DXCVIII LE SECRÉTAIRE L^ DORCHESTER A SIR ISAAC WAKE

My ver y good Lo^ :

Barozzi doth attend hère to receive answere of such letters he writes upon this occasion, and I beleeve it is in expectation to bee confermed hère till the comming of the Spannish A^lb^ Meane while Rubens stayes hère likwise, and Cize niakes no hast away, who had good lucke to stay behinde Barozzi on Tuesday last (16-26 June) when in shooting London Bridge he had his boate overturned by the frightfull stirring of one of his companye (a churchman) as then employed to Rubens from Brussells whome Barozzi was conducting to Greenwich and was there drowned. Barozzi himself being hardly saved at his third and last coming up to the top of the water by one of his spurres. Your acquaintance little Oliver who was one of that companie went up and

downe like a Divedapper, and at iength was taken up neare the a juillet 1629. Towre,

I wish yo' L^ health with ail happines ever resting &c.

DORCHESTER

Au dos : To S' Isaac Wake the 22*^ of June (2 juillet) 1629 by Hans Benns.

Londres. Public Record Office. Savoy and Sardinia, ly. Noël Saixsbury, op. cit. p. i33.

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