boughes, freshe herbes or vyne leaves; which thing although in the Low Countrey it be usually frequented, yet no nation more decently, more trymmely, nor more sightly then they do in Englande. For, not long agone traveylinge into that flourishinge islande, partly to see the fashions of that wealthy countrey, wyth men of fame and worthynesse so bruited and renowmed, and partlye to visite William Lemnie, in whose company and weldoing, I greatly reioyce (as a father can not but doe) and take singuler contentation inwardly, even at my first arryval at Dover, and so along my iourney toward London, which I dispatched partly uppon horsebacke, and partly by water, I sawe and noted manye thinges able to ravishe and allure any man in the worlde, with desyre to travaile, and see that so noble a countrey. For beinge brought by D. Lemnie (a skilfull physicion and well thoughte of there for his knowledge and experience) into the companye of honourable and worshipfull personages, everye gentleman and other woorthy person shewed unto mee (beinge a straunger borne, and one that never had beene there before) all pointes of most frendly curtesye, and taking me first by the hand, lovingly embraced and badde me righte hartely welcome. "For they be people very civill and wel-affected to men well stryken in yeares, and to such as beare any countenance and estimation of learninge, which thing they that halfe suspect and have not had the full tryall of the maners and fashions of this countrey, wil skarcely bee perswaded to beleeve. Therefore, francklye to utter what I thincke, of the incredible curtesie, and frendlinesse in speache and affabilitie used in this famous Royalme, I muste needes confesse, it doth sur mount and carye away the pricke and price of al others. And besyde this, the neate cleanlines, the exquisite finenesse, the pleasaunte and delightfull furniture in every point for household, wonderfully reioyced mee; their chambers and parlours, strawed over with sweet herbes, refreshed mee; their nosegayes finelye entermingled wyth sondry sortes of fragaunte floures, in their bedchambers and privie roomes, with comfortable smell cheered mee up, and entierlye delighted all my sences; and this do I thinck to be the cause y1. Englishmen, lyving by such holsome and exquisite: meate, and in so holesome and healthful ayre, be sa freshe and cleane coloured; their faces, eyes, and countenance, carying with it, and representing a portly grace and comelynesse, geveth out evident tokens of an honest mind; in language very smooth and allective, but yet seasoned and tempered within the limits and bonds of moderation, not bumbasted with any unseemely termes, or infarced with any clawing flatteries or allurements. At their tables they be verye sumptuous, and love to have good fare; yet neither use they to overcharge themselves wyth excesse of drincke, neither thereto greatly provoke and urge others, but suffer every man to drincke, in such measure as beste pleaseth himselfe; which drinck (being eyther ale or beere) most pleasaunt in taste and holesomely relyced, they fetch not from foreine places, but have it amonge them selves brewed. "As touching their populous and great haunted eities, ye. fruictfulnes of their ground and soyle, their lively springes and mighty rivers, their great heards and flocks of cattel, their mysteries and art of weaving and and clothmaking, their skilfulnes in shooting, it is needlesse here to discourse; seeing the multitude of marchaunts, exercysing the traffique and arte of marchaundize amonge them, and ambassadours also sente thyther from forraine princes, are able aboundantly to testifie, that nothing needeful and expediente for mans use and commoditie lacketh in that most noble ilande." The exercises for strong men are nearly similar to the Cotswold games 66 wrestling, coytinge, tennis, bowlinge, whorlebattinge, lifting great waightes, pitching the barre, ryding, running, leapinge, shooting in gunnes, swymming, tossing ye. pike, tyltinge, barryers and tourney." For gentler exercises, to be "caryed in wagons, rowed in boates, singinge and musicall melodie; and if thereto be used a cleare and lowde reading, of bigge tuned soundes by stoppes and certayne pauses, as our comicall fellowes now do, that measure rhetorick by their peevish rhythmes, it will bryng exceeding much good to the breast and muscles." Certain humours in the constitution, having more power and controulling than the planets, they "breede and bring forth into the theatre of this world, some that be stout braggers and shamelesse praters, some parasites and clawbackes, some dolts and cockscombes, some selfe pleasers, which thinke more of themselves, then all the rest of the towne besyde doth; some mynstrelles and pypers, some gracelesse ruffians and spendalls, ryotously wastyng and consumyng their patrimony; some dycers and gamesters, some trencher frends and coseners, some counterfaiters, skoffers, tumblers and gesturers, some jugglers, & legier du maine players, wyth a great rablemente of other lewde lubbers of other sorts besyde. "Hor. "Hor. Lib. I. Epist. 2. "A rabling route of ydle loutes, stark verlettes, flattringe mates, On warbling harpes, to banish dumpes Conduit street. ART. XVII. Notices of Salgado. J. H. Salgado, the author of "The Manners and Customs of the principal Nations of Europe," of which an account has been given in CENSURA LITERARIA, Vol. III. p. 209, published also the following tracts. "The Romish Priest turned Protestant, with the Reasons of his Conversion. Wherein the True Church is exposed to the view of Christians, and derived out of the Holy Scriptures, Sound Reason, and the Ancient Fathers. Humbly presented to both Houses of Parliament. By James Salgado, a Spaniard, formerly a Priest of the Order of the Dominicans. London: Printed for Tho. Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1679." 4to. 31 pages. "A Conf[e]ssion of Faith, in Latine.* By James • Or rather, translated from the Latin. Salgado, Salgado, a Spaniard, and sometimes a Priest in the Church of Rome. Londini: Anno Domini 1680." 4to. 11 pages. To this is affixed" An Account of my Life and Sufferings since I forsook the Romish Religion; in a letter to Dr. H. S."* 4to. 4 pages. From this last pamphlet the following particulars may be learned respecting him. Removing from his native country into France, he was entertained by the Rev. Monsieur Drelincourt, who advised him, for safety, (having publicly renounced popery) to go into the United Provinces. He then settled at the Hague as a teacher of the Spanish language, but not succeeding, from his ignorance of Dutch, he returned to Paris. Here he concealed himself among the members of the Reformed Church, but some of his own countrymen who were attendants on the Queen of France, a Spaniard by birth, discovered him, and by their means he was taken into custody, sent back to Spain and put into the Inquisition, where he lay a year, undergoing a monthly examination, but at last made his escape. Being retaken, he was again thrown into prison, and, after a confinement of five years more, was sentenced to the galleys, for his dereliction from the church of Rome. In the galleys he endured for twelve months "the miseries that attend slaves at the oar, chains, nakedness, stripes, thirst, hunger, vermine, and sickness," till the surgeon and other officers of the galley, wherein he was, represented him to the inquisitor-general as a person not only useless, but noysome to them, and the other slaves." He was then sent to the hospital at Murcia, and afterwards removed to the convent. Qu? Sir Hans Sloane. Escaping |