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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

from idlenesse the seminary of all wickednesse * 27. Dignitates immoderatè exercuit Hee exercised the dignities which hee purchased with excessive usury It is a principle amongst hucksters and such as have dealings in the World that they that buy deare must sell deare It holds in spirituall preferments hee that emptieth his bags in buying of dignities will fill them againe in selling of Benefices and poling of under Officers it was so in the dayes of Richard the First when William Longshampe Bishop of Ely lived and long before him in the dayes of William Rufus when the munke of Malmsbury exclaimed proh dolor Ecclesiae nummis venduntur aere and it will ever bee so Aristotle seems to uphold the trade Consentaneum est saith hee ut ij qui emunt magistratus quaestui habere assuescant remp cum ●d eos largitionibus ascenderunt it is good reason that hee that buyes authority should make some profit of his authority but let us take heed how wee follow Aristotles consentaneum lest wee partake of the Bishop of Ely his supplicium Of the excessive pride and oppression and of the fall of the Bishop of Ely vid. Mat. Paris Anno 1190. in R. 7. Polid l. 14. * 28 Quidam comes Warwicensis ab Ed. 4 An Earle of Warwick raised to such a heighth of power by King Edw. the 4. This is the great Earle of Warwick that set up and pul'd down Kings Richard Nevill the son of Richard Nevill Lord Chancellour and Earle of Salisbury he was Lord high Chamberlain Constable of Dover Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque●orts and Admirall and indeed had the whole power of the Kingdome in his hands I may well say the whole power for he had not only the command of the Ports and Navy but hee had the command of the hearts of the people insomuch that they that knew him say quocunque ille inclinaret populus aut saltem major pars populi inclinabat which way soever hee went as a torrent hee drew the people along with him and to give him his due fuit verè nobilis quasi prae aliis notabilis nam ab ineunte aetate as Historians report of him non solum veris virtutibus mirabilis sed etiam art● quadam in ostentatione earum virtutum compositus hee was truly noble for from his childhood hee had not only rare and admirable gifts of nature but hee had art and eloquence to expresse them by meanes whereof hee grew gracious in the sight of the people amongst other his vertues he had two most eminent Magnanimity and Liberality which will win the heart of an enemy his Liberality he dayly shewed in his hospitality his Magnanimity and valour as at divers other times so especially at the first battell at St. Albons Anno. 1455. ubi ille primus omnium regios milites praelio lacessit as my Authour saith where hee himselfe made the first assault against the Kings Army and after a doubtfull warlike dispute which continued for the space of three or foure houres prevailed and slew Henry Lord Piercy the second Earle of Northumberland the Lord Clifford and the Duke of Sommerset Edmond Beauford that Duke of Somerset qui tot annos pro patria stren●è pugnasset adversus Francos that adventured himselfe many yeares against the French in the behalfe of his Country miserabile sanè spectaculum quod à suis civibus occideretur as that Authour saith a sad spectacle that he that so often adventured himself for his country should be killed by his country men but in abattell when all parties are in the higth of fury there is no distinction the Earle buried him nobly which was as much honour as hee could doe to one that fought against him the Earle married Anne the Sister and Heire of Henry Duke of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight and the favorite of King Henry the sixt who dyed at Hanly where hee was borne being now the Inheritance of the (g) Sir Iohn Russel of Strencham was Mr. of the Horse to Rich. the Second and many desc●nts before him was there one Tho. Russel of Strencham the Family quarters many Coates but the paternall Coat as I take it is argent a Cheurom between three Crosses Crosses Sables Russels of Strensham I cannot say the most eminent house of that name but this I say that I cannot finde others peradventure may any family of that name more ancient I will not except the most eminent in whose right hee was Earle of Warwick and had a massy estate by her hee had issue two daughters Isabell and Ann whom hee married into the Royall blood Isabell to George Duke of Clarence the brother of King Edward the fourth the eldest sonne of King Henry the sixt who was slaine after the battell at Tewxbury and afterwards to Richard e This honour is aptly compared to Sejanus his horse Tho. of Woodst Duke of Gloucest was strangled at Callis An. 1397. Tho. L. Spencer Earle of Gloucest was beeheaded at Bristoll An. 1400. Humfrey Duke of Gloucest was strangled in the Abby of St Edinbury An. 1446. Richard Duke of Glou. was slaine at Bosw an 1485. Duke of Gloucester who was slaine at Bosworth this man notwithstanding hee had been thus advanced fell off from the King and the cause of his revolt was for that he being sent into France to treat of a marriage for the King the King in the meane while married with the Lady Grey which the Earle taking to heart conceiving it to be a great wrong unto him to bee so deluded confederated with George Duke of Clarence his sonne in law to set King Henry the sixt at liberty being then in the Tower of London but it is conceived that this was but a pretence and that their intention was to settle the Crown upon the Duke for it is not probable or credible that the Duke would ever agree to settle the Crown out of his owne house upon the house of Lancaster and hereupon there was a bloody battell fought at Danes-moore not farr from Banbury and was called Edgcote field where the Kings Army was defeated and not long after the King taken prisoner at Wolney a village neare to Northampton and conveyed to Warwick Castle and from thence to Middlenam Castle in Yorkshire out of which hee escaped gathered new forces and at Stamford in Lincolneshire encountred and overcame the Earle and made him fly for succour into France but not long after the Earle returned and having assistance from the King of France put the King to the worst made him forsake the Kingdom and fly for reliefe to the Duke of Burgondy which Commines imputes to the Kings credulity in relying too much upon the Marquesse Mountacute who when hee had most need of him revolted to his brother but not long after the King returned and upon an Easter day after a bloody fight at Barnet the King prevailed and slew both the brothers the Earle and the Marquesse which

little and little he attained to Honour and in the end became to be the Kings Vicegerent being the greatest officer in Court This man now relying upon grace and favour which he was in with Rudolphus began to grow insolent to talke wantonly of Rudolphus and his Mother and to sow dissention between them which drew the hatred of them both upon him and caused them to make him an Example for by Rudolphus he was taken and cast into Irons and by his Mother his eyes were pulled out and his tongue that had talked so freely of her was cut out of his head The next Example is of Hungary * 34 Ludovicus primus porentissimus Rex Hungariae 34 Lewis the first of that name being the most powerfull King of Hungary left behinde him one onely daughter named Maria whom by his last Will and Testament with the consent of his Counsell he bequeatheth unto Sigismond Marquesse of Brandenburgh the sonne of the Emperour Charles the fourth being but of tender yeares yet so that untill she came to full age she should not marry him but afterwards should admit him her Companion in Soveraignty and Conjugall society but in the meane time she should be sole Commander and crowned with the title of King in this time lived her Mother Elizabeth the Wife of King Lewis who during her minority had a hand over her with both whom there was one Nicholas Gara whom Lewis had formerly advanced to be a Count Palatine that was nobly descended and exceeding rich on whom both the Mother the Daughter so much relied that what hee said was a Law they would doe nothing without him hee now attaining to such Grace and Favour did many ill offices advised the young Queen not to suffer her Peers to grow too great for thereby shee should diminish her own soveraignty and give them encouragement to attempt new designes but so to handle them that they might have no power to hurt her To take from such as were growen popular and potent all offices of command and authority and to bestow them on such as were men of known Integrity To conclude hee was a man gotten into so great favour with the Queen that what he spoke was a Law and what he advised onely was put in execution at which the Peers were highly offended and did conceive unplacable wrath not onely against Gara but against the Queen and laid their heads together how they might take from him all government in the Common-wealth for that much troubled them that she should so much dote upon that one man that to give him contentment shee should neglect and oppresse all the rest of the Nobility whereupon they sent for * 35 Carolus parvus 35. Carolus Parvus out of Apuleia and in the presence both of the Mother and the Daughter set the Crowne upon his head and proclaimed him King But they being greedy of Revenge and thirsting to be restored againe to the Kingdome by the councell of Gara they procured on Plasius Forgace de Chyines to kill Charles in the conclave and so by his meanes they attained their former government and this they did for the most part by the consent of the people for after that Charles was once crowned the people fell from him and repented themselves of what they had done but see what followes the troubled waters being well setled and they going for their recreation to see some of the lower parts of the Kingdome attended on by Gara and some others of the Court Ilion the governour of Croatia a friend and favorour of Carolus parvus who had beene formerly slaine by Gara's procurement desirous to revenge his untimely death boldly set upon them and whilst many run away Gara stood stoutly to it and defended both himselfe and the Ladies but in the end neare unto their Charriot was hee vanquished and slaine Pippo or Pippus alias Philippus Florentinus as Aenaeas Sylvius saith of the family of the Strozzi having behaved himselfe oftentimes very bravely in the Warres attained to such grace and favour with Sigismond the Emperour of Hungary that all men accounted him the second many men the first in the Kingdome insomuch that Sigismond said that if Pippo will it were an easie matter for him to send him with a staffe in his hand out of the Kingdome Bonfinus writes That he prevailed twenty times against the Turkes but afterwards being made Generall in the Venetian Warre and having bravely there carried himselfe for a long time was in the end by the Venetians corrupted with Gold to quit the Country and to returne into Hungary which being discovered to Sigismond hee caused Gold to be melted and to be powred downe his throat and so he came to his death Ericus King of Sweden being ill advised committed many cruell and enormous offences he contracted Matrimony with Catherine his Concubine and crowned her equally wth great solemnity a principall furtherer of his wicked enterprises was Georgius Peirus his Secretary whom he had exceedingly enrich'd with the confiscate goods of the Nobility at which his proceedings John and Charles his two Brothers being much offended and assisted with many of the Peers of the Nobility raised Armes against him besieged him and would not be satisfied untill they had George delivered unto them the King to pacifie them yielded unto their demand who after they had cruelly tormented him divided him into foure parts and so hee sustained condigne punishment for his many offences I might produce many Examples more and as Iustus Lipsius saith I should never make an end if I shoud reckon up all Examples in this kinde which every Age doth afford for this one Age afford us many Examples of note as Wolfgange Rinuphius who was advanced by Rodolfe Caesar M. Euzlius by Frederick Duke of Wittinburgh in France Charles Duke of Guyse Biron and of late yeares Marquesse D' Anchre CHAP. II. Of Causes IN the next place shall be shewed the Causes wherefore the prosperity of these men is but momentary and why ruine is for the most part the end of them The causes wherefore they continue not in prosperity that I may briefly summe them up are one or both of these Either because they doe obtaine their greatnesse by wicked practises and divises or that having duly attained unto it they doe dishonorably carry themselves in the execution of such offices as are committed to their charge The Counsels of men and the courses of their lives are different and have different successe according to the counsell of him that adviseth and perswadeth if hee adviseth good things to a good end the successe is good if contrarywise it is bad so in the world there are divers callings according to the diversitie of degrees sexes and professions and every calling different from another some of us are men some women some are fathers others children some Lords and free men other servants and Ministers some rule and governe others serve and obey some are separate for