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A10806	Fames trumpet soundinge. Or commemorations of the famous liues and deaths, of the two right honourable Knights of England: the right honourable Sir VValter Mildmay, and Sir Martin Calthrop, Lord Mayor of this honorable Citty of London, who deceased this yeere 1589 Not onely necessary to bee seene, but also to be followed of euery worthy personage in their callings. Written by Henry Robarts.; Fames trumpet soundinge. Or commemorations of the famous lives and deaths, of the two right honourable Knights of England: the right honourable Sir Walter Mildmay, and Sir Martin Calthrop, Lord Mayor of this honorable Citty of London, who deceased this yeere 1589.	H. R. (Henry Roberts), fl. 1585-1616.	1589 (1589)	STC 21080; ESTC S102959	6,848	18

ende Most resolute in what he did pretend Showing hereby a noble Mildmayes hart Foe to all such as sought his Countries smart Thus as in Court to counsell he was fit So in the field like seruice he hath doone His Counsell sage his prudent readie wit By golden trompe throughout the world doth run Whose fame shall liue so long as shines the sunne For vertuous life for counsell graue and wise Mildmay our Knight was held in worthy prise A booke in print nowe extant to be séene Did Mildmay write vnto his lasting praise Of counsell good all states that may be séene To frame their liues both God and world to please As well in house as other kind of waies By which is séene of Common welth his care Such godly mind his liuing doth declare His zeale to learning and maintaine the same The world doth know if I forget to tell In Cambridge Towne he late a house did frame A Colledge faire which hight Emanuell Placing a manie of poore schollers there to dwell For whose maintainance as by record appeare He giues for euer four hundreth pound a yéere And like a Patrone which did learning loue With graue foresight he poore men first there plast Prescribing rules from which they may not mooue So long as Manuell monument doth last Aworthy note for Nobles that are plast In high estate to imitate his waies Which vertue sought vnto his ending daies A number more most charitable déedes Swéet Mildmay did which merits to be told His rule in house reléeuing pooremens néedes Deserues by fame to be engrauen in Gold That as in glasse they able may behold What famous works our Mildmay wise hath doone Whose worth shall liue so long as shines the sunne Yet life must end nature her due will haue This wretched life a pilgrimage vnsure We needes must leaue when death the some doth craue No mortall flesh his stroke that may endure No golde or fe e his fre endship can procure The olde the yong the Prince the Lord or Knight To earth must pay what so is hers by right This man of God our noble Mildmay Knight This Lampe of honor this Iewell of our lande To Death hath yeelded what was his by right For what is he that death cannot commande Yea all estates obeyes his direfull hand And death in spite hath doone our Country wrong By striking him that might haue liued long But as he liued so like wise did he die A constant seruant of our Sauiour Christ On him alone with faith did he relie Hoping to rest with him that is the hiest All popish rites with hart he did detest Calling on God that with his blood vs bought And by his death our free redemption wrought Mildmay farewell thy losse we all lament Our cheefest staffe thou Commons onely trust The poore and rich thy frindship oft shall want For whom thy care was louing kind and iust Firme vnto all which did thy fauour trust Thy losse thy lacke we pooremen may complaine When Prince and Peeres to teares thy death constraine Thy childrens teares might mooue a hart of flint To sée them waile their aged Sires decease From sighes and sobs that day nor night doth stint Thy seruants sorrowes likewise doth increase Crying out on death which so disturbs their peace Reauing from hence their Maister vertuous Knight That gemme of worth our Lampe of English light Cease worthie Gentils cease Mildmaies children cease Leaue to lament leaue shedding bootlesse teares Your aged Knight with Christ doth rest in peace In heauenly seate as one of his coheares A chosen place for those his name that feares Where you with him in glory once shall méete And sée him shine by Christ like Angell swéete Sweet natures buds of Mildmaies famous trée Surcease those plaints leaue fathers death to mone And let his life and godly ending be A Mirror good for you to gaze vppon Yea let him rest intombed vnder stone But see your déedes your actions and your waies Doo gaine you fame and father endlesse praise The fruite that springs doth shew the vertuous trée Such doo you seeme as noble Sire hath béene Your vertuous liues the world doth hope to sée Gaine Commons loue and fauour of the Quéene In honors place like Mildmay dead to shine Such loue such fauour euer doo I pray Pleasd God to grant swéet Anthony Mildmay Finis H. R. Londons Lamentation for the losse of theyr worthy and famous Lorde Mayor Syr Martin Calthrop Knight Who departed this life in Aprill last passed 1589. IN Lacedemon Lycurgus once did dwell Renowned far for prudent sage aduise His counsell graue fewe liuing did excell In Lacedemon helde he was of prise As with his yeeres so did his credite rise His godlie life his iustice vsde with lawe From greeuous sinnes his people oft did draw Cato in Rome for wysedome might compare With anie one that liued in those daies Vnto his charge he had a fathers care To traine them vp as God the best might please He to the iust was friend at all assaies And iustice vsed according vnto right Without regard of poore or men of might Lycurgus dead Lacedemon mournd amaine And wayld with teares his losse whom they did loue Whose wisedome knowne their honors did maintaine Yea oftentimes his counsell many proue Whose conscience cléere like to the Turtle doue Did shewe his care to maintaine their renowne That liu'de with him in this most happy Towne For Catoes life whom death hath likewise reft Romes Consuls mourne in weedes of wofull blacke In Rome say they his péere there is not left Which for his charge both day and night would carke Vnto the Senate he may be a marke To ayme aright and iustice so to vse As their estates by wrongs they nill abuse Amongst the rest that mourne their Consuls want Let famous London presse in place to showe In weedes of woe with teares for to lament The losse of h●m for whom they sorrowe so Ye London Cittizens now explaine your woe For Calthrop graue who late resignd his breth And natures due hath yeelded vnto death Our Cato wise our Calthrop peerelesse Knight Lord Mayor of London blessed in her name To earth hath yeelded what was hers by right Ye in that yéere he to his honor came By Death was forced to resigne the same To Londons losse and Commons sorrow great For Calthrops death then cheefe in Iustice seate Calthrop Lord Mayor the Commons all thus cry Which late did liue in tipe of hie renowne Beloued of Prince beloued of Commontie Beloued of all in louelie London Towne From high estate loe death hath taken downe To rest with him entombed in the earth Vntill Christ come that bought vs with his death A worshipfull of Drapers Companie Was Calthrop graue when he with vs did liue Of birth a Gentleman of Norfolke Countie As wel was seene by auncient cotes he geeue For whose decease his kinne and friends may grieue Threescore odde yéeres by number of

❧ Fames Trumpet soundinge OR Commemorations of the famous liues and deathes of the two right honourable Knights of England the right honourable Sir VValter Mildmay and Sir Martin Calthrop Lord Mayor of this honorable Citty of London who deceased this yeere 1589. Not onely necessary to bee seene but also to be followed of euery worthy personage in their callings Written by Henry Robarts Loe heere a Mildmay milde a Counseller most graue A worthy man in all his deeds as one could wish or haue A Phoenix in this life to God and Prince most iust In Commons cause and publicks weale a man of perfect trust AT LONDON ¶ Printed by I. C. for Thomas Hacket and are to be solde at his shop in Lumberd streete vnder the signe of the Popes head Anno. Domini 1589. To the right worshipfull and most vertuous minded Gentleman Ma Anthony Mildmay Esquire Henry Robarts your worships in hart most affected wysheth the continuall encrease of all worldly promotions and after death the life eternall RIght worshipfull amongst the famous Romaines Grecians and others of most fame in auncient times theyr custome was when any dyed of worth to frame eloquēt Oracions in the deceaseds iust cōmendation which was vttered by some of great skill Accordingly this little Ile doth hold the like zeale to their fauoured The consideration of which right worshipfull made me long expect some thing of your honourable deceassed Father to be by some of learning published in commemoration of him and his zeale to Armes Iustice and learning But seeing none so forward as my self I haue at last thus boldly aduentured in naked bare truth wanting eloquent phrases to beautifie his deedes of loue to his Country and zeale to his posteritie written these lines and humbly offer them vnto your worship hoping your curteous nature wyll accept this Mite at the hands of a rusticke welwyller as if Alexander had offered a whole Talent Your worships euer at command Henry Robarts ❧ The honorable life and death of the most famous and noble Counseller Sir VValter Mildmay knight one of her highnes most honourable priuie Counsell Chaunceller of the Court of the Exchequer who departed this life at his house in great S. Bartholmewes the 30. of May last passed WHat shrikes plaints what heauie mourning cryes Doo pearce mine eares and fil my hart with mone With wringing hands what meanes this wofull noyse Those direful tunes from harts déepe spent with grone Why walke you thus like men with gréefe forlorne What wofull chance hath you behapt of late What causeth thus so heauy mourning state Why gréeues the Phoenix of this Westerne Ile Why mournes her Péeres and Nobles of her land What cause haue they all mirth for to exile And Commons elie in such sad dumps to stand At pleasure theirs which may so much commaund No losse of treasure nor Iewels of what store Could cause you thus with teares for to deplore Tell then déere fréends the cause of your annoy Explaine the gréefe that doth your harts offend Tell tell the cause you cease your wonted ioy And whollie nowe to sorrowes yoke thus bend Yéelding such sighs as to the heauens ascend Such teares such gréefe such heauie morning mone Mongst Commons all full sildome hath béene knowne When Common wealth doth lose a noble fréend A staffe of comfort to the Commons all A Iustice good which poore mens cause will tend And lend his eare to harken to their call Such losse such lacke the Commons harts doth gall Loe such an one hath late resignd his breath By cursed hand of ●ierce and cruell death Mildmay graue Knight of Counsell to our Quéene Of Th'exchequer Court the Chauncellor that was In honors place that oftentimes was seene And highlie stood in fauour of her grace By cruell death is reft from noble place Entomb'd in earth his corps doo now remaine The losse of whom doth cause vs thus complaine Mildmay by name was milde in all his déedes Pure was his thoughts like gold his vertues shine His vpright iustice fewe or none excéedes To poore nor rich he neuer would encline But right with right as Lawes did him assigne To euery man he iustice did impart As cause requird and equitie of hart For Princes cause as his allegeance bound And ductie of that honorable place He carefull was his actions also sounde With conscience pure he wayed euery case As well for Commons as profit to her grace That Prince nor Subiects had iust cause to say Mildmay hath wrongd vs any kind of way When poore complaind he ready was to heare To ease their gréefe was théefe of his delight When poore opprest was forced to appeare In Exchequer Court where he their cause might right He was their help he fréed their enemies spite Yea Mildmay euer was the man they sought Who many a cause to happy end hath brought As Solon graue his counsell was full swéete When he was set mongst Nobles of the lande For Commons good his counsell was most méete And for their wealth as for his Prince would stand With reuerent care of what he had in hand To glory of God to Commons welth and good Through grace of him that bought vs with his blood Thus as at home so in affaires abroade When Prince did please his seruice to commaund Ambassadour to King of France he yode From gracious Quéene to giue him vnderstand What was his charge vnder her highnes hand Which place of trust he did discharge so well As France reports his wisdome did excell His grauitie and bountie great withall The French admire and him a Caesar name Cato for wisedome for prowesse Haniball His courage such as gained endlesse fame Amongst French Nobles which beheld the same Where Mildmay liues though death his life hath fane And still shall liue eternized by fame His valour showne in person braue and stoute Ile not omit when Prince his ayde did neede Seauen score odde men on horseback in a route All furnisht well to doe some noble déede At his owne cost they forward did procéede Against Sir Wyat to defende her right For which desert she dubt him then a Knight There did he shewe his noble valiant hart In chéefest prease did Mildmay venture forth Where like himselfe he shewd his conquering hart And with his sword made proofe of mickle worth Showing thereby his loyaltie and truth To Prince to God and to his Countrey both As subiect good according to his othe When Spanyards proude disturbt our quiet land And noble Lords did showe theyr warlike traines For Countries good all states employd their hand To fight for Prince and put our foes to paines Then Mildmay showed without regard of gaines A band of men with horse appointed well Lead by his Sonne whose valoure did excell Who like a branche from Mildmaies loynes esprong Most Lyon like yong Anthony did attend On enemies backs with branding blade to ha'rung Such valiant strokes as Spanyardes liues should