one do know. Heretofore, as it is reported, he was not so Cruel,
but now none escapes, that serves in his Palace. Then he recruits
his Slain out of the Countries, by giving Orders to his Dissava's
or Governors to send him others to Court. Whither they go like an Ox
to the Slaughter, but with far more heavy hearts. For both they and
their Parents full well know what end the King's honorable Service
will bring them to. Howbeit there is no remedy. Being thus by Order
sent unto the Court, their own Parents must provide for and maintain
them, until the King is pleased to call them to his Use which it may
be will not be in some years. Sometimes it happens, that the Boys
thus brought, before the King makes use of them about his Person,
are grown too big, and so escape. But those that are employed in the
Palace, enjoy this favour, That all such Taxes, Customs, or other
Duties belonging to the King, which their Fathers were wont to pay,
are released, until such time as they are discharged from the King's
Employment; which is always either by Execution, or by being given to
somebody for perpetual Bondmen. During the time of the King's favour,
he is never admitted to go home to Visit his Parents and Friends. The
Malekind may come to see him, but no Women are admitted, be it his
Mother that bare him. And after he is killed, tho' for what no man
knows, he is accounted a Rebel and Traitor against the King: and then
his Father's House, Land and Estate is seized on for the King. Which
after some time by giving of Fees and Gifts to the great ones, they do
redeem again: And sometimes the whole Family and Generation perish, as
I said before. So that after a Lad is taken into the King's Palace, his
Kindred are afraid to acknowledge Alliance to him. But these matters
may more properly be related, when we come to speak of his Tyranny.

[His Pleasure Houses.] Sometimes for his Pleasure, he will ride or
be carried to his Banquetting-House, which is about a Musquet-shot
from his Palace. It stands on a little Hill; where with abundance
of pains and many Months labour, they have made a little Plain,
in length not much above an Arrows flight, in breadth less. Where
at the head of a small Valley, he hath made a Bank cross to stop the
Water running down. It is now become a fine Pond, and exceeding full
of Fish. At this Place the King hath several Houses built according
to his own appointment very handsom, born up with carved Pillars and
Painted, and