66 "few Days, and a great many of our best and most worthy Friends dead, among whom is our Friend, Andrew Ammonius, whofe Death I am concerned to "think will be an Affliction to you alfo, as Learning and all good Men will have a very confiderable Lofs in him. He feemed, in his own Opinion, to be very well guarded against the Infection, by his temperate "Way of Living, which he thought was the Reason that, as fcarce any Perfon had this Illness, but the whole Family had it alfo at the fame time, his whole Family had before escaped it; which he boafted of to me, "and many others, not many Hours before he died: "For no one dies of this Sweat if he furvives the first Day he is fiezed with it. I, my Wife, and Chil"dren, have escaped it hitherto, and all the rest of my Family are got well again: And this I affure • you, that there is lefs Danger in the Country than in "the City. This Diftemper, as I am informed, is now beginning to rage at Calais, at a Time when "we are obliged to go thither upon an Ambaffy, as "if it were not fufficient for us to have lived in the "Infection, but must follow it alfo: But, as in every 66 Thing in which we are engaged, we must submit "to whatever fhall befal us, I have compofed my "Mind to all forts of Events. I with you your "Health. I write in hafte. Soon after the writing this Letter he proceeded on his Ambaffy to Flanders, and, when he had fully executed his Maiter's Commands, he returned to England. Having acquitted himself much to the King's Satisfaction, his Majesty was pleafed to offer him a Penfion, which he refufed, and the Reasons he affigned for it he fets forth in another Letter to his Friend Erafmus, in which he fays, "When I returned from my Ambaffy to Flanders, the King's Majefty would have given me a yearly ་ "yearly Penfion, which furely, if we would refpect "Honour and Profit, was not to be a little esteemed; yet have I hitherto refufed, and think I fhall refuse it ftill, because I fhould be fain to forfake my pre"fent Means, which I have already in the City of "London,* (and I efteem that more than a better) " or else I must keep it with fome Diflike of the Citizens, between whom and his Highness if there "fhould happen any Controverfy, as fometimes it "doth chance, about their Priviledges, they might "fufpect me as not fincere and trufty to them, in "cafe I fhould be obliged to the King for an annual "Stipend." + * Senior Judge of the Sheriffs Court. + This Letter fhews Sir Thomas More's Prudence, and how jealous the Citizens of London have early been in refpect to afferting and maintaining their Rights and Priviledges against all Incroachments; and, to their Honour, it must be acknowledged, that they have, on feveral important Occafions, firmly afferted theirs and their fellow Subjects Liberties, against the Defigns of fome who would have invaded them in the most fenfible Part; and it will be great Pity, (because her Destruction must inevitably enfue) if she should ever deviate from this plain, good, old Path. And we are not without hopes, that, notwithflanding this our great Metropolis and the whole Nation are at present but too fenfible of the great Decay of Trade, and Growth of Luxury, they will revive in the one, and abandon the other: So, with our most earnest Defires, that All may ftrive to forward this glorious Work, we fhall conclude our Second Volume. INDE X. A Bbots, mitred, entertained by Aberdeen, Earl of, 198. in the 2d, 115- -in the 3d, 207-in the 4th, 142-in the 5th, 260-in the 6th, 267. Act, paffed in the Parliament of Ireland, 274. Aa, for electing a Lord Juftice of Ireland, 253Adrian, Preceptor to Charles of Auftria, is fent into Spain, to take Care of his Master's Intereft, 306-demands an Audience of Ferdinand, ib. is at laft admitted, 307 produces Letters Patents from his Master to the Council of Caftile, conftituting him Regent in his Abfence, 309 but admitted as Joint-Regent only, ib.made a Cardinal, 371. Admirals Ships, two burnt in one Action, 125. Africanus, Scipio, 38. Agent to the Pope, 117. Albany, Duke of, 270-chofe Regent of Scotland, ib.eafy at the K. of England, ib. --- un ib. writes fharply to the Pope, -his Father banished, 271 -employs Hepburne, Bishop of Murray, ib.-flights Lord Hume, ib. fiezes on the young King, ib. fwears Allegiance to him, ib. fends Ambaffadors to Henry, ib. and to treat with the Fugitives, 272 engaged in a Confpiracy against England, 339 fends a fpecial Ambaffador to Henry the VIIIth, -obtains a Truce with England, ib. the Humes, with the Earls of Arran and Lenox, rebel against him, 362 361 pardons them, ib.- -fresh Plots against him by the Humes, ib. reftores Peace, 363brings the King from SterlingCaffle to Edinburgb, ib. commits the Government to a Regency, and returns to France, ib. Alliance between the Swiss and France expired, 60. Alliance between the Scotch and the English more natural than with France, 118. Alexander, King James of Scotland's natural Son, 197. Albert, John d, King of Na varre, fends Forces to recover his Dominions, under the Command mand of the famous Marshal, Albert, Henry d, to have the - - - tian Forces, ib takes Pef- Alcoran, burnt, 33. Angola, taken by the Porta- Antonio, Juftiniani's Speech to the 222. Anchor, Sheet, 261. - Angus, Earl of, 270-flies into |