his friends by Letters a way he much delighted in without He died 1656. having spent most of his suffering time in reconciling differences among his indiscreet friends and in encouraging hope which he would say was at the bottom of the box among his desponding acquaintance a person that was not sensible of his oppression because he was not subject to passion With Dr. Smith were Dr. Ailworth of All-Souls Dr. Edward Hide Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Rector of Brightwel in Berk-shire and a grave Preacher as long as he was permitted to the great satisfaction of good people at Holywell in Oxford writing good Books such as The Christian Legacy and A Vindication of the Church of England and giving good instructions to young men such as he designed Nurseries for the Church of England recommending to them a methodical Learning an exemplary zeal at their devotion and a strict life making great use of Bodley's Library while he was permitted and when forbidden retiring to his own He died at Salisbury 1658. where I think his Reverend Brother is Bishop of the Stone under which God exercised his patience as he did under the usurpation his faith and heroick charity Whose advice was by all means use to be alone be acquainted with your selves and keep your selves discreetly in a capacity of serving the Church for he would say did all men comply the Church would be at a loss for Champions to defend her at present and were all obnoxious the Church might be at a loss for Worthies to propagate it for the future Dr. Richard Bayly for forty years President of St. Iohns and for above thirty Dean of Salisbury an excellent Governor a good Landlord preferred by Bishop Laud his kinsman one of whose Executors he was at St. Iohns as Dr. George Walker another allyed to him was at the University Colledge in Oxford whereof he was thrice Vice-chancellor much a Gentleman and therefore in the late times much a Sufferer when P. E. of P. told his Masters at Westminster how among other Exploits he had done at Oxford he had by force turned out Dr. Bayly and his wife with six pretty children out of St. Iohns He lived chearfully behind the Schools all the sad times as he died hospitably in St. Iohns in better A right primitive Church-man for his good Table great Alms just and generous Dealings and the Repair of every place he came to Thrifty but not covetous giving his need his honor and his friend his due Never saith our sweet Singer was scraper brave man get to live than live and use it Dr. R. Kettle and Dr. Hannibal Potter both Presidents of Trinityâ—Colledge â—Colledge men that if they could not play on the Fiddle that is if they were not so ready Scholars yet could build and govern Colledges and make as Themosticles a little City or Colledge a great one the Whetstone is dull its self that whets the things Dr. Metcalf was a better of St. Iohns in Cambridge than Dr. Whitacres because the first though a Sophister put a fallacy upon him cosensu diviso ad sensum compositum found the Colledge spending scarce 200 Marks per annum and left it spending by his own and his friends benefactions a thousand and the other though a great Scholar following Studies and remitting matters to others to the general decay of the Colledge The Government of a Colledge is commended by the proficiency of the Students among whom its honor enough to the House to mention 1. Mr. William Chillingworth born in Oxford and so falling out of his Mothers arms into the Muses lap a general Scholar made ready in himself by teaching others taking great delight in directing and encouraging young men and in disputing with the elher so accute and subtile a Disputant that the best disputation that ever was heard in Oxford Schools was when he Mr. Halke and Dr. Hammond disputed together Admirable at opposing and overthrowing any Position though solid and wary enough at answering and Dr. Potter being sickly sent for him to reply to Mr. Knots Answer to his Book of Charity whereupon having obtained leave to travel he resolved to finde out Mr. Knot himself and agreeably to his great spirit designing to answer not onely that Book but all that could be said for Popery to dive by converse and dispute with the choicest Romanists in the world to the bottom of all the Intrigues and Quirks of that Controversie to which end he entred himself of one of their best Colledges whereof upon the stupendious reach of his reason he became presently Sub-Rector continuing there until by continual discourses wherewith he tired them all he had distilled the quintessence of their reason into a book answering it upon his return in the Book called The Religion of Protestants a saâ—e way to salvation which was never answered but with a War sent amongst us with the extract of Catholick reason called by unreasonable men that make Christianity a Supersedeas for Humanity Socinianism approved by Dr. Fell Dr. Bayley and Dr. Prideaux his adversary who compared his Book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string was taken out of it As great his faculty in reclaiming Shismaticks as in confuting Papists seldom either discoursing or preaching but he convinced the parties he spoke or preached to His great skill in Mathematicks whereby he drew several regular Fortifications against Glocester and elsewhere being called The Kings little Engineer and Black-art-man fixing and clearing his reason in all subjects he had occasion to insist upon His counsel was that young men should be sure to be good Artists and then the Arts knitting together all other learning they would be good Scholars He was taken prisoner by the Enemies Forces who found him sick and by hard usage hastened his death 1645. being buried at Arundle-castle with this Character from an adversary That his Head was made for contrivances and his Heart for that which makes men wise viz. Doubts and Scruples resting no where in his disquisition but upon first principles 2. Mr. Anthony Farington Bachelor of Divinity an excellent Tutor and Governor while Fellow of that House an imitable Preacher for High Rhetorick Copious Learning and Moral Instructions while resident in the University a grave Pastor and charitable Neighbour while Vicar of Bray and Preacher at Windsor and so honest and orthodox that the old Proverb true of his predecessor who kept his Vicaridge under Henry the eighth Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth saying He was no Turncoat keeping always to his principles which was this that he would live and dye Vicar of Bray and turn his Mill with the Wind rather than loose his Grist could not be applied to him The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still He after Ireton who had been of the same House with him had revenged a piece of discipline he exercised upon him for his ominous knavery in affronting his superiors whereupon Mr. Farington
table-Table-book and Common-place rather than his heart Iulius Caesar said other mens wives should not be loose but his should not be suspected And this great Lord advised the Primate of Ireland that as no Clergy man should be in reality guilty of compliance with a Schism so should not he in appearance Adding when the Primate urged the dangers on all sides as Caesar once said You are too old to fear and I too sickly A true saying since upon the opening of his Body it was found that he could not have lived according to the course of Nature six moneths longer than he did by the malice of his Enemies his own Diseases having determined his life about the same period that the Nations distemper did and his Adversaries having prevailed nothing but that that death which he just paying as a debt to Nature should be in the instant hallowed to a Sacrifice for Allegiance and he that was dying must be martyred and just when he put off his Coronet Put on a Crown Philip the I. of Spain said he could not compass his design as long as Lerma lived nor the Scots theirs as long as Strafford acts and with his own single worth bears up against the Plot of three Kingdoms like Sceva in the breach with his single resolution duelling the whole Conspiracy That now being resolved into two Committees the one of Scots the other of English first impeach him Decemb. 17. of High Treason in the House of Lords though so Innocent and so well satisfied in his own present integrity that when he might have kept with an Army that loved him well at York to give Law to those conspitors he came to receive Law from them and when he might have been secure in his Government and in the Head of an Army in Ireland he came to give an account of that Government and Army in England laying down his own Sword to be subject to others and teaching how well he could Govern by shewing how well he could obey yea when he might have retired and charged his Adversaries as Bristow did Buckingham with that conspiracy for the overthrow of Government wherewith they charged him He being able to prove how P. H. H. K. S. H. S. that thirst most for his blood had correspondence with and gave counsel to the Kings Enemies in Scotland and Ireland and England when they could prove no more for the alteration of the Law against him than that he gave advice to the King according to his place to support them yet he tamely yeilded his whole life to be scanned by those that could not be safe but when he was dead and having mannaged the great trust reposed in him by the Laws of Antient Parliaments was not afraid to submit himself to the censure of this Rather than hide his head in some Forreign Nation that offered him Sanctuary saying That England had but one good head and that was to be Cut off meaning His he would loose in his own scorning for services done his own King to beg protection of another The brave man judging that he deserved death that minute he feared it and that he was fit to be Condemned that day he refused to be Tryed appeared in Parliament and Counsel with that resolution that afterwards he appeared at the Bar with till the Scots thinking their guilt could not be pardoned till his Innocence was Impeached and that their vast Accounts amounting to 514128l 9s could not pass till he was laid up to give up his as he was in Decemb. 1640 and the Scots going with the English first Impeached and afwards Ian. 30. compleated their Charge against him which drawn up in two hundred sheets of paper was brought to the Peers by Pym and how Sir Henry V. short Notes multiplied were read Feb. 24. to the Peers before the King and Feb. 25. to the Commons consisting of 28. Articles to which having Counsel allowed him in matter of Law after three dayes debate about it and they allowed to plead but in matters they were restrained to by the House he answered in Westminster-Hall before the King Queen the Prince and Courtiers in an apartment by themselves and the whole Parliament an Audience equal to the greatness of the Earls Person and the Earl of Lindsey being Lord High Constable for the day the Earl of Arundel Lord High Steward on the 22. of March as to matter of Fact in general and the Court adjourning to the next day then in particular to 13 Articles put to him of a suddain as first that he had withdrawn 24000l out of Exchequer of Ireland for his own use Secondly That the Irish Garrisons had in the years 1635 1636. c. been maintained with English Treasure Thirdly That he had preferred infamous and Popish persons such as the Bishop of Waterford c. in the Irish Church To which notwithstanding the surprize of a Vote wherein the Parliament of Ireland charged him of High Treason a Copy whereof was delivered sealed to the Lords at that very instant with purpose to discompose him An emergency that transported him indeed to say in passion That there was a Conspiracy against him which when the Faction aggravated as if he charged with High Treason by both Houses of Parliaments should charge both Parliaments with a Conspiracy though he execused it as meant of particular and private persons â—raving pardon for the inconsiderateness of the expression He answered with an undaunted Presence of spirit with firm Reason and powerful Eloquence to this purpose that the Money he had taken for himself was no other than what Money he had paid for the King before Secondly That he had eased the Kingdom of those Garrisons wherewith it had been burthened during his Predecessors time Thirdly That the Bishop of Waterford had deceived him and satisfied the Law and the next day after Marchâ— 24. to these Articles all the forementioned 28. Articles being 〈◊〉 urged he replyed thus The First Article insisted on That 31. Aâ—â—â—â—sâ—â—33 â—â—33 he being Lord President of the North and Justice of Peace publickly at the York Aâ—â—â—zes declared that some Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little singer should be heavier than the loines of the Law testified by Sir David Fowls c. The Earles Reply That Sir David Fowls was his profest Enemy that his words were clearly inverted that his expression was That the little â—inger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings gracious Clemency was heavier then the Kings loins That these were his words he verified First by the occasion of them they being spoken to some whom the Kings favour had then enlarged from imprisonment at York as a motive to their thank fulness to his Majesty Secondly By Sir William Pennyman a Member of the House who was then present and heard the words which Sir William declaring to be true the House of Commons required Iustice of the Lords against him because he had Voted the Articles as
conferences with God by prayer and meditations were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly Progress to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants houses it was his constant custome before any other business discourse or care of himself were he never so wet or weary to call for a retire Room to pour out his soul unto God who led him safely in his journey And this he did not out of any specious pretence of holiness to devour a Widows House with more facility Rack their Rents or Change their Fines for excepting the constant Revenue to the Founder to whom he was a strict accountant no man ever did more for them or less for himself For thirty years together he used this following Anthem and Confession of the holy and undivided Trinity Salva nos libera nos vivifica nos Obeat a Trinit as Save us deliver us quicken us Oblessed Trinity Let us praise God the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit let us praise and super-exalt his name for ever Almighty and everlasting God which hast given us thy Servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Holy Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Vnity We beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and raignest c. This he did perform not only as a sacred Injunction of the Founder upon him and all the Society but he received a great delight in the performance of it No man ever wrote more highly of the Attributes of God than he and yet he professes that he always took more comfort in admiring than in disputing and in praying to and acknowledging the Majesty and Glory of the blessed â—rinity than by too curiously prying into the Mystery He composed a book of Private Devotions which some judicious men having perused the same much extolled and admired as being replenished with holy truths and divine meditations which if it be not already annexed to this book I hope the Reader will shortly enjoy in a portable Volumn by it self Thus have many Scholars and Polemical men in their elder times betaken themselves to Catechizing and Devotion as Pareus Bishop Andrews Bishop Vsher and Bellarmin himself seems to prefer this Book De ascensione mentis ad Deum Of the ascension of the soul to God before any other parts of his works Books saith he are not to be estimated Ex multitudine folliorum sed ex fructibus By the multitudes of the leaves but the fruit My other books I read only upon necessity but this I have willingly read over three or four times and resolve to read it more often whether it be saith he that the love towards it be greater than the merit because like another Benjamin it was the Son of mine old age He seemed to be very Prophetical of the ensuing times of Trouble as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King and Appendix about the signs of the times or divine fore-warnings therewith Printed some years before touching the great tempest of wind which fell upon the Eve of the fifth of November 1636. He was much astonished at it and what apprehension he had of it appears by his words This mighty wind was more then a sign of the time the very time it self was a sign and portends thus much that though we of this kingdom were in firm league with all Nations yet it is still in God's power we may fear in his purpose to plague this kingdom by this or like tempests more grievcously then he hath done at any time by Famine Sword or Pestilence to bury many living souls as well of superiour as inferior rank in the ruine of their stately Houses or meaner Cottages c. Which was observed by many but signally by the Preface to Master Herberts Remains I shall not prevent the Reader or detain him so long from the original of that book as to repeat Elogies which are there conferred upon him I cannot forbear one passage in that Preface wherein he made this profession I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers in this rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation he hath given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist Iew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As he was always a reconciler of differences in the private government so he seriously lamented the publick breaches of the kingdom for the divisions of Reuben he had great thoughts of heart At the first entrance of the Scots into England he had much compassion for his Country-men although that were but the beginning of their sorrows He well knew that war was commonly attended with ruin and calamity especially to Church and Churches and therefore that prayer was necessary and becoming of them Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris c Give peace in our time O Lord because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God One drop of Christian blood though never so cheaply spilt by others like water upon the ground was a deep corrosive to his tender heart Like Rachel weeping for her children he could not be comforted his body grew weak the chearful hue of his countenance was empaled and discoloured and he walked like a dying mourner in the streets But God took him from the evil to come it was a sufficient degree of punishment to him to see it it had been more than a thousand deaths unto him to have beheld it with his eyes When his death was now approaching being in the Chamber with many others I over-heard him with a soft voice repeating to himself these and the like ejaculations I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope my soul waiâ—eth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning As for me I will behold thy face in right cousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness And he ended with this Cygnean caution Psal. 116. 5 6 7. Cracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee And having thus spoken soon after he surrendred up his spirit to him that gave it If you shall enquire what this charitable man left in Legacy at his Death I must needs answer That giving all in his life time as he owed nothing but love so he left nothing when he dyed The poor was his heir and he was the administrator of his own goods or to use his own expression in one of his last Dedications he had little else to leave his Executors but his Papeâ— only which the Bishop of Armagh being at his Funeral
much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
no Modern Authors and none of note escaped him but with design to enlarge clear up or correct their Annotations twice Printed in English and now Translated to Latine to be a noble part of that grand Collection called Critica Sacra the depth of his Rabbinical and Talmudical reading the breadth of his Eastern and Western Antiquities his perusal of all Councils his command of all Scholiasts his comprehension of all Architecture Magick Chimistry Modes Coins Measures Weights Customes Proverbs c. and whatever else can properly come under a great Schollar's cognizance that aimed not at the empty and floating notions of Surface-learning but at Omne Scibile A compleat Scheme Frame and Idea within himself proportionable in all things to the order and method of being without him drawing his Intellectual Circle of Arts and Sciences in no narrower compass than that real one of things in the Universe Insomuch that I cannot believe as one suggesteth he lived to the twenty fourth year of his age before he could buy Books and but to the thirty ninth of it to read them unless I admit what is more strange but affirmed by another That his Candle was not out one night for eleven of those years This industry this Proficiency escaped not the observation of the Reverend Doctor Duppa then Dean of Christ-Church since successively Lord Bishop of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester as great a Patron of ingenuity in others as Master of it in himself who admitted him first to his favour next to his service wherein he was first Chaplain of Christ-Church and next to that Prebendary of Chichester and Sarum no Preferment compatible with his Age being above his Deserts For which Preferment in gratitude to his Master and the Church he dedicated Ridleyes View of the Civil Law to him and his life in clearing up the Scripture difficulties in that method he had begun to it For when his Lord called upon him to Preach and exercise his Ministerial Function He said The Harvest is confessedly great but then the Labourers are not few and if while so many are thus excellently imployed about the rest of the Building some one or other do as well as he can towards the making good of the Ground-work I think he may be let alone at least The hopes of the Superstruction dependeth upon the assurance of the Foundation I shall give them leave to be Pillars this I am sure is the Corner-stone and I need not not tell you how rejected I mean not of all but of the Common Builders And in this course of Study he intended to spend the rest of his life Neither did the vigilant Doctor Duppa alone take notice of this deserving Person For 1. The blessed Arch-bishop Laud now intent upon the Recovery of Primitive Christianity the Restauration of Ancient Learning and the Settlement of a Flourishing Church employed and encouraged this great Master of the two first and as great ornament of the third 2. The publick spirited Bishop Linsey designing his excellent Edition of Theodoret repaired to this great Transcript of that and all other Fathers 3. Great Selden 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confessed this Gentleman a confutation of his opprobrious Preface against the Clergy in his Book of Tythes sending no less than eighty seven doubts in several sorts of learning to be resolved by him 4. The learned Bishop Mountague meditating a Church History equal to if not above that of Baronius consulted this great Antiquary the familiarity between them when Master Gregory was but thirty years old you have in his own words about the occasion of his Tract called Episcopus puerorum in die Innocentium Having Consulted with the most likely men I knew where about I then was to what Moment of Antiquity this speaking of the Monument afore mentioned in the Margin at Salisbury could refer The Answer was They could not tell so the late learned Bishop Mountague who also earnestly appointed me to make further enquiry after the thing not doubting but that there would be something in the matter at least of curious if not substantial observation 5. There was a Club of great wits at Oxford that met twice a week to consult this Oracle than whom none communicated his Notions more readily none expressed himself more satisfactorily wherefore the most learned Jews and Christians Protestants and Papists kept correspondence with him and an Armenian Priest lodged with him some time at the Colledge by the same Token that he saith himself He had occasion to shew this Priest the Chappel and perceiving him to cast his Eye upon the Organ he asked whether there were any such sight to be seen in their Churches he answered No such matter neither did he know till it was told him what to call them yet this man had lived fourteen years under two Patriarchs Constantinople and Alexandria And in the Greek Liturgy we read of Musick enough And to close this Album Amicorum he travelled through twelve Languages without any guide except Mr. Dod the Decalogist whose Society and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue he enjoyed one Vacation near Banbury for which Courtesie he gratefull◠remembred him as a man of great Piety Learning Gravity and Modesty of which Graces also this Personage was as great a possessor as admirer But this heighth of worth and honour must by the method of sublunary things be attended with its fall This great height of our Church is now in its meridian and it must Set. One dismal cloud overwhelming Religion Learning and his great Spirit the Repository of both for immoderate study an hereditary Gout of twenty years continuance which his poor Parents were rich enough to bequeath him and heart-sorrow brings him to his Grave Marck 13. 1646. with Ichabod in his mouth Ah the glory is departed yet not as one without hope for he concludes a Dedication to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and his life with these words The great Genius of this place must now burn a while like those subterraneous Olibian Lamps under the Earth we shall behold it but not now we shall behold it but not nigh Which those about him heard not uttered then with more grief than we after him see now fulfilled with joy By this time your expectation is raised concerning the great particulars that made up this Eminent Person In a word a Memory Strong and Active containing not a confused Heap but a rational Coherence of Notions an Imagination Quick and Regular a Judgment Deep and Searching an Apprehension Ready and Natural such a readiness to take flame and blaze from the least occasion presented or the least Sparks of anothers knowledge delivered as is very discernable to those that intently observe the little occasions he takes from one observation to make another a Patience Invincible that never rested in its unconfined enquiries of any difficulty but at the bottome of it a Good Nature Composed and Settled a Communicativeness that
Exercised and Improved him an Obliging Carriage that gave Access to the meanest Scholar and had it of the greatest a Distinct Understanding that could as well Touch and Apprehend the least matters as Compass and Comprehend the greatest a Down-right Plain and Honest Temper and what crowned all a Serious and Holy Frame of Spirit discovering its self in his Life and his Writing where you will meet with such expressions as these When I am indeed able for these things speaking of Preaching I doubt not to have him with my mouth because I mean to leave my self out I have thus much left to wish and I hope I do it well to his Book meaning the Scripture that it might be read as far as this is possible in a full and fixed Translation and upon that a clear and disingaged Commentary The way to do this will not be to do the work a great and undertake the whole or any considerable part of the Book by one man if he could live one Age. He that goeth upon this with any interest about him let him do otherwise never so admirably he doth indeed but Translate an Angel of Light into the Devil I would not Render or Interpret one parcel of Scripture to an end of my own though it were to please my whole Nation by it to gain the World One asked him whether the Alcoran had any thing in it that could work upon a Rational Belief He answered That that which is every where called Religion hath more of Interest and the strong impressions of Education than perhaps we consider of There is no Scholar that would not know where lies the Remains of this great man Christ-Church hath his Body the Church of England his Heart whose Religion he designed to clear up in life and sealed with his death a death that was so much more a Martyrdom in his Bed than others were upon the Scaffold as it is a more exquisite misery to dye daily with grief than once by an Executioner His honest Epitaph is this NE premus Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qui Te quovis vincet Idiomate At ne molestus sis Ausculta Causam auribus tuis imbibe Templo exclusus Et Avitâ Religione Jam senescente ne dicam sublatû Mutavit Chorum altiorem ut cupesseret Vade Nunc si libet imitare R. W. His Printed Works are RIdleyes View of the Law with his Notes Posthuma Or a Collection of Notes and Observations translated into Latine by Master Stokes and inserted into the Critica Sacra M. SS Among the many early fruits of his younger studies which his modesty kept by him to ripen A Translation of an Ancient Peice of Chronography by Melala which gave great light to the State of Primitive Christianity is one And Akibla a Book proving East-adoration before Popery because ever since the Floud THE Life and Death OF JOHN BARNSTON Doctor of Divinity THE greatest parts was not protection enough you observe in the last Instance against the Barbarism of that Age nor yet the best nature any security as you may perceive by this against the inhumanity of it For there was one Iohn Barnston D. D. born of an ancient Family in Cheshire his birth deserved civility bred Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford his education pleaded for favour Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton and Residentiary of Salisbury his preferments should have gained him respect a peaceable and good Disposition whereof take this eminent instance He sat Judge in the Consistory when a Church-warden out of whose house a Chalice was stolen was Sued by the Parish to make it good to them because not taken out of the Church-chest where it ought to be reposited but out of his private house The Church-warden Pleaded That he took it home only to Scoure it which proving in-effectual he retained it till next morning to Boil out the in-laid Rust thereof Well said the Doctor I am sorry that the Cup of Union and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord between you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but that either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some charity come to pass accordingly He Founded an Hebrew Lecture in Brazen-Nose Colledge a piece of charity this that should have covered a multitude of offences Hospitality they say hath slept since 1572. in the Grave of Edward Earl of Derby this Gentlemans Father's Master and was a little awaked by this Gentleman his Sons Chaplain and Friend from the year 1620. to the year 1640. carrying with him that genius of Cheshire Hospitality and free to his own Family which is Generosity to Strangers which is Courtesie and to the Poor which is Charity A Native of Northampton-shire observeth that all the Rivers of that County are bred in it besides those Ouse and Charwell it lendeth unto other Shires So this good House-keeper had provisions arising from his own grounds both to serve himself and to supply others who if poor were in his house as in their own The peculiar grace of his charity was that with the good man in Plutarch he would sometimes steal Largesses under the Pillows of Ingenious Men who otherwise might refuse them relieving so at once as well the modesty as the poverty of his Clients not expecting but preventing their request God forbid the Heavens should never Rain till the Earth first openeth her Mouth seeing some grounds will sooner burn than chap. It was the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon's observation in his excellent Speech Octob. 13. 1660. before the King's Majesty and both Houses of Parliament That good Nature was a virtue so peculiar unto us and so appropriated by Almighty God to this Nation that it can be translated into no other Language and hardly practised by any other People This good nature was the praedominant temper of this good man appearing in the chearfulness of his spirit the openness and freedom of his converse and his right English inclination so that the spirit of fears and jealousies that spiritus Calvinianus spiritus Melancholicus that prevailed in the beginning of these times like the louring of the Sky before a Storm was as inconsistent with his temper and spirit as it was contrary to other sober persons opinion and interest His first disturbance was by some Croaking Lectures the Product of the extraordinary heat of that time out of the mud of Mankind who vied with him in long and thin discourses in reference to whom he would apply a Story he took much pleasure in When a Noble-man of this Nation had a controversie in Law with a Brewer who had a Garden and a Dwelling-house bordering upon his The Brewer gave it in charge to his Servant to put in so many Hogsheads of Water more into all his Brewings than he was wont to do telling him that such a supply
would bear the charge of his Suit with his Adversary which being over-heard by the Noble-man he sent presently to the Brewer resolving he would no longer go to Law with him who upon such easie and cheap terms could manage his part of the Suit And when some ill-minded people thought to disturb the peace of his soul by the confluence that attended his Neighbour's Ministry and the solitude of his he would at once please himself and displease them with this Repartee That to one Customer you will see in a substantial Whole-saleman's Ware-house you will meet with twenty in a pedling Retailer of Small-wares Shop A man would wonder how so good a nature could have an enemy but that as Culpitius Severus noteth of Ithacius that he so hated Priscillian that the very Habit which good men used if it were such as Priscillian had used made him hate them also so it was observed in those times that any thing that was Episcopal was so odious that some men whose Callings were much indeared by the excellent endowments of their persons had yet their persons much disrespected by the common prejudices against their Callings Ah shall I be so happy as to be taken away from the evil to come They are his dying words as Augustine before the taking of Hippopareus before the Siege of Heidelbergh and the good Christians before the Siege of Ierusalem Shall I go as old Gryneus said ubi Lutherus cum Zwinglio optime jam convenit If they knew what it was to dye they would not live so When Bees Swarm a little dust thrown in the Air setleth them and when People are out of order a little thought of their mortality would compose them And since they are mortal their hatred would not be immortal O set bounds to our zeal by discretion to tumults by law to errours by truth to passion by reason and to divisions by charity And so this good man went up to that place that is made up of his Temper Mirth and peace For all we know of what is done above By blessed Souls is that they Sing and Love THE Life and Death OF Sir ROBERT BERKLEY THE two great Boundaries that stood in the way of the late Sedition were Religion and Law which guide and regulate the main Springs that move and govern the affections of reclaimed nature Conscience and Fear by the first of which we are obliged as we live in the communion of those that hope for another world And by the second as we live in society with those that keep in order this Ministers and Lawyers are the Oracles we depend upon for Counsel and Instruction in both those Grand Concerns so far as that we think it our duty to submit to the reason of the one and to believe the doctrine of the other without scruple or argument unless in matters most notoriously repugnant to the Elements of Policy and Religion These two professions the Conspiracy endeavoured to make sure of either by cajoling or persecuting drawing the one half of them to sin with them oh what a case the Nation was in when Juglers and Impostors took up its Benches and Pulpits and marking out the other half for persecution by them miserable kingdom where the Law is Treason and Gospel a Misdemeanor One of those that could better endure the Injuries than the Ways of the Faction was Sir Robert Berkley a person whose worth was set in his Pedigree as a rich diamond in a fair Ring his extraction not so much honouring his parts as his parts did illustrate his extraction When a Pippin is planted on a Pippin-stock there groweth a delicious fruit upon it called a Renate When eminent abilities meet with an eminent person the product of that happy concurrence is noble and generous The Heveninghams of Suffolk reckon twenty five Knights of their Family the Tilneys of Norfolk are not a little famous for sixteen Knights successively in that House and the Nauntons have made a great noise in history seven hundred pounds a year they have injoyed ever since or even before the Conquest And this person took a great pleasure in reflecting on the eight Lords forty two Knights besides a great number of Gentlemen that amongst them possess nine thousand pounds a year for five hundred years together When he came to Study the Law he knew that though to have an Estate be a sure First yet to have Learning is a sure Second skill being no burthen to the greatest men that being often in his mouth in effect which I find in another Judges Book in express terms Haec studia adolescentiam alunt senectutem oblectunt secundas res ornant adversis persugium praebent delectant domi non impediunt foris pernoctant nobiscum Peregrinantur Rusticantur He observed it a great happiness that he fixed on a profession that was as Aristotle saith among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suited to his genius and inclination The reason of his considerable proficiency in his Profession being judged the greatest Master of Maximes in his time and therefore his only fault was that being made Serjeant 3. Caroli with great Solemnity and at the same Term sworn the King's Majesties Serjeant at Law he argued against the factious Members of the Parliament 4. Caroli Sir Iohn Aliot c. so shrewdly that Sir G. C. said of him Prerogative and Law will not be over-run while Serjeant Berkley lives A testimony of him suitable to the inscription on his ring when made Serjeant Lege Deus Rex Two things he abhorred 1. The impudence of those men that by misconstruction of Laws misapplying of Presidents torturing or embezzeling of Records turn the point of the Law upon its self Wounding the Eagle with a feather from his own wing and overthrowing the power of Princes by their authority 2. The uncharitableness of others void of the ingenuity either of Scholars or indeed of men who charged him and others with opinions which they heartily disclaimed meerly because they think such an opinion flowed from his Principles an uncharitableness that hath widened the breach irreconcilably among both Lawyers and Divines in this Nation This was the reason why when the other Judges were Charged with Misdeamenors when the Parliament was upon the business of Ship-money this Judge was Accused of Treason and why when his fellows got off with a check and a small Fine he suffered three years Imprisonment and afterwards was released upon no lower terms than a Fine of two thousand pounds an incapacity of any Dignity or Office in the Common◠wealth and to be a Prisoner at large during pleasure After having been eleven years a good Justice in the Kings bench he died heart-broken with grief Anno 1649. Aetatis 63. Hard indeed were this Gentleman's Arguments against the times but soft his words often relating and its seems always reflecting on Mnemon's discipline who hearing a mercenary Souldier with many bold and impure reports exclaiming against Alexander lent
vowed not to stir a foot except with these their Baggage which the King was forced to wink at for the present smiling out his anger and permitting now what he might and did amend afterwards But greatest Piety the best Cause the strictest Discipline the most faithful Service may miscarry in this world where we are sure no person can discern either the love or the hatred of the great Governor of the world by any thing that is under the Sun For he saw prosperous Villany trampling on unhappy Allegiance the best King lying down under the stroke of the worst Executioner and himself forced to compound for his estate with those very Rebels he now scorned and formerly defied overcome in all things but his mind For the note runs thus in that Record which we are bound to forgive but History will not forget Sir Edward Berkley of Pull Som. 0770 l. 00 00 In the primitive times like these I write of made up of suffering when the surviving Christians endeavoured to preserve the memory of their Martyrs for imitation and those few that escaped persecution advanced the honor of Confessors for their incouragement they had books called Dyptychs because filled on both sides with holy Names on the one side of those that died in the great cause on the other side of those that suffered for it being hardly thought by that wicked world worthy to live and yet not so happy as to be suffered to dye I am sensible I could fill this Volume with those eminent Assertors of Loyalty that are still alive of this Family to serve the Soveraign they suffered for and the great Martyrs of it that sealed their Allegiance with their bloud but foreseeing a fair opportunity elsewhere to do them the utmost right I am able that is to give the world a faithful Narrative of their exemplary virtues which though they may often times tempt to the liberty of a Panegyrick yet they still perswade to as strict an observance of truth as is due to an History For that Pen expresseth good men most elegantly that draweth their lives most faithfully In the mean time Let the very names of these worthy persons be Histories their very mention carry with it a Chronicle Sir MAVRICE BERKLEK ALthough as my Lord Bacon observes De Augmentatione Scientiarum l. 2. c. 13. Nature hath planted in all men fear twisted together with the principles of self-preservation as the great instrument of it and wariness as the great effect of fear Although all things as he saith be if we should look into them full of Panick fear nay though retiredness added to caution studiousness to retiredness simplicity and innocency of behaviour added to studiousness might have excused this Gentleman from the noise and much more from the sufferings of the late times yet the bare unhappiness of thinking Rationally of wishing Loyally of relieving Charitably of endeavouring to keep the peace of his Country Prudently cost him at Goldsmith-Hall where lay The Treasures of wickedness One thousand three hundred seventy two pounds deep besides the several inroads made upon his Estate and Lands by the Garrison of Glooester to which he would not Contribute freely he was forced to submit patiently And according to the method intimated in the Holy History that what the Catterpillar left the Canker-worm destroyed what Glocester left Essex his Army swallowed and what escaped them Sequestration seized RICHARD BERKLEY Esq THE elegant variety of beings in the world doth not more naturally conduce to the service of the world than the admirable diversity of mens gifts and abilities doth serve the necessities of those times and places to which they are appointed The former Gentleman was so studious that he might have been served as Vlrick Fugger was chief of the whole Family of the Fuggers in Auspurgh who was disinherited of a great Patrimony only for his studiousness and expensiveness in buying costly M. SS and yet his very thoughts and meditations served his Majesty giving great satisfaction to those that doubted and as great directions and countenance to those that managed that Cause which he called The Supporting of the government of the world This worthy personage was so active that he would say often That the greatest trouble to him was that he could not think and yet as corrected Quick-silver is very useful so his reduced quickness became very serviceable to ballance that of the Gloucester Officers who were at once the most indefatigable at home and the most troublesom abroad of any in England and never so well met with as by the vigilancy of this person who would not be surprised and his industry that could not be quiet An un-experienced Sailer would think Ballast unnecessary and Sails dangerous to a Ship and ordinary men judge so staid a man as Sir Maurice useless and so nimble a man as this Esquire not safe in great trust while wise men look on an even lay of both as the best temper but as some full word cannot be delivered of all that notion and sense with which it is pregnant without variety of expressions so this great spirit cannot be understood or made out without the large Paraphrase of such a multitude of excellent Instances as this place and method will not permit Only according to the Spanish Proverb Yr a la soga con el Calderin Where goeth the Buckle there goeth the Rope When his Master Set it was Night with him and when his Majesty laid down his life he was put to lay down for his lively-hood 0526 l. 00 00 As another of his name did 0020 00 00 though yet all these three had wherewithal to promote any Loyal Design that was offered and to relieve any Cavalier that wanted their Houses being the common Sanctuaries for distressed Loyalty whom they would see employed in a way suitable to their respective abilities and subservient to the publick design not enduring that their houses should be Hospitals or down-right begging a good Subjects calling A Husband-man pretended and made out his relation to Robert Groasthead Bishop of Lincolne and thereupon was an humble Suitor to him for an Office about him Cousin saith the Bishop to him If your Cart be broken I le mend it if your Plough old I will give you a new one But an Husband-man I found you and an Husband-man I le leave you Neither must we omit Sir ROWLAND BERKLEY of Cotheridge in the County of Worcester OF whom when he was pitched upon to manage a part of the Worcester Association we may say as Puterculus did of another Non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus quis eminebat being a steady man that looked not at few things but saw thorow the whole Systheme of Designs and comprehended all the Aspects and Circumstances of it putting Affairs notwithstanding that they ran sometimes against his Biass by some rubs of unusual impediments into an easie and smooth course using never one counsel any more than the Lord H.
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the year-Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
equal the greatness of your power That we who are the Servants to the great and mighty God may hand in hand triumph in the glory which this action presents unto us Now because the Islands which you govern have been very famous for the unconquered strength of their shipping I have sent this my trusty Servant and Embassadour to know whether in your Princely Wisdom you shall think fit to assist me with such forces by Sea as shall be answerable to those I provide by Land which if you please to grant I doubt not but the Lord of Hosts will protect and assist those that fight in so glorious a cause Nor ought you to think this strange that I who much reverence the peace and accord of Nations should exhort to a War Your great Prophet Christ Iesus was the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah as well as the Lord and giver of Peace must always appear with the terrour of his Sword and wading through Seas of blood must arrive to tranquillity This made James your Father of glorious memory so happily renowned amongst all Nations It was the noble fame of your Princely vertues which resounds to the utmost corners of the Earth that perswaded me to invite you to partake of that blessing wherein I boast my self most happy I wish God may heap riches of his blessings on you increase your happiness with your daies and hereafter perpetuate the greatness of your name in all Ages Virtues that had they been sweetned with little circumstances such as theirs are who observe some minute wayes of obliging and not reall solid and grand actions had pleased the world while he lived as they astonished it since he was dead he aimed at the general good of the Commonwealth and therefore he was not carefull to be plausible to particular persons verifying that maxime That Ordinary Princes are applauded but Heroick ones not understood Virtues that make it an Impertinence to tell the world that he was temperate eating for health not luxury and drinking wine mingled with water excepting when he eat Venison concluding the greatest entertainment with a glass of water beer and wine seldome drinking between meals that his Recreations were manly and sober Chesse Books Limning excellent Discourse and Hunting being the most usuall of them and that his private converse was free and ingenious witness his answer to a Presbiterian Minister who inquired for Captain Titus a person very well-deserving of him and his son that he wondred after so unhappy a discourse about Timothy he would look for Titus these being the inconsiderable Circumstances of his great goodness VIII A King so religious that his devotion in the Church when young was equal to his gallantry at Court his mind being no more softned and debauched by his fortune than his body a devotion not Popular nor Pompous but sollid and secret filling his Soul as God doth the world silently his Soul being wrapped up in his Prayer not to be disturbed either by the best or worst accident that could happen A Devotion to which he made his pleasure witness his constant calling for Prayers before Hunting though before day and his business witness his ordering of Prayers to be made to God before he Ingaged the Rebels at Brentford valuing his duty before his safety whereupon his private Prayers in restraint were admired by his Enemies and his constant attendance on and hast to Divine Service whereever he was by his friends At Bishop Lauds request he came to Church in the beginning of Divine Service to prevent any interuption might happen in the publick Devotion and of his own accord he continued to the end to avoid all Contempt of it Where his eye was in the beginning of Sermon there it was in the end his attendance edifying as much by the Example as the Preacher did by his Doctrine The established way of the Church of England was his profession not so much by Education as by Choice not as a profession he liked but understood the best in the world Nothing more usuall than to defame him and others for Inclination to Popery for to the great shame of our Profession and honour of the Roman all the Reason Order Discipline Laws and Religion that was in the world was then reckoned Popish and yet nothing rendred him a more conspicuous Protestant than the late Rebellion wherein besides his Constancy in Spain against the temptations of that Court the sollicitations of the Pope and the restless Importunities of Priests and Fryers he added these Arguments of his sincerity in Religion viz. That in his private Indearments to the Queen when he had most need of her assistance he saith Religion was the only thing in difference between them And in his Legacy to his Children he bequeatheth them not only Bishop Andrews Sermons and Mr. Hookers Policy that might confirm them in the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church but Arch-bishop Lauds book against Fisher the greatest and strongest Argument and Antidote against the Romists insomuch that if the faction had not overthrown his Government the Papists as appears by Habernefields discovery had ruined his Person as afterwards many of them obstructed his Restauration and his Sons for no other reason but that he was Heir of his Fathers Faith as well as his Throne Religion had the whole power of his soul as he should have had of his subjects whom he desired no further subject to him than he was to God How tender his Conscience that was resolved as he injoyned the most Reverend Father in God G. now Arch-bishop of Canterbury then his Chaplain if ever he saw him in prosperity to put him in mind of it to do publick Pennance for consenting to the E. of Strafford's death a deep sence of which action went with him to his grave and to the injuries done the Church in England and Scotland How careful his heart in that when the Commissioners at the Isle of Wight urged him to allow the lesser Catechism of the Assembly that being they said but a small matter he said Though it seem to you a small matter yet I had rather part with the choicest flower in my Crown than permit your Children to be corrupted in the least point of their Religion How great his Integrity when the Commissioners urged the abolishing of Episcopacy in England because he had consented to the abolishing of it in Scotland and it was replyed That in Scotland the Act made to that purpose in the minority of King Iames was not repealed and that his consenting to that was only leaving them where the Law left them He said That Reply was true but it was not all for the truth is they are his own words and tell them so the next time they urge that When I did that in Scotland I sinned against my Conscience and I have often repented of it and I hope God hath forgiven me that great sin and by Gods grace for no consideration in the World will
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
Papa alterius Orbis and each word had been decreed by the Crosier than written with the Sword deserved the highest incouragements in that Church whereof it was the best defence which how ever ridiculously at first ascribed to others was so peculiar to him that his very enemies confessed he did it because none else So hard it is to counterfeit the great Genius and Spirit of Honor and there are in such Books the inimitable peculiarities of an incommunicable faculty and condition To which when you adde the exemplary strictness of his Life witness his care in keeping a constant Diary of it He is a good Christian that Audits the account of his soul every day as he a good husband that casts up the expences of his occasions every night The tenderness of his Conscience evident in this and other passages of his Devotion O Deus meus respice servum tuum miserere mei secundum viscera misericordiae â—uae scandalum ecce factus sum nomini tuo dum ambitioni meae aliorum peccatis servio Quin hoc licet aliorum suasu oblatrante tamen conscientia perpetravi Obsecro Domine per miseri cordius Iesu ne in tres in Iudicium cum servo tuo sed exaudi sanguinem ejus pro me pâ—rorantem nec hoc conjugium sit animae meae divortium a sâ—nu tuo O quantum satius esset si vel hujus diei satis memor Marty rium cum Proto-martyre tuo potius perpessus sim negando quod urgebant aut non satis fidi aut non satis pii amici mei Pollicitus sum mihi tenebras peccato huic sed ecce statim evolavit nec lux magis aperta quam ego qui feci ita voluisti Domine pro nimia misericordia tua implere ignominia faciem meam ut discerem quaerere nomen tuum O Domine quam gravis est memoria peccati hujus etiam bodie etiam post tot toties repetit as preces a tristi confusa anima mea coram te prosusas O Domine miserere exaudi preces depressi humiliati valde servi tui Parce Domine remitte peccata quae peccatum hoc Induxerunt secuta sunt c. The constant course of his Devotion is lately published his observations of Gods providences over him to furnish him with matter for his private prayer while he did as the Apostle exhorteth thus watch unto prayer as his sicknesses his falls the causualities in his Family and Affairs he judging nothing too mean for him to remarque that was not below God to do were exact his diet temperate his converse chaste having no Woman about his house reckoning it not every mans gift in Tertullians phrase Salvis oculis videre faeminam the gravity of his Person severity and quickness being well compounded in his face giving a good example always in this plainness of his garb and apparel and when in power good precepts checking saith the Historian such Clergy-men as he saw go in rich or gaudy dresses under his common and tart notion of Ministers of the Church-triumphant Thus as Cardinal Wolsey is reported the first Prelate who made Silks and Sattens fashionable for Clergy-men so this Archbishop first retrenched the usual wearing thereof Once at a Visitation in Essex one in Orders of good Estate and extraction appeared before him very gallant in habit whom he publickly reproved with the plainness of his own apparel My Lord said the Minister you have better Cloaths at home and I have worse whereat his Lordship rested very well contented wearing his hair short and injoyning others so to do not enduring to know any of his kindred if they appeared with flaunting Cloaths long hair or smelt either of Tobacco or Wine I knew saith an Historian a near Kinsman of his by the way to shew the impartiality of his favors in Cambridge Scholar enough but something wilde and lazy on whom it was late before he reflected with favor and that not before his amendment and generally those preferred by him were men of Learning and Ability The great influence of his publick spirit reaching not onely so far as he had power himself but also as far as any had power that either saw his good example or read his effectual admonitions At a Visitation kept in St. Peters Cornhil for the Clergy of London The Preacher discoursing of the painfulness of the Ministerial Function proved it from the Greek deduction of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Deacon so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust because he must laborare in pulvere in arena work in the dust do hard service in hot weather Sermon ended my Lord then of London proceeded to his Charge to the Clergy and observing the Church ill repaired without and slovenly kept within I am sorry said he to meet here with so true an Etymology of Diaconus for here is both dust and dirt too for a Deacon or Priest either to work in yea it is dust of the worst kinde caused from the ruines of this ancient house of God so that it pittieth his servants to see her in the dust Hence he took an occasion to press the repair of that and other places of Divine Worship so that from this day we may date the general mending beautifying and adorning of all English Churches some to decency and some to magnificence I say it you add these admirable endowments of his Person to the excellent Catalogue of his Actions you might confess that there was reason why he should be envied but no reason why he should be Libelled so often as I have formerly mentioned he was Why his house should be sacked Munday May 11. 1640. about midnight by 500 persons of the rascal riotous multitude according to the Paper posted upon the Exchange exhorting them so to do May 9. to his utter ruine had not he upon timely notice fortified his house taken and punished the Ringleaders in spight of the tumult that brake all the prisons about the Town and severely threatned him in a Libel September 1. with another assault in the Kings absence Why he should receive such a Letter as he did from one Mr. Rocket informing him That he was among the Scots as he travelled through the Bishoprick of Durham he heard them inveigh and rail against the Archbishop exceedingly and they hoped shortly to see him as the Duke was slain by one least suspected Why the Scots Commissioners should name him in the House of Lords an Incendiary and in the House of Commons a Traytor Dec. 16. 17 18. Why he should be committed to the Black Rod and confined being only permitted to go to Lambeth for a Book or two and some Papers for his defence against the Scots where he staid late hearing with comfort the 93. and 94. Psalms and the 50. of Isaiah to avoid the gazing of the people why they should make him as soon as he was confined December 21. sell Plate
but understand the truth in this point as it was declared by the Laws either of God or Men truly It restrained the people that they might not be debauched from their Christian sobriety to Heathenish loosness but practise their duty on this day as it was taught by the Laws of God and Men orderly 20. His next Charge is his preferring of 1. The great Scholar Critick and Antiquary Dr. Mountague though it was Sir Dudley Carleton that preferred him 2. The profound Divine and honest man Dr. Iackson 3. Charitable Meek and Learned Dr. Christopher Potter 4. Acute Pious and Rationable Bishop Chapple 5. Pious Publick-spirited and Learned Dr. Cosins preferred indeed by the Arch-bishop of York 6. The very Learned and Industrious Bishop Lindsey deservedly preferred indeed by Bishop Neile 7. The worthy A. B. Neile who was so far from being preferred by my Lord of Canterbury that in truth my Lord of G. was advanced by him 8. The smart discreet and understanding man Bishop Wren Chaplain to Bishop Andrews 9. He is charged with the Incouragements he gave Dr. Heylm who was raised by the Earl of Denby Dr. Baker Bray Weekes Pocklington who were recommended by the Bishop of London c. 10. It is reckoned his fault that he interposed with His Majesty for such worthy men as Bishop Vsher recommended to him in Ireland and that upon a difference between the Lord Keeper and the Master of the Wards about Livings in the Kings Gift he moved the King to remove the occasion of those differences by presenting to him immediately himself and that if he recommended a worthy man to the King as Chaplain he trespassed upon my Lord Chamberlains Office 21. Some hundred Books are produced out of which some indiscreet passages had been expunged by Dr. Heywood Dr. Baker Dr. Weekes Dr. Oliver c. and these purgations are laid upon him and because the forementioned Gentleman suffered not bitter expressions that tended to the raising of old and legally silenced Controversies to pass the press as the expressions of the Church of England the Arch-bishop must come to the Block as an enemy of the Church of England 22. Because a Jesuite contrived a Letter wherein Arminianism is said to be planted in England to usher in Popery therefore the Arch-bishop preferring some worthy men who were of the same minde with Arminians had a design to introduce Popery 23. The High Commission called in many Books and punished Authors Printers or Booksellers and the poor Arch-bishop therefore indeavored the subversion of the Government 24. The Kings Declaration to silence the Controversies of the Church and his care to check those that endeavored to renew them The King and Councels Order at Woodstock about the tumult 1633. at Oxford the Kings perswading of Bishop Davenant and Bishop Hall to leave out some passages in their writings that might disturb the Peace and imprisoning their Printer for daring after they were purged to insert them in His Majesties approving Bishop Harsenets considerations about the Controversies and sending them to every Bishop and his Deputies reversing the Articles in Ireland make up his 21 th Charge 25. The Star-Chamber Order Iuly 1. 1637. about Printing whereby the Geneva Bibles were prohibited here and by Sir William Boswell suppressed in Holland Mr. Gellibrands new Almanack in Mr. Foxes his way burned Beacon Palsgraves Religion c. and other Books against the Kings Declaration for laying down Controversies stifled through the actions of other men must be this good mans fault 26. If Popish Books crept in either by imposing on his Chaplains or being printed without license though innocent ones too he must be guilty of a design against the Protestant Religion 27. The Kings Command to him to alter the form of Prayer for the fifth of November Dr. Potters request to him to review his Book called Charity mistaken must be another branch of his Charge as was his Majesties Order about sending the Common-Prayer upon D. H. request The Scottish alterations of it another the Bishops Chaplains presuming to alter the least Syllable in a conceited Authors Work a third The Importation of unlawful books by stealth against his will and without his knowledge a fourth Considerations about Lectures written by Bishop Harsenet and sent to every Diocesse by Arch-bishop Abbot a fifthâ— Attorney General Noy's suppressing the Puritane Corporation foâ— buying in of Impropriations as illegal and dangerous a sixth The alteration of the Letters Patents for the Palatinate Collection by the Kings Order who would not have such expressions pass the Great Seal as determined some Controversies as that the Pope was Antichrist which neither the Schools nor the Church had decided a seventh His very favourable dealing with the Walloon the French and Dutch Church for which they thanked him upon some incroachments of theirs upon the Parishes where they lived an eighth 28. 1. The Jesuits whispering into the ears of some fond people to raise suspicions of him and so oppositions against him which was the sum of Sir H. M. Mr. A. M. and Mr. Ch. hear-says of him produced at the Bar. 2. Rumors raised upon him because of his acquaintance with one Louder Brown and Ireland reputed Papists because his supposition in Oxford concurred in some things with Bellarmine where Bellarmine himself concurred with the Primitive times 3. Because Bishop Hall writ a Letter to one W. L. not to halt between two Religions 4. Because a Doctor in the University preached against those who were severe against the Puritans the then predominant Faction and moderate against the Catholicks at that time kept under and that he was pointed at by the University as one of those discreet men which indeed moved him but yet so that in a business of that kinde he thought fit in a Letter to Bishop Neal to be swaged to a patient course The Treaty for the Spanish Match which began before he was so much as Bishop and ended before he was Privy-Counsel the Duke of B. breaking it off to the great contentment of the Kingdom as appeared by the Parliaments thanks to him 1624. with whom he is accused to be so familiar and the Treaty with France which was managed with the Parliaments approbation His civilities to the Queens Majesty which was his duty and to win upon her his prudence His dislike of some scandalous passages in some mens prayers to her disparagement The Preface to the Oxford Statutes not written by him wherein Queen Maries days are extolled beyond Queen Elizabeths not for the state of our Church and Religion but for the Laws and Government of the University The printing of Sancta Clarae's book at Lyons and the maintaining of St. Giles by the King against the Archbishops will at Oxford The increase of Papists and Popery in Ireland without his privity The Lord Deputy Wentworths actions in Ireland not within his power The Queens sending Agents to Rome and receiving Nuncio's from thence against his advice
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same service-Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
all proceedings against all offenders or go through with them his Prosecutions as in Leightons Case were close his Observation of all circumstances as in Loncolns Wary his Declaration of the Cases clear and convincing as in Pryns Bastwick and Burtons his Sentence milde and compassionate as in Wallers his Resolution and Justice ever making way to his mercy and his mercy crowning his Justice Often did he conferr with the ablest and most Orthodox Clergy with the most experienced and most observing and reserved Courtiers with the profoundest Lawyers with the skillfullest and discreetest Mechanicks out of all whose opinions the result was his most exact Judgement in any Case that came before him at Court or at Lambeth The roughness of his nature sent most men discontented from him but so that he would often of himself find ways and means to sweeten such as had any worth again when they looked for it Many were offended at his prudent zeal against the Jewish Sabbatism in his government who were very well satisfied with the strictness of his observation of the Lords-day in his person But let one great man express another Bishop Gauden Arch-bishop Laud whose thoughts lye so much the more levelled to his brave Sentiments as his dignity did to his high place As to his secret design of working up his Church by little and little to a Romish conformity and captivity I do not believe saith he he had any such purpose or approved thought because beside his declared judgment and conscience I find no secular policy or interest which he could thereby gain either private or publick but rather lose much of the greatness and freedom which he and other Bishops with the whole Church had without which temptation no man in charity may be suspected to act contrary to so clear convictions so deliberate and declared determination of his conscience and judgment in Religion as the Arch-bishop expresses in his very excellent Book I am indeed prone to think that possibly he wished there could have been any fair close or accommodation between all Christian Churches the same which many grave and learned men have much desired And it may be his Lordship thought himself no unfit instrument to make way to so great and good a work considering the eminencies of parts power and favour which he had Happily he judged as many learned and moderate men have that in some things between Papist and Protestant differences are made wider and kept more open raw and sore then need be by the private Pens and Passions of some Men and the Interests of some little Parties whose partial Polities really neglect the Publick and true Interest of the Catholick Church and Christian Religion which consists much in Peace as well as in Purity in Charity as in Verity He found that where Papists were Silenced and Convinced in the more grand and pregnant Disputes that they are Novel Partial and Unconform to Catholick Churches in ancient times then he found they recovered spirits and contested afresh against the unreasonable Transports Violences and Immoderations of some professing to be Protestants who to avoid Idolatry and Superstition run to Sacriledge and Rudeness in Religion denying many things that are Just Honest Safe True and Reasonable meerly out of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 excessive Antipathy to Papists Possibly the Arch-bishop and some other Bishops of his mind did rightly judge that the giving an Enemy fair play by Just Safe and Honourable Concessions was not to yeild the conquest to him but the most ready way to convince him of his wickedness when no honest yieldings could help him any more than they did endanger the true cause or courage of his Antagonist For my part I think the Arch-bishop of Canterbury was neither â—â—â—vinist nor Lutheran nor Papist as to any side or party but allâ— as far as he saw they agreed with the Reformed Church of 〈◊〉 either in Fundamentals or innocent and decent Superâ—â—â—uctures Yet I believe he was so far a Protestant and of the â—eâ—ormed Religion as he saw the Church of England did Protest 〈◊〉 the Errors Corruptions Usurpations and Superstitions of 〈◊〉 Church of Rome or against the novel Opinions and Practices of any Party whatsoever And certainly he did with as much honor as justice so far own the Authentick Authority Liberty and Majesty of the Church of England in its reforming and setling of its Religion that he did not think fit any private new Masters whatsoever should obtrude any Foreign or Domestick Dictates to her or force her to take her Copy of Religion from so petty a place as Geneva was or Frank fort or Amsterdam or Wittenbergh or â—denborough no nor from Augsburgh or Arnheim nor any foreign City or Town any more than from Trent or Rome none of which had any Dictatorian Authority over this great and famous Nation or Church of England further than they offered sober Counsels or suggested good Reasons or cleared true Religion by Scripture and confirmed it by good Antiquity as the best Interpreter and Decider of obscure Places and dubious Cases Which high value its probable as to his Mother the Church of England and Constitution was so potent in the Archbishop of Canterbury that as he thought it not fit to subject her to the insolency of the Church of Rome so nor to the impertinencies of any other Church or Doctor of far less repute in the Christian world no doubt his Lordship thought it not handsom in Mr. Calvin to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so censorious of the Church of England to brand its Devotion or Liturgy with his tolerabiles ineptiae who knew not the temper of the Nation requiring then not what was absolutely best but most conveniently good and such not only the Liturgy was but those things which he calls Tolerable Toyes I having occasion to speak with him he upon a time was pleased to grant me access and some freedom of speech with him and withal asked me the opinion of the people of him I told him they reported his Lordship endeavoured to betray the Church of England to the Roman Correspondency and Communion he at length very calmly and gravely thus Replyed protesting with a serious attestation of his integrity before Gods Omniscience that however he might mistake in the mean Method yet he never had other design than the Glory of God the Service of his Majesty the good Order Peace and Decency of the Church of England that he was so far from complying with Papists in order to confirm them in their errors that he rather chose such Methods to advance the honor of the Reformed Religion in England as he believed might soon silence the Cavils of fiercer Papists induce the more moderate Recusants to come in to us as having less visible occasion given them by needless Distances and Disputes to separate from us which he thought arose much from that popular variety Inconstancy Easiness Irreverence and
the way of an active conformity to the Church is to crack the sinews of Government for it weakens the hands and damps the spirit of the obedient And if only scorn and rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will chuse rather to neglect their duty in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that that shall break their hearts too That very little he had got in the time of peace he lost in the time of war their practices and designs had been a long time the subject of his smart reproofs and his estate now become a prey to their revenge To see the good man escape them in his Clarks habit that had been certainly murthered in his own when it was safe to be any thing but a Minister and withal to hear the chearful man smile out his old Motto I have as much as I desire if I have as much as I want and I have as much as the most if I have as much as I desire 'T was a spectacle that had melted any spirit but that in which the custom of cruelty had taken away the conscience of it whom yet he was very tender of according to his usual Maxim Nature may induce me to shew so much care of my self as to look to my adversaries reason shall perswade me to shew so much wit as to beware of those that deceived me once but Religion hath taught me so much love as to be injurious to none For estate Abundance he thought a trouble want a misery honor a burthen business a scorn advancement dangerous disgrace odious but competency a happiness I will not climb lest I fall nor lye on the ground lest I am trod on He for carriage He did so much forâ— think what he would promise that he might promise only what he would do that he would often do a kindness and not promise it and never promise a kindness and not to do it In Religion His heart spake more devoutly than his tongue when as too many peoples tongues speak more piously than their hearts The good man hath oftentimes God in his heart when in his mouth there is no good mentioned The Hypocrite hath God often in his mouth when the fool hath said in his heart there is no God The tongue speaks loudest to men the heart truest to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its pity to part intimate Friends the one dying under the sense the other under the fear of this Nations Calamity THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN BARKHAM JOhn Barkham that said he had lived under a good Government and was afraid to live any longer lest he should see none at all was born in the City of Exeter bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow Chaplain afterwards to Archbishop Bancroft and Parson of Bocking in Essex Much his Modesty and no less his Learning who though never the publick Parent of any was the careful Nurse of many Books who otherwise had expired in their Infancy had not his care preserved them He set forth Dr. Crackenthorp his Posthume Book against Spalato and was helpful to Iohn Speed in the composing of his English History â—ea he wrote the whole Life of the Reign of King Iohn which 〈◊〉 â—he King of all the Reigns in that Book for profound Penning discoverable from the rest of the different style and much Scripture cited therein Mr. Guillim in his Heraldry was much beholden to this Doctors Emendations He was a greater lover of Coyn than of Money rather curious in the Stamps than covetous for the Mettal thereof That excellent Collection in Oxford Library was his gift to the Arch-bishop before the Archbishop gave it to the University richer in M. SS than Printed Books and richer in the skill he had by the phrase and Character to fill up the defects and guess at the meaning of a Moth-eaten Record than in the possession of the Paper when the Factious were admitted to look upon his Rarities they did him the kindness to supect him of his Religion thinking that the rust of his old Inscriptions cankered his Soul with as old Superstition When it is in the study of Antiquity as it is in that of Phylosophy a little skill in either of them inclines men to Atheism or Heresie but a depth of either study brings them about to their Religion When both extreams as he called them to the virtue of the Church of England the Partizans of Rome and Geneva the men of the old Doctrine and the new Discipline met with any little remnant of Antiquity that made for them they ran to him with it and he would please himself infinitely with a story which hath been since his death Printed the story was this A Nobleman who had heard of the extream age of one dwelling not far off made a journey to visit him and finding an aged person in the the Chymney corner addressed himself to him with admiration of his age till his mistake was rectified so Oh Sir said the young old man I am not he whom you seek for but his Son my Father is further off in the Field They mistaking middle Antiquity for Primitive History wherein he was so versed that he had not the Fathers books only but their hearts not their History only but their Piety So strict in his life that he went among Fathers himself being observed as much a rule to others as they were to him Skilled he was in many Tongues and yet a man of a single heart When God made him rich he made not himself by coveteousness poor and if God had made him poor he could have made himself by contentment rich Bishop Vsher and he had one useful quality above many others that they understood men better than they did themselves and so employed men that could not tell what to do with themselves upon what was most suitable to them and most profitable to the publick having Dr. Iames his motion much upon their spirits that all the Manuscripts of England should be collected and compared A design that would have proved very beneficial to the Protestant considering how many M. SS England hath still notwithstanding her loss at the dissolution of Monasteries if prosecuted with as great indeavor as it was proposed with good intention You would think you were at St. Augustine and St. Cyprians House when you saw the poor at the Doctors doors the Neighbors welcome at his Table young Scholars in his Study Bibles and other godly books in each room of his house the Servants and all the Houshold so used to Psalms and Chapters that they spoke familiarly the holy Language the hours of Devotion and Instruction constantly observed the people being at all the returns of duty in Gods service to forget their own business though in their own business they never forgot Gods service When you saw a man making the errors of men the subject of his grief not of his discourse so prudently
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
them as friends yet deprived and imprisoned they were so that the good Doctor could attend his Sacred Majesty now calling for him no otherwise than by the excellent Sermons he earnestly demanded and the Doctor dutifully sent and gaining no more favour till the Kings death but with the mediation of his Brother-in-law Sir Iohn Temple than to be his own prisoner at the honorable Sir Philip Warwicks house at Clapham in Bedford-shire whence on the approach of that unparallelled villany he drew up most pathetique Addresses to the Army that perpetrated it and an unanswerable Reply to Ascham and Goodwyn those two only monsters of mankind that durst defend it Which when now past though it transported him as far as either affection or duty could carry him yet sunk him not in an useless amazement for redoubling his fasting his tears and solemn prayer he resumed his wonted studies And Reflecting on the Atheism that Horrid Fact and other Black Circumstances threatned he published his equally seasonable and applauded Reasonableness of Christian Religion Considering that there was not a more dangerous step to irreligion than for those who durst not but own it yet to deprave it to a most scandalous Theory and a most horrid Systeme he cleared its wrested Original in two Latine Quarto Volumes with Reference to the Jewish and Heathen Customs the Primitive usages among Christians and Heretiques the Importance of the Hellenistical Dialect by which means in a manner he happened to take in all the difficulties of the New Testament a Collation of several Greek Copies and a New Translation drawn up many years ago for his own use which on second thoughts to serve all capacities he cast into the present frame and method of the Annotations on the New Testament The careful and publick spirited man adverting that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religion though never so cleared could not inwardly oblige without a power confessed did outwardly awe Upon the Archbishop of Armaghs request 1. To clear some Exceptions Blondel had made against his Edition of Ignatius from some Eastern Counsels 2. And according to his promise of a fuller account to publish that in Latine which he had writ to him in English as well for his own honor whom Salmasius had unworthily called Nebulo as the honor of Episcopacy now as L. Capellus intimated in his Thesis of Church-government at Sedan deserted by all men he drew up those nervous and unanswerable Dissertations Thus cleared and vindicated he our Religion in bonds that was first published there notwithstanding 1. The loss of his dear Mother whose last blessing he was forbid to attend her For 2. The defeat of his Majesty at Worcester from whose own hand he received then a most gracious letter for the satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects concerning his adherence to the established Religion of the Church of England wherein his Royal Father lived a Saint and died a Martyr And 3. The calamity that fell on the honorable Sir Iohn Packingtons Family thereupon at Westwooâ—â—â— whither he was now removed Bearing up himself with the providence of his Maâ—esties miraculous Deliverance in expectation of his no less miraculous Restauration To use his own words That God who had thus powerfully rescued him out of Aegypt would not suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his possage be through the Red Sea he would at last bring him unto Canaan that he should come out of tribulation as gold out of the fire purified but not consumed But others having not that happy prospect of nor those pious and â—iducial reflections on those occurrences and therefore some in that dark juncture falling on the one side to the Pompous way of the Catholicks others on the other side to that more Novel of the Schismaticks the prudent watchman equally provided for both For the first in his Treatise of Heresie and Schism his discourses against the Catholick Gentleman and his Armor-bearer S.W. and his Tract of Fundamentals Forthe second in his six Queries his Replies to Mr. Cawdry Mr. Ieanes and the noble provincial Assembly at London on the Presbyterian account and to Mr. Owen and Mr. Tombes on the Independants and Anabaptists adding that pathetick Paraenesis upon the Interdict Ian. 1. 1655. writ first in his Tears and then with his Ink he looking on this sad dispensation as a reproaching to use his own words his and his brethrens former unprofitableness By casting them out as straw to the Dunghall A dispensation that had even broken his great heart had he not admitted of an expedient that secured all real duties in the Family where he was Neither was he more troubled for the Silence imposed on the Orthodox Ministry at present than amazed at the failure threatned them for the future both in the superior order of Episcopacy which he provided against by a correspondence with his Majesty abroad and in the inferior of Priesthood which he designed to supply a seminary of pious learned and â—ellâ— pâ—â—ncipled Pensioners be kept on foot till his death in a way more suitable to his Heroick minde than his low fortune in which business it was observable how his choice fixed on piety it being his prinple That exemplary virtue must restore the Church But the Nation being too narrow a circle for his diffusive goodness his care extended to the banished abroad as well as his vigilance to the afflicted at home and several sums of money did he send over notwithstanding that the Vsurpers discovered it and convented him whose commanding worth awed them to that reverence of him that when others were amazed at the surprized he made it only an opportunity of saying something home to the fierce Monster concerning his soul and discourse the appropriate ways remaining to alleviate at least if not expiate for them coming off with a new experiment of his old observation That they who least considered hazzard in the doing of their duties fared still best Amidst which sad diversion his labours yet grew up in an un-interrupted course His Review of the Annotations his Exposition of the Book of Psalms his Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and Decrees to Bishop Sanderson upon some Letters that passed between that reverend and learned Prelate and Dr. Pierce his Latine Tract of Confirmation in answer to Mr. Daillee together with his Enterprize upon the Old Testament begun at the Provâ—rbs and pursued to a third part of that Book until at the opening of the year 1660. when all things tended visibly to the great Restauration and the good Dr. was invited to London to assist in the great work of the composure of breaches in the Church against which undertaking and the ensuing publick employments he was to expect He 1 Examined his inclinations temptations and defects with the assistance of his friends 2. He contrived such publick good works as he might lay himself out in the Diocess of Worcester designed his charge And 3. Fell to
sententiarum frustra gemmas habent To Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Demosthenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Seneca Plus aliquid semper dicit quam dicit To Ignatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So called for his Piety To Athanasius who for his Strenuousnesse in Disputation was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Chrysostome who was said to be Theatrum quoddam Divinae eloquentiae in quo Deus abunde videri voluit quid posset vitae sanctitas cumvi dicendi conjuncta To Clemens Alex. Inter eloquentes summe doctos inter doctus summe eloquens To Saint Basil the Great upon whom Nazianzen bestowed this Epitaph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermo tuus tonitru vitaque fulgar erat To Saint Ierom. Blandum facundiae nomen summus in omnibus artifex To Hilary Lucifer Ecclesiarum pretiosus lapis pulchro sermone universa loquitur si semina aliqua secus viam cecidisse potuissent tamen abeo messis exorta est magna To St. Cyprian who had the name of Cicero Christianus Discernere nequeas utrumne gratior in eloquendo an facilior in explicando an potentior in persuadendo fuerit To Saint Bernard Cujus ego meditationes vinum Paradisi ambrosiam animarum pabulum Angelicum medullam pietatis vocare soleo He was one that taught this Church the Art of Divine Meditation one that always made it his businesse to see and search into the things of God with a zealous diligence rather than a bold curiosity Antiqua probitate simplicitate virum eruditis pietate piis eruditionis laude Antecellentem ita secundas doctrinae ferentem ut pietatis primas obtineret Those that were most eminent for learning he excelled in piety and those that were most famous for piety he excelled in learning this High-priests Breast was so richly adorned with the glorious Vrim and with the more precious Jewel of the Thummim The Church fared the better for his wrestling Prayers and the State for his Holy Vows One he was of a serene mild and calm aspect as smooth as his wit and tongue though living long but once a Child in understanding though always so in humility and innocence whereby he suppled those adversaries into a moderation that could not be perswaded to a conversion they observing his industry neither ceasing nor abating with his preferments valuing his time as much and giving account of it as well as any man not to his dying day waving any pains agreeable to his Calling till forbidden by men or disenabled by God when it was observed that he was as diligent a Hearer as he had been a Preacher He would not be Buried in the Church but he Lives in it by his great Charity allowing a weekly Contribution to the poor among whom he lived out of his little remainder which he observed like the Widows Barrel of Meal and Cruse of Oyl to increase by being dispersed leaving 30 l. a peice to the Widows of the Town where he was born and the City where he died 2. His Moderation which is known unto all men 3. His Children of whom I may say as St. Ambrose doth of Theodosius Non totus recessit reliquit nobis Liberos in quibus cum debemus agnoscere et in quibus cum cernimus et tenemus 4. His Works which praise him as much as all men praise them and to which we may affix Nazianzens Character of Basils Works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Obiit Sept. 8. 1656. Sepultus 29. Tunc Ecclesiae militantis Angelus adjunxit latus triumphantis chorâ— caelestem adauxit constellationem gloriae Album pro Episcopali pulla Induens victricem palmam Pro extorto pastorali pedo Istam Coronam sideream pro tenui decussa Cydari Coelo quod meditabatur Deo fruens qui omnia quibus degebat loca piis cogitatibus coelum fecit Cujus scripti quae venusta Lumina qualesque nervi Cujusque vitae quam concinna pietas THE Life and Death OF Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT NOT only all the Wisdom but all the Wit of the Age wherein both Wit and Wisdom were at a fatal height attended that Cause that commanded not only the Arms of the most Valiant but the Parts of the most Learned these deserving the Bayes for the vast reason they urged in his Majesties behalf as the other the Laurel for the great things they under-went for his Majesties person among whom Mr. William Cartwright Son of Tho. Cartwright of Burford in the County of Oxford born Aug. 16. 1615. bred at the Kings School in Westminster under Dr. Osbaston and in Christ-Church in Oxford under Mr. Terrent deserves to be as well known to Posterity as he was admired in his own time whose very Recreations hath above fifty of the choicest Pens to applaud them his high abilities were accompanyed with so much candor and sweetness that they made him equally loved and admired his vertuous modesty attaining the greatest honor by avoiding all His soul naturally great and capable had he said three advantages to fill it great spirited Tutors choice Books and select Company it was his usual saying That it was his happiness that he neither heard nor read any thing vulgar weak or raw till his minde was fixed to notions exact as reason and as high as fancy It s a great care due to our first years That generous thoughts be instilled into us imitation and observation raised his parts and an humor of expressing every excellent Piece he saw and indeed each brave notion he met with and he was an exact Collector whereby he translated not only brave mens thoughts to his own words but their very Heart and Genius to his own constitution made up of strong Sence compact Learning clean sharp full and sure Wit brave passions even and high Language in â—ine a great fansie with as great judgment that could do and be what it would no man can tell as Aristotle said of AEschron the Poet what this prodigious man could not do None humored things and persons out of his own observation more properly So much valued at Court for his Poetry that the King and Queen enquired very anxiously of his health in his last sickness admirable his performances wherein as my Lord of Monmouth Charactereth them was wit for youth and wisdom for the wise So admired in Christ-Church for his easie natural proper and clear Oratory especially his Lectures on the Passions which in his Descriptions seem but varieated reason those wild beasts being tuned and composed to tameness and order by his sweet and harmonious language that Dr. Fell said Cartwright was the utmost mâ—n could come to So thronged in the Metaphysick School where no performance ever like his and his learned Predecessor Mr. Tho. Barlow of Queens when Aristotle ran as smooth as Virgil and his Philosophy melting as his Plays and his Lectures on that obscure Book which Aristotle made not to be understood as clear as his Poems
with himself he was translated to the See of Coventry and Litchfield void by the Translation of his old friend Bishop Overal to Norwich And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocesse was larger because the common sort of people were better principled by the care and vigilance of his Predecessor But yet he abated nothing of his former pains and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with them that were not wilfully obstinate in his Diocesse besides Visitations and exact Confirmations Among the works of Charity performed by this Bishop while he was at that See memorable is the Education he bestowed upon one George Canner who like another Didimus of Alexandria or Fisher of Westminster was born blindâ— This youth he brought up first at School and afterwards sent him to Cambridge where he maintained him and his Uncle to look to him at St. Iohns Colledge After he had the Degree of Bachelor of Arts he sent for him to his own Family and instructed him in the whole body of Divinity and then admitted him into Sacred Orders placed him in a Cure in Stafford-shire which Cure the blind man discharged diligently and laudably being a very good Preacher and being able also to perform the whole office of the Church as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer only by the strength of his admirable Memory Anno 1632. He was translated to the See of Duresm void by the death of Bishop Howson a place of great Trust and Honor as well as of greater Emolument For besides the Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Affairs as before he had now the care and management of all the Temporal Affairs within the County Palatine of Duresm by virtue of the Palatinate annexed for many hundred years to the Episcopal See in so much that it passed a Maxim there Quicquid potest Rex extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intra And in the same he carryed himself with so much Iustice and Equity for ten years together before these late Troubles put a disturbance in the exercise of his Government that no complaint was made against him to the Parliament except onely the case of Mr. Smart which yet had no relation to the County Palaâ—ine neither could the Charge be made good against him who was but one of the High-Commission How great his fatherly care was for the Spiritual care of the Bishoprick will appear by his pious endeavors in setling Augmentations upon the smaller Benefices he had given a good example long before while he was Bishop of Lichfield in abating a good part of his Fine to increase the portion of the Vicar of Pichley in Northampton-shire as you may see in Mr. Stephens his Preface to Sir Henry Spelmans Book and now in a Work of so much importance he applyed himself for Counsel to three of the most Learned in the Laws Lord Keeper Coventry Mr. Noy Sir Henry Martin who all concurred that the Bishops Authority over Churches appropriate was neither taken away nor any way infringed but that he may now appoint a competent Augmentation having thus fully informed hâ—mself of his just power in a matter of so high Concernment for the advancement of Christian Religion and the good of Souls he resolved to put it in practice as far as God should enable him and trust God with the event He began at home with the Parish of Bishop-Aukland Here he augmented the stipend of the Mother-Church from 16 l. per annum to fourscore and the Chappels belonging from six pounds per annum to thirty intending to extend the like Episcopal care in some proportion over all the rest of his Diocesse but so Pious Heroical a Work became Abortive by the Scotch Invasion c. We are now come to the precipice of this Reverend Bishops outward splendor though neither his glory nor happiness incurred the least diminution by his future sufferings For he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continual series of publick Affairs afforded him a perpetual opportunity from this time till his death In one of the Tumults after the beginning of the Long-Parliament this Reverend Bishop was in hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckened thither by the Contrivers of our late Miseries whereof some cryed Pull him out of his Coach others nay he is a good man others but for all that he is a Bishop And he hath often said he believed he should not have escaped alive if a Leading-man among the Rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself Upon this and the like Violations of the Liberty and Freedom essential to all the Members of Parliament when the twelve â—ishops whereof this was one Remonstrated the just Fears they were in and protested their dissent from all Laws which should be enacted till they might attend the service of the House with Freedom and Safety as any one Peer unjustly detained â—rom Sitting may they were all Charged with High-Treason by the House of Commons and Committed to Prison with the Bishop of Coventry and Leichfield at the Usher of the Black-rods house when the other ten went to the Tower Our Bishop being after four months discharged from this his first Imprisonment returned to his Lodgings in Duresm-house and there attended his Devotions and Studies till such time as his adversaries thought fit to give him another occasion to exercise his patience under a second Captivity upon occasion of Baptizing a Child of the Earl of Rutlands according to the Orders of the Church and in custody he remained six months before he could obtain his inlargement After this he staid in Duresm-house till he was thrown out chence by the Souldiers that came to Garrison it a little before that horrid Fact was committed upon the Person of our late Gracious King and after that being importuned by his honourable friend the Earl and Countess of Rutland he became part of their care and family at Exceter-house for some short time but being loath to live at the charge of others while he was able to subsist of himself and thinking the air of the Country might better suit with his declining years he betook himself to sojourn first with Captain Saunders in Hartfordshire and after with Mr. Thomas Rotheram in Bedfordshire till by the great civility and earnest importunity of that noble young Baronet Sir Henry Yelverton he went with him to his house at East-Manduit in Northamptonshire where he found all the tender respect and care from the whole family which a Father could expect from his Children till after a few months he rendred up his happy soul into the hands of his heavenly Father When the House of Commons had Voted for the Dissolving of Bishopricks some prevailed for a Vote of Yearly Allowance to present Bishops during their lives Our Bishop had 800 l. a
greater sunâ— than any other per annum Voted to him but while he was able to subsist without it he never troubled himself in seeking after it but being pressed by necessities having procured a Copy of the Vote found it to contain that such a sum should be paid but no mention either by whom or whence And by that time that he could procure the Explanation of the Orders not to make the Pension payable out of the Revenues of his own Bishoprick all the Lands and Revenues of it were sold or divided among themselves only by the importunity of his friends he obtained an Order to have 1000 l. out of their Treasury at Coldsmith-hall with the which he paid his debts and purchased to himself an Anâ—uity of 200 l. per annum during his life upon which he subsâ—â—ed ever since No considerable Legacies could be expected in the Will of a person deceased who made his own hands his Executors while he lived like his great Kinsman Archbishop Morton in Antiq. 〈◊〉 who chose rather to enrich his Kindred in his life time than at his death Our Bishop had so much left him at his death that he gave 40 l. to one of his servants who then attended him having provided formerly for others he left 10 l. to the poor of the Parish and his Chalice with a Patin double gilt to the Noble Baronet in whose Family he died for the use of his Chappel the rest deducting some small remembrances he ordered for his burial which was also sufficient for a Monument though farre below his worth yet suitable to his great modesty The chief Legacy of his Will must not be omitted the testimony he gave by a kind of Encyclical Epistle to the Catholick Faith he died in for the common goód of souls in the Church of England particularly in his own Diocess it may be seen in the Funeral Sermon where he concludeth thus My earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former love notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the Doctrine Discipline and Government and Form of Worship in this poor afflicted Church which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of souâ—s I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom His high esteem of the Sacred Liturgy of the Church of England attended him he ordering it which he called the best Funeral Sermon at his Burial as I may say to his Grave Great Fervor and Devotion he shewed in the Church-prayers yea so great that he seldom answered with a single Amen At Prayers he never kneel'd upon a Cushion and always prayed upon his Knees till he was confined to his Death-bed and even would never lye with his Cap on his Head if either he prayed himself or others prayed by him while he had strength to pull it off with his own hands Great Consolation he took in the Church-preparations for his Long Home viz. in profession of his Faith and Charity and Repentance in receiving the benefit of Absolution and the Viatioum of the holy Eucharist His rule for diet was that we should observe none at all He lived a great number of years and very few husbanded their time better for he was never idle with his good will He was often at his Devotion and Study before four of the clock even after he had lived above fourscore years and yet very seldom went to Bed till after ten and then had always a Servant to read some book to him till such time as sleep did surprize him And so had he always when he travelled in his Coach that his Journey might not be too great a hindrance to his Study He used to lye on a Straw-bed till he was above fourscore and the Cramp hindred him He led his life in a holy and chast Celibate dying of an Hernia or Rupture The issue of his brain was numerons besides M.SS. above twenty several Volums in Print Legenda Scripsit Scribenda fecit To add somewhat of his Character 1. His Patience In the greatest tryal of his temper that he had the News of the Vote That the Revenues of the Church were to be sold he only said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord which he repeated three times over to the Company that he was in and presently retired himself to his prayers 2. His Hospitality He entertained the King and his Court and at least the chief Officers of his Army all at one time in the first Expedition toward Scotland which in that place of great cheapness cost him 1500 l. in one day There seldom came any Scholar to him Forraign or English whom he did not liberally entertain and dismiss with a considerable sum of money 3. His Beneficence He built a Free-school at Bishops-Aukland and endowed it with 24 l. per annum which is more than he ever purchased to himself for that was just nothing besides that he maintained several at his own charge in the Colledge He gave many excellent Books to the Colledge where he had his Education to the value of 4. or 500 l. with an intention at last to bestow 100 l. per annum during his life had not the times disabled him to buy Books of special worth and not for superfâ—uity 4. His Alms-giving While he was suffered to enjoy his Estate he had his Badg-men and Livery at a constant Table besides what he gave at his Gate and upon other occasions nay so constant was he in this duty even when he had so much left as to afford Bread for his own Mouth that he had always a certain number of poor impotent persons in a constant Pension that came Weekly to him for their Allowance when he was not able to go himself among them to give it and this will be abundantly testified by the poor in all places where of late he hath lived 5. His Devotion He would often forgo or at least much moderate his one Meal a day often deny himself some part of that small pittance allowed for sleep to rise of his Bed and to spend in Prayer as the Attendance in his Chamber witness 6. His Prudence in the moderation of his Passions wherein all moral virtues are knit together by which he was a pattern to his people of good works and an unblameable life Tit. 2. 7. 7. His Mind above the World and its filthy lucre 8. His Vote in Parliament c. according to Conscience and not either Interest or Humor 9. His Great Moderation in the Quin quar ticular Controversie about which he would declare nothing 13. His grave and sober Speech his sweet and grave Countenance his decent Habit his upright and sprightful Motion a vigorous Youth in old age 11. His Temperance using Wine only at Meals unless it were for his stomack sake and his often infirmities 12. The Excellent Government of his Family into which several
Persons of Quality as the Sons of the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Fairfax whose Son Sir Charles was his Gentleman-Usher desired to be admitted for Education 13. His Industry so great as if his labours were as it is said of his Kinsman Arch-bishop Morton his Recreation and his Motto Severus his who died at York where this Bishop was born Laboremus or Iulius Maximinus Quo major eo laboriosior 14. His Acquaintance the most grave and learned men of our own and forreign Churches Spanhemius Rivet Willius c. 15. His Retainers and Chaplains the most Eminent men in either University and Bishop Brownrig was one of them made by him Arch-deacon of Coventry and Prebendary of Durham the last of which preferments he held in Commendam with his Bishoprick till he died 16. His aptness to teach by every thing he did like Socrates whom he resembled in another particular in that he usually confuted his Adversaries always out of something they granted 17. His Converts Bishop Crofts of Hereford the Lady Cholmeley Dr. Swinborne Mr. Theoph. Higgens and twelve eminent Papists more 18. His Small Stature actuated by a great spirit 19. His affable virtues and parts 20. His extraordinary though secret mortification all which virtues and performances rendred him a Saint in his life a Doctor in his works a Confessor in his sufferings and a Martyr in his charity in visiting persons Sick of the Plague who being buried in Saint Peters Eâ—ston-mauduit hath this Monument In Memoria Sacra hic vivit usque usque vivat exiguum etiam illud quod mortale fuit viri pietate literis hospitalitatâ— eleemosinis Celeberrimi Reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini Thomae Dunelmensis Episcopi Eoque nomine Comitis Palatini Clara Mortonorum familia Oriundione Quem Richardo peperit Elizabetha Leâ—dale Sexto de 19. puerperiâ— Eboraci in lucem Editum Quem Col. Sancti Joh. Evangelistae in Acad. Cant. Alumnum fovit Instructissimum socium Ambivit selectissimuâ— Benefactorem sensit munificentissimum ornamentum celebrabit perpetuo singulare Marstonienis Alesfordiensis Stopfordiensis Rectorem sedulum Eboracensis Canonicum Pium  Quem Ecelesia Glocestrensis Wintoniensis Decanum Providum  Cestrensis Leich Covent Dunelmensis  Praesulem vigilantem   Habuere Qui post plurimos pro sancta Ecclesia Catholica Exantlatos Labores Elucubrata volumina toleratas afflictiones Diuturna heu nimium Ecclesiae procella hinc inde Iact at us huc demum Appulsus bonis exutus omnibus bona preterquam fama conscientia tandem etiam corpore senex Caelebs hic Requiescit in Domino Felicem praestolans Râ—surrectionem Quam suo demum tempore bonus debit Deus Amen Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum existimaverit Obiit Crastinâ— S. Mathaei Salutis 1659. Sepultus Festo S. Michaelis Anno Aetatis 95. Episcopatus 44. THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS COMBER Dean of Carlisle DOctor Thomas Comber Son of Comber Clarenciaux King of Armes was born at Shermanbury in Sussex on New-years-day and Baptized on the day of Epiphany 1575. the twelfth Child of his Father as Bellarmine Baronius Scultetus and many eminent men were who were the vigorous off-spring of their decayed Parents His first Education was at Horsham in the same County under a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who studying his meek but active temper as much as he did his Books rather mildly led than severely drive him to whom a frown was as bad as correction and a correction as bad as death whose great industry and happy memory taking in all the learning instilled into him and retaining all he had taken in twice reading sufficing him to gain any piece of an Author at eight years of age furnished him with so much skill in Greek and Latine Poetry History and Oratory as with Mr. Titchburns his exemplary Tutors improvement of him in Hebrew Syriack Arabick besides Logick Ethicks and a smattering in the Mathematicks recommended him after three years continuance in Trinity Colledge Cambridge where he was admitted to Dr. Nevill then intent upon planting a good Nursery in that Colledge knowing that learning propagates by example and one good Scholar begets another as one lights his Candle at the Candle of his Neighbour to be Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Foundation Where his proficiency was the effect 1. Of St. Bernards method which was written upon many of his Books ut Legeret Intelligendi fecit cupidites ut Intelligeret oratio Impetravit ut Impetraret quid nisi vitae sanct it as promeruit sic cupiat sic orat sic vivat qui se proficere desiderat 2. The industry he commended to others in these Instructions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shun Idleness as the common sewer that takes in all temptation employ your selves well or you will be employed ill 3. And the good example of other Students and he would use often that of Seneca magnum est quod a sapiente viâ—o vel tacente proficias and the accomplished man now dexterous in Hebrew Arabick Coptick Samaritane Syriack Chaldee Persian Greek Latine French Spanish and Italian and well versed in the Greek and Latine Fathers Schoolmen Councels and Modern Writers Great Abilities very much sweetned by his great Modesty and Humility appeared first an exellent Tutor bringing up his Pupils rather as Friends and Companions than Scholars stealing his vast Learning to them by Discourse and Converse rather than inculcating it by Set-Lectures and training them up to vertue and knowledge by his example more effectually than others did by Precepts giving this reason for it afterwards to other Tutors That young men admitted to the Company of those that were their Seniors would be decoyed into excellency being ashamed to speak or do any thing below the Company they kept And then a melting Preacher preaching as much by his silent and grave Gesture composed to a smiling sweetness as by his learned and honest Sermons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After that having filled his own Country with his hopes and name he travelled three years secured from the Vices of foraign Nations by his chast gravity and sage prudence and very capable of their vertues by exact Observations and good Company being all the while he was in France at the house of the Judicious Learned and Religious Mounsieur Moulin the Buckler of the Protestant profession Frequent Disputes at which he was so much of Chrysippus his faculty in disputando pressus concisus subactus that he was imployed at the command of our late famous King to Dispute at St. Andrews in Scotland in publick with the Divines there who admired him much for his solid quickness and various Learning Holy Conference the fruit whereof was the conversion of several Jews the good effect of Oriental Learning and particularly one Bardesius by name whom he convinced that it was impossible to maintain the truth of the Old
Margaret Professor but the bare Title without the Profits and Emoluments of the Place to which the unanimous consent of the University Voted him in the face of his enemies in his absence and in his affliction Neither lasted these Injoyments long for not being able to forbear the Men so sacred to him was his Majesties Cause and Person when they had the Impudence to Vote no more Addresses to the King for a smart Sermon against them he is put as well as his Master into safe Custody by the Juncto who Declared That either he must be forbid the Pulpit or they must forbear their Seats he being able they said to overthrow in an hour what they had been carrying on several years But he continued performing Divine Service and Preaching as long as he had liberty thought-full of mens souls and his charge of them regardless of his own person and the calamities of that He was more afraid of St. Pauls Wo is me if I Preach not the Gospel than of St. Pauls Chain or of St. Peters Bonds The Life he lost he found and the more he despised Liberty the more he injoyed it Abroad he comes the King writes for him and his other Chaplains to come to him to Holdenby and is refused but at Hampton-Court the reasonable request was granted there he that would not accept of the Bishoprick of Bristol because he might with the more advantage being no Bishop desend Episcopacy accepted of the Deanery of Worcester a bare Title without profit to shew he waved not that Bishoprick for its little Revenue saying as some said of him that he would not take a Bristol-stone when he took a dignity with none At Hampton-Court he made bold to ask his Majesty Whether he thought himself safe with those men meaning Cromwell c. and was answered by his Majesty Yeas if they have any souls The Monsters of Men having with Hands on their Breasts and Eyes lift up to Heaven pawned their Souls and their Posterity upon his Restauration As he had attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to comfort him so with several other Divines he waited on him at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight to assist and serve him in offering expedients for moderation till all moderate men were hurried to Prisons and the most innocent Majesty to the Block whose Murther affected him so much that he was never well after either in body or mind O what Fasts what Watchings what Tears that unheard of Villany cost the good man till a Black Jaundice prevailed over his whole body and thence an humor that could neither be dispelled nor mitigated settled into a Swelling about his Throat which with a slow Ague arising from the Inflammation of the foresaid Tumor let out his sick soul that could say The hand of God was light upon him and that he had never tasted a sweeter Cup. Ianuary 1648 9. He saw his Royal Master dying a Martyr and August 1649. saw him dying a Confessor weeping for Charles the First and expecting Charles the Second lamenting the present and hoping for the ancient state of things in Church and State Insomuch that when some comforted him That he should be taken away from the evil to come No no answered he somewhat more vehemently than ordinary I fore-see I fore-see from the good things to come He departed praying for those things we now injoy wishing well to all men and desired of most Being a man of a neat personage convenient stature a comely aspect grave manners a fluent wit a short anger an even and constant zeal an unblameable life a noble and a charitable heart exact performances that trembled at the Supra-lapsarians Opinions defined Presbytery a vast Schism in the Church bequeathed his Estate to pious uses and his Books to the Colledge by the hands of his three honorable Executors Sir Rober Abdy Sir Thomas Rich and Bishop Brownrig who ordered his Funeral with great solemnity Dr. Iefferies of Pembroke Preaching at it on Psal. 102. 11. and erected him this Monument with great respect P. M. S. Richardus Holdsworth S. Th. Doctor verbi divini praeco omnium attestatione eximius S. Scripturae in Collegio Greshamensi Per multos annos Interpres celeberrimus Collegii Emanuelis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Praefectus Integerrimus Ejusdem Academiae per tres annos continuos Procancellarius exoptatissimus Ad Cathedram Theologicam Per D. N. Margaretam Richmondiae Comitissam institutam per mortem summi Theologi Doctoris Wardi Nuper destitutam unanimi Theologorum suffragio Evocatus Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis Ecclesiae Wigorniensis Decanus mentissimus Sanctae doctrinae in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilitae Cordatus assertor Divitiarum pius contemptor Eleemosynarum quotidianus Largitor Toto vilae institutâ— sanctus severus ex morbo tandem quem assiduis studendi concionandi Laboribus contraxit Aeger decubuit in hac Ecclesia Quam per 27 annos Religiosissime administravis Mortalitatis exuvâ—aâ— In spe beatae resurrectionis Pie deposuit Mâ—nsis sextilis die 22. Anno Domini M. DC XLIX Aetatis suae LVIII Mementote praepositorum vestrorum qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei quorum imitamini fidem contemplantes quis fuerit exitus ipsorum Heb. 13. 7. THE Life and Death OF Dr. EDWARD MARTIN Dean of Ely DOctor Edw. Martin who had six Ancestors in a direct line learned before him six Libraries bequeathed to him though inclined to any thing more than learning Yet as he would say was he Hatched a Scholar as Chickens are at Gran-Cairo by the very heat of the Family he was related to his parts as his nature inclining to Solidity rather than Politeness he was for the exact Sciences Logick and Mathematicks in his Study as he was for strict Rules in his Conversation His exact obedience to publick establishments in his own person raised him to a power and trust to see them obeyed by others being incomparably well skilled in the Canon Civil and Common Law especially as far as concerned the Church in general and in the Statutes of the University of Cambridge in particular to be bred under a good Governor is the best step to be one he was therefore first admitted 1627 8. Chaplain to Bishop Laud and thence preferred Master of Queens Colledge and Rector of Government is an Art above the attainment of every ordinary Genius and requires a wider a larger and a more comprehensive soul than God hath put into every body he would never endure men to mince and mangle that in their practice which they swallowed whole in their Subscriptions owning a well-regulated and resolved zeal in himself and incouraging it in others for to use an excellent Persons expression in a Sermon whereof our Doctor was a Copy not to support men in the ways of an active Conformity to the Churches rules he knew would crack the sinews of Government by weakning the hands and damping the spirits of the obedient And if only scorn and
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
up all he was a Wise Prelate a Learned Doctor a Just Man a True Friend a great Benefactor to others a thankful Beneficiary where he was obliged himself He was a faithful Servant to his Masters a Loyal Subject to the King a zealous Assertor of his Religion against Popery on the one side and Fanaticism on the other The practice of his Religion was not so much in Forms and exterior Ministries though he was a great observer of all the publick Rites and Ministries of the Church as it was doing good for others He was like Myson whom the Scythian Anacharsis so greatly praised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he governed his Family well he gave to all their due of maintenance and duely he did great benefit to Mankind he had the fate of the Apostle St. Paul he passed through evil report and good report as a deceiver and yet true He was a man of great business and great resort Semper aliquis Cydonis domo as the Corinthian said there was always some-body in Cydons house He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he divided his Life into labour and his Book he took care of Churches when he was alive and even after his death having left five hundred pounds for the repair of his Cathedral of Armagh and St. Peters Church in Drogheda He was an excellent Scholar and rarely well accomplished first instructed to great excellency by natural parts and then consummated by Study and Experience Melancthon was used to say that himself was a Logician Pomeranus a Grammarian Iustus Ionas an Orator but that Luther was all these It was greatly true of him that the single perfections which make many men eminent were united in this Primate and made him Illustrious At at Quintilium perpetuus sopa Vrget Cui pudor justitiae sorer Incorrupta fides nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem It will be hard to finde his equal in all things Fort asse tanquam Phaenix anno quingente simo nascitur that I may use the words of Seneca nec est mirum ex intervallo magna generari mediocria in turbam nascentia saepe fortuna producit eximia vero varitate commendat For in him was visible the great lines of Hookers Judiciousness of Iewells Learning of the Acuteness of Bishop Andrews He was in more great things than one and as one said of Phidias he could not only make excellent Statues of Ivory but he could work in Stone and Brass He shewed his Equanimity in Poverty and his Justice in Riches he was useful in his Country and profitable in his Banishment For as Paraeus was at Anvilla Luther at Wittenburg St. Athanasius and St. Chrysostome in their Banishment St. Ierome in his Retirement at Bethlehem they were Oracles to them that needed it so was he in Holland and France where he was abroad and besides the particular endearments which his friends received from him he did do Relief to his Brethren that wanted and supplied the Souldiers out of his Store in York-shire when himself could but ill spare it but he received publick thanks from the Convocation of which he was President and publick Justification from the Parliament where he was Speaker So that although as one said Miraculâ— instar vitae iter si longum sine off ensione percurrere yet no man had greater enemies and no man had greater justifications Johannes Bâ—amhall S. Th. Dr. Ecclesiae Anglicanae filius observantissimus Hybernicae Primas Pater dignissimus utrinsque vindex acerrimus Martii 12 mo 1662 3. Caetera narrabunt posteri Historia enim An. Britanniae Hiberniae cujus pars quanta est vir bonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amplissimo praesuli in Epitaphium cedet ut Ecclesia restaurata in Monumentum Erat nempe ille ex beatorum Plinianorum numero quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere feribenda aut seribere legendae THE Life and Death OF Dr. ACCEPTED FREWEN Lord Arch-bishop of York THE three last Arch-bishops of York were men of as great sufferings as enjoyments I. Dr. Richard Neile born in Westminster whereof he was Dean and bred in St. Iohns Colledge Cambridge whereof he was Fellow going by the favor of the Cecills bred in the same Colledge with him through several Preferments and Dignities from the Vicaridge of Chesthunt in Hertford-shire to the Deanery of Westminster and by the bounty of his two Royal Masters who had the same apprehensions with him about the Church a publick body he would call it not only to be taught by Preachers its duties but to be kept as long as men are men by Discipline and Government from scandals came by the intermediate advancements of Rochester 1608. Coventry and Lichfield 1610. Durham 1617. Winchester 1627. from the Deanery of Westminster to the Arch-bishoprick of York 1632. was much envied for his Preferment more for his Principles most of all for his Favorites and followings the Parliament in 1628. threatning for preferring Dr. Laud to be a Bishop and the Faction 1641. charging Bishop Laud for making him an Arch-bishop II. Arch-bishop Williams of whom before III. Arch-bishop Frewen bred Demy Fellow and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a general Scholar and a good Orator made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1643 4. a Preferment he suffered rather than enjoyed and after fourteen or fifteen years sufferings and privacy with his Relations in London upon his Majesties Restauration Installed Arch-bishop of York His particular temper was that by his goodly presence and great Retinue he hazarded the envy of people to avoid contempt a thing he would say a man should avoid as death it being an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselesness and inable attended with an untoward endeavor to engage the world in the same belief and slight esteem a rising man prevent as ruine to be thought down is the very Preface to be so a contempt like the Planet Saturn hath first an ill Aspect and then a destroying influence and a Governor provide against as a deposing what obedience can he expect from them that give him not so much as respect the carriage cannot reverence the person over whom the heart insults nor the actions submit if the apprehensions rebel Reputation is power which who despises weakens for where there is contempt there can be no aw and where there is no aw there will be no subjection and we have known that the most effectual method of disobedience is first to slur a Governors person and then to overthrow his power He knew that though he must approve himself to wise men by his vertues he must take the vulgar that see not beyond the surface with his carriage they as the Spaniard being of opinion that if you would know a man you must know him by his gate He dyed 1663 4. P. M. Accepti Freweni quis seit si ultra quaeras jam dignus es qui nescias THE Life and Death OF Dr.
of matter then to learn words yea letters drop by drop but nothing was unconquerable to his pains who had a golden Wit in an iron Body The Warr being over and God having ended the Controversie for that time for reasons best known to his infinite wisdom in a way that cut off the most eminent Divines and Scholars of the Church of England from that Calling to which they were set apart This publick spirited Gentleman for the glory of God the clearing of the holy Scriptures in those dayes of Enthusiasm the imploying and supporting of persecuted Scholars in a way honourable to the Church and themselves then under reproach drew a draught of the Work comprehending the Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Originals with the Samaritan Pentateuch the Samaritan the Greek Septuagint the Chaldee the Syriack the Arabick the AEthiopick the Persian and Vulgar Latine Translations the Latine Translations of the Oriental Texts and Versions out of the best Copies and Manuscripts with many additions to the Spanish and French Bibles and a new method giving the Text and all the Translations in one view with several learned Discourses various Lections about which our Doctor hath a learned Tract against the suggestions of Dr. Owen Annotations Indexes all suitable to so great a Work This draught was by Sr. George Ratcliff that Promoter of all honourable Designs shewed the King abroad who encouraging it with a countenance worthy a Prince set the Doctor with the Bishop of London Dr. Iuxons leave and license and all the other Bishops then living consents upon the compleating of it as he did beginning 1653 and finishing it 1657 with a Grammar preparatory to it agreeable to his Motto Labore Constantia For which and his other services as his late Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary he was upon his present Majesties Return to whom he dedicated the Book preferred to the Bishoprick of Chester a Diocess he had but newly reduced by his discreet practises rational conferences great reputation and unwearied pains to some measure of regularity when it pleased God he died 1661. When their work is done God sends his servants to bed He lyeth buried in St. Pauls Cathedral with this Monument Manet heic novissimam Resurrectionis Angeli Tubam BRIANVS WALTON Cestrensis Episcopus Epitaphium aliud ne quaeras Viator Cui luculentum est vel ipsum nomen Epitaphium Quod si explicatius velis Famam consule non tumulum Interim Hic ille est si nescire fas sit Eximius Doctor Qui sub nupera Tyrannide labanti Ecclesiae Suppetias cum Primis tulit Clero a Rebelli Prophanaque Plebe conculcato Improperium Abstulit Religioni apud nos Reformati Professae Gloriam attulit Dum Fremente licet Gehenna Biblia Polyglotta summo prae caeteris studio excoluit Et Excudi procuravit Inde Utrinque Testamentum promeruit Monumentum Et maximis Impensis posuit Quare Longo titulorum Syrmate superbire non indiget Qui nomen jam scriptum habet In Libro Vitae Decessit Vigiliis St. Andreae Nov. 29. AEtatis LXII Consecrationis 1. Salutis CDICOLXI And that this Doctor may not as the Ottoman Princes to support his own Reputation suppress that of his younger Brothers the eminent men contributing to this great work by their advice assistance or intercessions besides those excellent Personages now living as the most Reverend Fathers in God Gilbert Shelden Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Sterne Lord Archbishop of York Dr. Merick Casaubon who procured them a Targum Hierosolymitanum Dr. Pococke who lent an AEthiopick Psalter and was very helpful in the Arabick Version The great Scholar and Linguist Mr. Thornedyke Sir Tho. Cotton who afforded them many M SS and Rarities Dr. Tho. Greaves Alexander Hughes Prebend of Wâ—lls very helpful about the LXX and the Vulgar Latine Dr. Bruine Rieves then Dean of Chichester and Sequestred now Dean of Windsor Charles Lodowick Prince Elector Sir Tho. Wâ—ndy old Mr. Dudley Lostus of Dublin as famous for his Learning as Illustrious by his ancient Extraction sending over an AEthiopick New Testament to the Right Honorable the Earls of Bedford Rutland Strafford and Westmoreland Sir Anthony Chester Sir Norton Knatchbull Dr. Barlow of Queeâ—ns Colledge in Oxford Sir William Farmer of East Measton in Northampton-shire notwithstanding his heavy Composition 1400 l. 840 l. Sir Francis Burdet Mr. Iohn Ashburnham the Honorable Lords Petre and Caepâ—â— since Earl of Fssex and the great Patrons of Learning Baptist Lord Viscount Cambden and the good Lord Maynard heir to all his Fathers Vertues especially to his respects to learning Vertue Mr. Thomas Smith Fellow of Christ Colledge in Cambridge and Library-keeper Mr. Samuel Clerke of Merton Colledge in Oxford Esquire Bedle and Architypographus of that University Mr. Thomas Hyde Library-keeper there Mr. Richard Drake of Pembroke-hall and to conclude with one that is all as over-looking and Correcting all Dr. Edmund Castle of whom the Bishop saith truly In quo Eruditio summa magna animi modestia convenere who is now about a work next in use and renown to that wherein in reference to the Samaritane the Syriack the Arabick and AEthiopick Version he had a chief hand in I mean a Polyglot Dictionary a man since his worth if his humility did permit it might say of its self as Arias Montanus doth De me ac de meo labore et Industria quantulacunque ea â—st nihil profiteor hoc tamen unum recenseo me seilicet continuo Immortales Deo gratias agere quod 10. Idi omatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia et henignitate Impertitus sit I should be ashamed it should be said of us as it was said of some in Arias his time that we envied and disregarded his worth so far ut ad causam dicendam citatus vix venia Impetrata protantorum laborum praemio secossum in Boetica sua in quo se bona consciâ—ntia fretus sacrorum Librorum Lectione ac Lucubratione solaretur acceperit Thuan. hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. I say besides those excellent Personages now living and others already dead and mentioned as Dean Fuller Dr. Hammond Bishop Brownrig Mr. Patrick Young one well-deserving of Critical and Historical Learning his late Majesties Library keeper Sir Iohn Hele who did and suffered much for his Majesty in Dorcetshire and Wiltshire being forced to turn his Lands to Money to compound with the Parliament as they called it having given all his money to the King as did Walter Hele Esq Devon who'paid 4â—â— l. The Earl of â—indsey Dr. Samuel Baker Besides all these there were assistants to this Work these Royalists 1. Mr. Abraham Wheelocke born in White-Church Parish in Shropshire bred Fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge where he was Keeper of the publick Library Minister of t. Sepulchres and Professor of the Arabick Tongue erected by Sir Thomas Adams born at Wem in the same County the Father of the City of London who though he suffered
remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's Eâ—dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding
softly and unperceivably into the hearts of all that knew him but those that first vexed him out of St. Stephens Walbrook London where he was Minister and afterwards sequestred him for going away whereupon his Majesty promising himself good effects of his clearness candor solidness sweetness eloquence and good repute recommended him to the Diocess of Bristol 1644. where like Gregory Thaumaturgus he found few well-affected to the Church and left few dis-affected upon which account that honourable City as I have been told hath taken care for his childrens comfortable Education out of gratitude to their Father in Christ. A man not only flourishing with the verdure and Spring of Wit and the Summer of much Learning and Reading but happy in the Harvest of a mature Understanding and a mellow Judgment in matters Politick and Prudential both Ecclesiastical and Civil one who like Diogenes confuted the Enemies of his Function not his Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by circumspect walking He died about the year 1646. and his brother Mr. Iames Howell of the same Colledge mentioned by Sir Kenelm Digby in his discourse of the Sympathy Cure of Wounds at Montpelier with so much respect Secretary to the Lord Scroop when President of the Council in the North relating to my Lord Conway in the Marriage-Treaty with Spain many particulars whereof may be met with in his familiar Letters which as all private Letters do give the best History I meet with in that and other affairs of that Time Assistant to Sir R. Mansel in the Glass-Works and in some place about the Clerks of the Council before the late Civil Wars when he was imprisoned in the Fleet where and in other places of his suffering he wrote 49 Books most Translations out of French Spanish Italian and Portugez wherein he had a good faculty and a great advantage with a handsome Parabolical and allusive fansie according to his Motto Senesco non segnesco He died 1665. Mr. Launce of St. Michael in the Quern a grave man and Minister to whom his people would have given their right eyes till he began to open them by telling them the truth A choice man in the Books he read and in the friends he conversed with many mens excellent parts are kept low for want of a well contrived and by reason of a scant ill chosen Library The knowledge of Books as it is a specious so he would say it was an useful part of Learning as whereby upon any emergent doubt or difficulty a man may have recourse unto the advise of grave and learned men who it may be have bestowed a great part of their time and study in the resolution of that particular business The presence of a Bishop at a Marriage is a License and his appearance before the War was among his Neighbours countenance enough to any action the good he did by the holy Ingenuity of his private Visitations wherein his discourses were quick and cheerful was not inferiour to the effects of his publick administration those indeed making way for these and by his inviting looks far from the threatning aspects of some men to both the predominant habit of the Mind by the conformity of the Fansie spirit bloud and constitution to those habits like the black and yellow Jaundies leaving a notable tincture and signature on the eye and aspect especially when men come to be fixed in their desires and designs vultu promisit quicquid vita praestitit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. de Basil. fornia innocentissimus ingenio florentissimus propositio sanctissimus vit a innocentissimus in a word he was one well seen in the different conditions of the people of God which he studied that he might divide the Word aright and give unto every one a due proportion to every state Impatient of two things in a Sermon a jeering Irony or a furious Zeal advising that if the matter required a passion it should be the zeal of a displeased Friend rather than the biterness of a provoked Enemy to convince rather than exasperate He died 1665. Dr. Swadlin of St. Bololph Aldgaie sequestred plundered imprisoned at Gresham Colledge and Newgate his wife and children turned out of doors he himself administring to most of the Martyrs before their death and preaching so boldly in the behalf of both their Majesties as if he did intend to be a Martyr himself saying when he heard of some horrid action of the Adversary Blessed be God! now their oppressions are at highest they will be at an end the night is darkest ever upon the break of day Dr. Walter Balcanguel known by his place and discreet interposals in the Synod of Dort when very young representing the Church of Scotland by his shrewd accounts of that Synod when something farther in years a very pathetick Preacher having a great command as Orators should over his own affections and his Hearers and a notable prudential man he being Duke Hamiltons creature having the draught of the grand Declaration about the Scotch affairs for which he was made Dean of Durham as he was before Master of the Savoy one of a nimble wit and clear expression sequestred plundred and forced to fly in which condition he died in Chirk Castle 1644. Dr. Thomas Fuller born at Oâ—ndle in Northamptonshire where his Father was Minister and bred in Queens and Sidney Colledges in Cambridge under Dr. Ward and Dr. Davenant Master of a good Method and by that of an extraordinary memory which qualified him for an excellent Historian and by keeping the coherence of things in his mind for a great Wit his Writings are very facetious and where he is careful judicious his Pisgah sight is the exactest his Holy War and State the wittiest his Church-History the unhappiest written in such a time when he could not do the truth right with safety nor wrong it with honour and his Worthies not finished at his death the most imperfect A good natured man too credulous and a witty man too quick considering that every thing is big with Jest if we have the vein not so well skilled where to spare his Jests as where to spend at once serious and Cheerful moderate in his judgement and practice and therefore faring as moderate men use to do who are suspected on both sides and Guests at the middle of a Table who can reach to neither Mess either above or beneath He was so good Company that happy the person that could enjoy him either Citizens Gentlemen or Noblemen he removing up and down out of an aequanimous civility to his many worthy friends that he might so dispense his much desired company among them that no one might monopolize him to the envy of others so general a Scholar that it was his insight into every thing he had read that together with his thinking and meditating nature out of which he could not be got sometimes for several hours together made his fansie so nimble
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
Ille qui una cum sacratissimo rege cujus et Iuvenilium studiorum et animae deo Charae Curam a beatissimo patre demandatam Gessit nobile ac religiosum exilium est Passus Ille qui Hookeri Ingentis Politeiam ecclesiasticam Ille qui Caroli Martyris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen quo post Apocalypsin divinius nullum legavit orbi sic latine reddita ut uterque unius fidei defensor patriam adhuc retine at Majestatem Nec dum tibi suboleat Lector nomen ejus ut unguenta pretiosa Johannes Earl Eboracensis sereniss Car. II. Oratoris Clericus Aliquando Westmonasteriensis Decanus Ecclesiae deinde Wigorniensis Angelus tandem Salisburiensis et nunc triumphantis Obiit Oxonii Nov. Septimo A.D. 1665. Aet 65. Voluitque in hoc ubi olim floruerat Collegio ex Aede Christi huc in socium ascitus ver Magnum ut Restorescat expectare Dr. William Bedle bred in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge preferred with Sir Henry Wotton as Chaplain of his Embassie to Venice at the same time that Mr. Iames Wadsworth his intire friend bred in the same Colledge and Beneâ—iced in the same Diocesse with him was sent with another Ambassador into Spain Mr. Bedle as Sir Henry Wootton testified upon Bishop Vshers recommendation of him from a private Minister in Suffolk for many years to the Provostship of Dublin Colledge to King Charles the I. behaved himself so well that Padre Paulo took him into his own bosom with whom he did command the inwardest thought of his heart from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divivinity both Scholastical and positive than from any he had conversed with in his days Mr. Wadsworth though the most zealous Protestant of the two miscarryed so far that he turned Papist Mr. Hall afterwards Bishop Hall accosted him with a loving Letter but Mr. Bedle upon Mr. Wadsworths opening to him the Motives of his Conversion which he would not to Mr. Hall with solid Arguments to be seen in their mutual Letters extant which are Controversies of love and Meekness as well as Religion much was the expectation it seems by a Letter of Mr. Hall to him his Parts and Conferences had raised and great the satisfaction he gave when Bishop of Kilmore to that expectation by his Christian temper his great repute for Learning and Zeal his strict Life observing exactly the Ember-weeks the Canonical hours the Feasts and Fast-days of the Church besides his private Devotion his Patience and Charity so exemplary that the very Romanists whereof not a few in his Diocesse did ever look upon him with respect and Reverence testifying it by concealing and safe protecting his Person in the Horrid Rebellion in Ireland when they could not secure his excellent Books and Writings among whom the Bible in Irish Translated by him with many years Labour Conference and Study He dyed 1642 3. Mr. Iohn Hales born as I take it in Kent bred Fellow of Merton Colledge Oxford where he was Greek Professor preferred first Chaplain to Sir Dudley Carleton when he was at the Hague about the business of the Synod at Dort whereof being sent thither to that purpose he writ a daily and exact account compleated as appears in his Remains by Dr. Balcanquell and where upon Episcopius his well-pressing of 3 Iohn 16. he would say There I bid John Calvin good night and then Fellow of Eaton and Prebendary of Windsor in the first of which places he was Treasurer which is strange such his Integrity and Charity to his loss in point of Estate and Fellow such his prudence in avoiding the Oaths of the times without any snare to his Conscience A Person of so large a capacity so sharp quick piercing and subtile a Wit of so serene and profound a judgement beyond the ordinary reach built upon unordinary notions raised out of strange observations and comprehensive thoughts within himself and so astonishing an industry that he became the most absolute Master of Polite Various and Universal Learning besides a deep insight into Religion in the search after which he was Curious and of the knowledge of it studious as in the practise of it The best way to understand Christian Religion is to observe it we learn by doing those things we learn to do sincere being as strictly just in his dealings so extraordinarily kind sweet affable communicative humble and meek in his converse so inimitably as well as unusually charitable giving away all he had but his choice Books and forced to sell them at last That he was as good a man as he was a great Scholar and to use the Reverend Dr. Pearsons words of him It was near as easie a task for any one to become so knowing as so obliging He had so long and with such advantage and impartiality judged of all Books Things and Men that he was the Oracle consulted by all the Learned men in the Nation Dr. Hammond Mr. Chillingworth c. in Cases that concerned either whereupon he used to say of Learned mens Letters That they set up tops and he must whip them for them It s pity he was so averse notwithstanding so general an importunity from communicating his great thoughts by writing partly from an humor he had as his intimate friend Mr. Faringdon observes to draw the Model of things in his head and never write till he needs must and partly from his growing and unlimited thoughts but chiefly from the exactness he required in others taking a great liberty it s seems by Dr. P. of judging not of others but for himself and exacted of himself being seldom pleased with his own performances that there are no Monuments of his Learning save the great Scholars made by his directions and assistance extant but Sir H. Savile Chrysostom which he corrected with great pains in his younger days and illustrated with admirable Notes for which he is often honorably mentioned by Mr. Andrew Downs Greet Professor of Cambridge and a Collection of some choice Sermons and Letters made by Master Garthwait Dr. William Chappel a native of Lexington in Nottinghamshire Fellow of Christ-colledge in Cambridge upon Bishop Vshers importunity Provost of Trinity-colledge in Dublin and the Lord Deputies observation of him Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse a man of a very strict method being an incomparable Logician and of a very strict life being an excellent man famous for his many and eminent Pupils more for the eminent Preachers made so by his admirable method for the Theory and Praxis upon 2 Tim. 3. 16. for the practise of Preaching so good a disputant as to be able to maintain any thing but so honest a man that he was willing to maintain only as he would call them sober truths Harassed between the Rebellion in Ireland and England where it was imputed to Bishop Laud as a crime that he preferred Bishop Chappel and to him that he was preferred by him being thought a Puritan before
Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
from the Parliament house than to be driven he retired to serve his Majesty in Herefordshire Worcestershire and Glocestershire against the Scotified English expending 20000 l. as he had gone into the North against the Frenchified Scots expending 5000 l. of a grateful Guest becoming a bountiful Host to his Majesty For which services he was twice a Prisoner in the Wars at Hereford and Bristol and four times after suffered in Goldsmiths-hall which like the Doomesday Book of the Conqueror omitted nec Lucum nec Lacum nec Locum though Favourites were rated nec adspatium nec ad pretium as it was said of the Abby of Crowland in that Book 2649. as Sir Edmund Pye of Lachamstead Bucks was 3225. Sir Walter Pye was prisoner with Sir William Crofts the R. Bishop of Herefords elder brother who being a person of very great abilities had left the Court 1626. for some words against the D. of B. in its prosperity and being of great Integrity came to help it 1640. in its adversity insomuch that King Charles I. when he saw him put on his armour at Edge-hill admired it first and afterwards was very glad of it being he said the only man in England he feared being looked upon as able enough to be Secretary of State always and as the fittest man at that time being a man inured to great observations and constant business from his childhood and Coll. Conisby a near relation no doubt and no disgrace to him to Sir Conisby High Sheriff of Hertfordshire who being told that some Enemies had prevailed to make him Sheriff answered I will keep never a Man the more nor never a Dog the less for all that and who for publishing his Majesties Proclamation and executing his Commission of Array was a Prisoner in the Fleet I think as long as his soul was prisoner in his body his person being first seized and then his Estate were the persons with whose death Fines threatned the Earl of Forth in case he should proceed against any of their way knowing them worth their whole Party Herod might have salved his oath because St. Iohn â—aptist was worth more than half the Kingdom France France France pronounced by the Herald of France answered to all the Titles of Castile Arragon c. pronounced by him of Spain Patrick Ruthen Earl of Forth and Brentford a Scotch man and therefore an excellent Souldier bred in the Low-Countries many years and serving his Majesty of Sweden in Germany as many A wary man as appeared in his ordering for he modelled that fight the Battle at Edge-hil and a stout man as was seen at Brentford and Glocester leading his forces so gallantly in the first of these places that with his own Regiment he cut off three of the best belonging to the Parliament and drawing his line so near and close about the other that he was shot in the head in both the Newberry battles Brandean Heath fight and near Banbury in all which places considering the hazzard of his person shot in the arms mouth leg and shoulder admirable was the stediness of his spirit and his present courage and resolution to spie out all advantages and disadvantages and give direction in each part of a great Army A hail man made for the hardship of Souldiers being able to digest any thing but injuries the weight of his mean birth depressed not the wings of his great mind which by Valour meditated advancement being resolved as the Scotch man said of his Country-men when sent abroad young to do or dee He had a faculty of sending to a besieged City by significant Fire-works formed in the air in legible characters and a Princes always though by the fortune of War he had it sometimes imprisoned in a poor mans purse minding not the present benefit but the happy issue of the War this being the only way to secure that This old Priam having buckled on his armour in vain left his Country to advise the Prince in Holland France and at Sea when there was no fighting for his Father at Land Having seen the Scots after his very intercessions accept of his Master for their Prince he designed as old as he was broken with years and hardship to march in the head of an Army to settle him in England but though bearing up his spirit with a Review of his great actions and renowned life as a man having passed a large Vale takes great pleasure to look back upon it from the Hill he resteth on he did about 1650. being sure that as the Air however depressed by a certain Elastical power will yet recover its place so the Consciences of the English and Scots however kept under would yet in time get up their sentiments of Duty and Allegiance Many Captains great actions had been greater if reported less but this noble person will be believed the more because expressed so little It is pity the Scots brave spirits should be debauched to Rebellion who do so bravely for their allegiance Coll. Leak slain at Newark and Mr. Leak found dead with his Enemies Colours about his arms at Lands-down fight both sons to the Right Honourable Francis Leak and brothers to the Right Honourable Nicholas now Baron Deincourt and Earl of Scarcedale both active in his Majesties service being in the number of the Peers reckoned in the Declaration of the Parliament at Oxford to the Parliament at Edenburgh absent thence on his Majesties occasions in setling his Contributions and money his Garrisons and Ports together with his Army and the discipline of it both eminently suffering as it should seem by this Note Francis Lord Deincourt P. Lancelot Leak and Tho. Leak Esq with 382 l. per annum setled 1994 l. 12 s. 7 d. Molumenta Dolumenta the Shipwracks of some are the Sea-marks of others the last Dog catching the Hare when all the rest tired themselves in running after it The Right Honourable William Lord Ogle who having bestirred himself among the ancient Tenants of his Family in the North for the cold wind of the North keep their Estates long close to the owners while the warm Gales of the South make them as the Fable is of the Cloak often shift them to raise a brave Brigade of Horse and after some services there being sent for to Oxford he submitted himself discreetly in the disposal of them exchanging his Field Command for a Garrison one being as I read Governour of Winchester which he kept as long as there was a piece of it tenable with Sir Will. Courtney Sir Iohn Pawlet William Pawlet Paulstones South 544 l. He died in these times but his honour died not with him being as I take it devolved upon a younger son of my Lords Grace of Newcastle Sir Michael Ernely an old Souldier bred in the Low-Countries that used himself by lying on the Ground Watching Hunger and other exercises of hardship in his first and lowest capacities in the War as fitted him
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
20000 l. in the service of the King to whom he owed his honour gave 5306 l. in Land and Money to keep it the onely Estate then left good men the second having hazzarded his life with his Estate spending then 15000 l. with Sir George Booth c. to restore his Majesty 1659. for which he was imprisoned like Isaac offered and not sacrificed lost it afterwards of the Small Pox I think that infections and unclean disease seizing on that breath where life spirit and pleasure always dwell snatching as rude hands do Roses before half seen or understood now ripe in the blossom To whom I may add Sir Kennes of Kevenmably Glam 3500 l. and Edward Kennes of Kennes Mannor 1000 l. H. Earl of Kingston 7499 l. Io. Kellon of Totnes Devon Esq 663 l. who reckoned it cheaper to pay than to swear and valued their souls above their Estates a Character of whose Loyalty is engraven on every part of their Estates as the Arms of the Shugboroughs are on every stone of their Land the impression of the Usurpers violence being like the Print of Iudas hands and feet where he fell Indelible Men that abhorred a barren Religion as much as Christ did the fruitless Fig tree when he wrought once as he often spake a Parable that whole Tree being but the Bark and barren Professors the Timber and could not endure those mens Creeds who made their own Articles with God and Kings and were so troubled with a Vertigo that they thought Sun and Stars were subject to the Falling Sickness and invented new bonds for supposed weak Kings as the Virgin Mary is said to drop her Girdle to swath the Faith of weak Thomas The first of which foresaid noble persons built a Spitle where God had provided a Bethesda with his charity seconding Gods mercy God giving the cure and he building the Harbour for impotent persons Richard Lord Viscout Molineux and Col. Roger Molineux of Lincolnshire and Sir Ferdinando Fisher of Northumberland persons of generous active sweet and obliging natures able stout and condescending living with that zeal devotion piety that others die with weeping out at night the debts their souls contracted in the day setting peaceably and innocently as the unspotted Sun doth in water Gentlemen that had more Vertues united in them than we can pick up scattered here and there in Books and other men doing more than others teach in whom Religion guided their other qualities as the higher sphere doth the rest The last drowned unhappily in his passage to the Isle of Man to assist that Place of whom see Peter de Cardonnel a French Gentleman Parentatio Generosis manibus Ferdin Fisher juxta monam Insulam Anno M D C X L VI. nausragio absorpti The Lord Moulineux paid 1140 l. in Land and Money To whom I may add Exequiae viri Generosissimus Jo. Chichesterii Gubernatoris de Derry Militum tribuni Illustrissimi Domini Arthuri Comitis Dongalliae c. fratris natu secundi  Qui  Vitae Integritate Coetaneos omnes Morum Suavitate Juventutis suae Virtutis Magnanimitate Multis Parasangis precessit Quique postqitam A Peregrinationibus omnem Politiam Pace veram pietatem Bello triumphorum panopliam reportasset Nescio quo Equi ferocientis Infortunio in stagnum molundinis verticosum Standmills juxt a Belsast Collapsus expiravit Et corpus solo Animam coelo tradidit April 14. 1643. Isaac Mountain and George his son Esquires of Westow York paid 1155 l. 11 s. composition Sir Jo. Mill and Col. Tho. Mill his son Nutshelling South 1350 l. R. Mollineux Tweshal Nottingh Esq 250l Sir Richard Malleverer Ollerton Malleverer York 3287 l. Sir William Massey Duddington Chesh. 234 l. Col. Sir Jo. Mallery Studley York 2219 l. Sir George Mompesson Sar. Wilts 561 l. Robert Maston Hidden Berks. 522 l. Robert Mellish Bugnal Not. Esq 3986 l. in Land and Money H. Merry of Borton Port Derb. Esq 1640 l. Hum. Mathew Castlemoneth Glam Esq 1327 l. Sir William Masters Circenster 1483 l. Sir Tho. Milward at Der. 360 l. Sir G. Middleton Col. of Layton Lanc. 2646 l. in Land and Money Sir Roger Mostyn Flintsh Esq 852 l. Robert Mulso Fendon North. Esq 500 l. Sir Edward Morgan Col. of Pencoed Monm 1007 l. besides Col. Anthony James and Thomas Morgan the last of whom I think was the brave person that was killed in the Cheshire business 1659. scorning that so brave a design should be lost without bloud shed there were Col. Sir Francis and Col. Will. Middleron slain at Hopton Heath Staff Col. Edward and Mr. George Middlemore of Kings Norton 564 l. Sir Edward Musgrave Layon Camb. 960 l. Sir Philip Musgrave who took Appleby 1644. for his Majests and so eminent in that years brave attempt Col. William Musgrave 640 l. Jo. Martin Yorecomb Devon Esq 424 l. Jo. Millecent Linton Camb. Esq 6162 l. Ambrose Mannason Trecarre Cornwal Esq 901 l. Col. Franc. Manley Erbistock Denb 264 l. Tho. Mercalf Pallasby York 866 l. Jo. Morsham Cuxon Kent Esq 356 l. Of all whom I may say as one did of Heraclytes his Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VVhat I know of them is excellent so I believe is what I know not 10. Col. George Heron of Chipcase Northumberland slain at Marston-Moor where fell Sir William Wentworth Father and Son Col. Hern son of Sir Edward Hern slain with Col. Beton a Northampton-shire Gentleman at Gainsborough Linc. Col. Bernard with divers other Gentlemen put to the Sword at Cannon-Froom Heref. Iuly 1645 Col. Francis Hungate of Saxton Yorkshire slain at Chester Col. William Barne slain at Malpass Cheshire Coll. Francis Billingsley slain at Bridge-north Shropshire Col Thomas and Roger Whitheyâ— one of whom was slain at Conway Castle Caern Col. Tho. Wheatly Col. Pinchback and Col. Fitz Morris slain at Newberry Col. Richard Green slain at Iâ—â—ston Castle Cheshire Men that could look upon the saddest things with the most cheerful tempers and a Mirth that was the spirits and flowerings of various wit neither blaspheming God nor abusing man taking its just turn with more retired and deep discourse fetched not from Books but the rich notions of their own minds Natures better Table Book Men whose Wits were the greatest things of their Times except their Judgment which governed the ebbs and flows of their Fancies as the Moon doth those of Waters How did their Notions throng and crowd about their tongue and discourse their Wit flowing faster than others Ink-men of gallant but not extravagant spirits overcoming the follies of their own side as well as the cheats of the other their vigorous souls like Stars sparkling but not burning and warm with generous not sordid heats minds large and high as the Heaven the seat of their souls humble as the Grave the seat of their bodies The sacred names of Friendship and of Love torn from the World with as much reluctancy as their Souls from their Bodies about whose Graves methinks I could stand still
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his Chaplains some the Bishop of Londons c For so they are when licenced d As one Howes prayes to God to pâ—â—serve the Prince from being bâ—â—d up in Popery whereof thâ—â—e was gâ—eat fear
a 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—clâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—â—â—y at Blandâ—ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was â—â—â—ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have hâ—d the benefit of the Aâ—â—â—cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they â—â—verâ—ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain protâ—sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but superâ—â—â—ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summoâ—s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b Dâ—â—â—ing his â—reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 think â—â—â—â—â—y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide Dâ—bâ—ney South 9â— l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Arâ—hbâ—shop Laud for his deâ—â— eâ—â—y activity and intâ—gâ—ity and Sequestred d Berbaâ—ously and foolish â—ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq â—aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loyâ—â—y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 â—llcx Gent. 30â— g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composiâ—ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet â—â— the Country be â—â—d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fairâ—ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Crâ—â—â— did the King this service i Thoâ—pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny bâ—nâ— Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Beconâ— field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid â—â—r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rupâ—â—â— with 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—e and 2000. Foot upon Dâ—râ—â—â— Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were sâ—ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they câ—me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reformaâ—es from all parts a Note that it â—as the poâ—â—nt 〈◊〉 of the â—â—anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Doubleâ— now I wiâ—â—â—ook â—n on my Brâ—eâ—â— b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselvâ—s in the exigencies of thâ—se times he and Mr. Maurice of â— Lanbeder Denâ— Another undâ—unted sufferer maâ—â—yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ruâ—then one of whom Mâ—s. Maurice suâ—feâ—d â—y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a â—hoâ—e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides decâ—nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and â—sapnâ— they would no come to the â—â—â—l of Repenâ—auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in Iâ—agâ—res Sir George Weâ—worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of Sâ—â—offords Brother his life at Marsâ—on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See Mâ— Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R â—ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yarâ—â— Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with â—â—râ—s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a gâ—â—en Tâ—â—â—râ—hed house he said â—e â—aid â—n a Bâ—gâ— uâ—der a Meadow b It is sâ—â—d of his A câ—â—â—or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the â—â—â—â—able times â— 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a Wâ—llâ—w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caergâ—y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by cransâ—â—ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usherâ—s Catechism Dr. Prideâ—ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Malloâ— be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commuâ—es his fault was 〈◊〉 excellâ—â—cy Viz. that he câ—uld with a grace relaâ—e Magnaâ—â—m â—â—um mâ—uâ—â— the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the Câ—â—â—s in â—â—gl are cist wâ—â—n a â—â—â—e of their house where â—â—y were â—â—â—n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir Jâ—cob Ashleâ— to get the â—â—â—h into a body aâ—â—er Naseby where he â—ed beeâ— sâ—abbed but for Sir Jo. â—â—â—â—us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him imâ—private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Seâ—l when ever the King senâ— for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After thâ—y had in vâ—in samâ—â—neâ—
him to reâ—â—â— wâ—â—in 14. days with the Sea◠〈◊〉 of High Tâ—â—â—eson Sir Ed. Litleton is desceâ—ded of Sir Tho. Litleton Author of the book of Tenures commented on by Sir Edw. Cooke and of so much repute that the Iudgâ—s in K. Jâ—â—â—s'sâ—â—me â—â—me declarâ—â— that his Case was not to â—e qaâ—stioned b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Ogmiâ— Eloquii preside Thebâ—no â—onstâ—orum Domitore a Both of the Long-Pareiament acting vigorously among the Members as Oxford b He was of Clare-Hall Cambâ—â— I think a good Benefactor to it c Sir 〈◊〉 Heath Ruâ—l paid for composâ—â—ion 700l Rich. Heath Weston Chest. 138 l. and R. H. of Eyerton Cheshire Esq 237 l. J. H. of Braâ—steel Kent Esq 52l and then were two Col. of his name in the King Army Col. Francis and Jo. Heath a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 a His Tract about planâ—ing Tobacco in England a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c He purchased â—ands there and Lawyers generâ—lly 〈◊〉 Lands near the place of their birth built their Nâ—sts near the place where they were Hatched a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 a Who paid 500l composition Heâ—â— â—â—d Berlâ— 610l Sir Thomas Hâ—de and 300l a Giving Chamber counâ—â—l about convâ—iances and writing good books as Lex terrae conâ—uâ—ed onely by sevenarguments Authoritate viarre fraude metu terrore tyrannide b H. B. Om. Anâ— as he published many other Loyal Elogies under the covert name of H. G. a The Daughter of Mr. H. Southworth Merchâ—nt and Customer of Lond. reâ—yâ—ing afâ—eâ— he had got a greet E. state at wellâ— where Bishop Lake who never mâ—râ—yed any besides in râ—yed her to Dr Ducke b See his Funeral Sermon Mrs. Marg. Duck. c Bâ—â— it remembred 〈◊〉 when there was a 〈◊〉 after the confirmatioâ—â— Bâ—shâ—p Monntagues Eâ—ctâ—oâ— to 〈◊〉 Bâ—shâ—pâ—ick of oâ— Chicâ—ester to dine at a Tâ—vern here fased it because dâ—â—ing in 1 Ta veâ—â— gave the occasion to the â—alde of the Nags head Consecration Tho Reeves of Reading Eâ—que paid 〈…〉 a To maintain â—ax Candles in the Chappel in Trinity-hall on Annual Commemoration with a Latine Speech a Which no Clergy-man held since Bishop Gray who was Lord Treasurer 9. Edw. 4. a He was Lord 〈…〉 to King Charles 1. b Bishop â—ush Harpsâ—ield Hist. Eccles. Aug. 15. â—aeculâ— c. 24. c Whose Men Miracles were written on purpoâ—e to please the Duk into Learning a 〈…〉 b Eâ—â—s de Aug. He was buried aâ— Westminster-Abheâ— April 24. 1662. a He had another Brother a great sufferer câ—â—ncellor of Bangor and Saint Asaph Sir Henry Griffith of Agnisâ—â—rton York Bar with 1781. per annum settled 4461l Mr. Ed. Griffith of Henslan Denb 170l Peâ— Griffiâ—h of Carnvy â—lint Esq 113l Sir Ed. Griffith Ding by North. 1700l b Eccleâ—â—ull-castle 〈◊〉 â—â—affordsâ—â—â—e â—â—e â—â—de an excellent Apology for himself in Parliament a Foâ—nding a School and an Alms-house there a An accurate Logician Philosopher and School-Divine as appears by his Letter to Dr. â—aâ—â—or about his Unum Necessaâ—ium b Much lamented by the whole Kingdome more own by his Diocesse most of all by the Chuch and his Majesty who was much concerned for him a 〈…〉 b Whereof he was a Member R. C. in L. A. Ep. W. a And one of the Commissioners as Bishop Gauden and Bishop Earls was for reviewing the Liturgy and satisfying the dissenting Brethren b The very Parliament naming him as worthy to be one of the Assembly 1643. though he thought not it worthy of him c How well he understood the world in his younger days appears be his smart Characters how little be valued it was seen in the careless indifference of his bâ—ly contempâ—ative life a 〈◊〉 pâ—â—la oâ— the Vniversity chaplain to the 〈◊〉 and â—â—inister of a Living of his donation in Wâ—lâ—shire which he quitted with iâ—s Lord when he attended be â—â—ded not as urged with 〈◊〉 Arâ—â—uns by hâ—m his Master a Only Mr. Faringdon saith he spake of his Sermon Diâ—i Custodiaâ—â— with complacency a He proceeded 1631. a As Sir William â—ackehouse son Mr. Stokes Dr. Will. LLoyd Mr. Arth Haughton who had much ado to prevail with his modesty to publish his Trigonometria b In the Mathematical way a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 L' Hâ—lic de Blmville beâ— the Pâ—â—icc of Wales He 〈◊〉 Baâ—â—â— shment An 〈◊〉 Dom. 1â—42 Novem 14. Ann Ae aâ— 58. leâ— râ—â—ng 〈◊〉 â— st Charles Stuâ—t 〈◊〉 of Oriel Colledge Oxon â—â—bind him a sweet-natured and a very 〈◊〉 Gentlemen c And buried I think in Salisbury a He was in the Tower sâ—veral years sed with bread and water which diâ—t by Gods providence having saved his life when his veâ—â— broke hedâ— onlâ— little or nothing but water all his life time after and eat nothing but once in 24. or 30. hours b He was Prebendary of Durham before and â—â—â—plain and Executor to Bishop Morten c Hâ— gave liberally towards the repair of Saint Pauls a 〈…〉 and the good I expect from you will bring so great a benefit to your Country and to yourself that I cannot think that you will decline my Interest I leave the way and manner of declaring it intirely to your own Judgement and will comply with the advice you will give me The other to Sir John about him in these words I am confident that George Monke can have no malice in his heart against me noâ— hath he done any thing against me which I cannot easily pardon and it is in his power to do me so great service that I cannot easily reward but I will do all I can and perform what he shall promise his Army whereof he shall still keep the Command upon the word of a King July 21. 1659. b I think that 〈…〉 who was taken up 30. years after his Fuâ—eral as 〈◊〉 as the first 〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉 was his Faâ—hel a where 〈◊〉 Broâ—her D. Wâ—en him Father is the 〈◊〉 genieus and learned Dr. W. â—n Ajironony-prosessor in Oxford b Two Ser mons aâ— Cambridge made him mâ—st â—â—ment the one an â—ssize Sermon upon a disign to Drayn the Fens 〈◊〉 Amos 5. 24 the other 〈◊〉 veturn out of Spain on Psal. 42. 7. C Twenty 〈…〉 of St. Johns Peter-Iâ—ose and Pembrokeâ—hall beirghiâ— Relâ—tions in mourning a Whereof he sent out the first part viz his Mosaique History first the acceptance of which among the learned encouraged him to finish it b And the doctrine of Regeneration in Joh 3. 6 which because he saidâ— that any great sin did extinguish grace and that St. Paul Rom. 7. Spâ—â—t in the person of anunregener 〈◊〉 man K. James was displeased a The Mythological part is most excellent b Wherein among â—thers he dâ—famed this opinion c He got the skill in Grammar in the Low-Countries where he was a Souldier a Where he was a Prisâ—ner as he was in the Fleet c. a Being turned out of his Fellowship a Whose â—ay of versitying on 〈◊〉 subâ—ects was
storm where he was killed the first instopping every breach that was made Francis Newport of â—yton upon Severn Sal. compounded for â—284 l. Sir Richard Newport deservedly created Baron Neport of High-Arcall besides many thousand pounds he sent the King paid composition with 170 l. per annum settled 3287 l. Mr. Lewis Blunt a Volunteer was killed near Manchester and Mr. Christopher Blunt at Edgulton house a William Pawlet of Paulstones Southampt paid 544 l. for his allegiance Francis Pawlet and Amos Pawlet Somers 800 l. b Sir William Savil was an eminent and a sober Commander on the Kings side Will. Savil of Wakefield Yorksh. Esq paid 946 l. as he said for the 13 Chapter of the Romans a Henry Leigh of High-Leigh Chester Esq 710 l. Composition George Leigh of Wotton Gloc. 264 l. Coll. Tho. Leigh and Sir Ferdinando Leigh were never surâ—rised for want of Foresight nor worsted for want of Resolution Gervase Lee of Norwel Notingh Esq paid 560 l. for charges Tho. Leigh of Adlington Chester 3000 l. Edw. Leigh of Bugeley ibid. 700 l. Thomas Lord Leigh of Stone-Leigh faithful to his Majesty in dangerous times paid for his consciencious adherence to his Soveraign 4895l Peter Leigh jun. of Neithertalby Chesh. Esq 778l Will. Leigh Pitminster Somers 120l Sir Richard Lee of Langley Sal. Ber. 8782l Sir Thomas Leigh of Humpstal Ridward Staff 1376 l. Gentlemen these easily distinguished by their actions though agreeing in name Great men when Sirnames are necessary to distinguish obscure persons are Sirnames to themselves a Coll. Hugh Windham a mâ—â—k Lyon was slâ—n in Docetshire a Particularly in 〈◊〉 deâ—eat of Waller at Teux bury a To whom â—e was Gen. â—â—man of his Bed-Chamber a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles II. who would not have yielded Pendennis but at the Command of King Charles I. b He that beat Cromwel once in the West Sir James Smith Devon paid for being a Coll. in the Kings Army 188 l. Sir Will. Smith Sir Walter Smith of great Bedwin Wilts with 40l per annum settled paid 685l Composition Thomas of Nibley Ches 40l Edward Smith of Haughton Northam 142l Will. Smith of Stamford Kent 108l Will. Smith of Presly Som. 140l R. Smith Heath Denb 90l F. Smith of Buton Sal. and Cawood Ebor. 194l Edward Smith Dr. of Physick 45l Tho. Smith Steyning Sussex 40l Nich. Smith Theddlethorpe Lincoln 115l Jo. Smith Oxon. 220l Sir Tho. Smith Chester 10l per annum settled and 215l Jo. Smith of Small Corbes Gloc. 600l Jo. Smith Blackthorne Oxon. 107l Rob. Smith Akley Bucks and Will Smith 564l Jo. Smith of Great Milton Oxon. 107l Jo. Smith Swanton Ebor. 38l Rich. Smith of Torrington Devon Merchant 176l Parris Smith of Comb. Somerset 86l Joseph Smith Selby Linc. Clerk 600l Edw. Smith Wakefield York 60l Captain Dudley Smith killed at Roundway-down a Thâ—â— Windsor 1100l b 〈…〉 c Creatâ—d 166l d Sir William Huddleston of Millain Castle Northum was Sir Edward W. onely Parallel who raised a Regiment at his own Charge and had seven Sons that rid in it for which besides 30000 l. other losses he paid 2248 l. Composition and Sir Henry Lingen of Sutton Her who raised two Regiments and did eminent service in awing Glocester and securing Heresord and Worcestershire with his Bragade of Horse that they said never slept and â—azzarded himself often for his Majesties Restauration for which he paid 6342l as Jo. Lord Scudamore Viscouâ—t Sleyo in Ireland sâ—me years Leger Ambassador in France who all these times kept his secret Loyalty to his Soveraign Hospitality in his Family and Charity to the distressed Clergy for which with his son 2690l Not forgetting Sir B. Seudamore a gallant expert Commander Governor of Hereford and Dr. Scudamore who was slain't â—ere nor the R. H. Will. Lord Sturton whose Loyalty cost him 1100l a And the excellent judgment he would give of all the rational discourses iâ— Religion extant b Particularly in the laâ—e sickness a F. F. Epist. Dedic Clem. Throg de Haseley VVor. Arm. The Right Honorable Baptist Noel Lord Viscount Cambden 150 l. land per annum and 9000 l. besides 50000 l. other losses a Sir William St. Leager came over with him with his Regiment afterwards Commanding at second Newberry battel the Cornishmen and the Duke of Yorks Regiment Sir Anthony St. Leiger of Ulcomb Kent where it has been a Kinghtly Family 300 years Sir Tho. St. Leiger being Brother-in-law to Edward the 4th was killed commanding Prince Ruperts Life-guard at Newberry second battel Oct. 27. 1644. His son I suppose Sir A. St. Leiger paying 400 l. composition This Ancient Families decays hath been the occasion the issue generall of decayed Estates are projects of many noble Inventions in England preferring to be Masters of a Molebill than dependant on the highest Prince in Christendom a There were in the Kings Army 3 Collonels more of the name viz. Sir Charles Dallison Sir Robert Dallison and Sir William Dallison who spent 130000l therein men of great command in their Country bringing the strength thereof to the reasonable assistance of his Majesty a Edw. Heath of Cotsmore Rutland Esq paid 700 l. composition Jo. Hammond of Elling Norf. 1000 l. R. Heath of Eyerton Chesh. 300 l. b Where fell Coll. Scot. c At which place and time sell the Right Worshipful Sir â— Hurton a Jo. Fortescue Cookill Worc. Esq paid 234l for his Loyalty Jo. Fortescue of Bridlest Esq Devon 202l Sir Faithfull Fortescue came over to his Majesty at Edgehill with his Troop b Major Laurence Clifton and Captain John Clifton slain at Shelford House Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Not. 7625. c There was Coll. Matth. and Ralph Eure in the Kings Army Sir Sampson Eure Garley Park Hert. paid 110l composition d L. C. Philip Howard Nephew to the second and Cousin Germain to the first slain near Chester e Col. Thomas Morgan of Weston was slain at the first Newberry battel f And his Brother the Honorable Edward Talbot Esq slain together with Mr. Ch. Townley at Marston-moor Volunteers and Mr. Charles Sherburne Col. James Talbor was a Person deserving well of his Majesty Sherrington Talbot of Salwarpe Worâ— his Estate suffered 2011l deep g To these Iadde Sir Henry Constable Lord Viscount of Dunbar who died in the service at Scarborough h Who hath three Crowns added to his Arms with this Motto Subditus fidelis Regis Regni salus i There was Collonel Jo. and Collonel Thomas Butler Men much valued and much lamented as Persons of great Interest in the Associated Counties and Collonel Croker a Who lost by the War 733579 l. and his son the most hopeful Charles Lord Viscount Mansfield who had an eminent Command under him died in these times He was General of the Ordnance b I find Sir Charles Cavendish of Wellingon Line 2048l deep in the Goldsmiths-Hall Book and Francis Cavendish of Debridge Derby 480l The Lord Henry Cavendish was a
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty