. England as seen by foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and James the First : comprising translations of the journals of the two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610 : both illustrative of Shakespeare : with extracts from the travels of foreign princes and others, copious notes, an introduction, and etchings . nder of sixty head. Otto attended a LordMayors feast: he sat at the side of the Lord Mayor, who waswaited on by pages, his sword hanging against the wall; andduring the banquet an excellent alto sang to the is mentioned incidentally that a pound of tobacco which wassold i
. England as seen by foreigners in the days of Elizabeth and James the First : comprising translations of the journals of the two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610 : both illustrative of Shakespeare : with extracts from the travels of foreign princes and others, copious notes, an introduction, and etchings . nder of sixty head. Otto attended a LordMayors feast: he sat at the side of the Lord Mayor, who waswaited on by pages, his sword hanging against the wall; andduring the banquet an excellent alto sang to the is mentioned incidentally that a pound of tobacco which wassold in several houses in London, like brandy in Hesse, cost atthat time (1611) 330 florins !^ The Prince, it would seem, also made a tour through a poem descriptive of the Palsgraves Countrey, writtenby William Fennor, His Maiesties Seruant (Descriptions^ \6i6,4to.), Prince Otto is introduced very favourably as follows:— Yong Prince o^ Hesson is the first must enter, to act his vertues on the worlds Theater;Tis hard to finde a yorg man on earths center, that is a vertue lover and vice Landsgraves glasse hath many houres to runne, whilst all his vertues liveth in the Sonne. Otto, Prince of Hesse, died in 1617, from the effects of a gunaccident, two months after his second marriage. u I. XIV. JOHN ERNEST, DUKE OF SAXE-WEIMAR, 1613. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. /=5;:S5:g:5\ VISIT TO KING JAMES I. AT THEOBALDS IN 1613, MADE BY JOHN ERNEST, DUKE OF SAXE-WEIMAR. John Ernest, called the younger, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, was born in 1594. ^*^studied at Jena, and in 1613-14 travelled through France, England, and theNetherlands, under the name of Herr von Hornstein. An account of this journeywas written by J. W. Neumayr von Ramssla and printed at Leipzig, 1620, the title of Des durchlauchtigen hochgebornen Fiirsten und Herrn, HerrnJohann Ernsten des Jungern, Hertzogen zu Sachsen, &c., Reise in Franckreich,Engelland und Niederland (reprinted at Jena, 1734, by J. G.
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