there, and lies buried in the garden-house, where they then lived.

Whilst we were in Madrid, there was sent one Askew, as resident from
the then Governor of England; he lay in a common eating-house where
some travellers used to lie, and being one day at dinner, some young
men meeting in the street with Mr. Prodgers, a gentleman belonging to
the Lord Ambassador Cottington, and Mr. Sparks, an English merchant,
discoursing of news, began to speak of the impudence of that Askew, to
come a public minister from rebels to a Court where there were two
Ambassadors from his King. This subject being handled with heat, they
all resolved to go without more consideration into his lodgings
immediately and kill him: they came up to his chamber door, and
finding it open, and he sat at dinner, seized him, and so killed him,
and went their several ways. Afterwards they found Mr. Sparks in a
church for rescue, notwithstanding it was contrary to their religion
and laws, and they forced him out from thence, and executed him
publicly, their fears of the English power were then so great.

There was at that time the Lord Goring, son to the Earl of Norwich: he
had a command under Philip the Fourth of Spain, against the
Portuguese: he was generally esteemed a good and great commander, and
had been brought up in Holland in his youth, of vast natural parts;
for I have heard your father say, he hath dictated to several persons
at once that were upon despatches, and all so admirably well, that
none of them could be mended. He was exceeding facetious and pleasant
company, and in conversation, where good manners were due, the
civilest person imaginable, so that he would blush like a girl. He was
very tall, and very handsome: he had been married to a daughter of the
Earl of Cork, but never had a child by her. His expenses were what he
could get, and his debauchery beyond all precedents, which at last