Bern. When I heard of your Excellence’s arrival in this city, though I purposed to have gone from hence, yet I deferred my journey, to the end I might see you, because I have heard in the Emperor’s Court, as well by letters from her Most Serene Majesty of Sweden as from the Chancellor and other senators of that kingdom, what great satisfaction they had in the English Ambassador, etc. Now the league of friendship being concluded between the two nations, I hold myself obliged to make this salutation to your Excellence.
Wh. I have very many thanks to return to your Excellence for the honour you have done me by this visit, and for these expressions of affection and respect to the Protector, my master. I do acknowledge myself much engaged to the Ricks-Chancellor and senators of Sweden, and in the first place to her Majesty the Queen, for their favourable respect towards me whilst I was in my negotiation with them, whom I found full of honour, wisdom, and justice, in their transactions with me.
Bern. I have been for some time in the service of the Queen, my mistress, in Germany.
Wh. You met some of my countrymen in the Court of the Emperor, particularly a noble lord, whom I have the honour to know.
Bern. I met there the Earl of Rochester, who was at the Diet at Ratisbon.
Wh. What proposals did he make there?
Bern. He made a kind of precarious proposal in the name of the King, his master.
Wh. Did he obtain what he desired?
Bern. He did not much prevail in it, only he obtained a verbal promise of some money, but had no performance.
Wh. What occasion hath drawn your General Koningsmark with his forces at this time before Bremen?