Storia do Mogor 46.1.3

46.1.3

On paper 7^ + 4^, with two illuminated pages at the beginning, and the following inscription : "Henricus Bard, Eques Auratus et Baronettus [postea Vicomes Bellomontanus], Collegii Regalis Socius, postquam Collegiali commeatu impetrato Europam Asiam et Africam maxima ex parte perlustrassit, hunc librum Ægypte allatum amoris simul et peregrinationis monumentum Collegio Regali dedicavit, May 28, 1644."' In the life of Charles Mason (1616-1677), 'Dictionary of National Biography,' xxxvi., 416, and in Thomas Harwood's 'Alumni Etonensis,' p. 233 (under date A.D. 1632, Car. I., 8), it is said that H. Bard entrusted Mason with the manuscript account of his early travels. I have not been able to trace this manuscript ; it is not at King's College. Next, as to the embassy to Persia and India. Miss Eva Scott, in her recent work. 'The King in Exile' (1905), p. 285, speaks of Bard's appointment as Ambassador to Persia and Morocco ; beyond that fact she has no information. A rough draft of his instructions, undated, is to be found at the Bodleian, in the Carte MSS., vol. cxxx., fol. 144, and Miss Scott assigns this document to 1650. The terms of this draft are as follows : 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR RIGHT TRUSTY AND WELLBELOVED VISCOUNT BELLAMONT NOW BY US EMPLOYED AS OUR EXTRAORDINARY AMBASSADOUR TO THE EMPEROURS OF PERSIA AND MOROCCOS. '1. You shall beginne your iourney with what speed you may, and shall repaire first to eyther of those princes as shall be most commodious for you.