have lost life and fortune.

I had procured Justice Hooker to be there, who was the oracle of all the
Justices of Peace in Middlesex.

There was nothing memorable after that happened unto me, until 1650, and
the month of October, at what time Captain Owen Cox brought me over from
his Majesty of Sweden, a gold chain and medal, worth about fifty pounds;
the cause whereof was, that in the year 1657 and 1658, I had made
honourable mention of him: the _Anglicus_ of 1658 being translated into
the language spoke at Hamburgh, printed and cried about the streets, as
it is in London.

The occasion of my writing so honourably of his Majesty of Sweden was
this: Sir Bolstrode Whitlock, Knight, upon the very time of Oliver's
being made Protector, having made very noble articles betwixt Christina
then Queen of Sweden, and the English nation, was in his being at
Stockholm visited frequently by Charles Gustavus, unto whom Christina
resigned during his abode, and used with all manner of civility by him,
insomuch as some other Ambassadors took it ill, that they had not so
much respect or equal: unto which he would reply, he would be kind where
himself did find just cause of merit unto any. He were a great lover of
our nation; but there were some other causes also moving my pen to be so
liberal, viz. The great hopes I had of his prevailing, and of taking
Copenhagen and Elsinore, which, if he had lived, was hoped he might have
accomplished; and had assuredly done, if Oliver the Protector had not so
untimely died ere our fleet of ships returned; for Oliver sent the fleet
on purpose to fight the Dutch; but dying, and the Parliament being
restored, Sir Henry Vane, who afterwards was beheaded, had order from
the Council of State to give order to the fleet what to do now Oliver
was dead, and themselves restored. Vane, out of state-policy, gave the
Earl of Sandwich direction not to fight the Dutch. Captain Symons, who
carried those letters, swore unto me, had he known the letters he
carried had contained any such prohibition, he would have sunk both ship
and letters. Oliver said, when the fleet was to go forth, 'That if God
blessed his Majesty of Sweden with Copenhagen, the English were to have
Elsinore as their share; which if once I have,' saith Oliver, 'the
English shall have the whole trade of the Baltick Sea: I will make the
Dutch find another passage, except they will pay such customs as I shall
impose.' Considering the advantages this wo