Epistol HoElian Author:James Howell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mittal ban, pronounced in the Diet at Ratisbon against our merchants and manufactures of wool, incited them more to industry; so our proclamation upon Alderman C... more »ockein's project of transporting no white cloths but dyed, and in their full manufacture, did cause both Dutch and German to turn necessity to a virtue, and made them far more ingenious to find ways, not only to dye but to make cloth, which hath much impaired our markets ever since. For there hath not been the third part of our cloth sold since, either here or in Holland. My Lord, I pray be pleased to dispense with the prolixity of this discourse, for I could not wind it up closer, nor on a lesser bottom. I shall be careful to bring with me those furs I had instructions for. —So I rest, your lordship's most humble servitor, J. H. Hamburg, 20 October 1632. To Cap. J. Smith, at the Hague Captain, HAVING so wishful an opportunity as this noble gentleman, Mr James Crofts, who comes with a packet for the Lady Elizabeth from my Lord of Leicester, I could not but send you this friendly salute. We are like to make a speedier return than we expected from this embassy; for we found the King of Denmark in Holstein, whichshortened our voyage from going to the Sound. The King was in an advantageous posture to give audience, for there was a parliament then at Rheins- burg, where all the younkers met. Amongst other things I put myself to mark the carriage of the Holstein gentlemen as they were going in and out at the parliament house ; and observing well their physiognomies, their complexions and gait, I thought verily I was in England, for they resemble the English more than either Welsh or Scot (though cohabiting upon the same island), or any other people that ever I saw yet; which makes me verily believe that the Englis...« less