Epistolæ Ho-elianæ familiar letters domestic and forren divided into sundry sections, partly historicall, politicall, philosophicall, vpon emergent occasions / by James Howell.

XXXIV. To my Father.

SIR,

SIr Tho. Wentworth hath been a good while Lord President of York, and since is sworn Privy Counsellor, and made Baron and Vicount, the Duke of Buckingham himself flew not so high in so short a revolution of time; Hee was made Vicount with a great deale of high ceremony upon a Sunday in the afternoon at VVhite-Hall; My Lord Powis (who affects him not much) being told that the Heralds had fetch'd his Pedigree from the bloud Roy∣all, viz. from Iohn of Gaunt, said, Dammy if ever he com to be King of England I will turn Rebell. When I went first to give him joy, he pleas'd to give me the disposing of the next Attorney's place that falls void in York, which is valued at three hundred pounds. I have no reason to leave my Lord of Sunderland, for I hope hee will bee noble unto me; the perquisits of my place, taking the Kings see away, ca•…•… far short of what he promis'd me at my first comming to him, in regard of his non-residence at York, therfore I hope he will consider it som other way. This languishing sicknes still hangs on him, and I fear will make an end of him; Ther's none can tell what to make of it, but he voided lately a strange Worm at VVickham; but I fear ther's an impostume growing in him, for he told me a passage, how many years ago my Lord VVilloughby, and he, with so many of their servants (de gayete de c•…•…ur) played a match at foot-ball against such a number of Countrey men, where my Lord of Sunderland being busie about the ball, got a bruise in the brest, which put him in a swond for the present, but did not trouble him till three months after, when being at Bever Castle (his brother-in-laws house) a quaume took him on a sudden, which made him retire to his bed-chamber, my Lord of Rutland following him, put a Pipe full of Tobacco in his mouth, and he being not accustomed to Tobacco, taking the smoak downwards, fell a ca∣sting and vomiting up divers little impostumated bladders of con∣geal'd bloud, which sav'd his life then, and brought him to have a better conceit of Tobacco ever after; and I fear ther is som of that clodded bloud still in his body.

Because Mr. Hawes of Che•…•…p-side is lately dead, I have remov'd

my brother Griffith to the Hen and Chickens in Pater Noster Row, •…•…o Mr. Taylors, as gentile a shop as any in the City, but I gave a peece of Plate of twenty Nobles price to his Wife. I wish the York∣shire horse may be fit for your turn, he was accounted the best sad∣dle Gelding about York, when I bought him of Captain Phillips the Mustar-master; and when he carried me first to London, there was twenty pounds offered for him by my Lady Carlile. No more now but desiring a continuance of your blessing and pray∣ers, I rest

Lond. 3 Decem. 1630.

Your dutifull Son, J. H.