cost with one another
[Sidenote: 60 lib.]
"The three new coaches made purposely for my aforesaid journey, with the
furniture for the 12 coach-horses, and with the saddles and bridles for
the rest, cost more than 3 score pounds
"The charge of wains to carry my goods from Trebon to Staden, they being
two and sometimes three (for more easy and light passage in some
places), cost above an hundred and ten pounds, which I account (for an
hundred of it) under my former sum of 600 lib. Under which 600 lib. also
I do account for the charges of the 24 soldiers, well appointed, which,
by virtue of the emperor's passport, I took up in my way from Diepholt,
and again from Oldenburgh; the charges of the six harquebusiers and
musqueteers, which the Earl of Oldenburgh lent me out of his own
garrison there: I gave to one with another a dollar a man for the day,
and their meat and drink full. For at the first, 18 enemies, horsemen,
well appointed, from Lingen and Wilstrusen, had lain five days attending
thereabout, to have sett upon me and mine; and at Oldeborch, a Scot (one
of the garrison) gave me warning of an ill-minded company lying and
hovering for me in the way which I was to pass, as by a letter may
appear here present. Of the former danger, the Landgrave of Hesse his
letters unto me may give some evidence.
"The charges of the four Swart Ruiters, very well mounted, and appointed
to attend on me at Staden, from Breme, being honourably and very
carefully sent unto me by the noble consuls and senators of Breme, and
that with a friendly farewell (delivered unto me by the speech of one of
their secretaries at my lodgings) need not be specified here what it
was. For their going with me in two days to Staden, their abode there,
and as much homeward, being in all five days' charges, 30 dollars.
"This was a very dangerous time to ride abroad in thereabouts, as the
merchants of Staden can well remember. The excellent learned theologian,
the superintendent of Breme, Mr D. Chrystopher Berzelius his verses,
printed the night before that of my going from Breme, and the morning of
my departure, openly delivered to me partly, and partly distributed to
the company of students and others attending about to see us set forth,
and to bid us farewell, may be a memorial of some of my good credit
grown in that city, and of the day of my coming from it.
"I will not enlarge my lines to specific what other charges I was at to
further some of he
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