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"There is little doubt that Williamson's part in the establishment of an efficient intelligence and espionage system was an important one. It gives an insight to the remarkable man Williamson mentioned by Michael above. Duke to Secretary Williamson, The Hague"įor anyone interested in the purely covert world a good book is Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685. "A government agent's report gave the number as 40, of which only 15 were said to be warships: R.
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The OED gives a gloss for 'tiger's milk' as "an acrid white juice of Excœcaria Agallocha, a small euphorbiaceous East Indian tree," but I doubt that this has any connection, since what Evelyn described did not sound like a juice. It induced sweating." She goes on to quote the passage from Evelyn Pedro gave us. Grueber described 'Tigers Milk,' a plant gathered from ground moistened by the milk milk of a tiger 'when they are furious and inraged by the pursuit of Huntsmen' (Magalotti 1676, 78). 101) discussing 17C & 18C European writing about Chinese medicine, she says, "Fr. Barnes, called "Needles, Herbs, Gods, And Ghosts: China, Healing, And the West to 1848," published in 2005 by Harvard U. The only clear reference I could find was from a book by Linda L. The English translation is Tiger's Milk, so you have to limit Google searches to exclude the well known nutritional "candy bar." This reference in Pedro's excerpt from Evelyn's diary intrigued me, so I tried to find out more about it. Duke to Secretary Williamson, the Hague, 10/20 June: Talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships.
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".the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships." So the rumor had it that the Dutch were rigging up an armada of 60 ships - how credible would that have been?ĭowning could have had inside info, he had set up a good network of information sellers that had already help in removing some of Charles enemies, There be lots of mail between the two cities, some innocent, like how to build submarines, along with how to think. Divers Drougs that our Drougists & physitians could make nothing of: Especialy, one which the Jesuite called Lac Tygridis, it look'd like a fungus, but was weighty like metall: yet was a Concretion or coagulation of some other matter.
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One Tomson a Jesuite shewed me such a of rarities, sent from the Jesuites of Japan & China to their order at Paris (as a present to be reserved in their Chimelium, but brought to Lond with the East India ships for them) as in my life I had not seene: The chiefe things were very large Rhinoceros's hornes, Glorious Vests, wrought & embrodered on cloth of Gold, but with such lively colours, as for splendor & vividnesse we have nothing in Europe approches: A Girdill studdied with achats, & balast rubies of greate value & size, also knives of so keene edge as one could not touch them, nor was the mettal of our Couler but more pale & livid: Fanns like those our Ladys use, but much larger, & with long handles curiously carved, & filled with Chineze Characters: A sort of paper very broad thin, & fine like abortive parchment, & exquisitely polished, of an amber yellow, exceeding glorious & pretty to looke on, & seeming to be like that which my L: Verulame describes in his Nova Atlantis with severall other sorts of papers some written, others Printed: Also prints of Landskips, of their Idols, Saints, Pagoods, of most ougly Serpentine, monstrous & hideous shapes to which they paie devotion: Pictures of Men, & Countries, rarely painted on a sort of gumm'd Calico transparant as glasse: also Flowers, Trees, Beasts, birds &c: excellently wrought in a kind of sleve-silk very naturall. So home by coach and to bed.Īnd on the 22nd John Evelyn wrote in his diary. The money he won’t pay without warrant, but that will be got done in a few days. Povy’s, and there acquainted him with the business. All the afternoon at his business, and late at night comes the Sollicitor again, and I with him at 9 o’clock to Mr. Thence home, there coming to me my Lord Peterborough’s Sollicitor with a letter from him to desire present dispatch in his business of freight, and promises me 50 l., which is good newes, and I hope to do his business readily for him. Ascue dined also, who I perceive desires to make himself known among the seamen. Rider and Cutler, where a very good dinner. The plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land.įrom the ’Change to dinner to Trinity House with Sir W. At noon to the ’Change and Coffee-house, where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships. Creed below, who staid with me a while, and then I to business all the morning.
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