August 6, 1642
August 6, 1642
The story as it unfolds:

Edmund, in Huntingdon, climbs a Hill, and is discovered by a near relation;  Sydney, in Buckinghamshire, reads the News. We Compliment the Earl of Cumberland; recently named the King's Lord-Lieutenant of York; congratulate those other people of honor and quality who answered the King's call; we for ourselves call upon them to surrender.

 

From the section: Histories

 

Huntingdon - I climbed the hill of old King John’s Castle and sat there and looked across the Ouse, to Godmanchester.Later perhaps I willl go there. I am of all men most damned and cant but be convinced the outer darkness is the place prepared for me. Later maybe I will go there, I will see her house, and the spire.

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Observe the Caballeros! The brothers John and Thomas Smith, in Monkish hoods and Artificial whiskers, how they Ride Hard from the Gates of London to the Coast! Our Gallants Hire passage in Dover; New Mounts in Calais: Ho, for Paris! and that great dirty Garrison, Choked with Soldiers, the Court of the King of France, the Palace of the Louvre!  (Their Eagerness such that Smith the Younger falls at least Thrice from his Mount; four Times, according to some Authorities, between Calais and Breteuil.) From a Gallery, one Henrietta Maria is observed, Twirling about a Ballroom amidst Nineteen Maidens; and tho’ interested is Piqued, our Heros tarry not:  they Hearken unto the Horn of a Love More Supreme! On to Bordeaux! Through Guienne , and Gascony (where, the inns Meatless as a Friday among Cistercians, Smith the Younger purchases a Goat, and Dispatches it with a Pistol, Smith Elder having Wrassled it to the Dirt; perhaps a Rustick sort of Masque for the Governing Principles of the Stuarts? Yet we Run Ahead of ourselves.) Bellies Full, they Ford the Bidassoa, and thereby Gain the Plains of Spain.

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From the section: Letters

 

Dear Firth, thank you for the News from Portsmouth. Please return to London, draw travel-money from your father (the Anglia Rediviva account) and make your way to Northhampton, where the armies of Parliament are mustering. Please send observations to London (my house, not the Firm). I trust you will avoid temptation and not behave scandalously, that is, enroll in a school of dancing, or  join a troupe of tumblers, or similar behaviors that sadly characterize your past.

Should you see Mr Halpenny, it's likely best you indicate to him you're inspecting an ironworks, or something like that, and that it's your understanding I am in Dover bargaining for currants from the Levant, or a suchlike product.

Mr. Holyfen, at Beacon Manor, Ivinghoe

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