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INTRODUCTION
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passage was made in three hours and a half. The "Catche"
was anchored off Dover and the passengers were landed in
small boats, while " the Stuffe went about into the Haven'."
That night, the 13th September, 1620, the first that Mundy
had spent on English soil since January, 1618, he slept at
the " Grayhound." Meanwhile, Pindar was welcomed home
by his brother Ralph and his kinsman, Mr Spike. At
Dover, Mr Lane, who seems to have been Pindar's purveyor
and paymaster, hired "a great Waggon2" to convey the
baggage to Gravesend, and sent it off in charge of seven
servants. The remainder of the party left Dover on the
14th September and reached the Chequer's Inn at Canter-
bury the same evening. Mundy found the " Cathedrall
Church" with its "multitude of windowes of coloured
glasse" very "goodly to behold'2." The city, too, he
describes as having " faire streets and Shopps well fur-
nished2."
On the 15th September, the party proceeded, via
Sittingbourne and Rochester, to Gravesend, where Pindar,
who had been "deteyned and entertained3" by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, overtook them. Thence, they went
up the Thames in two gigs. At Blackwall, five coaches
were in readiness to convey the travellers to Pindar's house
at Islington, where Mundy slept on the 16th and 17th
September. On the 18th, he took leave of the ex-ambas-
sador, " humbly thancking him for divers favours received
of him5."
Whether Mundy had any intercourse with Pindar during
his sojourn at Constantinople, or whether he only obtained
permission to travel in Pindar's suite through the influence
of Lawrence Greene, is uncertain. It is clear, however,
that his relations with the ambassador must have been
sufficiently intimate for Pindar to form an estimate of
his ability and for Mundy to have cause to regard his
patron with affection as well as gratitude. To Pindar was
entrusted, fourteen years later, the account of Miindy's
1 See p. 134.
M.
2 See p. 135.
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passage was made in three hours and a half. The "Catche"
was anchored off Dover and the passengers were landed in
small boats, while " the Stuffe went about into the Haven'."
That night, the 13th September, 1620, the first that Mundy
had spent on English soil since January, 1618, he slept at
the " Grayhound." Meanwhile, Pindar was welcomed home
by his brother Ralph and his kinsman, Mr Spike. At
Dover, Mr Lane, who seems to have been Pindar's purveyor
and paymaster, hired "a great Waggon2" to convey the
baggage to Gravesend, and sent it off in charge of seven
servants. The remainder of the party left Dover on the
14th September and reached the Chequer's Inn at Canter-
bury the same evening. Mundy found the " Cathedrall
Church" with its "multitude of windowes of coloured
glasse" very "goodly to behold'2." The city, too, he
describes as having " faire streets and Shopps well fur-
nished2."
On the 15th September, the party proceeded, via
Sittingbourne and Rochester, to Gravesend, where Pindar,
who had been "deteyned and entertained3" by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, overtook them. Thence, they went
up the Thames in two gigs. At Blackwall, five coaches
were in readiness to convey the travellers to Pindar's house
at Islington, where Mundy slept on the 16th and 17th
September. On the 18th, he took leave of the ex-ambas-
sador, " humbly thancking him for divers favours received
of him5."
Whether Mundy had any intercourse with Pindar during
his sojourn at Constantinople, or whether he only obtained
permission to travel in Pindar's suite through the influence
of Lawrence Greene, is uncertain. It is clear, however,
that his relations with the ambassador must have been
sufficiently intimate for Pindar to form an estimate of
his ability and for Mundy to have cause to regard his
patron with affection as well as gratitude. To Pindar was
entrusted, fourteen years later, the account of Miindy's
1 See p. 134.
M.
2 See p. 135.