_Wh._ He is the wisest man that ever I conversed with abroad, and his abilities are fully answerable to the report of him. _Prot._ What character do you give of the present King? _Wh._ I had the honour divers times to be with his Majesty, who did that extraordinary honour to me as to visit me at my house; he is a person of great worth, honour, and abilities, and not inferior to any in courage and military conduct. _Prot._ That was an exceeding high favour, to come to you in person. _Wh._ He never did the like to any public minister. But this, and all other honour done to me, was but to testify their respects to your Highness, the which indeed was very great, both there, and where I passed in Germany. _Prot._ I am obliged to them for their very great civility. _Wh._ Both the Queen, and the King, and his brother, and the Archbishop, and the Chancellor, and most of the grandees, gave testimony of very great respect to your Highness, and that not only by their words, but by their actions likewise. _Prot._ I shall be ready to acknowledge their respects upon any occasion. _Wh._ The like respects were testified to your Highness in Germany, especially by the town of Hamburg; where I endeavoured, in your Highness's name, to confirm the privileges of the English merchants, who, with your Resident there, showed much kindness to me and my company. _Prot._ I shall heartily thank them for it. Is the Court of Sweden gallant, and full of resort to it? _Wh._ They are extreme gallant for their clothes; and for company, most of the nobility and the civil and military officers make their constant residence where the Court is, and many repair thither on all occasions. _Prot._ Is their administration of justice speedy? and have they many law-suits? _Wh._ They have justice in a speedier way than with us, but more arbitrary, and fewer causes, in regard that the boors dare not contend with their lords; and they have but few contracts, because they have but little trade; and there is small use of conveyances or questions of titles, because the law distributes every man's estate after his death among his children, which they cannot alter, and therefore have the fewer contentions. _Prot._ That is like our gavelkind. _Wh._ It is the same thing; and in many particulars of our laws, in cases of private right, and of the public Government, especially in their Parliaments, there is a strange resemblance between their law and ours. _Prot._ Perhaps ours might some of them be brought from thence. _Wh._ Doubtless they were, when the Goths and Saxons, and those northern people, planted themselves here. _Prot._ You met with a barren country, and very cold.