which together with the ulceration of his throat made him loth to speake but when hee must needs and then not without great paine the extremity as it were of the evill overcomming and stupifying the vitals and senses striving to subdue naturall heat and oppressing the heart notwithstanding the doubling and trebling of the Cordials to withstand the same This day also Nature as the day before though not in quantity did as was said shew the necessity of bleeding for which cause it was with more instance againe propounded and urged then ever as th' onely meanes under God to save his Highnesse at length after much adoe pro contra Doctor Mayerne urging and Master Butler chiefely withstanding the same mistaking the first beginning of his Highnesse sicknesse in the end the three Doctors Mayerne Hamond and Butler did agree that on the morrow being Sunday the eight broken and the seventh whole day of his last sicknesse a vaine should bee opened all this while untill his bleeding was past they conceived good hope of his recovery yet hee remained dangerously ill you must imagine that all this while of his sicknesse the whole World did almost every houre send unto Saint Jameses for newes the better sort who were admitted to visit him or acquainted with those neere unto him knowing the danger the rest fearing nothing imagining it onely to have beene some Common Tertian for which cause in many places neere unto the City hee was thought dead and gone before they knew that hee was dangerously sick This night was more cruell and unquiet unto him then any other The eight Day On Sunday the first of November and the eight day of his sicknesse according to their former agreement after much adoe Master Butler resisting to consent that hee should bee let bloud because as hee said it was the eight day profering to have left them untill hee was forced to stay and give his consent Doctor Hamond and others proving unto him that it was not the eight day his Highnesse being ill of a long time before howsoever hee strangly with a wonderfull courage and patience concealed the same his Highnesse being still after one in the presence of the foresaid Doctors and divers others of very good worth in the morning was drawne out of the Median of his right Arme seven or eight ounces of bloud during which time hee fainted not bleeding well and aboundantly desiring and calling to them to take more as they were about to stoppe the same finding some ease as it were upon the instant The bloud being cold was seene of all to bee thinne corrupt and putred with a cholerick and blewish water above without any Fibres or small strings therein scarce congealed This day after his bleeding hee found great ease insomuch as since the beginning of his sicknesse hee had not found himselfe so well his pulse inclining towards a more Gentle motion missing his former wonted cruell doublings and his former accidents being lesse and more mild This afternoone hee was visited by his Royall Father Mother Brother Sister the Palsgrave with divers others of the Court all which conceiving good hopes departed from thence reasonably cheerefull Yet that night though better then others hee passed unquietly The ninth Day On Monday the second of November and ninth of his sicknesse hee became worse then ever the great redoubling comming upon him accompanied with rednesse of face shortnesse of breath increase of drought blacknesse of his tongue with excessive heat somewhat lesse then it was the seventh day and benumbings which now with the encrease of all the former accidents tormented him briefely so many evill signes appeared that some of the Doctors then plainely affirmed that by violence of the disease the bloud and humours were retired in aboundance with great violence towards the braine filling the vaines aboundantly as afterwards in the opening did appeare by reason whereof the paine of his head was extreame great his Spirits being as it were overcome This morning Doctor Atknis a Phisitian of London famous for his practice honesty and learning was sent by his Majesty to assist the rest in the cure whose opinion as they said was that his Highnesse disease was a corrupt putred Fever the seat whereof was under the liver in the first passages the malignity whereof he thought by reason of the putrifaction in almost the highest degree was venemous This day and the next he was visited by the King his Father and others of the Court whose exceeding sorrow I cannot expresse yet were they still fed with some good small hopes of his recovery All this while although hee grew every day worse and worse yet none discouraged him with any speech of death so loath they were to thinke of his departure hee himselfe being so tormented with this and the next dayes sicknesse that he could not thinke thereof or if hee had yet the Physitians courage and hope of life which good opinion his unspeakable patience not any way complaining so that he could not have beene knowne to be sicke but by his lookes moved them to conceive telling him there was no danger dashed the same This night came upon him greater alieanation of braine ravings and idle speeches out of purpose calling for his Cloathes and his Rapier c. saying he must bee gone hee would not stay and I know not what else to the great griefe of all that heard him whose hopes now began to vanish The tenth day On Tewsday the third of the Moneth and the tenth of his Sicknesse he became worse then before all his former accidents encreasing exceedingly his boundings being turned into Convulsions his raving and benumming becomming greater the Feaver more violent wherupon bleeding was againe proposed by Doctor Mayern and the Favorers thereof who still affirmed that he did mislike the too sparing proceeding with his Highnesse aleaging that in this case of extremity they must if they meane to save his life proceed in the Cure as though it were to some meane person forgetting him to bee a Prince whom they had now in hand otherwise he said for ought he saw because hee was a Prince he must die but if he were a meane person he might bee saved But this his opinion being disallowed of most they continued and increased their Cordials giving unto him a Glister which brought away abundance of corrupt and putred matter together with some Raysons which as was thought hee had eaten twelve daies before This day also for easing of the extreame paine of his head the haire was shaven away and Pigeons and cupping Glasses applyed to lessen and draw away the humour and that superfluous blood from the Head which hee endured with wonderfull and admirable patience as though he had beene insensible of paine yet all without any good save perhaps some small seeming hope of comfort for the present Now began the Pilots who guided this fraile Barque of his highnesse body almost to despaire to escape the ensuing Tempests
October 1612. the morrow after his Highnesse violent play at Tennies it was told him the custome of his house being to have the Sermon betimes in the morning for the most part where the Court lay so neere because hee used after his owne to heare the Kings also that Master Wilkinson one of his Fathers Chaplaines was ready and did present his service to preach that morning if it pleased his Highnesse to heare him which hee no sooner heard but contrary to his late usuall custome of long time although that morning hee found himselfe somewhat drousie and ill addressed himselfe to bee made ready for hee wonderfully delighted to heare the said Master Wilkinson ever since the time long before in which hee heard him preach a Sermon of judgement which hee did so well like of that many times hee did speake of the same affirming it to have beene so excellent that hee in a manner did shew them the same long it was not ere his Highnesse was ready and gone to the Chappell to heare him But ere I proceed give mee leave I intreate you to admire the wonderfull providence and goodnesse of God which did so provide for him a Sermon of Mortification or Preparation which you will For the time text powerfull delivery Method c. were also fitting to our following unthought of Funerall as though an Angell had come the whole weeke before from Heaven prefixing unto him the time necessity text order and amplifications thereof so truly did hee thunder out the mortall misery of mankind but chiefely of Princes The Text was out of Job the 14. and 1. verse Man that is borne of a Woman is of short continuance and full of trouble From which hee shewed 3. things first our miserable entry into the World and short continuance lastly our miserable Pilgrimage and endurance in the World full of trouble in which the misery and troubles of all Estates were well shewed but chiefely those of great ones Sermon being ended his Highnesse did commend the same being very attentive all the time thereof presently thereafter going into Whitehall where hee also did heare another Sermon with the King his Father which being also done to dinner they went his Highnesse in outward appearance eating with a reasonable good stomack yet looking exceeding ill and pale with hollow ghastly dead eyes perceived of a great many The first Day After dinner for all his great courage and strife to over master the greatnesse of his evill dissembling the same the Conquerour of all about 3. a clock in the afternone began to skirmish with a suddaine sicknesse and faintenesse of the heart usuall unto him whereupon followed shortly after a shaking with a great heat and headache which from hence forth never left him his Highnesse finding himselfe thus suddainely taken was forced to take his leave departing home unto his bed where being laid hee found himselfe very ill remaining all this evening in an Agony having a great drought which after this could never bee quenched but with death his eyes also being so dimme that they were not able to endure the light of a candle for which that night was ordained unto him a cordiall of cooling Ptisan for quenching of his thirst with a moistning broath to bee given at the ending of the fit This night hee rested ill The second Day On the morrow after being Monday the six and twenty of the Month and the second of his sicknesse his Highnesse felt small or no ease of his headache continuing bound in his belly his pulse beating exceedingly his water being crude thinne and whitish which moved Doctor Mayerne his Majesties chiefe Phisitian to appoint for him a softning Glister which accordingly to their desire did worke very well After which his Highnesse finding intermission which continued all that day did arise and put on his cloathes playing at cards that day and the next also with his Brother the Duke of Yorke and Count Henry meane while there were many Messages sent from the Court and every where else to know how things went all which no creature surmising the least danger were answered with good hopes yet his Highnesse for all this looked ill and pale spake hollow and somewhat straingely with dead sunck eyes his drinesse of Mouth and great thirst continuing for the which that night were ordained unto him by the foresaid Doctors sharpe tarte cordiall and cooling Iuleps prepared with all kind of Cordials and Anditotes possible his brothes and gellies being with the same care ordained yet his drought and headache continuing which could not bee stayed hee remained still very ill this night resting quietly The third Day On Tuesday the seven and twenty the third day of his sicknesse hee found some ease in the morning so that they were all in good hope that it would have proved but some Tertian or bastard Tertian at the most notwithstanding that his Highnesse ghastly rowling uncouth lookes did put them in some feare This day his Majesty did send Master Nasmith his Surgeon to attend his Highnesse during his sicknesse unto whom and divers others conferring of his Highnesse sicknesse and the danger of the same Doctor Mayerne did say that in his judgement the surest way for his Highnesse safety was bleeding as was thought very substantially proving from the very dangerous forenamed actidents and indications of this Tertian which he feared to be venemous by reason humors seated in the naturall parts inclining by reason of the quantity to a continuall that bleeding chiefly and that in great quantity with reiteration if need so required Now whilest his Highnesse was strong naturall heate not being decayed nor too much opressed before that Feaver turned continuall and he weaker and lesse able to endure hereafter would prove the surest way for his safety But the same his opinion not being allowed of the rest whom by conference when he named or spoke of blood he found directly opposite there was as yet no consultation for blood letting nor any inclination that wayes This morning hee did rise and put on his cloathes but his fit comming about noone first with a cold then a great heate without any sweat continuing untill eight a clocke at night he was forced to goe to bed againe this night resting quietly The fourth Day On Wednesday the eight and twentieth and fourth day of his sicknesse in the morning came Master Butler the famous Physitian of Cambridge a marveilous great Scholler and of long Practise and singular judgement but withall very humerous who whatsoever he thought comforting him with good hopes that hee would shortly recover and that there was no danger yet secretly unto others did not let to speake doubtfully as they say his humour is that he could not tell what to make of it and that he did not well like of the same adding further that if he did recover he was likely to lye by it for a great while with divers other like speeches neither could he be perswaded all the
Christ Jesus to beleeve hope and trust onely in him with assured confidence of mercy to lift up his heart and prepare him to meete the Lord Iesus with many other divine exhortations Thereafter calling more loud then ever thrice together in his eare Sir heare you mee heare you mee heare you mee If you heare mee in certaine signe of your faith and hope of the blessed resurrection give us for our comfort a signe by lifting up of your hands which hee did lifting up both his hands together Againe hee desired him yet to give him another signe by lifting up his eyes which having done they let him alone For the Archbishop had with streames of teares powred out at his bed side a most exceeding powerfull passionate prayer All this while also from three a clock in the morning untill night there was continuall prayer in the house and in every place where the danger was knowne by which his time growing neerer and neerer and hee weaker and weaker Thus did hee lie patiently striving betwixt death and life unavoidable necessity and Gods will forcing patience and againe invincible courage and magnanimity loath to bee overcome shewing some indignation and contempt of death yea death it selfe for all his cruelty stood a long while hovering in doubt what to doe so did his Highnesse young yeares his Triumphes at hand the teares and exceeding sorrow of Father Mother Brother Sister the howling cries of his Servants and of the whole Land who said her losse above all was most unspeakeable move his hard heart to pitty But a greater crie before this having outcried those cries even the crie of our sinnes there was no remedy for death although unwilling not being able to resist the fore-passed decree must needs strike the cruell stroke Many times did hee from that morning untill night offer to shoote and thrust in his dart a little yet pulling it presently back againe as it were of purpose delaying the time expecting some mercifull Message from Heaven untill at last the cloudy night bewraying the irrevocable doome by natures decay the excesse of paine having taken away the sense thereof of meere pitty that thereby hee might open unto him the doore of Heaven for his passage into glory being loath that the Angell who had long attended to convey his Soule unto Heaven should make any longer stay he thrust his Dart quite thorow After which his Highnesse quietly gently and patiently halfe a quarter or thereabouts before eight a clocke at night yeelded up his Spirit unto his Immortall Maker Saviour and Restorer being attended unto Heaven with as many Prayers Teares and strong Cries as ever Soule was on Fryday the sixth of November 1612. The Corps shortly after as the Custome is was laide along upon a Table on the floore being the fairest clearest and best proportioned without any kinde of spot or blemish as ever was seene On the Morrow after came the Lords of the Councell by appointment from his Majestie to give order for the opening of his Body c. which was the same night effected about five a clocke in the Evening in presence of the Physitians and Chirurgions who assisted the Cure together with the Phisitian of the Prince Palatine with many other Knights and Gentlemen in the Chamber where he dyed by the Chyrurgeons of his Majestie and his late Highnesse under all their hands as followeth The skinne like that of a dead man blacke but no way spotted with blacknesse or pale markes much lesse marked with purples like flea-bites which could shew any contagious or pestilentiall Venome About the place of his kidnyes hips and behind the thighes full of rednesse and by reason that with great paine he had a long while lien upon his backe his belly somewhat swollen and stretched out by reason of the windinesse which issued out of the smallest opening made in the Navill somewhat high naturally incontinently the belly falling The stomacke whole and wholesome within and without having never all his sickenesse time beene troubled with vomitings loathings or yealpings or any other accident which could particularly shew that it was attainted The Liver without in his highest parts marked with small spots and in the lower with small blackish lines paller and blacker then was fitting The Gall Bladder void of of any humour full of wind The Spleen on the top and in the lower end blackish filled with a blacke heavy blood The Kidneies faire and without any blemish The Midriffe under the Filme or Membrane containing the heart which contained a little moisture spotted with blacke as it were a Leadish colour by reason of the bruising The lungs almost for the greatest part blacke the rest all spotted with blacke all imbrewed and full of a dust blood with a corrupt and thicke serocitie which by a vent made in the body of the Lungs came forth foaming in great abundance in which doing and in cutting the small skinne which invironeth the heart to shew the same the Surgeon by chance having cut the Trunck of the great veine the most part of the bloud issued out into the Chest leaving the lower veines empty upon sight whereof the Company did draw consequents of an extreame heat and fulnesse the which appeared yet more evident in this that the windepipe with the throat and tongue were couvered with a thicke blackenesse and amongst other accidents the tongue cleft and dry in many places The heart sound and dry in all appearance good in all his quallities The hinder veines which are in the inmost filme of the braine called Piamater swolne and stuft with aboundance of blood a great deale more then naturall the substance of the braine faire and cleare but the ventricles thereof full of a cleare water which after the incision ranne foorth in great aboundance One part of which accidents as they thought was ingendred onely by reason of the Fever maligne by reason of the putrifaction of divers humors gathered together of a long time before his Highnesse not being subject to any dangerous sickenesse by birth the other part by reason of the convulsions resoundings and benummings which by reason of the fulnesse choaking the naturall heat and destroying the Vitals by their malignitie have conveyed his Highnesse to the grave without any token or accident of poyson Thus or very neere thus lost wee the delight of mankind the expectation of Nations the strength of his Father and glory of his Mother Religions second hope Foolish people immagine that they have done enough when they have railed upon the Physitians as though they could have altered Providence by prolonging his life never truly beholding the Omnipotent power bereaving him which although in his sicknesse untill the blow was given could not be seene yet now even of the blind may be easily discerned And I pray you if we narrowly looke upon the practise of the meanes what omission of duty shall we find therein Some neere his Highnesse together with Doctor Mayern at first called and
all sorts of rare musique chiefely the trumpet and drumme in limming and painting carving in all sorts of excellent and rare Pictures which hee had brought unto him from all Countries What should I say more of him over and above all these things hee had a certaine kind of extraordinary unspeakeable excellency my fraile penne and dull stile not being able to expresse the same gathered out of question by him long agoe from the plentifull Garden of the King his Fathers all admired Bazilicondorâ—n long since in his youth dedicated unto him I dare sweare none will thinke an ill thought much lesse speake an ill word of him unlesse it bee some Ianus-faced Machivillian or hollow hearted Gunpowderers who as they would have blowne up King Progeny and State cannot choose now but barke against him who was a terrour to all the Papists in Christendome As hee was a Man no question but hee had imperfectious as others otherwise hee could not have conversed with men which I professe I neither knew nor delighted to search after or if I had you know of all others I am rather boud to cover and conceale the same with Shem and Japhet then with Ham to shew his nakednesse If I were able yet certainely whatsoever they were such a number of noble vertues did cover and weigh downe the same eclipsing their light that they could not easily bee perceived unlesse it were perhaps by some maliciously bent who though they might have gathered great store of honey have rather chosen like droanes to open the gall whom I also leave to the gall of bitternesse untill it consume them Wherefore now since his Soule resteth in Heaven whereof I intreat you doubt not let us also leave him For his good life in generall his unfaigned love to Religion his love to good men his sound and saving knowledge and practice of the same his attentive and reverent hearing of the word his humble flexible heart easily cast downe and drawne by the same with many other good things which were in him are sure signes of the favour of God and consequently of his salvation To which if wee consider with what innumerable prayers and strong cries his soule was attended unto Heaven wee may rest fully satisfied of his felicity For although the extremity of paine from the beginning of his sicknesse did as it were stupifie and bereave him of sence that hee could not give those wished testimonies to the World at full the Lord choosing to try him in the furnace of affliction yet since wee shall bee judged not according to our death but according to our life although his death in such an extremity as is shewed was very good wee may certainely conclude that his Soule now praiseth God Wherefore when we misse him where we were wont to see him let us lift up our mindes to a higher Watch-tower remembring that his Soule now resteth in Heaven where all cares troubles soares sickenesses crosses and afflictions shall no more annoy him where the feares jarres jealousies discontentments mutenies uproares dissentions of State shall never vex him where he shall hunger no more thirst no more desire no more having all tears wiped from his eies in place of those fraile ones which could not here indure the sight of the Candle now beholding him whose eyes are tenne thousand times brighter then the Sunne following the Lambe whithersoever hee goeth and in the Heaven of Heavens injoying the blessed fruition of his God in the company of Millions of his Saints and Angels waiting for the full revelation and felicitie of the Sonnes of God and renovation of us all when God shal be All in All where let us leave him of whom we are not worthy untill we be gathered unto him admiring his incomprehensible Wisdome which did bereave us untill he let us know by experience how hee will bring light out of darkenesse For since he is goodnesse it selfe his will whatsoever it be must needs be good And I pray you what how many how great and how wonderfull things hath the Almighty done with this one blow in humbling of some curbing the pride of others casting some downe and againe in raising up of others letting all see as in a Mirrour the vaine inconstancie of Greatnesse making some others inexcusable if they receive no good from so sensible a Lesson with infinite moe knowne onely to the All-sufficient All-seeing Majestie Let us therefore admire the infinite and incomprehensible Wisdome of Almighty God which so soone translated him from this Vale of darknesse and misery into that marvellous joy and light althogh it seem strange unto our blind eies For what know we but that the boyling head-strong passions of youth evill company which corrupteth good manners the raines of Liberty the corruption of time with infinite other inticements whereunto flesh and blood are prone might have corrupted him when dying with a consumed body and a more corrupted Soule he might with an evil Conscience though ful of years have gone to the grave with farre more hatred loaden with innumerable more sinnes then now he did when by the contrary with the love prayers and teares of all hee was attended unto Heaven Thus have I beene bold to trouble you and out of my love for satisfying your curiosity to exceede the bounds of a short Letter which if you mildly Censure with an impartiall judgement pardoning and excusing what you finde amisse you shall encourage me ever to remaine as still I am Your assured Freind Charles Cornwallis His frequent swimming immediatly after supper was most pernitious to his health for it stopt his bleeding at Nose whereupon the bloud putrifying engendred that fatall Feber which followed Doctor â—â—yerne A Lunar Rainbow very rare and commonly fatall V. Arist. Metor * Iust over this Chamber wherein he dyed did the end of the fatall Rainebow aforementioned hang as Doctor Mayerne observed * Notwithstanding the Prince was seriously remembred to commend himselfe into the hands of God before this by Doctor Mayerne who found his resolution therein to bee most heavenly and Divive