Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
vowed not to stir a foot except with these their Baggage which the King was forced to wink at for the present smiling out his anger and permitting now what he might and did amend afterwards But greatest Piety the best Cause the strictest Discipline the most faithful Service may miscarry in this world where we are sure no person can discern either the love or the hatred of the great Governor of the world by any thing that is under the Sun For he saw prosperous Villany trampling on unhappy Allegiance the best King lying down under the stroke of the worst Executioner and himself forced to compound for his estate with those very Rebels he now scorned and formerly defied overcome in all things but his mind For the note runs thus in that Record which we are bound to forgive but History will not forget Sir Edward Berkley of Pull Som. 0770 l. 00 00 In the primitive times like these I write of made up of suffering when the surviving Christians endeavoured to preserve the memory of their Martyrs for imitation and those few that escaped persecution advanced the honor of Confessors for their incouragement they had books called Dyptychs because filled on both sides with holy Names on the one side of those that died in the great cause on the other side of those that suffered for it being hardly thought by that wicked world worthy to live and yet not so happy as to be suffered to dye I am sensible I could fill this Volume with those eminent Assertors of Loyalty that are still alive of this Family to serve the Soveraign they suffered for and the great Martyrs of it that sealed their Allegiance with their bloud but foreseeing a fair opportunity elsewhere to do them the utmost right I am able that is to give the world a faithful Narrative of their exemplary virtues which though they may often times tempt to the liberty of a Panegyrick yet they still perswade to as strict an observance of truth as is due to an History For that Pen expresseth good men most elegantly that draweth their lives most faithfully In the mean time Let the very names of these worthy persons be Histories their very mention carry with it a Chronicle Sir MAVRICE BERKLEK ALthough as my Lord Bacon observes De Augmentatione Scientiarum l. 2. c. 13. Nature hath planted in all men fear twisted together with the principles of self-preservation as the great instrument of it and wariness as the great effect of fear Although all things as he saith be if we should look into them full of Panick fear nay though retiredness added to caution studiousness to retiredness simplicity and innocency of behaviour added to studiousness might have excused this Gentleman from the noise and much more from the sufferings of the late times yet the bare unhappiness of thinking Rationally of wishing Loyally of relieving Charitably of endeavouring to keep the peace of his Country Prudently cost him at Goldsmith-Hall where lay The Treasures of wickedness One thousand three hundred seventy two pounds deep besides the several inroads made upon his Estate and Lands by the Garrison of Glooester to which he would not Contribute freely he was forced to submit patiently And according to the method intimated in the Holy History that what the Catterpillar left the Canker-worm destroyed what Glocester left Essex his Army swallowed and what escaped them Sequestration seized RICHARD BERKLEY Esq THE elegant variety of beings in the world doth not more naturally conduce to the service of the world than the admirable diversity of mens gifts and abilities doth serve the necessities of those times and places to which they are appointed The former Gentleman was so studious that he might have been served as Vlrick Fugger was chief of the whole Family of the Fuggers in Auspurgh who was disinherited of a great Patrimony only for his studiousness and expensiveness in buying costly M. SS and yet his very thoughts and meditations served his Majesty giving great satisfaction to those that doubted and as great directions and countenance to those that managed that Cause which he called The Supporting of the government of the world This worthy personage was so active that he would say often That the greatest trouble to him was that he could not think and yet as corrected Quick-silver is very useful so his reduced quickness became very serviceable to ballance that of the Gloucester Officers who were at once the most indefatigable at home and the most troublesom abroad of any in England and never so well met with as by the vigilancy of this person who would not be surprised and his industry that could not be quiet An un-experienced Sailer would think Ballast unnecessary and Sails dangerous to a Ship and ordinary men judge so staid a man as Sir Maurice useless and so nimble a man as this Esquire not safe in great trust while wise men look on an even lay of both as the best temper but as some full word cannot be delivered of all that notion and sense with which it is pregnant without variety of expressions so this great spirit cannot be understood or made out without the large Paraphrase of such a multitude of excellent Instances as this place and method will not permit Only according to the Spanish Proverb Yr a la soga con el Calderin Where goeth the Buckle there goeth the Rope When his Master Set it was Night with him and when his Majesty laid down his life he was put to lay down for his lively-hood 0526 l. 00 00 As another of his name did 0020 00 00 though yet all these three had wherewithal to promote any Loyal Design that was offered and to relieve any Cavalier that wanted their Houses being the common Sanctuaries for distressed Loyalty whom they would see employed in a way suitable to their respective abilities and subservient to the publick design not enduring that their houses should be Hospitals or down-right begging a good Subjects calling A Husband-man pretended and made out his relation to Robert Groasthead Bishop of Lincolne and thereupon was an humble Suitor to him for an Office about him Cousin saith the Bishop to him If your Cart be broken I le mend it if your Plough old I will give you a new one But an Husband-man I found you and an Husband-man I le leave you Neither must we omit Sir ROWLAND BERKLEY of Cotheridge in the County of Worcester OF whom when he was pitched upon to manage a part of the Worcester Association we may say as Puterculus did of another Non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus quis eminebat being a steady man that looked not at few things but saw thorow the whole Systheme of Designs and comprehended all the Aspects and Circumstances of it putting Affairs notwithstanding that they ran sometimes against his Biass by some rubs of unusual impediments into an easie and smooth course using never one counsel any more than the Lord H.
manage it before he injoyed it being none of those soft Noblemen who if they were as one was by his Father to tell all the money they spent would as he did retrench their expences that they might save themselves a labour Good Husbandry as Bishop Andrews said was good Divinity and as this Nobleman practised it good Nobility Improving his Estate to double the value of that on the other side the Hedge of it saying Those were not times for Noblemen to impoverish themselves that they might inrich their Tenants Foreseeing greater occasions for his Estate than the superfluity of Hospitality or the vanity of many Followers viz. the supplying of his Prince the relieving of worthy fellow Subjects and an honorable provision for the several very hopeful branches of his numerous Family He raised his Rents as plenty of money in the kingdom raised Commodities knowing that the humor of letting Rents stand still as our Forefathers left them was but the ready way to be cast behinde in the Estate we have whilst all things we buy go on in price his Rents quickned but did not gall his Tenants his Inclosures without depopulation which he detested were injurious to none the poor having considerable allotments for their common-age the free and Lease-holders a proportionable share in the Inclosures beneficial to many The Monarch of one Acre which he may mould to his own convenience being likely to make more profit of it than if he had a share in forty and consequently useful for the Common-wealth And as much prudence we observe in his Education of his Relation as we did in the managing of his Estate all of them like the Ottoman Emperors being bred to employments that may save if not improve their Estates and honor It is a sad story which one tells viz. That when he was beyond Sea and in a part of France adjoyning to Artoise he was invited often to the House of a noble Personage who was both a great Souldier and an excellent Scholar and one day above the rest as we sate in an open and goodly Gallery at Dinner a young English Gentleman who desirous to travel had been in Italy and many other places happened to come to this house and not so well furnished with return home as was fitting desired entertainment into his service My Lord who could speak as little English as my Countrey-man French bad him welcome and demanded by me of him what he could do For I keep none said he but such as are commended for some good quality or other and I give them good allowance some an hundred some sixty some fifty Crowns by the year and calling some about him very Gentlemen like as well in their behavior as Apparel This said he rides and breaks my great Horses this is an excellent Lutinist this a good Painter and Surveyor of Land this a passing Linguist and Scholar who instructeth my Sons c. Sir quoth the young man I am a Gentleman born and can only attend you in your Chamber or wait upon your Lordship abroad See quoth Mounsieur de Lignitor so was his name how your Gentry of England are bred that when they are or want means in a strange Countrey they are brought up neither to any quality to prefer them nor have they so much as the Latine Tongue to help themselves withall That worth he bred up his relations to be loved and countenanced in all men being a great Patron of useful Learning and Ingenuity that was either likely to be serviceable to the State or Church or honorable to the Persons that owned it He was of opinion that as some Physicians when they are posed with a mongrel Disease drive it on set purpose into a Feaver that so knowing the kinde of the Malady they may the better apply the Cure so it would not be amiss to let the unreasonable discontents of men whom nothing would satisfie all concessions to the tumultuary being like drink in a great heat and likely to inflame the thirst it should quench break into open Rebellion hoping it more feizable to quench the fire when it blazeth out than when it smoked and smoothered Accordingly when his sober advices would not be hearkened to in Parliament he with other young Noblemen as Commissioners of Array raised an Army in the Northern Countries that might back them in the Field but being taken as aforesaid Oct. 23. 1642. at Edge-hill he was detained Prisoner till Aug. 11. 1643. when he returned to his Majesty to Oxford where he was extraordinarily welcome the rather because he had made so good use of his Imprisonment like the Primitive Prisoners converting his Goalers that several Lords and Gentlemen immediately followed him being convinced by him that as long as they staid in London they were in Chains as well as he At Oxford his Majesty liked his Proposals as weighty and provident both in the Parliament there whereof he was a Member and the Councel whereof he was a great part all men approved his Expedients in order to an Accommodation having a great insight into the temper of those at London and to the particular ways at all times most likely to work with them And none can be ignorant of his dexterity in the several Commands he undertook at Newbury and Naseby especially in both which places he discovered a great reach in observing advantages and a greater in decoying the Enemy into them being the steerage that day to Sir Iacob Ashleyes Courage and Resolution with whom he Commanded the Right-hand Reserve His prudence was as intent in reconciling the differences at Oxford in order the forming of an united strength against the Enemy as Providence is in accommodating the disagreements of the Elements into a body that makes up the world But when it pleased God that the King and his Friends should see that the best Cause was to be rendred glorious by great Defeats and Misfortunes rather than by great Victories and when the Kings Friends were divided in their Counsels as well as in their Forces wanting that Peace and Agreement which is the only Comfort and Relief of the oppressed and which makes them considerable even when despoiled of Arms by imputing as it useth to be in unhappy Councels the Criminous part of their Misfortunes to one another When the Kings Overtures of Peace that argued him equal to himself under all the messages of ruines from each corner of the Nation like the fall of the dissolved world though applauded by the people that desired only Peace and Liberty were neglected by the Faction who aimed at Conquest and Usurpation and his Majesty was forced in a disguise an ominous Cloud before the setting of the Royal Sun to engage his very Enemies by extraordinary Trust and Confidence in them His Lordship with the Duke of Richmond c. yielded up himself to the Army which after a considerable Imprisonment admitted him in the years 46 47 and 48 to Negotiate Overtures of Peace on
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
taken notice of in the Long Parliament and he was one of them who at York Oxford and Vxbridge for he was at that Treaty made it evident that that Parliament its self by its Factions was become a grievance he himself keeping a middle way between the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberty so widening his Majesties interest to the utmost latitude and extent For all which and for neglecting the Parliaments Summons to return he and his Son Charles paid in way of Composition 2725 l. 00 s. 00 d. Since for his past Loyalty and present serviceableness made Privy-Counsellor to his Majesty King Charles II. and Chancellor to the Dutchy of Lancaster in which places he died 16â—4 5. As the Persians look not upon their children until they are ten years old so he wished men not to trust too much to their present settlement till it had attained seven years To this ancient Family relate Mr. Henry Seymor who added Art to his Honor in which respect a learned man calleth him not only his Amicus but his Necessarius and paid for his Loyalty 150 l. as Sir Edward Seymor of Berry Pomery did in Devon 1200 l. Richard Seymor of Hâ—nsord Dorset 0030. 06 8. Io. Seymor of Stockingham Devon Esquire 0105 l. 00 00 The Marquiss of Hertford was the first Commander in Chief for his Majesty in the West and the Earl of Cumberland in the North Commanding first Prince Charles his compleat Regiment of the choice Gentry of York-shire for a Guard to his Father and being excepted out of the Westminster-mens Pardon in the Commission they granted their General he was General of the Northern Associations whole Army bringing to his Majesty 24000 l. and 2000. men for the defence of the Country where he cleared York-shire Durham Cumberland c. settling thirty Garrisons for his Majesty forcing and perswading several persons of quality as Sir Edward Loftus and his Richmond-shire Forces Sir Henry Anderson with those of Cleaveland to return managing the war with that civiliâ—y as if he had been only to have kept the peace of the Country Of all which his Ancestors had the government for an hundred and fifty years in their own right as they had of Westmerland in the right of the Viponts their relations A Family that with nature subsisted and grew by the same things whereby it was first raised virtue that created supporting it till it pleased God it became lately extinct in a person made up of true Honor Valor and Mercy the best mettle bends best this Noble Person died about the 1646. having taught the world That the art of making war hath not a positive form and that it ought to be diversified according to the state of occurrences They that will commit nothing to fortune nor undertake any enterprize whose event appeareth not infallible escape many dangers by their wary conduct but fail of as many successes by their unactive fearfulness It s useless to be too wise and spend that time in a grave gaze on business that might serve for the speedy dispatch of it The great Estate of this Noble Earldom reverted unto Anne the sole Daughter of George Clifford the third brave Earl that King Iames when he met him first said was rather King than Earl of Cumberland the relict of R. Earl of Dorset and since of Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery by whom the had two Daughters the one married to the Earl of Thanet who promoted the Kentish and other Insurrections so far that besides frequent Imprisonments and Decimations it cost him at one clap for Compounding 9000 l. and the other to Iames Earl of Northampton Sir Marmaduke Langdale being none of those English-men who being made Gentlemen before they are men seldom become wisemen was bred so as that he might be able to carry his head on his own shoulders and knowing that Gentility sent to Market will hardly buy a Bushel of Wheat added to his honorable descent most Scholar-like accomplishments and good husbandry by the same token that he bought that estate of Sir William Constable an unhappy man that forgot the honor of his ancient Family before the war for 26000 l. which Sir William afterwards begged of his Comerades during the Usurpation for nothing Sir Marmaduke was esteemed a serious and wise man and therefore he was able to do his Country great service when he stood for the Liberty of the Subject as he did all along in the first years of King Charles I. and the King as great when he saw it necessary to support his Government as he did 1642. when he brought in the whole County of York being Sheriff that year to Petition his Majesty to accept of their assistance and all the Clergy of the North to vindicate his Majesties Cause by their Subscriptions as the Laity had done by their Contributions His first exploit was with the honorable Sir Francis Worsley of â—â—â—leton in York-shire Colonel of his Majesties Army till taken Prisoner as he was settling the Array who was so good a pay-master and so civil a man in the Army that he might leave that saying in York-shire which his Country-man Sir Thomas de Rockby left in Ireland behind him That he would eat in wooden dishes but would pay for his meat gold and silver Paying for his Loyalty by way of Composition 5000 l. Francis Nevill of Chivel in York-shire Esq who as Palevezine the Italian had in one night his hair turned from black to gray so in a short time from a very active to a very grave person using much that saying of my Lord Burleighs Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner and paying for his Allegiance at Goldsmiths-hall 1000l Richard Nevil of Bellingbere in Berk-shire did 887 l. Thomas Nevil of London Draper 84 l. Nevil of York Esq and Sir Gervase his Son of Awbern in the County of Lincoln 1737 l. Thomas Nevil of Wakefield York 151 l. the Lady Frances Nevil 329 l. William Nevil of Cresse-temple in Essex Esq 211 l. to force York and to give direction to besiege effectually Sir Iohn Hotham where they had driven him in Hull where eminent was his great care and vigilancy His next was settling the Contributions and Quarters of the Country in the easiest method saying That he durst anger the Parliament but he durst not displease his Country-men after this he furnished his Majesty with 3000. Northern-horse at three several times preserving indeed all the horse that were left after the fatal sight at Marston-Moor having before routed 1500. Scotch horse before the City of York and rolling with them till they were a considerable Brigade by that time they came to Hereford Relieving the adjacent Garrisons as he marched along but the most famous action in all these wars was his marching with 2000. horse from Oxford through all the Enemies Quarters and Army to Relieve â—omfret 1644. ordering his march so prudently that under the Enemies Colours he was
melius Gladiate Nomarcha Iust â— oculo tueris Iusta tuere manuâ— Arma stylo socias haeres utriusque minervae Iuridicum bellum bellica Iura facis Nata sit Astraeo Diva Astraea Gigante Hermarium fas est hanc habuisse Ducem Quis dubitare potest sub Duplo Alcide Trophaea Qui calamo cicures Qui Domat ense seras His Brother Dr. Litleton Master of the Temple a man indued with Prudence the Mistress of Graces without which they are useless to others and Humility the preserver of them without which they perish to a mans self who used to say that Ambition being the great principle that acts more or less in all men that Government was more or less happy that did more or less intend the imploying of Able-men to keep them from running out suitably to their ambition who being Sequestred of all paid yet out of his nothing for his Loyalty 100 l. as Sir Edward Litleton by Fisher Litleton and Francis Nevill Esq 1347 l. and Sir Thomas Litleton of Stake St. Mildbourgh Sal. with 180 l. per annum setled 307 l. besides a severe Imprisonment when he was taken at the surprize of Bewdley Sir Robert Heath of Cutsmore as I take it in Rutland a man of so great integrity giving for his Motto in his Rings when made Serjeant Term Mic. 7. Septimo Car. I. Lex regis vis regis that when it appeared to him that the people encroached too much upon their Soveraign he prosecuted them severely witness Sir Io. Eliot c. and others for their extravagancies in the Parliament 1628. as Sollicitor and Attorney General to King Iames and King Charles the I. when he doubted his Majesty was advised to press too much upon the subject he rather than go against his Conscience quitted his place of chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sept. 14. 10 Caroli pleading at the Bar in that Court where he had sate on the Bench until again the rare example of one playing an after-game of favour His Majesty made him one of the Justices of the Kings Bench 9 Dec. 16 Car. I. where he behaved himself with so much plain honesty that 1. A Lady commencing an unlikely Suit against her Husbands opinion and living in the Shire-Town invited Judge Heath to a great entertainment the very day her Cause was to be tryed after which immediately going to the Hall he gave sentence according to evidence and right against her whereupon she saying to her Husband that she would never invite Judge again was answered by him Never invite honest Iudge again 2. And Iohn Lilburne being tryed before him for his Rebellion when he had been taken at Brentford at Oxford made frequent use of his words at another tryal before them he had fought at London viz. God â—orbid Mr. Lilburne but you should have all the benefit the Law the Birth right of the Free-born Subjects of England can afford you Yet against both that Law and the Priviledges of an English subject which he so honestly maintained at home was he exempted out of pardon and forced to dye abroad Quo jure Criminoso Philopatris exularet Credendus ergo non est quia neminem Fefellit justitia ne putetur quae punit ipsa justum non ostracismus iste lex sed ruina legum Sir Robert Holborne a Gentleman of those good inclinations which flowing with good bloud rendred him in his first Addresses acceptable to the world wherein having before him the good example of his Learned Ancestors he attained to that exactness in Law as with the amiable accomplishments of his nature made it very easie for him to do well which is a mans main business to gain upon mens affections becoming with little labour and without thinking excellent by good precept and continual care correct his defects so as to gain a general esteem and a good opinion being sensible of Mr. Herberts Rule Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In love or honour take account 〈◊〉 Shine like the Sun in every Cornâ—r See Whether thy Stock or Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And to instruct them it will not quit the cost Being of the Long-Parliament he was unwilling to joyn with them in their Debates for War and retired to Oxford in the Treaty there at Vxbridge and the Isle of Wight to consult and offer those things that make for Peace for which he paid 300 l. when living at Covent-Garden being not admitted as were not any of the King followers to study at any the Inns of Courts upon their return home after the Wars Serjeant W. Glanvile born at Tavistoche in Devon shire a County happy that it beeds so many Lawyers but more happy that it hath little need of them having the fewest Suits and most Counsellors of any County in England a Gentleman that had so much deliberation and weight in every thing he spoke that he was heard with much respect in all the Parliaments whereof he was either Member or Speaker â—â—cering prudently and watchfully in all their weighty Consultations and Debates Collecting judiciously and readily the sense of that numerous Assembly propounding the same seasonably and in apt Questions for their final Resolutions and presenting their Conclusions and Declarations with Truth and Life Light and Lustre and full advantage upon all occasions as a man of an excellent Judgment Temper Spirit and Elocution till the last and long one when those men for whose Liberties of Voting he had argued formerly allowed him not the Liberty of his Vote when he urged that Law against them which he had when they were more moderate in their courses urged for them wherefore he retired with above half the sober Members of Parliament to Oxford where having discharged his Conscience he returned to London to suffer for 〈◊〉 He that suffered patiently Imprisonment on Ship-board for speaking his minde freely in some State-points against a boundless Prerogative 1626. suffered as quietly six several hard Imprisonments one of which was two years in the Tower for declaring himself as honestly in some Law-points against a Treasonable popularity till the good man true to his honest principles of Loyalty was against the will of the Lower-House who yet laid no charge against him Bailed by the Upper-House shining the brighter for being so long ecclipsed insomuch that when the ignorant Faction did not think him worthy to be a Common-Lawyer the Learned University of Oxford whereof he was a worthy Member chose him her Burgess in one of the Usurping times of the Pseudo-Parliament it was his honour that he was then chosen to represent an Vniversity in Parliament and it was his integrity that he was noâ— then admitted He suffered in the Cause of all English-men and pleaded the Cause of many of them particularly my Lord Cravens though banished and Sir Iohn Stawell though a Prisoner till the whole Nation became as free as his Soul He
who upon the relation of his condition said Take I pray my counsel I have taken notice of your walking more than twenty miles a day in one furlong upwards and downwards and what is spent in needless going and returning if laid out in progressive motion would bring you into your own Country I will suit you if so pleased with a light habit and furnish you with competent money for a Foot-man A counsel and kindness that was taken accordingly He died 1649. leaving several Manuscripts to several friends to publish but as Aristotle saith against Plato's community of Wives and the educating of Children at a charge what is every mans work is no mans work Sir Simon Baskervile and Dr. Vivian two Natives and Physicians I think of Exeter City in Devon-shire and Studients of Exeter Colledge in Oxford that never took Fee of an Orthodox Minister under a Dean nor of any suffering Cavalier under a Gentleman of an 100 l. a year but with Physick to their bodies as Dr. Hardy saith of the worthy honest and able Dr. Alexander Burnet of Lime-street London a good Neighbor a cordial Friend a careful Physician and a bounteous Parishioner who died 1665. and deserveth to be remembred generally gave relief to their necessities Anthony Lord Gray the eighth Earl of Kent was a conformable Minister of the Church of England at Burback in Leicesterâ—shire 1939. when he was called as Earl of Kent to be a Peer of the Parliament of England at Westminster The Emperor Sigismund Knighting a Doctor of Law saw him slight the Company of Doctors and associate with Knights when smiling at him he said I can make many Knights at my pleasure when indeed I cannot make one Doctor This Earl excused his attendance on the Parliament by his Indisposition not liking their proceedings and continued in the Church-service approving its Doctrine and Discipline for which he was looked on with an evil eye and by God with a gracious one for making like a Diamond set in gold his greatness a support to goodness his Honors not changing his Manners and the mortified Man being no more affected with the addition of Titles than a Corps with a gay Coffin Of which temper was Mr. Simon Lynch born at Groves in Staple-Parish in Kent bred in Queens Colledge in Cambridge and made by Bishop Ailmer his Kinsman Minister of North Weale a small Living then worth 40 l. a year in the foresaid County with this Incouragement Play Cousin with this a while till a better comes who profering him Brent-wood-weal three times better afterwards had this answer That he preferred the Weal of his Parishioners souls before any Weal whatsoever Living there 64. years where he kept a good House and brought up 40. Children and dying 1656. Mr. Ioseph Diggons bred in Clare-hall Cambridge in the Reverend Dr. Paskes time for whose sake he gave that Hall 130 l. per annum as he did for the King and Churches sake for which he had suffered as much as a wary man could 700 l. to distressed Royalists Sir Oliver Cromwell who having made the greatest entertainment to King Iames that was ever made Prince by a Subject at his house at Hinchinbrooke Huntingtonshire having been the most honest dealer in the world no man that bought Land of him being put to three pence charge to make good his Title Was to his cost a Loyal Subject beholding the Usurpation of his Nephew God-son and Names Sake with scorn and contempt He died 1654. Sir Francis Nethersole born at Nethersole in Kent bred at Trinity Colledge Cambridge Orator of the University Ambassador to the Princes of the Union Secretary to the Queen of Bohemia eminent in his actions and sufferings for the Royal Family and disposing what great misfortunes left him to erect a School at Polesworth in Warwick-shire for the Education of such as might serve their Soveraign as faithfully as he did his Mr. Chettam born at Cromsal in Lancashire a diligent reader of Orthodox mens works and hearer of their Sermons the effect whereof was his exemplary loyalty and charity giving 7000 l. for the Education of forty poor children at Manchester from six to fourteen years of age with Diet Lodging Apparel and Instruction 1000 l. to buy a Library 100 l. towards the building of a case for it and 200 l. to buy honest and sober books for the Churches and Chappels round about Manchester leaving Dr. Iohnson lately Sub-Almoner and an Orthodox man one of his Feoffes and very Loyal Citizens his Executors Mr. Alexander Strange Bachelor of Divinity born in London bred in Cambridge Minister of the Church of England at Layston and Prebend of St. Pauls who built a Chappel and contributed towards a Free-School in Bunting-field a Mark-town belonging to the said Layston giving for his Motto when he had laid the foundation before he was well furnished to finish it Beg hard or beggard He went to enjoy the peace he loved to make by being the no less prosperous than painful in compounding all differences among his neighbours Decemb. 8. Anno Domini 1650. Aetatis 80. Mr. Michael Vivan a loyal and therefore persecuted Minister in Northumberland at the hundred and tenth year of his age when much broken with changes and alterations between those that would not leave their old Mumpsimus and those that were for their new Sumpsimus had of a suddain his Hair come again as white and flaxen as a childs a new Set of Teeth his Eye-sight and strength recovered beyond what it was fifty years before us an eye-witness hath attested Septemb. 28. 1657. who saw him then read Divine Service without his Spectacles and heard him preach an excellent Sermon without Notes And being asked by the said Gentleman how he preached so well with so few books as he had and lived so chearfully with so few acquaintance answered Of Friends and Books good and few are best Mr. Grigson a Citizen of Bristol who notwithstanding that he paid 300 l. for his Allegiance bestowed as much more on charitable uses saying He liked only that Religion that relieved men when poor not that which made them so in those times when it is a puestion which was sadder That they had so many Poor or that they had made so many Rich. Mr. R. Dugard Bachelor of Divinity a native of Craston-Fliford in Worcestershire a Kings-Scholar under Mr. Bright whom he always mentioned as gratefully as Mr. Calvin did his Master Corderius at Worcester Fellow of Sidney-colledge in Cambridge An excellent Grecian and a general Scholar the greatest Tutor of his time breeding young Gentlemen with a gentle strict hand neither cockering them with indulgence nor discouraging them with severity in the mean between Superstition and Faction zealously did he promote the Kings Cause to satisfie his conscience yet warily so as to secure himself to be a good Benefactor to his Colledge giving it 120 l. and the Library 10 l. and a good help to the distressed Cavaliers
London 1644 1645 1646. and to rise in Arms for him about Kingston where being defeated taken at St. Neots after a tedious imprisonment notwithstanding his sickness and infirmities tried for his life and beheaded in the Pallace-yard Westmin recommending with his last words to the deluded People the Kings Government and the established Religion The Right Honorable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham who with Sir Io. Hotham the Earl of Stamford Sir Hugh and Sir H. Cholmley Sir Christopher Wray Sir Edward Ayscough c. all Converts afterwards in being as active in setling the Militia of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in obedience to the Parliament as other persons of quality were in prosecuting the Commission of Array in obedience to his Majesty was warned by a Letter under his Majesties hand dated at York Iune 4. 1642. to desist from Assembling the people in those parts upon any pretence whatsoever upon his allegiance and answered with much modesty and humility that though he could not presently desist without falsifying the trust reposed in him by the Parliaments particular Directions according to an Ordinance voted by the Lord Keeper Littleton and the Lord Chief Justice Banks whose judgments swayed his younger one as he said to this action so unsuitable to his Majesties liking yet nothing should pass by his Commands but what should tend to his Majesties honour and safety Agreeably to which ingenious Declaration when he saw into the bottom of the factious designs he was so active for his Majesties honour and safety in the House of Lords and the City of London 1645 1646 1647. that with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Hunsden and Maynard all a while deluded by the Iuncto and because they presumed to be undeceived at last punished by them being impeached of high Treason for levying War against the King by endeavouring to make the City and Kingdom for him chose rather to hazzard himself 1648 1649 for a conquered and a captive Soveraign assisting and attending his Son in Holland and the Fleet as long as there was any likelihood of serving him than to have a share any longer in a conquering and prosperous Rebellion though it cost him several imprisonments and molestations besides 5000 l. composition Prosecuting his Loyalty by providing Arms for his Majesties Friends 1655 1657 1658 1659. at his own charge till the Restauration when having a large Estate and great experience in he was made Governour of the Caribee Islands 1660. where going during the late War upon a design of recovering St Christophers newly seized by the French he was cast away with most of his Fleet by an Hurricane 1666. being succeeded in his Government and Honor by his brother the Right Honorable G. Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666. A blessed Cause this to use the words of that ornament of his ancient and worshipful Family in Suffolk and Norfolk Mr. Hammond L'Estrange who enobled his sufferings as well as the cause he suffered for by his Writings especially his Alliance of Liturgies a Book full of that Various Reading not common in men of his quality and his History of King Charles I. a piece compiled with that ingenuity prudence and moderation as was not vulgar in the Writers of his Time that won its conquering Enemies all but one that sacrificed his Reason and Conscience to his ambition who yet in the midst of his greatness had not one minutes rest from those Fears his Conscience and common foresight that Right and Truth which are greater notwithstanding all his Arts and Methods of settling himself should prevail And there being nothing left now for the Kings Cause to conquer but those principles of Religion and those Ministers that supported the Faction those stood not out against its Evidence and Arguments for 1. Mr. Alexander Henderson a Moderator of that is in effect Archbishop in all the Assemblies in Scotland one in all the Treaties of England one of the ablest Presbyterians in both Kingdoms being overcome with his Majesties Arguments at Newcastle where he was Ordered to converse with and convert his Majestie when as all his Confinements his Pen gained those Victories which were denied his Sword went home heart-broken with Conscience of the injuries he had done to the King he found every way so excellent To whom I may joyn 2. Iohn Rutherford a Layman who was so far won by his Majesty then their Prisoner as to hazzard his life seven times for his rescue for which after a great reputation he gained in the King of France his service and great integrity and ability in serving his own Master he was 1660. made Governour of Dunkirk and 1662. Governour of Tangier and Earl of Tiveot both which Garrisons he fortified impregnably being a man of a great reach in Trade Encamping and Fortification and of an unwearied Industry and Diligence laying the design of the Mole in the last of those places which when finished will be a Piece of the greatest concernment in Christendom He was cut off 1664 5. in a Sally out as he was a very forward and daring man upon the perfidious Moors whom he had reduced to the most honourable peace that ever was enjoyed at Tangier to recover a Wood that was a great shelter to the Enemy and would have been of vast advantage unto us They that begin Wars know not how to end them without horrid scandals to Religion and an unparallel'd violence offered to all the Laws and Rights in the World On which consideration many returned to sober principles of Allegiance and indeed all rational men acquiesce in the present establishment according to their respective consciences actively or passively in gratitude to his Majesty and the Government for their former Indemnity that since his Majesty as a Father looked on all his Subjects as sons yet caressed his Prodigals those Subjects that came to themselves and acknowledged their errour with extraordinary kindness and tenderness out-doing all his promises and engagements Let the World see that his promises made and performed were not the effects of necessity but the fruits of a gracious and Princely mind like his Grandfather H. IV. of France not only pardoned the former Errours of those that were seduced against him and his Father but preferred and trusted them too They may make good his late Majesty of blessed memory his Royal word and engagement for them Medit. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will be more loyal and faithful to his Majesty than those Subjects who being sensible of their own errours and his injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Mr. Cauton and Mr. Nalton was banished and Mr. Christopher Love born in Wales and bred under Dr. Rogers in New-Inn◠Hall Oxon. Minister first of St. Ann Aldersgate and afterwards of St. Lawrence Jury was beheaded for owning the Kings Interest by those with whom he opposed it so far as
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
that they said wore Tinn in his Buttons and Silver in his Pocket who would say to those that frequented his hospitable Table that he took care his meat should be good in its self and better by the wellcome to it who would not contribute to the Rebellion saying His Purse should not bleed by every Mountebanks hand And adding that he saw the King twice prayed for him always and did not see any reason to fight against him caring not whom he displeased so he pleased his own Conscience he went far and his credit in taking up necessaries for the Kings occasions farther in so much that those whose eyes were evil on him because his heart was good towards his Soveraign besides the trouble they put him to raised from him first or last eleven hundred and odd pounds as an atonement for his Duty and maintenance of their Treason When they would needs raise the Country about him to take arms and so neglect their husbandry and business he put them in mind of the story in Plutarch l. de virtutibus mulier A King having discovered rich Mines in his Kingdom employed all his people in digging of them whence tilling was wholly neglected insomuch that a great famine insued His Queen sensible of the calamities of the Country invited the King her husband to dinner as he came home hungry from overseeing his Workmen in the Mine She so contrived it that the bread and meat were most artificially made of gold and the King was much delighted with the conceit thereof till at last he called for real meat to satisfie his more than imaginary hunger Nay said the Queen if you employ all your Subjects in your Mines you must expect to feed upon gold for nothing else can your kingdom afford Nor Francis Berkley Gentleman the Roscius of his time for imitation being able to personate any man to the life as to make any part become him whereby he had a great advantage to disguise himself to serve his Majesty as effectually as others did themselves to fight against him he being as King Iames said to Sir Henry Wotton who had adventured to him to Scotland from the Duke of Tuscany disguised with a Message about some Councils at Rome that concerned his life upon his address to him when he came to the Crown of England The honestest hypocrite and dissembling actor in the world He could out-act others at any time but in one instance he out-acted himself for putting on the vizard of an ingenuous poor man he insinuated himself into the service of a Nothern Post-master as dexterously as he had done himself to a Southern Committee in which capacity he had a peculiar faculty of opening and sealing letters and imitating any hand without being discovered An honest sleight of hand that got the Kings party at times as he reckoned four thousand pounds and twenty considerable advantages against the enemy in those parts who thought that was conjuring which was only dexterity crying out that they were bewitched when they were only out-witted For these services he had the applause of his friends and for others of less consequence but more notoriety he lost a third part of his estate amounting to 900 l. to those people to whom his Master lost three kingdoms giving the rest to pious uses upon a sad accident that befel him or not so much him as his Pistol which being laid on a Table by chance went off and killed a Gentlewoman whereupon O the difference of divers men in the tenderness of their consciences some are scarce touched with a wound whil'st others are wounded with a touch therein he was so troubled though it was done so much against his will that it was without his knowledge that as his estate came in as long as he lived he posted in his blew Wast-coat with a round sum to his Ghostly Father being in pain till it was piously disposed and taking the good course to make his own Eyes his Overseers and his own Hands Executors that as he had been by accident the occasion of the death of one person he might be by choice an instrument of giving a comfortable living to many I say not to mention these and many more inferior persons of this Loyal name that with young David were ambitious of engaging in that cause with integrity wherein the elder branches were involved with honor the meanest of them carrying the Spaniards Motto That they would be Slaves to None and Subject only to their own Prince being of an innocent temper and an independent condition the two felicities that concurr in the making of a brave spirit that need not ask leave to be honest Sir George Berkley than whom few that lived so many pious lived withal so many sad days having his life equally divided between his own and the Nations calamities in which being too serious and thoughtful a man to preserve his safety with the price of his conscience and being better able to suffer than to fear he was ingaged first in his Vote and Suffrage as one that dared to stand to his reason against his interest more tender of the least trouble in his breast and conscience than concerned in the greatest Tumults in the Street and City Next in his Withdrawing leaving the House when the House forgot and left that for which they were called together designing to discountenance those practices with his absence that he could not restrain by his presence and after that in his contributions supporting that Cause in the Field with his estate that he had in vain indeavoured to have kept up in the Councils by his argument He was able to maintain it with his purse when he could not with his advice and when he had opportunity with his personal service both in raising men to serve his Majesty by reputation and in disposing them advantageously by his prudence He commanded but a little of the Army he was in but all the Country he was of having been a good Patriot though not pretending to be a good Souldier the greatest service he could do the King was by the exemplariness of his conversation which those of his own side might imitate as they of the other side did envy looking upon a godly Cavalier as a dangerous person who confuted their slanders and out-did in reality as much as they could pretend to having the best way of honoring the King by fearing God and being of opinion that they could not be faithful Subjects to the one that were not conscientious Servants to the other being so serious that he was seldom seen to laugh an observation made of his Saviour and so solid that he did as seldom dream a remarkable note in the character of Bishop Lake There is Village called Charleton in Leicester-shire where the Inhabitants could not pronounce there was a great Scholar in Cambridge Master Mede by name whose great abilities durst not adventure on and another in the same University who in a long
the affections of the Irish Subjects from the subjection of England Sixthly That they had agreed together to draw away the Subjects of Scotland from the King Seventhly That to preserve himself and the said Earl he had laboured to subvert the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament in Ireland An Impeachment they drew that they might confine him but prosecuted not lest they should shame themselves but permitting him to go whither he would they waited the event of things and when that fell out much beyond their expectation they adventured to condemn him unheard In all their Treaties with his Majesty inserting Sir George Ratcliffe that Mr. Hampden said was one of the most dangerous men that adhered to the King for one that they would have utterly excluded Pardon The main instance whereby they intended to render him odious was doubtless his severity to the Children and Relations of those that came under the lash as disaffected to the Government but since Proles est pars parentis and one part of the body suffereth for the offences of the other the hand steals the feet are stocked the tongue forswears the ears are cut off it is thought conâ—istent with Divine Justice and necessary for humane prudence to correct the Children with the Parents that those people that are so hardy as to adventure their own Concerns for the disturbance of the Publick may yet be fearful of troublesome practises with regard to the Interest of their Innocent Children those Pledges Common-wealths have that men will be quiet When he had privately detected the Conspiracious laid open the Plots and taken off many Instruments of the Faction he died Anno 165. ... Leaving these remarques behinde him 1. That with Tamerlain he never bestowed place on a man that was over-ambitious for it 2. That he feared more the committing than the discovery of an Irregularity That he gave away to Charitable Uses a tenth of what he got that he loved a Grave rather than a gawdy Religion often using Tully's saying of the Roman Lady in reference some practices of the Roman Church that she danced better than became a modest Woman Being dead in the lower part of his body of a Palsie as we are informed his Soul retired to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Upper-room of his Clay Cottage as much employed in Contemplation the latter end of his Life as he had been in action in the beginning Ne Ingentes Augustissimi viri ruinae etiam Perirent Memoriae G. Ratcliffe Equitis Aurati D. D. C. Q. L. M. E. M. Monumentum saltem chartaceum ne desideret vir ultra Marmora perrenandus THE Life and Death OF DOCTOR POTTER Lord Bishop of Carlisle IN a time when this Kingdom flourished with Magnificent Edifices the Trade of the Nation had brought the Wealth of the Indies to our doors Learning and all good Sciences were so cherished that they grew to Admiration and many Arts of the Ancients buried and forgotten by time were revived again no Subjects happier though none less sensible of their Happiness Security increasing the Husband mans stock and Justice preserved his Life the poor might Reverence but needed not fear the Great and the Great though he might despise yet could not injure his more obscure Neighbor and all things were so administred that they seemed to conspire to the Publick good except that they made our Happiness too much the cause of our Civil Commotions and brought our Felicity to that height that by the necessity of humane Affairs that hath placed all things in motion it must necessarily decline At this happy time thus happily expressed by Dr. Perrinchiefe and Dr. Bates it was that I will not say the City of London for the better part of it abhorred it but to phrase the Men the Lord Digby's way I know not what 15000 Londoners all that could be got to subscribe complained in a Petition that Trade was obstructed Grievances increased Patents and Monopolies multiplied meerly because of the Bishops who were looked upon as the Great Grievance of the Kingdom in somuch that this Doctor who was born in a Puritane place at Westmester within the Barony of Kendal in Westmerland in Puritane times when that party guided Affairs 1578. Bred under a Puritane School-Master one Mr. Maxwell at School in the place where he was born and under a Puritane Tutor in Queens Colledge in Oxford and looked upon as so great a Puritane in King Iames his time that they would say in jest that the noise of an Organ would blow him out the Church and therefore he was called tho Puritanical Bishop though his love to Musick no doubt was as great as his Skill and his Skill so good that he could bear a part in it yet because he was a Bishop he was slighted when he came to London as Iuke warm and forsaken as Popish that had been so followed formerly as the most godly and powerful Preacher He had been a great Tutor at Queens where he had learned to train others by the Discipline he had undergone himself insomuch that when Bishop 33 Eminent Divines Lawyers Physicians and Statesmen formerly his Pupils waited on him together for his blessing He managed prudently as he was chosen into it unexpectedly and unanimously when an hundred miles off the Government and Provostship of that Colledge Vbi se ferebat Patrem-familia providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He resigned it self-denyingly judging that his Northern charge had more need of him as an able and skilful Minister than Queens Colledge as a Provost The meek and humble man looked not for Preferment yea avoided it with an hearty nolo Episcopari And his gracious Master King Charles unexpectedly when he was buried in his Living and resolvedly when there was a considerable Competition and not an inconsiderable opposition saying He would consider his old Servant and the good man whom he liked the better for being a man of few words but a sweet Preacher called at Court The Ponetential Preacher for being peaceable in his practice though singular in his Opinion and being not humorsome though precise having the severe strictness though not the sower leaven of the Pharisees His gracious Master not so much honoring him as he did the Function and that age in the freedom of his Noble and unsought for choice The man being so exemplary in his carriage that several Recusants that could not go with him to Church yet conversed much with him Because said they they would go with him to Heaven So good a Master of his Family that his House was a Church where Family-duties constant Prayers Catechizing reading Scriptures Expounding godly Conference speaking to one another in Psalms and Spiritual Hymns were performed so regularly and so constantly that hundreds left their distant Habitations to be near him though all accommodations about him were so much the dearer as his Neighborhood was the more precious It was as great a happiness
Subject of England call life or any thing he possesseth his own if power without right daily make new and abrogate the old fundamental Law of the Land which I now take to be the present case Wherefore when I came hither I expected that you would have endeavoured to have satisfied me concerning these grounds which hinder me to answer to your pretended Impeachment but since I see nothing I can say will move you to it though Negatives are not so naturally proved as Affirmatives yet I will shew you the reason why I am confident you cannot judge me nor indeed the meanest man in England For I will not like you without shewing a reason seek to impose a belief upon my Subjects There is no proceeding just against any man but what is warranted either by Gods Laws or the Municipal Laws of the Country where he lives Now I am most confident that this days proceedings cannot be warranted by Gods Laws for on the contrary the authority of the obedience unto Kings is clearly warranted and strictly commanded both in the Old and New Testament which if denied I am ready instantly to prove And for the question now in hand there it is said That where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou Eccles. 8. 4. Then for the Laws of this Land I am no less confident that no learned Lawyer will affirm that an Impeachment can lye against the King they all going in his Name and one of their Maxims is That the King can do no wrong Besides the Law upon which you ground your proceedings must either be old or new if old shew it if new tell what authority warranted by the Fundamental Laws of the Land hath made it and when But how the House of Commons can erect a Court of Judicature which was never one it self as is well known to all Lawyers I leave to God and the World to judge And were full as strange that they should pretend to make Laws without King or Lords House to any that have heard speak of the Laws of England And admitting but not granting that the People of Englands Commission could grant your pretended power I see nothing you can shew for that for certainly you never asked the question of the tenth man of the kingdom and in this way you manifestly wrong even the poorest Plough-man if you demand not his free consent nor can you pretend any colour for this your pretended Commission without the consent at the least of the major part of every man in England of whatsoever quality or condition which I am sure you never went about to seek so far are you from having it Thus you see that I speak not for my own Right alone as I am your King but also for the true Liberty of all my Subjects which consists not in the sharing the power of Government but in living under such Laws Such a Government as may give themselves the best assurance of your lives and propriety of their goods Nor in this must or do I forget the Priviledges of both Houses of Parliament which this days proceedings doth not only violate but likewise occasion the greatest breach of their Publick Faith that I believe ever was heard of with which I am far from charging the two Houses For all the pretended crimes laid against me bear date long before the late Treaty at Newport in which I having concluded as much as in me lay and hopefully expecting the two Houses agreement thereunto I was suddenly surprized and hurried from thence as a Prisoner upon which account I am against my will brought hither where since I am come I cannot but to my power defend the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom together with my own just Right Then for any thing I can see the Higher House is totally excluded And for the House of Commons it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deterred from Sitting so as if I had no other this were sufficient for me to protest against the lawfulness of your pretended Court. Besides all this the peace of the kingdom is not the least in my thoughts and what hopes of settlement is there so long as power reigns without rule of Law Changing the whole frame of that Government under which this kingdom hath flourished for many hundred years nor will I say what will fall out in case this lawless unjust proceeding against me do go on And believe it the Commons of England will not thank you for this change for they will remember how happy they have been of late years under the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the King my Father and my self until the beginning of these unhappy troubles and will have cause to doubt that they shall never be so happy under any new And by this time it will be sensibly evident that the Armes I took up were only to defend the Fundamental Laws of this kingdom against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient Government Thus having shewed you briefly the Reasons why I cannot submit to your pretended Authority without violating the trust which I have from God for the welfare and liberty of my people I expect from you either clear reasons to convince my judgment shewing me that I am in an error and then truly I will readily answer or that you will withdraw your proceedings With what composedness of Spirit and patience he heard the pretended Charge and all its Slanders and Reproaches smiling at the words Tyrant Traytor c. with what Authority he demanded by what lawful Power grounded on Gods Word or warranted by the Constitutions of the Kingdom they proceeded with what earnestness he admonished them both what Guilt and what Judgments they would bring upon this Land by proceeding from one sin to another against their lawful Sovereign With what resolution he told them He would not betray the Trust reposed in him for his own Prerogative his Peoples Liberty and the Priviledges of Parliament as long as there was breath in his body until they could satisfie God and the Countrey Adding that there was a God in heaven that would call them to an account And that it was utterly as unlawful to submit to a new and unlawful Authority as to resist a lawful one Neither his apprehension nor theirs being likely to end the Controversie How zealously he told them That if the free People of England now secure of nothing when all things were subject to an Arbitrary Power were not concerned as well as himself he would have satisfied himself with one Protestation against any Jurisdiction on earth trying a Supream Magistrate but in a case of so extensive a Concernment it was unreasonable to impose upon men bold Assertions without evident Reasons it being not enough to say The Court assert their own Jurisdiction and you must not be permitted to offer any thing against it it s not
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
his Grave A carceribus ad metam the consciousness of their guilt in burying him above ground in his Imprisonment could no ways be satisfied but by Imprisoning him under ground by his Burial When they wanted nothing to compleat their guilt but this death concerning which his Majesty in his Letter to the Queen expresseth himself thus Nothing can be more evident than that Straffords Innocent Blood hath been one of the great causes of Gods just Judgment upon this Nation by a Civil War both sides hitherto being almost equally punished as being in a manner equally guilty but now this last crying bloud being totally theirs I believe it s no presumption hereafter to hope that his hand of Justice must be heavier upon them and lighter upon us looking now upon our Cause having passed by our faults they preached and talked that nothing interrupted their success but his death imputing all their disasters to his impunity as the Heathens did all theirs to those like him The first good Christians Then upon any publick misfortune it was Christiani ad Leones and at this time upon any misadventure Execute the Arch-bishop Neither was he offered only to the revenge of the English but likewise of the Scots too whose Covenant was to be Celebrated with this Sacrifice and Union cemented with this bloud Since neither the Law nor Reason neither Religion nor Nature neither the Kings power nor the Subjects innocence could preserve his life the excellent man prepared himself with the comforts of all for death having before setled his Estate in a charitable and pious way he had the better leisure to settle his soul had not the cruelty of some people that thought his very solitude too great an injoyment for him shewed themselves as much enemies to private as publick Devotions disturbed his retirements with contumelies upbraiding those very Devotions that then interceded for them who would have laughed at Christ if he had used his own prayer Now if ever the Lion and the Lamb dwelt together the highest Courage and the sweetest Meekness together inhabiting one Breast The great Pastor of the Church going to die with the innocence and silence of a Lamb in the midst of contumelies speaking not again himself though his bloud doth and did His last nights repose was the Emblem of his last rest his slâ—ep the true image of his death serene and calm Having stripped him of all the Honors of an Archbishop they would have denyed him the priviledge of a Malefactor to have his own woâ—thy Confessor Dr. Sterne since Archbishop of York about him taking it so ill that he would not admit of Marshall that was fitter to be the Executioner than a Chaplain that because he would not die according to the humor of the Presbyterians he should not die in the honorable way of an Archbishop 1. Sheriff Chambers of London bringing over night the Warrant for his Execution and acquainting him therewith he betook himself to his own and desired also the prayers of others and particularly of Doctor Holdsworth his Fellow Prisoner there for a year and a half though all that time there had not been the least converse between them The next morning being brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold he ascended it with an extraordinarily chearful and ruddy countenance he that had been so long a Martyr no doubt thinking it release of misery to be made a Martyr as if he had mounted rather to have beheld a triumph than to be made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated and exchange his Miter for the Crown of Martyrdom The clearness of his Conscience being legible in the chearfulness of his dying looks as the ferenity of the weather is understood by the glory and ruddiness of the setting Sun there desiring to have room to die and declaring that he was more willing to go out of the world than any man to send him he first took care to stop the chinks near the block and remove the people he spied under it expressing himself that it was no part of his desire that his bloud should fall upon the heads of the people in which desire it pleased God he was so far gratified that there remaining a small hole from a knot in the midst of a board the fore-finger of his right hand at his death happened to stop that also and then at once pardoning and over-coming his Enemies many of whom coming thither to insult went away to weep for him who had this peculiar happiness with his Master that he gained that reverence by his Adversity that neither he nor any gained in Prosperity he turned his Scaffold to a Pulpit and Preached his own Funeral in these express words delivered by him to the excellent Dr. Sterne to be communicated to his Fellow-Chaplains His Graces Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Ian. 10. 1644. To his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how have I looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Cross a death of Shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the brink of the very brink of it An Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sower herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these for men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above St. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of Red Wine might pass from me St. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall
most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Savior for it my â—â—â—â—lution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I forsake the Temple and the â—â—â—uth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Da◠〈◊〉 in Bethel And as for this people they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blinde lead the blinde and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch St. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by Thought Word and Deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as weâ—e as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges For if they proceed upon proof by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of this Sentence lie heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his followers Before these St. Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd Woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carâ—hage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many Examples Great and Good and they teach me patience For I hope my cause in Heaven will look of another dy than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great Men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul Acts 25. 8. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i.e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i.e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be it from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is Memorable that St. Paul who helped on this accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamor that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself Iohn 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani And the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Judgment of God was They crucified Chriâ—t for fear lest the Romans should câ—meâ— And his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamor of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honor and Dishonor by good Report and evil Report as a deceived and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And First This I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign he hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law Established as any man in his Kingdom And that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamor for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger any innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from parish to parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In St. Stephens Case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way When he had killed St. Iames yet he would not venture upon St. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud Isa. 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes inquisition for bloud And when that inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. That God Remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the Complaint of the poor i.e. whose bloud is shed by oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making inquisition for bloud And with my prayers to avert it I do humbly desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ier. 26. 15. 3.
answer That if it had been a Commander he would have freely sent it back but being an Horse he loved him as well as the King of Spain and would keep him That useful man to whom the Queen her self writ this Letter with her own hand Good Peregrine VVE are not a little glad that by your Journey you have received such good fruit of amendment especially when we consider how great a vexation it is to a mind devoted to Actions and Honor to be restrained by any indisposition of body from following those courses which to your own reputation and our great satisfaction you have formerly performed And therefore as we must now out of our desire of your well-doing chiefly injoyn you to an especial care to increase and continue your health which must give life to all your best endeavors so we must next as seriously recommend to you this consideration That in these times when there is such appearance that we shall have the trial of our best and noble Subjects you seem not to affect the satisfaction of your own private Contentation beyond the attending on that which nature and duty challengeth from all persons of your quality and profession For if necessarily your health of body being recovered you should Elloigne your self by residence there from those imployments whereof we shall have too good store you shall not so much amend the state of your body as happily you shall call in question the reputation of your mind and judgment even in the opinion of those that love you and are best acquainted with your disposition and discretion Interpret this our plainness we pray you to our extraordinary Estimation of you for it is not common with us to deal so freely with many and believe that you shall ever finde us both ready and willing in all occasions to yeild you the fruits of that interest which your indeavors have purchased for you in our opinion and estimation not doubting but when you have with moderation made trial of the success of these your sundry Peregrinations you will finde as great comfort to spend your days at home as heretofore you have done Of which we do wish you full measure howsoever you shall have cause of abode or return Given under our Signet at our Manor of Nonsuch the 7. of October 1594. in the 37 th year of our Reign Your most loving Soveraign E. R. Heir our Noble-man was to his Fathers spirit as well as honor being none of those degenerate Noble-men that are like their Fathers Tombs rather than their Off-spring carved over outwardly with honorable Titles and empty within of any thing but dirt and corruption but the happiest of all the four Actors on the Stage of Honor viz. the Beginners the Advancers the Continueâ—â— and the Ruinors raising his House illustrious already to an higher sphere among the Stars of the first magnitude and keeping the noble stream of his bloud as far from its fall as he found it from its fountain He was born December 16. 1572. at London the great Father like Paulus Aemilius being amazed with three glad tidings at a time the Taking of Bellesont by his Regiment the Routing of the Duke of Guise his Guards by his Brigades and the Birth of his sprightly Son by his Wife Queen Elizabeth would needs be God-mother to the Young General as she called him and the Earls of Essex and Leicester God-fathers Christening him Robert a name she observed happy in Souldiers and States-men as Henry was in Kings Iohn in Divines Edward in Lawyers Elizabeth in Queens William in Physicians Edward and Francis in Scholars and Politicians and injoyning a tryal of his temper as Pharaoh did that of Moses before discretion might be dissembled when he discovered more inclination to the Armor than to the Gown being manly in his very Gugaws and Rattles and almost with Scanderbeg calling the very first word he spake for a Sword and being once by Sir W. Raleigh offered the same choice that Achilles was by Vlysses that is the softer Fairings of Pictures little Books c. and those more severe of little Swords Pistols he betrayed an Earls manhood by his choice of the latter laying hold the first thing when Gentlemen came to the House upon their Sword and Dagger But since as he would say he was followed by a Set of Masters that disposed of all his hours at home and an excellent Tutor that managed his time in the University and since the humor of the three Soveraigns he lived under and the temper of the Prince is a great rule for the accomplishments of the Nobility was knowing and learned Queen Elizabeth for soft and smooth Poetry Oratory and History King Iames for Various Judicious and indeed general Skill and King Charles for all Useful Weighty and Accurate Knowledge he was forced to look into his Books He chose the more manly part of Learning as History to furnish his experience with the wisdom of age without its wrinkles or infirmities Mathematicks to regulate his conduct Heraldry to understand his own and others interests and Geography to guide his Marches Assaults Battalias c. Physick to understand his own body Law to keep his Neighbors quiet Religion to accommodate his Meditations Divinity said Richlieu is the only stay of retired thoughts and more pleasant and various studies for discourse blessing God usually for these benefits of his Education viz. 1. That he understood the worth of his nature 2. That he was taught the design of the world and time of Gods continuing and governing both 3. That he had considered the best and the worst examples with the successes of both 4. That he had learned the consequence both of a peaceable and a disturbed conscience 5. That he had looked beyond the frailty of life and fixed to solid rules made up of integrity and honor 6. That he had been inured to govern his desires within the limits of his capacity and modesty and so to be Master of an equal and an even spirit 7. That he had attained an habit of Jealousie which put him upon the examination of the end bottom ground and circumstamces of all affairs that came before him that is indeed of prudence 8. That he had freed himself from the observances opinions and customs that prevailed with mankind in order to the more vigorous prosecution of the noble design and scope which 10. he had proposed to himself 11. That he resolved to dispose of time past to reflection and observation time present to duty and time to come to providence 12. That he could rest in no pleasure or injoyment that was superficial 13. That according to the Arabick Proverb in Drusius he could be so wise as to give every thing its due estimation Much of his accomplishments he owed to his Fathers well-disciplined House more to the strict University more than that to a sober and manly Court more yet to his four years Travels and most
person nor failed but by doing it by his Lieutenants Here rather oppressed with number than conquered by prowess opposing his single Regiment to a whole Brigade and his Person to a whole Company after eighteen wounds passages enough to let out any soul out of a body above sixty but that great one of the Earl of Lindsey he was forced to yield himself first to the numerous Enemies about him and next day being hardly used to the Enemy Death his Side winning the day and loosing the Sun that made it Vpon Edgehill the Noble Lindsey did Whilst Victory lay bleeding by his side At Edgehill that was true of him and his Country-men the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire that was observed of Cataline and his followers That they covered the same place with their Corps when dead where they stood in the Fight whilst living This was the Noble Lord that pursued twelve French Vessels in his own single one to their Haven heated at once with anger and shame He of whom it is said that when the Duke of Buckingham returning from the Isle of â—hee was told by his Majesty That the neglect of his Releif must lodge on his friend and confident Holland He acknowledged That indeed he had very affectionately intrusted him in ordinary affairs but never had him in such an esteem as to second him in armes that place being more proper for my Lord of Lindsey whose judgement of that expedition was that it was Friendship in Earnest and War in Iest. He who when all men were amazed at the Dukes fall was assigned his successor And certainly saith one there present he was a man of no likely Presence but of considerable experience by his former Expeditions and one that to the last of his life made good his Faith with gallantry and courage notwithstanding his ill success the times fate rather than his Heros O Stratiarcha tuo qui funere vitam Expiraturi renovas nefunere regni Vt cum sanguinco sol declinavere axe Clarior ego fulâ—or succedit olympo Inter mavortis densut a tonitrua quanti Cordis erat majore ferens quam mente ferini Par Decio sacrum occumbens generale Cadendi Certus at occasu recidivi certior ortus Confirmans Actis Pompeii Dicta Britannis Nunc opus est ut stem non est opus ipse superstem Solus erat clypeus virtus Haec Aegide major Enecuit totas etiam sine Gorgone turmas Busta Polymniadis nostri sed Palma Coronat Dumque jacet victus victrici morte triumphat Sic ubi succumbunt arces saevitur in omnes Subjectos ubicuuque lares spargantque ruinam Exemplo tamen usque viget Dux ante secundi Iam belli Genius devoto in milite pugnax Quippe animant manes sociorum Corda viroque Mens uno vixit vivit nunc umbra viri itim THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable MOUNTAGUE Earl of LINDSEY Son and and Heir of ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY LOve is as strong as Death both when it descends as it was in the Duke of Chastillions Case who ventured his own life through twenty thousand men to rescue his Son and this noble Lord who observing his great Father like to be lost in a Croud rather than an Army took with him not so many as he desired but so many as he could finde about him either to rescue the noble Lord or to perish with him made an attempt worthy his Relation and Cause through three thousand men wherein when he could not save his dear Father he was taken with him and after his death so valued by his Majesty that he sent a Trumpet immediately to exchange him for the Lord Saint-Iohns Earl of Bullingbrook and so esteemed on by the enemy that they would not part with him for all their Prisoners taken by his Majesty so true was that observation of his Majesty That he â—ought Gold to Dirt. His education happy as he used to observe himself in six things 1. The example of a wise and good Father 2. The Learning and Experience of discreet and knowing Tutors whom he mentioned with no less honor than Aristotle was remembred by Alexander who equalled him that gave him Education with his Father that gave him Being or his Master by Augustus who gave him so honorable an Interment or his Tutor by M. Antonius who erected him a Statue or Ausonius by Gratian who made him Consul 3. Travel and Observation which fixed those notions in his minde that lay so loose in others 4. Hardship and Patience to which he was used in a way of choice when he travelled abroad that he might use it in a way of necessity if there were occasion at home 5. Good and useful Company generally above seldom beneath himself knowing that gold in the same Pocket with silver loseth both of its colour and weight 6. An Inquisitive Nature not contented with the superficial and narrow notions others acquiesced in from Tradition and Authors but with a large soul enquiring after such an account of things as was derived immediately and genuinely from the nature of the things themselves Happy in observing that rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember to distrust and wishing heartily for a systeme of principles gathered by observation and experience upon the systeme of nature The result of these and other advantages was a competent skill in Arts especially Phylosophy Mathematicks Physick and the two parts belonging to it Chirurgery and Botanism or a great skill and insight in Herbs and Flowers and Arms this accomplishing him for publick Service and the other being the satisfaction and ornament of his private Life the one being gained by experience in the Low-Country Wars where he learned in the time of our peace what rendred him serviceable in the time of our war the other by severe study weighing observations and good discourse His converse gave the world a singular pattern of harmless and inoffensive mirth of a nobleness not made up of fine Cloaths and Courtship a sweetness and familiarity that at once gained love and preserved respect a grandeur and nobility safe in its own worth not needing to maintain it self by a jealous and morose distance the confirmed goodness of his youth not only guarding his minde from the temptation to vice but securing his same too from the very suspition of it So out-stripping in wisdom temperance and fortitude not only what others did but even what they wrote being as good in reality as in pretence to which he added this unusual glory that since there was but a small partition between the Kings of Iuda's beds and the Altar through which they said David had a secret passage arguing the nearness there should be between Religion and Honor and that the Crosse was an ornament to the Crown and much more to the Coronet he satisfied not himself with the bare exercise of Virtue but he sublimated it and made it Grace As he understood himself well so he did his Estate being taught to
Tower of London and all the Magazines letting in the Kings Forces and this to be begun by Tumults to be raised about unreasonable Taxes imposed without authority with many other noble enterprizes so like her illustrious husband that her character is as deeply inlaid in his as Phidias his Picture was in that of Minerva Hic jacet pudor venustâ—s invictus animus quicquid uspiam est aut dotum aut virtutum unico Inclusum Aubigney in quo vix aliud humanum erat nist quod natus sit mortuus licet vel sic mori est esse Immortalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nobili quo vixit sanguinis Purpura nobiliori quem fudit Alii diutius vitam tenuerunt nemo tam fortiter Reliquit THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord STUART Acts 22. 22. Heb. 11. 38. The wicked Iews said of St. Paul Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live St. Paul said of the godly Iews Of whom the world was not worthy AN Ingenious Person in a Dedicatory Epistle to the Illustrious Esme Stuart Duke of Richmond the most hopeful Son and Heir of Iames Duke of Richmond of whom more hereafter descants on these words thus Here I perceive heaven and hell mercy and malice Gods spirit and Mans spight resolved on the question that it is not fit that good men should live long on earth the same conclusion being bottomed upon different premises Wicked men think this world too good God knoweth it too bad for his people to live in Henceforward I shall not wonder that good men dye so soon but that they live so long since wicked men desire their Room here upon Earth and God their Company in Heaven and that this young Nobleman so soon exchanged his Coronet for a Crown A Nobleman of happy and assiduous Studies not in Plays and Romances the follies of good Wits but in the disquisition of solid and masculine knowledge as if he as well as Philostratus had been born a Man and his soul known no Childhood never did vice in youth finde a more confirmed goodness so impregnable was he against the temptations that gain easie access to those of his rank and quality that they could neither insinuate into him by their allurements nor force him by their importunities securing both his minde from the infection of vice and his same from the suspition A Nobleman being to think of himself as Caesar did of his Wiâ—e that others may live so as not to be condemned but he so as not to be suspected his virtue was not his stupidity or heaviness but his choice when he could have been as handsomly and takingly vicious as he was virtuous the severe exercises of his virtues being mingled with such charms from his parts and ingenuity that his very seriousness was as alluring as others divertisements and pleasures A quick and peircing Apprehension a faithful and retenâ—tive Memory a sprightful and active Fancy and a Judgement over-ruling them all neither prejudicated by vulgar opinions nor easily cozened by varnished and plausible error that deserved to live the ornament of better times and to dye engaging against those vices that were the shame of these There are a sort of Apes in India thus caught by the Natives They dress a little Boy in his sight and undress him again leaving all the Childs Apparel behind them in the place and then depart a competent distance The Ape presently attireth himself in the same garments till the Childs Cloaths become his Chains putting off his Feet by putting on his shoes The mimical Doâ—terels of Lincolnshire are thus taken As the Fowler stretcheth forth his armes and leggs going towards the Bird the Bird extendeth his leggs and wings apprâ—aching the Fowler till surprized in the Net The sweet carriage and exemplary virtue which he exercised really towards some of the Faction brought them to comply with him so far at least in pretence a while that at last they were his Converts in truth His valor conquering many his goodness more souls yielding to his virtues while bodies only lay prostrate beâ—fore his Sword Of all his virtues his patience was the most reâ—markable whereby he hardened his body to the same temperament that travel had done his soul he knew no bed for several times but that earth he sleeps on now and Pulvinar was a true Latine word for his Pillow â—afraid of softness even in his Furniâ—ture not willing to go to any Bed but that people had in those times when the Proverb rise which expresseth lying a Bed by these words Lying in Straw And this patience born up by a principle as noble as it self I mean a Religion made up of these two great parts Love and Immitation of God This noble person being of that brave Opinion That of so many divers Religions and manâ—ners of serving God which are or may be in the world they seem to be the most noble and to have the greatest appearance of truth which draw the soul into its self and cause it by pure contemplation to admire love adore dwell with imitate and enjoy the infinite Majesty of God the first cause of all things and the Essence of Essences acknowledge it in general without the nicety of particulars to be goodness perfection inâ—â—uiteness wholly incomparable This is to approach the Religion of Angels and the Humanity of Christ that shadow agreeing with the Divinity as equal-made Dyals with the Sun For his winged and soaring reason as high as theirs that pretend nothing above it acquiesced rather in the humble obedience of faith than in the critical researches of curiosity And his sprightly wit bestowed it self not in jesting upon but in adorning and obeying Religion being none of them that commence wit by blasphemy and cannot be ingenious but by being impious Indeed there was as manly a a beauty in his carrage as in his Face and a grace in each of his actions as of his Limbs charming all places he came to rather than conquering them having as generous a confluence of Noble Endowments in his Minde as he had of Noble Bloud in his Veins Worth this like a rich vein of Ore that forfeits the land it is in to his Majesty that rendred him too good to be injoyed by us For when it was necessary for him otherwise born for the sweetness and calm of peace to offer violence to and deny his nature to perform his duty in assisting that Majesty to which he was allyed as well as obliged in the defence of that Law and Liberty which his Ancestors had established as much his Inheritance as his Honor after several actions by which he shall ever live the pattern of a religious sober active watchful and resolved Souldier he came to that wherein he died the pattern of an excellent man for following my Lord Hopton as ambitious to observe his conduct as he was to attain his other great virtues at Brandonheath or
a place disadvantageous to their horse by reason of the Cunniberries there the deserted Foot leaving the field with one thousand five hundred Prisoners two thousand Armes some Ordnance with four Drakes with all their Ammunition and Baggage An happy Victory had it not cost the life of this gallant and faithful Lord of whom the King said That he was the greatest loss but one he had had since the beginning of the Civil War who Charging in the Head of his Troops and by the unevenness of the ground with the force of the Enemy unhapply unhorsed refused Quarter saying He would not owe his life to those who had forfeited theirs and having so many wounds that he need fear none being one great wound himself he fell to the great loss of his Majesty and his Cause not without a noble testimony and resentment from his very enemies victory attending him to his Grave March 19. 1642 3. dying as good a Protestant as he had lived Mancum cadaver terrae mandavit Integrum animum seminanimo Populo legavit virtutem filio hac tumulum adornans epigraphe Non si nunc olim sic erit THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM COMPTON AN honorable person of such temperance from his youth that he seemed to be the St. Nicholas of our Church of whom the report is that when an Infant hanging on his Mothers breast he fasted Wednesdays and Fridays and would not suck He had no sooner accomplished himself by travel and study but his honorable Brother before mentioned intreats his Company in his Expedition towards the settlement of the Association for his Majesty in their Country where he had an excellent faculty of undeceiving those that wrested the Scripture by Scripture his Head being a Concordance especially of St. Pauls Epistles and he advising it as very prudential to condescend to level discourses at the capacity of the people and to convince them in their own dialect having with him one who had the best command of rain and sun-shine in his Face to smile and weep at pleasure his tears flowing at will melted the affections of many though others better acquainted with the man no more regarded his weeping than they did the moist droppings of a stone-wall against rainy weather Small resistance he had the disorderly people not knowing how to digest themselves into a body as who expects that a rolling Snow-ball should have any curious fashion men at first only fighting in a complement until having bravely brought off his Regiment after three onsets wherein his horse was twice shot under him by two Brigades of the enemy it fell to his lot to be Governor of Banbury for the retaking whereof he had contributed so much by his courage and counsel where his first care was a civil and strict carriage to win those professing people disposing his men so easily paying for so honesty and countenancing Religion among them so exemplarily that the people of the place professed that if the Kings Army carried its self so in other places they admired with what conscience any godly man could lift up a hand against them and his next by his own industry being in his turn upon all works and watches as well as the meanest man among them and the peoples to strengthen the Town which by reason of its nearness to Oxford and its command over the adjoyning Counties he resolved to keep as a place of very great consequence to the King and aimed at as of no less consequence to the other side especially since his indefatigable way of Beating up Quarters reâ—dred him of whose men some in their turns for three years together were observed always on horseback either relieving neighbors witness that admirable relief of Iackson gathering Contributions or alarming the enemy as troublesom at Banbury as Colonel Massey was at Glocester the reason why after some little attempts before 1644. the enemy came from Northampton with so many Miners and Colliers July 19. continuing their Mines till Aug. 27. on which day it was assaulted by several Mines Storms and Batterings with a Summons to which Sir William returned this answer That they kept the Castle for his Majesty and as long as one man was left alive in it willed him not to expect to have it delivered And after several Batteries on three sides of the Castle and seven Mines obstructed by water with an endeavor with much loss to drain the outmost Mote Another September 16. to which Sir William returned this answer by the Trumpeter That he had formerly answered them and wondered they would send again whereupon they proceed fiercely to their Assaults and Batteries together with their Granadoes and great Ordnances of the one 346. of the other 767. for a week together though answered with frequent Sallies insomuch that having made a breach upon the West-wall of the outward of the Castle the upper part near thirty yards in length but the inside wall lined with earth they Storm it about nine a clock in the morning September 23. with six hundred of their choicest men twelve being picked out of each Company with burdens on their backs to fill the Mote falling on with Scaleing-ladders in four several places besides a great throng of them in the Breach but without effect Sir William himself maintaining the Breach and giving order in all the other parts so that they fell off desiring leave after the Garrison had stripped them to bury their dead especially after the dreadful execution made upon them by a sally Sir William ordered upon them under Leiutenant Colonel Green the next day when with the men of Sechem they were very sore And not long after according to the good correspondence and intellegence Sir William had with his Majesties Forces the Siege was raised by the right honorable the Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage on the one side and himself on the other the Besiegers being dispersed and their Carriages Horses three Waggons of Armes and Ammunition two Field-pieces being taken and sent into the Castle A piece of service considering that Sir William was not for a eleven weeks in Bed so great his vigilance nor for a week off the Works so unwearied his diligence that he had Prayers four times every day the spiritual armes seconding the temporal so eminent his piety that he acted all things by common counsel and consent such his wariness and prudence He countermined the enemy a eleven times and over-reached them by stratagems six times such his skill He trusted no man without his own immediate over-sight such by care he seldom failed in his aim so exact this level he had no Mutinies either in Town or Garrison so equal his Justice and happy his Government not to be equalled but by another in 1646. when Banbury was besieged the second time as Ierusalem was in the time of a Passeover when all the Synagogues doing homage to the Mother-Temple all Iudaea was there the Guests Cavaliers come from
his personal valor in six several desperate Engagementâ— especially in the latter end of the Worcester Fight to gain his 〈◊〉 time to retreat with whom he went by the conduct of a Scout he had made use of formerly to Boscobell where parting 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 unusual to so valiant a person my Lord 〈◊〉 to go towards London to meet his Majesty according to appointmentâ— at the Green-dragon at the â—intry in Thames-street but finding the ways strictly guarded retired to Mr. Whitegreaves Mr. Huâ—â—â—â—â— and Col. Lanes where after several consultations had for his Majeâ—ties safe transportation my Lord bethought himself of one Mr. Elden formerly Captain in the Kings Army and now a Merchant in lynn that had befriended the Lord â—erkley in the like care with whom he had contrived the Voyage but that the Ship-master they agreed with tailed them and then supporting and directing his Majesty in all emergencies with an invincible courage his Lord hâ—pâ—â— him up and down through inâ—inite windings and turniâ—gs till happening upon a Vessel in brighthelmâ—sted in Sussex the Master whereof was charmed by his Lordship under pretence of selling his Coals at the isle of wight to carry them that way and then my Lord pretending that his mind altered after a well acted quarrel with the honest Master of the Vessel to the Coast of France where he stayed not long with his Majesty but being Created Earl of Rochester undertook a successful 〈◊〉 to the Imperial Diet at the Ratisbone where he procured a considerable sum of money for the present and a very fair promise of the Emperors and the Princes assistance for the future and in his return settled a correspondency for the like purpose in England whither he ventured several times in person particularly 1655. at Hâ—ssamMoor near York where the appearance of Cavaleers at the day appointed not answering expectation my Lord and Sir Nicholas Armorer escaped from the midst of three thousand men that had as it were inclosed them to Ailesbury and from the very hands of the Usurpers Instruments thence into Flanders where he served the King of Spain very happily that he might be able to serve his Master till he died not long before his Majesties Restitution like Moses having after several years traversing a Wilderness only a Prospect of Caanan and the land of rest and settlement P. M. Baronis Willmot Caroli Secundi fidus Achates Vt imi servus Philanax Philo Cawlos Comes Regis Pariter Regni Adeo officii tenax ut ab Afflcta Sed justa regis causa eum dimoveant Nec amicorum injuriae nec inimicorum Prosperum scelus ultimi saeculi Aristides THE Life and Death OF Sir BEVILE GREENVILE Father of the Right Honorable the Earl of Bathe THere are two ancient Families in this Gentlemans name the Beviles that have flourished six hundred years in Cornwall at Gwarnack in his Christian Name and the Greenviles that have continued in great honor at Bediford in Devonshire above five hundred years in his Surname And there were the two eminent Virtues of those Families in his nature his names being to him not only significations of Honor but intimations of Virtue according to that admonition given by Alexander to one of his Followers Either quit your good name or leave your bad manners meekness wariness good nature and ingenuity the character of the one valor and prowess the known honor of the other His Ancestor Sir R. Greenvile assisted King William Rufus 1113. against the Welch Rebells successfully dedicating the Spoils of the war to the honor of Almighty God in maintaining a Religious House Sir Bevile Greenvile attended King Charles the First against the English 1641. consecrating his services to the Glory of God and the settlement of the Church usually saying That he counted it the greatest honor of his Family that one of it meaning Will. de Greenvile above three hundred years before under Edw. the First was Archbishop of York and in the Councel of Vienna next the Archbishop of Triers being for his publick spirit and activity especially in improving the Trade maintaining the Priviledges and keeping up the Discipline of his Country called to advise with his Majesty in Parliament about the great affairs of the kingdom he would not continue there without him But when he saw that he was more likely to be suppressed by his Majesties adversaries than his Majesty was to be supported by his friendship at Westminster he withdrew with many more Devonshire and Cornish Gentlemen that deserved Queen Elizabeths Character of these Countrymen That they were all born Courtiers with a becoming confidence to give their Country by rational Declarations the same satisfaction about the state of affairs that they had already in their own breast forcing not the Country till they had convinced and perswaded it asserting Authority the ligament of civil society against violence the publick interest against private designs liberty against licentiousness and oppression and this upon such moderate principles to widen rather than narrow their interest and in so civil terms as won those generous people that were not to be forced like compleat Orators making happy applications to the several humors and Genius of all persons with Alcibiades shifting disposition as they altered place yea so prudentially did they manage their expressions that the men at Westminster should not despair of their compliance with them until they were in a capacity to appear against them when they had secured the Port-towns the Fishing-trade for Herring and Pilchards the Mines the Markets for the Manufactures of that Country Kersies Bonelace c. and setled as good a correspondence between Devonshire and Cornwall by Sir Bevile Greenviles advice as was before by Sir Theo. Greenvile's device who built Baddiford-bridge as Sir Bevile secured it They appear in a great body near Pendennis whereof Sir Nicholas Slaning another excellent Patriot of Cornwall was Governor and Launston the County-town of Cornwall which Sir Bevile Greenvile possessed himself of The Body he trained to war he disciplined to piety piety not like the Cornish Diamond counterfeit and strictness least as Pilchards in this Country being persecuted by their fellow-fish the Tunny and Hake fall into the Fisher-mens Nets so the Country-people abused by the incivilities of their friends the Cavaleers might be taken in the Snares of their enemies the Faction As the Ambergreese found sometimes in this Country hath a more fragrant scent compounded with other things than when singly its self so this noble Gentleman gained a greater repute when joyning counsels and endeavors with others than when he acted alone The neighbor Counties were on fire these Counties look to themselves Sir Bevile wished that his Army were all of them as good as his Cause but it is not to be expected that all should be Fish that are caught in a Drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a
affrighted by it It being very observable that a learned Doctor of Physick present at the Opening and Embalming of this Lord and the Duke Hamilton delivered at a publick Lecture That the Lord Capel 's was the least heart and the Duke the greatest that ever he saw agreeable to the observation in Philosophy that the spirits contracted within the least compass are the cause of the greatest courage Three things are considerable in this incomparable person 1. His un-interrupted Loyalty keeping pace with his life for his last breath was spent in proclaiming King Charles the Second in the very face of his enemies as known to him to be Virtuous Noble Gentle Just and a great Prince A perfect Englishman in his Inclination 2. His great merit and modesty whereof King Charles the First writes thus to his Excellent Queen There is one that doth not yet pretend that deserves as well as any I mean Capel Therefore I desire Thy assistance to finde out something for him before he ask 3. The blessing of God upon his Noble but Suffering Family who was a Husband to his excellent Widow and a Father to his hopeful Children whom not so much their Birth Beauty and Portion though they were eminent for these as their Virtues Married to the best Blood and Estates in the Land even when they and the Cause they suffered for were at the lowest It s the happiness of good men though themselves misâ—rable that their Seed shall be Mighty and their Generation Blessed A Religious man that used to say as his Tutor Dr. Pashe under whom he was bred at Clare-hall in Cambridge That when he had kept the Sabbath well he found the greater blessing upon all he did afterwards that was as good in all his private Relations as in his several publick Capacities especially in that of a husband of which state he saith That it doubled his joyes divided his grief and created new and unthought of contentments A sober Gentleman that loved not to hear a man talk a greater variety of things than he could rationally discourse and used only those Recreationâ— of which he could give a Philosophical account how they refâ—eâ—hed his minde or recovered his body so good natured that he would have all his Servants and Dependants his Friends none stricter in the Discipline of his Family none more obliging in the sweetness of his converse Who would say he observed that the disobedience of men to us was no other than the punishment of our disobedience to God The meekest man living that had the arâ— as well as the grace by yielding to pacifie wrath Of an happy mean and temperament between the too thin and open and the too close hating a troublesome nature as bad as an Infection A diserect person that would not suffer the infelicity of one of his Affairs to distemper him so as to loose all consideration to guide him in the rest that had always a friend to advise and an example to imitate retaining the decency of his own natural evenness saying That he was a wise-man that was able to make wise-men his instruments A good Father that expected so much blessing in the Education of his Children as he made prayers for them Possinâ—â—â—â—oâ— Lachrimarum Liberi perire A good Christian that set apart half an hour every day of his retirement to think of Eternity a good temper that would fairly guide and not directly contradict any manâ— little regarding applause knowing as he would say notably that the vulgar are easily tired with constant vertue and as easily taken with a started novelty and living not to various opinion or favor but conscience and wisdom one that hated the flatterer who would say struck him before and the lyâ—r that hit him behind both in sâ—nsibly both dangerously A Nobleman that resolved to be happy by two things 1. A moderate using of the present and 2. An indifferent expectation of what is to come and thought him a great Crafts-master that could shadow the opposition that businesses have one with another that esteemed that only his that he had Liberally or Charitably given that observed it was not expenceâ— but a carelesseness how and what we spend that ruineth an Estate that desired to gain respect not by little observances but by a constant fair carriage that entertained reports always with Quaeries and a temperate Belief that would say that every action of his that was unhappy precipitated and rash that made his afflictions tolerable by making his desires moderate that used to say that he scarce knew a man capable of a true friend That writes of the most exalted fortune that it hath little contentment without some popular good will and therefore he advised the greatest man to be careful how he gave a publick disgrace to the meanest person He would say that there are so many circumstances in the way to an Estate or Greatness that a peremptory man that went alone seldom attained either that no man is so unhappy as that he must lye to live and that there was a civil art to be free in courtesie loving in Society and heedful in observation This excellent Personage declaring openly in the House of Lords That the Kings Majesty had granted so much for the security and peace of the Kingdom that they who asked more intended the disturbance of it following his Majesty to York and with other Lords attesting the integrity of his Majesties Proceedings there in order to Peace and promising to assist him with his Life and Fortune against all other pretended Authority in case it came to a War notwithstanding a summons from Westminster to which he and others made a civil return and an impeachment of High-Treason for going from Westminster to York at the Kings Command whereof he took no notice settling his Estate in Sir Edward Capell and other Trustees who I finde compounded for 4706 l. 07s II d. Advanced his Majesty between eight and nine hundred Horse and 12000 l. in Money and Plate and if he had had the happyness of being imployed in his own Country the fatal error of that time as he was far off in the borders of Wales we had heard more of him however we finde him subscribing the Declarations of the Parliament at Oxford 1643. and the Messages for Peace from the Army in the field attending his present Majesty to cornwall where he was hurt in two or three several Engagements once venturing himself very far to save the Foot managing the Correspondence between him and the Members at Westminster in order to an accommodation with great Caution against their subtile design who would divide the Princes Interest and his Fathers following him to Scilly Iersey and the Fleet then falling to him whence he betakes himself home to form the design 1647 1648. that was then brewing in the three Kingdoms for the safety and liberty of the Kings Majesty offering among others this consideration to a very eminent
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
to his Master In that imployment he was made Prebendary of York and then of Rippon the Dean of which Church having made him his Sub-Dean he managed the Affairs of the Church so well that he soon acquired a greater same and entred into the possession of many hearts and admiration to those many more that knew him There and at his Parsonage he continued long to do the duty of a learned and good Preacher and by his Wisdom Eloquence and Deportment so gained the affections of the Nobility Gentry and Commons of that Country that as at his return thither upon the Restauration of his most sacred Majesty he knew himself obliged enough and was so kinde as to give them a visit so they by their coming in great numbers to meet him their joyful Reception of him their great caressing of him while he was there their forward hopes to enjoy him as their Bishop their trouble at his departure their unwillingness to let him go away give signal Testimonies that they were wise and kinde enough to understand and value his great worth But while he lived there he was like a Diamond in the dust or Lucius Quintius at the plough his low fortune covered a most valuable person till he came to be discovered by Sir Thomas Wentworth Lord President of York whom we all knew for his great Excellencies and his great but glorious Misfortunes This rare person espyed the great abilities of Dr. Bramhall and made him his Chaplain and brought him into Ireland as one whom he believed would prove the most fit Instrument to serve in that design which for two years before his Arrival here he had greatly meditated and resolved the Reformation of Religion and the Reparation of the broken fortunes of the Church The Complaints were many the Abuses great the Causes of the Church vastly numerous but as fast as they were brought in so fast were they referred back by the Lord Deputy to Dr. Bramhall who by his indefatigable pains great sagacity perpetual watchfulness daily and hourly Consultations reduced things to a more tollerable condition than they had been left in by Schismatical principles of some and unjust Prepossessions of others for many years before For at the Reformation the Popish Bishops and Priests seemed to conform and did so that keeping their Bishopricks they might enrich their kindred and dilapidate the Revenues of the Church which by pretended-Offices false Informations Fee-farms at contemptible Rents and ungodly Alienations were made low as Poverty it self and unfit to minister to the needs of them that served the Altar or the noblest purposes of Religion for Hospitality decayed and the Bishops were easily to be oppressed by those that would and they complained but for a long time had no helper till God raised that glorious Instrument the Earl of Strafford who brought over with him as great Affections to the Church and to all publick Interests and as admirable abilities as ever before his time did invest and adorn any of the Kings Vicegerents and God fitted his hand with an Instrument good as his skill was great For the first specimen of his Abilities and Diligence in the recovery of some lost Tythes being represented to his late Majesty of blessed and glorious Memory it pleased his Majesty upon the death of Bishop Downham to advance the Doctor the Biâ—â—oprick of Derry which he not only adorned with an excellent spirit and a wise Government but did more than double the Revenue not by taking away any thing from them to whom it was due but by resuming something of the Churches Patrimony which by undue means was detained in unsitting hands But his care was beyond his Diocésse and his zeal broke out to warm all his Brethren and though by reason of the favor and Piety of King Iames the escheated Counties were well provided for their Tythes yet the Bishopâ—icks were not so well till the Primato then Bishop of Derry by the favor of the Lord Lieutenant and his own incessant and assiduous labor and wise Conduct brought in divers Impropriations cancelled many unjust Alienations and did restore them to a condition much more tollerable for he raised them above contempt yet they were not near to envy but he knew there could not in all times be wanting too many that envied to the Church every degree of Prosperity So Iudas did to Christ the expence of Oyntment and so Dionisius told the Priest when himself stole the Golden Cloak from Apollo and gave him one of Arcadian home-spun that it was warmer for him in Winter and colder in Summer And so ever since the Church by Gods blessing and the favor of Religious Kings and Princes and pious Nobility hath been endowed with fair Revenues inimicus homo the enemy hath not been wanting by pretences of Religion to take away Gods portion from the Church as if his word were intended as an Instrument to rob his Houses But when the Israelites were governed by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and God was their King and Moses his Lieutenant and things were of his management he was pleased by making great provisions for them that ministred in the service of the Tabernacle to consign this truth for ever That Men as they love God at the same rate are to make provisions for his Priests But this to no other end than to represent upon what Religious grounds the then Bishop of Derry did with so much care and assiduous labour endeavor to restore the Church of Ireland to that splendor and fulness which did much conduce to the honor of God and of Religion This wise Prelate rarely well understood it and having the same advantage and blessing as we have now a Gracious King and a Lieutenent Patron of Religion and the Church he improved the â—â—posita Pietatis as Origen calls them The Gages of Piety which the Religion of the ancient Princes and Nobles of this Kingdom had bountifully given to such a comfortable competency that though there be place for present and future piety to inlarge it yet no man hath reason to be discouraged in his duty insomuch that as I have heard from a most worthy hand that at his going into England he gave account to the Archbishop of Canterbury of 30000 l. a year in the recovery of which he was greatly and principally instrumental But the Goods of this World are called Waters by Solomon stollen waters are sweet and they are too unstable to be stopp'd Some of these Waters did run back from their Channel and return to another Course than God and the Laws intended yet his labours and pious Counsels were not the less acceptable to God and to good Men and therefore by a thankful and honorable recognition the Convocation of the Church of Ireland hath transmitted in Record to Posterity their deep resentment of his singular services and great abilities in this whole affair And this honor will for ever remain to that Bishop of Derry he had a
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
and Margaret Professor of Divinity a strict observer of Discipline and a great pattern of Charity having eluded the first commission of the Visitors by a prudent demurr and delay and with excellent Reasons penned by Dr. Saunderson against the Covenant and by Dr. Langbain against the Visitation honourably neglected the second turned out so violently that his sick Wife was carried out in a Chair to make way to a Presbyterian successor as his was a little while after Digitus Dei to make way for an Independent one Dying heart-broken not for his own sufferings but his Majesties he left a Son heir of his zeal the Reverend Dr. Io. Fell now Dean of Christ Church who kept up the Devotions and Orders of the Church of England in his Brother-in-law Dr. Willis the accurate Natural Philosopher and Physician at Oxford Lodgings and House supported the Members of it by a great part of his Estate and kept up the honor of it by his example Dr. Robert Sanderson of the Noble Family of the Sandersons in York-shire and Lincolnshire bred under a methodical Master at Lincoln School and an exact Tutor at Lincoln Colledge who improved his pregnant Wit his large Understanding his faithful Memory his solid Judgment made more so by method and a deep Apprehension his hopeful Seriousness his silent Sedentary and astonishing Industry to that exactness which stuck to him to his dying day and he would observe that exactness or strictness in laying the grounds of Learning had their respective influences upon the superstructure In his younger days he learned an Art of Memory for being enjoyed when young to learn what he understood not he was compelled to make use of similitudes and to remember those things he knew not by thinking upon something like them he knew Being Serious in his Design Prudent in his Study Industrious in his Way Clear in his Apprehension Searching in his Disquisitions Serene Orderly and Methodical in his thoughts Sober and Civil in his Carriage his Tuition having added to his great parts that Humility Meekness Modesty Obedience and Civility as advantaged by his good Disposition rendred him to his last Submissive to Superiors Obliging to his Equals Tender to his Inferiors Affable and Charitable good Discipline in youth begets an habit of Obedience in riper years his thoughtful Soul strugling with the Intricacies Perplexities Darkness and Confusion of Nature and intent upon a genuine Apprehension of things rather than a toilsome Collection of words save so much Grammar as enabled him to speak his minde properly so much Rhetorick as to express it Perswasively and so much Logick as might order guide and direct his thoughts Methodically in apprehending things Distinctly in judging of them Exactly in finding out the truth that lieth in them Successfully in discovering the errors deceits and fallacies imposed upon us about them Evidently and urging the truths found out Convincingly His way was 1. To write the Rules his Tutor suggested or his Books afforded for he writ most he read or heard as he said To stay his active and young soul upon things till he had distinctly conceived them 2. To debate the Rules he writ with his friends whereof he always kept a Club. 3. To practise them upon some question or other till they became as his native reason as his own soul whereby he attained afterwards in all cases a great happiness to comprehend things deeply and fully State Controversies exactly to lay them before others clearly solidly compendiously and impartially to find out the merit of a cause the right state of a question exactly reasoning convincingly and demonstratively alledging closely and pertinently with observations choice and prudent deductions clear and genuine expressions apt suitable weighty and accurate and the whole discourse even and steady made up of abstract notions of reason experience and religion being sure to state the words in a question or case What is controverted as there will be very little when words and things are well understood must be clearly laid down would he say as it is understood on all hands and convincingly proved by a proper reason from the nature of the thing or uncontrouled authority pressed and cleared from all evasions cavils and Subter-fuges which cavils must be proposed faithfully and honestly and answered breifly fully ingeniously candidly and modestly Insomuch that as he composed a new Logick an excellent way of reasoning so he was many years the publick Reason of the Church as her best Casuist and of the University as her accurate Kings Professor of Divinity He sorted every word he read to its proper head â— having a vast Index materiarum where to put his reading and meditations drawn by himself by him he made it his business to know rather distinctly and exactly than much though he that digesteth a few things throughly and methodically so much doth one part of learning well understood depend upon and illustrate all knoweth every thing His Fellowship he reckoned a great advantage by good converse to improve his first years of prudence and discretion and his Pupils among whom the Lord Hopton was one a great help by giving him opportunity to observe the several weaknesses of reason and the respective remedies Eleven hours was his usual allotment for study though there was hardly a minute of his time but was full of his affairs either of necessity civility or study It cost him so much sad thoughts to go through any subject in his unnering and accurate way that as he writes in his Preface to the book of the Obligation of Conscience that he could do nothing untill he needs must his mind running up and down till penned up and confined by necessity of which he used to say as Pythagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having attained a grave and comely carriage a plain and solemn garb becoming a man that alwayes meditated some good and great design an even calm and deliberate serious and well-ordered habit of words and action an innocently faâ—â—tious converse tempered and allayed with gravity good counsels and an excellent example a temperance and moderation made up of Epictetus his two words Sustine Abstine none in judgement more for Liberty in those things that were lawful and none in practice more Cautious in those things that were not expedient Having his youthful heat abaded and fined into a mature prudence and an exact Learning and his soul knit into compleatness and resolution resigning his Fellowship in a way agreeable to the will of the Founder and the present good of the Colledge and the University as well as the future benefit of the Church in compliance with the expectation of the University and the Church together with his own inclination who would always say That imployment was improvement he was for many years Minister of Booth by Pagnel in Lincoln-shire Where 1. his care was to settle and maintain friendship and love among people of the same Inclination Profession Study and
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works
the Bishop indulged and Sir Iohn prosecuted though both at last suffered by them Sir Iohn hardly seven times in these Wars escaping for his life at his House in Northampton-shire whence coming to hide himself in London he dyed in the Bell-Inn in St. Martins lane London sundry losses by plunder having paid after for composition 628 l. Sir Henry Martin born in London bred in New-Colledge Oxford the smallness of whose Estate was the improvement of his Parts being left but 40 l. a year which made him a Student where as he would say 80 l. would have made him a Gentleman pleading in his Chamber by Bishop Andrews advice who directed him to the study of the Civil Law the important Causes transmitted to him weekly from Lambeth he attained to a great faculty in amplifying and aggravating extenuating any thing at the Court wherefore he became an eminent Advocate in the High-Commission no Cause coming amiss to him who was not now to make new Armor but to buckle on the old not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Client and was made Judge of the Prerogative for Probate of Wills and of the Admiralty in Causes concerning Forreign Trade whence King Iames would say pleasantly of him That he was a mighty Monarch in his Jurisdiction over Land and Sea the living and the dead in the number of which last he was for fear and grief 1642. Dr. Thomas Eden born at Ballington-Hall in Essex Fellow and Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he always concurred with the old Protestants in his Votes in censuring extravagant Sermons c. and joyned issue with them in his suffering only he that was so excellent an Advocate for others pleaded so well for himself that he was permitted to dye in Cambridge where he bestowed 1000 l. since nothing was left him to live on elsewhere his Places of Chancellor of Ely Commissary of Sudbury and Westminster Professor of Law in Gresham-Colledge being Sequestred as he did 1646. leaving Sir Iames Bunce a great Agent and sufferer for his Majesty being twelve years banished his Executor on this score being an utter stranger to him Sir Iames asking the Doctors advice about a â—lause in a Will wherein he was Executor and being told by him that it was capable of a double sense replyed Tell me what you think in your Conscience is the very minde of the Testator which I am resolved whatever it cost me to make good Dr. Cowel observed of Dr. Eden that had a happy name which commends to a Favourite that might be easily pronounced Dr. Morrison and Dr. Goad both of Kings great Civilians and great sufferers the first a great friend of Bishop Williams the second of Bishop Laud at first the Faction was not perfect in the art of persecution being more loose and favourable in their language of Subscriptions but afterwards grew so punctual and particular therein that the persons to whom they were tendered must either strangle their Consciences with the acceptance or lose their Estates for the refusal thereof Sir Richard Lane a Gentleman not lost in the retiredness of a good judgment but being able to expose his merit as well as gain it by a quick fancy sending before a good Opinion of himself to make way for his Person with this Caution That he took care he should not sink with two great an expectation Whence in an Assembly wherein they used to Epithet every man with reference to their most obvious defects or vertues he was called Tho. Wary and with good reason he keeping his converse as among Superiors within the compass modesty and reverence so among equals within the Rules of a sweet and honest respect it being he said both to command our own Spirits and endear our friends a great art not to be too familiar or presume too much on the goodness of other natures upon that of a mans own besides that he thought it injustice to give our familiars the froth of our Parts reserving the more solid part for strangers though he exposed not his good humors but upon an equal Theatre a mans esteem rising not from shewing himself but from keeping himself regular and equal as well in mean and common as in great and extraordinary actions pretending to nothing he had not left being discovered albeit when once men have a good opinion they seldom take pains to disabuse themselves he might be suspected in what he had and being sure of Correspondents knowing that a single interest or abilities would sink under Court-affairs He was preferred the Princes Sollicitor and Attorney in the best times and his Father Keeper of the Seal in the worst not parting from his Majesty till he did with his own soul dying with a good Conscience abroad with more comfort than if he had dyed with a good Estate at home having discharged his place under a distressed Soveraign with much courage as well as skill leaving this opinion behind that Projectors of new Engines were not to be too much encouraged in a populous Country since by easing many of their labor they out more of their livelihood and so though beneficial to private persons are pernicious to the publick to which what imployeth most is most advantageous Sir Iohn Bennet as much persecuted by the Parliament as by the High-Commission THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM JUXON Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury BOrn at Chichester in Sussex and bred in St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow and President his deep and smooth parts as appears by his Speeches and Poetry on publick Occasions particularly on King Iames his death exceeding his years and yet his modesty and other vertues so exceeding as to hide his Parts had not he been discovered for Preferment by the Perfume of his worth as the Roman Gentleman was by the sweet Odour of his Cloaths for punishment Bishop Laud had taken great notice of his Parts and Temper when he was Fellow with him but greater of his Integrity and policy when a stickler in the Suit about President-ship of the Colledge against him When observing him a shrewd Adversary he thought he might be a good Friend being though Doctor of Law yet a great Master of Divinity all hearing him Preach with great pleasure and profit so much he had of Paul and Apollos of learned plainness and an useful elaborateness when he preached saith one that heard him Of Mortification Repentance and other Christian Practicks he did it with such a stroke of unaffected Floquence of potent Demonstration and irresistible Conviction that jew Agrippaes Festaes or Felixes that heard but must needs for the time and fit be almost perswaded to be penitent and mortified Christians Dr. Laud finding him shining in each place he was as the Divine Lights in their Orbs without noise his Birth so Gentile that it was no disgrace to his Parts though not so Illustrious but that his Parts might be an Ornament to him his Vertues so modest that they
Convocations as in that 1640. when he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welch Bible set out sixty years ago by Bishop Morgan but in several places misprinted which I would some again consider of And in the Convocation 1662. when he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity and making the alterations in the Common-prayer then set out the form for Baptizing those of riper years being I think of his composing Dr. Robert Wright the youngest Fellow as ever was admitted of Trinity-colledge and the first Warden that ever was of Wadham-colledge in Oxford the richest Bishop that ever was of Bristol whither he was preferred 1622. and the strictest that had been of Coventry and Lichfield where he sat 1632. and died 1643. his Castle being kept for his Majesty by Dr. Bird a well known Civilian and half his estate devoted to his service by himself whose advise to his Clergy was that they should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 embody and enervate their souls by idleness and sloath Be it remembred that he was one of the twelve Bishops that suffered for protesting against the Laws that Passed in Parliament during the tumults and one of the two that for his painfulness and integrity for his moderation and wariness had the most favourable imprisonment for that protestation being Committed only to the Black-rod while the rest went to the Tower His virtues having indeed the vices of the times for his enemies but not the men Dr. George Cooke a meek and grave man Brother to Secretary Cooke in temper as well as bloud born at Trusley in Derbyshire bred in Pembroke-hall Cambridge Beneficed at Bigrave in Hertfordshire where three houses yielded him almost 300 l. a year advanced to the Bishoprick of Bristol 1632. and to that of Hereford 1636. wherein he died 1650. much beloved by those that were under him and yet much persecuted about the protest in Parliament 1641. and other matters by those that where above him insomuch that he who was thrist it self had wanted had not his Relations helped out his merit and he been as Honorable as Pious and Learned He dropped Sentences as easily as others spoke sence happy in expressing as well as conceiving though as Plotin he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly taken up with his minde a serene and quiet man above the storm the result of that unsettledness of lower minds Dr. Iohn Towers born in Northfolk bred in Cambridge Fellow of Queens Colledge Chaplain to Will. Earl of Northampton and by his Donation Rector of Castle-Ashby in Northampton-shire and upon his recommendation Chaplain to King Charles the I. successively Dean and Bishop of Peterborough he indeavoured to put the humors of the times out of countenance by acting of them in his younger days and by punishing them in his elder but both failing dying about 1650. under great torments in his body and great afflictions from the times he suffered chearfully what he could not amend effectually thereby shewing that he could suffer as handsomely as he could act When rich only in Children whereof one Mr. Towers of Christ-church was an Ingenious man and an excellent Scholar as appears by his book against Atheism and Patience Godfrey Goodman a man of his name born of a Worshipful Family of the Goodmans near Ruthen in Denbigh-shire to which place he was yearly when I was at School there even in his lowest condition a good Benefactor though his Unkle Gabriel Goodman for forty years Dean of Westminster was a better under whom he was bred at Westminster and by whom preferred Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge as he was afterwards by Bishop Andrews Bishop Vaughan and Bishop Williams made successively Prebendary of Windsor Dean of Rochester and Bishop of Gloucester 1624. maintaining several Heterodox Opinions in his Sermons at Court for which he was checked 1626. dissenting from the Canons 1640. for which after three admonitions pronounced by Bishop Laud in half an hour to subscribe he was to his great honor imprisoned and of all the Bishops since the Reformation was the only man whom the miscarriages of the Protestants Scandalled into Popery a harmless man pitiful to the poor Hospitable to his Neighbors and compassionate to dissenters Dying at Westminster in the year of our Lord 1654. and of his Age eighty giving this Posie in his Funeral Rings Requiem defunctis having leave in those as it is said of Bishop Leoline that he asked leave of Edward the 1. to make his he gave directions in one Draught how Impropriations might be recovered to the Church to make it much the richer and no man a jot the poorer He was a great incourager of Sir Henry Middletons design of bringing the New River-water through so many difficulties to London as Davids Worthies did the Water of Bethlem to his Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without which saith one we should have burnt with the thirst and been buryed with the filth of our own bodies Dr. Iohn Warner born in St. Clements Danes Westminster bred in Magdalen Colledge Oxford to which he is a great Benefactor preferred Prebend of the Church of Canterbury to which he gave a Font most Curious and most Costly the first gift by a private hand to that Church in latter times and Rector of St. Dyonis Back Church London on which he bestowed a yearly Pension advanced Lord Bishop of Rochester in which he built an Alms-house with 20 l. a year a piece to forty poor Ministers Widdows himself having practised a single life A great assertor of Episcopacy while he had a voice in Parliament and when he had lost his voice as he was deputed by the Bishops soliciting their Cause with his Purse and Head and when all failed suffering for it being Sequestred of all his Spiritual Estate and compounding for his Temporal which being very great by his Father a Citizen of Londons thrift and greater by his own who would say for his frugal and close way that he eat the craggy Necks of Mutton that he might leave the poor the Shoulder enabled him to relieve his Brethren the Clergy and their Wives when others of his Order were glad to be relieved A man to his last of accurate Parts a good Speech a chearful and undaunted Spirit He dyed Octob. Anno. Dom. 1666. Aetat 81. Episcopatus 29. being as one calls Whitehall A good hypocriâ—e promising less than he performed and more hearty within than Courtly without Dr. Iohn Ganden a Ministers Son in Essex bred first at Colledge Cambridge and afterwards Tutor to the Strangwayes in Wadham Colledge in Oxford by the comeliness of his Person the vastness of his Parts strangely improved by his astronishing industry bestowing most of the seasonable hours of day and night on study and the unseasonable ones on Mechanisms to keep his soul always intent as appears by making the exquisite Common-place Cabinet with other Rarities of his own left behind him the majesty and copiousness of his
diligence and industry did wonders in that School imposed upon him on the Epistles and Gospels at School were the ground of that Divine fancy so famous in Pembroke-hall where he was Scholar and Peter-house where he was Fellow in Cambridge where he was esteemed the other Herbert of our Church for making Poetry as Divine in its object as in its Original and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables Women Drollery or Flattery upon a matter and subject as noble as its nature making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house but in his Devotions wherein he spent many a night at St. Maries Church warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints under Tertullians Roof of Angels having no other Helicon than the Iordan of his eyes nor Parnassus than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts that made the Muses Graces and taught Poems to do what they did of old propagate Religion and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French Italian were as familiar to him as English Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday that ravished more like Poems than both the Poet and Saint two of the most sacred names in heaven and earth scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies his soul breahing in each word was the soul of the Assembly as its original is of the World Poetry Musick Drawing Limning Graving exercises of his curious Invention and sudden Fancy were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours not the grand business of his soul his diet was temperate to a Lesson exactness whence his memory was so clear that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets those Gibeonites to draw water to the Tabernacle The Divine Poet that had set a Language made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason for the Angels as the Schoolmen state their way of discourse to converse in seeing Atheism prevailing in England embraced Popery in Italy chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church in the practise of fundamental truths confessed to be then mixed with some errors than to stay here where was hardly the face of any Church after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors being resolved to any Religion than that which taught a holy Rebellion and Perjury a pious Sacriledge a godly Parracide and made the very horrors of nature the glory of Christianity And died of a Feaver the holy order of his soul over-heating his body Canon of Loretto whence he was carried to heaven as that Church was brought thither by Angels singing Dr. Iohn Sherman Scholar at Charter-house London and Fellow of Trinity-colledge Cambridge whom to use his own words Reading makes a full Scholar as appeared by his discourse called The Greek brought into the Temple Conference a ready Scholar evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Sectaries and meditation a deep Scholar as is legible in his excellent discourse so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce of Inâ—allibility so conscientious a man that because he had a small estate of his own derived to him by providence he would not return to his old Preferment his Fellow-ship and so modest that he looked not after any new being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration than others have been in their thoughts since that made it their business to enjoy them Dr. Abraham Cowley bred at Westminster under the Reverend Dr. Busby whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education and their Loyalty to his choice Principles preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge and when ejected admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy and Charter-house and the first failing and the second not falling rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties I think at Chersey in Surrey A Poet as all are born not made a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen and at sixteen excellently in the University for the entertainment of a Prince aiming according to his Motto Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo victorque virum voliture per ora at nothing ordinary he performed upon all occasions extraordinary arriving at the greatest heighth of English and Latine Poetry that is a happy fertility of Invention a great Wisdom of Disposition a curious Judgement in observance of Decencies and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution a becoming Modesty Variety and Majesty of Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bold and unusual figures all every where like a Mans Soul Grave Calm Sober and Chaste as his Life not gay all over but skilled when to be witty and when to be wise in a word his Poems the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious the one opening what the other coucheth Sublimated not Translated by him richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts than in their own a stupendious skill in most Languages and Sciences particularly in the two great Mistrisses professions Divinity and Physick and their brave attendants Philosophy Mathematicks and History besides Musick Limning c. his recreations and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge not on the Banks of Cham amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men where his thoughts run as clear and undisturbed as the stream and peaceable as the times but among cares and fears melancholy and grief sufferings and removes times fit to write of and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars reaching as far as the first Battel of Newbury are lost and that he laid down his Pen when his friends did their Armes that he marched out of the Cause as they did out of their Garrisons dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason in his power to keep when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs but not in In te inluens they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to himself Brute Doleo cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae Since Poesie as he observeth there that is to communicate pleasure unto others must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas sad times and a sad spirit being as unsuitable to a good fancy as to use his comparison for I make him all along who best could express himself the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial nothing but Love the Poets necessary affection
Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
his House Goods Library Estate and Livings seized on to the great scandal of all the Reformed Divines among whom he was deservedly famous and died confessing his Faith and asserting the Doctrine Discipline and Worship of our Church to Dr. Leo Chaplain to the Dutch Ambassador 29. Col. Edwall Chisenhall a Lancashire Gentleman who as I am informed at Latham-house when the Enemy bragged of their provision sallied out and stole their Dinner and decoying them upon pretence that the house was open killed 500 of them upon the place for which he paid 800 l. 30. Col. Iordan Bovile that often deceived the Enemy as the Gibeonites did the Israelites with passes of false-dated Antiquity who could have thought that Clouted shooes could have covered so much subâ—ilty who often in his own single person took Lievery and Seisin of a breach which his followers were to possesse as frugal as noble as thrift is the fewel of magnificence Sir Giles and Sir Iames Strangways Dorsetshire Gentlemen of an ancient Family great Estates and a good Repute deserving very much of their Country in the Parliaments at Westminster and Oxford of their King in the Field and of the publick good to which their frequent motions in the House and quick actions in the Field always tended in both furnished with that Oratory that used to settle Kingdoms who made speaking an Art which was a talk built in their youth men for which a School-masters name was a name of great Veneration in that Family Father its self being but second to it For Deeds of age are in their Causes then And we are taught but Boys we are so made men Gentlemen of a general Learning but particularly seen in the Affairs of their own Country for which they deserved honors but despised them stout men that flattered none but boast themselves more true just and faithful than any thing but their own memories Memories that forgot nothing but their Injuries which they were so forward to cancel in an act of Oblivion though they were generally excepted out of their Enemies The eldest of the two one of the Feoffees in trust appointed by Mr. Nich. Wadham 1612. who as Absalom being childless erected that uniform and regular Colledge in Oxford called by his name to perpetuate his memory to oversee the finishing of his noble Foundation which he did faithfully being himself a good benefactor to it as he was to all ingenious designs and persons especially in these late times wherein he was as liberal as the Arts he was master of died 54 years after full of years and honour about Christmass 1666. their Loyalty having cost that Family at least 35000 l. To whom I may add Sir Will. Walcot taken with him at Sherburn Castle Aug. 15. 1645. when the Earl of Bristols brother in Law Sir Lewis Dives a Gentleman so famous for his services in Bedfordshire and the Associated Counties in the English War and after a cleanly escape through an House of Office at Whiteball in the Irish and for his great sufferings all along with his Majesty beyond Sea to the loss of 164000 l. after a brave resistance delivered it up to the Enemy not before his Majesty had delivered up almost the whole Kingdom 2 Sir Iohn and Sir Thomas Hele Gentlemen of great Estates and Repute whose withdrawing from the Parliament with Walter Hele of Whimston Devon brought his Majesties Cause great credit for the justness of it rich contributions for the supply of it and abundance of men who trusted much to the prudence and conduct of the foresaid Gentlemen to maintain it 3. Sir Io. Harper of Swakeston Com. Derb. who besides 110 l. setled from him paid 4000 l. composition for being one of the first that resisted the Rebellion in those parts and one of the last that stood out against it for which they would have buried his Grave as the Israelites did Moses as well as himself the people were so fond of him 4. Anthony Hungerford of Black Barton Oxon. Esq and Col. Io. Hungerford who paid for their Loyalty 3989l 5. Sir Willoughby Hickman of Gainsborough and Sir Charles Hussey of Holten-Holy Linc. who paid 2474l between them 6. Henry Hudson of London Esq 3700l Sir Edward and Sir Iohn Hales contributing freely to the first War and hazzarding far in the second bringing the whole Country of Kent to declare as one man for his Majesty 1648. and maintaining them at their own charge in the fields for some days while they did declare so The Authors of the two famous petitions of Kent 1642. 1647 8. Sir Edward while continuing in Parliament going a middle way between the extreams of Popery and Libertinism severe both against the Catholick and the Scots All which services cost them 64000 l. 2. Sir George Bunkley of whom before famous for his relief of Basing 3. Sir Henry Carew another hopeful son of the Earl of Monmouth who had the Command of Kingsworth and which was more of himself being an excellent Scholar and a sober man not to be expressed but in his own Poetry and his own picturing 4. Sir Thomas Tilsley a Brigadeer Governour I think of Lichfield under King Charles I. 1645. and Major General of the English under King Charles II. 1651. by whom appointed to assist the Earl of Derby in raising the Lancashire and Cheshire Forces he approved himself a faithful and an able man till he was slain at Wigan Aug. 25. 1651. with Sir F. Gamul many years his fellow Souldier and now his fellow Sufferer men of good hands and hearts of exact lives as well as great parts each way proportionable in nothing redundant or defective abhorring as they called them ill-favoured and unclean sins The Grave hath every where a good stomach but where these were buried a Boulimia or greedy worm devouring their Honourable bodies as Aceldama did tread Corpses in 48 hours their bodies being taken away as greedily as the Treasure in Iosephus was out of Davids Grave though by the way it was strange there should be treasure in Davids Tomb who said Ps. 49. 17. Man shall carry nothing away with him Col. Thomas and Col. H. Warren the most valiant men that lived because the most prepared to die Twins of Valour and Piety loving in their lives and in their deaths not divided The Sun warms not near himself but at distance where he meets opposition the warm spirits of these Gentlemen discovered not it self in the peace they had at home but in the dangers they met abroad The praying Souldiers that wrestled with God before they strive with the Enemy and besieged Heaven to take it by violence before they assaulted a Town Members of the thundering Legion Men in whom afflictions looked lovely they enjoying themselves in the great difficulties they struggled with as the Bird flutters about its Cage a while and finding no passage out sits and sings Sir John Wake 180 l. Sir Hugh Windkelford Somers 692 l. Ed. Windham
the ruin both of Horse and Foot as be did take Marleburgh b Especially about the Câ—â—euant wherewith they were three or four times entangled a Note that one of his Sons is a sober meek godly and exemplary minister of the Churâ—h of England whiâ—h puts me in minde of Esquire Buchenhall who used to say what shâ—ll I say to Marâ—in Luther havâ—ng eleven Sons if I make not one of them a Mâ—â—ister a Silver at Combmartin and Tin â—or the meeting of which with Sea-Cralâ—o save Wood and kâ—ep the Teiâ— from westing in the blest Sir Bevile made several experiments By Mr. Will. caâ—twrâ—ght a Sir Richard Greenvile who went with 600 l. he had of the Parliament toward a design to Oxford Sir George Chudleigh and his Deelaration and why be deserted the Parliament with young Mr. Chudleigh whose return broke the Earl of Strafford a Wose Loyalty cost him at Goldsmiths-Hall 3634 l. as Sir Rob. Lucas of Lexton Essex did 0637. Tim. Lucas of â—enthon in Lincoln Esq 0750 I. Sir Charles Lucas 0508 I. Joâ— Lucas of Devon 0325 I. b 〈…〉 apâ—ean in the Hâ—ad of the Army c Where he was taken Prisoner a Sir Chaâ—les givâ—ng out of his tâ—nderness to his Country special order to drive nones Cattel but known enemies a Toward whom as his Town -toâ—n people Sir Charlesâ—as â—as very tender and mercyful b That brought the sad news c That he might not go out of the world with all his sins about him a Esteemed the best in Europe b Whereupon thâ—y reported in London that they saw a white Witch run up and down in his Majesties Army c What a Christian note did be leave in Mr. Dolmans house near Nâ—nâ—ery that the pâ—â—r 〈◊〉 helpâ—ess men should be cared fâ—r a In the exposition whereof said be Divines otheâ—wise disâ—greâ—ing among themselves â—greâ— as to our obedience to the Supream Magistraâ—e in obedience to whom I did what against the Law of England and the world I a man an Englisheman a Peer of the Realm must â—ye foâ— b Which puts me in minde of one Master Whaley of Northampton a great zâ—â—lot in the Cause who when some in Essex his Army began to â—â—agger would needs send them to Mr. Dod just as he was a dying to be resolved who telling them that he was not able to speak to them and bid them look to what he had written upon the Fifth Commandement where he had made it clear fâ—om the Word of God that it was damnable to raise Arne upâ—n any prewhatsoever against a Prince in which opinion he said he would dye c In answer to his Prayer of Faith in his Letter to his wife the day he died God be unto thee better than an Husband and to my Children better than a Father I am sure â—e is able to be so I am confident he is graciously pleased to be so a Hâ— used to sâ—y iâ— he had been asked how many days in 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c He would haâ—e 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 ioyned and cannot see one another e And by prevâ—â—ting inconvenienâ—â—s with often thinking of the persons way and actions we love f One of his sayings is that a gentle acceptance of coâ—râ—esies is as material to maintain friendly Neighborhood as bountiful presentâ— a Such as all the â—amâ—ly were observed to be Siâ— Arthuâ— Capel 〈◊〉 so plain â— man that a Lâ—dsman coâ—ing to his 〈…〉 been to hâ—ld hâ—â— hâ—â—se untill he had waâ—â—ed upon Sir Arthur Capelâ— as he dâ—d till the Servants came out and discovered to him his error a At Torington where he saved the lâ—ves of above a 〈◊〉 men by a gallant retâ—eat which â—st â—im sâ—â—câ—ainounâ—s a And his giving the King warning to look to the Magazines of each County he finding not 〈◊〉 barrels of Powder in his own so dangerously complying sâ—me were with that enemy at the Scots Invastâ— on a As he did at Roundway down b There is this rolâ— of this noble Name in Goldsmiths-hall 1. RichBiron Eqs Sâ—â—elli Nâ—rini Esq 128l Gilbere Biron Newsted Nâ—t Esq 186l Edward Biron Esq 1 164 l. besides that all these noble Brother Estate were wholly siquestred Tract 25. in Sl. Matth. a 1662. a Witnessh Moral Phâ—â—â— phy Lecturâ—â—â— his Oratioa upon Prince Henry's Funeral made in Magdalene-Colledge a 〈…〉 of St. Dantians in the West a Drawing an exact Chronology filled with most of the ancient and modern histories of the world with his own hand exactly as he did his Sermons most of which were written twice over b Magniâ—â—minis ombra a great Title to a little pâ—â—fit c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a As aboue Conscience Fasting Truth Peace c. See Dr. H. King now the excellent Bishop of Chichesters incomparable Sermon at St. Pauls Nov. 25. 1621. a Preferred thitherly Dr. Arlmer Arch deacon of London to whom he was nearly allied a When the people were never so impatient one Sermon of his would 〈◊〉 them b His Son-in-law was Tutor to my Lord. Mr Uâ—al of whom before had his Church the most thronged of any men in London Preaching thrice a week besidâ—s a Monthly Preparation Sermon visiting his people from house to house being assable and peaâ—eable until he published The Coal from the Altar against Sacriledge and communion comeliness for â—ailing the communion Table when he was spent with Labours was sint for to be imprisoned and his beel-rid Wise laid in the â—pâ—n sheets that had not been out of her â—â—din 4 years before a An Abstract whereof is Printed by Mr. Garthwait and the Manuscript is in Mr. Spence of Sion Colledge his keeping a Getting Subscriptions under Noble Persons hands for copies to be delivered and making Sir William Humble Treasurer b Towards the upper end of the Quire in the South Isle a Tho foun◠〈…〉 with a 〈◊〉 of 40 l. per annum b Preface to the Poly glotte Bible c Preface in S. Bib. Quad. Reg. Edit d Vid. Domint Edward Castle Oâ—ationem Inanguralem Edit 1667 ded Alderman Adams e 1644. Sir H. Spelman seâ—led upon him 32. l. per annum to explain the Saxon toâ—gue publick in the University f Adding the Life of the Author and Preface of his own a Growing popular and looked upon on the common counsel of the nation upon his pleading with Mr. Noy for a Habeas Corpus of such Gentlemen â—were imprisoned for the refusal of the Loan a Where 〈…〉 Jure Di viâ—o the of Prâ—â—â—by â—y with 14. qutâ—its 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 of That Assembl See the Charge given him by Grot. Anny V. T. and de jure belli pacis Pier-vitâ— Gâ—ssend Dielker Disp. Acad. Tom To p. 248. Dr. Duck de usu Authoritate Iur. Civil Rom. l. 2. c. 8. Capel Dial. de nom Jeh salm le usur alib Bocharâ— Geog. Sacr. a 〈…〉 credited by their their Bâ—ad Tule and Habit and skilled in nothing but Hreviaics Postils and the Polyanthen a He being made
that as soon as he heard any subject he was able to speak to it taking not above two hours time to recollect himself for his Sermons He was very communicative of what he knew himself and very dextrous in drawing out what others knew patient of much impertinent beating the Bush to catch the Hare at last He was a serious Christian though a witty man Lamprey is delicious meat if you take the string out of the back of it and Fansie a pleasant thing if we correct it be not prophane against God inhumane against the dead making Mummie of dead mens flesh unmerciful against mens natural defect uncivil against a mans own reputation or unseasonable to a mans condition So intent upon the publick good that he minded neither his own Estate Habit or Carriage regarding so little the World that I wonder he being outed from the Savoy and his Prebend of Salisbury for a Book he writ against which Mr. Saltmarsh engaged and not regarded when waiting on my Lord Berkly to his Majesty upon his Restauration at the Hague and preaching before his Majesty at Whitchall he should die with grief in May the year of our Lord 1661. and of his age 53. having been Minister of Broad-windsor in Dorsetshire at Waltham in Essex at â—ranâ—ord in Middlesex Lecturer at Savoy St. Brides St. Andrews Holborn and St. Clements Eastcheap Chaplain to the Lord Hopton and to both their Majesties Charles the I. and II. He preserved the memory of many a worthy person it is pity that we should not preserve his who would say that the Art of Memory going farther than Common-places spoiled the nature of it and that every man may be excellent if he see betimes what he is sit for as he did who began with small Histories and finding his Genius much inclined that way resolved upon greater promising his Ecclesiastical History 14 years before it came out the Errours whereof Dr. Heylin corrected smartly and he either confessed or excused ingeniously pleasing his Reader with those faults he so wittily Apologizeth for And because Dr. Heylin and he agreed so lovingly in their mutual charity one towards another at last after they had differed in Opinion at first Let Dr. Heylin dwell by him a Gentleman born in Oxfordshire or Berk-shire happy in his good Education under Mr. Hughs School master of Burford to whom he dedicated a Book in gratitude 1656. and under Mr. Frewen in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Demy and Fellow being delighted from his Childhood in History he studied Historically taking in all sorts of Learning in the way of History and Chronology the first specimen was his Geography in 40. Printed 1621. Dedicated to Prince Charles and improved upon a Fellows shouldering him as he went along King street in the beginning of the Troubles and saying Geography is better than Divinity i. e as he understood he had better success in writing Geography than Divinity to a large and exact Folio the best now extant Having made his way to the Court and travelled into Franceâ— of which Travels he hath given us an account in his Survey of 〈…〉 he was admitted to the Earl of Denbigh's attendance when he was sent by his Majesty into Guernsey and Iersâ—y 1628. where he made such observations to present Bishop Laud to whom he then 〈◊〉 himself as might let him see he was not altogether uncapable of managing such publick business as he might afterwards think fit to entrust him withal which succeeded so well that in a short time after the Bishop recommended him to his Majesty for Chaplain in Ordinary and by degrees imployed him in such affairs of moment and weight as rendred his service not unuseful to the Church or State his Lordship aiming at primitive Purity enjoyning him to draw up the History of the Controversie then in beingâ— as having vindicated the History of St. George the Patron of the Royal Order of the Garter 1630. and thereby obliged most of the Nobility of that Time he did in his History of the Sabbath of Episcopacy of Altars of Lyturgies of the Quinquarticular Controversie the Reformation Tithes Calvinisin and its inconsistency with Monarchy and his Historical Exposition upon the Creed clearing up the truth by the Histories Laws Counsels Fathers and other Writers of the Church and discovering the Occasion Original and Progress of every Errour An Imployment that raised him many Adversaries as 1. Dr. Prideaux who when Mr. Heylin stated these two Questions in the Schools 1627. An Ecclesia unquam suerit Invisibilis An Ecclesia possit errare In the Negative and made good the first not by the visibility of the Church as Dr. Prideaux in his Lectures had done in the Berengarians Waldenses Wiclivists Hussites among whom the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy failed but in Asia Aethiopia Greece Italy yea Rome it self where Bellarmine himself mantained many Fundamental Points very well against Ancient and Modern Hereticks concluding thus utinam quod ipse de Calvino ste semper errasset nobilissimus Cardinalis cryed him down for Papicola Bellarminianus Pontificius and when 1633. he stated these Questions An Ecclesia habeat Authoritatem 1. In determinandis side Controversis 2. Interpretandi Scripturas 3. Discernâ—â—â—â— Kitus Caeremonias in the Affirmative according to the â—oth Article of the Church of England in the truest Edition of them which Mr. Heylin when the false one published in the Harmony of Concessions at Geneva 1612. was urged sent for into the Schools the like expressions for which Dr. Prideaux had three checks from the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Heylin clearing himself so well in the point of popery by his Sermon on Iohn 4. Our Fathers worshipped on this Mountain and by his Sermon on the Parable of Tares that some of the Court who before had been otherwise perswaded of him Did not stick to say that he had done more towards the subversion of Popery in those Sermons than Dr. P. had done in all the Sermons he had preached in his life 2. Dr. Hackewell in several bitter passages against his book of St. George and his Antidotum Lincolniense published in the beginning of the Long Parliament not only to confute but destroy him 3. Dr. Benard upon some expressions that sell from him about the Article of the Church of Ireland and Bishop Vshers advice about the Earl of Stafford 4. Bishop Williams against whom he writ his Autidotum Lincolniâ—â—se who when he was Preaching strook the Pulpit at Westminster with his staff and called to him to proceed to another point And 5. the Parliament to whom he gave very great satisfaction in all those points objected against him untill the Tumults growing high he was forced to fly to Oxford where his Majesty commanded his constant attendance when his course was over for a service of very great Importance whence going to Winchester Windsor and at last setling at Lacies Court near Abingdon and Oxford he continued
maintaining his Masters Cause and Truth by Argument when it was lost by Arms never dismantling the strong hold of his Principles nor yielding up his reason to those men to whom his Person was subject as well as his Estate for which he paid Composition 374 l. Vindicating the Church Correcting the Errors of every History that came out writing several exact Histories of his own with no other assistance than a poor Aâ—â—anuensis as he writ to Bishop Skinner that understood no Greek and but very little Latine A bold and an undaunted man both among his friends and his foes but one in whom my Lord of Canterbury Laud put so much Confidence that he sent for him one day and weeping told him of the increase of Popery and an honorable Person lately perverted by them in Wales intreating him who was then young when he should be called into their places that were now old to have a strict eye upon that party giving him rules to that purpose In fine Dr. Heylin died with the choicest Collection of of ancient and modern History of any man in his time and with the greatest zeal to serve the King and Church with that Collection and buryed in the North Isle of Westminster-Abby with this Monument over him Hic Jacet Prope depositum Petri Heylin S.T.D. Hujus Ecclesiae Praebendarii Subdecani viri plane memorabilis Egregiis Dotibus Instructissimi Iugenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad Prodigium tenaci cui adjunxerat Incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantibus oculis non cessabant scripsit varia plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Argumentis non vulgaribus stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Majestatis Regiae assertor nec florentis magis utriusque quam affiictae Ideoque Perduellium Schismaticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus contemptor Invidiae Et Animo Infracto plura ejusmodi meditanti mors Indixit silentium ut sileatur efficere non potest Obiit Anno Aetatis 63. Domini 1662. Posuit hoc illi Maestissima Conjux Dr. Daniel Featly Minister both of Lambeth and Acton the one in Middlesex and the other in Surrey bred Fellow of Corpus Christi in Oxford whereof his Father was a Servant who the third New-years-day in his life Presented him a Pye to the Reverend Doctor that was his God-father and he dedicated him to the Church taking care for his Education in that University in or near which he had his Nativity where his judgment grew so accute and his fancy so florid that for his Elegant and rational performances in the Schools Bishop Morton then accidentally at Oxford admitted him to his intimate friendship The Colledge put him upon the Admirable Panegyrick of the Founder Dr. Reynolds chose him for one of the witnesses of his death the House injoyned him being then Dean of Arts the making of his Funeral Oration as afterward he did himself the writing of his Life The Church then in a Convocation pitched upon him being then twenty four years old to write that Life of Bishop Iewell that is set with Bishop Overalls Preface before his Works as they were then Presented before King Iames the University made him Rehearser 1610. Doctor afterwards Bishop Io. King Mr. Bates of Trinity Mr. Dunster of St. Mary Magdalen and Mr. Ozbaston of Christ-Church being the Preachers as the Bishop of London did 1618. at St. Pauls Cross Dr. Warberton Dean of Wells Doctor since Bishop Hall Dr. Hacket Bishop White being the Preachers an employment he the easier performed the great Task he urged to impose upon himself being the Rehearsing emphatically of the choicest Pieces for Oratory and Poetry he could meet with every morning next his heart taking some smart Periods till his Authors were turned to his constitution these his happy Exercises with his ready and exact skill in all Arts and Sciences which he had in numerato for any present occasion being a perfect Master of his Learning either of accute Disputing or Elegant Preaching or convincing Conference recommended him to the retinue of Sir Tomas Edmunds when he went Leiger Ambassador into France where at Fauxburgh St. Germans 1610. 1611 1612. his Sermons about Apostacy and halting Confirmed thirty two persons of good worth in the Protestant Religion his Discourses of the benefit of Afflictions comforted eight persons under sufferings for that Religion and his Sermons of Idolatry and Corruptions converted eighteen to it besides that his three Disputations there upon some grounds and Collections he had made out of the Papists own writings he having by the advantage of his Memory and Logick an admirable faculty of overthrowing an Adversary by his own Concessions or Principles are confessed by Holden to have done more harm to the Popish Cause than thirty three he had read of before Indeed he had three things that would make a stupendious Disputant 1. A calm temper injoying his Adversaries frets and taking advantage of his disorders 2. A voluble tongue used to discourse in the Club that always attended Dr. Featley 3. His rubbing over every year his Memory with Definitions Divisions and Maxims both in Philosophy and Divinity In so much that he was upon his return taken in to be Chaplain to Arch-bishop Abbot by whom he was instructed with the Licensing of Books the examining of Clerks and the drawing up of his Brother Bishop R. Abbots Life his Consecration Sermons and other occasional Exercises while he was in this capacity are extant and his respectful and quick dispatch of every man with satisfaction taking care that none should go away sad from his Lord fresh in many mens Memory as are applauded Clerums and his admirable Exercises for his degree all instances of what an holy Wit and sanctified Learning could perform by the Arch-bishop he was preferâ—ed to Lambeth where and throughout Southwark London and Westminster he was as appears by his many occasional Ser'mons much respected 1. For his Disputations with and Writings against Popery especially when Bishop White had wisely cast the Net to take Fisher Dr. Featley helped to draw it out 2. For his constant Preaching having not missed the morning Sermon as then observed for five years together so even and constant grows the excellent man 3. The savouriness of his Sermons not altogether Wit for that had been to feed his Hearers with Sawce instead of Meat nor altogether with Disputation for that were to feed them with Stones instead of Bread but setting before them wholesome Doctrines in an exact method and an acute expression 4. His Faithful adherence to his Flock during two great Sicknesses in one of which he Composed that excellent Piece so often Printed called The Handmaid to Devotion 5. His value of good men particularly Mr. Tho. Gataker whom he carried always in his Bosom as he did him an overseer of his life Son of Tho. Gataker Minister of St. Edmund Lumbard-street Scholar of St. Iohns one of the