ceedings being much in use with King James, who, like a ready horse, did often seeme to the world as if he meant to runne, yet did little more in effect then stand still. But here my pen is stopped through indisposition; wherefore I must conclude this under the notion at least of a first part. THE COURT AND CHARACTER OF KING JAMES. WHEREUNTO IS ADDED, THE COURT OF KING CHARLES: CONTINUED UNTO THE BEGINNING OF THESE UNHAPPY TIMES, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON HIM INSTEAD OF A CHARACTER. COLLECTED AND PERFECTED BY SIR A, W. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. PRINTED AT LONDON BY R. J. AND ARE TO BE SOLD BY J. COLLINS, IN LITTLE BRITTAINE, 1651. INTRODUCTION. Or Sir Anthony Welldon, the author of the following treatise, we know but little; and that little having been chiefly preserved by the industrious malice of those who wrote against him, is not entitled to unlimited credit. His native country was Kent, and his father was clerk of the kitchen, or held some such office in the household of Queen Elizabeth. Sir Anthony Welldon himself was preferred to be one of the clerks of the Board of Green Cloth. In this capacity, he attended James I. upon his visit to his ancient and original kingdom. But the fare of Scotland, even when amended for the presence of her native monarch, was but indifferently suited to the hereditary taste of Sir Anthony Welldon, educated, as it were, among the |