4 A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR 



purg and Norimberg. But they passed afterwards not 

 so strictly for Vedallanta in the Empire, when some 

 turned merchants ; which, you know, is derogatory to 

 the German nobility. 



" I may speak it with a safe conscience, that I never, 

 all the days of my life, reflected seriously upon my pedi- 

 gree ; preferring my heavenly birth above all such vani- 

 ties, and afterwards studying more to this very day, to 

 be useful to God's creatures, and serviceable to his 

 church, than to be rich or honourable. 



" Let it not seem a paradox unto you, if I tell you, as 

 long as I have lived in England, by w^onderful provi- 

 dences, I have spent yearly out of my own betwixt ^3 or 

 J'^OO sterling a year. And when I was brought to public 

 allowances, I have had from the Parliaments and Coun- 

 cils of State a pension of o£*300 sterling a year, which 

 as freely I have spent for their service and the good of 

 many, 



" I could fill whole sheets in what love and reputation 

 I have lived these thirty years* in England; being 

 familiarly acquainted with the best of Archbishops, 

 Bishops, Earls, Yiscounts, Barons, Knights, Esquires, 

 Gentlemen, Ministers, Professors of both Universities, 

 Merchants, and all sorts of learned, or in any kind useful 

 men, &c. And that in all the three kingdoms, under all 



*Tlius dating from 1630, but in his publication, "J. Short 

 Letter, ^^ c&c, 1644, he mentions his acquaintance with Mr. Wood- 

 ward in 1628. 



