Arthur Plantagenet, viscount Lisle, natural son to King Edward IV. was
imprisoned in the thirty-third year of Henry VIII. upon suspicion, that
he designed to betray Calais to the French, when he was governor of that
important garrison; but the accusation proving false, and the king
willing to repair the dishonour he had sustained, sent him a diamond
ring, and a kind message by his secretary of state Sir Thomas
Wriothesly; at which the viscount was so over-joyed and transported to
excess of satisfaction, that the night following, of that very joy he
died.
Cinan Cuffutus Judæus being at Arsinoe, a port upon the Red Sea, making
war upon the Portuguese, by commission from the grand signior Solyman,
he there received the news, that his son Selechus was made a slave at
the taking of Tunis, but being soon after informed that he was redeemed
by Haradienus, made admiral of seven ships of war, and with them was at
anchor before Alexandria, and from thence resolved to join him very
suddenly. This notice of his son’s unexpected freedom, and his being
preferred to such a post of honour, so surprized and overwhelmed the old
man with excess of joy; that he swooned at the hearing of it, and at the
arrival of his son he died in his arms.
[[Source:
Original: _The wonders of the little world; or, A general history of
man, displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and
defects of the human body and mind_, Volume 2. Nathanial Wanley,
1678.
Original title of essay: Of Extraordinary Joy, and the Effects It
Has Produced
Abridged edition: _The history of man: displaying the various powers,
faculties, capacities ..._ 1746, Volume II.
Later edition: 1806, ed. William Johnston, has “Sinan Ceffutus
Judæus”, “Haradienus Barbarossa” and more details.