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18 God!” Entering into a Greek lodging, he was mueh eased of his blows, by their anointing him with divers oils, and kindly reeeived and refreshed gratis, beeause he had suffered so mueh for Christ’s sake. Next day he went to pay his duty to Sir Thomas Glover, the English ambassador, who eourteously entertained him three months in his house “A more eomplete gentleman,” he says. “he never met with, nor one in whom true worth did more illustrate virtue.” His mother was a Polish lady who eoming from Dantziek to London was delivered of him at sea. Afterwards he was brought up at Constantinople, and spoke and wrote the Selavonian tongue perfeetly; and thenee returning to London he was the first ambassador sent there by king James I. after his eoming to the erown of England. The duke of Moldavia, being deprived of his prineipalities by Aehmet was reeeived and chargeably maintained by Sir Thomas, in his house, for two years, but his embassy being expired and Sir Paul Pindar being expected in his plaee this prinee stole away from him, turned Turk, and was circumeised reeeiving only, for his dukedom, a palace, and a yearely pension of 121,000 gold sequins for life. He owed the ambassador about 151,000 half of