1612.] THE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY. i6i 



himself, he told the king that he spoke Latin like a 

 king, and that his majesty spake like a Master of 

 Arts, and so he excused himself and his false 

 Latin." 



Secretary Conway, in a despatch from Newmarket* 

 says : " I desired in your grace's name, my Lord 

 Chamberlain's advice w^hat from the king, what from 

 your particular, might be done to honour the ambas- 

 sador, and what with best lustre.* To this he said, 

 the place must be Cambridge, Newmarket being able 

 to bear nothing of grace ; that on the king's part, the 

 general entertainment would be as good as is pos- 

 sible ; that the kinof ofave them one meal at his own 

 table ; and that his majesty must be pleased to send 

 to my Lord Suffolk to lend furniture of two lodgings 

 for the ambassador, with drawing-rooms and a dining- 

 room, and likewise to give order, as most proper to 

 his authority, for all that can be added by the 

 University." f 



The kinof and court were ao-ain at Newmarket 

 in the spring of the year 1612, when Sir Henry 

 Vane *^ was knighted ; but the royal so- 

 journ on this occasion passed off without 

 any eventful incidents. 



* " Thomas Footes gentleman vsher daylie vvayter to the Kynges Ma'" 

 for the allowance of himselfe, one yeoman vsher, three yeoman hangers, 

 two gromes of the Chamber, two groomes of the Wardrobe, and one 

 groom porter, for makeinge readie at Newmarkett for the Prince Palatyne 

 six dayes, and Counte Henricke six dayes, and at Royston for the Prince 

 six dayes, and at Theobaldes six dayes, in all by the space of xxiiij" 

 dayes in the monthes of November and December 1612 xxiij" xij"." — 

 Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber of the Household, series I., 

 box G., bundle 4, m. 11 d. 



t MS. Tanner, Oxon, Ixxiii., 397. 



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