eginning of
May. Your Highness will not expect many arguments of your servant's
longing desires of returning, when he had advice that your frigates
sent for him were in the Elbe; yet, judging it might conduce to your
service to salute the Prince, I staid till his entry (which was in
great state) into Upsal, where I saluted him from your Highness, and
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 som