, an eminent person of the Pembroke family, was born at York, where
, an eminent person of the Pembroke family, was born at York, where his grandfather
was an alderman, and admitted of Jesus-college, Oxford,
in 1621: but before he took a degree, removed to Trinity-college in Cambridge. He made a short stay there, and
then went to wait upon William earl of Pembroke, recorded
in the following article; who owning him for his kinsman,
and intending his advancement, sent him in 1626 to travel,
with an allowance to bear his charge. He spent four years
in visiting Asia and Africa; and then returning, waited on
his patron at Baynard’s-castle in London. The earl dying
suddenly, he was disappointed in his expectations of preferment, and left England a second time, and visited several parts of Europe. After his return he married, and now
being settled, devoted much of his time to literary employments. In 1634 he published in folio, “A Relation of
some Years Travels into Africa and the great Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy, and some
parts of the Oriental Indies, and Isles adjacent.
” The
edition of 1677 is the fourth, and has several additions.
This work was translated by Wiquefort into French, with
“An Account of the Revolutions of Siam in 1647,
” Paris,