870° ~ANNUAL REGISTER, i803. 
ag for tle hovor of my court; and dence of my officers, yet these pti 
although there be many other things culers hereafter sett downe my will 
very requisite to be considered of and pleasure is to be especially ob- 
concerning the same, which I must served and respected. ; 
reierre to the diligence and provi- That when I am at divine service 
culties of every branch of it, how he insisted upon-every doubt, until by the best) 
experienced and practised both in sea services and in navigation, with reasons and) 
demonstrations he became fully satisfied, and that done, how narrowly and neerly 
he searched into every knot, both of the honour and utility, and of the danger and) 
charge that an attempt of that nature would draw with it, and ceased not untill he: 
understood every particular of the same, and especially the yeerly charge which’ 
that whole expedition would amount unto; which having found so very reason- 
able, and the hopes so great, and all doubts so well resolved, to shew the valour 
of his own heart, hee openly protested to such as were present, that should the 
king his father bee pleased, upon any, future occasion to breake with Spaine, him- 
selie (if so it should agree with his majesties pleasure) would, in person, become: 
the executor of that noble attempt for the West Indies. 
“ He so distributed the day by dividing his houres into the services of God, to: 
the apting himselfe to the office hee was born unto, both in government civill and: 
mihtary, and to necessary exercises and regreations, as no part of if could: be in 
vaine bestowed; to inable his knowledge of government civill, lie read histories), 
the knowledge of things passed conducing much to resolution in things present,) 
and to prevention of those to come. 
“In the military, hee added thereunto the mathematicks, study of cosmo- 
graphy, and had one that. instructed him in the matter and forme of fortificas 
tions, 
‘© For practice, hee used in a manner daily to ride and manage great horses: 
with which hee had. his’ stables most excellently furnished, eftimes to ranne 
at the ring, and sometimes at. tilt, both which he so well and dexterously 
performed, and with so great a comelinesse, as in those first. yeares, he be- 
came second to no prince in Christendome, and to many that practised with him, 
much superiour, suit 
“ His other exercises were dancing, leaping, and in times of yeare fit for learn- 
ing to swimme, at sometimes walking fast and farre, to accustome and enable 
himself: to make a long march when time should require it; but most of all at 
tennis play, wherein, to speak the truth, which in all things [ especially affect, 
hee. neither observed moderation, nor what appértained to his dignity and per- 
son, continuing. oftimes his play for the space of three or foure houres, and: 
the same in, his shirt, rather becoming) an artizan than a prince, who, in things 
of that nature, are only to affect comelinesse, or rather a kinde of careless-: 
nesse In shew, to make, their activities seeme the more naturall, thena laborious: 
and toiling industry. F : 
“ Of this, and.of his diet, wherein he shewed too much inclination to excessive: 
eating, of fruits, he was, as in al other things, content to heare advice, but in these: 
two particulars not to follow it. 
“ In other, play or gaming he, shewed himselfe- not much: inclined, yet would 
sometimes play at Obesse, at Biliors, and at Cards, but so very nobly and like him- 
selfe, as plainly shewed his. use of it to be only for recreation, not for appetite of 
gaine ; for whether he woune or lost, his countenance was ever the same, and, 
or the most part, greater appearances of mirth in him when he was in losse, 
than when he wonne, thereby plainly demonstrating both his judgment:in adven- 
turing no more. than what be.made no regard of if he lost it; and: his princely, 
galt : z magnanimity 
