wearisom course rather to be retired then tired If any of envy take advantage of absence seeking by cunning to draw me into suspition of discontentment my conscience is setled in your never erring Judgment that if he come with Esau's hands and Jacob's voice your Highness will censure it a wrought malice under such simplicity It is true that grief cannot speak but this grief hath made me write lest when I leave you I should so far forsake my self as to leave this unsaid To your gracious acceptance I commit it and with all humble and reverent thoughts that may be rest ever to be commanded to die at your Majesties feet RO. ESSEX Again to the Queen FRom a mind delighting in sorrow from spirits wasted with passion from a heart torne in pieces with care grief and travel from a man that hateth himself and all things that keepeth him alive what service can your Majesty expect since your service past deserves no more then banishment or prescription in the cursed'st of all other Countries Nay nay it is your Rebels pride and success that must give me leave to ransom my life out of this hatefull prison of my loathed body which if it happen so your Majesty shall have no cause to mislike the fashion of my death since the course of my life could never please you Your Majesties exiled Servanâ— RO. ESSEX Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor to the Earl of Essex My very good Lord IT is often seen that he that stands by seeth more then he that playeth the game and for the most part every one in his own cause standeth in his own light and seeth not so cleerly as he should Your Lordship hath dealt in other mens causes and in great and weighty affairs with great wisdom and judgment now your own is in hand you are not to contemn or refuse the advice of any that love you how simple soever In this order I rank my self among others that love you none more simple and none that love you with more true and honest affection which shall plead my excuse if you shall either mistake or mistrust my words or meaning but in your Lordships honorable wisdom I neither doubt nor suspect the one nor the other I will not presume to advise you but shoot my bolt and tell you what I think The beginning and long continuance of this so unseasonable discontentment you have seen and proved by which you aim at the end If you hold still this course which hitherto you find to be worse and worse and the longer you go the further you go out of the way there is little hope or likelihood the end will be better You are not yet gone so far but that you may well return The return is safe but the progress is dangerous and desperate in this course you hold If you have any enemies you do that for them which they could never do for themselves Your friends you leave to scorn and contempt you forsake your self and overthrow your fortunes and ruinate your honour and reputation You give that comfort and courage to the foreign enemies as greater they cannot have for what can be more welcome and pleasing news then to hear that her Majesty and the Realm are maimed of so worthy a Member who hath so often and so valiantly quailed and daunted them You forsake your Country when it hath most need of your Councel and aid And lastly you fail in your indissoluble duty which you owe unto your most gracious Soveraign a duty imposed upon you not by nature and policie only but by the religious and sacred bond wherein the divine Majesty of Almighty God hath by the rule of Christianity obliged you For the four first your constant resolution may perhaps move you to esteem them as light but being well weighed they are not light nor lightly to be regarded And for the four last it may be that the cleerness of your own conscience may seem to content your self but that is not enough for these duties stand not only in contemplation or inward meditation and cannot be performed but by external actions and where that faileth the substance also faileth This being your present state and condition what is to be done what is the remedy my good Lord I lack judgment and wisdom to advise you but I will never want an honest true heart to wish you well nor being warranted by a good conscience will fear to speak that I think I have begun plainly be not offended if I proceed so Bene cedit qui cedit tempori and Seneca saith Cedendum est fortunae The medicine and remedy is not contend and strive but humbly to yield submit Have you given cause and yet take a scandal unto you then all you can be is too little to make satisfaction Is cause of scandal given unto you yet policie duty and religion enforce you to sue yield and submit to our Soveraign between whom and you there can be no equal proportion of duty where God requires it as a principal duty and care to himself and when it is evident that great good may ensue of it to your friends your self your Country and your Soveraign and extreme harm by the contrary There can be no dishonour to yield but in denying dishonour and impiety The difficulty my good Lord is to conquer your self which is the height of true valour and fortitude whereunto all your honorable actions have tended Do it in this and God will be pleased her Majesty no doubt well satisfied your Country will take good and your Friends comfort by it and your self I mention you last for that of all these you esteem yourself least shall receive honour and your Enemies if you have any shall be disappointed of their bitter sweet hope I have delivered what I think simply and plainly I leave you to determine according to your own wisdom if I have erred it is error amoris and not amor erroris Construe and accept it I beseech you as I meant iâ— not as an advice but as an opinion to be allowed or cancelled at your pleasure If I might conveniently have conferred with your self in person I would not have troubled you with so many idle blots Whatsoever you judge of this my opinion yet be assured my desire is to further all good means that may tend to your Lordships good And so wishing you all happiness and honour I cease Your Lordships most ready and faithful though unable poor Friend Tho. Egerton Cust Sigil The Earles Answer MY very good Lord though there is not that man this day living whom I would sooner make Judge of any question that might concern me then your selfe yet you must give me leave to tell you that in some cases I must appeal from all earthly Judges And if in any then surely in this when the highest Judge on earth hath imposed upon me the heaviest Punishment without triall or hearing Since then I must either answer your
provision for his houshold according to the ancient custome to assemble the Parliament with her Majesties privity to receive the account of Officers saving the Treasurers to exercise martiall law The Queens Warrant to the Lords c. of Ireland for ministring the Oath and delivery of the Sword to him 31 Ian. 1583. RIght Reverend Father in God right trusty welbeloved and trusty and right welbeloved we greet you wel Whereas upon the departure from thence of our right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Gray of Wilton late our Deputy there we thought it meet for our government there to appoint you joyntly to have the place of our Justices until such time as we should resolve to send another thither to be our Deputy there We let you wit that meaning now no longer to burthen you with such a charge wherein you have according to the trust imposed in you very wisely behaved your selves greatly to our contentation we have chosen and appointed our right trusty and welbeloved Sir Jo. Perrot Knight this bearer to be our Deputy of that our said Realm that for that purpose to send him presently thither Wherefore our will and pleasure is and by vertue of these our Letters we authorize you upon the view of our letters Patents made and delivered unto him in that behalf both to minister unto him the oath accustomed to be given unto the Deputy there also to deliver unto him the Sword as heretofore hath been used And further that you communicate unto him amply the present estate of that our Realm and of all our affairs there for his better instruction at his entrance into that Government and the advancement of our service And these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet c. the last of January 1583. the 26 year of our reign Another for his Entertainment there TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well Whereas we have now appointed our right trusty and welbeloved Sir John Perrot Knight to be our Deputy in that our Realm of Ireland for which Office allowance aswell of dyets as of entertainments for certain Horsmen is to be given him These be therefore to let you wit that we allow unto him for his ordinary dyet one hundred pounds sterling according to the last Establishment in March 1589. and for his Retinue fifty Horsmen and fifty Footmen with such wages for every Horsman and Footman and for their Officers as was allowed to Sir William Fitzwilliams and Sir Henry Sydney Knights in the late times of their Governments in that Realm After which rates as well for his own dyet as for the said fifty Horsmen and fifty Footmen and for their Officers We will and command you to make payment to him during his imployment and service in that place from the date of our Letters-Patents authorising him to that government And these our Letters shall be sufficient Warrant as well to you as to any Treasurer or Vice-treasurer there for the time being and to your and their Substitutes as also to the Auditor or his Deputies and to all other Commissioners to be appointed over your Accompts to pass and allow the same payments to you accordingly Given c. the fourth of April 1583. in the 26. year of our Reign of England c. The Queens Instructions to him YOU shall see immediately upon your arrival into that Realm assembled our Councel there and confer with them what course of Government upon due consideration had of the present estate of the said Realm may be held so as Justice may take place our Charges be lessened our Revenues increased and our Subjects there not oppressed You shall also consider what Forces are meet to be continued in pay and how the rest chargeable unto us and burthensom unto the Country may be discharged and also how the Horsmen and Footmen serving there may be reduced to their old pay which by reason of the general Rebellion in that Realm the Country being wasted we were driven to increase And therefore we see no reason but the Band residing in those Countries that are not wasted may live well enough of the old pay especially being victualled by us and for the ease and diminishing of our charges in that behalf We do think it meet that you should treat with those Countries that are not wasted as well in Munster or elswhere in that Realm to see if you can draw them with good contentment to contribute somthing towards the finding of that Garrison at Carberrie heretofore hath done And for that our Subjects in that Realm c. To advise of the inhabiting of Munster the attainted Lands to be let out at easie rents Survey certifie what States Statute of Vsus 5. Port-Corn 6. Th'attainted Lands to be bestowed in reward upon Servitors 7. Younger Brothers of Noblemen Diminish Pensioners 9. Review former Instructions 10 11. Renewing of forfeited Leases for three years Beef Port-Corn Remittal of Arrearages 12. Reversion of Lands to the Governours 13. Lands of the attainted to be appointed to house-keeping 14. Reservation of Timber-woods 15. Residence of Officers 16. Report to the State outrages of disloyal Subjects 17. Profits of Customs Escheats c. 19. Establishment for Connaught 20. President for Munster allowance begin at May Transportation 21. Councellors B. of Meath John Norris Richard Biâ—gham Tho. Strange 22. Refer the choice of a person to the Chancellor and others 23. Certificate of the last Treasurers Receipts and Expences Every one of these Articles doth contain half a side of Paper and therefore I have rather thought fit to abbreviate them then to transcribe them at large the whole Contents being contained in this Abbreviation Sir John Perrot to the Lords of the Councel Jan. 31. 1585. May it please your good Lordships ALthough I and this Councel have by our joynt-Letters truly declared unto you the dutifull state of things here and the causes both foraign and domestical whereupon we gather it and withall have shewed our extreme wants and what supplies are desired Yet understanding thence but not from your Lordships for I have had no kind of advertisements answer or resolution from the same these twelve moneths that there is a great preparation made by the Spanish King against the Realm and that your Lordships have intelligence thereof I cannot but as one whose chief charge and care it is importune your Lordships to cast your eye more carefully this way humbly praying you to consider what case we are in to try with a most mighty Prince whether this Realm shall be still her Majesties or his if there be any such matters as your Lordships know best then I beseech your Lordships to think whether it be more safety to say that we have sent provision to encounter the danger or else you will send when perhaps it will be too late And withall for mine own discharge if I shall tarry and have nothing wherewith I have but
a life to yield for her Majesty and my Country for the loss thereof I grieve not but rather for the harm that through defects I fear may come to her Majesty and the State and the shame I shall leave behind me This foreign preparation if there be any such thing is likely to be spent against Munster to seise upon and to spoil the Cities and Towns of the same which in truth are very weak If I shall go thither what for the late wars and this last bad season there is not so much to be had there as will maintain that one Band of 200. that is under Mr. Thomas Norris the Vice-President there but that I am inforced to shift them from Town to Town who by reason of their extreme penury do receive them with great grief and grudge And though I had men sufficient to encounter the Enemy that should come yet for want of victuals I should be driven to abandon the place with danger and shame where they that are to come over are like to bring their provision with them and to settle it in some Town that they will soon seise upon for that purpose whereof what may ensue amongst this unconstant people naturally delighting in change your Lordships may soon gather Besides this that I have said of the bare estate of Munster where there is not so much to be had as will serve for mine own family or yet to feed my horses till grass grow I refer you to understand not only the same more fully but also the great wants of the rest of the Realm by the declaration here inclosed which as Beverley the Victualler maketh it so I know it to be true And therefore I most humbly beseech your Lordships to send speedy order that such a Staple of victuals may be provided and be sent over as your Lordships shall think requisite to serve as well for the numbers here already as also for those that are to be sent over to encounter such an accident as may fall out And herein I would wish your Lordships to consider the winds and weather how untowardly they have framed this year for as some have lain at Chester nine weeks to come over hither so hath there been no passage since this six weeks Moreover if there be such purposes in hand it were good some shipping were dispatcht for the guard of the Coasts And to all these and other difficulties may I with your Lordships favour adde one more to be considered of How weakly I am seconded if need fall out by those forein attempts whereof I would say little for any other cause The Marshal is old and not able either to ride on go the Master of the Ordnance is both absent and old and I wish there were a more sufficient man in his place The Lord President and Sir William Stanley who are men of good conduct are drawn away Sir H. Harrington Mr. Edward Barkley and the Senescal Dantry are suffered to remain still there but I humbly pray they may be sped away together with all other that are Servitors by any manner of pay there And so having herein discharged my duty I humbly end From the Castle of Dublin the last of January 1585. Your Lordships most humble at commandment JOHN PERROT Earl of Desmond to the Earl of Ormond Iune 5. 1583. My Lord GReat is my grief when I think how heavily her Majesty is bent to disfavour me and howbeit I carry the name of an undutifull Subject yet God knoweth that my heart and mind are always most lowly inclined to serve my most loving Prince so it may please her Highness to remove her heavy displeasure from me As I may not condemn my self of disloyalty to her Majesty so cannot I excuse my faults but must confess that I have incurred her Majesties indignation yet when the cause and means which were found and devised to make me commit folly shall be known to her Highness I rest in an assured hope that her most gracious Majesty will both think of me as my heart deserveth and also of those that wrung me into undutifulness as their cunning device meriteth From my heart I am sorry that folly bad councels sleights or any other thing hath made me to forget my duty And therefore I am most desirous to get conference with your Lordship to the end I may open and declare to you how tyrannously I was used humbly craving that you will vouchsafe to appoint some time and place where and when I may attend your Honour and then I doubt not to make it appear how dutifull a mind I carry how faithfully I have at mine own charge served her Majesty before I was proclaimed how sorrowfull I am for my offences and how faithfully I am affected ever hereafter to serve her Majesty And so I commit your Lordship to God the 5. of June 1583. Subscribed GIRALD DESMOND Sir Henry Wallop to the Queen 12. Aug. 1583. IT may please your Majesty a rumor hath been raised not long since at Dublin I know not how nor by what particular person but strongly confirmed since the last passage out of England neither doth your service now in hand upon this Northern border suffer me to examine it that your Majesty conceived some hard opinion of me from which your Highness is not yet removed but what the offence is or how conceived is neither by the reporters published nor secretly revealed unto me And like as it is casie to judge what effects this may work in the service of your Majesty or to a man in publick office as I am in such a government as this is where the obedience for the most is constrained and all reputation with the people either growing or diminishing as your Majesty graceth or disgraceth your Officers so how much this quiet burthen over-presseth my most devoted and dutifull mind towards your Majesty I feel to my exceeding grief and discomfort In examining my self in what root this your judgment should spring I confesse Madam I have viewed in my self many imperfections some in nature others perhaps for lack of ability and sufficiency to be a cooperator or an assistant in so great and so ticklish a government charge into which not ambition in me but your Majesties wil commandment hath intruded me But in all that my memory can hitherto present unto me I find my loyalty in your service and my sincerity in imploying your Majesties treasure according to your intent so unspotted and direct as I cannot but comfort my self in opposing my innocency to the envy of the informer or to any other his hard construction whatsoever yet since in generall consideration I cannot feel such a particular error as might settle in your Majesties grave judgement an offence meriting your disfavour I am most humbly to beseech your Majesty that by knowing my fault I may either purge my self by a just deniall or by confessing it crave pardon of your Highness and reform my self
assistance or no. But the Duke of Bovillon hearing inckling of it made more haste and hath been with the King and doth return forthwith to him as soon as he hath been at the marriage of the Lady Tremoville Your Lordship knows the circumstances of my journey are not such as can afford me any means to judge but this your Lordship may assure that by that time I have spoken to the King things will break out one way other so far as it will appear whether it be worth the tarrying to treat or no after once the King has been dealt with to which I will address my self with all speed and not tarry for the States who may be come to Paris by that time I do return for I believe they will be content to treat any where I shall have a miss of Sir Thomas Wilks were it not we were well instructed and surely he was grown very heavy of late and dull If I should stay here to attend his recovery it would comsume me to no purpose I have written a Letter to the Queen of some such gathering as I have gotten and of the speeches between me and the President because her Majesty may not be offended that I write not particularly to her selfe of something Although the Spaniards from Callis have spoyled Base-Bologne yet it is not holden here that the Cardinall will sit down before any Town speedily for he will not be able Neverthelesse the Constable is come into Picardy to give stay to the Province if that be the fruit of the Treaty we shall have less need to disswade the King I much fear Sir Tho. Wilks to be in a Lethargie Since your Lordships Letter of Feb. 15. which found me at Dover a little before my imbarking the wind hath not served to bring me any Letter out of England The Lord of heaven send me tidings of your Lordships health for whom I will daily pray I received also a Letter from the Earl of Essex of the 16. and did imbark the 17. I humbly take my leave and rest Feb. 26. 1507. Your Lordships humble and obedient Son RO. CECIL Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary to Monsieur Critoy Secretary of France SIR WHereas you desire to be advertised touching the proceedings here in Ecclesiastical causes because you seem to note in them some inconstancie and variation as if we somtimes inclined to one side somtimes to another and as if that clemencie and lenity were not used of late that was used in the beginning all which you impute to your own superficial understanding of the affairs of this State having notwithstanding her Majesties doing in singular reverence as the real pledges which she hath given unto the world of her sincerity in Religion and of her wisdom in Government well meriteth I am glad of this occasion to impart that little I know in that matter to you both for your own satisfaction and to the end you may make use thereof towards any that shall not be so modestly and so reasonably minded as you are I find therefore her Majesties proceedings to have been grounded upon two principles 1. The one That consciences are not to forced but to be won and reduced by the force of truth with the aid of time and the use of all good means of instruction and perswasion 2. The other That the Causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to be matter of faction lose their nature and that Soveraign Prince ought distinctly to punish the practice in contempt though coloured with the pretence of Conscience and Religion According to these principles her Majesty at her coming to the Crown utterly disliking the tyranny of Rome which had used by terror and rigor to settle commandments of mens faiths and consciences though as a Prince of great wisdom and magnanimity she suffered but the exercise of one Religion yet her proceedings towards the Papists was with great lenity expecting the good effects which time might work in them And therefore her Majesty revived not the Laws made in the 28. and 35. of her Fathers reign whereby the Oath of Supremacie might have been offered at the Kings pleasure to any Subject though he kept his conscience never so modestly to himself and the refusal to take the same oath without further circumstance was made Treason But contrariwise her Majesty not liking to make windows into mens hearts secret thoughts except the abundance of them did overflow into overt and express acts or affirmations tempered her Laws so as it restraineth every manifest disobedience in impugning and impeaching advisedly and maliciously her Majesties supreme power maintaining and extolling a foraign jurisdiction And as for the Oath it was altered by her Majesty into a more gratefull form the hardness of the name and appellation of Supreme Head was removed and the penalty of the refusal thereof turned only into disablement to take any promotion or to exercise any charge and yet with liberty of being reinvested therein if any man should accept thereof during his life But after when Pius Quintus had excommunicated her Majesty and the Bulls of Excommunication were published in London whereby her Majesty was in a sort proscribed and that thereupon as upon a principal motive or preparative followed the Rebellion in the North yet because the ill humours of the Realm were by that Rebellion partly purged and that she feared at that time no foreign invasion and much less the attempt of any within the Realm not backed by some potent succour from without she contented herself to make a Law against that special case of bringing and publishing of any Bulls or the like Instruments whereunto was added a prohibition upon pain not of treason but of an inferior degree of punishment against the bringing in of Agnus Dei hallowed bread and such other merchandise of Rome as are well known not to be any essential part of the Romish religion but only to be used in practise as Love-tokens to inchant the peoples affections from their allegiance to their natural Soveraign In all other points her Majesty continued her former lenity but when about the 20. year of her reign she had discovered in the King of Spain an intention to invade her Dominions and that a principal point of the plot was to prepare a party within the Realm that might adhere to the Foreigner and that the Seminaries began to blossom and to send forth daily Priests and professed men who should by vow taken at Shrift reconcile her Subjects from their obedience yea bind many of them to attempt against her Majesties sacred person and that by the poyson which they spread the humours of most Papists were altered and that they were no more Papists in conscience and of softness but Papists in faction then were there new Laws made for the punishment of such as should submit themselves to such reconcilements or renunciations of obedience And because it was a Treason carried in the clouds and in
temperately governed for all immoderate successe extinguisheth merit and seareth up distaste and envy the assured fore-runner of whole changes of peril But I am at the last point first some good spirit leading my pen to presage to your Lordships success wherein it is true I am not without my Oracle and Divinations none of them superstitious and yet not all naturall For first looking into the course of Gods providence in things now depending and calling into consideration how great things God hath done by her Majesty and for her collect he hath disposed of this great dissection in Ireland whereby to give an urgent occasion to the reduction of that whole kingdom as upon the rebellion of Desmond there ensued the reduction of that Province Next your Lordship goeth against three of the unluckiest vices of all other Disloyalty Ingratitude Insosolence which three offences in all examples have seldome their doom adjourned to the world to come Lastly he that shall have had the honor to know your Lordship inwardly as I have had shall find bona extra whereby he may better ground a divination of good then upon the diffection of a Sacrifice But that part I leave for it is fit for others to be confident upon you you to be confident upon the cause the goodnesse justice whereof is such as can hardly be matched in any example it being no ambitious war of Foreigns but a recovery of subjects and that after lenity of conditions often tried and a recovery of them not onely to obedience but to humanity and policy from more then Indian Barbarism There is yet another kind of divination familiar in matters of State being that which Demosthenes so often relieth upon in his time where he saith That which for the time past is worst of all is for the time to come the best which is that things go ill not by accident but by error wherein if your Lordship have been a waking Censor but must look for no other now but Medice cura teipsum And although your Lordship shal not be the blessed Physician that cometh to the declination of the disease yet you imbrace that condition which many Noble Spirits have accepted for advantage which is that you go upon the greater perill of your fortune and the less of your reputation and so the honor countervaileth the adventure of which honor your Lordship is in no small possession when that her Majesty known to be one of the most judicious Princes in discerning of spirits that ever governed hath made choyce of you meerly out of her Royall judgement her affection inclining rather to continue your attendance into whose hands trust to put the commandement conduct of so great forces the gathering in the fruit of so great charge the execution of so many Councels the redeeming of the defaults of so many former Governors and the clearing of the glory of so many happy years reign onely in this part excepted Nay further how far forth the perill of that State is interlaced with the perill of England and therefore how great the honor is to keep and defend the approaches of this kingdom I hear many discourse and indeed there is a great difference whether the Tortoise gather her selfe into her shell hurt or unhurt And if any man be of opinion that the nature of an enemy doth extenuate the honour of a service being but a Rebell and a Savage I differ from him for I see the justest Triumphs that the Romans in their greatest greatness did obtain and that whereof the Emperours in their stiles took additions and denominations were of such an enemy that is people barbarous and not reduced to civility magnifying a kind of lawless liberty prodigall of life hardned in body fortified in woods and bogs placing both justice and felicity in the sharpness to their swords Such were the Germans and antient Britains and divers others Upon which kind of people whether the victory be a Conquest or a Reconquest upon a rebellion or revolt it made no difference that ever I could find in honour And therefore it is not the inriching predatory war that hath the preheminence in honour else should it be more honour to bring in a Carrock of rich burthen then one of the twelve Spanish Apostles But then this nature of people doth yield a higher point of honour considering in truth and substance then any war can yield which should be atchieved against a civil enemy if the end may be Pacique imponere morem To replant and refound the policie of that Nation to which nothing is wanting but a just and civil Government Which design as it doth descend to you from your noble Father who lost his life in that action though he paid tribute to nature and not to fortune so I hope your Lordship shall be as fatal a Captain to this war as Africanus was to the war of Carthage after that both his Uncle and his Father had lost their lives in Spain in the same war Now although it be true that these things which I have writ being but representations unto your Lordship of the honour and apparance of success of the enterprise be not much to the purpose of my direction yet it is that which is best to me being no man of war and ignorant in the particulars of Estate for a man may by the eye set up the white right in the midst of the But though he be no Archer Therefore I will only add this wish according to the English phrase which termeth a wel-willing advice a wish That your Lordship in this whole action looking forward set down this Position That merit is worthier then fame and looking back hither would remember this text That obedience is better then sacrifice For designing to fame and glory may make your Lordship in the adventure of your person to be valiant as a private Souldier rather then as a Generall it may make you in your commandments rather to be gracious then disciplinary it may make you press action in the respect of the great expectation conceived rather hastily then seasonably and safely it may make you seek rather to atchieve the war by force then by intermixture of practice it may make you if God shall send you prosperous beginnings rather seek the fruition of that honour then the perfection of the work in hand And for your proceeding like a good Protestant upon warrant and not upon good intention your Lordship knoweth in your wisdom that as it is most fit for you to desire convenient liberty of instruction so it is no less fit for you to observe the due limits of them remembring that the exceeding of them may not only procure in case of adverse accident a dangerous disadvow but also in case of prosperous success be subject to interpretation as if all were not referred to the right end Thus I have presumed to write these few lines to your Lordship in methodo ignorantiae which
stale As in your pleadings you were wont to insult over misery and to inveigh bitterly at the persons which bred you many enemies whose poyson yet swelleth and the effects now appear so are you still wont to be a little careless in this point to praise or disgrace upon slight grounds and that sometimes untruly so that your reproofs or commendations are for the most part neglected and contemned when the censure of a Judge coming slow but sure should be a brand to the guilty and a crown to the vertuous You will jest at any man in publique without respect of the persons dignity or your own This disgraceth your gravity more then it can advance the opinion of your wit and so do all actions which we see you do directly with a touch of vain-glory having no respect to the true end You make the Law to lean too much to your opinion whereby you shew your self to be a legall Tyrant striking with thaâ— weapon where you please since you are able to turn the edge any way For thus the wise Master of the Law gives warning to young Students that they should be wary lest while they hope to be instructed by your integrity and knowledge they should be deceived with your skill armed with authority Your too much love of the world is too much seen when having the living of 10000l you relieve few or none The hand that hath taken so much can it give so little Herein you shew no bowels of compassion as if you thought all too little for your self or that God had given you all that you have if you think wealth to be his gift I mean that you get well for I know sure the rest is not only to that end you should still gather more and never be satisfied but try how much you could gather to accompt for all at the great and generall Audit-day We desire you to amend this and let your poor Tenants in Norfolk find some comfort where nothing of your estate is spent towards their relief but all brought up hither to the impoverishing of your Country In your last which might have been your best peece of service to the State affectioned to follow that old rule which giveth Justice leaden heels and iron hands you used too many delayes till the Delinquents hands were loosed and yours bound In that work you seemed another Fabius here the humour of Marcellus would have done better What needed you have sought more evidences then enough While you pretended the finding out of more missing your aim you discredited what you had found This best Judgments think though you never used such speeches as are fathered upon you yet you might well have done it and but rightly For this crime was second to none but the Powder-plot That would have blown up all at one blow a mercifull cruelty this would have done the same by degrees a lingring but a sure way one might by one be called out till all opposers had been removed Besides that other Plot was scandalous to Rome making Popery odious in the sight of the whole world This hath been scandalous to the truth of the whole Gospel and since the first nullity to this instant when Justice hath her hands bound the Devil could not have invented a more mischievous practice to our State and Church then this hath been is and is like to be God avert the evil But herein you committed another fault that you were too open in your proceedings and so taught them whereby to defend themselves so you gave them time to undermine Justice and to work upon all advantages both of affections and honor and opportunity and breach of friendship which they have so wel followed sparing neither pains nor cost that it almost seemeth an offence in you to have done so much indeed then that you have done no more you stopt the confessions accusations of some who perhaps had they been suffered would have spoken enough to have removed some stumbling-blocks out of your way and that you did not this in the favour of any one but of I know not what present unadvised humours supposing enough behind to discover all which fel not out so Howsoever as the Apostle saith in another case you went not rightly to the truth and therefore though you were to be commended for what you did yet you were to be reprehended for many circumstances in the doing and doubtless God hath an eye in this cross to your negligence and the briers are left to be pricks in your sides and thorns in your eyes But that which we commend you for are those excellent parts of Nature and knowledge in the Law which you are indued withall but these are only good in their good use wherefore we thank you heartily for standing stoutly in the Commonwealths behalfe hoping it proceedeth not from a disposition to oppose Greatness as your enemies say but to do justice and deliver truth indifferently without respect of persons and in this we pray for your prosperity and are sorry that your good actions should not always succeed happily But in the carriage of this you were faulty for you took it in hand in an evill time both in respect of the present business which it interrupted and in regard of his present sickness whom it concerned whereby you disunited your strength and made a gap for the enemies to pass out at and to return and assault you But now since the case so standeth we desire you to give way to power and so to fight that you be not utterly broken but reserved intirely to serve the Commonwealth again and do what good you can since you cannot do all the good you would and since you are fallen upon this rock cast out the goods to save the bottom stop the leaks and make towards land learn of the Steward to make friends of the unrighteous Mammon Those Spaniards in Mexico who were chased of the Indians tell us what to do with our goods in our extremities they being to passe over a river in their flight as many as cast away their gold swam over safe but some more covetous keeping their gold were either drowned with it or overtaken and slain by the Savages you have received now learn to give The Beaver learns us this lesson who being hunted for his stones bites them off You cannot but have much of your estate pardon my plainnesse ill got think how much of that you never spake for how much by speaking unjustly or in unjust causes Account it then a blessing of God if thus it may be laid out for your good and not left for your heir to hasten the wasting of much of the rest perhaps of all for so we see God oftentimes proceeds in judgement with many hasty gatherers you have enough to spare being well laid to turn the Tide and fetch all things again But if you escape I suppose it worthy of an if since you know the old use that none
dislike of increasing our knowledge with new-found devices which is undoubtedly a practice of high commendation in regard of the benefit they will yield for the present that the world hath ever been and will assuredly continue very full of such Devisers whose industry that way hath been very obstinate and eminent and hath produced strange effects above the reach and the hope of mens common capacities and yet our Notions and Theorems have always kept in grace both with them and with the rarest that ever were named among the learned By this you see to what boldness I am brought by your kindness That if I seem to be too sawcy in this contradiction it is the opinion that I hold of your noble disposition and of the freedom in these cases that you will afford your special friend that hath induced me to do it And although I my self like a Carriers horse cannot bawk the beaten way in which I have been trained yet since it is my censure of your Cogitata that I must tell you to be plain you have very much wronged your self and the world to smother such a treasure so long in your coffer For though I stand well assured for the tenor and subject of your main discourse you are not able to impanel a Jury in any University that will give up a verdict to acquit you of error yet it cannot be gainsaid that all your Treatise over doth abound with choice conceipt of the present state of learning and with so worthy contemplations of the means to procure it as may perswade with any Student to look more narrowly to his business not only by aspiring to the greatest perfection of that which is now adayes divulged in the Sciences but by diving yet deeper as it were into the bowels and secrets of nature and by inforcing of the powers of his judgment and wit to learn of St. Paul Consectari meliora dona which course would to God to whisper so much into your ear you had followed at the first when you fell to the study of such a study as was not worthy such a Student Nevertheless being so as it is that you are therein setled and your Country soundly served I cannot but wish with all my heart as I do very often that you may gain a fit reward to the full of your deserts Which I hope will come with heaps of happiness and honour From Fulham Feb. 19. 1607. Yours to be used and commanded THO. BODELEY THO. BODELEY Sir one kind of boldness doth draw on another insomuch as methinks I should offend to signifie that before the transcript of your book be fitted for the Press it will be requisite for you to cast a Censors eye upon the stile and the elocution which in the framing of some periods and in divers words and phrases will hardly go for current if the Copie brought to me be just the same that you would publish Mr. George Brook to a Lady in Court Madam THe message which you sent me of her Majesties gracious purpose altered towards me hath put me into that extasie that I know not whereupon to rest my self not having power to believe that which I am bound to know Is it possible that you should be so weak in grace with her Majesty as not to prevail in so small a matter for any man but of an intire reputation or shall I believe that her Majesty who suffers not the merit of her servants to be buried with them should not hold me equivalent with any new Melchisedech without father or mother I protest Madam I could not presage any ill success to my self but onely out of the means of my ambition and have held it therefore superfluous to claim any favour in vertue of supererogation esteeming it too great a derogation from my self for so poor a thing as a Spittle-house to raise the dead to speak for me or challenge any thing more then my own But it is neither the strangeness of the matter nor the hardness of my belief that can alter the decree of a Prince But I must take it in good payment that is no less then for as great a disgrace as can outwardly befall me yet must I ever hold my self beholding to this suit for though I lose the Hospital yet have I lost many errors withall I have weighed my friends in a balance and taken a just measure of my fortune I must not despair it is not impossible for a man well taught to make a retreat into himself neither will I yet despair of my suit onely for this reason that this change cannot proceed of her Majesties proper motion but must be procured by some blind practise that dares not see the light though it may be my fortune to bring it forth blushing howsoever it be it shall never distemper my dutifull affection towards her Majesty though that be for ever barred from her knowledge for they who are able to prevent her goodness will be ever likely to prevent my service That the place is already meant to a Divine cannot be true nor my impediment For there is no kind of her Majesties servants and subjects so provided for there being such store of places that fall daily both better then this in value and more proper for their function Your Ladiship hath been hitherto an honorable and faithfull intercessor for me Good Madam be not weary to continue so still as I shall do ever to acknowledge it and if I be able in part to deserve it G. B. To his Wife LEt me intreat you to read my Letter once again and if you can find no cause of quarrell do but then think what you have done all this time to send me such a Cartoll you cannot be more void of fault then I of suspition and what you speak I cannot understand But doth my imprisonment abridge me that I cannot give you counsell Or have you resolved to follow the counsell of the Lady you know Know then as my ill fortune cannot deject me so ought it much less to make you brave and insolent You have your choyce of two courses let me know which you will take that l trust not to a broken Reed And yet what need I care seeing that you who were my chief care do now begin to sever your self I will not yet condemn you you may see how unapt I am to entertain ill thoughts I will yet both hold and write my self Your loving Husband G. BROOKS King James to the Major and Aldermen of London after he was proclaimed March 28. 1605. To our trusty and wel-beloved Robert Loe Lord Major of our City of London and to our welbeloved the Aldermen and Commons of the same TRusty and welbeloved we greet you heartily well Being informed of your great forwardness in that just and honorable action of proclaiming us your soveraign Lord and King immediately after the decease of our late deceased Sister the Queen wherein you have given a singular good proof
year before had received so unpleasing and unequal an answer should now be perswaded that there was here so great a change as that a match was really desired there would now need more then ordinary assurance But the Duke of Lerma continuing severall times the same profession and telling me besides that the greatest Cases might be altered by circumstances and that the Age of this Prince was much more proper then that of his brother I freely let the Duke know that in case I might see that it was really desired here and that I might be able to propound unto my Master conditions of so much advantage and certainty as might put him and his ministers out of doubt that this overture was not again revived from hence either for diversion or winning of time I would then willingly intimate unto your Majesty the inclination and desire I found here of having a proposition for this match once again set on foot The Duke told me he would have a further conference with me and that he then no ways doubted to give such satisfaction as might well assure your Majesty and your Ministers that they sincerly desired the match in generall and would omit nothing on their side for the accomodating of particulars that might give furtherance unto it But the very night before the Duke had appointed a meeting with me there came a Post dispatcht out of England from the Spanish Ambassador upon the arrivall of Sir Thomas Edmonds into England who brought word that the match with France was absolutely concluded and that within few days it was to be published Whereupon the Duke at our meeting the next morning told me that it would be needless now to descend to any particulars in the business whereof we are to treat since that they had newly received advertisement that the match with France was fully concluded And thus for the present the matter rested untill some five or six weeks after about which time my self was to go into England and so taking leave of the Duke he asked me whether I had not received advertisement that the match with France was published I told him no but I had certainly heard that it was not as yet fully concluded Whreupon he intreated me that in case I found not the French match in such forwardness as it could not be stayed I would let him know of it and that if I should see any kind of possibility that the business we had spoken of might be set on foot I would advertise him and that thereupon he would proceed to those particulars which he formerly intended for my satisfaction Herewith I acquainted your Majesty and finding the Spanish Ambassador in England had notice from the Duke of our former proceedings and order to further them by all possible means he could especially if he should understand that your Majesty were not fully resolved of the French match I thought it fit by this means to let the Duke understand in what estate I found those businesses in England and thereupon with your Majesties permission I wrote a letter unto him to this effect That although it were true that the Match with France had been treated of with much earnestness on both sides and with great likelihood of being concluded yet there daily arose so many difficulties and new cases of delay that I judged it far from any perfect conclusion neither did I see cause absolutely to despair of the businesses which our selves pretended unless the difficulty of the Conditions should make it desperate But if those things should be expected by Spain which in the Treaty for the late Princess were demanded it were better by much not to renew the business then by impossible or unfitting propositions on either side to give distaste or lessen the friendship which now was betwixt your Majesties And therefore except that in Spain they would be contented with such conditions as your Majesty most fittingly and conveniently might yield unto and all other Catholique Princes were willing to content themselves with I neither saw cause to hope for good success or reason to set the treaty on foot But in case I might know that the conditions in point of Religion might be such as I should see a possibility of your Majesties condescending unto them I should be far from despairing of some good effect for that I knew that divers not of the meanest nor least power with your Majesty were hereunto well inclined and would give their helping hands Hereupon the Spanish Ambassador dispatcht his Secretary into Spain and received answer from the Duke that he should give me all assurance that there was a great desire and inclination to the making of the Match and that at my return into Spain they no way doubted but that I should receive such satisfaction as should make it appear on their part there should be nothing wanting for the effecting of it It now remaineth what hath passed herein since my last coming to this Court. I arrived here in Madrid only a day or two before Christmass and having some six dayes after my audience appointed by the King whilst I was in a withdrawing chamber expecting the Kings coming forth the Duke of Lerma came thither to bear me company and after many respectfull demands of your Majesty and the Queens and the Princes health and some few complements unto my self concerning my welcom again unto this Court he fell to speak of the false Alarms we had in England concerning a Spanish Armado seeming much to be displeased that any credit should be given to any thing to his Majesties dishonour and want of fidelity as he termed it But your Majesty he said did never believe it And it seems he heard of some pleasant answer your Majesty should make to some one of your Ministers that in great haste came unto your Majesty when you were a hunting and told you that the Spanish Fleet was in the Channel From this he entred into great protestations of the sincerity of this Kings affection and intention towards your Majesty telling me that I should now see how much they desired to work a greater neerness and uniting between your Majesties And that of the principal business of which we had in former time spoken meaning the Marriage he desired to speak with me but it must be at more leisure I answered that I would not fail shortly to wait upon him and that he should find me answerable to the professions I had made which was that being induced thereunto by such sufficient and good grounds as might satisfie my Master both for the convenience and fittingness of having such a Treaty set on foot and likewise might take away all objections of their intents of entertaining and diverting your Majesty hereby I would be as ready to do all good offices and give furtherance to the business as any Minister the King of Spain had And this was all that at our first meeting passed in this business About some eight days
the said Marquis de Injiosa and Don Carlos Colomma making your Majesty Judge of the great scandall and enormous offence which they have committed against them and the publick right and expect justice from your Majesty in the demonstrations and chastisements which your Majesty shall inflict upon them which for his proceeding sake with your Majesty and out of your Majesties own uprightness and goodness ought to be expected Furthermore he saith that the King his Master hath commanded him to assure your Majesty that till now he hath not mingled the correspondence and friendship he held with your Majesty with the faults and offences of your Ministers but leaves and restrains them to their own persons and that he remains with your Majesty in the true and ancient friendship and brotherhood as heretofore and that he is ready to give hearing to anything that shall be reason and to answer thereunto and when your Majesty is pleased to send your Ambassadors thither he will make them all good treaty and receive them with that good love that is due For conclusion the said Ambassador humbly beseecheth your Majesty will be pleased to observe and weigh the care and tenderness wherewith the King his Master proceeded with your Majesties Ambassadors not obliging to precipitate resolutions but giving them much time to prove and give light of that which they had spoken and besides opening unto them many ways that they might comply with their orders if they had any such Which course if they had taken they might well have given satisfaction to the King his Master and moderated the so grounded opinion of their ill proceedings against the peace and so good intelligence and correspondence betwixt both the Crowns Madrid Aug. 5. 1624. The Petition of Francis Philips to King James for the release of Sir Robert Philips Prisoner tn the Tower Most dread Soveraign IF the Thrones of Heaven and Earth were to be sollicited one and the same way I should have learned by my often praying to God for your Majesty how to pray to your Majesty to other But the Liturgies of the Church and Court are different as in many other points to especially in this That in the one there is not so poor a friend but may offer his vows immediately to the Almighty whereas in the other a right loyal subject may pour out his soul in vain without an Ora pro nobis Now such is the obscure condition of your humble Suppliant as I know no Saint about your sacred Majesty to whom I can address my orisons or in whose mediation I dare repose the least assurance Let it be therefore lawful for me in this extraordinary occasion to pass the ordinary forms and raising my spirits above uncertainties to fix my intire faith upon your Majesties supreme goodness which is an ever ought to be esteemed both the best Tribunal and the best Sanctuary for a good cause But how good soever my cause be it would be high presumption in me to stand upon it I have therefore chosen rather to cast my self at your Majesties feet from whence I would not willingly rise but remain a monument of sorrow and humility till I have obtained some gracious answer to my Petition For though your Majesties thoughts cannot discern so low as to conceive how much it importeth a poor distressed Suppliant to be reviled neglected yet you may be pleased to believe that we are as highly affected and as much anguished with the extremities that press our little fortunes as Princes are with theirs Which I speak not out of any pride I take in comparing small things with great but only to dispose your Maiesty to a favourable construction of my words if they seem to be overcharged with zeal and affection or to express more earnestness then perhaps your Majesty may think the business merits as my self values it The suit I am to make to your Majesty is no sleight one it may be easily granted without references For I dare assure your Majesty upon my life it is neither against the Laws of the Kingdom nor will diminish any of your treasure either that of your coffers or that of your peoples hearts it being an act of clemencie or rather a word for even that will satisfie to create in your poor dejected Suppliant a new heart and send him away as full of content as he is now of grief and despair Nor is it for my self I thus implore your Majesties grace but for one that is far more worthy and in whom all that I am consists my dear Brother who I know not by what misfortune hath fallen or rather been pushed into your Majesties displeasure not in dark and crooked ways as corrupt and ill-affected subjects use to walk and near to break their necks in but even in the great road which both himself all good Englishmen that know not the paths of the Court would have sworn would have led most safely and most directly to your Majesties service from your Majesties displeasure there needs no other invention to crucifie a generous and honest-minded suppliant upon whom hath issued and been derived a whole torrent of exemplary punishment wherâ—in his reputation his person and his estate grievously suffered For having upon the last process of Parliament retired himself to his poor house in the Countrey with hope a while to breathe after these trouble some affairs and still breathing nothing but your Majesties service he was sent for ere he had finished his Christmas by a Sergeant at Arms who arrested him in his own house with as much terror as belongs to the apprehending of treason it self But thanks be to God his conscience never started and for his obedience herein shewed it was not in the power of any authority to surprize it For at the instant without asking one minutes time of resolution he rendered himself to the officers discretion who according to his directions brought him up captive and presented him at the Councell Table as a Delinquent from whence he was as soon committed to Tower where he ever since hath been kept close prisoner and that with so strict a hand as his own beloved wife and my self having sometime since urgent and unffaigned â—â—â—casion to speak with him about some private business of his Family and here upon making humble petition to the Lords of your Majesties most honorable Privy Councell for the favour of accesse we were to our great discomforts denied it by reason as their Lordships were pleased to declare unto us that he had not satisfied your Majesty fully in some points which being so far from being his fault as I dare say it is the greatest part of his affliction that he sees himself debarred from means of doing it The Lords Commissioners that were appointed by your Majesty to examine his offence since the first week of his imprisonment have not done him the honor to be with him by which means not onely his body but the most part of his
aspersions of either adversary especially when the Auditory is suspected with the one or the other infection 6. Lastly That the Archbishop and Bishops of this Kingdom whom his Majesty hath good cause to blame for their formâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—ss he more wary and choise in the licensing of Preachers and 〈◊〉 grâ—â—â— made to any Chancellor Official or Commissary to pass Licences in this kind And that all the Lecturers throughout the Kingdom a new body and severed from the antient Clergie of England as being neither Parsons Vicars nor Curates be licensed henceforward in the Court of Faculties only upon recommendations of the party from the Bishop of the Diocess under his hand and seal with a Fiat from the Archbishop of Canterbury and a confirmation under the great seal of England and that such as transgress any of these Directions be suspended by the Lord Bishop of that Diocess or in his default by the Lord Archbishop of that Province ab officio beneficio for a year and a day untill his Majesty by the advice of the next Convocation shall prescribe some further punishment By this you see his Majesties Princely care that men should preach Christ crucified obedience to the higher powers and honest and Christian conversation of life but in a regular form and not that every young man should take unto himself an exorbitant liberty to teach what he listeth to the offence of his Majesty and to the disturbance and disquiet of the Church and Commonwealth I can give unto your Lordship no better directions for the performance hereof then are prescribed to you in his Majesties Letter and the Schedule hereunto annexed Wherefore I pray you be very carefull since it is the Princely pleasure of his Majesty to require an exact account both of you and of me for the same Thus not doubting but by your Register or otherwise you will cause these Instructions to be communicated to your Clergy I leave you to the Almighty and remain your Lordships loving brother George Cant. Croydon Aug. 15. 1622. King James Instructions to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning Orders to be observed by Bishops in their Diocesses 1622. 1. THat the Lords the Bishops be commanded to their severall Sees excepting those that are in necessary attendance at Court 2. That none of them reside upon his land or lease that he hath purchased nor on his Commendum if he hold any but in one of his Episcopall Houses if he have any and that he waste not the woods where any are left 3. That they give their charge in their Trienniall Visitations and at other convenient times both by themselves and the Archdeacons and that the Declaration for setling all questions in difference be strictly observed by all parties 4. That there be a speciall care taken by them all that the Ordinations be solemn and not of unworthy persons 5. That they take great care concerning the Lecturers in their severall Diocess for whom we give these special Directions following First That in all Parishes the after-noon Sermons may be turned into Catechising by Question and Answer when and wheresoever there is no great cause apparent to break this ancient and profitable order Secondly that every Bishop ordain in his Diocess that every Lecturer do read Divine Service according to the Liturgy printed by authority in his Surplice and Hood before the Lecture Thirdly That where a Lecture is set up in a Market Town it may be read by a company of grave and Orthodox Divines neer adjoyning and in the same Diocess and that they preach in Gowns not in Cloaks as too many use to do Fourthly That if a Corporation do maintain a single Lecturer he be not suffered to preach till he professe his willingnesse to take upon him a living with cure of souls within that Incorporation and that he actually take such Benefice or Cure so soon as it shall be fairly procured for him Fifthly That the Bishops do countenance and encourage the grave Orthodox Divines of their Clergy and that they use means by some of the Clergy or others that they may have knowledge how both Lecturers and Preachers within their Diocess do behave themselves in their Sermons that so they may take order for any abuse accordingly Sixthly That the Bishops suffer none under Noblemen or men qualified by Law to have any private Chaplain in his house Seventhly That they take speciall care that Divine Service be diligently frequented as well for Prayers and Catechismes as for Sermons and take particular note of all such as absent themselves as Recusants or others Eighthly That every Bishop that by our grace and favour and good opinion of his service shall be nominated by us to another Bishoprick shall from that day of nomination not presume to make any Lease for three lives or one and twenty years or concurrent Lease or any way renew any estate or cut any Wood or Timber but meerly receive his Rents due and to quit the place For we think it an hatefull thing that any man leaving the Bishoprick should almost undo his Successor And if any man shall presume to break this Order We will refuse him Our Royall assent and keep him at the place he hath so abused Ninthly and lastly We command you to give us an account every year the second of January of the performance of these our commands Subscribed at Dorchester I. R. Bishop of Winchester to his Archdeacon to the same effect SAlutem in Christo I have received Letters from the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the tenor whereof foloweth Right reverend Father in God my very good Lord and brother I have received from the Kings most excellent Majesty a Letter the tenor whereof here ensueth Most reverend Father in God right trusty and right entirely beloved Councellor we greet you well For as much as the abuses and extravagancies of Preachers in the Pulpit have been c. According to the tenor of these Letters you are to see that these limitations and cautions herewith sent unto you be duly and strictly from henceforth observed and put in practice and that several Copies of those Directions be speedily communicated to every one of those whom they shall concern and that you may imploy your uttermost endeavors in the performance of so important a business considering that his Majesty will have a special eye over you and me and expect a strict accompt at both our hands whereof praying you to have all possible care I commend your endeavours therein to the blessing of God From Farnham Aug. 15. 1622. Your very loving friend Lan. Winton The Bishop of Lincoln L. Keeper to the Bishop of London concerning Preaching and Catechising My very good Lord I Doubt not before this time you have received from me the directions of his most excellent Majesty concerning Preaching and Preachers which are so graciously set down that no godly or discreet man can otherwise then acknowledge that they do much
obedient servant Toirax Abignoto concerning the estate of Rochel after the surrender SIR I presume you have long since heard the particulars of Rochel and that by farre better relations then mine notwithstanding you may be pleased to know what I observed and learned there my selfe eight daies after the Kings entrance whither curiosity and some other causes drew me For the siege and Dike they prae caeter is excellens were in all parts most royall and farre more perfect and uniforme then relation could make me conceive The misery of the siege almost incredible but to such only as have seene it or some part thereof Corn was worth after the rate of 800 Franks the bushel an Oxe or Cow sold after the rate of 2000 Franks The host where I lay sold a Jade horse worth it may be four or five pounds for 800 Franks and for five and twenty weeks tasted no bread of twelve persons in his family only he and his wife are living who also within two daies had dyed if the Town had not been rendred He and his wife made a Collation the day before the Town was rendred which cost him about six or seven pound sterling their chear was a pound of bread made of Straw Sugar and other Spices halfe a pound of horse flesh three or foure ounces of Comfits and a pint of Wine which they imagin'd was the last good chear they should make together and in like case were all the rest of the Towne only two or three families of the better sort excepted by which you may conjecture what rates such kind of provision were at There were eaten between 3000 or 4000 Cow-hides all the dogs cats mice and rats they could get not a horse left alive which was food for the better sort only Madam Rohan after having eaten her Coach horse and her servants the Leather of her Coach removed though full sore against her will her lodging from Rochel to the Castle of Mooke or Niâ—eul where she is under guard and since it is said to the Bastile in Paris God send her and hers to heaven There died for want of food in Rochel 15000 and rested living when the King entred betweene three and four thousand of which there are since very many dead they dayly discover new miseries which when I was there were not spoken of the mother and the child at the brest both dead the child having eaten most part of the mothers brest a souldier was found dead with a piece of his fellows flesh in his mouth a Burger having a servant killed powdred her which fed him and his wife a long time and dainty meat too many languishing and finding themselves draw neer their ends caused their coffins to be carried into the Churches said them down in them and so dyed these were of the better sort The common sort laid themselves down in Coffins in the Church yards and there dyed others in the streets others not able to go out of their houses dyed and remained there their friends being not able to remove them thence So that when the first Forces of the King entered there were in the Town of Corps unburied some in the Church-yards others in the streets some in their houses some on the floore others in their beds besides them that died without the Gates under hedges and in ditches round about the Towne which I saw my selfe when I was there halfe devoured with Ravens and other beasts and fowls of the aire In fine the like misery hath not been seene nor heard of The King on All-Saints day which was the day of his entry with a wax Candle in his hand together with the Cardinall and all the Nobility in like manner went all over the Town in procession with the B. Sacrament The chiefe Temple of the Hugonots shall be converted into a Church Cathedral and Rochel to be a Bishoprick All the fortifications and walls to Landwards to be razed and the Fosses filled so that a plough may passe as in arable Land The Maior with some of the chiefest are banish'd for ever others for a certaine time limited though quietly to possesse their goods moveable and immoveable and a general remission of all crimes past and all others that were in the Towne before the descent of the English into Rhee and when the Town was rendred shall likewise enjoy the same priviledge though no child or heir absent is or shall be capable to inherit the goods or lands of his parents or friends deceased but all is at the Kings disposing The King hath granted them free liberty of their Religion in the Town of Rochel which in short time will all be rooted out for no Forrainer though naturalized shall be admitted to repair and inhabit in Rochel nor French but Roman Catholicks The King hath added to the revenues of his Crown 20000 Franks per annum which was a rent belonging to the Town-house for the maintenance of the fortifications and State of Rochel The Town-house is to be razed and a pillar or pyramids with an ample inscription of the particulars of the siege and rebellion there to be erected The forts of the Isle of Rhee and Oleron to be razed as it is said most of all the chief forts of France except on the frontiers Four Regiments are yet in Rochel the rest of the Army at least the most part are gon to winter in those parts of France towards the coasts of Italy to be ready on all occasions to succor the Duke of Mantua as it is thought The Fathers of the society have very faire buildings given them for their establishing there and 1000 Franks to begin to build to which is added a revenue which I know not the place is said to be where the Hereticks kept their schools of Divinity and Councel of warre or rebellion And where the English had their Church the Oratorians are likewise established with large augmentations The Capuchins are where was the chiefest Fort called Le Bastion de Levangile The Minors are where the Dike was and divers other elsewhere There are at least 8000 houses in Rochel which are faine to fall to the King to dispose of for want of heirs The Parisians are preparing a most sumptuous and magnificent receipt for the King which is the cause he hath not been at Paris since his return from Rochel but is at St. Germins and thereabouts till all things are ready for his entry which is thought will exceede in bravery and magnificence all the presidents of many years The Jesuits are by the body of Paris imployed to make the speeches and inscriptions for that purpose which the body of the Sorbon take ill The Prince of Conde doth daily get ground of Rohan and hath lately taken prisoners as it is said thirty Captaines and eight hundred souldiers Those of Montauban boast as it is said that they have provision for three or four years and will stand out til the last though some of the best esteeme
Sanctuary and protection to the Hereticks and Rebels and it will shortly serve for a Trophie of your Victories We are confidently perswaded that neither fear nor inconstancie shall ever be able to divert you from the pursuit of your so glorious enterprise nor hinder you to subvert that unsanctified people Onely by the way we would have you remember that the Saints in heaven assist that Prince who takes upon him the defence of Religion and fight on his side like fellow-souldiers The same God that hardned the waters like dry land and turned the waters of the Sea into walls to give safe passage to his childrens Army will certainly in this most pious action be as favourable to you and then we shall have good cause to hope that having establisht your own Kingdom and crusht the impiety that was and yet is there you may one day by the progress of your victorious Arms joyn the Orient to the Occident imitating the glories of your Ancestors who have ever born as much respect to the Exhortations of Popes as to the commandment of God St. Lewis whose name you bear and whose steps you follow invites you to it so did the first of your Race who in defending the Apostolike authority and propagating Christian Religion laid the best and surest foundation to your Royal House Follow dear Son which are the ornaments of the world the commandments of heaven pour out your wrath and indignation upon those people that have not nor will not know God and our Apostolike benignity to the end the divine treasure of heaven may belong unto you by a just acquisition In the mean time we send you most affectionately our Apostolike benediction Given at Rome at great St. Maries under the Seal of the Fisher the 4 day of August 1629 being the seventh yeer of our Pontificate The Duke of Buckingham Chancellor elect to the University of Cambridge June 5. 1626. MR. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen of the University of Cambridge there is no one thing that concerneth me more near then the good opinion of good and learned honest men amongst which number as you have ever held the first rank in the estimation of the Commonwealth and fame of the Christian world so in conferring of this Honour of Chancellorship upon me I must confess you have satisfied a great ambition of mine own which I hope will never forsake me and that is To be thought well of by men that deserve well and men of your profession Yet I cannot attribute this Honour to any desert in me but to the respect you bear to the sacred memory of my Master deceased the King of Scholars who loved you and honoured you often with his presence and to my gracious Master now living who inherits with his blessed Fathers virtues the affection he bore your University I beseech you as you have now made your choice with so many kinde and noble circumstances as the manner is to me acceptable and grateful as the matter so to assure your selves that you have cast your votes upon your servant who is as apprehensive of the time you have shewed your affection in as of the Honour you have given him And I earnestly request you all that you would be pleased not to judge me comparatively by the success and happiness you have had in your former choice of Chancellors who as they knew better perhaps by advantage of education in your University how to value the deserts of men of your qualities and degrees so could they not be more willing to cherish you then my self who will make amends for want of Scholarship in my love to the professors of it and unto the Source from whence it cometh having now most just cause more chiefly to employ my uttermost endeavours with what favour I enjoy from a Royal Master to the maintaining of the Charters Priviledges and Immunities of your University in general and to the advancing of the particular merits of the Students therein And since I am so far engaged unto you I will presume upon a further courtesie which is That you will be pleased to supply me with your advice and suggest away unto me as my self likewise shall not fail to think on some means how we may make Posterity remember you have a thankful Chancellor and one that both really loved you and your University Which is a resolution writ in an honest heart by him that wanteth much to express his affection to you who will ever be York-house 5 Junii 1626. Your faithful friend and humble servant Geor. Buckingham King Charles to the University of Cambridge in approbation of the Election June 6. 1626. TRusty and Welbeloved We greet you well Whereas upon Our Pleasure intimated unto you by the Bishop of Durham for the choice of your Chancellor you have with such duty as We expected highly satisfied Us in your election We cannot in Our Princely nature who are much possessed with this testimony of your ready and loyal affections but for ever to let you know how much you are therein made partakers of Our Royal approbation and as We shall ever conceive that an Honour done to a person We favour is out of a loyal respect had unto Our Self and as we shall ever justifie Buckingham worthy of this your Election so shall you finde the fruits of it for We have found him a faithful servant to our dear Father of blessed memory and Our Self cannot but undertake that he will prove such a one unto you and will assist him with a gracious willingness in any thing that may concern the good of the University in general or the particular merits of any Students there Given under Our Signet at Our Palace of Westminter the sixth of June in the second yeer of Our Raign The University of Cambridge Answer to the Duke June 6. 1626. Illustissime Princeps atq auspicatissime Cancellarie NEptunum perhibent gratum cum Minerva iniisse certamen utere remagis mortalium conferret donumtille potens maris Deus illâ—â—o effudit equum Illâ— pacis musarum numen suppeditavit oâ—eam utrumque certe Deo dignum munus Adeo nostrum non est tantam litem dirimere quin facessat potius litis importuna vox ubi non alia quam Amoris propinantur pignora Perinde tecum se res habet excellentissime Dux quemjam olim potentissimus Oceani Britannici Neptunus non solum suprema Maris Praefectura cohonestavit sed Praetorio donavit Equo adeo ut illius munere propria virtute unus audias Terrae Marique summus Dictator ut sic dicamus Classis Magister Equitum Post tanta honorum vestigia ecce nostra Minerva tua jam Cantabrigia supplex suas obtendit oleas tanquam inter victriâ—es lauros lambentes hederas oleas quidem quibus tuis rebus rebus tum publicis tum Literariis precatur simul auspicatur pacem Nec ad usque sumus gens togata impotenter suâ—erbi ut
Judicature nor rules of Law to direct and guide their Judgments in cases of transcedent nature which happening so often the very intermitting of the constant rules of Government for so many ages within this Kingdome practised would soone dissolve the very frame and foundation of our Monarchy wherefore as to our Commons we made faire proposition which might equally preserve the just liberties of the subject So my Lords we have thought good to let you know that without the overthrow of our soveraignty we cannot suffer this power to be impeached yet notwithstanding to clear our conscience and intentions this we publish that it is not in our heart or will ever to extend our Royal power sent unto us from God beyond the just rule of moderationin any thing which shall be contrary to our Lawes and Customes wherein the safety of our people shal be our only aime And we do hereby declare our Royal pleasure and resolution to be which God willing we wil ever constantly continue and mantaine that neither we nor our Privy Counsel shall or will at any time hereafter commit or command to prison or otherwise restraine the person of any for not lending mony unto us or for any other cause which in our conscience doth concern the publick good and safety of us and our people we wil not be drawn to pretend any cause which in our conscience is not or is not expressed which base thought we hope no man can imagine can fall into our Royal brest and that in all causes of this nature which shall hereafter happen we shall upon the humble Petition of the party or addresse of our Judges unto us readily and really expresse the true cause of their Commitment or restraint so soone as with conveniency or safety the same is fit to be disclosed and expressed and that in all causes Criminal of ordinary Jurisdiction our Judges shall proceede to the deliverance and bailment of the Prisoner according to the known and ordinary rules of the Lawes of this Land and according to the Statute of Magna charta and those other six statutes insisted on which we do take knowledge stand in full force and which we intend not to weaken or abrogate against the true intent thereof This we have thought fit to signifie unto you the rather for the shortning of any long debate upon this question the season of the year being so far advanced and our great occasions of State not lending as many daies of long continuance of this Session of Parliament Given under our signet at our Pallace at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the Fourth Year of our Reigne CAROLUS REX A Counsel Table Order against hearing Mass at Embassadors houses March 10. 1629 At White-hall the tenth of March 1619. PRESENT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Privy Seale Lord Steward Lord Chamberlaine Earl of Suffolk Earl of Dorset Earl of Salisbury Lord Wimbleton Lord Viscount Dorchester Lord Viscount Wentworth Lord Viscount Grandison Lord Viscount Fraulkland Lord Savile Lord Newbergh Mr. Vice Chamberlaine Mr. Secretary Cooke AT this Sitting the Lord Viscount Dorchester declared that his Majesty being informed of the bold and open repaire made to several places and specially to the houses of forraine Ambassadors for the hearing of Masse which the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome do expresly forbid his Subjects to frequent and considering in his Princely wisdome both the publick Scandals and dangerous consequence thereof is resolved to take present order for the stopping of this evil before it spread it selfe any further and for this purpose had commanded him to acquaint the Board with his pleasure in that behalfe and what course he thinketh fit to be held therein and withal to demand the opinion and advice of their Lordships concerning the same his Majesty being desirous to use the best and most effectuall expedient that can be found Hereupon his Lordship proceeding did further declare that his Majesty to shew the clearnesse and earnestnesse of his intention herein hath begun at his owne house viz. Wheresoever the Queens Majesty hath any Chappel being intended for the only service of her and for those French who attend her for which the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlaine to her Majesty hath been commanded to take special care according to such directions as he hath received from his Majesty That for so much as concerneth the repaire to the houses of Forraine Embassadors at the time of Masse his Majesty thinks fit that some messengers of the Chamber or other officers or persons fit for that service shall be appointed to watch all the several passages to their houses and without entring into the said houses or infringing the freedoms and priviledges belonging unto them observe such persons as go thither but at their coming from thence they are to apprehend them and bring them to the Board and such as they cannot apprehend to bring their names But to the end that the said Forraine Embassadours may have no cause to complaine of this proceeding as if there were any intention to wrong or disrespect them his Majesty doth likewise think fit that for the preventing of any such mistaking and sinister Interpretation the said Embassadors shall be acquainted with the truth of this businesse and likewise assured in his Majesties name that he is and wil be as careful to conserve all priviledges and rights belonging to the quality of their places as any of his Progenitors have been and in the same manner as himselfe expecteth that their Princes shall use to wards his Embassadors Lastly That it is his Majesties expresse pleasure that the like diligence be used for the apprehending of all such as repaire to Masse in prisons or other places The Board having heard this declaration did unanimously conclude that there could sot be taken a more effectuall course for the preventing of these evils then this which his Majesty in his wisedome hath set downe and therefore did order that the same be immediately put in strict and careful execution And it was likewise thought fit that the Lord Viscount Dorchester and Mr. Secretary Cooke should be sent to the forraine Embassadours severally to acquaint them with his Majesties intention as is before mentioned and that the messengers of the Chamber to be imployed in the service before specified shall be appointed and receive their charge from the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Bishop of London and the Secretaries who are to take a speciall care to see this put in execution King of Spaine to Pope Urban Sept. 21. 1619. MOst Holy Father I condescended that my forces should be imployed in the execution of Mountferrat to divert the introduction of strangers into Italie with so evident danger of Religion I suffered the siege of Cassal to run on so slowly to give time that by way of negotiation those differences might be composed with the reciprocal satisfaction of the parties interessed and to shew in effect what little reason all
in my selfe I am enforced to honour the wonderful providence of God who hath pleased to convert the affinity which I affected with your Noble house for my comfort and assistance to my ruine and that in the bosome of our neerest and dearest friendship should breed so intestine a hatred as should tend to the overthrow of my credit wealth lands liberty house wife and children and all those comforts which should either support or sweeten the life of man Wherefore I have adventure after so long silence to minde your Lordship of this my unfortunate estate wherein I rather die then live whereunto I have been so long since precipitated by your Lordships countenance as I hope pretended only by the instruments of my mischiefe to proceede from you that if now your Lordship shall think iâ— enough that I have so many years so many waies endured the crosses of so high a nature and can be induced to affect a reparation or at least a determination of those injuries which undeservedly have been heaped upon me I may yet at length conclude this Tragedy of my life past with some comfortable fruit of that love and kindnesse which at the first I aimed at in seekâ—ng your Lordships Alliance and which I endeavoured to deserve for the continuance and which after so long intermission I shall think my self happy to enjoy if so be your Lordship shall out of your charitable consideration think my motion to concur with my desire that I may not be inforced to advance my complaint further which I wish may be prevented by this my Expostulation springing from the sense of so great and intolerable a misery wherein I languish every day A Declaration of Ferdinand Infanta of Spain 5 July 1636. Vnto all those to whom this present Writing shall come greeting FRance having contrary to reason and justice moved and maintained War in the States of the Emperor and of my Lord the King given extraordinary Succouâ—s both of men and money to their rebellious subjects procured the Swedes to invade the Empire received and bought of them the Towns of Alsatia a d other hereditary Countries of our most Royall House not sparing the Catholick League it self which had taken Arms for no other end but for the good of Religion And it being notorious that the same France after all these publick and manifest contraventions to the Treaties of Peace hath finally proceeded to a breach thereof whereas we rather had cause to denounce the War in that she hath sent her Armies to over-run the Low Countries the Dutchie of Millain and other Feoffs of the Empire in Italy and now lately the Country of Burgundy contrary to the Lawes of Neutrality contrary to the Publick Faith and contrary to the expresse promises of the Prince of Conde Disguising in the mean time these attempts and breaches of Faith before all Christendome with certain weak pretexts and false surmises contained in divers Declarations approved in the Parliament of France and accompanying all these unjust proceedings with sundry Insolencies Calumnies and Contempts of sacred persons And having also observed that this so long continence of ours at so manifold injuries hath served to no other purpose but to make our enemies more audacious and insolent and that the compassion we have had of France hath drawn on the ruine of those whom God had put under the obedience of their Majesties For these considerations according to the power which we have received from his Imperiall Majestie we have commanded our Armies to enter into France with no other purpose then to oblige the King of France to come to a good secure Peace for removing those impediments which may hinder this so great a good And for as much as it principally concerneth France to give end to these disorders we are willing to believe that all the Estates of that Kingdome will contribute not only their remonstrances but also if need be their forces to dispose their King to Chastise those who have been the Authors of all these Warrs which these seven or eight years past have beene in Christendome and who after they have provoked and assayled all their neighbours have brought upon France all those evils which she doth now suffer and draw on her those other which do now threaten her And although we are well informed of the weaknesse and devisions into which these great disorders and evil counsels have cast her yet we declare that the intentions of their Mastjesties are not to serve themselves of this occasion to ruine her or to draw from thence any other profit then by that means to work a Peace in Christendom which may be stable and permanent For these reasons and withal to shew what Estimation their Majesties do make of the prayers of the Queene Mother of the most Christian King wee doe give to understand that we wil protect and treat as friends all those of the French Nation who either joyntly or severally shall second these our good designes and have given Order that Neutrality shal be held with those of the Nobility and with the Townes which shal desire it and which shal refuse to assist those who shal oppose the good of Christendome and their own safety against whom shall be used all manner of hostility without giving quarter to their persons or sparing either their houses or goods And our further wil is that all men take notice that it is the resolution of their Majesties not to lay down Arms til the Queene Mother of the most Christian King be satisfied and contented til the Princes unjustly driven out of their estates be restored til they see the assurances of peace more certain then to be disturbed by him who hath violated the treaties of Ratisbone others made before and sithence he hath had the managing of the affairs of France Neither do we pretend to draw any other advantage from the good successe which it shal please God to give unto our just prosecutions then to preserve augment the Catholick Religion to pacifie Europe to relieve the oppressed and to restore to every one that which of right belongeth unto him Given at Ments the fifth of July 1636. FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of the most Remarkable Things A AGnus Dei 38 Alchimie 75 Alchoran false because not to be disputed 194 Alfons d'Este turns Capuchin 243. Ancre Marquesse would get the Dutchy of Alanson and Constables Office into his hands in arere to the Crown of France for 80000 pounds 195 Anderson Edmund 73 Anne of Bullen Queen of England sues to King Henry that her enemies may not be her accusers and Judges protests her innocence declares the causes of the Kings change begs the lives of her brother and the other Gentlemen 9 10 Archbishop of Dublin affronted by the Friars 241 Ashton Sir Walter 130 132 138 139 Austria House 114 B. Bacon Sir Nicholas Lord Keeper 69. Antony Francis friends to the Earl of Essex 32. Francis after Lord Verulam
Viscount St. Alban his discourses to the Earl concerning Ireland 42 43 c. concerning Tyrone 44. his huge opinions of the Earl of Essex 45 46 47. against the Subsidie in Parliament how 54 68. makes wayes to get into King James his favour 56 58. expostulates with and advises Sir Edward Cook 60 61. expostulates with Sir Vincent Skinner 66. would be Sollicitor 68 69 71. his good services to the Crown 72 See Bodley Sir Thomas Balsac impudently abuseth King James and Qu. Elizabeth 198 199. flatters the French King grosly 200 201 Barbarians of old placed justice and felicity in the sharpnesse of their swords 47 Bavaria Duke linked with the House of Austria 135. designed Elector of Rhine 113. seiseth part of the Palatinate 131 Bevayr Chancellour of France discharged complains to the King to the Government 193 194 195 196. Commanded to discharge an account for 80000 li. 195. haâ— no other fauls but that he is an honest man 196 Bishops in what manner parts of the Common-wealth 5. submitted to Kings 6. chief against the Mass 233. too remiss 185 Bodeley Sir Thomas against Sir Francis Bacons new Philosophie 74 75 76. For setled opinions and Theoremes 76 77 78 Bouillon Duke 37 198 Bristol Earl See Digby Lord. Brograve Atturney of the Dutchy 69 Broke George 79 80 Brunswic Christian Duke 148 Buckingham Duke chosen Chancellor of Cambridg 213. unkindness between him and Bristol 151. and Olivarez ibid. murthered 220. See Charles King Burleigh Lord for Kings and against usurpation 136 C Caecil Sir Robert after Earl of Salisbury in France 36. a friend to Sir Francis Bacon 69 70 Caesar d' Este Du. of Modena 243 Calvinists dangerous 112 Cambridg differences betwixt the Town and Vniversity 223 Car Earl of Somerset 86 Carlo Don Infant of Spain 126 Carlo Alessandro of Modena 243 Carlton Sir Dudley Embassadour in the Low Countries 145 Caron Sir Noel Embassadour in England from the Low Countries 92 93 Cassal S. Vaâ— beleaguered by the Spaniard 239 Causes of conscience growing to be faction 38 Charles King of great Brittain ingagement of his person in Spain cause why things were not carryed on to the height 15â— See Gregory Pope His piety and care toward the Hugonots of France 206. acknowledged by them after the losse of Rochel 208 209. his opinion of the Duke of Buckingham 214 215. A great lover of the Vniversity of Cambridg 220 223. Will rule according to the Laws wil give the Judges leave to deliver and bail prisoners according to Magna Charta and the Statutes 231. forbids hearing of Mass 232. careful to root out Papistry in Ireland 242. commands the house in Dublin to be pulled down where the Friars appeared in their habits 241 Charles the Fifth 145 Church Orders by K. James 193 of England its service damnable by the Popes decree 40 Clergy where punished 6 Cleves and Juliers pretended to 123 124 Clifford Sir Coniers 42 Coeur Marquess 240 Coke Sir Edward disgraces Sir Francis Bacon 60. described 62 63 Colledg of Dublin 52 Colomma Don Carlo 152 Commission for the Deputies place of Ireland 13. for delivery of Vlushing Bril c. 92 93. of union of the Kingdoms 72 Conde Prince 204 254 Conscience not to be forced 51 Considerations touching the service in Ireland 49 50 Constable of France the Office intended to be taken away by Henry the Great 195 Cornwallis Sir Charles Embassadour in Spaine 95 Cottington Sir Francis after Lord 130 Critory Secretary of France 38 Custome of Spain to give notice of visits 120 D Danish King 94 148 149 Davers Lord 253 Davison Secretary in disgrace 22 See Essex Earl Defiance to the Emperour Maximilian from the Grand Seignieur 12 Deputy of Ireland his power 13 14 Desmond Earl dissembles dutifulnesse 18. his Rebellion 45 Digby Lord after Earl of Bristol in Spain treats concerning the Match 117 118 119 120 121 c. zealous for it 138 139 140 142 Sir Kenhelm 240 244. See Fairy Queen Directions for preaching 184 c. Discipline See Presbytery Disloyalty the doom of it seldome adjourned to the next world 46 E Egerton Sir Thomas Lord Ellesmere and Lord Chancellour a friend to the Earl of Essex 27 87 to Sir Francis Bacon 71 sues to be discharged 87 88 89 Elizabeth Queen of England comforts the Lady Norris 10 11 her care for Ireland 5 16 50. cast not off her creatures slightly 32. Questions the Earl of Essex in the Star Chamber unwillingly and forced 32 33. Her Government in things Ecclesiastical she will not force mens consciences 38 39 40. her dealing with Papists 39. See Walsingham Sir Francis Gives stipends to preachers 52 Essex Earle a lover of Secretary Davison 20 21 c. would bring him again into favour 22 25. writes to King James in his defence 23. to the Queen being lesse graced and discontented 25 26. will not approve the Chancellors advice 29. suddenly before his Rebellion Religious 35 F Fairy Queen the 22d Staffe of the ninth Canto of the second Booke discoursed of by Sir Kenhelm Digby 244 c. Faulkland Viscount Lord Deputy of Ireland 235 236. Petitions the King for his son imprisoned in the Fleet 242 Ferdinand the second wil not restore the Palatine 112 113 c. aiâ—s to settle the Empire perpetually in the house of Austria 113. abuses K. James 113 115 116 146 his Armies in Italy 234 235 Ferdinand Infanta of Spain 254 Feria Duke 102 Fitzwilliams Sir William 42 Frederic father 123 Frederic the 2d Palatine 146 147 Frederic the fifth driven out of his estates 112 113 116. will not quit the electorate nor submit 145. see 198 French the estate of things in the minority of Lewis the thirteenth 195. authority of the French King ibid. French Kings reverence the exhortations of Popes as much as the Commands of God 213 G Gabor Bethlem Prince of Transylvania 113 l46 Gage imployed at Rome 129 130 Giron Don Hernando 130 Gondomar Conde 130 Gregory the 15 puts the Inquisitor Generall of Spain upon it to gaine the Prince of Wales to the Church of Rome fearfull of his stay in the Spanish Court 210 unreasonable in the businesse of the dispensation 130 Groillart Claude President of the Parliament of Rhoan 36 Guise Duke 240 H Hereticks abuse Scripture 2 Hall Bishop of Exceter 229 Harrington Sir Henry 18 Heidelberg taken by the Spaniards 127 Henry the 8 writes to the Clergy of York in defence of his title Caput Ecclesiae 1 2 3 4 5 c. Henry the 4 of France 36 Hessen Landgrave Philip 145 Homily bookes 184 Hoskins Sir Thomas 59 Hugonots of France acknowledge many obligations to Charles King of great Britain 204 205 Persecuted 205 206 I Jacynthus father 109 112 Jagerndorf Brandenburg Marquesse John Georg 116 James King of great Britain described 59. will take care of London 81 yeelds up Vlushing c. 94 95 his fairenesse to the Spanish King 100 101. will not make Cambridge a City his care of the Vniversity 105.