Of the former danger, the Landgrave of Hesse his
letters unto me may give some evidence.
"The charges of the four Swart Ruiters, very well mounted, and appointed
to attend on me at Staden, from Breme, being honourably and very
carefully sent unto me by the noble consuls and senators of Breme, and
that with a friendly farewell (delivered unto me by the speech of one of
their secretaries at my lodgings) need not be specified here what it
was. For their going with me in two days to Staden, their abode there,
and as much homeward, being in all five days' charges, 30 dollars.
"This was a very dangerous time to ride abroad in thereabouts, as the
merchants of Staden can well remember. The excellent learned theologian,
the superintendent of Breme, Mr D. Chrystopher Berzelius his verses,
printed the night before that of my going from Breme, and the morning of
my departure, openly delivered to me partly, and partly distributed to
the company of students and others attending about to see us set forth,
and to bid us farewell, may be a memorial of some of my good credit
grown in that city, and of the day of my coming from it.
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