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A18977	A monument of mortalitie vpon the death and funerals, of the gracious prince, Lodovick, late Duke of Richmond and Lenox: Earle of New-castle, and Darnley, &c. ... By Iames Cleland Doctor in Diuinitie and domestick chaplaine to his Grace.	Cleland, James, d. 1627.	1624 (1624)	STC 5396; ESTC S108068	29,880	72

of Aprill appointed Herodot l. 5. Valer. l. 1. c. 1. Solinus l. 17. Rhod. l. 18. c. 23. Strabo de Geograph lib. 17. Gregor Turon c. 20. 79. Rupert l. 7. c. 20. Iustinian in Nouel 123. c. 32. for the Funerals N. Quiris letho datus est ad Exequias quibus est commodum ire iam tempus est Ollus ex aedibus ecfertur That great extent of persons honors which proceeded from the gate of Richmond House to that of Abbey Church may as well bee comprehended by imagination as by discourse if we will figure to our selues one thousand men in Mourning the Chariot * Varro de langua Latin lib. 5. festus in verb. Indictiuum Scal. in Cast●gat Coniect Alex. lib. 3. cap. 7. Gen. Dier Terent in Phorm act 5. sc vlt. Luc. c. 7. 12. Hieron de Paula de fabi● Virg●aen 11. ●bi 1. de bello Ciuil● cap. 13. deserte Ter●ul de Coron Mil. Dionys Hierar Eccles c. 7. of Armes drawne with sixe Horse wherein lay the Effigies the Prince his Armor carried the Sword sheathed the Helme crested with the Mantelet the Coat Armor Shield Gan●le● Spurres the Banners and Ensignes of Scotland England France as hee had Honors in each of these Countries and the Horse of Honor and seuen other led by his Gentlemen Groomes Together with a number of * Trumpeters sounding a dolefull tone at euery turne the Gentlemen of the Kings Chappell and of the Quire of Westminster Church and twentie Chaplaines of Deanes Doctors and others besides the Doctors of Physicke Apothecaries and Chirurgians c. After the Effigie on an open Chariot followed Plut. Prob. 14. Val. Max. li 4. c. 1 Festus in verb. Pr●texta Cic. de Legib. 2. Gregor de Nissen● Epist ad Olymp. Clement Const Apost l. 6. c. 29. Chrysost hom 70. ad Popul Antioch the chiefe Mourner the Duke of Lenox now is the Defuncts Brother assisted with the Duke of Buckingham the Marquesse of Hammilton Lord Steward of his Maiesties most Honourable Houshold the Lord Chamberlaine and the most part of the Noble-men at the Court My Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury some Bishops Who all in so good an order without any of the Marshals-men or other Vshers that it was maruellous to behold the whole streets being full of common people the Windowes Leads and Tyles full on both sides of the better sort to Westminster Church Where the Funerall Sermon was preached by My Lord Keeper taking his Text out of the Kings thus AND ZABVD THE SONNE The Text. OF NATHAN WAS PRINCIPALL OFFICER 1. Reg. 4. 5. at the latter end of the Verse AND THE KINGS FRIEND How pertinent or proper it was iudge your selues Of which I say truly without any feare of flattery I hope by any pious man Foelix est cuitalis Praco contigerit tanti meriti tanti pectoris tanti oris tant● virtutis Episcopus as Augustine Augustine spake of Cyprian happy is our dead Achilles who as in Heauen his so●le singeth praise● to God so on Earth that at the interring of his body his praise● should be sounded by such a Reuerend Prelate of suh worth such wisdome such speech such spirit And why should hee not haue praised him who was so Praise-worthy seeing it is commended if not commanded in the Bible Let Eccles 44. 1. vs now commend the famous men and our Fathers of whom We are begotten This did the ancient Greekes and Latins in time of their Plato in Menox in lib. 4. 7. de Leg. Plutar. in vi●is These● Themistocl Alex. ab Alex. Gen. dierum l. 3. c. 7. ex Diodor. Sicolo well ruled Common-wealth as their Histories witnesse Not that it was lawfull for all sort of persons but onely for the Nobles Valiant and such haue well-deserued of their Countrey in Warres or Peace Such they honoured and maintained in their old age as also their children when they were decayed in their owne estate and in the end commended them highly to the encouragement of others and erected Monuments to their praises Vnde Athenis in Pritaneo alebantur publicè qui bene meriti erant de Rep. Isque summus honos habebatur This is plaine in Plato Plutarch and many other Greeke Authors Amongst the Romans I read it was Valerius Sueton. in Vitis Imperatorum Liuius lib. 3. Cic. in Orat. pro Muzeur lib. 2 de orat Quint. in Gener Demonst Plutarch in viti Camilli lib. de virtutibu● mulierum Poplicola who made the first Funerall Oration at the Obsequies of his companion Brutus after him Appius Claudius Scipion and diuers since as Augustus praised his Nephew Drusus Germanicus at a publike Assembly and Tiberius his father and sonne and Nero his predecessour Emperour Claudius Yea it was practised in honour of great Ladies as Iulius made an Oration at the Funerals of his Aunt Iulia of his Wife Cornelia so did Augustus at his great Aunt and Caligula at his great Aunt Liuia and Crassus at the Exequies of his Mother Popilia Christians haue euer beene pious in this dutie at their Funeralls as Saint Hierome in his Epistle Hieron ad He●●odor ad Hel●odorum which is De obitu laudibus Nepotiani as a Wiseman commends it Ante Eccl. 11. mortem ne laudes quemquam Praise no man before his death as if hee insinued you may praise after their death but not before lest the praises be imputed vnto flatterie and lying Salomon speaking of a Vertuous woman saith Praise her in the gates that is after shee is dead Prou. 31. v. vlt. Theodoret. lib. 2. cap. 14. Histor Eccles lib. 9. c. 3. Histor Tripert in Nicephor l. 12. c. 11. So Gregorie of Nice preached a Funerall Sermon vpon Melitius Nazianzen vpon Saint Basile and Desarius and Saint Ambrose made many Funerall Sermons for such hee esteemed Praise-worthy as for the Emperours Theodosius Valentinian Gratian and for his Brother Satirus and others c. All which Sermons commonly tended to declare vnto the people how the Dead liued in honour and reputation what dignities offices and charges they beare in their State how they attained vnto them and by what degrees of what ancient and Noble Parents they were borne what seruices they had done vnto the King how they were beloued of his Maiestie how meeke gentle and louing they were vnto all and of all in their life time and so lamented of all at their Death and Funerals Of which we can haue no better patterne nor proofe then the explication and application of the Reuerend Prelates and Preachers 1. King 4. 5. vt supra Text taken out of the first Booke of the Kings approued with great applause and that most Worthily in my iudgement of all that heard and vnderstood it as euen it is Wished to bee printed of all the judicious that heard of it Wherein indeed Paralleling our Prince Lodouick in euery particular with ZABVD