much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
a Scythian Bishop found but 15 Christians in his Diocess and left but 15 Heathens there b He hath out a Pentaglot Dictionary of Modern Languages and a Portugez Grammar c The peculiar excellency of his Dodcna's Grove two Parts Translated into French with applause d See â—is lâ—tters to Sir Dudley Carleton in Mr. Hâ—les Remains e Being able to repeat 500 strange words after twice hearing of them and to make use of any mans Exercise or Sermon verbatim if he once but either sâ—w or heard it a As in Bâ—shâ—p Câ—â—â—zens 〈◊〉 Case and several others b The Earl of Câ—â—lisle and G. Lord Berkley especiâ—lly See his Dedicatiâ—ons in his Church History The old Eâ—â—l of Bristol and Bishop offered him a noble compeâ—ency to live with them â—he old Earl being much pâ—â—asâ—d with his company when he was Chaplâ—in to the P. Henat Exeter c See his Sermâ—ns and Meditations the handsome dress of which doth 〈◊〉 their useful matters to the Readers not only head but heart d See their Letters one to another a 〈◊〉 â—â—tidotum Lincolniensâ— b In his Ecclâ—sia vindicata a Mrâ— Puller Mr Sandersen Mr. Lestrange Mr. Hickâ—nan whom he strâ—nâ—gly discovered in the the very â—hrases he had borrowed from him and others to feather his Book a Vpon Arch-bishop Bancrofts motion 1611 b Formerly Fellow of Nâ—w Colâ—â—in Oxf. a His gâ—and Sacriledge of the Church of Rome about the Cup his Parallels his case of Spectaeles and â—is Vertumnus Romanus a See his disputation in his Dipper Dipped a Called the Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxf. which all the Parliament Divines refused to answer a See â—is Seâ—mons full of caâ—es about our Discipâ—â—nâ— and Ceremoâ—is b Seâ— his Lectures there â—e Juramenâ— to 〈…〉 c Seâ—â—is Xl. Sermons â—d Auâ—â—n d See the casâ—s of Love c. lately set out and supposed to be his a And he was of a Commiter in the Jerusalem-chamber March 2â— 1640 〈◊〉 view the lyturgâ— the Dâ—ctâ—â—â—e and Disâ—â—â—line of the Church sâ—â— whose first 〈◊〉 formers and their moderation â—e had a very great veneration and therefore he was very uâ—will 〈…〉 a See his excellent Preface to Bishop Ushers Book of Power and Obedience George Sanderson of Gunthâ—ope Lincoln Compounded for 140l b He succeeded Bishop Jo. Thorneburgh born in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford acceptable to Queen Elizabeth who preferred him Dean of York and Bishop of Limbrick for his comely presence and to King James who made him Bishop of Bristol and Worcester for his Chymical Extraction and merry heâ—â—t which contributed much to his long life lying in an old Castle in Ireland the flâ—or over head broke down upon him and yet did him and his no â—arm c His style was manly for the strength of it maidenly for the modesty and Elegant for the phrase a Shocting and Bowles a See a Book called Bishop Prideaun his Last Legacy * with Doctor Wickham a 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 That 〈◊〉 â—â—gin to 〈◊〉 it with 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 â—nd it 〈◊〉 satisfaction a With his Patron Dr. Smith â—ackon we Mâ—â— Humphrey Sydenham born at Dalverton in Somersetshire Fellow of Wadham deserving witness his Athenian Babler the namâ— of Silver-tongued Denham b A deserving modest man that suffered much in the late times a Several Gentlemens Wives of his acquaintance a His body being worn out by study and sufferings Rob. Lautence of Bâ—gburgh Somerset compounded for 5D6l James Laurence Her 120 l. Giles Laur. Wore 370. Rob. Laur. Isle Perâ—eâ—le Esq 4500 l. Jo. Laurence Cheswick 200 l. b Hâ—monds poor mans Tyching a Whose 〈◊〉 sâ—â—â— Vâ—lentine Saunders of 〈◊〉 Ruâ—â—â—d Esq 〈◊〉 ser 12 〈◊〉 as hâ—â— Sâ—n 〈◊〉 Sir Orlando Bridgâ—â—â—n Lord Kâ—epâ—r 〈◊〉 for 4 oâ— Val. Saunders 〈◊〉 b Herbert c Juris intergentes qâ—aestiâ—â—um de eâ—dâ—m explicaâ—â—o de legati delinquenâ—is Judice Elementa â—uâ—is prudenciae c. a Reckoning himself so much more or less proficient in the Law of Nations as he more or less rellished Dr. Zouches works who was one of the Iudges at the Tryal of Panâ—aleouha the Portugal Ambassadors Brother upon which occasion that book was written b Of an eminent Family his Cozen Jo. Soames of Burnham in Norfolk compounding for 1430 l. c Mr. Heywood and Mr. Chase who both compounded deeply for their loyalty and suffered extreamly the first having served his Highness the Duke of York from a Child a 〈◊〉 Henryâ— was moved to marry by all â—he Nâ—â—â—â—y because of the convenâ—ences of her years together with her excellent at beauty and purenâ—â—s of 〈…〉 they are be wards of 〈◊〉 Act of Pâ—â—â—ia 〈◊〉 b Of whom shâ—ded in Child beâ— in Henry 8. full favour c 21. Counties a Among other writings of antiquity this Noble Fâ—â—â—â—y keeps a gâ—eâ—t Huntershâ—rn tiâ—ped with silver in â—oken of their dâ—scent from the Sâ—â—mies Lords of Woksale and Guardians of the wâ—ll gamed Forest of Savernake well 〈◊〉 so its 〈…〉 maâ—y haâ—nd 〈◊〉 years ago b Note Sir F. Anderson of New-castle upon Tiâ—e was a Col. in his Majesties Armyâ— and paid for it 1â—00 l. as Sir Henry Anderson of Pentdey Hert. 1730l Stephen Anderson of Mâ—â—by Line 372â— l. Jo. Anderson London 0â—00l Rob. Anderson of Châ—ehester Esq 0407 l. a To whose charity weâ—â— that stately built and richâ—y endewed Hâ—â—â—ital â—al at Appâ—â— by 〈◊〉 Westmâ—â—â—â—â—d Henry the last Earl of Humberlands Daughter married the Right Honorable the Earl of Coâ—â—â—e a Routing Col. Râ—ssâ—er at Moulton Monbâ—ay and the besiedgers though twice in number to his tiâ—â—d forces b Mem. Thâ—â— Sir Edward Musgrave of Layton Camb. paid 1974 l. composition a He was the first man thaâ— taughs Souldiers to â—a Cats Dogs c b With the assistanceâ—â—f his Countrâ—y-man Dr. Rawâ—nson 〈◊〉 excellent Maâ—hemaâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— Queens Col. Oxford c He was once upon making Mâ— Thruscross and other godly men Trustees for the Education of his Children in case it should please Gâ—d he failed in the Waâ—es d In an attempt made â—o vise at Hâ—â—â—â—m mooâ— 16â—5 â—o second Mr. Penruddock Where â—e and Sir Richard Maleverer were taken â—e it remembred that the noble Gentleman Sir Charles Sling-by was kissed at Marston-Moor Lieutenant Col Sliâ—gsby at Newbery a Who afterwards maâ—â—yâ—d Sir Abraham Shipman an active Gentlemen for his Majesty during the wares especially at â—olâ—â—â—ter for which â—e suffered sevâ—â—â—ly and was cast away in a place in the Indies he went to possâ—sse for his â—ajesty a As he did at the Court offering that if either Iudges singly oâ— the learned Counsel at 〈◊〉 would give it under their hands that the High Court of Iustice was a Lawful Iudicaâ—ory he would have pleaded b Note that Edward Ashton of Al denâ—am Sâ—â—sex Esq pâ—â—â— 2000 l. composition Thomas Ashton of â—â—â—kâ—th Lane 192l and T. A. of Westbanke Lane 116l c Where how would â—e seal his eyes and send them to his heart a Wâ—â—h 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 that Lâ—â—◠〈…〉 Seâ— b 〈…〉
the way of an active conformity to the Church is to crack the sinews of Government for it weakens the hands and damps the spirit of the obedient And if only scorn and rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will chuse rather to neglect their duty in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that that shall break their hearts too That very little he had got in the time of peace he lost in the time of war their practices and designs had been a long time the subject of his smart reproofs and his estate now become a prey to their revenge To see the good man escape them in his Clarks habit that had been certainly murthered in his own when it was safe to be any thing but a Minister and withal to hear the chearful man smile out his old Motto I have as much as I desire if I have as much as I want and I have as much as the most if I have as much as I desire 'T was a spectacle that had melted any spirit but that in which the custom of cruelty had taken away the conscience of it whom yet he was very tender of according to his usual Maxim Nature may induce me to shew so much care of my self as to look to my adversaries reason shall perswade me to shew so much wit as to beware of those that deceived me once but Religion hath taught me so much love as to be injurious to none For estate Abundance he thought a trouble want a misery honor a burthen business a scorn advancement dangerous disgrace odious but competency a happiness I will not climb lest I fall nor lye on the ground lest I am trod on He for carriage He did so much forâ— think what he would promise that he might promise only what he would do that he would often do a kindness and not promise it and never promise a kindness and not to do it In Religion His heart spake more devoutly than his tongue when as too many peoples tongues speak more piously than their hearts The good man hath oftentimes God in his heart when in his mouth there is no good mentioned The Hypocrite hath God often in his mouth when the fool hath said in his heart there is no God The tongue speaks loudest to men the heart truest to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its pity to part intimate Friends the one dying under the sense the other under the fear of this Nations Calamity THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN BARKHAM JOhn Barkham that said he had lived under a good Government and was afraid to live any longer lest he should see none at all was born in the City of Exeter bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow Chaplain afterwards to Archbishop Bancroft and Parson of Bocking in Essex Much his Modesty and no less his Learning who though never the publick Parent of any was the careful Nurse of many Books who otherwise had expired in their Infancy had not his care preserved them He set forth Dr. Crackenthorp his Posthume Book against Spalato and was helpful to Iohn Speed in the composing of his English History â—ea he wrote the whole Life of the Reign of King Iohn which 〈◊〉 â—he King of all the Reigns in that Book for profound Penning discoverable from the rest of the different style and much Scripture cited therein Mr. Guillim in his Heraldry was much beholden to this Doctors Emendations He was a greater lover of Coyn than of Money rather curious in the Stamps than covetous for the Mettal thereof That excellent Collection in Oxford Library was his gift to the Arch-bishop before the Archbishop gave it to the University richer in M. SS than Printed Books and richer in the skill he had by the phrase and Character to fill up the defects and guess at the meaning of a Moth-eaten Record than in the possession of the Paper when the Factious were admitted to look upon his Rarities they did him the kindness to supect him of his Religion thinking that the rust of his old Inscriptions cankered his Soul with as old Superstition When it is in the study of Antiquity as it is in that of Phylosophy a little skill in either of them inclines men to Atheism or Heresie but a depth of either study brings them about to their Religion When both extreams as he called them to the virtue of the Church of England the Partizans of Rome and Geneva the men of the old Doctrine and the new Discipline met with any little remnant of Antiquity that made for them they ran to him with it and he would please himself infinitely with a story which hath been since his death Printed the story was this A Nobleman who had heard of the extream age of one dwelling not far off made a journey to visit him and finding an aged person in the the Chymney corner addressed himself to him with admiration of his age till his mistake was rectified so Oh Sir said the young old man I am not he whom you seek for but his Son my Father is further off in the Field They mistaking middle Antiquity for Primitive History wherein he was so versed that he had not the Fathers books only but their hearts not their History only but their Piety So strict in his life that he went among Fathers himself being observed as much a rule to others as they were to him Skilled he was in many Tongues and yet a man of a single heart When God made him rich he made not himself by coveteousness poor and if God had made him poor he could have made himself by contentment rich Bishop Vsher and he had one useful quality above many others that they understood men better than they did themselves and so employed men that could not tell what to do with themselves upon what was most suitable to them and most profitable to the publick having Dr. Iames his motion much upon their spirits that all the Manuscripts of England should be collected and compared A design that would have proved very beneficial to the Protestant considering how many M. SS England hath still notwithstanding her loss at the dissolution of Monasteries if prosecuted with as great indeavor as it was proposed with good intention You would think you were at St. Augustine and St. Cyprians House when you saw the poor at the Doctors doors the Neighbors welcome at his Table young Scholars in his Study Bibles and other godly books in each room of his house the Servants and all the Houshold so used to Psalms and Chapters that they spoke familiarly the holy Language the hours of Devotion and Instruction constantly observed the people being at all the returns of duty in Gods service to forget their own business though in their own business they never forgot Gods service When you saw a man making the errors of men the subject of his grief not of his discourse so prudently
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
that as soon as he heard any subject he was able to speak to it taking not above two hours time to recollect himself for his Sermons He was very communicative of what he knew himself and very dextrous in drawing out what others knew patient of much impertinent beating the Bush to catch the Hare at last He was a serious Christian though a witty man Lamprey is delicious meat if you take the string out of the back of it and Fansie a pleasant thing if we correct it be not prophane against God inhumane against the dead making Mummie of dead mens flesh unmerciful against mens natural defect uncivil against a mans own reputation or unseasonable to a mans condition So intent upon the publick good that he minded neither his own Estate Habit or Carriage regarding so little the World that I wonder he being outed from the Savoy and his Prebend of Salisbury for a Book he writ against which Mr. Saltmarsh engaged and not regarded when waiting on my Lord Berkly to his Majesty upon his Restauration at the Hague and preaching before his Majesty at Whitchall he should die with grief in May the year of our Lord 1661. and of his age 53. having been Minister of Broad-windsor in Dorsetshire at Waltham in Essex at â—ranâ—ord in Middlesex Lecturer at Savoy St. Brides St. Andrews Holborn and St. Clements Eastcheap Chaplain to the Lord Hopton and to both their Majesties Charles the I. and II. He preserved the memory of many a worthy person it is pity that we should not preserve his who would say that the Art of Memory going farther than Common-places spoiled the nature of it and that every man may be excellent if he see betimes what he is sit for as he did who began with small Histories and finding his Genius much inclined that way resolved upon greater promising his Ecclesiastical History 14 years before it came out the Errours whereof Dr. Heylin corrected smartly and he either confessed or excused ingeniously pleasing his Reader with those faults he so wittily Apologizeth for And because Dr. Heylin and he agreed so lovingly in their mutual charity one towards another at last after they had differed in Opinion at first Let Dr. Heylin dwell by him a Gentleman born in Oxfordshire or Berk-shire happy in his good Education under Mr. Hughs School master of Burford to whom he dedicated a Book in gratitude 1656. and under Mr. Frewen in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Demy and Fellow being delighted from his Childhood in History he studied Historically taking in all sorts of Learning in the way of History and Chronology the first specimen was his Geography in 40. Printed 1621. Dedicated to Prince Charles and improved upon a Fellows shouldering him as he went along King street in the beginning of the Troubles and saying Geography is better than Divinity i. e as he understood he had better success in writing Geography than Divinity to a large and exact Folio the best now extant Having made his way to the Court and travelled into Franceâ— of which Travels he hath given us an account in his Survey of 〈…〉 he was admitted to the Earl of Denbigh's attendance when he was sent by his Majesty into Guernsey and Iersâ—y 1628. where he made such observations to present Bishop Laud to whom he then 〈◊〉 himself as might let him see he was not altogether uncapable of managing such publick business as he might afterwards think fit to entrust him withal which succeeded so well that in a short time after the Bishop recommended him to his Majesty for Chaplain in Ordinary and by degrees imployed him in such affairs of moment and weight as rendred his service not unuseful to the Church or State his Lordship aiming at primitive Purity enjoyning him to draw up the History of the Controversie then in beingâ— as having vindicated the History of St. George the Patron of the Royal Order of the Garter 1630. and thereby obliged most of the Nobility of that Time he did in his History of the Sabbath of Episcopacy of Altars of Lyturgies of the Quinquarticular Controversie the Reformation Tithes Calvinisin and its inconsistency with Monarchy and his Historical Exposition upon the Creed clearing up the truth by the Histories Laws Counsels Fathers and other Writers of the Church and discovering the Occasion Original and Progress of every Errour An Imployment that raised him many Adversaries as 1. Dr. Prideaux who when Mr. Heylin stated these two Questions in the Schools 1627. An Ecclesia unquam suerit Invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare In the Negative and made good the first not by the visibility of the Church as Dr. Prideaux in his Lectures had done in the Berengarians Waldenses Wiclivists Hussites among whom the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy failed but in Asia Aethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self where Bellarmine himself mantained many Fundamental Points very well against Ancient and Modern Hereticks concluding thus utinam quod ipse de Calvino ste semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis cryed him down for Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius and when 1633. he stated these Questions An Ecclesia habeat Authoritatem 1. In determinandis side Controversis 2. Interpretandi Scripturas 3. Discernâ—â—â—â— Kitus Caeremonias in the Affirmative according to the â—oth Article of the Church of England in the truest Edition of them which Mr. Heylin when the false one published in the Harmony of Concessions at Geneva 1612. was urged sent for into the Schools the like expressions for which Dr. Prideaux had three checks from the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Heylin clearing himself so well in the point of popery by his Sermon on Iohn 4. Our Fathers worshipped on this Mountain and by his Sermon on the Parable of Tares that some of the Court who before had been otherwise perswaded of him Did not stick to say that he had done more towards the subversion of Popery in those Sermons than Dr. P. had done in all the Sermons he had preached in his life 2. Dr. Hackewell in several bitter passages against his book of St. George and his Antidotum Lincolniense published in the beginning of the Long Parliament not only to confute but destroy him 3. Dr. Benard upon some expressions that sell from him about the Article of the Church of Ireland and Bishop Vshers advice about the Earl of Stafford 4. Bishop Williams against whom he writ his Autidotum Lincolniâ—â—se who when he was Preaching strook the Pulpit at Westminster with his staff and called to him to proceed to another point And 5. the Parliament to whom he gave very great satisfaction in all those points objected against him untill the Tumults growing high he was forced to fly to Oxford where his Majesty commanded his constant attendance when his course was over for a service of very great Importance whence going to Winchester Windsor and at last setling at Lacies Court near Abingdon and Oxford he continued
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 Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
twelve poor people in a constant allowance out of hose Livings besides his constant repairing of the Houses and furnishing of the Churches wheresoever he came 2. When he was chosen with much opposition both there and at Court Anno 1618. he set up a great Organ in St. Iohns Chappel being to be tracked every where by his great Benefactions Allowing the fifth part of all his Incomes to charitable and pious uses He built a Chappel and repaired the Cathedral at St. Davids Upon occasion both of the abrupt beginning and ending of publick Prayers on the fifth of November he settled a better order in the Kings Chappel as Dean of that Chappel prevailing with that Gracious King that he would be present at the Liturgy as well as the Sermon and that at whatsoever time of Prayers he came the Priest who Ministred should proceed to the end of Prayers which was not done before from the beginning of King Iames his reign to that day 1629 1630. He furnished the Library of Oxford with 1300 Hebrew Arabick Persian Manuscripts and choise Antiquities the University with their excellent Statutes and a large new Charter and St. Iohns Colledge in it with useful and curious buildings a Colledge that as well as Christ-Church might be called Canterbury Colledge From the year 1630. to the year 1640. he recovered hundreds of Impropriations in Ireland procuring of King Charles to give all Impropriations yet remaining in the Crown within the Realm of Ireland to that poor Church 1630. He set upon the repair of St. Pauls the only Cathedral in Christendom of that name allowing besides a great sum to begin it five hundred pounds a year while he was Bishop of London and no doubt after he was Arch-bishop of Canterbury till it was finished 1633. He retrenched the extraordinary Fees at Court for Church-preferments sometimes to prevent the Extortion of inferior Officers doing poor Ministers business himself rather than they should be at the charge of having it done by others 1634. He began the settlement of the Statutes of all the Cathedrals of the new foundation whose Statutes are imperfect and not confirmed and finished those of Canterbury 1635. He procured and bought settled Commendams whereof several sine Cura on the small Bishopricks of Bristol Peterbourgh St. Asaph Chester and Oxford 1636. He set up a Greek Press in London buying both Matrices and Press for Printing of the Library M. SS and others he intended to make a rare Collection of The same year he erected an Arabick Lecture in Oxford first settled there for his life and afterwards for ever as he did an Hospital at Reading with 200 l. per annum Revenue established in a new way 1637. A Book in Vellam of the Records in the Tower that concern the Clergy at his own charge Transcribed and left in his Study at Lambeth for posterity A new Charter for the Town of Reading and a new Charter and Statutes for the Colledge and University of Dublin 2. What he Intended 1. He had cast a Model for the increase of the Stipends of poor Vicars 2. He intended to see the Tithes of London setled between the Clergy and the City 3. He thought to have setled some hundreds a year upon the Fabrick of St. Pauls towards the repair till that be finished and to keep it in good state afterwards communicating likewise to a friend to rebuild the great Tower some yards higher than before 4. He purposed to have opened the great Square at Ouford between Saint Maries the Schools Brasen-Nose and All-Souls 5. He resolved to set on foot the buying in of Impropriations hoping to be able to buy in two or three in a year Not to mention his Entertainments of the King and Queen to the honor and advantage of the University of Oxon when he was Chancellor there his bestowing all his favors upon no other condition than something to be done by his Clients in acknowledgement of them for the Church So he obliged Bishop Bancroft to build the Bishoprick a House another to bestow the Patronage of upon St. Iohns A third to raise the Stipends of three Vicarages in his gift c. His preferring of Church-men to the greatest Places of Trust to honor Religion too much despised in the later times For see his design in the advancement of that good man Bishop Iuxon as it is expressed in his Diary and an exact Diary is a window to his heart that maketh it March 6. William Iuxon Lord Bishop of London made Lord High-Treasurer of England no Church-man had it since Henry the Sevenths time I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honor and the King and the State service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more His daily Hospitality and weekly Almes and other the great effects of a very great spirit that had not so great a prize in its hand as he had a large heart to dispose thereof for the general good looking upon himself as the Steward rather than the Master of his great Revenues might have excused his height from envy as well as that of the heavens that are not maliced because high but reverenced because benign none grudging them either the Place they hold or the Vapors they draw up because all are blessed with the Influences they shed and the Showers they send And the rather because he was as great himself as his performances and his preferments were not only means to do good works but the just reward of great parts parts every way becoming the greatest Clergy-man and States-man and indeed few or none envied his preferments that were not afraid of his abilities he being reckoned one of the greatest Scholars of our Nation His judgment being as acute witness the exactest Piece ever writ on that subject his Controversie with Fisher as his Eye was piercing his Memory as firmly retaining his Observations as his Apprehension took them Discerningly and his Industry collected them Vnweariedly He was not advanced because he would keep a good House repair his Barns c. any Dunce may do this but because he seemed born to the honor he was raised to owing his degree not only to Favour but to Nature too he being exact in all the recommending excellencies of humane accomplishments thought deserving more honor beyond Sea than those he was envied for here In all those Arts and Sciences he honored with some thoughts about he was not so much skillful as commanding not only knowing but a Master and having gone through the difficulties of Ingenuity with as much success as a Scholar as he did the difficulties of Government as a Statesman in both a Primate in both excelling The forementioned Piece composed with such an authentick and unerring accuracy as if there had been a Chair of Infallibility at Lambeth as well as at Rome and he had been indeed what his Predecessors have been called
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
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
private Education hardly raiseth Youths to that vigor freedom and generosity of spirit that a more publick doth where the Conversation goeth as far as the Instruction and the example of School-fellows beyond the Precepts of Schools-masters the one shewing what they ought to do the other what they may He professed he owed his Elocution and Pronunciation to one of his Fellow-Pupils gallant delivery of the Speeches of Ajâ—x and Vlysses in Ovid for Poetry and Cicero's Oration against Anthony for Prose His Memory to another artificial way of commanding Homers Iliads by heart the success of his Study to the common place and method of a third his invention to the growing fancy of a fourth that lay before him as the Ring-streaked Rods did before Iacobs Sheep or the Aethiopian before the Teeming-woman Richard Norshall saith Bale de Scriptor Brit. c. 7. n. 6. left behinde a Sett of Sermons for every day he was a Bishop and R. Manwaring had a sett of Exercises for every day he was a Scholar doing nothing himself and hearing nothing from others of remark but what he writ down being as Dr. Harris said of Dr. Preston a needless Ingrosser of other mens Notions for he said he had a good Memory if he did not trust it and when he lost a notion the careless man he said made the thief An habit of exactness in his smaller performances rendred him exact in those more considerable he being careful of two things the setling of his voice and his minde The modern Jews have among others a form of Prayer wherein they bless God as well as for their vents of Ejection as mouths for their admission of nourishment Mr. Manwaring though very studious to acquire Learing was more curious to express it knowing that small abilities well set off out-go greater that want that advantage The composing of four witty Verses recommended him to that Eminent School whereof he was Scholar the pronouncing of an ingenious and vigorous Oration gained him that noble Lord who thought it an honor sit to be remembred in an eminent part of the Parsonage-House he gave him to be his atron His Critical skill in Greek and rational Head preferred him Fellow of the Colledge and his discreet carriage and observing head Chaplain to his Lord in all which capacities his performances were not gaudy but proper becoming and always equal usually especially in Divinity managing his Exercises with a pleasing kinde of Magisterium Theologicum to use the old phrase of Matthew Paris Being so full that it was not with him as it was with some men the Platonick year of whose dicourses being not above three days long in which term all the same matter returns again He might be called Good-luck as his Name-sake R. Twiford was because however unhappy in himself yet he brought good success to others as two Worshipful Families can testifie whithersoever he went which made several Places and Persons ambitious at the same time of his presence and service good employments suing for him as earnestly as others had done for good employments though Locusts are generally devourers of all food yet some Locusts as those of St. Iohn are wholsom though course food themselves most troubles are losses yet this Gentlemans very losses were gains in that as he said they made him better acquainted with himself and better known to others Three things he was much resolved on the Redemption of Captives the Converting of Recusants and the undeceiving of the seduced Sectaries and three Dyaries he kept one for the Transactions of his own Life another for the publick Affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the most remarkable passages of Providence that hapned in the world Many rich persons he effectually exhorted to good Works much Alms he industriously Collected his charitable Collections he carefully preserved and discrâ—etly disposed of not only for the relief of want but as he said of the Primitive Oblations to incourage virtue keeping a Discipline as he would say all charitable people should over the Poor who especially if beggars by reason of their wandring life are under none as moâ—â— is no predicament but may be reduced to any He profited much by his Books more by his Company which at the same time improved his parts and credited them good acquaintance at once instruct and by their various Interests set off one another Two of whom died the very same day and near as could be guessed certainly their Stars were as intimate as they and there was the like correspondence in their Genitures that was in their Affections the same hour The first Canon of our Church injoyning every Minister to Preach four times a year at least for the asserting of the Kings Authority and Supremacy Dr. Manwaring observing the diminution of both Sermons the one at Court before a Royal Auditory the other at his own Parish at St. Giles in the Fields before a noble one In both which places he was looked upon as an Eminent Preacher as became the Kings subject and Chaplain maintained at that time when the Kings necessity put him upon the Loan and his Authority commanded it much against the grain of the people as they were at that time humored That the Kings Royal Command in Imposing of Loans and Taxes though without common consent in Parliament doth oblige the subjects Conscience upon pain of Eternal damnation and that the Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies A Position for which he was Charged 1627. by Mr. Rous in Parliament aggravated by Mr. Pym into five Branches 1. His indeavor to infuse into His Majesties Conscience a perswasion of a Power not limited with Laws which he said King Iames in a Parliament Speech 1619. called Tyranny accompanyed with Perjury 2. His indeavor to perswade the Consciences of the subjects that they are bound to obey Illegal Commands yea he damns them for not obeying them 3. He robs the subject of the property of their Goods 4. He brands them that will not loose this property with most scandalous and odious Titles to make them hateful both to Prince and People 5. He indeavoureth to blow up Parliaments and Parlimentary Power which five were drawn up into one great one to use Mr. Pyms words Serpens qui serpentem devorat fit Draco viz. A mischievous Plot to alter and subvert the Frame and Government of the State and Common-wealth and Iune the thirteen 1628. censured thus 1. To be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. To be fined a thousand pounds 3. To make his submission at the Bar in this House the House of Lords and the House of Commons at the Bar there in verbis conceptis by a Committee of this House 4. To be suspended from his Ministerial Function three years and in the mean time a sufficient Preaching man to be provided out of the Profits of his Living and this to be left to be performed by the Ecclesiastical Court 5.
Praetor in Tyberius his time was to handle a Chamber-pot having a Ring on his Finger graved with the Emperors Image 3. A very great resolution in the strength of which in the great difference between the French King and Cardinal de Retz at Paris he and others of the Channons of Nostredame durst serve the Majesty of afflicted truth before that of a glorious King and indure the Restraint of Imprisonment that he might injoy Liberty of Conscience To smell to a Turf of fresh earth is wholesom for the body no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul therefore the sight of death when it surprized him with a choice Feavor 1664 5. was neither strange nor terrible to him who died daily Interest Posterorum novisse 1. Jacobum Richmondiae ducem qui illustris licet modeste latuit 2. Georgium Dominum Aubigney placide Animosum Heroem 3. Johannem Dominum Stuart stupendum Iuvenem qualis hic esset Senex 4. F. Dominum Aubigney in quo ut olim apud Iudeos Regalis sacerdotalis arctissime consociabantur tribus ut-pote summe pio nobili 5. Bernardum Comitem Lichfieldiae cui morum venustas quanta pâ—ncis contigit desideratur omnibus Fratres arctiori virtutis quam sanguinis faederati nexu qui eosdem mores per omnes fortunae vices sibi similes finxere Quinque it a compositos ut quod uni vix contigit unum hominum agerent quos eadem agere pati semper necessarium fuit quia non novere nisi optima Firmius vel Stoica Catena vinculum ubi Perpetuam animorum cognationem inducit non eandem Parentem habuisse sed eandem vivendi originem Rationem quod vim habuit vitaliorem ejusdem honesti affectu Imbui potius quam eodem sanguine eadem numerare bona mala chariora longe nomina quam communia pignora Curatii Horatii Anglicani quos pro regia causa non homines Credas sed tot concurrere gentes quibus Addendus Esme Dux Richmondiae Jacobi Filius unicus una quicquid est amabile Patres guod optent aut quod orbi lugeant correptus levi Febricula vita decessit Parisiis decessere quot una spes Parentum Eheu delicias breves Quicquid placet mortale non placet diu Quicquid placet mortale ne placeat nimis THE Life and Death OF RALPH Lord HOPTON SOn of Sir R. Hopton born 1601. in South-Wales where his Mother had relations and bred in Somersetshire where his Father had his seat His education such that he learned to pray as soon as he could speak and to read as soon as he could pray before three year old he read any character or letter whatsoever in our Printed Books and within a while any tolerable Writing Hand getting by heart at four years and an half five or six hundred Latine and Greek words together with their Genders and Declensions Horrori fuit Ingenium From a strict School and able School-Master in the Country he was sent to a well-governed Colledge and an excellent Tutor Mr. Sanderson after Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln of Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford who put his young reason by his judicious and exact method into such a frame that he would bless God for it he had a habit which men of a superficial education sleight immethodical thoughts were strangers to of considering matters proposed to him leisurely and soberly of recollecting the proper circumstances of a business pertinently of looking through sophismes and appearances discerningly of searching into the bottome of things quickly of observing advantages and disadvantages in Marching Qâ—artering Rallying Leaguering c. dexterously It s a great matter to put young and flexible faculties by being solidly grounded in the Initiatory Arts and Sciences or in the exact notions and apprehensions of things into an unerring and comprehensive frame of thoughts reasoning and discourse But as youth not yet accustomed to dissembling easily discloseth its temper he soon discovered by those rancounters which he had with his School-fellows and Fellow-pupils in the School and Colledge as prolusions to those engagements he afterwards had in the Field that he was born for action the life of a Man rather than speculation the life of a Scholar Letting it suffice others to meditate upon the great things which former ages have done while he did great things which future ages might meditate upon They may rest when they have raised a Scheme a Frame and Idea within themselves proportionable to the order and method of things without them while he compently understanding this all was urged by his eager virtues to perform things as great as those he under stood and actions as great as his thoughts From the University therefore he goeth to the Camp putting off his Gown to put on his Corslet and exchanging his Pen for his Sword First exercising himself in the Low-Countryes the then Nursery of English Gentry as a Volunteer and afterwards practising in the Palatinate as Captain where he gathered such choice observations principles and maximes of war that being an eye-witness in the long Parliament wherein he was chosen a Member of their dangerous proceedings which he opposed with strong reasonings in the House and offered to contradict against the Ringleaders of the Faction with his Sword and Life challenging several of them in Westminster-hall he privately retired to countenance the Kings more just proceedings in the Country giving order for providing Armes and Ammunition at his own charge and direction to secure and fortifie all such places as were tenable in Sommersetshire Wiltshire and Devonshire out of his own experience until he Sir Bevill Greenvill Sir Io. Stawell and Sir Nicholas Flanning raised with their interest and arguments Sir Ralph Hopton pleading the Kings at the Assizes Sessions and all other publick meetings of the Country that his eloquence had as great success upon the wavering populacy as his Armes had against the most obstinate Rebels a choice Army in the West an instance of what great concernment it was to keep the Militia in the Crown and not to separate the Sword from the Scepter not to make a war as he declared to the Country but to prevent it Thus Caesar that fought best in his age spake so too and the sharpness of his wit was equal to that of his Sword With which Army the Marquiss of Hertford then Commander in Chief with his direction Aug. 3. 1643. defeated the Faction in Sommersetshire took Shepton-Mallet cleared Dorsetshire maintained Sherburn with such conduct and resolution as daunted the men at Westminster for two months and Octob. 3. breaking through the Besiegers who thought to use their own words to put an end to the war if they could but take him and one or two more men of so considerable fortunes valor and conduct as both raised and kept up the war Whereupon non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus qui eminebat he was chosen Commander
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
his regular thoughts sober nature made accurate by art not gadding confusedly to divers objects but proceeding rationally from one to another By a methodical study of choice and useful learning overcame the Intelligible World as soon as Alexander did the Real that is at thirty the product whereof besides University performances crowned with University applause That he did best there where all do well Performances wherein words had the life and air of things where humors appeared as lively in his expression as they did abroad in others actions yea common things grew proper in his Charms rather than Speeches wherein his thoughts were so ordered so expressed as if he did not discourse but see words and things falling into their order so naturally and easily as nothing fell amiss as if the Scholar as well as the Wiseman were all things That life that Venus of all things which we conceive or shew proportioned Decency was not found scattered in him here or there but like the soul wholly every where exercises wherein he spake not only phancy to please but reason to convince vexing and filing the roughest subject by the Chimistry and heat of a great spirit into comelinesse not pouring in the Ore or Grosse but in fair Coin and choice distillations dispensing his learning well skilled when to spare and when to entertain He gave the right blush and colour unto things low without creeping high without losse of wings smooth yet not weak and by a through care big without swelling without Painting fair I say besides Academical exercises the onely issue of this noble Gentlemans great parts and unwearied Studies was a subtle and solid Treatise in the beginning of our Civil Wars of the difference between King and Parliament so full that they who have since handled that Controversie have written plura non plus yea aliter rather than alia of that subject A choice Feaver called a New Disease in Oxford Garrison seizing on him and other persons of pure spirits and nobly tempered bodies 1643 4. prevented him in those great services he was qualified for in his generation which indeed deserved him not being likely to have turned him out of the University by a Malignant Visitation if he had not been called out of the world by a Malignant disease Of him and of the foresaid 1. Mr Masters of New Colledge 2. Mr. Sugge the excellent Philosopher of Wadham Colledgâ— that lived to be Expelled the University by those that had no regard either to the greatest learning or the sweetest natures and dying just when restored again to it 3. Mr. Robert Waring of Christ-Church well known by his Poetry in Latine and English better by his Oratory a Specimen whereof you have in as an ingenious a little Piece as this age hath seen I mean Effigies Amoris made up of learning and phansie what charms and what convinceth and best of all for his â—idelitâ— chusing rather to retire to Shropshire and bury his vast parts in the Solitudes of a Country Life than so much as see the force offered the University which he had heard was offered the whole Kingdom going away 1647. when Proctor with the Keys of the University rather than he would deliver them to Usurpers 4. Dr. Barten Holiday known well by his Plays the marriage of the Arts c. His Lectures on Moral Philosophy his well languaged Sermons his admirable Translation of Persâ—â—â— a new thing to use his own words Persius Vnderstood adding in his elegant way To have committed no fault in my Translation had been to Translate my self and put off Man Dying Arch-deacon of Oxford 1662 3. Forced to practise Physick in the sad times wherein be corresponded with Dr. Creed of St. Iohns whose life is in his Epitaph at Christ-Church in Oxford Hic subtus jacent tantillaeviri magni reliquiae Gulielmi Creed qui Coll. D. Iohannis Batista Alumnus olim socius Academiae Dein Procurator S. S. Theol. Doctor non ambitu sed suo merito Professor Regius hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus Archdiaconus Wiltoniae Ecclesiae Sarum Residentiarius honores non quaesitos sed oblatos ultro modeste tulit prudenter gessit vivus Academiae Ecclesiae ornamentum mortuus utriusque triste desiderium Fatis cessit Anno Aetatis XLVII XIV Cal. Aug. A. D. 1663. Doctor Morris who lives in this Character on his Tomb at Christ-Church aforesaid Exuvia Instructissimi viri Io. Morris S. Th. Doctoris serenissimo Regi Carolo a Sacris Ecclesiae hujus Cathedralis Prebendarii Linguae S. S. in hac Academia Regii Professoris Qui ne funere ipsius ipsa conderetur Lingua Hebraica in illam Candidatos annuis Instigavit Impensis Bibliothecam ipsius aedis Curavit Illam etiam omnium animarum Heb. Suppellectile in perpetuum augere Caesarea Ejus precibus excitata munificentia praelecturam Hebraeam hâc praebendâ ornavit Demum Post fidele servitium Deo Ecclesiae Regi Academiae Huic aedi peractum regnum cum Christo est Auspicatus Die Regis Caroli Inaugurali nempe Martii 25. A. D. 1648. Aetatis suae 53. 6. Mr. Burton the Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy a Book as full of all variety of learning as himself wherein Gentlemen that have lost time and are put upon an aftergame of learning pick many choice things to furnish them for discourse or writing Who as he lived a conceited life un-regarded and un-regarding the world a meer Scholar who meeting with the Earl of Dorset asked his Name and when he heard it was Dorset called him Mr. Dorset discourseth for an hour together so he hath at Christ-Church where he was Student forty years this conceited Epitaph Paucis notus Paucioribus ignotus Hic Jacet Democritus Junior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit melancholia 7. Dr. Wats of Lincoln Colledge a good Linguist and Philosopher that translated several of my Lord Bacons Books with as much vigor as the honorable Author writ them one so intent on his Soul that he minded not he had a Body 8. Modest Mr. Sparks of Corpus Christi well skilled in the Tongues and Fathers better known Abroad than at Home an hour of whose discouse in his Chamber was more useful than a days study in the choicest Library who died 1656. 9. Mr. Childmead a choice Mathematician a good Linguist and a quaint Orator his parts kept unknit by more ingenious exercises 10. Mr. Mede and Mr. Powell of Christ-Church killed in his Majesties Service being of the Regiment of Scholars who put the Buff upon their Gowns under the Earl of Dover the last of whom would say That he could never read or hear a dull discourse but it disordered him saying as Tully in the case of deriding ridiculous Hircus Dum illum lego pene factus sum ille 11. Mr. Taylor of Magdalen Colledge when turned out in the late times was Chaplain to the Lord Weinman of Thame Parke after Dr. Ward now Lord
Earl of Huntington then Lord President of the North to be his Chaplain for his dexterity and acuteness in disputing with the Romish Recusants for it was Queen Elizabeths express command to that Lord to convince them by arguments rather than suppress them by force and this She expressed as his Lorship was wont to say in the words of the Prophet Nolo mortem peccatoris But the Earl dying presently after he returned to his privacy at Marston where he continued not long before the Lord Sheffield who succeeded as Lord President commanded him to hold a publick Conference before his Lordship and the Council at the Mannor-house in York with two Romish Recusants then Prisoners in the Castle which he performed with great satisfaction to the Auditory among whom were many of the chief Gentry and Clergy of Yorkshire Anno 1602. Began the great Plague at York at which time he carried himself with much Heroical Charity For the Poor being removed to the Pest-house he made it his frequent use to visit them with food both for their Bodies and Souls His chief Errand was to comfort them pray for them and with them and to make his coming more acceptable he carried with him a Sack of Proviston usually for them that wanted it And because he would not have any body to run any hazard thereby but himself he seldom suffered any of his Servants to come near him but sadled and unsadled his own Horse and had a private door made on purpose into his House and Chamber In the year following he with Dr. Cracanthorp attended the Queens Embassador the Lord Ewre into Germany and Denmark being desirous to improve himself by seeing forraign Kingdoms Churches and Universities In this Voyage he improved his time so well partly in furnishing his Library with Books at Frankfort and elsewhere but chiefly in his conversation with Learned men and his forraign Observations that he always highly valued that opportunity At his return he was sollicited by Roger Earl of Rutland to be his Domestical Chaplain which proffer he was more willing to accept for the privacy he hoped to enjoy in a place where he was not known for making use of the Treasure of Books he had got in his Travels and rather because he was brought so much nearer London than before whither he must have many occasions to go for the putting forth of such Books as he had a design to write For it was not long after that he printed his first part of Apologia Catholica About which time the Arch-bishop of York Toby Matthews that most exquisite Preacher conferr'd upon him a Prebend in that Metropolitical Church Anno. 1606. He took the Degree of Doctor in Divinity with the great approbation of both Professors in Divinity Dr. Iohn Overall that profound Scholar and Dr. Thomas Playford that acute Disputant and acurate Preacher who were both of them very competent Judges of mens abilities And about the same time he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to King Iames and by him made Dean of Glocester and assumed by the Lord President of Wales for one of his Majesties Council for the Marches In his first journey to Gloucester he went by Oxford at the Act-time where he was incorporated and admitted to the same Degree that he had in Cambridge where also he was much taken with the exercises of Mr. Daniel Featly then a proceeder and carryed great Friendship to him ever after At which time he fell into acquaintance with that famous Dr. Iohn King then Dean of Christ-Church afterwards Bishop of London which afterwards grew so intimate that the Bishop made choice of him to perform the last offices to him both at his Death and Burial Anno. 1609. He succeeded Dr. George Abbot in the Deanery of Winchester Then Bishop Bilson conferred on him the Rectory of Alesford in the next year a Parliament being held he preached the Sermon to the Convocation upon Matth. 5. 13. Vos estis sat terra with general applause and should have been Prolocutor but in modesty declined it and preferring a Friend of his to it In his abode at London he took his Lodging at Dean Overals who gave him the opportunity of a very early acquaintance with the Learned Isaac Casaubon then newly come out of France and entertained by the Dean The love thus begun was never intermitted in their lives nor obliterated by death as appeareth by Casaubons Monument in Westminster-Abby set up at the Charge of Morton About the same time he had acquaintance with several eminenâ— foraign Scholars and Divines as namely Scultetus Chaplain to the Elector Palatine Diodati Du Moulin whose worth is very well known by their Learned works in Print While he continued in Winchester a certain great Person passionately told the King that Dr. Morton had spoiled one of the best Deaneries in England It concerned the Dean to vindicate his goâ—â— name from that foul and unjust aspersion And therefore acquainted his Brethren of the Chapter with it they were very forward to give a Testimonial under their Hands and Seals That he had been one of the best Deans that ever had been at Winchester in their times and some of them were very ancient Anno. 1616. Iuly 7. He was Consecrated Bishop of Châ—ster while necessaries were prepared for his journey thither he retired himself to Clay Hall in Essex upon the earnest invitation of his Noble Friend Sir Christopher Hatton and there fell sick of a dangerous Fever but being happily recovered presently put himself upon his journey towards his great Work and was met on the borders of his Diocesse and brought into the City of Chester by such a great number of Knights and other the best Gentlemen of the Country besides the Clergy as may give a lasting testimony to their honor as well as his in shewing such a Religious respect to their Bishop When he was setled in his Bishoprick and Rectory of Stopford which he had to keep Hospitality in that Hospitable County he found all the inconveniencies which he fore-saw and some also which he could not fore-see at so great a distance for beside the great number of Romish Recusants which hath alwayes been observed in this Diocesse he found another sort of Recusants better known by the name of Non-Conformists who though they were not so many in number as the other yet had so much perverseness and obstinacy with them as made them equal or rather superior in relation to the trouble he had with them To reduce these Recusants to their obedience to the Church God blessed him with great success to the great content of his Majesty Anno 1618. March 6. At the motion of that great Pattern of Episcopal perfection Dr. Andrews then Bishop of Eli who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbor as he said of the same Province
greater sunâ— than any other per annum Voted to him but while he was able to subsist without it he never troubled himself in seeking after it but being pressed by necessities having procured a Copy of the Vote found it to contain that such a sum should be paid but no mention either by whom or whence And by that time that he could procure the Explanation of the Orders not to make the Pension payable out of the Revenues of his own Bishoprick all the Lands and Revenues of it were sold or divided among themselves only by the importunity of his friends he obtained an Order to have 1000 l. out of their Treasury at Coldsmith-hall with the which he paid his debts and purchased to himself an Anâ—uity of 200 l. per annum during his life upon which he subsâ—â—ed ever since No considerable Legacies could be expected in the Will of a person deceased who made his own hands his Executors while he lived like his great Kinsman Archbishop Morton in Antiq. 〈◊〉 who chose rather to enrich his Kindred in his life time than at his death Our Bishop had so much left him at his death that he gave 40 l. to one of his servants who then attended him having provided formerly for others he left 10 l. to the poor of the Parish and his Chalice with a Patin double gilt to the Noble Baronet in whose Family he died for the use of his Chappel the rest deducting some small remembrances he ordered for his burial which was also sufficient for a Monument though farre below his worth yet suitable to his great modesty The chief Legacy of his Will must not be omitted the testimony he gave by a kind of Encyclical Epistle to the Catholick Faith he died in for the common goód of souls in the Church of England particularly in his own Diocess it may be seen in the Funeral Sermon where he concludeth thus My earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former love notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the Doctrine Discipline and Government and Form of Worship in this poor afflicted Church which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of souâ—s I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom His high esteem of the Sacred Liturgy of the Church of England attended him he ordering it which he called the best Funeral Sermon at his Burial as I may say to his Grave Great Fervor and Devotion he shewed in the Church-prayers yea so great that he seldom answered with a single Amen At Prayers he never kneel'd upon a Cushion and always prayed upon his Knees till he was confined to his Death-bed and even would never lye with his Cap on his Head if either he prayed himself or others prayed by him while he had strength to pull it off with his own hands Great Consolation he took in the Church-preparations for his Long Home viz. in profession of his Faith and Charity and Repentance in receiving the benefit of Absolution and the Viatioum of the holy Eucharist His rule for diet was that we should observe none at all He lived a great number of years and very few husbanded their time better for he was never idle with his good will He was often at his Devotion and Study before four of the clock even after he had lived above fourscore years and yet very seldom went to Bed till after ten and then had always a Servant to read some book to him till such time as sleep did surprize him And so had he always when he travelled in his Coach that his Journey might not be too great a hindrance to his Study He used to lye on a Straw-bed till he was above fourscore and the Cramp hindred him He led his life in a holy and chast Celibate dying of an Hernia or Rupture The issue of his brain was numerons besides M.SS. above twenty several Volums in Print Legenda Scripsit Scribenda fecit To add somewhat of his Character 1. His Patience In the greatest tryal of his temper that he had the News of the Vote That the Revenues of the Church were to be sold he only said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord which he repeated three times over to the Company that he was in and presently retired himself to his prayers 2. His Hospitality He entertained the King and his Court and at least the chief Officers of his Army all at one time in the first Expedition toward Scotland which in that place of great cheapness cost him 1500 l. in one day There seldom came any Scholar to him Forraign or English whom he did not liberally entertain and dismiss with a considerable sum of money 3. His Beneficence He built a Free-school at Bishops-Aukland and endowed it with 24 l. per annum which is more than he ever purchased to himself for that was just nothing besides that he maintained several at his own charge in the Colledge He gave many excellent Books to the Colledge where he had his Education to the value of 4. or 500 l. with an intention at last to bestow 100 l. per annum during his life had not the times disabled him to buy Books of special worth and not for superfâ—uity 4. His Alms-giving While he was suffered to enjoy his Estate he had his Badg-men and Livery at a constant Table besides what he gave at his Gate and upon other occasions nay so constant was he in this duty even when he had so much left as to afford Bread for his own Mouth that he had always a certain number of poor impotent persons in a constant Pension that came Weekly to him for their Allowance when he was not able to go himself among them to give it and this will be abundantly testified by the poor in all places where of late he hath lived 5. His Devotion He would often forgo or at least much moderate his one Meal a day often deny himself some part of that small pittance allowed for sleep to rise of his Bed and to spend in Prayer as the Attendance in his Chamber witness 6. His Prudence in the moderation of his Passions wherein all moral virtues are knit together by which he was a pattern to his people of good works and an unblameable life Tit. 2. 7. 7. His Mind above the World and its filthy lucre 8. His Vote in Parliament c. according to Conscience and not either Interest or Humor 9. His Great Moderation in the Quin quar ticular Controversie about which he would declare nothing 13. His grave and sober Speech his sweet and grave Countenance his decent Habit his upright and sprightful Motion a vigorous Youth in old age 11. His Temperance using Wine only at Meals unless it were for his stomack sake and his often infirmities 12. The Excellent Government of his Family into which several
Margaret Professor but the bare Title without the Profits and Emoluments of the Place to which the unanimous consent of the University Voted him in the face of his enemies in his absence and in his affliction Neither lasted these Injoyments long for not being able to forbear the Men so sacred to him was his Majesties Cause and Person when they had the Impudence to Vote no more Addresses to the King for a smart Sermon against them he is put as well as his Master into safe Custody by the Juncto who Declared That either he must be forbid the Pulpit or they must forbear their Seats he being able they said to overthrow in an hour what they had been carrying on several years But he continued performing Divine Service and Preaching as long as he had liberty thought-full of mens souls and his charge of them regardless of his own person and the calamities of that He was more afraid of St. Pauls Wo is me if I Preach not the Gospel than of St. Pauls Chain or of St. Peters Bonds The Life he lost he found and the more he despised Liberty the more he injoyed it Abroad he comes the King writes for him and his other Chaplains to come to him to Holdenby and is refused but at Hampton-Court the reasonable request was granted there he that would not accept of the Bishoprick of Bristol because he might with the more advantage being no Bishop desend Episcopacy accepted of the Deanery of Worcester a bare Title without profit to shew he waved not that Bishoprick for its little Revenue saying as some said of him that he would not take a Bristol-stone when he took a dignity with none At Hampton-Court he made bold to ask his Majesty Whether he thought himself safe with those men meaning Cromwell c. and was answered by his Majesty Yeas if they have any souls The Monsters of Men having with Hands on their Breasts and Eyes lift up to Heaven pawned their Souls and their Posterity upon his Restauration As he had attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to comfort him so with several other Divines he waited on him at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight to assist and serve him in offering expedients for moderation till all moderate men were hurried to Prisons and the most innocent Majesty to the Block whose Murther affected him so much that he was never well after either in body or mind O what Fasts what Watchings what Tears that unheard of Villany cost the good man till a Black Jaundice prevailed over his whole body and thence an humor that could neither be dispelled nor mitigated settled into a Swelling about his Throat which with a slow Ague arising from the Inflammation of the foresaid Tumor let out his sick soul that could say The hand of God was light upon him and that he had never tasted a sweeter Cup. Ianuary 1648 9. He saw his Royal Master dying a Martyr and August 1649. saw him dying a Confessor weeping for Charles the First and expecting Charles the Second lamenting the present and hoping for the ancient state of things in Church and State Insomuch that when some comforted him That he should be taken away from the evil to come No no answered he somewhat more vehemently than ordinary I fore-see I fore-see from the good things to come He departed praying for those things we now injoy wishing well to all men and desired of most Being a man of a neat personage convenient stature a comely aspect grave manners a fluent wit a short anger an even and constant zeal an unblameable life a noble and a charitable heart exact performances that trembled at the Supra-lapsarians Opinions defined Presbytery a vast Schism in the Church bequeathed his Estate to pious uses and his Books to the Colledge by the hands of his three honorable Executors Sir Rober Abdy Sir Thomas Rich and Bishop Brownrig who ordered his Funeral with great solemnity Dr. Iefferies of Pembroke Preaching at it on Psal. 102. 11. and erected him this Monument with great respect P. M. S. Richardus Holdsworth S. Th. Doctor verbi divini praeco omnium attestatione eximius S. Scripturae in Collegio Greshamensi Per multos annos Interpres celeberrimus Collegii Emanuelis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Praefectus Integerrimus Ejusdem Academiae per tres annos continuos Procancellarius exoptatissimus Ad Cathedram Theologicam Per D. N. Margaretam Richmondiae Comitissam institutam per mortem summi Theologi Doctoris Wardi Nuper destitutam unanimi Theologorum suffragio Evocatus Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis Ecclesiae Wigorniensis Decanus mentissimus Sanctae doctrinae in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilitae Cordatus assertor Divitiarum pius contemptor Eleemosynarum quotidianus Largitor Toto vilae institutâ— sanctus severus ex morbo tandem quem assiduis studendi concionandi Laboribus contraxit Aeger decubuit in hac Ecclesia Quam per 27 annos Religiosissime administravis Mortalitatis exuvâ—aâ— In spe beatae resurrectionis Pie deposuit Mâ—nsis sextilis die 22. Anno Domini M. DC XLIX Aetatis suae LVIII Mementote praepositorum vestrorum qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei quorum imitamini fidem contemplantes quis fuerit exitus ipsorum Heb. 13. 7. THE Life and Death OF Dr. EDWARD MARTIN Dean of Ely DOctor Edw. Martin who had six Ancestors in a direct line learned before him six Libraries bequeathed to him though inclined to any thing more than learning Yet as he would say was he Hatched a Scholar as Chickens are at Gran-Cairo by the very heat of the Family he was related to his parts as his nature inclining to Solidity rather than Politeness he was for the exact Sciences Logick and Mathematicks in his Study as he was for strict Rules in his Conversation His exact obedience to publick establishments in his own person raised him to a power and trust to see them obeyed by others being incomparably well skilled in the Canon Civil and Common Law especially as far as concerned the Church in general and in the Statutes of the University of Cambridge in particular to be bred under a good Governor is the best step to be one he was therefore first admitted 1627 8. Chaplain to Bishop Laud and thence preferred Master of Queens Colledge and Rector of Government is an Art above the attainment of every ordinary Genius and requires a wider a larger and a more comprehensive soul than God hath put into every body he would never endure men to mince and mangle that in their practice which they swallowed whole in their Subscriptions owning a well-regulated and resolved zeal in himself and incouraging it in others for to use an excellent Persons expression in a Sermon whereof our Doctor was a Copy not to support men in the ways of an active Conformity to the Churches rules he knew would crack the sinews of Government by weakning the hands and damping the spirits of the obedient And if only scorn and
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
up all he was a Wise Prelate a Learned Doctor a Just Man a True Friend a great Benefactor to others a thankful Beneficiary where he was obliged himself He was a faithful Servant to his Masters a Loyal Subject to the King a zealous Assertor of his Religion against Popery on the one side and Fanaticism on the other The practice of his Religion was not so much in Forms and exterior Ministries though he was a great observer of all the publick Rites and Ministries of the Church as it was doing good for others He was like Myson whom the Scythian Anacharsis so greatly praised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he governed his Family well he gave to all their due of maintenance and duely he did great benefit to Mankind he had the fate of the Apostle St. Paul he passed through evil report and good report as a deceiver and yet true He was a man of great business and great resort Semper aliquis Cydonis domo as the Corinthian said there was always some-body in Cydons house He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he divided his Life into labour and his Book he took care of Churches when he was alive and even after his death having left five hundred pounds for the repair of his Cathedral of Armagh and St. Peters Church in Drogheda He was an excellent Scholar and rarely well accomplished first instructed to great excellency by natural parts and then consummated by Study and Experience Melancthon was used to say that himself was a Logician Pomeranus a Grammarian Iustus Ionas an Orator but that Luther was all these It was greatly true of him that the single perfections which make many men eminent were united in this Primate and made him Illustrious At at Quintilium perpetuus sopa Vrget Cui pudor justitiae sorer Incorrupta fides nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem It will be hard to finde his equal in all things Fort asse tanquam Phaenix anno quingente simo nascitur that I may use the words of Seneca nec est mirum ex intervallo magna generari mediocria in turbam nascentia saepe fortuna producit eximia vero varitate commendat For in him was visible the great lines of Hookers Judiciousness of Iewells Learning of the Acuteness of Bishop Andrews He was in more great things than one and as one said of Phidias he could not only make excellent Statues of Ivory but he could work in Stone and Brass He shewed his Equanimity in Poverty and his Justice in Riches he was useful in his Country and profitable in his Banishment For as Paraeus was at Anvilla Luther at Wittenburg St. Athanasius and St. Chrysostome in their Banishment St. Ierome in his Retirement at Bethlehem they were Oracles to them that needed it so was he in Holland and France where he was abroad and besides the particular endearments which his friends received from him he did do Relief to his Brethren that wanted and supplied the Souldiers out of his Store in York-shire when himself could but ill spare it but he received publick thanks from the Convocation of which he was President and publick Justification from the Parliament where he was Speaker So that although as one said Miraculâ— instar vitae iter si longum sine off ensione percurrere yet no man had greater enemies and no man had greater justifications Johannes Bâ—amhall S. Th. Dr. Ecclesiae Anglicanae filius observantissimus Hybernicae Primas Pater dignissimus utrinsque vindex acerrimus Martii 12 mo 1662 3. Caetera narrabunt posteri Historia enim An. Britanniae Hiberniae cujus pars quanta est vir bonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amplissimo praesuli in Epitaphium cedet ut Ecclesia restaurata in Monumentum Erat nempe ille ex beatorum Plinianorum numero quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere feribenda aut seribere legendae THE Life and Death OF Dr. ACCEPTED FREWEN Lord Arch-bishop of York THE three last Arch-bishops of York were men of as great sufferings as enjoyments I. Dr. Richard Neile born in Westminster whereof he was Dean and bred in St. Iohns Colledge Cambridge whereof he was Fellow going by the favor of the Cecills bred in the same Colledge with him through several Preferments and Dignities from the Vicaridge of Chesthunt in Hertford-shire to the Deanery of Westminster and by the bounty of his two Royal Masters who had the same apprehensions with him about the Church a publick body he would call it not only to be taught by Preachers its duties but to be kept as long as men are men by Discipline and Government from scandals came by the intermediate advancements of Rochester 1608. Coventry and Lichfield 1610. Durham 1617. Winchester 1627. from the Deanery of Westminster to the Arch-bishoprick of York 1632. was much envied for his Preferment more for his Principles most of all for his Favorites and followings the Parliament in 1628. threatning for preferring Dr. Laud to be a Bishop and the Faction 1641. charging Bishop Laud for making him an Arch-bishop II. Arch-bishop Williams of whom before III. Arch-bishop Frewen bred Demy Fellow and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a general Scholar and a good Orator made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1643 4. a Preferment he suffered rather than enjoyed and after fourteen or fifteen years sufferings and privacy with his Relations in London upon his Majesties Restauration Installed Arch-bishop of York His particular temper was that by his goodly presence and great Retinue he hazarded the envy of people to avoid contempt a thing he would say a man should avoid as death it being an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselesness and inable attended with an untoward endeavor to engage the world in the same belief and slight esteem a rising man prevent as ruine to be thought down is the very Preface to be so a contempt like the Planet Saturn hath first an ill Aspect and then a destroying influence and a Governor provide against as a deposing what obedience can he expect from them that give him not so much as respect the carriage cannot reverence the person over whom the heart insults nor the actions submit if the apprehensions rebel Reputation is power which who despises weakens for where there is contempt there can be no aw and where there is no aw there will be no subjection and we have known that the most effectual method of disobedience is first to slur a Governors person and then to overthrow his power He knew that though he must approve himself to wise men by his vertues he must take the vulgar that see not beyond the surface with his carriage they as the Spaniard being of opinion that if you would know a man you must know him by his gate He dyed 1663 4. P. M. Accepti Freweni quis seit si ultra quaeras jam dignus es qui nescias THE Life and Death OF Dr.
book De Art◠Poetica giving exact rules for composition but composing well himself his invention keeping pace with his judgment giving this rule to young Preachers whereof he bred as many under him in the Church as he did Scholars in the University that they should write exactly till they attained to a stile when young which they might be Masters of in their age a grave man whose looks were a Sermon and affable withall carrying it within his jurisdiction as God doth in the world with Reverence and Love in somuch that the Right Honorable the Lord of Bridge-Waters Father who left it to him to provide Chaplains to his House and Tutors to his Children would say it did him good to see him within his House Such a Pattern of Charity himself and so good a Preacher of it that he was with Chrysostom called the poor mans Preacher Sequestred Plundred and Imprisoned in Ely House where he preached so comfortably as if to use Mr. Noyes words of another He knew the mind of God And being thence I think upon exchange dismissed to Oxford he Preached there so seasonably that King Charles would say of him and some others there That they were sent of God to set those distracted times in their Wits by the Sobriety of their Doctrines and the becomingness of their good behaviour M. S. Dom. Gul. Fuller S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Sancti AEgidii extra Cripplegate Vicarii Ecclesiae prim◠Eliensiis postea Dunelmensiis Decani Regibus Serenissimis Jacobo Carolo primo Sacellani Viri Doctrina Prudentia Pietate morumque gravitate Clarissimi Ob fidem in principem constantiam in vera Religione Bonis perituris spoliatus AEternis in Caelo fruitur Tandem sepultura Iuxtaritus Ecclesiae per barbariem Pseudovicarii Ingratitudinem eorum Inter quos ut Lucern◠ardens seipsum consumpserat Negata Requiem quam in propria Ecclesia habere non potuit Heic Invenit Natus Hadleiae in Suffolcia Renatus ipso die ascensionis Dominicae Anno Domini MDCLIX Aetatis suae LXXIX M. P. Jana silia Vxor Briani Episcopi Cestrensis Old Ephraim Pagit of St. Edmund Lumbardstreet that in his Haerescography discovered so much of the errors of the times that he could not quietly injoy his Living and his Conscience one so well skilled in Physiognomy that he never looked on Iretons face but with tears as Iulius Scaliger never saw his Infant son Audectus but with grief as sorrow struck with some sad Sign of ill success he saw in his face though some say That cannot be read in mens faces which was never written there and that he that seeks to finde the disposition of mens souls in the figure of their bodies looks for letters on the backside of the book His Sermons were as pleasant as profitable tickling his Auditors to good and making a bait of pleasure Dr. Childerley of St. Dunstans in the East so aged that being past Preaching for thirty years together at the end of the thirtieth year Preached his friends Wedding Sermon and his own Funeral the aged Swan thus sings and dies yet lives to suffer the loss of his Living who for many years having lost his sight was sequestred from the world When his Windows were shut in the evening of his days without he lighted a Candle within being the better able to Meditate as the Philosopher that put out his Eyes to Study because he could not see when we shut an Eye we aim best He would say virtue had a joy that if weighed with that the vitious call so he could say as the Poet Continence hath his joy weigh both and so If Rottenness have more let Heaven go Dr. Brown of St. Faiths and Dean of Hereford a man of so Ecclesiastical an aspect and of so happy an Art of Preaching that as he passed those that reviled his brethren reverenced him such a Majesty carrieth a lovely virtue that those who cannot practise it cannot but love it Much deliberation there was before he was Sequestred yet at last it was resolved because he gave offence to a good woman Mrs. Charnock by name at White-hall where he was Chaplain by bowing to the Altar as a Popish Priest had done before though it s not likely that a Popish Priest should come and bow before the Altar at White-hall the good woman saying she hoped she should never live to see the day whereon a Popish Priest and a Protestant Minister should use the self-same gesture and posture His phrase in Preaching was plain and natural not being darkened with the affection of Scholastical harshness or Rhetorical flourishes so easily expounding his Notion that it was evident he clearly understood them obscurity in the discourse is an argument of darkness in the minde his expression was close and not obscure plain but neither vain not tedious popular but not novel using not suspicious phrases least he might seem to insinuate strange Doctrines The Committee sends for him to suffer and at the same time God sends for him to dye so St. Augustine died the day before Hippo was taken Ambrose before Millain and Paraeus before Heidelberg The exact Scholar Dr. Styles of St. George Buttolph-lane and St. Gregories by St. Pauls A person excellent at examining Schools he was so good a Grammarian and Consciences he was so good a Casuist His Lectures at St. Pauls were for the peaceable and regular matter of them a pattern to all the Lectures in Town in all which he would say when he had digested his matter he had studied his expressions which he confined not himself to because that weakened the Judgement dulled the Affections and overburdened and vexed the Memory A man cannot ordinarily be so much affected himself and consequently he cannot so much affect others with things he speaks by rote as when he takes some liberty to prosecute a matter according to his more immediate apprehensions by which besides a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a becoming Orators confidence many particulars may be suggested that were not before thought of when he doth expiate upon any subject according to the working of his own affections and the various alterations that may appear in the Auditory With him lived his exact Pupil Mr. Edlin turned out of St. Iohn Zachary by the Faction and yet chosen into Bassishaw by the People one that was too hard for the pretenders in their own Bow viz. Preaching and wearied them with meekness and patience being a Willow in temper though an Oak in heart With an even and an holy Conversation he lived to hear many wishing for that Episcopal Government which they had overthrown and to see that Kingship longed for in 1656. that was Voted down 1648. teaching his people the honest duties of Religion while others were taken up with the empty notions of it Come would people say let us go and hear Mr. Edlin for he will teach us to live Charitable Mr. Isaac Calf forced to give up St. Leonard Eastcheap and retire
remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's Eâ—dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding
maintaining his Masters Cause and Truth by Argument when it was lost by Arms never dismantling the strong hold of his Principles nor yielding up his reason to those men to whom his Person was subject as well as his Estate for which he paid Composition 374 l. Vindicating the Church Correcting the Errors of every History that came out writing several exact Histories of his own with no other assistance than a poor Aâ—â—anuensis as he writ to Bishop Skinner that understood no Greek and but very little Latine A bold and an undaunted man both among his friends and his foes but one in whom my Lord of Canterbury Laud put so much Confidence that he sent for him one day and weeping told him of the increase of Popery and an honorable Person lately perverted by them in Wales intreating him who was then young when he should be called into their places that were now old to have a strict eye upon that party giving him rules to that purpose In fine Dr. Heylin died with the choicest Collection of of ancient and modern History of any man in his time and with the greatest zeal to serve the King and Church with that Collection and buryed in the North Isle of Westminster-Abby with this Monument over him Hic Jacet Prope depositum Petri Heylin S.T.D. Hujus Ecclesiae Praebendarii Subdecani viri plane memorabilis Egregiis Dotibus Instructissimi Iugenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad Prodigium tenaci cui adjunxerat Incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantibus oculis non cessabant scripsit varia plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Argumentis non vulgaribus stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Majestatis Regiae assertor nec florentis magis utriusque quam affiictae Ideoque Perduellium Schismaticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus contemptor Invidiae Et Animo Infracto plura ejusmodi meditanti mors Indixit silentium ut sileatur efficere non potest Obiit Anno Aetatis 63. Domini 1662. Posuit hoc illi Maestissima Conjux Dr. Daniel Featly Minister both of Lambeth and Acton the one in Middlesex and the other in Surrey bred Fellow of Corpus Christi in Oxford whereof his Father was a Servant who the third New-years-day in his life Presented him a Pye to the Reverend Doctor that was his God-father and he dedicated him to the Church taking care for his Education in that University in or near which he had his Nativity where his judgment grew so accute and his fancy so florid that for his Elegant and rational performances in the Schools Bishop Morton then accidentally at Oxford admitted him to his intimate friendship The Colledge put him upon the Admirable Panegyrick of the Founder Dr. Reynolds chose him for one of the witnesses of his death the House injoyned him being then Dean of Arts the making of his Funeral Oration as afterward he did himself the writing of his Life The Church then in a Convocation pitched upon him being then twenty four years old to write that Life of Bishop Iewell that is set with Bishop Overalls Preface before his Works as they were then Presented before King Iames the University made him Rehearser 1610. Doctor afterwards Bishop Io. King Mr. Bates of Trinity Mr. Dunster of St. Mary Magdalen and Mr. Ozbaston of Christ-Church being the Preachers as the Bishop of London did 1618. at St. Pauls Cross Dr. Warberton Dean of Wells Doctor since Bishop Hall Dr. Hacket Bishop White being the Preachers an employment he the easier performed the great Task he urged to impose upon himself being the Rehearsing emphatically of the choicest Pieces for Oratory and Poetry he could meet with every morning next his heart taking some smart Periods till his Authors were turned to his constitution these his happy Exercises with his ready and exact skill in all Arts and Sciences which he had in numerato for any present occasion being a perfect Master of his Learning either of accute Disputing or Elegant Preaching or convincing Conference recommended him to the retinue of Sir Tomas Edmunds when he went Leiger Ambassador into France where at Fauxburgh St. Germans 1610. 1611 1612. his Sermons about Apostacy and halting Confirmed thirty two persons of good worth in the Protestant Religion his Discourses of the benefit of Afflictions comforted eight persons under sufferings for that Religion and his Sermons of Idolatry and Corruptions converted eighteen to it besides that his three Disputations there upon some grounds and Collections he had made out of the Papists own writings he having by the advantage of his Memory and Logick an admirable faculty of overthrowing an Adversary by his own Concessions or Principles are confessed by Holden to have done more harm to the Popish Cause than thirty three he had read of before Indeed he had three things that would make a stupendious Disputant 1. A calm temper injoying his Adversaries frets and taking advantage of his disorders 2. A voluble tongue used to discourse in the Club that always attended Dr. Featley 3. His rubbing over every year his Memory with Definitions Divisions and Maxims both in Philosophy and Divinity In so much that he was upon his return taken in to be Chaplain to Arch-bishop Abbot by whom he was instructed with the Licensing of Books the examining of Clerks and the drawing up of his Brother Bishop R. Abbots Life his Consecration Sermons and other occasional Exercises while he was in this capacity are extant and his respectful and quick dispatch of every man with satisfaction taking care that none should go away sad from his Lord fresh in many mens Memory as are applauded Clerums and his admirable Exercises for his degree all instances of what an holy Wit and sanctified Learning could perform by the Arch-bishop he was preferâ—ed to Lambeth where and throughout Southwark London and Westminster he was as appears by his many occasional Ser'mons much respected 1. For his Disputations with and Writings against Popery especially when Bishop White had wisely cast the Net to take Fisher Dr. Featley helped to draw it out 2. For his constant Preaching having not missed the morning Sermon as then observed for five years together so even and constant grows the excellent man 3. The savouriness of his Sermons not altogether Wit for that had been to feed his Hearers with Sawce instead of Meat nor altogether with Disputation for that were to feed them with Stones instead of Bread but setting before them wholesome Doctrines in an exact method and an acute expression 4. His Faithful adherence to his Flock during two great Sicknesses in one of which he Composed that excellent Piece so often Printed called The Handmaid to Devotion 5. His value of good men particularly Mr. Tho. Gataker whom he carried always in his Bosom as he did him an overseer of his life Son of Tho. Gataker Minister of St. Edmund Lumbard-street Scholar of St. Iohns one of the
and Margaret Professor of Divinity a strict observer of Discipline and a great pattern of Charity having eluded the first commission of the Visitors by a prudent demurr and delay and with excellent Reasons penned by Dr. Saunderson against the Covenant and by Dr. Langbain against the Visitation honourably neglected the second turned out so violently that his sick Wife was carried out in a Chair to make way to a Presbyterian successor as his was a little while after Digitus Dei to make way for an Independent one Dying heart-broken not for his own sufferings but his Majesties he left a Son heir of his zeal the Reverend Dr. Io. Fell now Dean of Christ Church who kept up the Devotions and Orders of the Church of England in his Brother-in-law Dr. Willis the accurate Natural Philosopher and Physician at Oxford Lodgings and House supported the Members of it by a great part of his Estate and kept up the honor of it by his example Dr. Robert Sanderson of the Noble Family of the Sandersons in York-shire and Lincolnshire bred under a methodical Master at Lincoln School and an exact Tutor at Lincoln Colledge who improved his pregnant Wit his large Understanding his faithful Memory his solid Judgment made more so by method and a deep Apprehension his hopeful Seriousness his silent Sedentary and astonishing Industry to that exactness which stuck to him to his dying day and he would observe that exactness or strictness in laying the grounds of Learning had their respective influences upon the superstructure In his younger days he learned an Art of Memory for being enjoyed when young to learn what he understood not he was compelled to make use of similitudes and to remember those things he knew not by thinking upon something like them he knew Being Serious in his Design Prudent in his Study Industrious in his Way Clear in his Apprehension Searching in his Disquisitions Serene Orderly and Methodical in his thoughts Sober and Civil in his Carriage his Tuition having added to his great parts that Humility Meekness Modesty Obedience and Civility as advantaged by his good Disposition rendred him to his last Submissive to Superiors Obliging to his Equals Tender to his Inferiors Affable and Charitable good Discipline in youth begets an habit of Obedience in riper years his thoughtful Soul strugling with the Intricacies Perplexities Darkness and Confusion of Nature and intent upon a genuine Apprehension of things rather than a toilsome Collection of words save so much Grammar as enabled him to speak his minde properly so much Rhetorick as to express it Perswasively and so much Logick as might order guide and direct his thoughts Methodically in apprehending things Distinctly in judging of them Exactly in finding out the truth that lieth in them Successfully in discovering the errors deceits and fallacies imposed upon us about them Evidently and urging the truths found out Convincingly His way was 1. To write the Rules his Tutor suggested or his Books afforded for he writ most he read or heard as he said To stay his active and young soul upon things till he had distinctly conceived them 2. To debate the Rules he writ with his friends whereof he always kept a Club. 3. To practise them upon some question or other till they became as his native reason as his own soul whereby he attained afterwards in all cases a great happiness to comprehend things deeply and fully State Controversies exactly to lay them before others clearly solidly compendiously and impartially to find out the merit of a cause the right state of a question exactly reasoning convincingly and demonstratively alledging closely and pertinently with observations choice and prudent deductions clear and genuine expressions apt suitable weighty and accurate and the whole discourse even and steady made up of abstract notions of reason experience and religion being sure to state the words in a question or case What is controverted as there will be very little when words and things are well understood must be clearly laid down would he say as it is understood on all hands and convincingly proved by a proper reason from the nature of the thing or uncontrouled authority pressed and cleared from all evasions cavils and Subter-fuges which cavils must be proposed faithfully and honestly and answered breifly fully ingeniously candidly and modestly Insomuch that as he composed a new Logick an excellent way of reasoning so he was many years the publick Reason of the Church as her best Casuist and of the University as her accurate Kings Professor of Divinity He sorted every word he read to its proper head â— having a vast Index materiarum where to put his reading and meditations drawn by himself by him he made it his business to know rather distinctly and exactly than much though he that digesteth a few things throughly and methodically so much doth one part of learning well understood depend upon and illustrate all knoweth every thing His Fellowship he reckoned a great advantage by good converse to improve his first years of prudence and discretion and his Pupils among whom the Lord Hopton was one a great help by giving him opportunity to observe the several weaknesses of reason and the respective remedies Eleven hours was his usual allotment for study though there was hardly a minute of his time but was full of his affairs either of necessity civility or study It cost him so much sad thoughts to go through any subject in his unnering and accurate way that as he writes in his Preface to the book of the Obligation of Conscience that he could do nothing untill he needs must his mind running up and down till penned up and confined by necessity of which he used to say as Pythagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having attained a grave and comely carriage a plain and solemn garb becoming a man that alwayes meditated some good and great design an even calm and deliberate serious and well-ordered habit of words and action an innocently faâ—â—tious converse tempered and allayed with gravity good counsels and an excellent example a temperance and moderation made up of Epictetus his two words Sustine Abstine none in judgement more for Liberty in those things that were lawful and none in practice more Cautious in those things that were not expedient Having his youthful heat abaded and fined into a mature prudence and an exact Learning and his soul knit into compleatness and resolution resigning his Fellowship in a way agreeable to the will of the Founder and the present good of the Colledge and the University as well as the future benefit of the Church in compliance with the expectation of the University and the Church together with his own inclination who would always say That imployment was improvement he was for many years Minister of Booth by Pagnel in Lincoln-shire Where 1. his care was to settle and maintain friendship and love among people of the same Inclination Profession Study and
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
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
or governed he did it exactly according to the old Injunctions of the Realm the Canons of the Church and the Laws and Statutes of the place of all which his Visitation Articles were an exact Collection For which by men ignorant and impatient he was cried down into Prison without ever being heard for fifteen years together by a Parliamentary power and by the same power as St. Paul Act. 16. 39. was intreated out of his bonds by them that put him in discharged out out-living by a strong constitution used to hardship never seeing Fire in the coldest time nor bating the hardest Meat in his weakest years seldome a bed till eleven a clock at night and always up at five in the morning at his hours walk without either Fire or Candle and continual Study diverting his thoughts whereof his Accurate and Critical Vindication of the Scripture against the Socinian Glosses is a very great instance Printed at the end of the Critica Sacra a small part of a vast Treasure of such choice observations If he discoursed he did it to his last with a vast comprehension and memory of particular and minute circumstances though at never so great a distance of time or place If he had relation to any Colledge as he had to Peter-house and Pembroke-hall and I think St. Iohns Cambridge as Visitor and Charter-house as Governor he looked to the concernments of each place narrowly he incouraged hopeful men in them bountifully and kept up the interest of the Church as he did every where strictly if it was a time of Parliament or Convocation he attended them carefully and constantly for he knew that a Vote may sometimes save or loose a kingdom This Eminent Prelate dying 1667. above 80. years of age was buried in a Chappel erected at his own charge in Cambridge with the greatest solemnity seen in the memory of man performed by the whole University ordered by an Herald Dr. John Pearson Master of Trinity-colledge and Margaret Professor making an excellent Funeral Oration upon the occasion and all the Company besides that they laid the rich Miter and Crosier upon the Altar making the greatest offering that ever was seen in the University I wish him so good an Historian of his life as he had been of the Church if he had undertaken what Bishop Andrews imposed upon him before he understood Sir Henry Spelman was about it viz The Collection of Counsels and so good an Epitaph David LLoyd Dr. of Law born in Mongomeryshire or Shropshire bred in All-souls Oxon sometime Comptroller of the Earl of Derbies house and Chaplain to his Family Warden of Ruthen Denbighshire and Dean of St. Asaph an ingenious Gentleman of greater spirit than estate well esteemed of by the neighbour Gentry where he lived and not understood by the populacy a great agent and sufferer for his Majesty well understanding how to take off his enemies and ingage his friends He died 1662 3. Dr. Iohn Barneston born of a good Family in Cheshire to which he was an ornament bred Fellow of Brasen-nâ—se-colledge in Oxon to which he was a benefactor founding there a Lecture for Hebrew where he had been an excellent Proficient in Greek that that Colledge which is so eminent for Philosophy should be as excellent for the Tongues Chaplain to Chancellor Egerton to whom he was Counsellor and Residentiary of Salisbury where he was an hospitable House-keeper a chearful Companion and a peaceable Man by the same token that a Church-warden being brought before him by the Parish in a Consistory for having lost the Chalice out of his House which should have been kept in the Church he perceiving that the Church-warden had carried it home with an honest intent not to Imbezzle but to scoure it ended the controversie thus Well I am sorry that the Cup of Vnion and Communion should be the cause of difference and discord among you Go home and live lovingly together and I doubt not but either the Thief out of remorse will restore the same or some other as good will be sent you Which by a charity as secret as the offer was prudent was performed not only on the Doctors motion but his charge too who rested in that peace he lived when the whole Nation was imbroiled in a war 1642. About which time died Mr. Io. Bois who credited Elesmeth in Suffolk by his Birth Hadley School and Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge by his Education Boxworth in Cambridgeshire where he was Parson and Ely-church where he was Prebendary by his preferment His voluntary Greek Lecture read a Bed early in the morning to young Scholars whereof Mr. Gataker was one improved him much and the young men of those times more King Iames his Translation of the Bible wherein he was an eminent instrument Sir Henry Savils Chrysostome whereof he was the Supervisor and the choice Notes and Criticisms that go up and down among learned men whereof he was the Author will preserve his memory in the world as long as it is either religious or learned Bishop Andrews who made it not his business to finde preferment for men but men for preferment stole those they had upon him and Mr. Nicholas Fuller in a way equally agreeable to their modesty and merit As Bishop Laud did for Mr. Edward Symonds a native of Cottered in Hertsordshire Scholar of Peter-house in Cambridge and Minister of Little Rayne in Essex before the wars so strict his life and so plain piercing and profitable his preaching whereof some very pertinent Sermons extant are instances that he was looked upon as a Puritan yet in the wars so early his care in vindicating his Majesty in a Book bearing that Title in principling his Country against Rebellion in some controversies with Stephen Marshall whom he after visited in his Bed at Westminster telling him That if he had taken him for a Wild Beast he would not have rouzed him in his Den and afterwards in being instrumental to set forth his late Majesties true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was Sequestred of his Living and forced first to Worcester then to Exeter and Barnestable after that to France and at last to London where he died 1649. being buried in St. Peters Pauls-wharfe where he often preached and elaborately for being requested once to Preach upon a small warning and told that the plain Auditors would be best pleased with his plain performance he answered I can content them but not mine own Conscience to preach with so little preparation The Earl of Kildare being accused before Henry the eighth for burning the Cathedral Church of Cassiles in Ireland professed ingeniously That he would never have burned the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Several persons being urged with their severity to this good man answered He had never suffered so had he not been a stubborn Kingling and Prelatist Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum Dr. Edward Simson born
diligence and industry did wonders in that School imposed upon him on the Epistles and Gospels at School were the ground of that Divine fancy so famous in Pembroke-hall where he was Scholar and Peter-house where he was Fellow in Cambridge where he was esteemed the other Herbert of our Church for making Poetry as Divine in its object as in its Original and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables Women Drollery or Flattery upon a matter and subject as noble as its nature making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house but in his Devotions wherein he spent many a night at St. Maries Church warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints under Tertullians Roof of Angels having no other Helicon than the Iordan of his eyes nor Parnassus than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts that made the Muses Graces and taught Poems to do what they did of old propagate Religion and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French Italian were as familiar to him as English Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday that ravished more like Poems than both the Poet and Saint two of the most sacred names in heaven and earth scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies his soul breahing in each word was the soul of the Assembly as its original is of the World Poetry Musick Drawing Limning Graving exercises of his curious Invention and sudden Fancy were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours not the grand business of his soul his diet was temperate to a Lesson exactness whence his memory was so clear that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets those Gibeonites to draw water to the Tabernacle The Divine Poet that had set a Language made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason for the Angels as the Schoolmen state their way of discourse to converse in seeing Atheism prevailing in England embraced Popery in Italy chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church in the practise of fundamental truths confessed to be then mixed with some errors than to stay here where was hardly the face of any Church after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors being resolved to any Religion than that which taught a holy Rebellion and Perjury a pious Sacriledge a godly Parracide and made the very horrors of nature the glory of Christianity And died of a Feaver the holy order of his soul over-heating his body Canon of Loretto whence he was carried to heaven as that Church was brought thither by Angels singing Dr. Iohn Sherman Scholar at Charter-house London and Fellow of Trinity-colledge Cambridge whom to use his own words Reading makes a full Scholar as appeared by his discourse called The Greek brought into the Temple Conference a ready Scholar evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Sectaries and meditation a deep Scholar as is legible in his excellent discourse so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce of Inâ—allibility so conscientious a man that because he had a small estate of his own derived to him by providence he would not return to his old Preferment his Fellow-ship and so modest that he looked not after any new being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration than others have been in their thoughts since that made it their business to enjoy them Dr. Abraham Cowley bred at Westminster under the Reverend Dr. Busby whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education and their Loyalty to his choice Principles preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge and when ejected admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy and Charter-house and the first failing and the second not falling rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties I think at Chersey in Surrey A Poet as all are born not made a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen and at sixteen excellently in the University for the entertainment of a Prince aiming according to his Motto Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo victorque virum voliture per ora at nothing ordinary he performed upon all occasions extraordinary arriving at the greatest heighth of English and Latine Poetry that is a happy fertility of Invention a great Wisdom of Disposition a curious Judgement in observance of Decencies and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution a becoming Modesty Variety and Majesty of Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bold and unusual figures all every where like a Mans Soul Grave Calm Sober and Chaste as his Life not gay all over but skilled when to be witty and when to be wise in a word his Poems the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious the one opening what the other coucheth Sublimated not Translated by him richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts than in their own a stupendious skill in most Languages and Sciences particularly in the two great Mistrisses professions Divinity and Physick and their brave attendants Philosophy Mathematicks and History besides Musick Limning c. his recreations and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge not on the Banks of Cham amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men where his thoughts run as clear and undisturbed as the stream and peaceable as the times but among cares and fears melancholy and grief sufferings and removes times fit to write of and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars reaching as far as the first Battel of Newbury are lost and that he laid down his Pen when his friends did their Armes that he marched out of the Cause as they did out of their Garrisons dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason in his power to keep when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs but not in In te inluens they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to himself Brute Doleo cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae Since Poesie as he observeth there that is to communicate pleasure unto others must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas sad times and a sad spirit being as unsuitable to a good fancy as to use his comparison for I make him all along who best could express himself the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial nothing but Love the Poets necessary affection
and all his Estate in Ireland both men of miraculous deliverances the one at Sea when forced to serve the Levant or the Indian Merchants where he was twice shipwracked living for four days without any sustenance and at last relieved only by that money which was stollen from him and the Company by one that was to die with them a strange itch to stealing when one takes that which neither they that lost nor he that took it could keep for ought they knew two hours to an end The other saved at the taking of Drogedah when all others were put to the sword because the Souldiers breaking into his Chamber found him at Prayers both persons of great fidelity intrusted with the Legacies and Charities of more private Benefactors than any two men in England and both called to manage publick Largesses the one being Sub-almoner to King Charles II. and the other Almoner to an Office though imposed upon him possibly with design he managed certainly with integrity The first died Archdeacon of Huntington 1666. and is buried at Westminster having great apprehensions of the sad state of things amongst us by the same token-that the last time I saw him he was very inquisitive what particular History there was besides Mr. Fox and the troubles of Frank ford of the Confessors Exile and Sufferings in Queen Maries dayes ' and the other died Rector of Whitchurch in Shropshire where he is buried fearing and suspecting the settlement of Ireland because he chose rather to take a Parsonage here than to return to his Dignities thither They were both Inns of Court-preachers the one Master of the Temple where he was as in all places he came to indefatigable in the extraordinary pains he took in Expounding Praying and Preaching the other Preacher of Grays-Inn 19. Dr. Ieremy Taylor born in Cambridge Town and bred in Cajus Colledge in that University his Parts being above his Birth and Fortunes for his Father was a Barber supplied his Chamber-fellow Mr. Risdens turn in the Pauls Lecture three or four times with such applause above his years that Archbishop Laud that great Judge and Patron of able men observing the tartness of his discourses the quickness of his Parts the modesty and sweetness of his temper and the becomingness of his personage and carriage preferred him Fellow of All Souls Oxford where he might have Time Books and company to compleat himself in those several parts of Learning whereinto he had made so fair an entrance An admirable Specimen of his progress wherein he gave in his full Sermon against the Papists November 5. 1638. preached to the University at St. Maries Oxford and Dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and being a compleat Artist especially an accurate Logician whereby he reduced all his Learning to such a method that he was the readiest in it of any man in his time notwithstanding the loss of his Church-preferments and which was more to him his time by his necessary attendance on his Majesties Army to which he was Chaplain he writ most accurate Defences of our Episcopacy Liturgy Ministry and Church which were never answered and some of the other side confessed could not be answered so exquisitely quick and exact were his Reasonings so fluent his Language and so prodigiously ready and various his Learning as being a very strict and pious man he writ several taking books of Devotion as Holy Living and Dying his Life of Christ his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Course of Sermons throughout the year the Doctrine and practice of Repentance his Golden Grove or a Manual of daily Prayers the Worthy Communicant A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer fitted to the needs of all Christians the Nature Offices and Measures of Friendship and his Cases of Conscience by which doing the Church in the time of her sufferings great services the latter adorning and assisting the forme◠and his indeavor to make men holy and serious preparing to his pains to make or keep them good Subjects and Church-men His great Wit and vast Learning being to be excused for some unwary Sentiments about Original sin and Liberty of Conscience the first in his Book of Repentance and the second in his Liberty of Prophecying which he writ to weaken Presbytery by pleading for Liberty to all other Sects as well as to undermine it as it had undermined Episcopacy he having published them with submission and explained them with moderation and Ingenuity erring possibly as a man but not persisting in his error as an obstinate man The reason why he was suffered under the Right Honorable the Earl of Carbery to officiate and keep School as he did very dexterously so long in South-wales to preach and keep a Congregation so long in London and to have a settlement in Ireland in those times where he had done so much good that his Majesty preferred him Bishop of Down and Connor there 1660. In which place what advices and comforts did he treasure up for all sorts of people and direct his Clergy to what Liberal Collections did he make what Directions to teach inferior Ministers to say and do well by reading good and approved Books especially Casuists and being skiled in the Rubricks Canons Articles and Homilies of the Church did he give what care of constant Prayers and Communions what strict Injunctions on his Clergy to visit their Parishioners and to deal faithfully with them especially in their sicknesses about their final state what exact Rules about the observation of the Lords day the Church Fasts and Festivals Catechisms Confirmation Confession of sin Declaration of the state of their Souls and conversation with their Ministers about Spiritual things what helps and Rules about the practice methods and benefits of Meditations what caution against popular compliances and making the peoples humors the measure of Doctrines which should be the measure of their humors indiscreet clashings between Prayers Sermons and other Ordinances unbecoming the discourses of God or light expression in the things of God emulation about Audiences of which he would say that he that envied his followed Brother is but a Dwarf that endeavoureth to pull down a higher man but is a Dwarf still advising those who could not have the fame of a good Preacher to take care that they had the Rewards of good men it being very hard to miss both what severity against disputing Articles of Faith or reviving old Heresies and their Arguments or novel and not allowed Interpretations of Scripture what diligence he wished popular errors and evil principles should be suppressed and the four last things should be inculcated what discretion he required in the use of Prmititive known and accustomed words in Religious Discourses in teaching all men the duties of their Calling in avoiding the heights of Gods Mysteries and inculcating the lowliness of Christs life in reproving the faults of men that Laws cannot or do not take cognizance of especially slandering and backbiting those poysons of Charity
if there were no Babes in the Church which could not digâ—st meat nor pick bones a Doctor Young his old friâ—nd Prâ—â—ching his Consecration Sermon on this Text The waters 〈◊〉 risen O Lord the waters are risen which inundeâ—ions of popular fury when Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he by his prudence set banks to a while and by the proâ—erity of his parts and 〈…〉 ough a Troubled with the Stone Hyropick inclinations and other distempers incident to 〈◊〉 bodies a Iuly 1 1574. b Newly come fâ—om Cambridge to be Lecturer of that place c Who was born at the same time with him a Founded by Master Blundel b Master Grandidge c Daughter to Master George Wâ—nniffe of Brettenham a Or Shernâ—â— heav ill 〈◊〉 Shâ—â—phili b As Fridays Washing in such a Ialâ—ll c Of the Carmelites b At Richmond c Delivered without book with the same exactness they were Penned d Ten pound more being allowed Doctor Hall for his pains e Then Dean of Windsor and so Patron of the Church f Which was Printed since in his remains p 306. g Of Predestination and Reprobation of the Latitude of Christs death of the power of mans free-will bâ—fore and after his conversion and of the Eâ—lects perseverance in grace See his Letter at large in the Author of the Church History protesting against the aspersion a See his Remains a By his own power and his interest abroad apparent in his Letters to â— isâ— in the behalf of worthy persons b See Parliament proccedings three 〈◊〉 years of K C. I. by Tâ—â— Fuller c Who repented solemnly for being made a Bishop d Especially iâ— the point of Anti-christ the Sabbataâ— riâ—nism the jus positionum mediatum Whether â—piscapocy an order or degree with other observations the result of great prudentâ— a Vpon the Earl of â—ssex his motion b By Wild and Cotbet a The excellent Doctor Brown of Norwich b Vidâ— Câ—lumb Noâ— c Which he called his other soul. Thucideâ— Eâ—napius Lipsius Halycarnasseus Caussinuâ— St. â—erom Heinsius a Especially in his admirable Royal Slave his Play and his Prophesiâ— made 1636. to entertain the King and Queen at Christ-Church in Oxâ—n when Doctor Dupps said Cartwright finds 〈◊〉 and we Money 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 See Dr. Baâ—hurst of Tim. Col. Oxâ—ns Verses 〈◊〉 him Dr. Mâ—in upon him Mr. S. verne upon him Dr. Towers upon him Sir Edward 〈◊〉 his Poems Sir John Pettus upon his Poetry Dr. Fâ—ll now Dean of Christ Church Oxonâ— upon him a 〈…〉 Cleavelands 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 English as 〈…〉 published by 〈…〉 bain b There was 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Oxford always â—â—â—ther as 〈◊〉 Sâ—gge 〈◊〉 Cartwâ—â—â—â— Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 head Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈…〉 a In whose behalf he 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 which made him 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 b 1644. when the University of Oxford 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 of Bishop Usher to 〈…〉 a He bestowed his Books upon the Library of Christ-Church b And his friend Mr. Bogan Author of Homer Hebraison c Dum Insanos â—mitatur vallus vibius quod assimulabat cum vivum redegit Coel. Chod l. 11. c. 13 Cic. epist l. 2. c. 9. d Who hath written an exact account of the Creeds of the Catholick Church a Out of whose Papers it is thought many learned discourses hâ—ve been compiled excellent for Latine Greâ—ian and Eastern learning a Another Mr. Powel of Christ Church a 〈◊〉 Orator who presented his present Maâ—esty and thâ— Duke of York at the Coâ—vocation 1643. b Of Merton who when undergraduate was Master of all that learning that is crowded in Archaelogia Attica whereof he was Aâ—ther a And the very same day was seven time somineâ—s to the 〈◊〉 Caracâ—lia a The best Sheep in 〈◊〉 are in Warwickshire and the best there are in Worâ—l ighâ—on the Seat of this Lord. a At Bringâ—on in Northhamptonshire a When they were â—etled in Hurst â—errepoint in Sussex a For be it was that managed Henry the sevenths escape and marriage with Elizabeth daughter to Edward thâ— fourth b R. Motton of Dorsetshire descended from one of the Executors of the aforersaid Cardinal exquiring this Bishop out upon the Princing of his first Book and claiming kindred with him though he was so modest as not to look upon his Pedigree when once presented though fairly rewarding the man that brought it c Where Guy Faux 〈◊〉 his School-fellow d Into Dr. Keâ—sons Foundation a Generally his own Pupils as Mr. Jo. Pierce Prebendary of Leichfield and Mr. Level of Durham b Master Young a Priest and Mr. Stillington a Layman g Particularly Father Mulhufinus who gave him a book of his own with this Inscription Prodomino Mortono Nich. Serarius Rector of the Colledge at Menâ—z whâ— mentioneth him civilly in a book he writ against Joseph Scaliger Becanus the two last desiring his prayers at parting ex animo though their Church thought him an heretick though Becanus galled by Arguments slighted his Devotions h As he did with Dr. Reynolds of Christ-Church Colledge and Dr. Airey of Queens i Where he gâ—ew intimately acâ—uainted with Doctor Lake then Master of St. Crosses Dr. Hanmer Warden of Winchester and Sibrandus Lubbertus Professor at Franeker in West-Friezland who dedicated to him his 〈◊〉 against the 99. Eâ—rors of Vorstius k The Inscription written by Dr. Tho. Goad Rector of Hadley in Suffolk l Diodati was 〈◊〉 at Geneva and Du Moulin Preacher at Chareâ—town by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of those that bindred and those that to serve their Friends promoted him to use his own words from a Pleasant Dale to a Bleak hole m So really did â—e nolle Episcopariâ— That though elâ—â—ed 1615. he was not Consecrated till 1616. at Lambeth very solemnly by reason of the Marquess of Huntleyes Absolution performed there at the same time before three Archbishops twelve Bishops English and Scots thirty Noblemen eighty Gentlemen of great Quality Prince Radzivills Son and another Nobleman of Poland receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the same time n Vsâ—ng a fatherly mildness together with strength of argument as appears by the Conference he had with the Non-conformists since Published and called The Defence of three Innocent Ceremonies o As appears by the gracious testimony given him in his Majesties Declaratioon 1618. in these words There is now no little amendment in those Counties meaning Cheshire and Lancashire which is no small content to us The Declaration I mean is that about Sports on the Lords-day which he made some opposition to a while and when he was over-ruled he drew upon K. James his â—rdâ—r and with Bishop Andrews his advice the six limitation to the Liberty granted in that Declaration which was the best way to bring the people of that Countrey to Conformity p Particularly with Spalato his friend whom he diswaded by Writing and Conference from his return to Rome telling him the entertainment he found there Leich tibi in animo convertere Papam Spal an
Person of great Command Sir William Crofts was slain at Stokesey Shrop. June 9. 1645. James Crofts Her Will. Crofts Devon Christoph. Crofts and Edward Crofts York paid 700l for their Loyalty b Tho. Conisby Morton Baggot Worcest paid 91 l c General King a good Scotch Souldier bred and I think after the defeat at Marston-Moor died in the Swedish service and Sir Jo. Brown a good Commander slain 1650. infight with Lambert # Die # created 16 4. d Sir William Ogle Wind. South paid composition 1042 l. James Ogle Causy Park Northumb. 324 l. and Sir Jo. Ogle Linc. e There was Sir Peter Courtney of Tresher Cornw. 326 l. Richard Courtney of Luneret Cornw. 437 l. Jo. Courtney Esq of Mollane Devon 750 l. a Whence a Yoke is their Supporters b As was Mr. Edw. Sackvile Earl of Dorsets son afterwards barbarously murdered near Oxford a general Scholar and a good Chymist Coll. Dervy Major General George Porter Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Villiers were hurt then near my Lord the last dying afterwards of the Small Pox. Coll. Jo. Spencer who with his posterity was voted to an extirpation out of the Kingdom because those Colours were supposed to be his which had a Parliament house on them with two Gun-powder Traytors on that and this Motto Ut Extra sic Intus a Sir Arthur Basset Knighted by the Duke of Normandy who had power of Knighting Life and Death Coyning Printing c. Sir Thomas Basset Arthur Basset Esq Devon b Whose escape at Winc. was admirably contrived not only to his safety but the converting of many to his Majesties side and sowing of Dissention among the Enemies a And preferred by him as appeared by the Docquet book b At the same time with the Isle of Rhe busisiness This minds me of Sir Thomas Danby of Fornley York who paid 780l c Who himself paid for his Loyalty and Estate in England 1631 l. a He was born April 2. on Maunday-Thursday 1629. 8 Meneth and Christened by my Lord of Canterbury Laud April 21. the same year b I finde this Note in the Black Book of Goldsmiths-Hall Sir Will. Campian Comwel Kent 1397l a Sir Tho. Holt of Aston com Warwick paid 4401l 2 s. 4 d. Sir Tho. Hole of Fleet-Damorell Devon 280l per annum setletd and 400l in Money Rob. Holt of Castleton Lane Esq 150l Thomas Webbe of Rich. Surrey Esq paid 345 l. Composition a I find Sir Tho. Manwaring Tho. Manwaring Peter Manwaring and Elisha Manwaring all Cheshire Gentlemen 2000 l. deep in Goldsmiths hall a Coll. Rice and Coll. William Thomas were active men in those parts a Subscribing all Declarations there b Sir Jo. Morley of Chich. Sussex paid 500 l. Sir Ed. Moseley of Hunyden Lanc. 4874. Kuthbert Morley 288 l. c I find Will. Savile of Wakefield York Esq 600 l. deep in the Goldsmiths-ball Books and Tho. Lord Savile 4000 l. a Where he mediated for the terms they had there b Translations the Argumentâ— of his ability as well as modesty since no Genius less than his that writ should attempt Translation though few but those that cannot write translate J.D. in Fr. II Pastor Fido. a Which T.B. said was a truth and though Impeacâ—ed yet not to be taught at that time a Captain Lovelace who delivered the Petition was in Newgate b Jo. Earl Rivers paid 1110 l. composition a Wise-man and able Statesman and Tho. Savage of Beeston Chesh. Esq 557 l. c Laurence Chaldwell Esq paid 553 l. composition a Col. Sebast Bunkley was a good Souldier and very true-bearted man b Whose composition stood him in 5000 l. It is Bartlet in Mercurius Rusticus a Sir G. Sonds of Throwley Kent paid 3280 l. Sir Jo. Butler of Stone Hertf. 2000l Jo. Butler Oxon. 180 l. Jo. Butler Bilson Leic. 128l Charles Butler of Coats Linc. Esq 970 l. Sir Tho. Butler and his son Oliver of Teston Kent 3011l Sir Jo. Butler of Elerton York 569l Rob. Butler of Southwell Notting Esq 679l Mr. Francis Nevil of Chivel York Esq 1000l 〈◊〉 â—W Nevill H. Nevill of Cressen Temple Essex Esq 6000l R. Nevile Billingberi Berks Esq 887l York Nevill Esq and Sir Gervase his son of Auber Lincoln 1731l Will. Nevill of Cresse Temple Essex Esq 211l There were in the Kings Aâ—my Col. John Thomas and Sir William Butler killed at Cropredy as before whose Lady Sir Philip Warwick Marryed A. C. a I find this Note in the black List of Compounders H. Walcot of Poynton County Salop Esq with 80l per annum setled 500 l. a Sir Jo. Harper of awk Derb. 578 l. b Christopher Lord Hatton of Kirkby Northumb. whose sufferings were great but his good example to all men and encouragement to good men greaterâ— he paid 3226 l. b Col. Robert Hatton was an active and a discreet man in the Kings Army a See Sir Edward Hales Speech in the Collection of Speeches 1659. b Bred in the German Wars a L. 4. Aen. b As Donne c. c Câ—l Cassey Bental slain at Stow in the Would Gloâ— Col. St. George killed at the entry of Leicester which Town is his Tâ—mb and the stones as red with his bloud as those of Jerusalem are with St. Stephens Col. Fenwick Sir John Fenwicks son an excellent Horseman slain at Marston-Moor Col. Dalby Engineer General killed at Winkfield Mannor Derb. a Sir Tho. Bridges Campton Som. 869 l. with 20 l. per annum setled b Sir G. Lisle bred them up and his Brother Major Lisle who was killed at Marston-moor Sir Tho. Bridges Somer 1000l in money and 20 l. per annnum land Redman Buller Fulbeck Esq 770l Sir Tho. Bludder Flanford Surrey 1537l There was Col. Jos. and Col. Bamfield belonging to Arundel Castle a Solus quod sclam qui Doctrinam novam superata Invidia vivens stabilavit Hob. Pref. ad clem Phil. 5. 1. de corpore a In one Volume called His Polâ—mical writings a 〈◊〉 which all ignorant persons of all ages he enjoyned to be 〈◊〉 a To go to the dead is said to go to the greater Number b Being knocked off his Horse before that Gate before which he denyed the King Entrance into Hull and plundered of that Estate to the value of 25000 l. which he had plundred from his Neighbors a He said at his death that he had relieved favoured and done Offices for that Party as much as any man in the Kingd b By which he meant the invisible c Particularly in the Case of the five Members a Philip Earl of Pembroke escaping narrowly being then sent with Propositions to Hampton Court b As he had been before 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653. till forced away by Sir George Ayscough another Convert to vanquished Loyalty a For the Papers being published all gave the better to his Majesty
SAMUEL MARSH Dean of York DOctor Marsh born Feb. 6. 1586. at Finchamsted in Herts and bred Fellow of All-Souls took to his book and became a Scholar against the will of his friends and a Divine against his own upon the same occasion that others become Physicians for being serupulous and inquisitive he spent so much time in settling his own soul that before he was aware he was immersed in that noble Science and Art of saving others Art I say for it was his Motto He that winneth souls is wise and he did profess to a friend as Bishop Williams once did that though he had gone through several honorable employments yet he would take more comfort in begetting one soul to God in travailing in birth till Christ were formed in an immortal spirit than in gaining all the honors in the world to himself he was one of those Reverend Divines the late King desired to converse with in his solitude and to advise with in his Treaties and one of them the Parliament feared most making the Kingdom his Church when he had none and instilling every where wholesome notions and rectified apprehensions into mens minds as likewise implanting the truth after godliness in their hearts teaching men not to be linked to this or that body of men in a design but with all good Christians in Communion many were his afflictions but according to that Text he said he kept up the heart of his Hearers with Preaching upon it God delivered him out of them all He could have lived as a Physician a Lawyer as well as a Divine he did as Nazianzen said of Philagrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 play the Philosopher in his sufferings calling his tribulations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learned afflictions full of great instructions which taught he said much real Christianity and made his soul of a more strong able and athletick habit and temper speaking in his distresses that he hoped he had learned all that for which God sent it and that he thought God kept us so long in that dispensation under those pressures and sufferings that Patience might have its perfect work and that the world might see what the true Protestant Religion was able to do what might power and virtue there was in it to bear up souls under the greatest misfortunes This would he say is the time to let men see we can live up at the same rate as we have formerly discoursed Four things he had a special care of in the late times 1. The Confirmation of well-affected People and the grounding of their Children from house to house where he was the more welcome by the sweetness and chearfulness of his converse 2. The furnishing of private Schools and Families with those excellent Scholars and honest Men to whom Zenodotus his Proverb was very applicable in those times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either he is dead or he teacheth School Expressing himself about that Care of his as Sir Walter Mildmay did about Emanuel Colledge whereof he was Founder That he set Acorns which others might live to see Oaks 3. The restraining of the Kings friends from rash and exorbitant expressions or actions That the Tyranny to use his own words might wear its self out upon their patience which might seed its self upon their peevishness 4. To widen his Majesties Interest by matching his friends to some of his not implacable and more generous foes who should espouse their Cause as well as their Relations intermarriages as he observed by the care God took in that case among his own people being able to turn the humor of any Nation In fine having saved the Plate and Books of Sion-Colledge in London when he was President having bestowed his own upon the Church to which he owed it hating to enrich private Families into Pride with the publick emoluments of the Church given to Piety and having led an exact and an exquisite life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a conversation so studied that it was in all things consonant with its self in most unaffected gravity wonderful simplicity and a stern Countenance proportionable to the vigor and strength of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a look that was not one key below his intent eager and sprightly minde wholly careful of the things he hoped for and regardless of the things he saw He died in a good old age 1662 3. Dr. Samuel Marsh Iocus Protervae Ludicrumque fortunae sed major ipsa Pallidoque Livore utriusque victor hoc jacet Busto nequid Aevi saeculique vis possit diesque long a deleat viri nomen devinxit ipsum Marsh sibi tempus Doctor Marsh his name puts me in minde of Dr. Thomas Paske whom he used to call his Glass so faithful a friend he was in discovering to him his defects and so good an example in proposing to him a pattern of perfection Against his will Master of Clare-hall Vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1621 2. when the contest was between Dr. Micklethwait and Dr. Preston about the Lecture at Trinity Church in that University without his knowledge made Archdeacon of London Minister of Much-haddam in Hertfordshire and St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey A Gentleman that did nothing so chearfully as suffer for his late Majesty and his Son eighteen years Modestly refuse first and then unhappily miss a Bishoprick under his Majesty that now is and dye The right square man and honest Cube that throw him where you would fell upon his base denying himself he injoyed the world none being able to deal more severely with him that he did with himself no condition afflicting him because no condition surprized him according to his usual saying That distresses were like Cockatrices if they see you first they kill you if you see them first you kill them Si tantum sperare dolorem preferre soror potero Disappointments kill some but as the Consumption did Dr. Butler who died of it as he said because he never feared it No wonder he was not ambitious of gain and preferment who was so civil in the in joyment of it that he would say He would not go to Law with his Parishioners for any part of his Tyths because if he lost their love as he must do if he were contentious he lost all probability of doing them that good for which he had all his Tyths Protesting that he had rather gain his Neighbours by spending all his Tyths in Hospitality than lose one by laying it all in his Purse Wherefore I hope he will see as many of his People happy about him in heaven as he saw of his Scholars and Pupils eminent here on earth three Bishops four Privy-Counsellors two Judges three Doctors of Physick one day appointing to Reverence that Person to whose Rules and Examples they owed their Merit as they did to their Merit their Greatness being much beholding to his Method Rules and Choice Books more to his Watchful Observation and most of all to his