fortunam habuit Vell. Patr. l. 2. The Second Epitaph bestowed upon him by the Reverend and Learned Doctor Peirce Caroli Primi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epitaphium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SIstas sacrilegum Pedem viator Ne forsan temeres sacros sepulchri Augusti cineres Repostus hic est In terrae gremio decor stuporque Humani generis senex infans Prudens scilicet Innocensque princeps Regni praesidium ruina regni Vita presidium ruina morte Quem regem potius Patremve dicam O Patrem prius deinde regem Regem quippe sui patremque regni His donumque Dei Deique cura Quem vitaque refert refertque morte Ringente satana cauente Coelo Diro in pegmate gloriae theatro Et Christi cruce victor securi Baptistae emicuit Ruina Faelix Quae Divum Carolus secutus agnum Et post liminio domum vocatus Primae vae patriae fit Inquilinus â— Sic Lucis prius Hesperus Cadentis Resplendet modo Phosphorus reversae Hic vindex fidei sacer vetustae Cui par est nihil nihil secundus Naturae typus absolutioris Fortunae domitor ferendo suae Qui quantum Calicis bibit tremendi Tantundem sibi gloriae reportat Regum maximus unicueque regum In quo res minima est fuisse regem Solas qui supera locatus arce Vel vita poterit funi priore Cum sint relliquiae cadaver umbra Tam sacri capitis vel ipsa sacra Ipsis eulogiis coinquinato Quaeque ipsum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prophanat Sistas sacrilegum pedem viator Tho. Peirce D. D. Mag. Col. apud Oxon Praeses The Third of the excellent Marquiss of Montrosse written with the point of his Sword GReat Good O Just could I but Rate My griefs and thy too rigid Fate I 'de Weep the World to such a strain As it should Deluge once again But since thy loud Tongu'd Blood demands supply's More from Bojareus Hands than Argus Eyes I 'le sing thy Obsequies with Trumpets Sounds And write thy Epitaph with Blood and Wounds WIthin this sacred Vault doth ly The Quintescence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious shines The best of Kings best of Divines Britains shame and Britains glory Mirour of Princes compleat story Of Royalty One so exact That the Elixars of praise detract These are faint shadows But t' indure He 's drawn to the Life in 's Pourtraicture If such another Piece you 'l see Angels must Limn it out or He. And so we shut up this short view of the Life and Reign of this glorious King as Tacitus doth the life of Iulius Agricola a right Noble Roman the names of the persons only changed Quicquid ex Carolo amavimus quicquid mirati sumus manet mansurum quaeest in animis hominum in Aeternitate temporum fam a rerum Horat. Carm. 24. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam â—ihi Sed monumentis quotquot uspiam est Illa Illa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM LAUD Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury I Know not how to begin the History of this incomparable Prelate Dr. Laud but as Baudius doth his Oration on that Peerless Scholar Ioseph Scaliger Verba desunt Rebus Immensis Or as Count Iohannes Picus of Mirandula doth his Complement upon his matchless Barbarus Ego quidem nec possum aut taecere quae dete sentio aut non sentire ea quae de illo debeatur in quo omnia veluti singula summa reperiuntur Sed utinam is essâ—t meae mentis captus ut pro meritis tuis de te sentirem utinam ea dicendi vis ut exprimere aliquando possem quod semper sentio scio quae de te jam Concipio infra fastigia tua Infinitum subsidere scias tu quaecunque loquimur longe esse minora iis quae concipimus tam deesse scias animo verba quam rebus animus deest So hard it is for one of my thoughts and condition to take the dimensions of so great a Worth and so difficut for one of my phrase to express it but the good man expresseth himself being is impatient of Varnish on his own Actions as he was of Paint over others Faces his saying to a Lady That she was well plaistered made all the coloured Dames blush through their Vermilion a much deeper red He was born Octob. 7. 1573. at Reading in Berk-shire and after a wonderful preservation in his infancy from a very sore fit of sickness and a happy education in his child-hood under a very severe School-master who from his Strange Dreams Witty Speeches Generous Spirit Great Apprehension and Nimble Performances promised him that Greatness which he afterwards injoyed saying to him When you are a little great man remember Reading School Admitted in Oxford 1589. chosen Scholar of St. Iohns June 1590. and Fellow Iune 1593. Comencing Bachelor of Arts Iune 1594. and Master Iuly 1599. Ordained Deacon Iune 4. 1600. and Priest April 5. 1601. Doctor Young the Lord Bishop of Rochester that Ordained him finding his study raised above the Systems and Opinions of the age upon the nobler foundation of the Fathers Councils and the Ecclesiastical Historians easily presaged That if he lived he would be an instrument of restoring the Church from the narrow and private principles of modern times to the more free large and publick sentiments of the purest and first Ages 1 Iuly 4. 1604. He proceeded Batchelour of Divinity his Position giving no less offence to Dr. Holland and other Calvinists in the Schools than his Sermon Octob. 26. 1606. did to Dr. Airy and other Puritans at St. Maries and Anno 1608. Doctor being invest ed in his Vicarage of Stanford in Northampton-shire Novemb. 16. 1607. admitted Chaplain to Dr. Neal Bishop of Rochester Aug. 5. 1608. Preaching his first Sermon to King Iames at Theobalds Sept. 17. 1609. inducted into West-Tidbury in Essex which he had in exchange for his Advowson of Northkilworth in Leicester-shire Octob. 28. 1609. and into the Rectory of Cuckston in Kent May 25. 1610. which by reason of the unhealthiness of the place where he was sick for two months of a Kentish Ague he exchanged for Norton to which he was Novemb. 1610. inducted by Proxy May 10. 1611. He was chosen President of St. Iohns having resigned his Fellowship there Octob. 2. 1610. April 18. 1614. Dr. Neal Bishop of Lincoln bestowed on him the Prebend of Bugden and Decemb. 1. 1615. the Arch-deaconry of Huntington as the King whose Chaplain he was sworn Novemb. 3. 1611. Novemb. 1616. gave him the Deanery of â—lâ—cester of which his Majesty was pleased to say to him That he well knew it was a Shell without a Kernel and Aug. 2. 1617. the Rectory of â—bstock in Leicester-shire and Ian. 1. 1620. the Prebend of Westminster whereof he had the Advowson ten years before and Iune 29. 1622. the Bishoprick of St. Davids with the Presidentship of St. Iohns the
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
Charity it self Charity suffereth long and is kinde beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things I can truely avouch this Testimony concerning him That living in the same Colledge with him more than twenty years partly when he was Fellow and partly when he returned President I never heard to my best remembrance one word of anger or dislike against him I have often resembled him in my thoughts with favour of that Honourable Person to him whose name sounds very near him who being placed in the upper part of the World carried on his Dignity with that justice modesty integrity fidelity and other gracious plausibilities that in a place of trust he contented those whom he could not satisfie and in a place of envie procured the love of them who emulated his Greatness and by his example shewed the preheminence and security of true Christian Wisdom before all sleights of humane policy that in a busie time no man was found to accuse him so this good man in that inferiour Orb which God had placed him demeaned himself with that Christian clemency candor wisdome and modesty that malice it self was more wary than to cast any aspersions upon him I shall willingly associate him to those other Worthies his Predecessors in the same Colledge all living at the same time to the invaluable Bishop Iewel Theologorum quas Orbis Christianus per aliquot annorum Centenario produxit maximo as grave Bishop Goodwin hath described him The greatest Divine that for some former Centuries of years the Christian World hath produced To the famous Master Hooker who for his solid Writings was surnamed The Iudicious and entituled by the same Theologorum Oxonium the Oxford of Divines as one calls Athens The Greece of Greece it self To the learned Dr. Reynolds who managed the Government of the same Colledge with the like care honour and integrity although not with the same austerities He willingly admitted and was much delighted in acquaintance and familiarity of hopeful young Divines not despising their Youth but accounting them as Sons and Brethren encouraging and advising them what Books to read and with what holy preparations lending them such Books as they have need of and hoping withal that considering the brevity of his own life some of them might live to finish that Work upon the Creed which he had happily begun unto them This was one of the special Advices and Directions which he commanded to young men Hear the dictates of your own Conscience Quod dubitas ne feceris making this the Comment upon that of Syracides In all thy matters trust or believe thine own soul and bear it not down by impetuous and contradictuous lusts c. He was as diffusive of his knowledge counsel and advice as of any other his works of mercy In all the Histories of Learned Pious and Devout Men you shall scarcely meet with one that disdained the world more generously not out of ignorance of it as one brought up in cells and darkness for he was known and endeared to men of the most resplendent fortunes nor out of melancholy disposition for he was chearful and content in all estates but out of a due and deliberate scorn knowing the true value that is the vanity of it As preferments were heaped upon him without his suit or knowledge so there was nothing in his power to give which he was not ready and willing to part withal to the deserving and indigent man His Vicarage of Saint Nicholas Church in New-Castle he gave to Master Alveye of Trinity Colledge upon no other relation but out of the good opinion which he conceived of his merits The Vicarage of Wetney near Oxford after he had been at much pains travail and expence to clear the Title of the Rectory to all succeeding Ministers when he had made a portion fitting either to give or keep he freely bestowed it upon the worthy Master Thomas White then Proctor of the University late Chaplain to the Colledge and now incumbent upon the Rectory A Colledge Leaâ—â— of a place called Lye in Gloucestershire presented to him as a Gratuity by the Fellows he made over to a third late Fellow there meerly upon a plea of poverty and whereas they that first offered it unto him were unwilling that he should relinquish it and held out for a long time in a dutiful opposition he used all his power friendship and importunity with them till at length he prevailed to surrender it Many of his necessary friends and attendants have professed that they have made several journeys and employed all powerful mediation with the Bishop that he might not be suffered to resign his Prebendship of Winchester to a fourth and upon acknowledge that by their continuance he was disappointed of his resolution herein he was much offended that the Manus mortua or Law of Mortmain should be imposed upon him whereby in former days they restrained the liberality of devout men towards the Colledges and the Clergy But this was interpreted as a discourtesie and dis-service unto him who knew it was a more blessed thing to give than to receive But that which remained unto him was dispersed unto the poor to whom he was faithful dispenserâ— in all places of his abode distributing unto them with a Free Heart a Bountiful Hand a Comfortable Speech and a Cheerful Eye How dis-respectful was he of Mammon the God of this World the Golden Image which Kings and Potentates have set up before whom the Trumpets play for War and Slaughter and Nations and Languages fall down and worship besides all other kind of Musick for jollity and delight to drown if it were possible the noise of bloud which is most audiable and cries loudest in the ears of the Almighty How easily could he cast that away for which others throw away their lives and salvation running head-long into the place of eternal skreekings weeping and gnashing of teeth If it were not for this spirit of covetousness all the world would be at quiet Certainly although the nature of man be an apt soil for sin to flourish in yet if the love of money be the root of all evil it could not grow up in him because it had no root And if it be so hard to a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God and the Narrow Gate which leads unto life then he that stooped so low by humbleness of mind and emptied himself so nearly by mercifulness unto the poor must needs find an easier passage doubtless they that say and do these things shew plainly that they seek another Country that is an Heavenly for if they had been mindful of this they might have taken opportunity to have used it more advantageously His devotions towards God were assiduous and exemplary both in publick and private He was a diligent frequenter of the publick service in the Chappel very early in the morning and at evening except some urgent occasions of infirmity did excuse him His private
his Grave A carceribus ad metam the consciousness of their guilt in burying him above ground in his Imprisonment could no ways be satisfied but by Imprisoning him under ground by his Burial When they wanted nothing to compleat their guilt but this death concerning which his Majesty in his Letter to the Queen expresseth himself thus Nothing can be more evident than that Straffords Innocent Blood hath been one of the great causes of Gods just Judgment upon this Nation by a Civil War both sides hitherto being almost equally punished as being in a manner equally guilty but now this last crying bloud being totally theirs I believe it s no presumption hereafter to hope that his hand of Justice must be heavier upon them and lighter upon us looking now upon our Cause having passed by our faults they preached and talked that nothing interrupted their success but his death imputing all their disasters to his impunity as the Heathens did all theirs to those like him The first good Christians Then upon any publick misfortune it was Christiani ad Leones and at this time upon any misadventure Execute the Arch-bishop Neither was he offered only to the revenge of the English but likewise of the Scots too whose Covenant was to be Celebrated with this Sacrifice and Union cemented with this bloud Since neither the Law nor Reason neither Religion nor Nature neither the Kings power nor the Subjects innocence could preserve his life the excellent man prepared himself with the comforts of all for death having before setled his Estate in a charitable and pious way he had the better leisure to settle his soul had not the cruelty of some people that thought his very solitude too great an injoyment for him shewed themselves as much enemies to private as publick Devotions disturbed his retirements with contumelies upbraiding those very Devotions that then interceded for them who would have laughed at Christ if he had used his own prayer Now if ever the Lion and the Lamb dwelt together the highest Courage and the sweetest Meekness together inhabiting one Breast The great Pastor of the Church going to die with the innocence and silence of a Lamb in the midst of contumelies speaking not again himself though his bloud doth and did His last nights repose was the Emblem of his last rest his slâ—ep the true image of his death serene and calm Having stripped him of all the Honors of an Archbishop they would have denyed him the priviledge of a Malefactor to have his own woâ—thy Confessor Dr. Sterne since Archbishop of York about him taking it so ill that he would not admit of Marshall that was fitter to be the Executioner than a Chaplain that because he would not die according to the humor of the Presbyterians he should not die in the honorable way of an Archbishop 1. Sheriff Chambers of London bringing over night the Warrant for his Execution and acquainting him therewith he betook himself to his own and desired also the prayers of others and particularly of Doctor Holdsworth his Fellow Prisoner there for a year and a half though all that time there had not been the least converse between them The next morning being brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold he ascended it with an extraordinarily chearful and ruddy countenance he that had been so long a Martyr no doubt thinking it release of misery to be made a Martyr as if he had mounted rather to have beheld a triumph than to be made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated and exchange his Miter for the Crown of Martyrdom The clearness of his Conscience being legible in the chearfulness of his dying looks as the ferenity of the weather is understood by the glory and ruddiness of the setting Sun there desiring to have room to die and declaring that he was more willing to go out of the world than any man to send him he first took care to stop the chinks near the block and remove the people he spied under it expressing himself that it was no part of his desire that his bloud should fall upon the heads of the people in which desire it pleased God he was so far gratified that there remaining a small hole from a knot in the midst of a board the fore-finger of his right hand at his death happened to stop that also and then at once pardoning and over-coming his Enemies many of whom coming thither to insult went away to weep for him who had this peculiar happiness with his Master that he gained that reverence by his Adversity that neither he nor any gained in Prosperity he turned his Scaffold to a Pulpit and Preached his own Funeral in these express words delivered by him to the excellent Dr. Sterne to be communicated to his Fellow-Chaplains His Graces Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Ian. 10. 1644. To his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how have I looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Cross a death of Shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the brink of the very brink of it An Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sower herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these for men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above St. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of Red Wine might pass from me St. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall
his Devotion in behalf of the Nation now under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure But on the fourth of April a sharp Fit of the Stone seized him which put him who at other times would say I am not dying yet into such apprehensions of his danger that he told the mournful Spectators of his agonies That he should leave them in Gods hands who would so provide that they should not finde his removal any loss adding That they should turn their prayers for his recovery into intercessions for his happy change I pray said he very passionately let some of your fervor be employed that way Being pressed to make it his own request to God that he might be continued to serve the Church he allowed this a part of his devotion viz. That if his life might be useful to any one soul he besought Almighty God to continue him and by his grace to ennable him to employ that life he so vouchsafed industriously and successfully Adding for the Church that sincere performance of Christian duties so much decayed to the equal supplanting and scandal of that holy Calling that those who professed that Faith might live according to the rules of it and to the form of Godliness superadd the power of it restraining the ex tempore irregularities of his friends ejaculations with that grave saying Let us call on God in the voice of his Church But now through the long suppression of Urine the bloud being grown Thin and Serous and withal Eager and Tumultuous through the mixture of Heterogeneous parts this excellent person fell to a violent bleeding whereat the standers by being amazed he said chearfully It was a mercy and that to bleed to death was one of the most desireable passages out of this world and found no ease but that the pain of the Humors stoppage relieved the Stone the Lethargy that and the Flux of Bloud the Lethargy which variety of tortures exercised not only his patience but his thankfulness too crying out in his greatest extreamities Blessed be God blessed be God He made his Will with chearfulness the oversight whereof he intrusted with his intimate and approved friend Dr. Henâ—hman now Lord Bishop of London and received the Sacrament April 20. and 22. then Good-friday and Easter-day being very much concerned that he could not be with the Congregation and saying very passionately Alas must I be Excommunicated So far was he from their opinion who in their most healthful days make this not their Penance but their election and choice April 25. he bled with greater violence than before beyond all remedy by applications or revulsives until the torrent ceased the fountain being exhausted and the good Doctor became so weak so cold and so dispirited that he had strength enough only to persevere in his Devotions which he did to the last moment of his life a few minutes before his death breathing out those words which best became his Christian life Lord make haste The same day that commenced the Nations happiness the Convention of a Free-Parliament concluded his life just when it was like to be most comfortable to himself and serviceable to the Church As if this great Champion of Religion and pattern of all virtue were reserved for exigence and hazzard for persecution and suffering for he resigned his pure and active soul to him that gave it April 25. 1660. HIS CHARACTER A Soul that dwelt nobly in a strong and comely Body whose Proportions were just and graceful his Face was serene and majestick his Eye quick and sprightful his Complexion clear and florid and the whole Man abating the redness of his Hair which yet elsewhere might be an advancing to him a beauty delicate but vigorous and patient of the severest toil and hardship never approaching the fire never subject to any infirmities save Feavers wherein yet his temperance relieved him until immoderate study altered his constitution Nobly was his soul seated and noble it was and just to the promise of his outward shape 1. His Sight was admirably quick and distinct His Ear was accurate and he naturally able to perform his part to a Harpsicon or Theorbo in the relieved intervals of his day labours and night studies 3. His Elocution was free and graceful prepared at once to charm and command his audience when impaired at his Country charge reduced by his late sacred Majesty with equal skill and candor to its natural modulation 4. His Invention was rich and flowing outgoing his dexterous Amanuensis and overflowing his Periods an hours meditation at night until he observed that prejudicial to his sleep and then in the morning suffced for two Sermons a Sunday 8. or 9. hours dispatched most of his small Tracts as that touching Episcopacy drawn immediately upon my Lord of Salisbury late of Winchesters motion in a friends Chamber who professeth that sitting by all the while he remembreth not that he took off Pen from Paper till he had done five sheets having amidst his other diversions been frequently his own days workâ— His Memory was more faithful to things than to words it being harder with him to get one Sermon by heart than to Pen twenty 6. His speech was so happy that being defective only in its redundance his late Sacred Majesty the greatest Judge and Master of English Rhetorick in this later Age ennobled him and it with this Character That he was the most Natural Orator he ever heard 7. His judgment was strong in his Writings piercing in business equally able to unravel the designs of others and model his own though as the excellent Author of his life observeth the finding out the similitudes of different things wherein the fancy is conversant is usually a bar to the discerning the disparities of similar appearances which is the business of discretion and that store of notions which is laid up in Memory assists rather confusion than choice upon which ground the greatest Clerks are frequently not the wisest men yet the incomparable Doctor owned at once the highest phansie and the deepest judgment Great his natural abilities greater his acquired through the whole Circle of the Arts accurate and Eloquent he was in the Tongues exact in Ancient and Modern Writers well versed in Philosophy better in Philology Learned in School-Divinity a Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councels Ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks Eminent indeed his Intellectuals more eminent his Moralls for 1. His temper though sanguine which he observed a Providence was chaste to an Antipathy against the very appearances of wantonness twice his Houshold cares inclined him to a Marriage yet he forbore the first time out of respect to the Lady for whom a better Fortune had a kindness and the second time upon St Paul and St. Ieromes advice for the present exigence ever since espousing what he preserved inviolate unto his death the more eminent perfection of spotless Virgin chastity 2. His appetite was
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
could not kill that great same which his greater worthiness had procured him It was said of Hippâ—sus the Pythagorean that being asked how and what he had done he answered Nondum nihil neque enim mihi adhuc invidetur I have done nothing yet for no man envies me He that doth great things cannot avoid the tongues and teeth of envy But if Calumnies must pass for Evidences the bravest Hero's must always be the most reproached persons in the world Nascitur Aetolicus pravam ingeniosus ad omne Qui facere assuerat patriae non degeneratis Candida de nigris de candentibus atra Every thing can have an ill name and an ill sense put upon it but God who takes care of Reputations as he doth of lives by the order of his providence confutes the slander ut memoria justorum sit in benedictionibus that the Memory of the Righteous might be embalmed with honor And so it hapned to this great man for by a publick warranty by the concurrent consent of both Houses of Parliament the libellous Petitions against him the false Records and publick Monuments of injurious shame were cancell'd and he was restored in integrum to that fame where his great labors and just procedures had first Estated him which though it was but justice yet it was also such honor that it is greater than the virulence of tongues his worthiness and their envy had arm'd against him But yet the great Scene of troubles was but newly open'd I shall not refuse to speak yet more of his troubles as remembring that St. Paul when he discourses of the glory of the Saints departed he tells more of their Sufferings than of their Prosperities as being that Laboratory and Crysable in which God makes his Servants Vessels of honor to his glory The storm quickly grew high transitum a linguis ad gladios and that was indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iniquity had put on Arms when it is armata nequitia then a man is hard put to it The Rebellion breaking out the Bishop went to his Charge at Derry and because he was within the defence of the Walls the execrable Traytor Sir Phelim O Neal laid a snare to bring him to a dishonorable death for he wrote a Letter to the Bishop pretended intelligence between them desired that according to their former agreement such a Gate might be delivered to him The Messenger was not advis'd to be Cautious not at all instructed in the Art of Secrecy for it was intended that he should be search'd intercepted and hanged for ought they car'd but the Arrow was shot against the Bishop that he might be accused for base conspiracy and dye with shame and sad dishonor But here God manifested his mighty care of his Servants he was pleased to send into the heart of the Messenger such affrightment that he directly ran away with the Letter and never came near the Town to deliver it This story was published by Sir Phelim himself who added that if he could have thus ensnared the Bishop he had good assurance the Town should have been his own Sed bonitas Dei praevalitura est super omnem vâ—alitionem hominis The goodness of God is greater than all the malice of men and nothing so could prove how dear that Sacred Life was to God as his rescue from the dangers Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos To have kept him in a warm house had been nothing unless the Roof had fallen upon his Head that rescue was a remark of Divine Favour and Providence But it seems Sir Phelim's Treason against this worthy man had a correspondent in Town and it broke out speedily for what they could not effect by a malicious stratagem they did in part by open force they turned the Bishop out of Town and upon trifling and unjust pretences search'd his Carriages and took what they pleased till they were ashamed to take more They did worse than Divorce him from his Church for in all the Roman Divorces they said Tuas tibi res habeto Take your Goods and be gone but Plunder was Religion then However though the usage was sad yet it was recompenced to him by taking Sanctuary in Oxford where he was graciously received by that most incomparable and divine Prince but having served the King in York-shire by his Pen and by his Counsels and by his Interests returned back to Ireland where under the excellent Conduct of his Grace the now Lord Lieutenant he ran the risque and fortune of oppressed vertue But God having still resolved to afflict us the good man was forced into the fortune of the Patriarchs to leave his Country and his Charges and seek for safety and bread in a strange Land for so the Prophets were used to do wandring up and down in Sheeps Cloathing but poor as they were the world was not worthy of them and this worthy Man despising the shame took up his Crosse and followed his Master Exilium causa ipsa jubet sibi dulce videri Et de siderium dulce levat patriae He was not ashamed to suffer where the Cause was honorable and glorious but so God provided for the needs of his banished and sent a man who could minister comfort to the afflicted and courage to the persecuted and resolutions to the tempted and strength to that Religion for which they all suffered And here indeed this great Man was Triumphant this was one of the last and best Scenes of his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Last Days are the best Witnesses of Man But so it was that he stood in publick and brave defence for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England First by his sufferings and great example for verbis tantum Philosophari non est Doctoris sed Histrionis To talk well and not to do bravely is for a Comaedian not a Divine But this great man did both he suffered his own Calamity with great Courage and by his Wise Discourses strengthened the hearts of others For there wanted not diligent Tempters in the Church of Rome who taking advantage of the afflictions of his Sacred Majesty in which state men commonly suspect every thing and like men in Sickness are willing to change from Side to Side hoping for ease and finding none flew at the Royal Game and hoped to draw away the King from that Religion which his most Royal Father the best Man and wisest Prince in the World had Seal'd with the best Bloud in Christendom and which Himself Suck'd in with his Education and had Confirmed by Choice and Reason and Confessed Publickly and Bravely and hath since Restored Prosperously Millitiere was the man witty and bold enough to attempt a zealous and a foolish Undertaking and addressed himself with Ignoble indeed but Witty Arts to perswade the King to leave what was dearer to him than his Eyes It is true it was a Wave dashed against the Rock and an Arrow shot against the
calm of Cowardize seized on the Enemies hearts as that their skirmishes were rather Executions than frights but our sins put a stop to their success 16. Sir Io. Monson of South-Carleton Lincoln a good Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any in Oxford assisting in all Counsels and one in all Treaties for which he paid 2642 l. being permitted a quiet retirement for the same reason King Iohn being urged to untomb the bones of an Enemy permitted him a quiet grave Oh no said he were all my Enemies as honorably buryed To whom I must annex Sir Steven Hawkings never separated from him either in his services or sufferings a Commander of his Majesties Army and an eminent man in his Counsel as were Sir Thomas Haggerston Sir Gilbert Houghton Sir William Hart Sir Richard Hastings and Col. Io. Hilton Persons cut out by nature for Superiority and Command being like Saul taller by the head and shoulders than their Brethren and deserving it every where but among our phanaticks who raised mean men to Authority as the Goths had a Law always to chuse a short thick man for their King most of them bred Scholars and when exchanging their Caps for Helmets not putting off their Learning with their Habit. For though bookishness may be unactive yet Scholarship doth accomplish a Souldier and make him wield his Sword the steadier as appeared in Sir Io. Heydon who was a great Scholar especially in the Mathematicks whereby he overthrew the Astrologers upon their own principles and a good Souldier as were Col. Gosnall and Mr. Iohn Dutton both active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxford the last of whom was an instance of that great truth that Riches may be wanted with Pride and injoyed with Humility he being one of the Richest one of the meekest men in England not so rich in the great Estate he had as in the good works he did Notwithstanding that I find this Note in Goldsmiths-hall viz. Io. Dutton of Sherburn Gloc. Esq 5216 l. William Dallison of Greetwell Linc. 600 l. Fr. Drew Holcomb-Regis Devon 500 l. R. Davies Gwysanney Flint Esq 645 l. Will. Dâ—venport of Broomhall Ches Esq 745 l. Sir Will. Darcy of Witton Castle Durham 2457 l. Sir Robert Dormer and Sir Io. Curson of Oxfordshire who were both taken at Watlington in the same County as they sate upon his Majesties Commission of Array for which besides long Imprisonment they paid 12000 l. and Sir Io. Curson losing of a son in the service as did Sir Alexander Denton Knight of the shire for Bucks and losing his own life with heart-breaking grief in Prison as his son Col. George Denton did his with thirty wounds in the field Sir Tho. Malleâ— Exon. 871l Sir F. Moreton Howd York 828l Major Metcalf whom a shot took out of the hands of a lingring disease quickly cutting off what had been long a fretting Capt. Charles Osburn Capt. Tho. Meynel at the relief of Pontfract Col. Gilbert Marhkam and messenger at Nazeby Capt. Haggerston eldest son of Sir Tho Haggerston slain in Lanc. Coll. Holyland Sir Jo. Mary Mr. Tho. Davison Black Dur. paid 1412l composition Tho. Earl Down 6000l Tho Dove Upton Norf. 930l Math. Davis Sherb Dors. 300 l. Sir Will. Dalston Sir G. Dalston Cumb 4000l Jo. Davis of Raxford Devon and Pangborn Berks. Esq 1400l P. Dayrill Lilling Bucks Esq 700l Sir Tho. Delves Dor. Chester 1484. Sir Fr. Dowse Wall south 570l Fr. Lord Denniscomb 6042l in land and money Sir Edw. De Leyn Hallaxton Linc. 1000l Edw. Dyer Sarkam Park Ed. Dymock of the Race of the Kings Champions Esq 8633l in land and money Sir Lodowick Dyer 1500l in land and money Sir Wolston Dixey of Normator Derby Esq 1835l G. Digby of Landon Staff 1440l Phil. Dracot of Pavisley Recus 816l Sir Ralph Dutton Coll. in the Kings Army 500l Sir Drue and Col. Edw. Druery 1100l Coniers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle York a noble Gentleman worthy his ancient Family 5464 l. in land and money 17. Doctor William Harvey the Eldest Son of Master Thomas Harvey who had as good a faculty in improving his Sons money with which they all trusted him in Land as they had to get it born at Folkston in Kent bred ten years in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge five years at Padua whence he became so accomplished with such a mixture of Foreign and Domestick Learning as to be Physician in Ordinary to King Iames and King Charles I. to establish in the world against opposition in his life time that new but noble Opnion of the Circulation of the bloud received as generally at last as it was strangers are apt to be suspected distrusted at first all those Riolanus c. shaking hands with him that hand tilted Pens against him yet notwithstanding his great Worth and Obligations upon mankind he suffered 2000 l. deep for attending his Master King Charles I. in these Wars at Oxford he was turned out of the Wardenship of Merton Colledge Oxon. and which was of worse consequence than all the rest having made a good progress to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to the Thesis of the Circulation of the bloud he was plundered of his Papers by those men who not contented to murther the people of their own time destroyed thereby those that were unborn He died Iune 3. 1657. and the 80 th year of his age a Bachelor leaving behind him three Monuments I His four Books De Circulatione Sanguinis de Generatione de Ovo exercitatio Anatomica de motu cordis sanguinis in Animalibus in quibus scientiam humani corporis Physicae partem utilissimam mirabili sagac detexit demonstravit Vid. Gassend vit Peâ—â—es l. 4. p. 323. 2 His Benefactions whereby he hath been a second Linacer to the Excellent Colledge of Physicians in London 3 His Statue in that Colledge with this Insription Industria Sagacitate Successu Nobilis Perpetuos Sanguinis Aestus Circulari Gyro Fugient is Primus Promulgavit Mundo Nec Passus ultra Mortales Sua Ignorare Primordia Aureum Edidit de ovo atque pullo librum sic novis inventis apollineam ampliavit artem meruitque esse stator perpetus 18. Dr. William Iohnson Fellow of Queens and Dr. Nicholas Bernard Fellow of Cambridge Parallels in most of their vertues and most of their sufferings The first at once the most witty and pious man living the other Master of the greatest Mirth and seriousness in the World Both happy in sanctified Fancies and Parts both bred with eminent men the one with B. B. the other with Bishop Vsher whose Instrument he was in making many and useful Observations and Collections and whose Trustee he was in reference to his Reputation and Remains the first of which he often vindicated and the latter he often published both suffering equally the one turned out of his Fellowship and all his Preferments in England and the other out of his Deanery