
 ported out of their bondage and fet free, in ano- 
 ther place not farre diftant, and their Irons, Fetters/ 
 and Pictures, ftill^preferved in this Church, for a 
 tefiimony ofthe myr.de : In the afternoone , the 
 King of Hungary came, being ferit for by the Emperor 
 from the Army, to be elc 6ted King of the Romans, ac- 
 companied with divers Colonels and Commanders 
 of Scotch and Irtjh , but an Englifh Mile off the Town 
 his Majeffy made a ftay, being in his Coach, until! the 
 Emperor, Ernpreffeand the whole Court came forth 
 to meet him, and then he and all his Followers topke 
 horfc,and met the Emperour and Empreffe aradi- 
 flanee, he lighted, and haflened to doe his obedience to 
 them ; they Jifcewife embracing him, then returned to 
 his fitter the Archdutcheffe to falute her, who was in 
 - another Coach • in the meanc time,his Followers kift 
 the Emperor and Empreffe hands 5 that ended, the 
 
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 Emperor call'd him into his Coa-ch, and went a Haw- 
 king, but when they came at the place where their 
 game was, they ail tooke Horfe,but the EmprdTeand 
 the Archdutchetfe, who were earryed in an open Lit- 
 ter by Muks, their fport being ended, returned with 
 their three Spaniels and. one Hawke to their Pal- 
 ace, 
 
 The 7* day, his Excellence was vifited by Colonell 
 Ltjlef a Scotch Commander, and Captaine of the King 
 of HutJgmcs Guard, 
 
 The io* day on Sunday , the King wenbpofte 
 to meet with his Queene, who was a comming hither 
 Iikewife. 
 
 The i a* day, the Elector of Ctlen came in the forc- 
 npone, very well attended, and in the evening his 
 Excellence had audience of the Emperor and Em- 
 preife, but as wc palfed through the Chambers to 
 herMajcfty, there were ncy ther Ifghts, nor men to 
 dire& us the way, paffing thus along in the darke 
 until! wee ftumbjed on a little doors , which is 
 the doore of. their -Anti chamber , where wee found 
 three or feure Gavalieres, who had runne from the 
 Empcrours fide thither a little before, to informe her 
 Majefty of his Exctflevct’s comming, who was inftant- 
 ly brjoughtin to her Chamber, and after returned the 
 6me way, and but one attending with a light. . 
 
 The fourteenth day being Rriday 0 the Queene of 
 Upngartz^j came about five oftheclockc in theaftcr- 
 noone, for at one, the Efpperour,,Emprc(fcandthc 
 Ele&or of Colhn , together with the whole Court* 
 went three Engliih miles from the Towns to meet her, 
 bhk Hawked as bee went imtill three a clock, and then 
 
 difeo- 
 
of lonrnal!, &c, $i 
 
 difcovering her a comming about halfe an Engliih 
 mile diftanr, left his fport and went to meet her, 
 drawing neere, lighted of hisHorfe about foure Rod 
 off from her Coach, and made haft with his Hat in 
 handtoim’braceher, (hce being but got out ot her 
 Coach and comming a little towards him, did her o- 
 bedience kneeling and killed his Htnd, hee bowing 
 low likewife, moft joyfully received her in his armes, 
 theEmprdlc being in a Litter and the Archdutchdle, 
 hafteoed out likewife to faiute her ; their gratulatioti 
 being ended, bet weene them and the Eie&or of Collett 
 and Conde d*Oniato , the Spam/h Amb sffador extraor- 
 dinary, which in all, held more thao a quarter of an 
 hoare , the King and Queene returned home in the 
 Emperours Coach, having about thirty Coaches, and 
 one hundred Horfe, which brought them into the 
 Towne* , 
 
 The 1 7. day at p.of the clock? in the morning, his 
 Excellence had audience of the King, and in the after- 
 noone was vifited by Coionell Lejley againe, and after 
 him by the Agent of Poland, 
 
 The next day in the Evening, there was a great 
 Marriage at Court, Coionell JVager a Polander y who 
 married a Maid of honour to the Emprefle,call*d Ma- 
 dam Sbafc*tz,i* y whofe Father was beheaded fomc 
 few yeares fince here in this Towne asaConfpi- 
 rator againft the Emperor- the Ceremony of the 
 marriage becing contrary to our Englifli fafhion, 
 and in the Evening : I will declare it; Firft hee 
 beeing brought from his Lodging by the Poland 
 Ambafl'adourand many Cavalieres allwqll mounted 
 
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 to the Court, lighted and went up to the Empcrour 
 and Empreffe, then to his Ma jefties private Chappell 
 being brought thither by the Emperor & theKing,and 
 llie by the Emprdle and the Queen, where the Bilhop 
 onely joyned their hands , as the Emperor gave her 
 and let a rich Growne of Diamonds and Pearle on his 
 head, which was his Majefties, and then returned to 
 the Ptivie Chamber, where the Emperor gave them a 
 Supper, and his Myeftyjthc Empreffe, the King and 
 Queene of Hungary, and the ArchdutchelTe, together 
 with the Elector of Mentz and Colen^ fate at Table 
 with them, and the Bridegroome with the Qrowne 
 alithetime on, and the Bride cloathed very richly ac 
 the Emprdles charge, having no other Iewels on but 
 SierMaj. ftas that night, and after Supper put to Bed 
 by them, being an order,that what Lady foever of the 
 Court Marries they do lye there that night 5 (if fhe be a 
 Maide, not dfe. ) 
 
 The next day at two of theclockc, Count 
 vyfiwf t P Councellor to the gmperor, < and the 
 cniefe Ruler in all the King of Hunger its affaires, vili- 
 ted his Excellence, being fefitfrom the King. 
 
 The day after , Colondl Ltjley dined with his Ex- 
 cellence, and after dinner was vihted by the Spamjh 
 Ambalfador Cortdt £ Opi^ts. 
 
 And the one and twentieth day, his Excellence had 
 Audience of the King and. Queene of Hungari^^ ac 
 Two of t he cloche in the afternoons 
 
 The next day, his Excellence vifited Count 
 
 the Bilhop 'Of and then returned 
 
 home, and;prefemly after Count Schick Prehdent to 
 
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of four null ,&c. 5 ? 
 
 the Counoell of warre, vifited his Excellence s, and at 
 five of the clocke came Marquis Caftittado to Towne, 
 being AmbatTadqr inordinary from Spawe, who al- 
 Wayes accompanies the King of Hungary in the Army, 
 and came now from thence. 
 
 The 23. being Sunday, the Count of Schrvartzedurg 
 his Sonne, whofe Father is the AmbaiTador from the 
 Prince of Brandenburg and Colonell Ltpy , dined 
 ; with his Excellence. 
 
 Andthefoure and twentieth day, about eight of the 
 l clocke in the morning, his Excellence vifited the Ele- 
 dlpr of Colin* and at two of the dock Marquis Ca- 
 fii&ado, and likewife the Count Megaw. . 
 
 And the day following, hee vifited the Poland Am- 
 baflador in the forenoone, and the Eie&or of OMentz 
 in the afternoone. . 
 
 The 2 6* day, young Pappenbeym dyned with his 
 Excellence, whofe Father was Generali for the 
 Emperour in the King of Swedcns time, and ilaine 
 then. 
 
 And the next day, his Excellence vifited the Count 
 otScblyek againe. V 
 
 The 28. his Excellence vifited the Count of Trauf- 
 miflerfe: Being returned home, the Pdmd Ambaffa- 
 dor came to take his leave of his Excellence, and. re- 
 turned into Poland againe $ and this day theEledor of 
 Tryer paft by the T own at a difiiance, going for Lintz, 
 there to remaine a Prifioncr during the Emperours 
 pleafure , being brought out of tbs King of Shames 
 dom inions by a Convoy of the Emperors. 
 
 The 29. day in the evening, the Eleto of Coltn 
 H 3 vifited 
 
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 vifited his Excellence : And fince,the Dutchcffeof 
 Bavaria is brought to Bed of a Sonne, and he Chrifte- 
 ned by the name of Ftrdimndm Maria Francifcut I*- 
 mtiui Wolfgang*. ' * 
 
 The 3 o. of o Either on Sunday, their dyned with 
 his Excellence the Count of Siyrenburg, the Count of 
 SchmHrhenburg junior , Baron Lambert , and Count 
 Ptceolpmini , whofe Father is Generali of the Emperors 
 Army, which joynes now with the Cardinall-W^r 
 againft the French, And after dinner, thcSpanifi Am- 
 baftador CajUEado vifited his Excellence-, and the next 
 day his Excellence vifited the SparnJh AmbaiTador ex- 
 traordinary. 
 
 The fir ft of November, his Excellence vifited the 
 Count ofScblyckin the Fore-noone,and had audience 
 of the King in thcafternoone. 
 
 The next day, his Excellence tooke his leave o fCa- 
 fiiUado theSpaniJh Liedger, and the AmbaiTador of 
 Brandenburg. 
 
 And the day afrer,Do&or V mmim Liedger from the 
 Count of Oldenburg, vifited his Excellence ■ and Colo- 
 nel! Henderfen a Scotch Gentleman, $: dyned both with 
 him : and after dinner, his Excellence tooke his leave of 
 Count Pappenheym Marshall of the Empire under the 
 Ele&or ot Saxon, and Count Bockhaynt Mailer of the 
 Horfc to the King of Hungary-, and the next morning 
 j t “ c C°unt of Schlyck, and the Count of StreknC- 
 dorfe. Vice- Chancellor of the Empire* and in the af- 
 •.ernoone of Count Slavato\ and then returned home, 
 and prefently came Conde d’ Oniato rhe Spanifh Ambaf. 
 laaor extraordinary, to give his Excellence his laft vi- 
 
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 fit 5 be being gone, his Excellence went and tooke his 
 leave of the Eierftor of Mentz,, and in the evening of 
 the Elc&or ofCelen* 
 
 The next day, the Count otSUvato came to give 
 his Excellence his laft vifit, and after him the ftifhop of 
 Vunna s And the next morning Marquis PaSdvkm, 
 and after dinner the Ambalfador Caflillado and the 
 Count Traufmtfierfe^ and at 5. of the ciocke his Excel, 
 lence took his leave of the Emperor, Em preffe, and the 
 King and Queenc of H ungary. 
 
 And the next morning being Tuefday, the 8. of 
 November, early left Eegen^wg returning backe for 
 England the fame way to HemmAcr^ the firft night 3. Hcmmawl . 
 Dutch miles. 
 
 The next day wee travailed five Dutch miles to 
 Nyemerke. 
 
 And the third day. to Nuremberg, which was 'Nurtm. 
 five Dutch miles more, where the next morning ^S* 
 the Lords of the City came and prefented their fer- 
 Y4ce to his Excellences, in a long Dutch complement* 
 and after cincd with him. 
 
 And the next day in the afternoone they came a- 
 gainr, witha prefentof 40. Flaggons of wine, and 
 three killers of FiHi* which was brought in by thirty 
 men all in red Coats, guarded on the armes, with’, 
 white and red Caps, and then defired his Excellences 
 to goe and view their Stathoufe^ which is a large long' 
 building of Stone, above an hundred paces in length, 
 pafling firft up 5 afeems of Staires, ^through a long 
 Gallery po. paces long, ruffe caft with feverall ftories, 
 
 aadat the eod entered into a (quare chamber, which 
 
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 A Relation bj way 
 
 fometimcs Is thctr Canned!- chamber, fo into the fe- 
 cond, third and fourth roome, which is twenty eight 
 paces long, and twelve in breadth., painted above 
 head, and carved very richly j and on oncof the Walls 
 hang the Pictures of the fixe Ca[ars 5 Fir ft, Carotus 
 Magnus , Rodolphns Primus , C\ Rodolphus 
 
 Secundns , Mat hius Primus , and Ferdifiandus this Mm- 
 per or ; then into the fifth roome, w hich was fund- 
 fhed likewife with feveraii rare piCFures, and two Pi- 
 ctures of Albert Durer and his Father, done by him 
 which they prefented his Excellence with^ and in 
 all thefe roomes are Stoves very richly made, and up- - 
 holden, fome by Lyons of Braile , and others by 
 GrifFors. 
 
 From hence, we went to view one of their Houfes, 
 in which amongft the re ft of his Pictures, was the 
 picture of his Grandfather, who had neyther nofe nor 
 chin, as the picture demonftrateth and then prefen- 
 ted his Excellence with a Banquet : from hence to ano- 
 ther Faire houfc adjacent, and very well furnifhed 
 likewife,biit before we came into the rooms, we went 
 up the curioufeft Stayre-cafe of (tone as ever I have 
 fee ne. 
 
 And from hence to the Cattle, where the Father of 
 one of the Lords lived, who after he had fbewed his 
 Excellence all the rootnesin the Cattle, which adjoyncs 
 tothewalloftheTowne, (landing on a Hill, and a 
 very deepe Well of one hundred and fifty Fathom, 
 cut out of a Rocke, by which they were conftrayned 
 to rdeeve the Towne, in the time of their former 
 wanes, betw ccac the Emperor , and che King of Sm» 
 
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 den 5 he prefented his Excellence with another banquet, 
 
 and tfeen returned home. v * , 
 
 The next day, which was Sunday, they ail dined 
 
 with his Excellence^* . . ;; , 
 
 And in the morning being the i4.day,tvec dtpaited 
 
 having flayed hecre three dayes, and tooke a Convoy 
 of ioo. Musketiers along with us to Neufaat , hve 
 Butch miles • The firfl night , travelling part by 
 Torch- li^ht through the Woods, and mere lay on 
 the ftraw that night : which Towne formerly hath 
 beetle inhabited by 2 50. Burgers or more, and not 
 
 - having now five in it. - 
 
 The fifteenth day carely, thence to Ket$en five 
 miles, and there lay on the planchers hkewue; an 
 the next day to Wirtzhurg to dinner, which was three w i rta j, Ur ^ 
 Butch miles, (laying that night there, having no ci- 
 ther Towne neere to goe to. After dinner, the Lor s 
 of the Towne fent his Excellence a preient of Two 
 and thirty EUggons of Wine, Fifh, and provmon for 
 
 his Horfe. #I , . 
 
 The next morning before his Excellence departe , 
 he wasvifited by theBifliop of IVesfarg, whom wee 
 found, in the habit of a Countrcy Gentleman, letting 
 afide his Order , which is an enamelled Cro tic han- 
 ging on a Blacke ribbon about his necke j who ma e 
 very much of his Excellence, and prefented him with 
 the Pi&ure.ofour done by Mertus Dumas, 
 
 being one of his bed peeces * and then tooke leave 0. 
 him , who was ready to ride out of Towne, to iome 
 other place for fafety , the Swedes being within two 
 dayes march of it, and then his Excellence returned 
 
 I 
 
mm. 
 
 ?s <t Ablation h) way 
 
 to his Lodging, and prefemly went away. 
 
 The feaventeenth day, taking a frc(h Convoy went 
 to Btjhopflmm that night, a Townc feated in a bottome 
 sad incompafled round with Hills, having the River 
 Ttuber running about part of it, belonging to the'Bi- 
 fhop of Memo’s • travelling this day foure Dutch mk s 
 and moft part through great Woods. 
 
 E uely next morning, thence through I<W/?»a Vil- 
 lage, and divers other poore Villages burnt and pilla- 
 ged? palling through a hilly wooddy Countrey in 
 much danger of th tCrsm, and fpying forne running 
 up and downe in the Woods, being round about us* 
 in number 6oc©.or more, difperfing themfelves in- 
 M'Mi i to Overall Companies, pillaging and robbing of the 
 mumAT^ Countrey $ travelling this day five miles to UHtldc- 
 barkz~> % but a Dutch mile before wee came thither, en- 
 tered into our old way at Nunkirken , the pooce burnt 
 V illage before mentioned, which is now inhabited by 
 fome Foure or five poore people. 
 
 The 19 . day in the mornkig,from thence another way, 
 taking another frefh Convoy, leaving our old way and 
 the Mainer on our right hand, paifing along by the 
 fide of ir, through Byb&ch i Village, and afaire Houfe 
 which is the Bifbop of Mentz, likewife, and through 
 other Villages miferably battered , and in Plaines 
 S chenjtAdt. fome fixe Bnghfh miles in length, until! wee came to 
 Se/genjfitdt) having gone this day fixe Dutch miles. 
 Falling into our old way within one mile of the 
 Townc, travelling all thofe dayes in danger of the 
 Cro&u , where as foone as his Excel lence lighted, the 
 Grave V&ndofm^j Govemour of the Counrrey for 
 
 the 
 
of fournal!>&c. 59 
 
 the Biiliop of CMentz , Tent his Excellence a prefent 
 of halfc a wiide Bore , and likewife provifion for his 
 Horfe; knowing that the Towne could not affoord 
 anything. 
 
 The twentieth day being Sunday,early in the mor- 
 ning, wee went thence to Frankfort to dinner, which Frankfort. 
 was three Dutch miles. . „ 
 
 And the next morning after 5 his Excellence went to 
 Hxnnaw to vifite S iv lames Ram fey ,a ScHch Gentleman H**u**t 
 andGovernour of the Towne, and there fhyedthat 
 night, who met his Excellence without the gate with 
 a troupe of Horfe,and entering the Towne there went 
 off a brace of Canons, and when his ExceHelnec^ ligh- 
 ted,went offtwo more by the dooreof his Excellencies 
 lodging 1 which Towne, was befiedged a Yeare and a 
 halie by the Emperours forces, and at the beginning 
 oftheSiedge hadfech a grievous Plague, that there 
 dyed in 7. Weekcs,22coo. yet for all this, they kept 
 out the enemy , though in great want and mifery, and 
 three moneths fince was relee ved by the Landt.grayc 
 of who flew a great company of the Impcria* 
 
 lifts and drave them all away ♦, for as wee paffed by a* 
 fore at a diftance, we heard them as they were in thek 
 skirmifti. The next morning, his Excellence Went a- 
 bout the Towne to view the Workes, which are very 
 ftrong fcarce to bee fcaledby any force, having two 
 Ingincs made but of fixe Musket barrels a piece, which 
 Dutch Ingine difehargeth $o. times together, giving 
 fire to it but oncc 5 the Towne is feated in a plaino 
 ground, having the Jlf4j0oontheEaft, andincom- 
 paffed on the North and Weft, with the River Knitf* 
 
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 z>ig, befides Moted round, and this River fcrverh 14 , 
 Mills which adjoynes to the Towne, and before any 
 man can enter into the old Towne he irnift pafle over 
 threc'Bridges, and through feverall Bulworkes , and 
 over another into the new Towne ; and at the releefe 
 of the Town^there was one Daniel Lauter a chiefc Bur* 
 ger,dyed for very joy ; he being above in his honfe and 
 feeing the vi&ory, was overcome with fuch a mighty 
 paffion of joy, that hee fell do w ne and dyed inftantly . 
 there was iikcwifea woman,who killed many Dogs & 
 fold their fl (h at a great rate to many people, and one 
 day as ihee walked in the Streets, was like to have been 
 devoured by them , had not fomc poore Sonldiers 
 by chance releeved her, who prefently confefled what 
 fhee had done formerly* acknowledging (he had juft- 
 iy deferved it $ and after dinner his Excellence tooke 
 leave of Sir lames Ram/ey , and then returned backe to 
 Frankfort, 
 
 The foure and t wentieth day, foure of the Burgers 
 or the Citie came and prefented their fervice to his 
 Excellences with twenty flaggons of Wine, and then 
 dined with him 5 here wee flayed three dayes until! 
 our Boates were made ready. 
 
 And on Saturday the 2 6. day of November, wee de- 
 parted from hence, and rowed downe j 
 
 the firft night to Flerfbeym , which was three miles, a- 
 gainft which wee caff anchor and lay aboard • The 
 next morning launched forth , and paft downe to 
 MmtZy and there his Excellence went on lb ore, to fee 
 ilit were any way inrichcd finceour being there, but 
 aias, wee found it as miferable as before, with divers 
 
 poore 
 
of f our n ally &c. 61 
 
 poore people lying on Dunghils dm oft ft arved, befog 
 fcarce able to crawle for to receive his Excellencies 
 alines, and prefently returning to our Boate to dinner, 
 wee afterwards releeved many poore hungry fouks 
 with the fragments ; Thence after dinner downe the 
 Rhynes to Rude/hem, which was five Dutch miles, and 
 there caft anchor, and lay on the boards likewife. 
 
 Very earely the next morning wee weyed anchor, 
 and prefently entredinto a dangerous place to pafTe, 
 called Bingham. Lecke, where the River Loo falls into 
 the Rhynes by the Towne amongft many Rockes, 
 whichcaufetha violent fall, toffing us up and downe, 
 that if wee had but touched any p3rt of them we had 
 all been caft away * being paft this, we came to Backx- 
 rach , where, fome of our Company did but goe a- 
 ilhore ( and prefently haftened after in a little Boate,) 
 were purfued by five Musketicrs almoft to his Excel- 
 lencies Boat, who difeharged v6y often at them, yet 
 by good fortune mift them, and having overtaken his 
 Excellence,xhty inftantly fled away ; then going on to 
 a large Hand an Englifh mile from Coblent wee there 
 caft anchor and by all that night* for wee could not 
 pafle to the Towne without leave from the Gover- 
 nour, by reafon of feverall watches which lay in our 
 way ; which night wee lay in much danger, percei- 
 ving them walke up and downe to catch a prey, for as 
 fome of our company did but goe a little way from 
 our Boat, they were layd hold on, and one that fled, 
 had a Musket {hot at him, and hee that was taken,they 
 caried before their Commander, who was in a Mona- 
 ftery in the Hand examining him,& then let him goe. 
 
 1 7 ' I 3 The 
 
6% A c Relatimbjvp$y 
 
 € ob tints, . xhe next morning, his E x alienees fem againe to the 
 Governour,for paffjge, wholikcabafe fellow made 
 us ftay that night alio, and the next day until! three of 
 the dock in the aftemodne,and would not let us pafle, 
 for all that his Excellenc ts had fent him the Emperors 
 Paffeand Letter , wherein hee was commanded, not 
 ondy to give paffage, but, to alfift him in any thing 
 hee required • yet for all this, hee kept us fhll, and 
 would not give way that our Trumpeter might goc 
 to the French in the Caflle $ but they pc rceiVrng how 1 
 unworthily hee did deale with his Excellences, dif- 
 charged 4. or 5, Cannons at his houfe, and fbot quite 
 through it, at laft hee came at the third fending for* 
 with an cxcufe , hee was very unkindly dele with by 
 Cardinall Cenetta , the Popes Mantis , who lately palled 
 by, going to Celle#, but ftayed him three dayes firft, 
 before hee let him pafTe, and made him promife faith- 
 fully not to vific the French, but being got beyond the 
 Towne landed and went in, which made him vow 
 not to let any paffe. But after that hee had talked a 
 while with his Excellences, gave leave to fall downe 
 neere the Towne, and having caft anchor, fet « ftrong 
 watch about us, and then gave leave for the Trumpe- 
 ter to goe to Monfieur Salades in the Caftle for paf- 
 fage, who moft willingly granted it, and fcnt his 
 Excellence^ a very faire ancient Pi&ure • but hearing 
 by the T rumpeter the Governours bafe ufage towards 
 his Excellence, prefently plac’d their Canons againfi 
 his houfe, and vowed his Sonne fhould give nre to 
 them the next morning , and would fend him fbcha 
 breakfaft, as that hee fhould need no dinner \ in the 
 
of Journalise. 
 
 interim, there came a Lieutenant from the Cover- 
 nour , upon a colour to vifite his Excellences, who 
 proved a fecond Villaine in the end , for all that wee 
 u fed him very well, and feddc his hungry belly bet- 
 ter than it had beene long before;, for theSouldiers 
 them felvcsconfe (Ted, that they had but one Browne 
 loafeand ahalfeofBread in eight dayes, and not one 
 penny of money *, yet this Rafcdl lay lurking ki our 
 Boate till our Trumpeter returned , and then violent- 
 ly tooke him and the Skipper, and carried them into 
 the Towne and fet a watch about them ; and the next 
 morning, fent his Excellences word hce might palFe, 
 but the Trumpeter fhould follow after ; whereupon 
 his Excellence fent his Steward to know the realon, 
 who found them tyedby the Armes together, the 
 Skippers finger cut off,& the Trumpeters head elcaped 
 very narrowly from being cloven in had not his 
 ftrong Hat defended it, and alfo had threatned to hang 
 them up the next day together, but with much adoe 
 hee brought them away with him, and - after followed 
 a Gentleman to excufe that barbarous bafe ufage of 
 the Lieutenant, and leave to paftc , prefcntly depar- 
 ting, and being gone but a little paft the Towne and a- 
 gainft the Caftle, they faluted us, and faid they would 
 drinkethc King of Englmds health , and then gave 
 fire to more than twenty thundring Cannons, befide 
 a brave volley of fmall Shot, which made their Hou- 
 fes tolmoakeand tumble in our fight, but they durff 
 not returne one backe againe *, the other Governour 
 Geatts , gave us very noble ufege, but this who was 
 lately fent, fhewed himfelfefo bafe. that he deferves 
 
 ho 
 
no name with us » from hence to Bonn, and there caft 
 anchor, but durft not lye nigh the Towne, the Sick* 
 neffe being very fere in it, and this day rowed eight 
 miles. 
 
 The next day being the firft of J December je\ the mor- 
 ning we went from thence to Cafe, being foure miles, 
 C*fe e leaving thofe delightful! Mountaines, Hills, and plea- 
 
 fant xr ;;ics, and entred into a plaine Gountrey, where 
 asioone as wee came into the Towne , neere the Pa- 
 lace where the Cardinal! lay , had information, of all 
 what the boorifh Govern our of Coblent & fayd of him 
 wasfalfei wee flayed hee. ’ three dayes untill wee 
 had exchanged our Boatcs for nigger, and every day 
 his Excellence had p relented unto him 2 4. Flaggons 
 - of W ine, ftnt from the Magifhaces j who once dined ' j 
 with him. 
 
 And on Sutday the 4. day of December . about foure 
 oftheclockeatnight tooke Shipping, andt le next 
 morning at three adocke fet fayle, and fay led downe 
 Mnlhelm. by CMulheim on the left fide of the Rhyne % and Sonts 
 on the other fide, which bdongeth to the Abbots of 
 Co Hen j where wee flayed to free Toll 5 then on by 
 , r Newfe on the fame fide, where the River runnethout 
 
 Dnfeldorpe t0 ^ aoc j p 0 10 Buffeldorpe, whereas foone as we came 
 but neere the fliore, out came the Noble Duke of 
 Neubttrgb , and clambered over other Ships to come 
 into ours, to vifne his Excellence , being much joyed at 
 his fafe returne, and had made pro vifion at his Houfe 
 to entertainc his Excellence ^ but perceiving he would 
 not flay , lent for a wilde Bore, Wine, and five Pic- 
 tures, and preheated them to his Excellence , then 
 
 v tooke 
 
of fourndlli&c. 65 
 
 foeke his leave, being very Tory tolethimgoe, but 
 confidering the time and tedioufnefTe of the weather, 
 was more willing to give leave, he flaying by the fhore 
 untill wee put off, and then went off io. Cannons, 
 the Duke flill walking along the fhore as farre as the 
 tvater would give him leave, and flayed untill we were 
 out of fight. From thence by Keijcrfwert belonging 
 to the Ele&or of Ccllen 9 feated on the left fide orthe 
 Rbyn<u 9 where wee were flayed to free our Toll a- 
 gaine , and at our lanching forth faluted us with one 
 Peece of Ordnance, fo on by Ordingen a little Towne, 
 where on the other fide , about a league further wee 
 cad anchor, againfl a fraall old Caflle called Engtr- 
 fort , fayling feaven leagues and a halfe this day, for 
 before wee went by miles, which were fome foure or 
 five EngliJI) miles at the lead in length, but thefe are 
 but three Engli fh j this night weelay in much danger, 
 for there did lye on each fide of us, parties, which 
 robbeth andpillageth all Paflengersj for wcefawa- 
 bove fifty in a company, going all along by the fhore, 
 but a little before wee cad anchor, and at 1®. of the 
 cjocke in the night being very darke, was a falfe ala- 
 rum given by the Watch of a panic comming, which 
 made 12s a J! fly e to our weapons, at lad perceiving it 
 was but one Boate, and they that were in it, crying 
 out Friends from the Duke of Neuburg, elfe wee had 
 flint them, who came for to have pad :ge into England, 
 Next morning- earefy wee weyed anchor, and went 
 part of the day in danger like wife, to Orfoy , the fhd 
 Gnrrifon T owne of the States , where we were flayed, 
 and bur ShipTearched what wee carried, but at our 
 
 K put- 
 
putting ofiT, they gave us two Pieces of Ordnance- fa 
 from thcncfc along -by Rbmbtrg, zgafaft which there 
 lay a man of Wore of the States, who fainted us with 
 three Pieces s then by BurickfwcapB, and a league fur- 
 ther wc anchor in the middle of the Rhynes, fa y. 
 
 ling this day but 4, leagues and a ha]fc,by reafonof our 
 flay at fcycrall Toll places. 
 
 The next dayearely in, the' morning* fet faylc,an'd 
 fajded downe by Rhees , Emmerich , and by Schenck- 
 Sc hams , which is now new built and well fortified a- 
 gaine, where wee left the Rbyne^ and that on our right 
 hand 3 and went downe in a deepe River called the 
 by Nimmcgeno. fair e Towne, feated on the EaR 
 ftde of the Rhynes on a hanging Hilj, where the Go- 
 vernour of theTovvne, Sonne to one of the Stares 
 came forth and tendered his fervice to \xs Excellence, 
 In which Towns there dyed this Summer 12000. 
 f>eopIe of fibre Plague, but now thankes be to God, it 
 is a! mot ceafed .rfrom thence, paging by feverali 
 Redoubt- H cups built at every halfe league, in which 
 thene lyeth a Watch continually to keeps the River, 
 patting along untlll wee same to the fourth Houfe • 
 where, for all wee told them it was an Rngltfh Ambak 
 factor, that foure or five Pieces at us, and mift feme of 
 us very marrowly . whereupon wee cat anchor^ and 
 lay in the middle of the Rhynt^., but could not cer- 
 tainly learns who they were , fayiing this day feaveo 
 
 December the 8 . in the morning , wee fet fayle and 
 went to being but two leagues, and could not 
 pails any farther for yce^ but fay led in great danger 
 
 slither; 
 
of Imfnallt&c* 
 
 thither of £plttt£ng our Ship by the violent force of 
 it, which csufed us to (by there three dayes, until! we 
 heard there might be a paffage cut over the Rhynes at 
 Vtin& * departed thither upou little Skdges, on Sun- 
 day the eleventh of 1 December , and pa(Ted over great 
 quantities of y ce,thrcwgh Bmem y whece the Prince of 
 Oranges hath a faire Caftlc, thence to Gulenbttrg, and 
 fo to runs to Bed , travelling with much labour 
 fome on foot 5 others by the (ledges this day ^.leagues, 
 where Sih Ferdmando Carte^^ an Eng'Ufh Gentleman, 
 entertained his Excellence that night, the Towne is ve* 
 ry plcafantlyfeated upon the E ft fide of the Rhynes^ 
 • and the r reft thinges in it, are Flowers j for there was 
 a Tulif-rtot.es fold lately for 34o.pounds,asSir Fer - 
 dm aude informed his Excellence. 
 
 The next morning^wee touke Boate and err (Ted o- 
 ver the River,though with much danger and difneu ty 
 in the wet, the winde and ty de contrary , bd ig got a» 
 that -, went to Vtrecht where welay th e night, which 
 was bur 2 .leagues, and where there then dyed of toe 
 Plague 80. aweeke, but a little before 300 • from 
 thence to Leyd&nnzKZ day to Bed, travelling very late, 
 and eight leagues this day $ where 1 ome of the I- rincts 
 the Qjecnc of Bohemia's Sonnes, were at School^ 
 whom his Excellences prefentlv vifed^and there met 
 with fome Gentlemen, which the Queene had fent to 
 meet his Excellences ^ and two of her Coaches to fetch 
 
 hiimothefl^o*. . 
 
 The next day before his Excell : went away, he vie^ 
 gd the chiefe thins s of note in the Towns, as the Vns« 
 vcrfities,thc Schoolc,whick before we hat# 
 
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€S . 'Relation by way 
 
 - not ley fure to fee, and from thence after din ner to the 
 which was but 3. leagues , being Wednefday 
 the 14 th . day of December , and their GhrtQmcts Eve. 
 
 Thus leaving his Excellence at the Hagut^j^ J W est 
 Amfierdam fax Am ft er dam that famous Citie, firft by Wa«o on 
 to Harlem . , which was five leagues, where 1 lay that 
 night, being a very well built Towne , the next d a y 
 to the Citie it felfe, which was three le gu-s, p.< fling 
 all the way upon a Cawfey, by H*r Lem- Mcare on my 
 right hand, and the River Tey on the left, and entred 
 in at B&rlem-Vort , and puft through ah the new 
 Towne, and over three large Graafts , Princes , Keajers 
 and th tHures Grauft x thefe Streets be three Q^rters 
 ofanEnghfhmile in length, two hundreth p ices in 
 bredth, having an even row of /lately, beaucifullBHil- 
 dings , and Trees planted thq whole length of the 
 Graufis fide, and fo into the old Towne, which is not 
 of fo /lately a building, but the whole Citie is built 
 upon Piles in the water, and agreat Chinnell runneth 
 through every Street for the Merchants /hips to fay Ie 
 to their doores , their Exchange^ h built much like 
 nnto that in Lendon, both beneath and above, but that 
 
 it wants a little in breadth, with water running under 
 
 it, there is a very large building called the lVeiJhc»fej 
 wherein all poore Children, Fatherle/Fe, or of decay! 
 cd Parents, are there maintained and brought up, and 
 there is now at this prefent time Soo. all clad alike, 
 the one fide of their garments Blackc and the other 
 Hed * there is like w ife foureflofpitals adjoyning one 
 unto another 3 for Men and Women to be fevered each 
 from other , tfaeEa/l and Weil Indtm Houles 5 two 
 
 rare 
 
°y 
 
 rare Builings and curious within 5 and many other 
 delightful! things to pleafe the eye, heere-I flayed 
 two dayes; and on Saturday the 17. day of December^ 
 at 5. of the clocke at night, tocke a Scutc.j drawee by 
 a Horfe, and went up a River along by the fide of the 
 Cawfey • than I palled downe on before to Harlem, 
 and there 5 at io 4 of the clocke in the Evening tookc a 
 Waggon, and travailed all night to the tf^fac; 3 which 
 was five leagues ; but ferried over the Rbynts at two 
 in the morning, and got thither by 8. of the clocke; 
 where wee flayed Eight day es, and the molt part of Hague 
 the time was (pent at the Queenes Court, and the reft 
 in viHtes, betweene the Prince of Oranges, the States 3 
 and three Ambaffidors which were there; as Mon- 
 fie or Charneflh from Frances , Seignior Carmerarius 
 for the Swedes , the Venetian Ambaflador ;.and the 
 Count of Culenburg • but hearing our Ship was come, 
 his Excellence tooke leave of theQuceneat io-.of the 
 clocke at nighty and came away next morning being 
 Wednesday, the one and twentieth of December, and 
 Prince ^Maurices along with him to Kefwicke, where 
 the Prince of oranges hath a Houfe, which his Ex- 
 cellence viewed, 3nd then the Prince taking leave re- 
 turned backe agsine, and his Excellence rode on for- 
 ward in her Majcftitt Coach to Delft where he dined, 
 in which Towne there are as many Bridges asDayes 
 intbeyeare,and fo many Channels and Streers,whcre 
 Boates doe pafj^up and dp\yne r v-an.ipne common 
 Paflageundera Church-yard, under which wee did 
 palle, from thence by a Scute to Fetter dam , where we 
 lay, which is from the Hague five leagues, untill that the 
 
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A Ration by my of tour mil. 
 
 wiode ferved us, and then on Saturday beiagthe za. of 
 December ( and Chriflmas Eve by our ftilt > at a r \ , 0 f 
 the clocke in the night, tookcBoates and went t**our 
 Ship, ray-ling fir ft through Magan^lme to H elver - 
 Sluce, where our Ship called the Cf4rW did ride»at 
 anchor, and about 3 . in the afternoone fef %le, and 
 fay ted over the Barrc, having a Pilate fay ling before 
 us with a Lanthorne on the top of his Mail, fcmndin® 
 for the depth all the way; and the next day attweiue 
 of the clocks caft Anchor in the Domes , and there rid 
 and could not land for the roughnefteof the Sea, un- 
 dll Tuefd 3 y morning the vj. of December, and then 
 landedat Dede , and from thence by Poaft to Can- 
 terbury, and fo to Swinburne to bed. 
 
 The next day in the morning earely to Cravefend 
 and there tooke water for London h where on the way 3 
 my Right Honourable Lady met his Excellcnv^'who 
 exchanged Barges, and there Ihe entertained him with 
 a Banquet , and fo earely the next morning , went t@ 
 Hampton Court to his Majefiy. 
 
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