FAMILIAR LETTERS DOMESTICK and FOREIGN, Divided into Four BOOKS: HISTORICAL, Partly POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL: Upon Emergent Occasions. By JAMES HOWELL, Esq; The TENTH EDITION, very much Corrected. Ut clavis portam, fic pandit Epiftola pectus. LONDON: Printed for D. MIDWINTER, A. BETTESWORTH and TO HIS MAJESTY 亨 SIR, T HESE LETTERS address'd (most of them) to your best degrees of Subjects, do as fo many Lines drawn from the Circumference to the Centre, all meet in your Majefty; who as the Law ftyles you the Fountain of Honour and Grace, fo You fhould be the Centre of our Happiness. If your Majefty vouchsafe them a gracious Afpect, they may all prove Letters of Credit, if not Credential Letters, which Sovereign Princes ufe only to authorize: They venture to go abroad into the vast Ocean of the World as Letters of Mart, to try their Fortunes; and your Majefty being the greatest Lord of Sea under Heaven, is fittest to protect them; and then they will not fear any human Power. Moreover, as this Royal Protection fecures them from all danger, fo it will infinitely conduce to the profperity of their Voyage, and bring them to safe Port with rich Returns. |