XX. To the Right Honble the Earl R.
My Lord,
ACcording to promise, and that portion of obedience I ow to your commands, I send your Lordship these few Avisos, som wherof I doubt not but you have received before, and that by
Epistolæ Ho-elianæ familiar letters domestic and forren divided into sundry sections, partly historicall, politicall, philosophicall, vpon emergent occasions / by James Howell.
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•…•…bler pens than mine, yet your Lordship may happily find herein, somthing which was omitted by others, or the former news made clearer by circumstance.
I hear Count Mansfelt is in Paris, having now receiv'd three routings in Germany; 'tis thought the French King will peece him up again with new recruits. I was told that as he was seeing the two Queens one day at Dinner, the Queen-Mother said, they say, Count Mansfelt is here amongst this Croud, I do not believe it quoth the young Queen; For whensoever he seeth a Spaniard he runs away.
Matters go untowardly on our side in Germanie, but the King of Denmark will be shortly in the field in person; and Bethlem Ga∣bor hath been long expected to do somthing, but som think he will prove but a Bugbear. Sir Charls Morgan is to go to Germanie with 6•…•…00 Anxiliaries to joyn with the Danish Army.
The Parliament is adjourn'd to Oxford, by reason of the sick∣nes which increaseth exceedingly; and before the King went out of Town ther dyed 1500 that very week, and two out of White-Hall it self.
Ther is high clashing again 'twixt my Lord Duke, and the Earl of Bristoll, they recriminat one another of divers things; the Earl accuseth him amongst other matters, of certain Letters from Rome; of putting His Majesty upon that hazardous jorney of Spain, and of som miscarriages at his being in that Court: Ther be Ar∣ticles also against the Lord Conway, which I send your Lordship here inclosed.
I am for Oxford the next week, and thence for Wales, to fetch my good old Fathers blessing, at my return, if it shall please God to reprieve me in these dangerous times of Contagion, I shall continue my wonted service to your Lordship, if it may be done with safety. So I rest
Lond. 15 of Mar. 1626.
Your Lordships most humble Servitor, J. H.