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A09898	The life of Alfred, or, Alvred: the first institutor of subordinate government in this kingdome, and refounder of the Vniversity of Oxford Together with a parallell of our soveraigne lord, K. Charles untill this yeare, 1634. By Robert Povvell of Wels, one of the Society of New-Inne.	Powell, Robert, fl. 1636-1652.; Alfred, King of England, 849-899.	1634 (1634)	STC 20161; ESTC S115025	29,645	188

curious he was in reviewing almost all the judgements decrees sentences rendred in his absence throughout his whole kingdome where he found any ignorant malevolent or corrupt deviation from the line of Iustice he was discreetly quick in his reprehensions with a nimium admiror vestram hanc insolentiam c. Hee was a most ready composer of differences which commonly arose betweene his subjects both noble and plebeian at their comitiall centuriate and other assemblies in his severall Counties And because there is so neere a conjunction and coherence betweene the body and the mind Langueat illius fessus ut iste malis and the best cure and comfort of either is the alternate intermixture of some delights either in objects or actions Amidst the tempests of warre the infestations of Pagans the continuall crazinesse of his infirme body his watchfull providence in government the ponderous depressure of his state affaires he disposed some intervalum of retired time for the needfull solace and refection of his tired and toiled spirits and therefore applied himselfe to royall recreations all kindes of hunting and hawking wherein his skill and dexterity were so incomparable that he was able to direct and instruct all his Huntsmen Fawkners and all other Officers of his game the interpositions of these and other recreations added vigor valour both to his minde and body to support the burthen of his state And thus hee measured the paces of his earthly pilgrimage w ●h in the twenty eight yeare of his raigne he cheerefully resigned leaving behind him Elswich his sorrowfull Queene who survived him foure yeares Edward senior heire apparant to his Fathers valour and vertues aswell as to his Crowne Ethelward his second sonne but youngest childe to whom by his Will he devised great revenewes in the County of South-hampton Somerset and Devon a good part whereof the Cathedrall Church of Wels built or begun by his Ancestor K. Ine doth now enjoy He also left behind him three daughters Elfleda Ethelgeda and Elfrtde hee was buried in Saint Peters Church at Winchester but removed thence and buried by the new Kings direction in the Monastery there being one of his owne edefices His armes are to be seene in the publike Hall of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford and are thus blazoned A yellow Crosse patence in a field Azure the auncient armes of the West-Saxon Kings And added by him at each end or point of the crosse a Saint Martins bird called a Martinet or Martlet the reason of which addition whether because he was a fourth brother according to the rule of Herauldry or for what other cause it is not certainly historied A fit embleme may be drawne from the nature of these birds who about the moneth of November before the Feast of S. Martin for avoiding the coldnesse of the aire doe in the Winter time for shelter betake themselves unto secret and covert corners Latebras quaerunt ubi delitescant they flye much because they want the use of feet and thence are called Apodes It was the case of Alfred who in the winter of the Danish pursuit and persecution was forced latebras quaerere ubi delitesceret and was kept in such continuall agitation the former part of his raigne that he could not make use for any setled station or abode His Epitaphe is the Epitome of his life which the happinesse of thankefull times have dedicated to him as a monument of his eternall fame and here followeth out of the workes of a modern Chronographer Nobilitas inimica tibi probitatis honorem Armi potens Alfred dedit probitasque laborem Perpetuumque labor nomen immixta dolori Gaudia semper erant spes semper mixta timori Si modò victor eras ad crastina bella pavebas Si modò victus eras in crastina bella parabas Cui vestes sudore jugi cui sicca cruore Tincta jugi quantum sit onus regnare probarunt Non fuit immensi quisquam per climata mundi Cui tot in adversis vel respirare liceret Nec tamen aut ferro contritus ponere ferrum Aut gladio potuit vitae finisse labores Iam post transactos regni vitaeque labores Christus ei fit vera quies sceptrumque perenne Englished by Mr. Flemming Nobility by birth to thee O Alfred strong in armes Of goodnesse hath thy honor given and honour toilsome harmes And toilsom harms an endlesse name whose joyes were alwayes mixt With sorrow and whose hope with feare was euermore perplext If this day thou wert conquerour the next dayes war thou dredst If this day thou wert conquered to next dayes warre thou spred'st Whose clothing wet w th daily swet whose blade with bloudy staine Do prove how great a burthen 't is in royallty to raigne There hath not beene in any part of all the world so wide One that was able breath to take and troubles such abide And yet w th weapons weary would not weapons lay aside Or with the sword the toilsomnesse of life by death divide Now after labours past of Realme and life which he did spend Christ is to him true quietnesse and scepter void of end That famous Academie of Oxford retained so gratefull a memory of this blessed Prince that the superstition of that age ordained a solemn prayer to be celebrated in the Schooles yearly upon the vigils of S. Martin for the soules of all their Benefactors and especially for the soule of King Alfred which the happy reformation of religion hath reduced to an anniversary commemoratiō by way of thanksgiving and so continueth and ever may til the worlds end The Preface SOme write the lives of dead Princes to eclipse the glory of the living in such a lawlesse humour discontented with the present State over swayes the legiance of a loyall heart This Treatise aimes at no such end nor other but only an impartiall Parallell of two such Princes the one dead yet living in the other and the living raised as it were out of the ashes of the dead as many ages have not knowne the like You have observed in the past discourse the life of the dead and now survey the fulnesse of his vertues surviving in him that lives CHARLES our great and dread Soveraigne the Constantine and Carolus magnus of our age and if the stile of Magnus may seeme to bee borrowed from CHARLES the great Emperour of Rome yet I must adde Primus and I should write but truth if Primus ante omnes and none who will observe that sacred rule In cogitatione tua Regi ne detrahas will harbour so disloyall a thought of his Soveraigne as to thinke I flatter adulation like a false Glasse makes things seeme to be what they are not and exalteth vertue from its proper Sphere in this subject of Soveraignety there is no need of such imposture all mens eyes and co sciences may see and know that the radiant splendor of his gratious goodnesse doth exceed the

never spake in such an Auditorie never should againe What would he have said if hee had beene living upon his Majesties second comming to the blessing of that place when the birth of his and our hope the most illustrious Prince Charles ushered into the world by a light from Heaven Stella oriens in oriente manifested in the Meridian of the day was not without a solemne thankesgiving in such a confluence and throng of all sorts of Subjects as no eye ever saw the like in this land And as it was said of the first so may it be of this last worthy to adde a Rubrick more to our Almanacke and make a new holy day amongst us for such a Prince borne to the union of so many Kingdomes was here never knowne non sic contigit ulli The pretious ointment of his Majesties zeale doth not onely fall upon and drench the beard of this aged Hermon but descends and runs downe upon all the skirts of Sion all other Churches within his Majesties Realme of England whereof hee hath given an evident remonstrance aswell by his proclamation edicted in the first yeare of his raigne for preventing the decayes of Churches and Chappels for the time to come and prescribing and commanding thereby a speedy reformation in all such cases as also by his Highnesse late letters and directions to his Bishops within their severall Diocesses that either by themselves in person or by their officials or other persons of worth and trust they take view and survey of the Churches and Chappels in their severall jurisdictions and where they finde ought amisse to cause a speedy redresse thereof Our Saxon Alfred was never more gratefull nor more studious to prefer his Plegmund Grimbald Asser Scotus and others his learned Chaplaines than our Brittish Alfred hath beene and is to advance and priviledge his sacred Hierarchie of Bishops and others of the Tribe of Levi. Who was ever more tender and indulgent unto them Who more sedulous and speedy in the donation of Ecclesiasticall dignities scarce doe any fall but presently he fits a person for the place no Episcopall Sees have as in former times seene any triennial vacancies His Princely gratitude hath not onely honoured some of them in their lives but survived after their death That late dead Bishop of Winton a man of most ample and eminent learning shall witnesse instar omnium his accurate workes published by the reviewing of two his reverend Colleagues by his Majesties speciall command have raised up an eternall monument of his goodnesse and not for his glory onely but as in the dedication utilitati simul honori tum Ecclesiae tum Reipublicae futura and what is there further said of him I cannot conceale Non habuit Regia majestas servum fidelem magis non habuit Ecclesia antistitem magis eruditum It is to be wished that his Highnesse honourable gratefulnesse to him might incite others to deserve the like His Majesties frequent and fervent exercise of piety in his owne person is not inferiour to that of Alfred The often and serious frequenting his Chappels his reverend attention in hearing his unfeigned devotion in praying and his religious comportment every way conformable may be deservedly proposed to our little world an optative rule that in this as in other things Regis ad exemplum totus componeret orbis Let my meditations of his unmatchable goodnesse in and to his Church passe unto his workes of Iustice in the Common wealth behold him in the chaire of Moses sitting amidst his people nay his selected ones è sacris arcanis consiliis Iethro his Counsellors men of courage timentes Deum amantes veritatem and there you shall observe his meeknesse and patience in hearing his acutenesse in discerning and his maturity in deciding whatsoever comes before him The two edged sword of justice Ecclesiasticall and Saecular one side whereof was heretofore scarce an age since elapsed rebated by papall accroachment is full and absolute in his hands and vailes power to none but the supreme head of all Looke upon his unspeakable wisdome in the sincere and upright swaying of that sword his royall care to fence and conserve his Ecclesiasticall and municipall lawes from collisions and contestations and to binde and bound them up in judgement and justice prohibiting in cases for reparation of Gods houses and such like the too much profusenesse of prohibitions The concurrence of both these Lawes is necessarily required in the supportation of his regal government And therefore his excellency as a regall pillar doth his office in ballancing and upholding their jurisdictions as in a just and impartiall equilibre he fits his Iudges for the places of his Iudicature where he findes vertue and goodnesse hee is not sparing of his honourable guerdons where he findes any aberration out of the way of righteousnesse his discerning judgement hath beene and is as ready to reprove even the greatest of them with as heroicke increpations as ever Alfred did his Iudges with his quapropter aut terrenarum potestatum ministeria quae habetis illico dimittatis aut sapientiae studiis multo ut devotius studeatis impero His grave and learned Iudges for preventing the causes of such rebukes want not sufficient premonitions either from his owne sacred mouth or from his honorable Lord Keeper by his directions of cautionary dictates and remembrances for the due execution of his Lawes aswell in their semestriall circuits as at other Iudicatory times and at this time I dare boldly say that his Majesties solium or tribunal justiciae his Cathedra chorus Ecclesiae can more glory of their learned able and incorrupt possessors than in former ages But Ministers and Magistrates are mortall statutum est omnibus semel mori and therefore a continuall succession must be supplied from Schooles and Seminaries of Arts and learning whereof the two most famous seed-plots are Oxford and Cambridge His soveraignety hath had a most speciall regard not onely to preserve the respective priviledges order and government of these renowned Sisters but their peace and unity each with the other in the laborious Antigraphies for their eldership hee hath owned no side vetustas virtute honaratur vertue crownes antiquity with honour Grimbald a great Divine but a stranger was the first Chancellor of Oxford created by Alfred A greater than hee and of our owne Nation and of her education was the first Chancellor there and the first Metropolitan of Canterburie that was invested by King CHARLES since his raigne Alfred and Grimbald were not more zealous in appeasing the civill broyles of that honorable Academie Anno 886. than our now living Alfred and his most reverend and honourable Chancellor in the yeare 1631. Amidst his Highnesse many acts of preventing justice I shall onely insist on two and but perfunctorily The first a Proclamation in pursuance of his Fathers wise and just