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Effect of revolutionary events in Latin America on already strained Anglo-Spanish relations during Peninsular War

Detailed description of Sao Miguel by English consul Geoffrey Cobbs gives information on trading and exploitation opportunities available on the island; includes full transcript of document

Quack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer—Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts—considered here in their entirety for the first time—paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice—the first such records known from London—as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book.

\"General Rosas began by saying how deep and sincere was the general feeling of the Argentines towards England; that it reposed on a basis which could not be shaken, as England was the first to recognize their Independence and their gratitude was coeval with their very existence-that the Treaty with Mr. Parish (which, he added, was very unfavourable to this Country) was made from the generous impulse that the recognition had given here-but that he never had regretted that Treaty and would preserve it inviolate to the last day of his power.\"