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.
Ceremonies were the known Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse than lousie for they are Sibbe to the Sarke of Hercules that made him tear his own bowels asunder Doctor Samson Dean of Christ-Church being propter Puritanismum Exauctoratus Whittingam and Goodman backing their Schism with Treason in a Book they writ in defence of Wyat nay some of them growing so bold as being convented before Doctor Grindall then Bishop of London to answer this Question of his Have not we a godly Prince speak is she evil Thus White What a Question is that the fruit doth shew Thomas Rowlands No but the Servants of God are persecuted under her R. Hawkins Why the Psalmist answereth this Question How can they have understanding that work wickedness spoiling my people and that extol vanity Nay from single Affronts to Government they proceed to Conventicles in Fields Woods and Friends Houses and not onely so but Thomas Cartwright the Bell-weather of Non-Conformity presents the Parliament 1572. with a Book called Admonition a Title not well resented in Parliament since Admonition is but the lowest degree of Ecclesiastical Censure and a Preparative if neglected to Suspension and Excommunication wherein were several Grievances represented with this onely Redress prescribed viz. The admission of that Platform which the Presbyterians there exhibited And since one modest Admonition would not do another more severe followeth and a Reply to Doctor Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition with a world of Libels and Pamphlets which they called The new way to work following that Reply they judging it a good way to turn serious Books into Satyrical Pamphlets Finde they did so many Friends and Patrons within the Parliament and without that they erected a Presbytery in Wandsworth sleighted such sober men even of their own Scruples as Master Fox and Doctor Humphred set up Exercises called Prophesyings irregularly and dangerously carrying on Meetings of ill consequence at Cock field in Sufâ—olk at Cambridge and London draw up a Platform of Discipline at London petition the Privy-Council and engage several of them in the Quarrel particularly Leicester Burleigh Traverse his Patron and Walsingham as appears by their Letters to Archbishop Whitgift procure a Conference at Lambeth with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York before the Lords of the Council set up an Assembly of Ministers to sit Jigg by Joul with the Convocation in London engaged so many Lords and Commons under the pretence of the Liberty of the Subject the Grievances of Pluralities and Non-residences Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions to shake the Established Government as forced Archbishop Whitgift to repair with an humble Petition to the Queen to stand by her own Authority as Supream in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these her Majesties Realms and Dominions The Lord Burleigh himself was so importuned by them against our Liturgie that he desired them to draw up a better as they had done but that they could not agree Nay some persons private Interests making use of and closing with these Publick Disturbances the Commons come up with a sixteen-fold Petition against the Church to the Lords and many of the Lords were so high that nothing would satisfie my Lord Grey less than the turning out of all the Bishops by Premunire then as they had been in King Henry the Eighth's time and that the Queen should not confer with the Bishops but in the presence of the Temporal Lords A bold Proposal as an honourable Lord then observed that the Lords should appoint her Majesty whom she should confer withal And no wonder now that such Pamphlets as The Epitome The Demonstration of Discipline The Supplication Diotrephes The Minerals Have you any work for the Cooper Martin Marprelate Senior and Iunior Have you any more work for Coopers flew abroad so much that the Synod at Coventry acted so boldly as they did in their Thirteen Canons as a man may call them And that they began to write to one another in this Style We look for Bickering ere long and then a Battel which cannot long endure A boldness excusable when both the Kings of Scots and Denmark interposed in their behalf yea and some of them as Hacket and Arthington set up Designes to murder the Queen and the Privy-Council Traverse himself though otherwise reserved and wary breaking out in his Temple-Lectures to open opposition against Mr. Hooker the Master of it and the great Champion of the Church of England And because they began to be ashamed to make such a stir about Rites Ceremonies c. they added some Sabbatarian Speculations and bold Controversies of Gods Decrees to put weight into the Quarrel and brave that the World might take them not for light Scruplers about indifferent things but the strong Astertors of the Power of Godliness viz. in the keeping of the Sabbath c. the design of Dr. Bounds Book of the Sabbath To this heighth the Impugners of Government and Discipline arrived at in Queen Elizabeth's time in whose Reign these Champions withstood them viz. 1. The Queen true to her Motto Semper eadem would not either by their Greatness Number or Importunity that maintained the Faction be moved to the least diminution of her Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical yea and in her latter days when she observed how the Church and State was overborn by them she grew very severe towards them as Vdal Penry and Cartwright felt they at the Assizes and this in the Star-Chamber till he saved himself by an humble submission 2. The Privy-Council always in Church-Affairs however some Members of it had a kindness for the Faction went along with the Arch-bishop 3. The Arch-bishops Parker and Whitgift notwithstanding the many and great Difficulties they met with kept up the Authority of the Canons and required subscription 4. Fulke Hooker and Rogers kept up the Authority of the Church in Writing Although the Queen was often by them in danger of her life the Arch-bishops made weary of their Lives and Government Mr. Hooker was heart-broken with Calumnies and Oppositions all the Bishops and Ministers of the Church rendred as odious and ridiculous as the Wit and Malice of men could make them The stout Bishop of Exeter went with honourable Scars from the Factions malicious Tongues and Pens to his Grave Arch-bishop Whitgift not onely felt the Fury of this Sect when Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge at what time Carwright was also a Member of that House kept a Fast there in his absence and perswaded all the Scholars but two or three to throw off their Surplices as they did till the good Master returned home Nor did he onely complain of the continual opposition that he met with when Regius Professor from Mr. Cartwright at the same time Margaret Professor in the same University nor of the Indefatigable pains he took to answer Cartwrights Admonitions to the Parliament and to
reply to Cartwrights Answers till his Antagonist laid down the Cudgels For these were inconsiderable troubles given him when we reflect on the great Oppositions and dangerous Motions in Parliament that forced him twice on his knees to the Queen intreating the continuance of her Grace and Favour towards him and the Church the first time and with grief of heart they are his own words craving her Majesties protection the second And add to them the several Contrasts he had with the Lords by whom in Councel upon their sending to him the Complaints of the Norfolk-Ministers against Bishop Preake of Norwich and of the Kentish-Ministers against himself he was forced to write that it was Irregular for Ministers to address themselves to the Council-Table in Affairs of the Church wherein he alone was Intrusted by God and her Majesty and to tell them that it was not for the Queen to sit in her Throne if such men might so boldly offer themselves to reason and dispute as in their Bill they vaunt against the state established in matter of Religion nor for himself to keep his place if every Curate within his Diocess or Province may be permitted so to use him it being impossible as he saith for him to perform the Duty which her Majesty looked for at his hands if he might not without Interruption proceed in that which her Highness had especially committed unto him And that the disorderly flocking and gadding from place to place was dangerous concluding that the sending for him to appear before the Council-Table as a Party and to call his doings in question which from her Majesty were immediately committed unto him and wherein he supposed he had no other Judge but her self and this upon the suggestion of unlearned despicable and troublesome men the meanest and fewest of the places where they lived was a thing unexpected from them from whom as their Pastor he expected all aid and assistance in his Office for the quietness of the Church and State the Credit of the established Religion and the maintenance of the Laws made for the same Neither was this all alas what a sad Complaint doth this Reverend Person make against one Beal Clerk of the Council who reviled and threatned him to his face if he proceeded to put the Ecclesiastical Laws in execution as he had done telling him boldly loudly and bitterly That he would overthrow the Church and that his hands should be shortly stopped His words are That were it not for his Conscience and well-grounded perswasion in the things he did the peace of the Church her Majesty and some Noble Lords constancy to him in the Service he should hardly be able to endure so great a Burden Nay writing to my Lord Hatton the good Arch-bishop saith That my Lord Hatton's kindness did not a little comfort him having received saith he not long since unkinde speeches where I least looked for them onely for doing my duty in the most necessary Business which I have in hand disobedient wilful persons I will term them no worse are animated Laws contemned her Majesties Will and Pleasure little regarded and the Executors thereof in word and deed abused Howbeit these Overthwarts grieve me yet I thank God so the good Prelate goeth on I am contented to sustain all these Displeasures and fully resolved not to depend upon Man but upon God and her Majesty If you saith he to my Lord Burleigh take the part of unlearned young ambitious Disturbers of Order against the established State of Religion and forsake me especially in so good a Cause I shall think my coming to this place to be for my punishment and my very hard hap that when I think to deserve best and in a manner to consume my self to satisfie that which God her Majesty the Church requireth of me I should be evil rewarded and having risen early and sate up late to give all men satisfaction have my Labour lost and called wilful Papist Knave and charged that I require men to subscribe onely to maintain my own Book and so sacrifice the publick to my own private Reputation These were the sufferings of Whitgift Dr. Fulke for writing against the Brownists professeth that he had not an hours rest for twelve years together And how bold Traverse was set up in the Temple against modest Hooker How the loud Lectures of the first of these were cried up against the solid Sermons of the other What siding and bandying there was in the House What confuting in the Afternoon of what was proved in the Morning What Addresses to the Lords of the Council And how meek Mr. Hooker weary of the Contrast was forced to retire is obvious to all that do but dip into the History of Queen Elizabeth's time not to mention either Dr. Baroe or Mr. Barrets Sufferings in Cambridge with Dr. Howson and Mr. Land 's at Oxford for Anti-Calvimsm which was onely another little occasion found to quarrel with Authority and to draw in more persons to their Party many learned men who favoured not the Faction in point of Calvinistical Discipline yet were very Indulgent and serviceable to them in respect to their Calvinistical Doctrine Well during Queen Elizabeth's Reign the Quarrel being confined within the Church and Schools few acted or suffered thereby besides Church-men and Scholars the Laity of the Nobility and Commons seldom engaging either way further than by private tampering encouraging interceding motioning c. and none of them suffering any further than that if they stood to the great and generous Principles of Government and Religion they were censured as Papists profane Enemies of the Power of Godliness c. or so But upon the Entrance of King Iames whom the Factious thought a Presbyterian from his Cradle as frighted to their way in his Mothers belly the Laity and Clergy began to side more openly Dr. Nevil Dean of Canterbury was not so soon with that King from Arch-bishop Whitgift and the rest of the Clergy as Mr. Lewis Pickering a Northamptonshire Gentleman waited upon him from the Presbyterians upon whose return judging by the Kings temper that they who had most Voices and Friends were likely to carry it at least for Liberty and Toleration a great Multitude was thought by them a strong Argument with that Prince they set up the mille-manus Petition called so for the thousand hands they pretended were to it Mr. Cartwright in the mean time Caressing his Majesty with all the Presbyterian Courtships in the world in an Epistle Dedicatory to his Latine Commentary on Ecclesiastes with the Importunity whereof together with the Mediation of some Lords especially the Scotch for now Presbytery had got a whole Nation I mean Scotland of their side there was a Conference held at Hampton-Court before the King and the Lords of the Council between eight Bishops eight Deans and two other Divines on the one side Dr. Reynolds Dr. Sparkes Mr. Knewstubs and Mr. Chadderton on the other The issue whereof notwithstanding
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
the improvement and safeguard of Ireland So happy his faculty of perswading that it was said of his Speeches as it was of Ciceroes That the longest was the best And so nimble his activity that though sometimes he permitted a design to be matter of discourse before it was finished to see how it relished with the vulgar and try how it appeared to the wise generally he thought not an affair well done unless it was done before others thought of it So subtile his wit that a Reverend Judge upon his proceeding Barrister in the Inns of Court Pronounced Likely to prove either the best or the worst Instrument in the Common-wealth And that he would see through and unravil the intrigues of the most intangled business or the most reserved man that he had to do with And of so comprehensive a brain that besides the Customs the Manufactue the Products and the Trade of Ireland wherein he had a great share He managed 4. of the 25 Cole-mines 6. of the 86. Mills and had in his hand 12. of the 275. Woods in York-shire that Country of which Hoornuis reports its bigger than his Masters seven Provinces and as much under Gods blessing though not so much under the warm Sun as other parts of England by the same token that when the Earl of Crawford looked upon it as the Garden of Brittain the Earl of Traquaire answered It might be a Garden but that it was too far from the House meaning London The Gagites is a precious stone to be found only in the Eagles nest and this Gentleman was a man of such choice parts as could be expected only in the sharp-sighted Earl of Straffords Cabinet who would not entertain your fine but useless wits which he compared to Jet the Northern Commodity that could draw straw to it only having no power over more weighty bodies But liked this person the better for another quality It is remarkable that hardships raised his spirit as water inflames Jet and easiness allayed it as oil quenches that When Sir Thomas Challoner Tutor to Prince Henry had found Alum near Gesburgh in this County On this occasion they are the words of an eye-witness transcribed by my worthy friend he observed the leaves of trees thereabouts more deeply green than elsewhere the Oakes broad-spreading but not deep rooted with much strength but little sap the earth clayish variously coloured here white there yellow there blew and the ways therein in a clear night glistering like glass symptomes which first suggested unto him the presumption of Minerals and of Alum most properly Some Gentlemen of the neighbour-hood burying their estates under the earth before they could get any Alum above ground until Sir George contrived the bringing over of forraign Work-men in Hogsheads to prevent discovery from Rochel in France which advanced the discovery to a Mine Royal Rented by Sir Paul Pinder who paid yearly To the King 12500 the Earl of Mulgrave 01640 to Sir William Pennyman c0600 Besides a constant salary to 800 Men at a time until the good people at Westminster that were designing one Monopoly of three kingdoms to themselves were pleased to Vote this and above 40. more of this Gentlemans pulblick discoveries Monopolies to the respective Proprietors As he noted of his beloved Horses for plenty and excellency of which he and his Country were both very eminent that they had a mediocrity of necessary properties being neither so Slight as the Barbe nor so Slovenly as the Flemming nor so Fiery as the Hungarian nor so Aeiry as the Spanish Gennets nor so Earthy and heavy as the German-horse these are his words transcribed by another Author without any thanks to him so I may character him not so Nimble as a French-man not so Slow as a Spaniard not so Reserved and Observant as the Italian not so Fierce as a German not so Patient as a Dutch-man but a collection of all indowments into one man like that of all the beauties of Greece to form one Venus Sir George was hugely pleased to reflect that as those they are Melchior Canus his words who out of curiosity and novelty oppose antiquity teach posterity how they may contradict them So those that were so perverse in disparaging the actions of their Superiors did but chalk out the way for their inferiors to disparage theirs especially since it was too obvious how easily the people might be exasperated against them whom they had raised against others The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the many running into opinions of men and things as Calderinus in Lud. Vives did to Masse Eamus ergo said he quia sic placet in communes errores And that he thought it not more unpardonable in him to dissent from them than it was in them to differ from their Superiors and Ancestors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist. Eth. 1. 6. The one rendring him only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ingeniously bold the other them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 audaciously presumptuous Refreshing himself with that of Mimnermus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In that time which he might call infoelix seculum as well as Bellarmine calleth that Age between 900 and 1100. when men of the same character that Vives gives Iames Arch-bishop of Genoa commonly called Iames de Voragine for devouring books as these people did men Homines ferres oris plumbis cordis of three Nations conspired the ruin of one man of whom we may say as Claudian did of Ruffinus offensis Ruffinus divide terris though all that they could do was to charge him home and Calumniari fortiter that something might stick though his Litchfield Adversary like a Coventry-man did his best worst at first for the Earl of Strafford his Patron since he setled a perplexed conveiance for him at London acquainted him with so many serviceable men that were at his devotion in the North for the observing of and acquainting himself with choice men was his peculiar faculty and was so active both on the Popular and the Royal account being Charged November 13. Sir George Ratcliffe was sent for the same day by a Serjeant at Arms dispatched into Ireland who accordingly December 4. came in and yielded himself to the Speaker from whence he was Committed to Custody and an Impeachment drawn up against him consisting of these Articles First That he had conspired and joyned with the Earl of Strafford to bring into Ireland an Arbitrary Government and to subvert the Fundamental Laws Secondly That he had indeavoured to bring in an Army from Ireland to subdue the Subjects of England Thirdly That he joyned with the Earl to use Regal Power and to deprive Subjects of their Liberty and Property Fourthly That he joyned with him to take out forty thousand pounds out of the Exchequer of Ireland and bought Tobacco therewith and converted the profit thereof to their own uses Fifthly That he hath traiterously Confederated with the Earl to countenance Papists and built Monasteries to alienate
more in blessing than in bulk his richest Legacies were his Precepts and his Example and his best Monument the hearts of his people that will be his joy and crown of rejoycing in the day of the Lord Jesus Post quater millenos exaratos Et decies millenos publice Habitos conciones manu Temporibus mortem obiit ore Evangelizans I. S. Optimis resurget ipse melioribus resurgit memoria pessimis THE Life and Death OF Sir JOHN SUCKLING THE last Bishop we mentioned was the last that died with the honor of Voting in Parliament that was not speechless before he departed This Gentleman was the last Courtier that died at Court Dying as he was born a Courtier heir to Sir Iohn Suckling the Comptrollers estate but not his temper being as aiery as the other was solid this grave Family like heavy bodies evaporating into more aieral parts towards its dissolution There was an extraordinary Circumstance in his birth that raised an unusual expectation of his life being born as his Mother reckoned the beginning of the eleventh month Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypocrates allows that the child born in the seventh month if well looked too may live Laurentius Professor of Montpellier in an admirable Treatise of Anatomy asserteth that a child of nine or ten months which he calleth Terminus Inter medius seldom miscarrieth And Avicen as he is quoted by Laurentius averreth that a child born in the eleventh month which he expresseth Terminus ultimus quando nihil additur ad perfectionem partis sed ad perfectionem roboris is vigorous and Athletique As Sir Iohn Suckling who did as Tiberius vultu Principem generosum praeferre had a sprightly mind that was an argument of a more sprightly soul which took in improvement faster than Tutors could suggest speaking Latine as early as Drusius his Son did Hebrew that is at five years of age and composing both in Latine and English for Princes as soon as Grotius did that is at nine years being so soon a man that like Adam we would think he was born so The Arts were as closely united in him as they are in themselves being competently seen in all of them and yet eminent in many being able to look in the whole circle without a giddiness He had tongues enough to renew that good understanding among men that was lost at Babel desiring not only to live in the world but to understand it and as great reason which we call Logick to comprehend and discourse his notions as he had charms which we call Rhetorick to insinuate them and what was more it was a question whether he was more skilled in the Philosophy of the two Globes or in the History and Chronology of all times he shooting through any subject from one end of the world to the other with the same activity that spirits do who do not discourse but see His soul almost as large as that which some call under the first being the soul of the world He died under thirty and was as old as the world being able to treat of all those things from books which in twelve years time that all the wisdom of the world could insist on from experience in 5000 years suffering himself to be no stranger to Cosmography or the account of the world in general for his own satisfaction as a Gentleman to Choroghaphy or the particularnature of each Province of the world for the service of his Country as an Englishman to Topography or an inspection into the circumstances of each place to qualifie him for noble employments and commands as a Souldier And all these sweetned with the softness of Poetry that Musick and Charm of the world in words and with Musick that Poetry in sound Fancy being his predominant faculty as the sanguine complexion was his controlling temperament was as restless and ubiquitary in him as it is defined in its self creating and tempering the Images and Ideas of things with the same ease that the things themselves were first made with To lift too high is no fault in a young Nagg and to fancy too high was the greatest defect of this young Gentleman Nimbleness is the perfection of fancy and levity the bane of it when it whisks up and down to so many objects that it throughly understands or conceives none unless hard and knotty studies such as Philosophy and Mathematicks that fix and settle the soul. Sir Iohn Suckling that was Knighted 1630. was Comptroller of the Kings-house and told this Gentleman That he had no more to do but to comptrol and govern himself be being born before him The heighth of his parts he acknowledged the effect of the discretion of his Tutor of whom he would seldom speak without this Note That it was one thing to be discreet and another thing to be learned the management and use of a mans notions being hardly consistent with a heap and croud of them as a midling state makes a good Husband who humored his disposition as much as some Boys are forced to humor their Masters and made as many Rules of his temper as he found in his Grammar being at once so ingenuous and so plyable that a frown was severe correction to him and shame whipped him more smartly than the Rod. He as solemnly honored his Masters of all ingenuity as Dr. Whitacre did his Tutor West when being Regius Professor at his Tutors Commencing Doctor publickly gave him thanks before the University for giving him correction when his young Scholar But had most regard to his Father for he best bowls at the mark of perfection who besides the aim of his own eye is directed by his Father who is to give him the ground according to whose advice he travelled his own Country well first and then in my Lord Burleighs method who seldom licensed a man to travel abroad until he could give him a good account of the remarkables at home went over beyond Sea to see how mankind managed those principles in their practise that they had drawn up in their writings and observe how they lived and conversed as well as how they thought making an honorable collection of the virtues of each Nation without any tincture of theirs unless it were a little too much of the French Air which was indeed the fault of his complexion rather than his person Though to correct it he travelled from the softer dalliances of that Nation to the Wars and hardships to knit as well as inlarge his soul and gain an Empire over his frailer self with the same severity and discipline that Gustavus was like to gain one over Europe With whom he run the hazard of three battels five sieges and as many skirmishes wherein he saw much design and contrivance so much conduct and manage such activity and industry in six months as was not to be seen elsewhere in so many ages there being a concurrence of the excellencies as well as of the men of all
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
answer That if it had been a Commander he would have freely sent it back but being an Horse he loved him as well as the King of Spain and would keep him That useful man to whom the Queen her self writ this Letter with her own hand Good Peregrine VVE are not a little glad that by your Journey you have received such good fruit of amendment especially when we consider how great a vexation it is to a mind devoted to Actions and Honor to be restrained by any indisposition of body from following those courses which to your own reputation and our great satisfaction you have formerly performed And therefore as we must now out of our desire of your well-doing chiefly injoyn you to an especial care to increase and continue your health which must give life to all your best endeavors so we must next as seriously recommend to you this consideration That in these times when there is such appearance that we shall have the trial of our best and noble Subjects you seem not to affect the satisfaction of your own private Contentation beyond the attending on that which nature and duty challengeth from all persons of your quality and profession For if necessarily your health of body being recovered you should Elloigne your self by residence there from those imployments whereof we shall have too good store you shall not so much amend the state of your body as happily you shall call in question the reputation of your mind and judgment even in the opinion of those that love you and are best acquainted with your disposition and discretion Interpret this our plainness we pray you to our extraordinary Estimation of you for it is not common with us to deal so freely with many and believe that you shall ever finde us both ready and willing in all occasions to yeild you the fruits of that interest which your indeavors have purchased for you in our opinion and estimation not doubting but when you have with moderation made trial of the success of these your sundry Peregrinations you will finde as great comfort to spend your days at home as heretofore you have done Of which we do wish you full measure howsoever you shall have cause of abode or return Given under our Signet at our Manor of Nonsuch the 7. of October 1594. in the 37 th year of our Reign Your most loving Soveraign E. R. Heir our Noble-man was to his Fathers spirit as well as honor being none of those degenerate Noble-men that are like their Fathers Tombs rather than their Off-spring carved over outwardly with honorable Titles and empty within of any thing but dirt and corruption but the happiest of all the four Actors on the Stage of Honor viz. the Beginners the Advancers the Continueâ—â— and the Ruinors raising his House illustrious already to an higher sphere among the Stars of the first magnitude and keeping the noble stream of his bloud as far from its fall as he found it from its fountain He was born December 16. 1572. at London the great Father like Paulus Aemilius being amazed with three glad tidings at a time the Taking of Bellesont by his Regiment the Routing of the Duke of Guise his Guards by his Brigades and the Birth of his sprightly Son by his Wife Queen Elizabeth would needs be God-mother to the Young General as she called him and the Earls of Essex and Leicester God-fathers Christening him Robert a name she observed happy in Souldiers and States-men as Henry was in Kings Iohn in Divines Edward in Lawyers Elizabeth in Queens William in Physicians Edward and Francis in Scholars and Politicians and injoyning a tryal of his temper as Pharaoh did that of Moses before discretion might be dissembled when he discovered more inclination to the Armor than to the Gown being manly in his very Gugaws and Rattles and almost with Scanderbeg calling the very first word he spake for a Sword and being once by Sir W. Raleigh offered the same choice that Achilles was by Vlysses that is the softer Fairings of Pictures little Books c. and those more severe of little Swords Pistols he betrayed an Earls manhood by his choice of the latter laying hold the first thing when Gentlemen came to the House upon their Sword and Dagger But since as he would say he was followed by a Set of Masters that disposed of all his hours at home and an excellent Tutor that managed his time in the University and since the humor of the three Soveraigns he lived under and the temper of the Prince is a great rule for the accomplishments of the Nobility was knowing and learned Queen Elizabeth for soft and smooth Poetry Oratory and History King Iames for Various Judicious and indeed general Skill and King Charles for all Useful Weighty and Accurate Knowledge he was forced to look into his Books He chose the more manly part of Learning as History to furnish his experience with the wisdom of age without its wrinkles or infirmities Mathematicks to regulate his conduct Heraldry to understand his own and others interests and Geography to guide his Marches Assaults Battalias c. Physick to understand his own body Law to keep his Neighbors quiet Religion to accommodate his Meditations Divinity said Richlieu is the only stay of retired thoughts and more pleasant and various studies for discourse blessing God usually for these benefits of his Education viz. 1. That he understood the worth of his nature 2. That he was taught the design of the world and time of Gods continuing and governing both 3. That he had considered the best and the worst examples with the successes of both 4. That he had learned the consequence both of a peaceable and a disturbed conscience 5. That he had looked beyond the frailty of life and fixed to solid rules made up of integrity and honor 6. That he had been inured to govern his desires within the limits of his capacity and modesty and so to be Master of an equal and an even spirit 7. That he had attained an habit of Jealousie which put him upon the examination of the end bottom ground and circumstamces of all affairs that came before him that is indeed of prudence 8. That he had freed himself from the observances opinions and customs that prevailed with mankind in order to the more vigorous prosecution of the noble design and scope which 10. he had proposed to himself 11. That he resolved to dispose of time past to reflection and observation time present to duty and time to come to providence 12. That he could rest in no pleasure or injoyment that was superficial 13. That according to the Arabick Proverb in Drusius he could be so wise as to give every thing its due estimation Much of his accomplishments he owed to his Fathers well-disciplined House more to the strict University more than that to a sober and manly Court more yet to his four years Travels and most
excellent Company He died 1662. leaving this character of his modesty behind him That as the Lion out of state will not run so he out of humility would not perform any action while many looked on With him suffered in London Learned Dr. William Wats of Cajus-Colledge in Cambridge and St. Albans Woodstreet London well skilled in the Lyturgies and Rituals of the Primitive Times to which he desired to reduce his own time setting forth Matthew Paris and other ancient M. SS of former times and keeping a Swedish Intelligencer or an Exact Collection of his own times One that imitated the piety as well as the postures of the First Christians not only conforming his Hands and Knees but chiefly his Heart to their pattern not making the Ceremonial part of their Lives only Canonical and the moral part Apocryphal imitating their Devotion not in the Fineness of the Stuff but only in the Fashion of the Making He knew the time place and occasion of the backsliding of several parts of the Primitive Church into Superstition and of ours into Confusion what was Dogmatigal in the Fathers and what Figurative Opinionative or Conjectural He owned others the Founders of most of his Notions and himself only one sent into the world to clear and improve what others had invented He Preached an excellent Sermon of the Ancient way of Mortification and lived it His conjecture at the consequence of things was as good as his aim at a Mark being as judicious a Man as he was an exact Archer that opening Recreation of a Scholar as he called it This excellent Scholar and good man who would think it was Sequestred from his Living and Plundered of his Estate his Wife and Children turned out of their House and forced to fly out of the City Next him Mr. Wâ—ston of Allhallowes Lombardstreet who knowing that the Conceit of the Physician was half the Cure and his Practice would scarce be happy where his Person is hated indeavoured to get into the affections of his People that he might get into their Judgements but yet because he humored them not in his Doctrine to get their affection for he would say with reference to the reproachful terms used in those days It was as had being a Fwaning Spaniel as a dumb Dog because he walked uprightly and would not creep or crouch using no Arts to gain them but pious Living and painful Labouring and because his smart Preaching made some galled back winch they persecuted and imprisoned him when he prayed for and pittied them saying Hadwe Ministers not desired to claw the People that we might get above one another the People had not had power now to trample on us Oh its fit the People should make it their business to conform themselves to our Doctrines and not we to their Humors Often meetings and a good understanding among our selves had prevented these calamities Honest Dr. Halsey of St. Alphage whose great fault was that he had been the Lord Treasurer Westons Chaplain heart-broken with his own and the publick calamities Among other indignities he suffered he had his Cap pulled off to see whether he was a Shaven Priest in a grand Committee A grave and courteous man neither affectedly retired or austere nor carelessly and openly familiar a man that was loath to ask a courtesie and never denied any He was an excellent Preacher because an excellent Liver and an excellent Scholar because he knew himself One of whom it was observed he never met a poor man but he had an almes to offer him nor a weak man but he had a comfort to relieve him any man but he had an advise to give him And that he seldome dreamed and if he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the good Oneirocritick found the day following that event whereof he had warning the night before and he would say he was confirmed that he was immortal because he dreamed being sure that the soul which was awake when the body slept would live when the body was dead He read Prayers always himself to shew his respect of them and likewise to prepare him for Preaching saying That if he Tolled the Bell on one side it made it afterwards Ring out the better in his Sermons Grave and learned Mr. Mason of St. Andrews Vndershaft that wise Master Builder in Gods House as King Iames called his near Relation Mr. Henry Mason the worthy Author of the excellent book De Ministerio Anglicano that digested all the errors of his times in judgment and practice into a common place instructing his people in the truths opposite to them and so convincing them of their errors never directly mentioned a beloved error till he had fully possessed them of the contrary truth finding much fault with them that jerked and girded at the popular errors of the times because they might provoke but could not reclaim the people exasperate but not reform them A good man and a good mans friend Dr. Iackson Mr. Mede c. And Dr. Clewet who said he went never from his Company but much the better for him profiting more by an hours discourse with him than a weeks study by himself learning if nothing else yet silence and reservedness from him who dispensed rather than spake his words pausing with a reflexion upon what he had said before he said any more a way of three advantages to him 1. Because so he might correct the error of a former word 2. He might take occasion and matter for a following word And 3. Likewise observing by the looks and carriage of him he spoke with frame his speech accordingly Dr. Clewet Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father Bishop King to whom he administred his last holy Viatieum in which respect he was a good witness against the Popish slander of that Reverend Prelate that had lived so renowned a Protestant dying a Papist by the same token that when he had read the Confession used at that holy Ordinance the Bishop desired him to read it over again Arch-deacon of Middlesex Minister of Fulham in Middlesex and St. Anne Aldersgate London and a Justice of Peace of more business in ending Controversies that any ten within London and Westminster both these were outed the one vexed the other Sequestred out of his livings it was Dr. Clwets saying when he heard the reproaches cast upon him that reviling was no Hurt to a good Conscience as flattery was no Cure to a bad one Doctor Chambers of St. Andrews Hubbard Dr. Isaacson of St. Andrews Wardrobe Dr. Graunt of St. Bartholomews Dr. Graunts Son who was the eminent School-master of Westminster and Dr. Graunts Father who is Minister of Isleworth Mr. Warfield of Bennet Finke Mr. Basly of St. Fosters Mr. Freeman of Garlick-hithe Dr. Hill of Katherine Coleman and Mr. Kibbuts Mr. Leech of Mary-le-bow Dr. Iermin Judge Ienkens Brother of St. Martins Ludgate Mr. Iones of Milke-street Dr. Gifford of St. Michael Bassishaw Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons Dr. Cheshire of
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
said many years before the war that he would prove either the best or the worst instrument that ever this kingdome bred with a cast of his Military Office in Plundering him and Quartering himself in a spight mean as himself upon him He was with many children turned out of all likely to have been starved had not the honorable Sir Iohn Robinson and his good Parishioners at Milk-street entertained him charitably in those sad times when being about to write Mr. Hales his Life 1658. he ended his own leaving two Volumes of nervous and elegant Sermons behind him together with the memory of an holy honest rational sober modest and patient Confessor Dr. Iohn Oliver first of Magdalen Hall and afterwards of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford Tutor to several eminent Persons but to none more than the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Clarenden Lord High-Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford and fellow Pupil under Dr. Buckner to Dr. Hammond His moderate expedients did much in the Colledge while he was Fellow to reconcile differences and his even carriage at Lambethâ— where he was Chaplain 1640. to mitigate prejudices permitting none that came to him as a Licenser to go away unsatisfied either with a slurr put upon what they cannot endure a contempt of their pains though never so despicable or a disrespect upon their persons though never so mean 1643. he was forced to fly from his Livings and Dignities when it pleased God by the promotion of Dr. Frewen to the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichsield to open a way to him into his Presidentship which he held till 1646. when being ejected with his Brethren he had a very hard time of it his charity not foreseeing the future miseries though never exceeding yet making even with his Income youth may make even with the year though age if it will hit shoots a Bow short and lessens still his Stake as the day lessens and his life with it till the Secluded Members restored him being not turned out formally but forced prudently to retire 1659. his Majesty advancing him to the Deanery of Worcester 1660. and dying 1661. lâ—â—ving considerable Legacies to the Cathedral of Worcester Magdalâ—n Colledge in Oxford and St. Pauls in London And bequeathing this Memorial among the Scholars of the House that he let them know he was President so as that he remembred that they were his Fellows using to the younger sort that of Divine Herbert Fool not for all may have if they dare try a glorious life or grave The learned and honest Dr. Robert Pinke and Dr. Stringer Wardens of New Colledge Dr. Ratcliffe Principal of Brazen-Nose Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel Dr. Pit of Wadham most of them great Benefactors to their respective Colledges particularly Dr. Tolson having with the then Fellows contributed largely to the rebuilding and finishing of that neat Colledge which they were not suffered long to injoy Sic vos non vobis c. Dr. Laurence of Baliol Colledge Margaret Professor much troubled about a Sermon he preached at Whitehall 1637. wherein he moderately stated the real presence saying We must believe he is there though we must not know how that he was there the Church always said but con sub trans the Church said not c. and at last cast out by force to beg his Bread with the rest of his Brethren Dr. Christopher Potter native of Westmerland Scholar at the Pregnant School of Appleby Fellow and Provost of Queens Colledge Prebend of Windsor and Dean of Worcester a person of great learning devout life courteous carriage comely presence and a sweet nature It was conceived a daring part of Tho. Cecill to injoyn his Carpenters and Masons not to omit a days work at the building of Wimbledon-house in Surrey though the Spanish Armado 1588. all that while shot off their guns whereof some might be heard to the place It was a bold loyalty and charity in this Doctor to send all his plate to the King saying he would drink with Diogenes in the hollow of his hand before his Majesty should want when he did not know but all his estate should be seized by the enemy and to give so much to the poor when he had a Wife and many Children to provide for yet having heard in a Sermon at Saint Pauls that to give to the poor was an infallible way to be rich our selves he did as a good hearer should try it and found it true A strict Puritan he was when Preacher at Abingdon in his Doctrine and always one in his Life His excellent Book against the Papists called Charity Mistaken 1634. was not only learned but what is sometimes wanting in Books of that controversie in each phrase weighed and discreet submitting it to the censure of his friends before it came under the eye of the world as was his Consecration Sermon at the Instalment of his Uncle Bishop Potter of Carlisle 1629. The cavils against both which malice snarling where it could not bite he answered not partly because of his sickly body which was impatient of study and partly because of his peaceable temper not much inclined to controversies But chiefly because he would say a controversie would be ended by writing when a fire would be quenched with oyle New matter still riseth in the agitation and gives hint to a fore-resolved opposite of a fresh disquisition silence hath sometimes quieted misraised brabbles never interchange of words and indeed he was not worthy to be satisfied that would after such satisfactory discourses yet wrangle Robert Pinke a grave Governor often Vice-chancellor with great integrity managing the Elections at Winchester and the Revenues of New-colledge rich not in his estate but in his minde having made little his measure he reckoned all above a treasure He that needs five thousand pounds to live He is not so rich as he that needs but five Dr. Ratcliffe one firm to his purpose though the matter never so small not to be moved by advantages never so great constancy knits the soul who breaks his own bonds forfeiteth himself what nature makes a ship he makes a shelf Dr. Tolson a plain Northern-man that loved to do things by degrees and like his successor Dr. Io. Saunders to collect others opinion of affairs before he declared himself speaking to a business as Mr. Humpden used last being willing to leave little to hazard when he had time to bring an affair within the compass of skill Dr. Laurence did all things like a man hating the Lay hypocrisie of simpring Who fears to do ill sets himself to Task Who fears to do Well sure should wear a Mask Dr. Potter a person that lived by rule as all things do securing his temperance with two sconces viz. Carving and Discoursing a shop of rules a well trusted pack whose every parcel under writes a Law having his humors as God gave them him under Lock and Key Who keeps no Guard upon himself
Convocations as in that 1640. when he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welch Bible set out sixty years ago by Bishop Morgan but in several places misprinted which I would some again consider of And in the Convocation 1662. when he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity and making the alterations in the Common-prayer then set out the form for Baptizing those of riper years being I think of his composing Dr. Robert Wright the youngest Fellow as ever was admitted of Trinity-colledge and the first Warden that ever was of Wadham-colledge in Oxford the richest Bishop that ever was of Bristol whither he was preferred 1622. and the strictest that had been of Coventry and Lichfield where he sat 1632. and died 1643. his Castle being kept for his Majesty by Dr. Bird a well known Civilian and half his estate devoted to his service by himself whose advise to his Clergy was that they should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 embody and enervate their souls by idleness and sloath Be it remembred that he was one of the twelve Bishops that suffered for protesting against the Laws that Passed in Parliament during the tumults and one of the two that for his painfulness and integrity for his moderation and wariness had the most favourable imprisonment for that protestation being Committed only to the Black-rod while the rest went to the Tower His virtues having indeed the vices of the times for his enemies but not the men Dr. George Cooke a meek and grave man Brother to Secretary Cooke in temper as well as bloud born at Trusley in Derbyshire bred in Pembroke-hall Cambridge Beneficed at Bigrave in Hertfordshire where three houses yielded him almost 300 l. a year advanced to the Bishoprick of Bristol 1632. and to that of Hereford 1636. wherein he died 1650. much beloved by those that were under him and yet much persecuted about the protest in Parliament 1641. and other matters by those that where above him insomuch that he who was thrist it self had wanted had not his Relations helped out his merit and he been as Honorable as Pious and Learned He dropped Sentences as easily as others spoke sence happy in expressing as well as conceiving though as Plotin he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly taken up with his minde a serene and quiet man above the storm the result of that unsettledness of lower minds Dr. Iohn Towers born in Northfolk bred in Cambridge Fellow of Queens Colledge Chaplain to Will. Earl of Northampton and by his Donation Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire and upon his recommendation Chaplain to King Charles the I. successively Dean and Bishop of Peterborough he indeavoured to put the humors of the times out of countenance by acting of them in his younger days and by punishing them in his elder but both failing dying about 1650. under great torments in his body and great afflictions from the times he suffered chearfully what he could not amend effectually thereby shewing that he could suffer as handsomely as he could act When rich only in Children whereof one Mr. Towers of Christ-church was an Ingenious man and an excellent Scholar as appears by his book against Atheism and Patience Godfrey Goodman a man of his name born of a Worshipful Family of the Goodmans near Ruthen in Denbigh-shire to which place he was yearly when I was at School there even in his lowest condition a good Benefactor though his Unkle Gabriel Goodman for forty years Dean of Westminster was a better under whom he was bred at Westminster and by whom preferred Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge as he was afterwards by Bishop Andrews Bishop Vaughan and Bishop Williams made successively Prebendary of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Gloucester 1624. maintaining several Heterodox Opinions in his Sermons at Court for which he was checked 1626. dissenting from the Canons 1640. for which after three admonitions pronounced by Bishop Laud in half an hour to subscribe he was to his great honor imprisoned and of all the Bishops since the Reformation was the only man whom the miscarriages of the Protestants Scandalled into Popery a harmless man pitiful to the poor Hospitable to his Neighbors and compassionate to dissenters Dying at Westminster in the year of our Lord 1654. and of his Age eighty giving this Posie in his Funeral Rings Requiem defunctis having leave in those as it is said of Bishop Leoline that he asked leave of Edward the 1. to make his he gave directions in one Draught how Impropriations might be recovered to the Church to make it much the richer and no man a jot the poorer He was a great incourager of Sir Henry Middletons design of bringing the New River-water through so many difficulties to London as Davids Worthies did the Water of Bethlem to his Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without which saith one we should have burnt with the thirst and been buryed with the filth of our own bodies Dr. Iohn Warner born in St. Clements Danes Westminster bred in Magdalen Colledge Oxford to which he is a great Benefactor preferred Prebend of the Church of Canterbury to which he gave a Font most Curious and most Costly the first gift by a private hand to that Church in latter times and Rector of St. Dyonis Back Church London on which he bestowed a yearly Pension advanced Lord Bishop of Rochester in which he built an Alms-house with 20 l. a year a piece to forty poor Ministers Widdows himself having practised a single life A great assertor of Episcopacy while he had a voice in Parliament and when he had lost his voice as he was deputed by the Bishops soliciting their Cause with his Purse and Head and when all failed suffering for it being Sequestred of all his Spiritual Estate and compounding for his Temporal which being very great by his Father a Citizen of Londons thrift and greater by his own who would say for his frugal and close way that he eat the craggy Necks of Mutton that he might leave the poor the Shoulder enabled him to relieve his Brethren the Clergy and their Wives when others of his Order were glad to be relieved A man to his last of accurate Parts a good Speech a chearful and undaunted Spirit He dyed Octob. Anno. Dom. 1666. Aetat 81. Episcopatus 29. being as one calls Whitehall A good hypocriâ—e promising less than he performed and more hearty within than Courtly without Dr. Iohn Ganden a Ministers Son in Essex bred first at Colledge Cambridge and afterwards Tutor to the Strangwayes in Wadham Colledge in Oxford by the comeliness of his Person the vastness of his Parts strangely improved by his astronishing industry bestowing most of the seasonable hours of day and night on study and the unseasonable ones on Mechanisms to keep his soul always intent as appears by making the exquisite Common-place Cabinet with other Rarities of his own left behind him the majesty and copiousness of his
to say at Uxbridge There was no peace to be made with the King the difference between him and the Parliament being as wide as that between Heaven and Hell He suffered 1650. when the Presbyterians were in open War for the King against the Sectaries that were for the Parliament FINIS An Advertisement THere are two other Books of this Authors in the Press and will be shortly published The one entituled CHVRCH WORTHIES Or the Lives of the Right Reverend Arch-bishops the Reverend Bishops Doctors and eminent Divines since the Reformation The other entituled STATE WORTHIES Being Observations on the States-men and Favorites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies Successes and Miscarriages Advancements and Falls during the Reigns of King Henry VIII King Edward VI. Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames and King Charles I. Both to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet A. E. 6. 4. 1550. A. Ed. 6. 7. 1553. Q. M. 2. 3. 1557 8. Q. El. 1. 1560 1. 1567. 1582 1583 a Being born his Mother coming casually to London in Chanceâ— Lane in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West and Christned there April 22. 1593. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Meditat. 2. Dr. R. P. Life of King Charles l. H. Lin Kiâ—g Charles â— a Injuriae sprelae exolescunt b Having a design upon Spain as Spain had upon them c In which Tryal he was one of the Iudges a 〈…〉 The Earl is made L. L. of Ireland 1633 His Câ—unsels â—o the King â—bouâ— the Scotish and English tumults Lysunachâ—â— Nâ—canoâ—s uâ—â—ying of the Knot a By the Londoners b Barbarino's meanes Protector of the English * See the Letter between them in our Chronicles See the shoâ— Notes of the Lord Lieutenant Lord Archbishop Coâ—ting c. in Hist. King Charls l. pag. 310. Sanders The Earls â—ank Advice about a Parliament * And therefore the Scots accuse him for prefâ—rring Bp. Bramhal Bp. Chappel For which his Commission was dated the 21 Mâ—â—â—â—h 163â— Sir Harry Vâ—nâ—'s Notes against the Earl of Strafford that ruined him The Earls full and notable Answer to those Notesâ— The Earles gallant come off See Dr. P. life K. Ch. I. p. 23. What shifts they were forced to make to get his head The Bishops that were sent for were Dr. Usher A. B. of Armagh Dr. Juxon Bishop of London Dr. Morton Bishop of Durham Dr. Poller Bishop of Carlisle Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln who told the King that he need not scruple shewing mercy Some cunning persons suggest be sent to the King scorning to owe his life after so much service to a bare promise The Earl of Straffords remarkable Letter to the King The notorious Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford How true you may see in the â—yal a The Seditious Party there b Not a tenth part all sober men being afraid and ashamed of it Where there is none of this proved yea what they insisted upon was proved but by one Witness Sir Hâ— V. and him 〈◊〉 by 4 honourable Lords that were present with Sir H. V. when the words he deposed should be spoken c None of the things Alledged against him being Treasons in particular the whole could not amount to Treason d If that had been there had been no need of this Bill a As that Captain â—llingsley should come with an 10â— men and â— the â—retence of a Guard to the Tower to Rescut the Earl That the 〈◊〉 B other should wâ—â—â—elow the â—ower to that purpose That Balsores Son should have 20000l with he Ear'â—s Daughâ—er c b The very Lâ—aies took Notes The Earl of Strafford's Speech on the Scaffold * The Right Honorable the then Earl now the Duke of Newcastle Declaration Aug. 10. Their Ancient Sirname is Herbert a As one Dr. Tunter and one Clement Cook did a Wherewithall Westminster rung The Lord Finche Speech in his own defence In his Speeches 4. Car. 1. Created 〈◊〉 April 7. 1640 Ilis crimâ—s His good qualities â—or the Secretaries place ☞ * D. H. ☜ His Petition to the Parliament C. C. Oxon. Peterburgh Admin Card. de Rich. P. 283. F. O. p. 12. a Aeâ—ernitas nodosa pusterâ—ta b Araâ—â—c Câ—t Bodl. â— 24 25. c 2 Sam. 18. 18. d Plutarch § His Birth § His Education § His Works * M. S. in Arch. Baror Bibl. Bod l. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e His Account of the 70 Translation f His discourse of the â—lonument at Salisbury of a little Boy habited in Episcopal Robes § His Preferment His Desigr and the disposal of his Study Epist. Dedit to the Bishop of Salisbury § His Patrons and Acquaintance a In his Review of his M. SS § His Death His Prophecy § His Character a Bacon Aug Scient p. 2. 1. His sayings of Preaching 2. Of the Interpretation of Scripture Of the Alcoran § His Burial He died at Kidlington and was buried at Christ-Church ☞ A comparison between the despised pains of worthy men and the admired nothing of the unworthy ☞ E. W. ☞ * It was Demosthenes his case about the letter P. Mr. Mede could not for his life pronounce Carolus Rex Britannicae saying that he made up that in hearty prayers that he wanteâ— in plain prenunciation § Latine Professor in Paris Queting for it 1 Pet 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he câ—nceived to signifie affliction that trieth saith saying that the word especially should be rendred exploratorum rather thâ—â— exploraâ—â— History of Parliament p. 79. * Verborum minutiae rerum frangunt pendera A. Gel. * Called Registrum Cancellariae Vide Epist. Coci Commeatar in Littlen on Ploydens Comment 5. 8. 6 a Institutes Exposition of Magna Charta and other Ancient Statutes Pleas of the Crown Iurisdiction of Courts Books of Entry and Reports Books of which it might be said â—s it was said of Plutarch in another respect that if all Law were lost it might be found in him * And when others pressed for the place the King said Peremptâ—rily that Potteâ— should have it this was 1628 * Whereof the 16th is in Print a Who is supposed created as if he had been so a Whispering nothing in some â—â—dies ear a The Earls are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they carry on their heads a Corcâ—â—t the Emblem of Nobility in the fashion of a Tombe the Emblem of Mortality Mr. Savage a person that was with him in his sickness * Which said Sir Dudley Carleton in his Speâ—ch to the States they saw only being not much made of there a For our Diâ—ines managed thâ—ir business privately among themselves before they debaâ—d it at the Synod b So they were accounted anciently b At St. Johns and in his own Colledge till he dyed I His Extraction Birth a Whose Daughter Maâ—gareâ— married J. 4 of Scotland b Aethaling 's Daughter married Malcolme Conmor K. of Scots c Dr. P. in his life II His Education
Diabolus est qui non possit converti Lich. nec tu Deus qui convertas nostri concilium tridentinum Spal novi nec credunt q Before this time he discovered a Boy of Bilson suborned to act the Daemoniack by those that would have had the honor to dispossesse him with much pains wisdom and patience to the saving of a Womans life that the Boy accused for bewitching him for whose sake he prevailed with the Iudges at one Assize to have the over-sight of the Boy at his House Eccleshall Castle till the next r Having power to dispose of all Iudges Registers Clerks to make Sheriffs Escheters â—cudarics Coroâ—ers Iustices of Peace Deputy Lieutenants Colonels c. s 〈◊〉 sued him for saâ—e Imprisonment ungratefully and to no purpose who was known moderate in his whole Government 1. In his Fines leaving it to four Gentlemen of the Neighborhood to make a moderate composition between him and the Tenant 2. In Wrecks Deodands and Wardships so tender that he took only such an inconsiderable summe as preserved the Right of his Successors rather than increased his Revenue t Thâ—ugh they were never brought to axyâ—â— ryal only their absence made use of to Vote them out of the Parliament and to Sâ—quester their Eâ—tates real and personal v This was the pretended occasion but the more real was his refusing to give up to the House of Commons the Seat of the Bâ—shâ—prick of Durham appealing in that Case to the Lords-house 1. Because it was his own Seat and not the Bishopricks 2. Because of the several Patents and Estates that depended upon it 3. And because of the person that intrusted him with it w Here insert we a slander cast upon this Reverend Prelate in a Book called The Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie that in a Speech against a Book brought in against the succession of Protestant Bishops by some Presbyterian Lords he should say The Protestant Bishops were Consecrated at the Naggs-head in Cheap-side The untruth of which story both of the Book and of the Speech is not only by a Protestation under the Hand of the Bishop before a publick Notary in the ninty fifth year of his age July 17. 1657. declared against â—ut under the hands of seven that is all the Bishops and fifteen of the Temporal Lords then Sitting in the Parliamen 1640. together with the Clerks of Parliament then being attested July 19. 1658. which Protestation and chief Attâ—stations are entred into the Archbishops of Canterburys Register Office as a lasting Testimony of the truth therein asserted w Of the 〈◊〉 Savile in the mâ—nâ—rity of her Son Sir George who when he came to years confirmed and paid it punctually at the timâ— and place appointed offering the payment of the quarter current at his death if there had nâ—t been enough left to defray the charge of his burial x Owâ—ing the 3. ancient Creeds the 4. 〈◊〉 general Councils with the Scripture within 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 general Councel y Episcopacy he believed was instituted by the Apostles and approved by Christ in the Revelations as he did the succession of the English Bishops wishing the differences between us and Romeâ—wled â—wled by the practice the first 500. years of Christianity Priority of Order being all that the Fathers allowed the Bishop of Rome He thought there might be Ordinations without Bishops where they might not be had not where they might He said that where-ever there is a Church there must of necessity be a Form of Worship and ours wâ—â— he thought the best for decency and for Edification and Devotion This was annexed in a Codicil to his Will April 15. 1658. z M. S. 1. Tractatus de externo Judice Infallibili 2. De Justificatione Grand Imposture Latine 3. Arminian Controversie 4. Another Edition of Apologia Catholica 5. Answer to J. S. Anti-mortonus 6. Of prayer in an unknown Tengue 7. Of Paedo-baptism against Tombes which Bishop Brownrigg advised him not to publish because the controversie was gone too far 8. The Conference at York 9. Confutation of R. G. a 1. Apologia Cath. p. 1 2 1605 1606. Quarto 2. Romish Positions and Practices about Conspiracies and Rebellions 1605. Quarto 3. With an Answer to the Reply to it Quarto 4. The Preamble to an Encounter and the Encounter it self with Mr. Parsons about his Treatise of Mitigation 1608 1609. Quarto whereupon they say Mr. Parsons repented attributing aequivocation to our Saviour 5. Catholick Appeal for Protestants against Brerlyes Apology whose Testimonies Mr. James examined 1609. Fol. never answered 6. An Answer to the exception of Theophilus Higgons 1601. Quarto 7. A Defence of the 3. Innocent Ceremonies 1619. Quarto defended against Dr. Ames by Dr. John Bruges 1631. 8. Causa Regia against Bellarmine De Officio Principis Christiani 1620. Quarto 9. The grand Imposture of the new Church of Rome 1628. Quarto 10. Of the Institution of the Sacrament Folio English two Editions 1635. Latine 1640. 11. With a Discharge of five Imputations of Mis-allegations 1633. Octavo 12. Antidotum adversus Ecclesiae R. de merito condigno venenum 1637. Quarto 13. Replica sive refutatio confutationis C. R. 1638. Quarto 14. Three Sermons 1. Of Subjection at New-castle on Rom. 13. 1. 1639. 2. Of Resurrection 1641. at Spittle 3. Of Contentions on 1 Cor. 11. 16. at St. Pauls 1642. 15. Confessions and Proofs of Protestant Divines 1644. Quarto about Episcopacy 16. Of Gods Providence called Ezekiels Wheel 1653. b Where of one Loe of a good memory was one against whose Non-conformity be writ a large Lâ—tter to the Colledge a With him suffered the Reverend and stupendiously learned Mr. Thorndike Dr. Crawley of Agmionsham Dr. Cowley Dr. Salman Dr. Sherman the two last bred at the Charteâ—-house the last Author of the sober book called White Salt and of the Potes Infallibility a very learned sober and charitable man in the worst times and because he had 80 l. of his own would not accept of his Fellowship in the best timesâ— eminent for gathering Conâ—is butions to Bishop Waltons Bible and other â—oyal and Worâ—by designs a With him were turned out Doctor Charles Mason the excelleâ—t Doctor Joâ— Peâ—â—â—on Maâ—g Prof. of Divinity in Camb. Mr. of Trin. Coll. and Archdeacon of Surrey a 〈…〉 himself in his Books b Mr. G. 〈◊〉 a With him were Sequestred that incomparable Preacher and sweet-natured man Dr. Lake of Bishopsgate London the worthy and beloved Bishop Morgan of Bangor the excellent Dr. Boteâ—er of the North. a Pâ—inted by Mr. William Weirs and Mr Scot at the Princes Aâ—â—es in Little Brittain a Dr. South on Tit. 2. ult a The First Battel b Nâ—uâ—f psaâ— diceadâ—m 〈◊〉 sccâ—â—siâ— a When at at Edge-hill he Winged the Foot with the Horse on all sides taking advantage both of ground and winde the like he did at Round way down decoying Hazelrigs Horse to an advantage and then beating them upon their own Foot to
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