{"id":385,"date":"2012-01-26T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=385"},"modified":"2019-04-10T06:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:44:31","slug":"i-like-not-these-gold-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/i-like-not-these-gold-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I like not these gold-makers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I haue had ferther conferrence w<em>i<\/em>th the Scotsman \/ w<em>hi<\/em>ch came from <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">madrid<\/span> 15 dais past, he sayeth he hath Letters from <span title=\"Sir Charles Cornwallis\">my lord Amba<em>ssado<\/em>r<\/span> and that his lordshipp gaue hym fyve hvndred Crowns <em>per<\/em> order from his ma<em>jes<\/em>tie of England \/. and that an vnckell he hath in <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">madrid<\/span> gaue hym fyve hvndred Crowns more. and as he passed <em>per<\/em> <span title=\"Pass of Roncesvalles\">the monts of ronsevall<\/span> <em>per<\/em> a place called Santa Crus. an abbat or Churchman Cozoned hym of all his money he hauinge delyverd it vnto hym to keepe it, &amp; the other denyed the recept theirof \/. soe he came to my lodginge &amp; offered me ring<em>es<\/em> &amp; Jewls in pawne to lend hym money vpon them for that he would dispach his man back into Spaine \/ I promis yow I was loth to enter in w<em>i<\/em>th hym because as he said he hath the vse of the philosofers ston to make gould and siluer \/ &amp; that he had Spent more gould then would fill my Countinghouse in seekinge for it \/ [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>in fine. I lyck not these gould makers. that want gould at the first accointance a man hath w<em>i<\/em>th them, &amp; the rather because the[y] Aske to borrow money of them the[y] never say in ther life before \/ he is called <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">sr. Cornelius<\/span> \/ he is determened to stay heare for 20 dayes or a moneth &amp; hath taken a Chamber \/ &amp; sent to a glashouse to haue Cyrten glasses made accordinge to the mark in the margent. soe it seemeth he meneth to trye his art heare \/.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-699\" src=\"http:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/alembic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/alembic.jpg 553w, https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/alembic-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a great character! Cocks goes on to say,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he speketh latten, English, french Spanish and Italian. hie duch &amp; nedarlandish. &amp; as he sayeth the Arabian tonge \/ &amp; as he sayeth he hath byn at Constantianople. Jerusalem \/ &amp; other places ferther then those. soe I think he will proue a second S<em>i<\/em>r J<em>ohn<\/em> mandeuill \/ out of dowbt the man hath som extraordenary qualletys in hym \/ once it is Cyrten he wanteth noe tonge \u2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the tone of Cocks&#8217;s description &#8211; bemused, slightly exasperated, relishing the irony, subtly sarcastic. Cocks was a man who appreciated a good story, whatever the truth value of the account. Of Sir Cornelius we hear no more..<\/p>\n<p>(From TNA SP 94\/13 f. 138, Richard Cocks to Thomas Wilson, prob. 12 January 1607)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haue had ferther conferrence with the Scotsman \/ which came from madrid 15 dais past, he sayeth he hath Letters from my lord Ambassador and that his lordshipp gaue hym fyve hvndred Crowns per order from his majestie of England \/. and that an vnckell he hath in madrid gaue hym fyve hvndred Crowns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,30,41,48],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","category-phd","tag-cool-stuff","tag-early-modern-europe","tag-manuscripts","tag-phd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}