XXXII. To Sir Keneime Digby Knight.
SIR,
GIve me leave to congratulat your happy return from the Levant, and the great honour you have acquir'd by your gallant comportment in Algier in reescating so many English slaves; by bearing up so bravely against the Venetian Fleet in the bay of Scanderoon, and making the Pantaloni to know themselves and you better. I do not remember to have read or heard, that those huge Galleasses of Saint Mark were bea∣ten afore. I give you the joy also, that you have born up against the Venetian Ambassadour here, and vindicated your self of those foule scandalls he had cast upon you in your absence; Wheras you desire me to joyne with my Lord Cottington and o∣thers to make an Affidavit touching Bartholomew Spinola, whither he be, Vezino de Madrid, viz. free Denison of Spaine, I am rea∣dy to serve you herein, or to do any other office that may right you, and tend to the making of your prize good. Yet I am very sor∣ry that our Aleppo Merchants suffer'd so much.
I shall be shortly in London, and I will make the greater speed, because I may serve you. So I humbly kiss my noble Ladies hand, and rest
Westmin, 25 Novemb. 1629.
Your thrice-assured Servitor, J. H.