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Show ming from an Audience ~t S. ~ermat4s . , , _, the Secretary of Ceremomes bemg in the Coach +.rith him, it chanced that in one place a great munber of people were in the way teeing an execution. His Coach. man \nd PoHilion dnTing boldly through the company , the Archers, which ufe to attend executions with iho(t pieces, being angry to fee the execution difl:urb'd,made after the Coach , fhot his Pofl:ilion and · ~oachman, and throughthe Coach, even through his Hat : And the King offering to hang three or four of them at his gate, if he pleafed, he pardoned them All. In ~his J ourney between France and Sucdcn he dyed, putting off Minillers that carne to him with, Non novi vos, as they fay. But, how !itt/& of prDbability t here u in that Jaying , or any Juch lik.! , may appear /Jy th is N arrative ~f his <JJeath , which I "'Me1itta c4·• htff:VC tranflated O$ti of Dr. Cafaubon, * M /~t.ub. de u(11 followeth : verbomm, Becaule we defire the Meq10ry of this Lond. 1647. Great Man fil'Juld be deano all Lovers _ of Venue and Learning, a~cording to his • moll High Deferts coward the Commonwealth of Good Letters, I have eallly ob~ tained of My felf, to infert here , and tQ communicate to the candid and ingenu· ous Reader , what hath come unto my • hands b'y th¢ help and favour of fome Friends , concerning the End of fo excel· lent a Perfon~ i·~ ~ Letter of Q:t,iftorpiUJ, ' · "' · the primary Profeffor of Theolo~y at Ro- . · · '"' ftoch ... .. ' ftoch, fet forth at e.Amfterdam. * You are earnefl with me, to relate •J. ~i/ltKpil the laH: a a of that Pha:nix of learned men EPiflolll. ~Hugo qrotim , and how he behaved floch. se,e. himfelf, when he took his leave of this 16+1· world. Here take ic, briefly thus. He..,_ took ihip at Stock_.hotm , bound for Lu-bec. At Sea he met with a great Storm~ ' and having been beaten with it, and tof-fed for the fpace of three dayes, he fuffers Shipwrack, and is caH upon the fhore of Caj[ubia lick and weak : Thence, in ave-ry incommodious Journey , and a rainy feafon , paffing fixty miles and more , he is brought a; length to ~ftoch. He dl-vercs co Balemannia , and fends for Dr. Stochman the Phyfician; who obferving the weaknels of his body , by reafon of age, fhipwrack , and the incommodities of the journey , prefageth the end of his life to be at hand. The next day after his entrance into this City (which in the old {lyle was the XVIII. of eAuguft) ~bout IX. at night he rcquefteth me to vifit ..... him. I came , .and found the Man ap-proaching neer to the agony of death :I faluted him, and fignifyed how happy I fhou1d have been to have had conference with him, had he been in health. His anf-wer was, Ita Deo vifum [Hit: Thus it hath pleafed God. I go on , and advife him to compofe himfelf to a happy depar- ~ure , to a~kp.owledge himf~lf. a finner ) ~nd repent of whatfoever he had done a .. mils |
