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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

my Lord of Leicester and Burleigh out of France containing many fine passages and secrets yet if I might have been beholding to his Cyphers whereof they are full they would have told Pretty Tales of the times But I must now close up and rank him amongst the Togati yet chief of those that laid the foundation of the Dutch and French Wars which was another piece of his fineness and of the times with one observation more That he was one of the Great Allies of the Austrian Embracements For both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to the Fiend in the Gospel that sowed his tares in the night so did they their seeds of division in the dark And it is a likely report that they father on him at his return That he said unto the Queen with some sensibility of the Spanish designs on France Madam 〈◊〉 beseech you be content not to fear The Spaniard hath a great Appetite and an Excellent Digestion but I have fitted him with a bone for this Twenty years that your Majesty shall have no cause to doubt him provided that if the fire chance to slack which I have kindled you will be ruled by me and now and then cast in some English fewel which will revive the flame Willoughby MY Lord Willoughby was one of the Queen's first Sword-men He was of the Ancient Extract of the Bartues but more ennobled by his Mother who was Dutchess of Suffolk He was a great Master of the Art Military and was sent General into France and commanded the Second of Five Armies that the Queen sent thither in aid of the French I have heard it spoken that had he not slighted the Court but Applyed himself to the Queen he might have enjoyed a plentiful portion of her Grace And it was his saying and it did him no good That he was none of the Reptilia intimating that he could not creep on the ground and that the Court was not in his Element for indeed as he was a Great Souldier so was he of a Suitable Magnanimity and could not brook the Obsequiousness and Assiduity of the Court and as he then was somewhat descending from youth happily he had an animam revertendi and to make a safe Retreat Sir Nicholas Bacon I Come to another of the Togati Sir Nicholas Bacon An arch-piece of Wit and Wisdom He was a Gentleman and a man of Law and of great knowledge therein whereby together with his other parts of Learning and Dexterity he was promoted to be Keeper of the Great Seal and being of kin to the Treasurer Burleigh had also the help of his hand to bring him into the Queen's favour for he was abundantly factious which took much with the Queen when it was suited with the season as he was well able to judge of his times He had a very quaint saying and he used it often to good purpose That he loved the jest well but not the loss of his Friend He would say That though he knew Vnusquisque suae fortunae faber was a true and good principle yet the most in number were those that marred themselves But I will never forgive that man that loseth himself to be rid of his jest He was Father to that Refined Wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the publick stage and of late sat in his Father's room as Lord Chancellour Those that lived in his age and from whence I have taken this little Model of him gives him a lively Character and they decypher him for another Solon and the Synon of those times such a one as Oedipus was in dissolving of Riddles Doubtless he was as able an Instrument and it was his commendation that his head was the Mawl for it was a great one and therein he kept the Wedge that entred the knotty pieces that came to the Table And now I must again fall back to smooth and plain a way to the rest that is behind but not from the purpose There were about these times two Rivals in the Queen's favour Old Sir Francis Knowls Comptroller of the House and Sir Henry Norris whom she called up at a Parliament to sit with the Peers in the higher House as Lord Norris of Ricot who had married the daughter and heir of the old Lord Williams of Tame a Noble person and to whom in the Queen's adversity she had been committed to safe custody and from him had received more than ordinary observances Now such was the goodness of the Queen's Nature that she neither forgot good turns received from the Lord Williams neither was she unmindfull of this Lord Norris whose Father in her Father's time and in the business of her Mother died in a Noble cause and in the justification of her innocency Lord Norris MY Lord Norris had by this Lady an ample Issue which the Queen highly respected for he had Six Sons and all Martial brave men The first was William his eldest and Father to the late Earl of Berkshire Sir John vulgarly called General Norris Sir Edward Sir Thomas Sir Henry and Maximilian Men of an haughty courage and of great experience in the conduct of Military affairs And to speak in the Character of their merit they were persons of such renown and worth as future times must out of duty owe them the debt of an honourable memory Knowls SIr Francis Knowls was somewhat of the Queen's affinity and had likwise no incompetent Issue for he had also William his eldest and since Earl of Banbury Sir Thomas Sir Robert and Sir Francis if I be not a little mistaken in their names and martialling and there was also the Lady Lettice a Sister of these who was first Countess of Essex and after of Leicester And these were also brave men in their times and places but they were of the Court and Carpet not led by the genius of the Camp Between these two Families there was as it falleth out amongst Great ones and Competitors for favour no great correspondency and there were some seeds either of emulation or distrust cast between them which had they not been disjoyned in the residence of their persons as it was the fortune of their imployments the one side attending the Court the other the Pavilion surely they would have broken out into some kind of hostility or at least they would have wrestled one in the other like Trees incircled with Ivy For there was a time when both these Fraternities being met at Court there passed a challenge between them at certain exercises the Queen and the old men being spectators which ended in a flat quarrel amongst them all And I am perswaded though I ought not to judge that there were some reliques of this feud that were long after the causes of the one Families almost utter extirpation and of the others improsperity For it was a known truth that so long as my Lord of Leicester lived who was the main pillar of the one side as

away to Remove the Envy of it from himself Riches are also obnoxious to Envy not of the People onely but sometimes of the Prince himself who if he be Truly Avaritious will hardly be Content till he have Squeezed the Full Sponge as we read that Vespasian was wont to do but will rather Imitate the Country Clowns who when they have Fatned their Hogs do Kill and Devour them Truly France hath seen many such who being Proud and Peevish and who making too much Hast to be Rich have thereby and by their Insolence from a great Height of Fortune faln to Nothing In the time of Philip le Belle Peter Berchius High Chamberlain and Treasurer of France was strangled at Paris Lewis Philip 's Son afterward coming to the Crown Enguerrandus Marigny met with the same Misfortune Under Charles the Seventh Gyacensis in Dignity Equal to Berchias was Brought to the Bar and afterwards Sowed in a Sack and Crowned his Successor Caenus Beaulieu was Killed at Poicters and the Same End had come under Philip the First to Peter Essart if with an Hundred thousand Florins he had not Redeemed his Life I could Recount More nearer us but that I am willing to spare their Memory In the mean time these Examples are sufficient to Instruct That as the too Great Easiness of these Ministers brings too Great a Detriment upon the Prince's Profit so their Insolent Griping and Frowardness Draws Hate and Destruction upon themselves And that as we ought not to Refuse a just occasion of inriching our selves so we must not show our selves too Greedy after Riches nor Amass so much together as may Expose us to the Publick Envy CHAP. XL. Concluding with Many Choice and Necessary Admonitions THere Remains onely now unhandled the last Cause why Courtiers are Beloved by their Princes to wi● An Aptness and Singular Ability to Dispatch and Manage their Affairs For which reason When we see that we are become Acceptable to the Prince we must consider Whether He Love this Aptness for business because of the Vsefulness and necessity of it or else because the Prince desires to Acquire from us that Aptitude to Himself If it be Grateful because it is Necessary his Favor to us will endure as Long as the Necessity Remains but his Love will rather be a Forced than Voluntary Love If we see the Prince Aspire to the Glory of this Aptitude for business there is no doubt but when he sees that he cannot Either Equal or Excel us we shall become an Eye-sore and Vnacceptable to him for there is in Princes an Innate Desire as well as in all other Men of Excelling All Persons in those Arts they Addict themselves unto and therefore no Man almost is Pleased to be Excelled in them by his own Servant Asinius Pollio some Exhorting him to make a Reply to those Verses Augustus Caesar had made against him Answered That he would not by Contending to seem the Better Scribe draw his Envy upon him that had Power to Proscribe him There Arising a Dispute once between Favorinus the Philosopher and the Emperor Adrian about some word wherein the Philosopher at last seemed to yield his Friends wondring at it he said I am not Ashamed to be Overcome in Knowledge by Him that Commands Thirty Legions To this Purpose that Saying of Solomon is very Notorious Do not Seem Wise before the King It is necessary therefore That whosoever desires to Purchase a Prince's Favor must set aside the desire of his Own Glory and not onely in Verbal Disputes but in every thing else yield him the day And to that end it will not be amiss on purpose to Commit some Errors and Over-sights so that they be not Two Gross nor like to take too much from our Repute Out of our Discourse hitherto it is evident how little Certainty is in all the Greatness and Favor at Court Wherefore the best Counsel that can be given to all Courtiers is To Prepare Themselves for their Fall for although it is Thought a more Generous Thing to Fight than to Flie when you are once entred these lists yet if you are to do it with Greater Hazard of Danger than Hope of Success it is not Indiscreet to Sound a Retreat Betimes and in Imitation of the Parthians to Fight Flying As it is also a more Glorious thing to descend gently by steps and as it were to go out at the Door than to be Cast Headlong out at the Window so it is less shameful under Colour of some Specious and Contrived Pretences to bid Adieu to your Honors and Offices than to Expect to be Stript Disgracefully of them And hereunto may fitly be applyed the saying of an ancient Roman Why dost thou Weary Tired Fortune so Depart the Court Before thou art Forc'd to go Seneca says it is Happiness to Die in the Midst of your Felicity but I on the other side think That Courtier happy who in the Midst of his Prosperous Race Makes a Retreat Perhaps he that shall do So shall not be Applauded by all but by some that look upon the Outsides of things be Judged unworthy of the Fortune that he hath so abandoned Yet he that is wise not Regarding such Idle Discourses will provide for his own Safety and remember that in all Games it is Better to give over a winner than a loser as also that no Prudent Man will exchange or adventure Certain Things for Things so Very Vncertain Though our Ascent to These Heights of Fortune and Dignities is as it were by steps in order yet our Descents if not Timely foreseen are for the most part Headlong and Sudden So that those that are Flourishing in Favor and Authority if they chance once to Slip or Stumble their Falls are commonly Desperate and Fatal Behold here the Compendium of All that I desired to say for our Courtiers Instruction Whether these Precepts be Pertinent and Select or no I will not Determine but leave that to the Judgment and Experience of my Friends For my own part I confess I have at present no Great Vse of them and am so far from being Transported with Sadness at my Private and Retired Condition that I do heartily say with Seneca Let him that will ascend the Tottering Seat Of Courtly Grandeur and become as Great As are his Mounting Wishes as for Me Let Sweet Repose and Rest my Portion be Give me some Mean Obscure Recess a Sphere Out of the Road of Business or the Fear Of falling Lower where I sweetly may My Self and Dear Retirement still enjoy Let not my Life or Name be known unto The Grandees of the Times Tost to and fro By Censures or Applause but let my Age Slide Gently by not overthwart the Stage Of Publick Action unheard unseen And Vnconcern'd as if I ne'er had been And thus while I shall Pass my Silent Days In Shady Privacy free from the Noise And Bustles of the World then shall I A Good Old Innocent Plebeian

General Mountjoy and somewhat after we shall find the Horse and Foot Troops were for three or four years together much about 20000. Which besides the Naval charge which was a dependant of the same War in that the Queen was then forced to keep in continual pay a strong Fleet at Sea to Attend the Spanish Coasts and Ports both to alarm the Spaniard and to intercept his Forces designed for the Irish assistance so that the charge of that War alone did cost the Queen 300000 l. per annum at least which was not the Money of her Disbursements an Expence which without the publick said the State and the Royal Receipts could not have much longer endured which out of her own frequent Letters and complaints to the Deputy Mountjoy for casheering part of that List as soon as he could may be collected for the Queen was then driven into a strait We are naturally prone to Applaud the Times behind us and to vilifie the present for the current of her Fame carries it to this day how Royally and Victoriously she lived and dyed without the grievance and grudge of the people yet that truth may appear without retraction from the Honour of so great a Princess it is manifest she left more debts unpaid taken upon the credit of her Privy Seals than her Progenitors did or could have taken up that way in a hundred years before her which was an enforced piece of State to lay the burthen on that horse that was best able to bear it at the dead lift when neither her Receipts could yield her Relief at the pinch nor the urgency of her Affairs endure the delays of a Parliamentary Assistance And for such aids it is likewise apparent That she received more and with the love of the people than any two of her Predecessors that took most which was a Fortune strained out of the Subject through the Plausibility of her Comportment and as I would say without offence the Prodigal Distribution of her Graces to all sorts of Subjects For I believe no Prince living that was so Tender of Honour and so exactly stood for the preservation of Soveraignty that was so great a Courtier of her people yea of the Commons and that Stoopt and Descended lower in presenting her person to the publick view as she past in her Progresses and Perambulations and in the Ejaculation of her prayers on her people And truly though much may be given in praise of her Magnanimity and therewith comply with her Parliaments and for all that come off at last with honour and profit yet must we ascribe some part of the Commendation to the wisdom of the times and the choice of Parliament-men for I find not that they were at any time given to any violent or pertinacious dispute Elections being made of Grave and Discreet persons not Factious and Ambitious of Fame such as came not to the House with a Malevolent spirit of Contention but with a Preparation to Consult on the Publick Good rather to Comply than Contest with her Majesty Neither doe I find that the House was at any time weakned and pestered with the admission of too many Young heads as it hath been of later times which remembers me of Recorder Martin's Speech about the tenth of our late Soveraign Lord King James when there were Accounts taken of forty Gentlemen not above Twenty and some not exceeding Sixteen which moved him to say That it was the Ancient custom for Old men to make Laws for young ones but that then he saw the case altered and that there were Children Elected unto the great Council of the Kingdom which came to invade and invert nature and to Enact Laws to Govern their Fathers Sure we are the House always took the Common Cause into their Consideration and they saw the Queen had just occasion and need enough to use their Assistance neither do I remember that the House did ever Capitulate or Preferr their Private to the Publick the Queen's necessities c. but waited their times and in the first place gave their Supply and according to the Exigency of her Affairs yet failed not at last to obtain what they desired so that the Queen and her Parliaments had ever the good Fortune to depart in love and on reciprocal Terms which are considerations which have not been so Exactly observed in our last Assemblies as they might and I would to God they had been for considering the great debt left on the King and in what Incumbrances the House it self had then Drawn him his Majesty was not well used though I lay not the blame on the whole suffrage of the House where he had Many good Friends for I dare Avouch had the House been freed of half a dozen of Popular and Discontented Persons such as with the fellow that burnt the Temple at Ephesus would be talked of though but for Doing of Mischief I am confident the King had obtained that which in Reason and at his first Accession he ought to have Received Freely and without any Condition But pardon the Digression which is here Remembred not in the way of Aggravation but in true zeal to the publick good and presented in Caution to future times for I am not Ignorant how the spirit of the Kingdom now moves to make his Majesty Amends on any occasion and how desirous the Subject is to Expiate that offence at any Rate may it please his Majesty graciously to make tryal of his Subjects Affection and at what price they now value his Goodness and Magnanimity But to our purpose the Queen was not to learn that as the strength of her Kingdom consisted in the Multitude of her Subjects so the Security of her Person Rested in the Love and Fidelity of her people which she politickly Affected as it hath been thought somewhat beneath the Height of her Spirit and Natural Magnanimity Moreover it will be a true note of her Providence that she would always listen to her Profit for she would not refuse the Informations of Mean Persons with purposed improvement and had learned the Philosophy of Hoc agere to look into her own work of the which there is a notable Example of one Carwarden an under-Officer of the Custom-House who observing his time presented her with a paper shewing how she was abused in the under-renting of her Customs and therewithall humbly desired her Majesty to Conceal Him for that it did concern two or three of her great Councellours whom Customer Smith had Bribed with 200l a man so to lose the Queen 200 l. per annum which being made known to the Lords they gave strict order that Carwarden should not have Access to the back-stairs till at last her Majesty Smelling the Craft and Missing Carwarden She sent for him back and incouraged him to stand to his Information which the poor man did so Handsomely that within the space of ten years he brought Smith to Double his Rent or to leave the customs to