acquainted him with my negotiation, which he well approved; and, to testify his great respect to your Highness and this Commonwealth, he came in person to visit me at my house, and used me with so much extraordinary favour and ceremony, that never the like had been done before to any ambassador.  We had several conferences at large, much discourse of your Highness and of this Commonwealth, with the particulars whereof I shall acquaint you at your better leisure.

“The time of the Queen’s resignation being near, I thought it not convenient for me to be then upon the place, but removed to Stockholm; where I was when the resignation and new coronation were solemnized at Upsal.  The magistrates of Stockholm expressed good respect to your Highness and this Commonwealth.  From hence I embarked the 1st of June, in a good ship of the Queen’s, to cross the Baltic Sea.  She sent one of her Vice-Admirals, Clerke, to attend me; and, after a dangerous voyage and bad weather, the Lord gave us a safe arrival at Luebeck, on the 7th of June.  The magistrates, by their Syndic, here bid me welcome and expressed some respect, and made some requests by me to your Highness.

“From Luebeck I travelled over Holstein and Lueneburg, and came the 10th of June to Hamburg; where I was also very civilly saluted by some of the magistrates and Syndic; and most of the Lords came afterwards to me, and testified extraordinary respect and service to your Highness and this Commonwealth.  My countrymen, the company of Merchant Adventurers there, showed very much kindness to me, and I endeavoured to do them service to the Lords of the town, making use of your Highness’s name therein.

“I departed from Hamburg the 17th of June; Mr. Bradshaw, your Highness’s worthy Resident there, and others of my countrymen, showing much kindness to me, both whilst I was there and at my departure from this city.  I embarked in your Highness’s frigate, near Glueckstadt, but was detained for some days in the Elbe by cross winds, and in some danger, but in more when we came into the open sea.  But above all, the Lord was pleased to appear for us on the 28th day of June, when our ship stuck upon the sands, above twelve leagues off from the coast of Yarmouth:  and when there was no means or help of men for our escape, but we expected every moment to be drowned by the waves, then it pleased God to show his power and free mercy by his own hand to deliver us, and, after two hours’ expectation of death, to reprieve us, to set our ship on float again, and to bring us all in health and safety to your Highness’s presence, and to our dear country and relations.

“The Queen and the new King were pleased to honour me with jewels off their pictures, and a gift of copper, I having bestowed my horses (of more worth) on them and whom they appointed, and which I refused to sell, as a thing uncomely for my condition in your Highness’s service.