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In 1668 he was in Amsterdam, and acted as witness to the marriage of Hobbema, whose lack of worldly prosperity Ruysdael shared. He himself was unmarried, and maintained his father in his old age.
After spending two years in these labors, he obtained an appointment to connect himself with a mission established nearly a thousand miles west, far away upon the shores of Lake Superior. On the 21st of April, 1668, he left Quebec for Montreal. The distance was one hundred and eighty miles up the river.
It was only want of courage, and a general dismay and abjectness of spirit upon all our men; God Almighty's curse upon all that we have in hand, for never such an opportunity was of destroying so many good ships of theirs as we now had." To replace the Royal Charles carried away, a new ship was launched on the 4th of March, 1668, called the Charles; "God send her better luck than the former."
In 1668 he visited part of Germany; and in the year following made a wider excursion into Austria, Hungary, and Thessaly; where the Turkish sultan then kept his court at Larissa. He afterwards passed through Italy. His skill in natural history made him particularly attentive to mines and metallurgy.
It was found, too, that a comet seen in 1668 bore similar insignia of relationship. The natural inference was that these four bodies had once formed a single mass which had been split apart by the disruptive action of the sun.
In 1668 this marvellous personage published a book entitled the "History of Mohammed Bey; or, John Michel de Cigala, Prince of the Imperial Blood of the Ottomans." This work he dedicated to the French king, who was disposed to favour his pretensions.
Here we broke off, and I home to dinner, and after dinner set down my wife and Deb. at the 'Change, and I to make a visit to Mr. Godolphin William Godolphin was of Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660-61. He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on August 28th, 1668.
The warrant for a pardon to George, Duke of Buckingham, is dated January 27th, 1668; and on the following day was issued, "Warrant for a grant to Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, of pardon for killing William Jenkins, and for all duels, assaults, or batteries on George, Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Holmes, or any other, whether indicted or not for the same, with restitution of lands, goods, &c."
It has been traced back to 1668, when, on Davenant's death, it passed to John Otway: but not in its present or even late condition. V. The Lumley portrait, well known through the admirable chromo- lithograph, by Mr. It has been traced back to 1785. VI. The Ashbourne portrait. IX. The Hunt portrait: at the Birthplace.
Davenant, grateful for the old kindness of the ex-secretary, used his influence successfully with Charles to let the offender escape. This is certainly the greenest of Davenant's laurels. Without it, the world might not have heard one of the sublimest expressions of human genius. Davenant died in 1668.
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