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Institutions, or, Advice to his grandson in three parts / by William Higford ...
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Higford, William, 1581?-1657.
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Corrigenda mutanda Pag. 45. lin 11. lege ab aliis dissidet 47.21 translatio nostra 105.4 omnesue ad unumferè Nam sunt inter Reformatos qui de lectione hujus nominis non male sentiant quos aliquando nominabo si à me nominari volent 107.7 Loca ubi Iehova c. Tota haec notatio deleri posset â—uum antea verbis Merceri cadem dicta sint INSTITUTIONS OR ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON In Three Parts By William Higford Esq Disce Puer virtutem ex me Virg. LONDON Printed by Tho. Warren for Edmund Thorâ— of Oxford MDCLVIII To his Noble friend Iohn Higford Esq SIR I Have by your permission gathered out of your Manuscript what I conceive to be fittest for the publick use Young Gentlemen who shal read this will acknowledge your favour in imparting it And I shall think my pains well requited if they please to take the good Advice humbly presented to them from the Noble and Learned Author under your beloved Name by the Transcriber Epitaphium Gulielmi Higford HIc jacet Higfordus Quis Saxo sufficiâ— iâ—…i Inscriptum Nomen Caetera Fama docet Higford lyes here we onely write his Name â—pon the Grave and leave the rest to Fame Fama loquitur Give me my Trumpet that I may proclaim â—…b lasting sounds the Noble Higfords Name That this ungrateful world may know He 's gone And know whom they have lost For he was one Whom onely few that is the wise did know And rightly value while he liv'd but now All must lament and love So the sun's light It estimate by the dark shade of night He was a light indeed when he drew nigh And with his beams shin'd on our Company All clouded brows were clear'd and every Face T is beautify'd with smiles such comely Grace Appear'd in his behaviour such true wit Sharp wit but inoffensive alwayes fit For the occasion and the persons still Mingled with his discourse â—…ad wit at will And Learning too he had in readinesse Such as his Book conteins worthy o' th presse His Manuscript to his â—oâ—…s son O when Will it come forth for th' use of Gentlemen He was wel read in Books and Men both these Study'd made what he sâ—…ke or wrote to please Old Authors he lov'd best and well he knew The Old Religion from the late and nâ—w And though he read and honour'd Bellarmine And great Aquinas he did not decline From th' English Church but held fast to his death The Reformation of Queen Elzabeth Wherein he had been bred ever the same Warping neither to Rome nor Amsterdam One note of his Religious minde take hence Exemplar to us all his Patience Among his Papers Gather what his Muse Hath left us in remembrance 't was his use Of Honour'd persons Chandos Button do Live in his Verses still and Capel too Let Higford also live with them His Name With lasting sounds my Trumpet shall proclaim THE PREFACE MAn is a proud Creature ambitious of Immortality but it is denyed him by the immutable Law of God edicted against all flesh Once to dye Omnia mors poscit lex est non poena perire But yet he solaceth himself with a phansy of Immortality at leastwise to live in specie and by his Posterity more conspicuously in his First-born to recontinue his memory Haeres est alter ipse saith Syracides filius est pars patris mortuus est pater quasi non est mortuus quia reliquit similem sibi The Application Dear Cosin reflecteth upon you You are to me both my Cosin and my Son my Cosin by the remotion of a degree but my Son according to the Civil Law Jure repraesentationis because you represent the person of my dear Son your late Father now with God so that in you are invested all his Rights and Prerogatives of Birth and upon you by Gods mercy it likely to descend all the Honour if any such be right and travel of our Ancesters and in you we all must live And because in this your absence from Dixton I cannot impart my solicitous thoughts unto you nor acquit my self of that reciprocal duty I owe you nor manifest the entire affection which I bear you by personal conference love must creep where it cannot go and therefore not knowing otherwise how to make my approaches unto you I have framed and dedicated unto you this ensuing addresse that it may be if worthy your perusal a support to your tender youth apt to slip and a Guide unto you in this your journey upon earth and also a Present or Token of my love unto you upon the entrance of this new year which together with the whole course of your life I heartily pray may be successefull and happy Machiavel in his third book of his Decads upon Livy ch 34. a book which I would recommend unto to you in his due time for I am not of the opinion of those rigid Divines that place so deep a searcher into Histories and Roman Antiquities amongst their Apocrypha books recounteth that in the institution of a young Nobleman or Gentleman for Gentlemen are Nobiles minores three things are very considerable 1. That he descend from worthy parents for that will be presumed that Children will be such as their parents were until the contrary doth appear Fortes creantur fortibus bonis 2. The choice of his Company and Converse for this doth very much demonstrate what the person is in his Genius and disposition as Syracides well observeth All flesh will resort unto their like and every man will keep company with such as himself 3. That he be very carefull how he demean himself in the entrance of his youth that he act nothing which shall be vile sluggish or remiss but that his actions savour of quicknesse and magnanimity and if opportunity invite him thereunto that he undertake some noble Essay aliquod egregium facinus some notable adventure thereby to give reputation and lustre unto his subsequent life INSTITUTIONS OR ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON The First Part. NOSCE TEIPSUM was a document in especial esteem amongst the ancient Philosophers and to know your Origin and birth is to know a good part of your self I have in my custody six Offices or Inquisitions in serie which also are transcribed into the several Offices at London all which I will take care faithfully to leave unto you because it shall not be through my default that you lose any of your just rights either in honour or profit these Offices and the quiet enjoyment of your Ancestors ensuing thereupon being in truth the very Nerves and Sinews of your estate and the Conduits whereby it doth appear how their blood runneth in your veins of all which I shall be ready to give you an account But I beseech you this your descent be it what it will that you make no boasting or ostentation thereof or comparisons with other Gentlemen than which nothing is more vile or putid but