his Spirit he added an indefatigable Industry and God gave a plentiful Benediction for there were very few kinds of Learning but he was a Mystes and a great Master in them 21. He was a rare Humanist and hugely verst in all the polite parts of Learning and had throughly concocted all the antient Moralists Greek and Roman Poets and Orators and was not unacquainted with the refined Wits of the later Ages whether French or Italian 22. But he had not only the Accomplishments of a Gentleman but so universal were his parts that they were proportion'd to every thing And though his Spirit and Humour were made up of smoothness and gentleness yet he could bear with the harshness and roughness of the Schools and was not unseen in their subtilties and spinosities and upon occasion could make them serve his purpose And yet I believe he thought many of them very near a kin to the Famous Knight of the Muncha and would make sport sometimes with the Romantick Sophistry and phantastick Adventures of School-Errantry 23. His skill was great both in the Civil and Canon Law and Casuistical Divinity And he was a rare conductor of Souls and knew how to counsel and to advise to solve difficulties and determine Cases and quiet Consciences And he was no Novice in Mr. S.'s new Science of Controversie but could manage an Argument and make reparties with a strange dexterity He understood what the several Parties in Christendom have to say for themselves and could plead their cause to better advantage than any Advocate of their Tribe and when he had done he could confute them too and shew that better Arguments than ever they could produce for themselves would afford no sufficient ground for their fond Opinions 24. I shall adde only his great acquaintance with the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers and the Doctors of the first and purest Ages both of the Greek and Latin Church which he has made use of against the Romanists to vindicate the Church of England from the Challenge of Innovation and prove her to be truly Antient Catholick and Apostolical 25. But Religion and Virtùe is the Crown of all other Accomplishments and it was the Glory of this great man to be thought a Christian and whatever you added to it he look'd upon as a term of diminution And yet he was a zealous Son of the Church of England but that was because he judg'd her and with great reason a Church the most purely Christian of any in the world 26. In his younger years he met with some assaults from Popery and the high pretensions of their Religious Orders were very accommodate to his devotional Temper But he was always so much Master of himself that he would never be govern'd by any thing but Reason and the evidence of Truth which engag'd him in the study of those Controversies and to how good purpose the world by this time a sufficient witness But the longer and the more he consider'd the worse he lik'd the Roman Cause and became at last to censure them with some severity but I confess I have so great an opinion of his Judgment and the Charitableness of his Spirit that I am afraid he did not think worse of them than they deserve 27. But Religion is not matter of Theory and Orthodox Notions and it is not enough to believe aright but we must practice accordingly and to Master our Passions and to make a right use of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and power that God has given us over our own actions is a greater glory than all other Accomplishments that can adorn the mind of man And therefore I shall close my Character of this great Personage with a touch upon some of those Virtues for which his Memory will be precious to all Posterity 28. He was a person of great Humility and notwithstanding his stupendious Parts and Learning and eminency of place he had nothing in him of Pride and Humour but was courteous and affable and of easie access and would lend a ready ear to the Complaints yea to the impertinences of the meanest persons 29. His Humility was coupled with an extraordinary Piety and I believe he spent the greatest part of his time in Heaven His solemn hours of Prayer took up a considerable portion of his life and we are not to doubt but he had learn'd of St. Paul to pray continually and that occasional ejaculations and frequent aspirations and emigrations of his Soul after God made up the best part of his Devotions 30. But he was not only a good man God-ward but he was come to the top of St. Peters Gradation and to all his other Virtues added a large and diffusive Charity And whoever compares his plentiful Incomes with the inconsiderable estate he left at his Death will be easily convinc'd that Charity was steward for a great proportion of his Revenue But the Hungry that he fed and the Naked that he cloath'd and the distress'd that he supply'd and the fatherless that he provided for the poor Children that he put to Apprentice and brought up at school and maintain'd at the University will not sound a Trumpet to that Charity which he dispersed with his right hand but wouldnot suffer his left hand to have any knowledge of it 31. To sum up all in a few words This Great Prelate had the Good Humour of a Gentleman the Eloquence of an Orator the Fansie of a Poet the acuteness of a Schoolman The profoundness of a Philosopher the Wisdom of a Chancellor the Sagacity of a Prophet the Reason of an Angel and the Piety of a Saint He had Devotion enough for a Cloister Learning enough for an University and Wit enough for a Colledge of Virtuosi And had his Parts and Endowments been parcell'd out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him it would perhaps have made one of the best Diocese in the world 32. But alas Our Father Our Father The Horses of our Israel and the Chariot thereof He is gone and has carried his Mantle and his Spirit along with him up to Heaven and the Sons of the Prophets have lost all their beauty and lustre which they enjoy'd only from the reflection of his Excellencies which were bright and radiant enough to cast a glory upon a whole order of Men. But the Sun of this our world after many attempts to break through the crust of an earthly Body is at last swallow'd up in the great Vortex of Eternity and there all his Maculae are scatter'd and dissolv'd and he is fix'd in an Orb of Glory and shines among his Brethren-stars that in their several Ages gave Light to the world and turn'd many Souls unto Righteousness 33. And we that are left behind though we can never reach his perfections must study to imitate his Virtues that we may at last come to sit at his feet in the Mansions of Glory which God grant for his infinite Mercies in Jesus Christ. Ob. Aug. 13. 1667. Soli Deo Gloria FINIS * Duacens Praef. ad Lib. de triplici Hom. officio * See a former Vol. * AEnea Pila Diog. Laert. * Archbish Laud B Mentague B. Lindsey Mr. John Selden c. * Jo. Antioch hist. tran out of Greek into Latine with Annot.
dexterity made them unjustly suspect that he had been cholerick He was a Compendium of the learned Tongues and all the liberal Arts and Sciences most seriously and soundly pious and devout freely charitable both in giving and forgiving and a faithful and true Son of the Church of England Ob. An. AEt 65. VI. Walt. Norbane Esq From Dr. Haywood 1 HIS natural parts were so eminent by Gods great blessing as to out-strip many of his rank at School when he was a Child and being quickly removed from School to the University from the University to the Inns of Court he there grew so eminent as to be called to the Bar betimes with much honour daily increasing in repute and renown till he performed his publick Reading with great applause nor could he have missed the degree of a Serjeant had times been as favourable as his Worth was great 2. Though one of the youngest Sons of his Father and by a second Wife yet so highly he gained his Fathers good opinion by his constant dutifulfulness and his known ability and worth that long after the Death of his Mother his Father at his decease ordained him sole Executor left him all his personal Estate besides his proportion of Land suitable to the rest of his Children Which overplus bequeathed to him alone he yet with such Charity and Tenderness imparted to his Brothers again that of his meer voluntary goodness he gave them as I am informed to the value of two thousand pound 3. In his honest industry God so blest him that he grew to a fortune such as scant any of his Family had the like yet not to be charged for ought I could ever hear of ruining any Person or Family or rising by the fall and impoverishing of others but eminent for his faithful diligence and honest trustiness and wise secresie and abundant sufficiency in his profession so that great and eminent ones in the same profession and some elder than he have repaired to him for his opinion and to be assisted with his Advice 4. In all the time of his life and practice never heard I of any that could tax him of the least breach of trust of any extortion bribery or injustice or of being feed on both sides or for deserting any cause which he thought just for want of his poor Clients purse-ability Well might he say with Samuel Whose Oxe or whose Ass have I taken or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes withal Notable late instances might be given of this if particulars of this nature were fit here to be mentioned 5. His integrity so great and his abilities so eminent could not fail to have preferred him to a Seat of Judicature among the highest had not the tempest of the Wars cover'd him with a cloud Wherein yet he preferred his Conscience before all worldly ends nor followed any side because he thought it would prosper nor forsake that side when he saw it prospered not but persevered as he had first engaged and engaged not weakly but fervently actively and courageously And yet so prudently that though he suffer'd imprisonment and paid large Compositions yet he scaped easier than some that were less active So great was his Wisdom and in such esteem was his worth had by the adverse party I will not say he was courted by some of them to accept of preferment among them but such things have been averred in my hearing and to my knowledge his constancy was such the world could not have wrought him to accept of promotion against his Conscience for all that was offer'd to our Saviour upon the Mountain 6. During the time of Wars and troubles though he were far in years yet he made no haste to marry no nor in times more quiet before the to fail him and newer customs to creep in which he fansied not a devout receiver of the Blessed Sacrament and a frequent Communicant in publick when he might receive it in the beauty of Holiness as he desired to see it Seldom failed he at three Solemn times of the year especially to make one at the Commumunion if he were in the Country 10. To the suffering party of the Clergy to those of his own perswasion very loving kind respectful and bountiful To none of any sort as I know uncivil though in more special manner he favoured and countenanced Divines of known Learning Gravity and Experience not much respecting other whom he thought time-serving hypocritical ignorant raw or scandalous 11. A friend to peace he was though his Profession rather thrived by strife a willing reconciler and taker up of differences where both parties would hear reason rather than a prolonger of suits A man such as Moses would have chosen for a Judge fearing God and hating covetousness hating it not only in himself but in others yea not caring to my knowledge to displease some of his very good friends where he thought them too worldly inclined Very bountiful he was to the poor himself and would fain have had all of ability like him Far from flattering lying and soothing up Loving Truth and delighted in them that loved it as one rightly sensible of the great calamities this Kingdom hath been involved in through the licentious and unconscionable liberty of lying tongues 12. Therefore was he honoured and respected far and near scant a Nobleman or Gentleman in these parts that made not much use of him and frequently as their occasions required resorted to him So that he was the eminent Beauty Ornament and shelter of this poor place wherein he liv'd a staff to the poor a Counsellor to the rich a sanctuary to the oppressed a terrour to the unconscionable deceitful and worldly minded a comfort to those in need and to such as for need desired his help 13. Our hearts sorrow it was that so soon in his bodily health he began to decline having yet scant added three years to threescore but to his joy in the end it proved I doubt not Near upon two years I have perceived him declining when as his outward man perished so his inward man seemed to renew day by day During which time he exercised his Piety addressing himself to read Books of Religion his justice paying every one his own And the four Virtues of the Cross Humility Charity Patience and Constancy appeared more and more to manifest themselves in him the nearer he drew to his end 14. Humility for he was courteous to the meanest ready to put off and yield reverence to any as fast as any to him nay to prevent in courtesie and to give place to some his inferiours Charity for he exceeded in bounty to the poor witness his last charitable gift to this Parish and divers pious Legacies in his Will to the value well nigh of a thousand pound Witness his loving invitation of his poor Neighbours in his weakness at Christmass last even when himself could not eat yet it joyed him to walk by and see
employed in a wise and Religious Lahour 10. These were great things and matter of great envy At first the product was nothing but great admiration at his stupendious parts and wonder at his mighty diligence and observation of his unusual zeal but this quickly past into the natural daughters of envy obloquy and slander His zeal for recovery of the Church Revenues was called oppression and rapine his care of reducing Religion to wise and justifiable Principles was called Popery and Arminianism and I know not what names which signifie what the Authors are pleas'd to mean and the people to construe and to hate This made him to walk more warily and do justly and act prudently and conduct his Affairs by the measure of Laws as far as he understood and indeed that was a very great way And though every slanderer could tell a story yet none could prove that ever he receiv'd a bribe to blind his eyes to the value of a pair of Gloves It was his own expression when he gave Glory to God who had preserv'd him innocent 11. See the greatness of truth and prudence and how greatly God stood with him When the numerous Armies of vexed people heaped up Catalogues of Accusations when the Parliament of Ireland imitated the violent procedures of the then disordered English when his glorious Patron was taken from his head and he was disrobed of his great defences when Petitions were invited and Accusations furnished and Calumny was rewarded and managed with Art and Power when there was above 200 Petitions put in against him and himself denyed leave to answer by word of mouth when he was long imprison'd and treated so that a guilty man would have been broken into affrightment and pittiful and low considerations yet then he himself standing almost alone like Callimachus at Marathon invested with Enemies and cover'd with Arrows defended himself beyond all the powers of guiltiness even with the defences of Truth and the bravery of Innocence and answer'd the Petitions in Writing sometimes 20 in a day with so much clearness evidence of truth reality of fact and testimony of Law that his very enemies were asham'd and convinc'd they found they had done like AEsop's Viper they licked the File till their tongues bled but himself was wholly invulnerable 12. They were therefore to leave their Muster rolls and decline the particulars and fall to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to accuse him for going about to subvert the Fundamental Laws the way by which great Stafford and Canterbury fell Which was a device when all reasons fail'd to oppress the Enemy by the bold affirmation of a conclusion they could not prove But the Martyr-King Charles the first of most glorious and eternal memory seeing so great a Champion likely to be oppress'd with numbers and despair sent what rescue he could his Royal Letter for his Bail which was hardly granted to him and when it was it was upon such hard terms that his very delivery was a persecution He that does great things cannot avoid the tongues and teeth of Envy but if Calumnies must pass for Evidences the bravest Heroes must always be the most reproached persons in the world But God who takes care of Reputations as he does of Lives by the orders of his Providence confutes the slanderer that the memory of the righteous man might be embalm'd with Honour And so it hapned to this great man For by a publick warrantry by the concurrent consent of both Houses of Parliament the Libellous Petitions against him the false Records and publick Monuments of injurious shame were cancell'd and he was restor'd in integrum to that fame where his great Labours and just Procedures had first instated him Which though it was but justice yet it was also such an honour that it is greater than the virulence of tongues which Stratagem they did in part by open Force they turned the Bishop out of the Town and upon trifling and unjust pretences search'd his Carriages and took what they pleas'd till they were asham'd to take more However though the usage was sad yet it was recompenc'd to him by his taking Sanctuary in Oxford where he was graciously receiv'd by that most incomparable and divine Prince But having serv'd the King in Yorkshire by his Pen and by his Counsels and by his Interest he return'd back to Ireland where under the excellent conduct of his Grace the now Lord Lieutenant he ran the risque and fortune of oppressed Virtue 15. But God having still resolv'd to afflict us the good man was forced into the fortune of the Patriarchs to leave his Country and his Charges and seek for safety and bread in a strange Land He was not asham'd to suffer where the Cause was honourable and glorious Thus God provided for the needs of his banished and sent a man who could minister comfort to the afflicted and courage to the persecuted and resolution to the tempted and strength to that Religion for which they all suffered 16. And here this great man was indeed triumphant for so it was that he stood in publick and brave defence for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England There wanted not diligent Tempters in the Church of Rome who taking advantage of the Afflictions of his Sacred Majesty in which state men commonly suspect every thing and like men in sickness are willing to change from side to side hoping for ease and finding none flew at Royal Game and hop'd to draw away the King from that Religion which his most Royal Father the best Man and the wisest Prince in the world had seal'd with the best Blood in Christendom and which himself suck'd in with his Education and had confirmed by choice and reason and confess'd publickly and bravely and hath since restor'd prosperously Millitier was the man witty and bold enough to attempt a zealous and a foolish undertaking and address'd himself with ignoble indeed but witty Arts to perswade the King to leave what was dearer to him than his eyes It is true it was a Wave dash'd against a Rock and an Arrow shot against the Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turn'd 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 discover'd the Errours 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 17. But this most 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 studiously declin'd any more to dispute the particular questions against us but fell at last