_An Adventurer in 1632._--I transcribe from a manuscript letter now
before me, dated "Tuesday, Whitsun-week, 1632," the following passage.
Can you or any of your correspondents give me (or tell me where I am
likely to find) any further information of the adventurer there named?
"Heer is much Speach of the Brauery of a Porter yt hath taken a
Braue House, and hath his Coach & 4 Horses. Ye Lord Mayor examined
him how he gott yt Wealth: he answered nothing. Then ye Lords of
ye Council gott out of him, that he being the Pope's Brother Borne
in Essex, Goodman Linges Sonnes, was maintained by him, and
tempted much to have come over to him: these 2 Brothers beings
Ship Boyes to a French pirate, the porter gott meanes to come
againe into England, but ye other being a Witty Boy was sould to a
Coortier in Paris, who trauelling to Florence, thear bestowed his
Boy of a Great Man, who when he dyed tooke such affection to this
Boy, yt changeing his name to his owne left his estate to him: and
so in time grew a Florentine, a Cardinall, & now Pope, ye greatest
linguist for the Latine yt ever was."