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Battologiam ab iteratione, recte distinguit Erasmus. Mod. Orandi Deum, p. 56-144 . Southwell's Thoughts of his own death . Baudius on Erasmus . The Bishop and much company dined at Lleweney. Talk of Greek and of the army . The Duke of Marlborough's officers useless. Read Phocylidis , distinguished the paragraphs. I looked in Leland: an unpleasant book of mere hints.
"One day, going into 'Will's, I saw a crowd of gentlemen gathered together, and heard one of them say, 'Captain Wood! I don't know the man; but there was a Captain Wood in Southwell's regiment. Egad, it was my Lord Peterborough himself who was talking about me.
He was a personal acquaintance of Sir Robert Southwell, the diplomatist, and of Southwell's intimate friend, William Blathwayt, an influential English official interested in the colonies. He had been in the employ of the government, and now, probably at the instance of Southwell and Blathwayt, he was selected to fill the difficult and thankless post of commissioner to New England.
It is certain too that the king considered him as the chief promoter of Miss Stewart's marriage, and resented it in the highest degree. From one of Sir Robert Southwell's dispatches, dated Lisbon, December ?/12, 1667, it appears that the report of the queen's intended divorce had not then subsided in her native country. History of the Revolutions of Portugal, 1740, p. 352.
These are, needless to say, meditations upon death by law and violence; and so are the ingenious rhymes of Chidiock Tichborne, written after his last prose in his farewell letter to his wife "Now, Sweet-cheek, what is left to bestow on thee, a small recompense for thy deservings" and singularly beautiful prose is this. So also are Southwell's words.
After he had made some Motions, as they always do, he went directly out of one of the three Gaps, as exactly as if he had not been blindfolded, and kept muttering to himself, having a Stick in his Hand, with which, after some time, he struck two Strokes very hard upon the Ground, and made thereon a Cross, after which he told the Indian's Name that had stoln the Goods, and said, that he would have a Cross on his Back; which prov'd true; for when they took and search'd him, there appear'd two great Wheals on his Back, one cross the other; for the Thief was at Governor Southwell's House, and was under no Apprehension of being discover'd.
Southwell's Plantation, as firmly as any Man can believe any thing of that which is told him by honest Men, and he has not seen; not at all doubting the Credit of my Authors. Their chief Remedy as I have seen them make use of, is, the Oil of Acorns, but from which sort of Oak I am not certain. They cure Burns beyond Credit.
While the troops worked these five guns and the three captured in Southwell's first attack Jack Stilwell was sent off on horseback at full speed with an order for the landing of the heavy guns and mortars from the fleet. The news of the attack on Montjuich and the retreat of the Spanish column spread with rapidity through the country, and swarms of armed peasants flocked in.
It is certain too that the king considered him as the chief promoter of Miss Stewart's marriage, and resented it in the highest degree. From one of Sir Robert Southwell's dispatches, dated Lisbon, December 12, 1667, it appears that the report of the queen's intended divorce had not then subsided in her native country. History of the Revolutions of Portugal, 1740, p. 352.
So he walked freely abroad during these days to see the sights; and even ventured to pay a visit to Fathers Garnett and Southwell, two Jesuits that arrived a month ago, and were for the present lodging in my Lord Vaux's house in Hackney. He was astonished at Father Southwell's youthfulness.
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