“The charges of my last return from beyond seas, A. 1589, being favourably called home by her Majestie from Trebon Castle in Bohemia.

[Sidenote:  600 lib.]

“My journey of remove homeward from Trebon Castle to Staden cost me more than 3000 dollars, which we account

[Sidenote:  120 lib.]

“Besides the cost of 15 horses wherewith I travelled all that journey; of which the 12 which drew my 3 coaches were very good and young Hungarian horses, and the other three were Wallachies for the saddles:  which 15 cost with one another

[Sidenote:  60 lib.]

“The three new coaches made purposely for my aforesaid journey, with the furniture for the 12 coach-horses, and with the saddles and bridles for the rest, cost more than 3 score pounds

“The charge of wains to carry my goods from Trebon to Staden, they being two and sometimes three (for more easy and light passage in some places), cost above an hundred and ten pounds, which I account (for an hundred of it) under my former sum of 600 lib.  Under which 600 lib. also I do account for the charges of the 24 soldiers, well appointed, which, by virtue of the emperor’s passport, I took up in my way from Diepholt, and again from Oldenburgh; the charges of the six harquebusiers and musqueteers, which the Earl of Oldenburgh lent me out of his own garrison there:  I gave to one with another a dollar a man for the day, and their meat and drink full.  For at the first, 18 enemies, horsemen, well appointed, from Lingen and Wilstrusen, had lain five days attending thereabout, to have sett upon me and mine; and at Oldeborch, a Scot (one of the garrison) gave me warning of an ill-minded company lying and hovering for me in the way which I was to pass, as by a letter may appear here present.  Of the former danger, the Landgrave of Hesse his letters unto me may give some evidence.

“The charges of the four Swart Ruiters, very well mounted, and appointed to attend on me at Staden, from Breme, being honourably and very carefully sent unto me by the noble consuls and senators of Breme, and that with a friendly farewell (delivered unto me by the speech of one of their secretaries at my lodgings) need not be specified here what it was.  For their going with me in two days to Staden, their abode there, and as much homeward, being in all five days’ charges, 30 dollars.

“This was a very dangerous time to ride abroad in thereabouts, as the merchants of Staden can well remember.  The excellent learned theologian, the superintendent of Breme, Mr D. Chrystopher Berzelius his verses, printed the night before that of my going from Breme, and the morning of my departure, openly delivered to me partly, and partly distributed to the company of students and others attending about to see us set forth, and to bid us farewell, may be a memorial of some of my good credit grown in that city, and of the day of my coming from it.

“I will not enlarge my lines to specific what other charges I was at to further some of her Majestie’s servants at my lying at Breme; as 70 dollars given or lent to one Conradus Justus Newbrenner; and about 40 given to gett some letters of great importance brought to our sovereign’s honorable privy council in due time.