as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
in at his throat with a Musket-bullet and out at his back whereof indeed he fell but would not die until the Enemy over-powering his men each of whom inspired by his example now as by his command before was a Berkley the Sun setting each little star appears and had like him the art of incountring but not of escaping took the Ship not till two hours after his fall when his brave Soul scorning to be a prisoner to the Dutch and to his own body too left him just as the Enemies came and took him He never spoke after this unhappy shot but his look did which from his eye dispersed as much valour as he did before with his hand fresh Orders issuing still from his aspect which a man looked on and vowed either a brave revenge or as brave a death either what the dying Captain aimed at Victory or what he enjoyed Honour The Ship the Swiftsure with so many men and Guns and so good a sailer as she was of the second Rate was a great prize to the Hollanders but this person a greater though dead the Honourable Carcase being of so great a value and if the Cabinet was so rich what was the Jewel that the States paid for it the old value of a Province and thought to demand for it the liberty of a whole Fleet of prisoners Great was the respect they gave him in their care to embalm and lay him in State in the great Church at the Hague proud it seems of their enemy where as many came to see him now dead as feared him before the throng now standing before his corps but tremblingly as before they did before his person Greater was the Honour of their Reasons for that respect viz. to use their own words For the Dignity of his Person the Greatness of his Command and the Renown of his Valour and Conduct Greatest of all was the esteem they seemed to have of him when they thought him a present fit to oblige His Majesty of Great Brittain at that time when they were most to seek for some effectual way of addressing themselves to him in order to an accommodation as they sent him Aug. 23. 1666. with Honour enough certainly since Sir Berkley's Body was the greatest Present the High and Mighty States could send and the onely kindness the most Puissant and Sacred Majesty of the King of Great Brittain would at that time accept at their hands TO enbalm him then were vain when spreading Fame Supplies the want of Spices where the name Its self preserving may for Ointment pass And he still seen lye coffin'd as in glass While thus his Bud's full Flower and his sole Beginning doth reproach anothers whole Coming so perfect up that there must needs Have been found out new Titles for new Deeds Though Youth and Laws forbid which will not let Statues be raised or he stand Brazen yet Our minds retain this Royalty of Kings Not to be bound to time but Judge of things And worship as they merit there we do Place him at height and he stands Golden too Sir HENRY BERKLEY THis Gentleman was well known for his Ancient and Honourable Family his good Education his great Observations and Experience his famous Hospitality his rich and happy Tenants and Dependants whereof he carried 500 to the Kings side the orderly Government of his Family where as it is said of Theodosius his Court-Votaries themselves might learn Discipline the exemplariness of his Devotion honouring God as sincerely as God had graciously honoured him the plainness of his temper his word being parchment and his very yea an obligation the humility of spirit which made him like a fixed Star the higher he was the less he seemed his Zeal for the Church both as Patriot Patron and Parishioner his word was All the service I can do I will do for Gods Church for all the comfort I look for I hope for in Gods Church his serviceableness in the Countrey in all publick Capacity that found him out deciding an hundred controversies at a cheaper rate in his Hall than one is ended at Westminster keep up he did indeed the Authority of the Law Order and good Government but cavils and brawls he discountenanced that reputation that was the result of all these Vertues enabled him to do so much towards the assistance of his Dread Soveraign now cheated of all the Supports and Ornaments of Government but those Subjects hearts who when the King had yeelded all that in reason could be expected from him ventured Lives and Fortunes rather than he should do as Hampden said when he was asked what they would have the King do more answered Throw himself and all his concernments upon our good affections In good time Kings are intrusted by the great Governour of the World in a way of deputation and by the Inhabitants of the World in a way of consent with the Lives Liberties and Estates of all their Subjects and those Kings shall intrust themselves and all their charge back again with the worst of those Subjects as with Sir Iohn Stowel Sir Ralph Hopton and the Lord Pawlet to help the Marquess of Hertford to the first Army that was able to face potent and successful Rebellion and clear Somerset-shire and Dorset-shire of it until the Loyal Party was besieged in Sherburne many weeks in which time to borrow the words of their own Historian May Many Sallies were made out of that Garrison and sharp Encounters performed with great courage the Parliament side so he calleth the Faction being in firm hope to have taken them at last which was conceived a thing of great moment and advantage to their affairs if they could have possessed the persons of so many men considerable both in their Persons and Valour and who mark it proved afterwards very strong and cruel Enemies yet saith he that hope was frustrate for about the beginning of October they all escaped out of Sherburne The Earl nevertheless pursued after them and in the chase took Mr. Pallart Sir Henry Sir Iohn and Sir Charles Berkley Prisoners and in them as they imagined the strength of the Kings Cause in those parts The good old Gentleman Sir Henry being neither consined in his affections nor yet disabled in his Estate attendeth that Cause with considerable supplies that he could not wait on in person 1. With that zeal Amilcar made his son Hannibal swear at thirteen to be an irreconcileable enemy of Rome engaging all his sons to a constant service against the Conspiracy upon the blessing of a father obliging them to serve the Father of their Countrey usually saying That in vain did they look for an Estate from him unless they could be protected in that Estate by the King and the Laws There was nothing more usual since the faction raised tumults and reduced and listed those tumults into Armies to force the King to that which they despaired with reason to convince him of but they endeavoured to cant most of his
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.
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
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
Ceremonies were the known Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse than lousie for they are Sibbe to the Sarke of Hercules that made him tear his own bowels asunder Doctor Samson Dean of Christ-Church being propter Puritanismum Exauctoratus Whittingam and Goodman backing their Schism with Treason in a Book they writ in defence of Wyat nay some of them growing so bold as being convented before Doctor Grindall then Bishop of London to answer this Question of his Have not we a godly Prince speak is she evil Thus White What a Question is that the fruit doth shew Thomas Rowlands No but the Servants of God are persecuted under her R. Hawkins Why the Psalmist answereth this Question How can they have understanding that work wickedness spoiling my people and that extol vanity Nay from single Affronts to Government they proceed to Conventicles in Fields Woods and Friends Houses and not onely so but Thomas Cartwright the Bell-weather of Non-Conformity presents the Parliament 1572. with a Book called Admonition a Title not well resented in Parliament since Admonition is but the lowest degree of Ecclesiastical Censure and a Preparative if neglected to Suspension and Excommunication wherein were several Grievances represented with this onely Redress prescribed viz. The admission of that Platform which the Presbyterians there exhibited And since one modest Admonition would not do another more severe followeth and a Reply to Doctor Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition with a world of Libels and Pamphlets which they called The new way to work following that Reply they judging it a good way to turn serious Books into Satyrical Pamphlets Finde they did so many Friends and Patrons within the Parliament and without that they erected a Presbytery in Wandsworth sleighted such sober men even of their own Scruples as Master Fox and Doctor Humphred set up Exercises called Prophesyings irregularly and dangerously carrying on Meetings of ill consequence at Cock field in Sufâ—olk at Cambridge and London draw up a Platform of Discipline at London petition the Privy-Council and engage several of them in the Quarrel particularly Leicester Burleigh Traverse his Patron and Walsingham as appears by their Letters to Archbishop Whitgift procure a Conference at Lambeth with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York before the Lords of the Council set up an Assembly of Ministers to sit Jigg by Joul with the Convocation in London engaged so many Lords and Commons under the pretence of the Liberty of the Subject the Grievances of Pluralities and Non-residences Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions to shake the Established Government as forced Archbishop Whitgift to repair with an humble Petition to the Queen to stand by her own Authority as Supream in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these her Majesties Realms and Dominions The Lord Burleigh himself was so importuned by them against our Liturgie that he desired them to draw up a better as they had done but that they could not agree Nay some persons private Interests making use of and closing with these Publick Disturbances the Commons come up with a sixteen-fold Petition against the Church to the Lords and many of the Lords were so high that nothing would satisfie my Lord Grey less than the turning out of all the Bishops by Premunire then as they had been in King Henry the Eighth's time and that the Queen should not confer with the Bishops but in the presence of the Temporal Lords A bold Proposal as an honourable Lord then observed that the Lords should appoint her Majesty whom she should confer withal And no wonder now that such Pamphlets as The Epitome The Demonstration of Discipline The Supplication Diotrephes The Minerals Have you any work for the Cooper Martin Marprelate Senior and Iunior Have you any more work for Coopers flew abroad so much that the Synod at Coventry acted so boldly as they did in their Thirteen Canons as a man may call them And that they began to write to one another in this Style We look for Bickering ere long and then a Battel which cannot long endure A boldness excusable when both the Kings of Scots and Denmark interposed in their behalf yea and some of them as Hacket and Arthington set up Designes to murder the Queen and the Privy-Council Traverse himself though otherwise reserved and wary breaking out in his Temple-Lectures to open opposition against Mr. Hooker the Master of it and the great Champion of the Church of England And because they began to be ashamed to make such a stir about Rites Ceremonies c. they added some Sabbatarian Speculations and bold Controversies of Gods Decrees to put weight into the Quarrel and brave that the World might take them not for light Scruplers about indifferent things but the strong Astertors of the Power of Godliness viz. in the keeping of the Sabbath c. the design of Dr. Bounds Book of the Sabbath To this heighth the Impugners of Government and Discipline arrived at in Queen Elizabeth's time in whose Reign these Champions withstood them viz. 1. The Queen true to her Motto Semper eadem would not either by their Greatness Number or Importunity that maintained the Faction be moved to the least diminution of her Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical yea and in her latter days when she observed how the Church and State was overborn by them she grew very severe towards them as Vdal Penry and Cartwright felt they at the Assizes and this in the Star-Chamber till he saved himself by an humble submission 2. The Privy-Council always in Church-Affairs however some Members of it had a kindness for the Faction went along with the Arch-bishop 3. The Arch-bishops Parker and Whitgift notwithstanding the many and great Difficulties they met with kept up the Authority of the Canons and required subscription 4. Fulke Hooker and Rogers kept up the Authority of the Church in Writing Although the Queen was often by them in danger of her life the Arch-bishops made weary of their Lives and Government Mr. Hooker was heart-broken with Calumnies and Oppositions all the Bishops and Ministers of the Church rendred as odious and ridiculous as the Wit and Malice of men could make them The stout Bishop of Exeter went with honourable Scars from the Factions malicious Tongues and Pens to his Grave Arch-bishop Whitgift not onely felt the Fury of this Sect when Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge at what time Carwright was also a Member of that House kept a Fast there in his absence and perswaded all the Scholars but two or three to throw off their Surplices as they did till the good Master returned home Nor did he onely complain of the continual opposition that he met with when Regius Professor from Mr. Cartwright at the same time Margaret Professor in the same University nor of the Indefatigable pains he took to answer Cartwrights Admonitions to the Parliament and to
years before he was imployed thither That as he hath been just and faithful to his Master the King by increasing his Revenue so hath he also much bettered the Trade and Shipping of that Kingdome 11. That he prohibited the exportation of some Native Commodities as Pipe-staves c. and then required great summes of money for license to export them to the Inhansing of the prices of those Commodities half in half The Earles Reply That Pipe-staves were prohibited in King James his time and not exported but by License paying six shillings eight pence a thousand and that he had not raised so much thereby to himself as his Predecessors had done for such Licenses 12. That the said Earl to regulate the Trade of Tobacco prohibited the Importing of it without License In the mean time taking up and buying it at his own rate to his own use and forbidding others to sell any Tobacco by whole-sale but what was made up in Rolls and sealed at both ends by himself Besides other Monopolies of Starch Iron Pots which they said brought the Earl in 100000l sterl besides that though he inhanced the Customes in general yet he drew down the Imposts on Tobacco from 6d to 3d. in the pound The Earles Reply That before his time the King had but ten or twenty pounds per annum for that Custome which now yeilded twenty thousand pounds For the Proclamation it was not set out by his meanes principally or for his private benefit but by consent of the whole Council The prices of Tobacco not exceeding two shillings in the pound And this he conceives cannot be made Treason were all the Articles granted but onely a Monopoly for which he was to be Fined 13. That Flax being the Native Commodity of Ireland and he having much of it growing on his own ground or at his command ordered by Proclamation that none should be vented upon pain of forfeiting it but what was wrought into Yarn and Thread a way not used in Ireland whereby he had the sole sale of that Commodity The Earles Reply That he did endeavour to advance the Manufacture of Linnen rather then of Woollen because the last would be the greater detriment to England That the Primate of Ireland the Arch-Bishop of Dublin Chancellour Loftus and the Lord Mount-Norris all of the Council and Subscribers of the Proclamation were as liable to the Charge as himself That the reducing of that Nation by Orders of the Council-Board to the English Customes from their more savage usages as drawing Horses by their Tails c. had been of former practise That the Project was of so ill avail to him as he was the worse for the Manufacture thirty thousand pounds at least by the Loom he had set up at his own Charge 12. That the said Earl did in a War-like manner by Soldiers execute his severest Orders and Warrants in Ireland dispossessing se veral persons by force of Arms in a time of peace of their houses and estates raising taxes and quartering Souldiers upon those that disobeyed his Orders so leavying War against his Majesties Liege people in that Realm Testified Serjeant Savil. The Earles Reply That nothing hath been more ordinary in Ireland than for the Governours to put all manner of Sentences in execution by the help of Soldiers that Grandison Faulkland Chichester and other Deputies frequently did it Sir Arthur Teningham to this point deposed that in Faulklands time he knew twenty Souldiers assessed upon one man for reâ—using to pay sixteen shillings That his instruction for executing his Commission was the same with those formerly given to the Lord Faulkland and that in both there is express warrant for it That no Testimony produced against him doth evidently prove he gave any Warrant to that effâ—ct and that Serjeant Savil shewed only a Copy of a Warrant not the Original it self which he conceived could not make Faith in Case of life and death in that High Court especially it being not averred upon Oath to agree with the Original which should be upon Record That he conceived he was for an Irish Custom to be Tryed by the Peers of that Kingdome 13. That he obtained an Order of his Majesty That none should complain of any Oppression or Injustice in Ireland before the King or Council in England unless first the party made his address to him using to all his Actions his Majesties Authority and Name yet to prevent any from coming over to Appeal to his Majesty or to complain he by Proclamation bearing date Septemb. 17. 1636. Commanded all Nobility Undertakers and others that held Offices in the said Kingdom of Ireland to make their residence there not departing thence without License seconding that Proclamation with Fines Imprisonments c. upon such as disobeyed it as on one Parry c. Testified by the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roch Marcattee and Parry The Earles Reply That the Deputy Faulkland had set out the same Proclamation That the same Restraint was contained in the Statute of 25. Henry 6. upon which the Proclamation was founded That he had the Kings express Warrant for the Proclamation That he had also power to do it by the Commission granted him and that the Lords of the Councel and their Iustices not only yielded but pressed him unto it That it was done upon just cause for had the Ports been open divers would have taken liberty to go to Spain Doway Rheimes or St. Omers which might have proved of mischievous Consequence to the State That the Earl of Desmond stood at the time of his restraint Charged with Treason before the Councel of Ireland for practising against the Life of one Valentine Coke That the Lord Roch was then a Prisoner for Debt in the Castle of Dublin and therefore incapable of License That Parry was not fined for not coming without License but for several contempts against the Council-Board in Ireland and that in his Sentence he had but only a casting Voice as the Lord Keeper in the Star-Chamber 14. That having done such things as aforesaid in his Majesties Name he framed by his own Authority an unusual Oath whereby among other things people were to Swear That they would not protest against any of his Majesties Royal Commands but submit themselves in all Obedience thereunto An Oath which he Imposed on several Scots in Ireland designing it indeed against the Scottish Covenant on pain of great Fines as H. Steward 5000 l. c. Exile and Imprisonment c. The Earles Reply That the Oath was not violently enjoyned by him upon the Irish Scots but framed in Compliance with their own express Petition which Petition is owned in the Proclamation as the main Impulsive to it That the same Oath not long after was prescribed by the Councel of England That he had a Letter under his Majesties own hand ordering it to be prescribed as a Touch-Stone of their Fidelity As to the greatness of the Fine imposed upon Steward and others he
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
him a blow with his Launce saying That he had hired him to Fight against Alexander and not to Rail Only he would innocently say sometimes that he would make bold to deal with the wild and skittish multitude that would not indure their Riders but rushed like the horse to the battel as Alexander did with his Bucâ—phalus take them a little by the Bridle and turn them to the Sun and light Two things rendred his enemies willing if it had been possible to oblige him Cum talis sit utinam noster esset and when that would not be resolved to ruin him For it was a Maxime then a godly and good Malignant was the most dangerous Malignant I remember the Waldenses are set for the greatest enemies to Rome upon three accounts 1. Because they were ancient 2. Because they were Scripture-skilled 3. Because they were very godly 1. His Religion practised to as great a height by him as it was pretended by them 2. His Charity his Hands being every day his Executors and his Eyes his Overseers that relieved poor people as fast as the Conspiracy made them so his goodness finding as many ways to exercise his charity as the men who destroyed Hospitals and made men poor had to make objects of it they not undoing men as fast as he succoured them especially with his counsel to poor Loyalty which carried Fee enough in its very looks to him who thought it honour enough to be Advocate to the King of Heaven as he had been to his dread Soveraign and so bound ex officio to be of Counsel Whence besides the common blessing of good Lawyers That they seldome dye without an Heir or making a Will there accrewed I cannot tell whether more comfort to himself more honour to his afflicted cause or more shame to his malicious adversaries who to use Nazianzen's words when they persecuted him persecuted virtue it self which with his unconfined Soul making the man he might be Imprisoned but not Restrained or if Restrained Cloistered rather than Imprisoned as an holy Anchorite rather than an Offendor retiring from a sad world and not forced from it where when alone never less alone not the suffering but the cause making the punishment as well as the Martyr he thought his body always a streighter prison to his soul than any prison could be to his body In fine he commended his prison for the same reason that Sir Iohn Fortescue commended the Inns of Court Quod confluentium turba studentis meditantis quietem perturbare non possit But I will cloath his free thoughts in the closest restraint with the generous Expressions of a worthy Personage that suffered deeply in those times and injoys only the conscience of having so suffered in these BEat on proud Billows Boreas blow Swell curled Waves high as Iove's roof Your incivility doth show That Innocence is tempest proof Though surly Nereus frown my Thoughts are calm Then strike Affliction for thy wounds are balm That which the World miscalls a Goal A Private Closet is to me Whilst a good Conscience is my Bail And Innocence my Liberty Locks Bars and Solitudes together met Make me no Prisoner but an Anchorit I whilst I wisht to be retir'd Into this Private Room was turn'd As if their Wisdoms had Conspir'd The Salamander should be Burn'd The Cynick hugs his Poverty The Pelican her Wilderness And 't is the Indian's Pride to be Naked on Frozen Cancasus Contentment cannot smart Stoicks we see Make Torments easie to their Apathy These Menacles upon my Arm I as my Mistris's favours wear And for to keep my Ankles warm I have some Iron Shackles there These Walls are but my Garrison this Cell Which men call Goal doth prove my Cittadel So he that strook at Iason's Life Thinking he had his purpose sure By a malicious friendly Knife Did only wound him to a Cure Malice I see wants wit for what is meant Mischief oft times proves favour by th' event I 'm in this Cabinet lock't up Like some High Prized Margaret Or like some great Mogul Or Pope Am Cloystered up from publick sight Retirement is a piece of Majesty And thus proud Sultan I 'm as great as thee Here Sin for want of Food must starve Where tempting Objects are not seen And these Strong Walls do only serve To keep Vice out and keep Me in Malice of late's grown Charitable sure I 'm not Committed but I 'm kept Secure When once my Prince Affliction hath Prosperity doth Treason seem And to make smooth so tough a Path I can learn Patience from him Now not to suffer shews no Loyal Heart When Kings want Ease Subjects must bear a Part. Have you not seen the Nightingale A Pilgrim koopt into a Cage How doth she Chant her wonted Tale In that her Narrow Hermitage Even then her Charming Melody doth prove That all her Boughs are Trees her Cage a Grove My Soul is free as the Ambient Air Although my Baser Part 's Immur'd Whilest Loyal Thoughts do still repair T' Accompany my Solitude And though Immur'd yet I can Chirp and Sing Disgrace to Rebels Glory to my King What though I cannot see my King Neither in his Person or his Coin Yet contemplation is a Thing That renders what I have not Mine My King from me what Adamant can part Whom I do wear Engraven on my Heart I am that Bird whom they Combine Thus to deprive of Liberty But though they do my Corps confine Yet maugre Hate my Soul is Free Although Rebellion do my Body Binde My King can only Captivate my Minde OF THE LOYAL FAMILY OF THE BERKLEYS JOHN Lord BERKLEY IT is reported of the Roman Fabii no less numerous than valiant three hundred and sixty Patricians flourishing of them at once that they were all engaged in one Battel one onely excepted who being under age to bear arms was absent It is recorded of the Family of the Hayes in Scotland in Edward the First 's time that they were all in the Battel at Duplin-Castle except a Child then in his Mothers womb Let it pass to Posterity that the whole Family of the Berkleys were sooner or later involved with his Sacred Majesty in the miseries of the late times and therefore with reason do many of them partake in the happiness of these For besides the foresaid Judge there were several other Honourable Persons of this Name who descended from Kings for their first Ancestor was Son to Harding King of Denmark whence Fitz-Harding the ancient Sir-name of all the Family formerly and the Title of Honour to a Noble Branch of it now and therefore were resolved to hazard all in the Cause of the best King In the List of whose faithful followers as few of more ancient Nobility Robert Harding their Ancestor being made Baron Berkley by King Henry the Second so few of more untainted Loyalty As 1. Sir Iohn Berkley since Lord Berkley much he did by his Interest in Somerset-shire and Devon-shire more in
Person most by his Care and Discipline two things he had a special care of Pay and Law his word was Pay them well and hang them well All he had himself was bestowed on the quarrel he judging it madness to keep an Estate with the hazard of that Cause which if miscarrying all miscarried with it if succeeding all was wrapped up in it In all meetings about the King's Affairs where he met with scruples he pressed the doing and not the disputing of the King's Commands because otherwise Kings before they leavie an Army of Souldiers they must leavie an Army of Casuists and Confessors to satisfie each scrupulous Souldier in the perplexed and complicated grounds of War and that to little purpose too the men of scruples being generally the most cowardly withal This Gentleman having an excellent rule viz. That the Commands of Majesty if not immediately without any tedious inferences contrary to the Law of God and Nature were not to be disputed A Rule that quickly satisfied all honest men and as quickly silenced those that were otherwise inclined He behaved himself in the West 1. Keeping the Countrey from Free-quarter 2. Stopping the Inroads of the Parliaments Forces thither 3. Keeping open their Trade 4. Keeping a good correspondence among their Gentry that Septemb. 4. 1643. when Exeter was delivered up to Prince Maurice he was made Governour of it keeping it and the Countrey round about it in a very remarkable degree of quietness and subjection and easily advancing for three years 50000 l. a year for the King's Service until it pleased God in wrath to the King's enemies to ruine the King's Cause and leave them who had been happy if reduced to a subjection under him to be undone among themselves and Fairfax having defeated almost all the King's Army in the field Ian. 25. 1645. made his way as far as Porthrane a Fort within three miles of Exeter whence Iun. 17. he summoneth Sir Iohn Berkley with Conditions to himself his Officers Citizens and Souldiers who having maintained the Garrison so long and so well that it was looked on as the safest place for the Queen to lye in with the most Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria now Dutchess of Orleans as the Honourablest place for that Princess to continue in during the War as she did with the Honourable the Lady Dalkeith And as the greatest refuge for distressed Cavaliers in England returns this generous Answer viz. That his Trust was delivered to him from His Majesty which he would discharge to his power That they have no reason to distrust a blessing from God in delivering that Garison who is able to deliver them and may be so pleased without a miracle the Prince having so considerable a Force at so near a distance to them That if all actions of their lives were as innocent as their hands of the blood that hath or shall be spilt in defence of their Righteous Cause they shall in all events rest in perfect peace of mind and will not despair At which brave Reply the General being rather pleased than provoked makes not an angry but a civil and ingenious though ineffectual Retortion and having raised two Bridges over the River Ex blocked up the City on all sides and drawn up within Musket-shot of it leaves the Siege to Sir Hardress Waller going in person against the Prince to the West till the third of April when being distressed beyond all relief they agreed that Commissioners should treat as they did ten days a long time to the impatient Souldiers who complained that they had to do with long-tongued Lawyers concluding upon the most honourable Tearms Fairfax and Cromwel upon some particular policy of their own never offered any other That the Princess Henrietta should depart any whither in England or Wales until His Majesty should give order for her disposal 2. Neither the Cathedral nor Churches to be defaced 3. That the Garison should march out according to the most honourable custome of War and to have free-quarter all the way and not be compelled to march above ten miles a day and with their Arms to the places agreed on The composition of persons of quality should not exceed two years purchase That all persons comprised within these Articles should quietly and peacerbly enjoy all their Goods debts and moveables during the space of four moneths next ensuing and be free from all covenants oaths and protestations and have liberty within the said four moneths in case they shall not make their compositions with the Parliament and shall be resolved to go beyond Sea for which they shall have passes to dispose their said Goods debts and moveables allowed by these Articles c. Articles and a Surrendry so honourable that they were the Rule and Copie of all the following good Articles which the Army made but their masters kept not perhaps their design in granting so good Conditions in all places surrendred to them was to raise themselves a reputation able to give Law to the Parliament that should lose its self in breaking of them I must not forget three things remarkable concerning this Siege 1. A strange providence of God For when this place was so closely besieged that onely the South-side thereof towards the Sea was open unto it incredible number of Laches were found in that open quarter for multitude saith an eye and a mouth-witness like the Quails in the Wilderness though blessed be God unlike them both in cause and effect as not desired with man's destruction nor sent with God's anger as appeared by their safe digestion into wholsome nourishment they were as fat as plentiful so that being sold for two-pence a dozen and under the poor who could have no cheaper as the rich no better meat used to make pottage of them boyling them down therein Several Natural causes were assigned hereof 1. That these Fowl frighted with much shooting on the Land retreated to the Sea-side for their refuge 2. That it is familiar with them in cold Winters such as that was to shelter themselves in the most Southern coasts 3. That some sort of seed was lately sown in those parts which invited them thither for their own repasts however saith our Author the cause of causes was Divine providence thereby providing a feast for many poor people who otherwise had been pinched for provision 2. The faithfulness of the place eminent now for a pair-Royal of extraordinary services to the Crown When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Hen. 7. time The Western Rebels under Edw. 6. Parliament Forces in King Charles the First 's Reign Their Spirit and Conduct being admirable in the two first and their Allegiance unstained in the last 3. The peculiar Gift of the Governour 1. In Watchfulness both in looking to his own charge and in taking advantages of his enemies 2. In an obliging address going as far sometimes with fair language and good words as others did with money 3. In encouraging the Souldiers labours with his own
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
corner but as solemnly as ever they took their Solemn League and Covenant against it Spots not of Christianity only but of Nature Born to obey the Soveraign they judged erecting a Court of Justice against that Sacred Head whence flowed all the Jurisdiction in the Land These people that were fitter to keep Shops in Westminster-hall than sit in the Courts there Many of whom that now hoped for the Kings Land must otherwise have been contented with the Kings High-way the true scum of England the basest and then the highest part of it Trades-men still making a trade of war and bloud base people therefore the more cruel The most Savage Beasts are those that come out of Dens The good Kings calamity being enhansed by the vileness of the instruments The steam of a Dung-hill clouding the Sun and vermin the expression is proper to beggars tearing the Lion as Rats formerly ate the Thracians These resolved rather to take away the Kings life than beg their own for life is one of those benefits we have to receive and men are usually ashamed to confess they deserved death And when their own Judges had declared against them and the Peers abhorred them to help a wretched cause and keep up the spirits and concurrence of their party they salve those two affronts with two wretched artifices 1. They bring from Hertford-shire a Woman some say a Witch who said That God by a Revelation to her did approve of the Armies proceedings which message from heaven was well accepted of with thanks As being very seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit 2. A model of Democratical Principles discountenanced by Faction it self as soon as it had served their turn and against all the publick abhorrencies and detestations by all persons of honor and conscience proceeded first to blacken the King as one of them said they must and then to judge him contrary to those numerous and fearful obligations of their many Oaths to the publick and private Faith which was expressed in their Protestations and many Declarations to the Laws the commands of Scripture to the dishonor of Religion and the endangering of the publick good of the kingdom For levying that war against the disobedient to which they had necessitated him for appearing in arms in divers places proclaiming the war and executing it by killing divers of the good people Impeaching him for a Tyrant a Traytor a Murderer and an implacable Common Enemy Whom they fought for to bring home to his Throne they lead when they have him to a Tribunal where they had nothing against him but what generous Conquerors never reproached the conquered for deeming it its own punishment the unhappy issues of a war which leaves the conquered the only criminal while the names of justice and goodness are the spoils of the Conqueror and a pretence of Tyranny in that government whose only defect if it had any was Lenity and Mercy towards those whose lives Justice would not formerly have pardoned and they despaired lest mercy should not now These Conspirators forming themselves into the Pagantry of a Court with a President of an equal infamy with his new employment A Monster of Impudence and a most fierce prosecutor of evil purposes one of little knowledge in the Law but of so virulent a Tongue that he knew no measure of modesty in speaking and was therefore more often Bribed to be silent than Feed to maintain a Clients Cause His vices had made him penurious and those with his penury had seasoned him for any execrable undertaking And a Solicitor that having in vain by various arts and crimes sought for a subsistence durst not shew himself for fear of a Prison till vexed with a tedious poverty he entertained the horrid overtures of this vile ministry which at the first mention he did profess to abhorr As also an Advocate that being a German Bandito by the mercy and favour of the King escaped here a severer in charge in his own Country than he could invent against his Majesty With an impudent and mimical Buffoon Minister ignominious from his youth for then suffering the contumely of discipline being publickly whipped at Cambridge he was ever after an enemy to Government preaching the villany from Psal. 149. 8. and calling them Saint Judges with a profession that upon a strict scrutiny there were in the Army five thousand Saints no less holy than those that now are in Heaven conversing with God And begging in the name of the People of England as the Conspirators talked too when as the Lady Fairfax said like a Branch of the House of the Veres declared in Court a loud it was a Lye not the tenth part of the people were guilty of such a crime that they would not let Benhadad go They with such Officers as had not a name before they were of this black list invite all people to testifie against the King their calumnies and having with much ado published their Sitting they appear with all the shapes of vile terror and the Kings Majesty with a generous mind scorning the Pageant tribunal and pittying the people now sad with expectations of their own fates when Majesty was no security appeared demanding the Authority and Law they brought him there by contrary to the Publick Faith and they answering The Parliaments discovered the notoriousness of that assertion as false and the vanity of it if true Four days together keeping up his courage and speech from doing any thing unworthy of himself notwithstanding the reiterated reproach of several appearances before the most infamous among men And the hired indignities of the basest of the people saying no more when some Souldiers were forced by Axtel to cry Iustice Iustice Execution Execution than Poor souls for a piece of money they would do as much to their own Commanders And others hired to Spit and what was more odious to blow Tobacco in his Face than wiping it off with My Saviour suffered far more for my sake All the people with the hazard of their lives doing their reverence to him with God save the King God he merciful unto him Only he left this Speech upon Record against the infamous Usurpation containing the substance of the discourse that passed between him and his Traytors His Majesties Reasons against the pretended Iurisdiction of the High Court of Iustice which he intended to have delivered in writing on Munday Ian. 22. 1648 but was not permitted HAving already made my Protestations not only against the illegality of this pretended Court but also that no earthly Power can justly call me who am your King in question as a delinquent I would not any more open my mouth upon this occasion more than to referr my self to what I have spoken were I alone in this case concerned But the duty I owe to God in the preservation of the true Liberty of my People will not suffer me at this time to be silent For how can any free-born
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
But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander that he was the greater Robber himself but a petty one And so Sir I think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir to put you in one way believe it you will never do right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the People their due I am as much for them as any of you you must give God his due by rightly regulating his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order To set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Axe said Hurt not the Axe that may hurt me For the King the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whatsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean contrary things and therefore until they do that I mean that you do put the People in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sir it was for this that I am now come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People Introth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will only say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you may take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own salvations Dr. Iuxon Will your Majesty though it may be very well known your Majesties affections to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say somewhat for the worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the word and I declare before you all that I dye a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs Excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care they do not put me to pain and Sir this if it please you Then a Gentleman coming near the Axe The King said Take heed of the Axe pray take heed of the Axe Then speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr. Juxon for his Night-cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Do's my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then the King turning to Dr. Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr. Juxon There is but one Stage more this Stage is troublesome and turbulent it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven And there you shall find a great deal of cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world Dr. Iuxon You are Exchanged from a Temporal to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange The King then said to the Executioner Is my Hair well Then the King took off his Cloak and George and giving his George to Dr. Juxon said Remember Then the King put off his Doublet and being in his Wastcoat put his Cloak on again and looking on the Block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put my hands out this way stretching them out then ... After that having said two or three words as he stood to himself with Hands and Eyes lifted up immediately stooping down laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said thinking he had been going to strike Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and please your Majesty Then the King making some pious and private Ejaculations before the Block as before a Desk of Prayer he submitted without that violence they intended for him if he refused his Sacred Head to one stroke of an Executioner that was disguised then as the Actors were all along which Severed it from his Body In the consequence of which stroke great villanies as well as great absurdities have long sequels the Government of the world the Laws and Liberties of three Kingdoms and the Being of the Church was nearly concerned So fell Charles the First and so expired with him the Liberty and Glory of three Nations being made in that very place an instance of Humane Frailty where he used to shew the Greatness and Glory of Majesty All the Nation was composed to mourning and horror no King ever leaving the world with greater sorrows women miscarrying at the very intimation of his death as if The Glory was departed Men and women falling into Convulsions Swounds and Melancholy that followed them to their graves Some unwilling to live to see the issues of his death fell down dead suddenly after him Others glad of the least Drop of Bloud or Lock of Hair that the covetousness of the Faction as barbarous as their Treason made sale of kept them as Relicks finding the same virtue in them as with Gods blessing they found formerly in his person All Pulpits rung Lamentations and the great variety of opinions in other matters were reconciled in this That it was as horrid a fact as ever the Sun saw since it withdrew at the sufferings of our Saviour and the King as compleat a man as mortality refined by industry was capable to be Children amazed and wept refusing comfort at this even some of his Judges could not
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
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
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
sententiarum frustra gemmas habent To Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Demosthenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Seneca Plus aliquid semper dicit quam dicit To Ignatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So called for his Piety To Athanasius who for his Strenuousnesse in Disputation was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Chrysostome who was said to be Theatrum quoddam Divinae eloquentiae in quo Deus abunde videri voluit quid posset vitae sanctitas cumvi dicendi conjuncta To Clemens Alex. Inter eloquentes summe doctos inter doctus summe eloquens To Saint Basil the Great upon whom Nazianzen bestowed this Epitaph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermo tuus tonitru vitaque fulgar erat To Saint Ierom. Blandum facundiae nomen summus in omnibus artifex To Hilary Lucifer Ecclesiarum pretiosus lapis pulchro sermone universa loquitur si semina aliqua secus viam cecidisse potuissent tamen abeo messis exorta est magna To St. Cyprian who had the name of Cicero Christianus Discernere nequeas utrumne gratior in eloquendo an facilior in explicando an potentior in persuadendo fuerit To Saint Bernard Cujus ego meditationes vinum Paradisi ambrosiam animarum pabulum Angelicum medullam pietatis vocare soleo He was one that taught this Church the Art of Divine Meditation one that always made it his businesse to see and search into the things of God with a zealous diligence rather than a bold curiosity Antiqua probitate simplicitate virum eruditis pietate piis eruditionis laude Antecellentem ita secundas doctrinae ferentem ut pietatis primas obtineret Those that were most eminent for learning he excelled in piety and those that were most famous for piety he excelled in learning this High-priests Breast was so richly adorned with the glorious Vrim and with the more precious Jewel of the Thummim The Church fared the better for his wrestling Prayers and the State for his Holy Vows One he was of a serene mild and calm aspect as smooth as his wit and tongue though living long but once a Child in understanding though always so in humility and innocence whereby he suppled those adversaries into a moderation that could not be perswaded to a conversion they observing his industry neither ceasing nor abating with his preferments valuing his time as much and giving account of it as well as any man not to his dying day waving any pains agreeable to his Calling till forbidden by men or disenabled by God when it was observed that he was as diligent a Hearer as he had been a Preacher He would not be Buried in the Church but he Lives in it by his great Charity allowing a weekly Contribution to the poor among whom he lived out of his little remainder which he observed like the Widows Barrel of Meal and Cruse of Oyl to increase by being dispersed leaving 30 l. a peice to the Widows of the Town where he was born and the City where he died 2. His Moderation which is known unto all men 3. His Children of whom I may say as St. Ambrose doth of Theodosius Non totus recessit reliquit nobis Liberos in quibus cum debemus agnoscere et in quibus cum cernimus et tenemus 4. His Works which praise him as much as all men praise them and to which we may affix Nazianzens Character of Basils Works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Obiit Sept. 8. 1656. Sepultus 29. Tunc Ecclesiae militantis Angelus adjunxit latus triumphantis chorâ— caelestem adauxit constellationem gloriae Album pro Episcopali pulla Induens victricem palmam Pro extorto pastorali pedo Istam Coronam sideream pro tenui decussa Cydari Coelo quod meditabatur Deo fruens qui omnia quibus degebat loca piis cogitatibus coelum fecit Cujus scripti quae venusta Lumina qualesque nervi Cujusque vitae quam concinna pietas THE Life and Death OF Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT NOT only all the Wisdom but all the Wit of the Age wherein both Wit and Wisdom were at a fatal height attended that Cause that commanded not only the Arms of the most Valiant but the Parts of the most Learned these deserving the Bayes for the vast reason they urged in his Majesties behalf as the other the Laurel for the great things they under-went for his Majesties person among whom Mr. William Cartwright Son of Tho. Cartwright of Burford in the County of Oxford born Aug. 16. 1615. bred at the Kings School in Westminster under Dr. Osbaston and in Christ-Church in Oxford under Mr. Terrent deserves to be as well known to Posterity as he was admired in his own time whose very Recreations hath above fifty of the choicest Pens to applaud them his high abilities were accompanyed with so much candor and sweetness that they made him equally loved and admired his vertuous modesty attaining the greatest honor by avoiding all His soul naturally great and capable had he said three advantages to fill it great spirited Tutors choice Books and select Company it was his usual saying That it was his happiness that he neither heard nor read any thing vulgar weak or raw till his minde was fixed to notions exact as reason and as high as fancy It s a great care due to our first years That generous thoughts be instilled into us imitation and observation raised his parts and an humor of expressing every excellent Piece he saw and indeed each brave notion he met with and he was an exact Collector whereby he translated not only brave mens thoughts to his own words but their very Heart and Genius to his own constitution made up of strong Sence compact Learning clean sharp full and sure Wit brave passions even and high Language in â—ine a great fansie with as great judgment that could do and be what it would no man can tell as Aristotle said of AEschron the Poet what this prodigious man could not do None humored things and persons out of his own observation more properly So much valued at Court for his Poetry that the King and Queen enquired very anxiously of his health in his last sickness admirable his performances wherein as my Lord of Monmouth Charactereth them was wit for youth and wisdom for the wise So admired in Christ-Church for his easie natural proper and clear Oratory especially his Lectures on the Passions which in his Descriptions seem but varieated reason those wild beasts being tuned and composed to tameness and order by his sweet and harmonious language that Dr. Fell said Cartwright was the utmost mâ—n could come to So thronged in the Metaphysick School where no performance ever like his and his learned Predecessor Mr. Tho. Barlow of Queens when Aristotle ran as smooth as Virgil and his Philosophy melting as his Plays and his Lectures on that obscure Book which Aristotle made not to be understood as clear as his Poems
Margaret Professor but the bare Title without the Profits and Emoluments of the Place to which the unanimous consent of the University Voted him in the face of his enemies in his absence and in his affliction Neither lasted these Injoyments long for not being able to forbear the Men so sacred to him was his Majesties Cause and Person when they had the Impudence to Vote no more Addresses to the King for a smart Sermon against them he is put as well as his Master into safe Custody by the Juncto who Declared That either he must be forbid the Pulpit or they must forbear their Seats he being able they said to overthrow in an hour what they had been carrying on several years But he continued performing Divine Service and Preaching as long as he had liberty thought-full of mens souls and his charge of them regardless of his own person and the calamities of that He was more afraid of St. Pauls Wo is me if I Preach not the Gospel than of St. Pauls Chain or of St. Peters Bonds The Life he lost he found and the more he despised Liberty the more he injoyed it Abroad he comes the King writes for him and his other Chaplains to come to him to Holdenby and is refused but at Hampton-Court the reasonable request was granted there he that would not accept of the Bishoprick of Bristol because he might with the more advantage being no Bishop desend Episcopacy accepted of the Deanery of Worcester a bare Title without profit to shew he waved not that Bishoprick for its little Revenue saying as some said of him that he would not take a Bristol-stone when he took a dignity with none At Hampton-Court he made bold to ask his Majesty Whether he thought himself safe with those men meaning Cromwell c. and was answered by his Majesty Yeas if they have any souls The Monsters of Men having with Hands on their Breasts and Eyes lift up to Heaven pawned their Souls and their Posterity upon his Restauration As he had attended his Majesty at Hampton-Court to comfort him so with several other Divines he waited on him at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight to assist and serve him in offering expedients for moderation till all moderate men were hurried to Prisons and the most innocent Majesty to the Block whose Murther affected him so much that he was never well after either in body or mind O what Fasts what Watchings what Tears that unheard of Villany cost the good man till a Black Jaundice prevailed over his whole body and thence an humor that could neither be dispelled nor mitigated settled into a Swelling about his Throat which with a slow Ague arising from the Inflammation of the foresaid Tumor let out his sick soul that could say The hand of God was light upon him and that he had never tasted a sweeter Cup. Ianuary 1648 9. He saw his Royal Master dying a Martyr and August 1649. saw him dying a Confessor weeping for Charles the First and expecting Charles the Second lamenting the present and hoping for the ancient state of things in Church and State Insomuch that when some comforted him That he should be taken away from the evil to come No no answered he somewhat more vehemently than ordinary I fore-see I fore-see from the good things to come He departed praying for those things we now injoy wishing well to all men and desired of most Being a man of a neat personage convenient stature a comely aspect grave manners a fluent wit a short anger an even and constant zeal an unblameable life a noble and a charitable heart exact performances that trembled at the Supra-lapsarians Opinions defined Presbytery a vast Schism in the Church bequeathed his Estate to pious uses and his Books to the Colledge by the hands of his three honorable Executors Sir Rober Abdy Sir Thomas Rich and Bishop Brownrig who ordered his Funeral with great solemnity Dr. Iefferies of Pembroke Preaching at it on Psal. 102. 11. and erected him this Monument with great respect P. M. S. Richardus Holdsworth S. Th. Doctor verbi divini praeco omnium attestatione eximius S. Scripturae in Collegio Greshamensi Per multos annos Interpres celeberrimus Collegii Emanuelis in Academia Cantabrigiensi Praefectus Integerrimus Ejusdem Academiae per tres annos continuos Procancellarius exoptatissimus Ad Cathedram Theologicam Per D. N. Margaretam Richmondiae Comitissam institutam per mortem summi Theologi Doctoris Wardi Nuper destitutam unanimi Theologorum suffragio Evocatus Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis Ecclesiae Wigorniensis Decanus mentissimus Sanctae doctrinae in Ecclesia Anglicana stabilitae Cordatus assertor Divitiarum pius contemptor Eleemosynarum quotidianus Largitor Toto vilae institutâ— sanctus severus ex morbo tandem quem assiduis studendi concionandi Laboribus contraxit Aeger decubuit in hac Ecclesia Quam per 27 annos Religiosissime administravis Mortalitatis exuvâ—aâ— In spe beatae resurrectionis Pie deposuit Mâ—nsis sextilis die 22. Anno Domini M. DC XLIX Aetatis suae LVIII Mementote praepositorum vestrorum qui vobis locuti sunt verbum Dei quorum imitamini fidem contemplantes quis fuerit exitus ipsorum Heb. 13. 7. THE Life and Death OF Dr. EDWARD MARTIN Dean of Ely DOctor Edw. Martin who had six Ancestors in a direct line learned before him six Libraries bequeathed to him though inclined to any thing more than learning Yet as he would say was he Hatched a Scholar as Chickens are at Gran-Cairo by the very heat of the Family he was related to his parts as his nature inclining to Solidity rather than Politeness he was for the exact Sciences Logick and Mathematicks in his Study as he was for strict Rules in his Conversation His exact obedience to publick establishments in his own person raised him to a power and trust to see them obeyed by others being incomparably well skilled in the Canon Civil and Common Law especially as far as concerned the Church in general and in the Statutes of the University of Cambridge in particular to be bred under a good Governor is the best step to be one he was therefore first admitted 1627 8. Chaplain to Bishop Laud and thence preferred Master of Queens Colledge and Rector of Government is an Art above the attainment of every ordinary Genius and requires a wider a larger and a more comprehensive soul than God hath put into every body he would never endure men to mince and mangle that in their practice which they swallowed whole in their Subscriptions owning a well-regulated and resolved zeal in himself and incouraging it in others for to use an excellent Persons expression in a Sermon whereof our Doctor was a Copy not to support men in the ways of an active Conformity to the Churches rules he knew would crack the sinews of Government by weakning the hands and damping the spirits of the obedient And if only scorn and
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
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
first Fellows of Sidney Colledge who grew a good Divine by Family-exercises at Mr. Ailoffes house in Essex and an excellent Scholar by private Lectures begun his Ministry at a small Vicarage under an old man near Cambridge continued it in Sir Will. Cooks Family in London and at Lincolns-Inn for ten years and at Rotherith in Surrey whither he was recommended by Sir Henry Hobart and Sir R. Crew to prevent an Abby-lubber and where as in Lincolns-Inn he reformed Sabbath-Abuses and Preached freely a Catachetical Lecture every Friday throughout the body of Divinity for forty two years One whose memory was the best Library extant whose family was an Academy for Englishmen and Foreigners with whom he compared Studies every night to his and their great advantage correspondence with Salmasius and others universal as his study whose charity was secret meekness open self-denial in waving Prince Henries service and the Earl of Manchesters offer of the Mastership of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge signal having travelled to the Low-Countries 1620. having been four times Married Visitor of three publick Schools seen ten of his assistants eminent Ministers in the Church gone through the body of Divinity in his Family nine times having written twenty two Books in Latine and sixteen in English of his and revised above an hundred Books of others bewailing the Schism which in the Assembly he indeavoured to moderate He died Iuly 27. 1954. in the eightieth year of his age â— say Dr. Featleys value of good men was a fifth particular that endeared him to many good people Yet this good man after a Disputation in Southwark Octob. 17. 1642. wherein he overthrew the Anabaptists taking a good method Catechising them first to discover their ignorance in the Grounds of Religion before they disputed to shew their Opinions in the Controversies of it and adding to his arguments against them what was indeed the shrewdest argument an History of them and several Speeches in the Assembly in which he was though not of it against the Covenant and other extravagancies of those times was Sequestred Plundered and upon a Letter he sent to Bishop Vsher in Oxford Subscribed â— â— i. e. Fidelity as they interpreted giving an account of his shrewd argument against the Covenant imprisoned as a Spie and upon his declaring before the Committee that he could not be of another minde continued in Peter-house notwithstanding his great assistance to the Assembly in the Comment on St. Pauls Epistle undertaken by him in bonds where they were most written upon an humble Letter written to him from the whole Assembly till a little before he died he was removed to Chelsey-Colledge whereof he was the third and last Provost making no other reflection upon his sufferings than the answer he gave Mr. White the Chair-man when he told him he must suffer Nec mihi ignominiosum est puti quid passus est Christus Nec tibi gloriosum est facere quod fecit Judas Siste gradum viator Paucis te volo Hic situs est Daniel Featleus Impugnator Papismi Propugnator reformationis Instigator Assiduae pietatis Tam studio quam exâ—rcitio Theologus Insignis Disputator Strenuus Concionator Egregius Pusillus Atlas vegetior a certaminibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Facete candidus candide facetus D. D. Featleus qui Natus Charltoniae educatus Oxonii Aetatis suae 65. 17 Obiit Chelsei Sepultus fuit Lambethae Aprilis Anno salutis 21 1645. To make up this Catalogue compleat I will conclude with 1. Dr. Cattesford Rector of Hadley and Monks-Ely in Suffolk Sequestred for a strict observation of the Canons for intreating the people to repair to their Ministers for Ghostly Comfort and Advise for refusing to read the Parliaments Declarations or approve of their Proceedings 2. Dr. Roberts Fellow of Trinity Colledge and Rector of Hambledon in the County of Bucks a grave and modest man a general Scholar and an accurate Preacher Sequestred for declaring it unlawful upon any pretence to raise Armes against the King a Doctrine which he made good by the Testimonies of all the Fathers and Modern Divines and was told that if they were alive now they would be of another minde 3. Dr. N. Andrews Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godliman in Surrey Sequestred for saying that long Sermons went beyond St. Peters Sword cutting off both Ears and that the surfeit of the Word is most dangerous and that Prayer was as good as Preaching and for lifting up the Bread and Wine at the consecration of it with reverence together with his dislike of reprobation and refusing to publish their Orders about destroying the Ornaments of the Church 4. Dr. Io. Mountford Rector of Austie in the County of Hertford Sequestred for saying that God was present by the presence of his Grace in the places of his Worship and therefore he reverenced God when he came into such a place usually ordering that part of the 43. Psalm Then shall I to the Altar go of God c. to be sung as he went to second Service for tying Lecturers to Catechise within his Iurisdiction for religiously adorning his Church and Chancel 5. Dr. Iames Mountford Rector of Tewing in the County of Hertford Sequestred for bringing his people to order and discipline as Kneeling at Communions and for teaching That if the King were an Idolater we should not as the Apostles did not take Armes against him together with refusing to contribute to the Parliament Cause and discouraging them that did 6. Dr. Iefferies Fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge Chaplain to Archbishop Abbot Vicar of Feversham and Ticehurst in Kent a methodical Scholar and a melting Preacher Sequestred for Preaching that the Episcopal Government was Apostolical that Bishops Priests and Deacons under the Gospel answered to High-priests Priests and Levites under the Law as the Presbyterians did Corah Dathan and Abiram for not admitting the House of Commons Lecturer into his Church and not observing their Fasts a mirror of patience under tortures of the Gout racking his whole body He died at Mr. Challenor Chutes house who said he would plead for Bishops as long as he had a tongue 1658. 7. Dr. Io. Gorsuck of Walherne in Hertford-shire Sequestred for sending a good horse to serve his Majesty and a bad one to serve the Parliament 8. Mr. Ed. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex for pressing his Parishioners to receive the Communion orderly at the Rails 9. Dr. Edward Marten Minister of Houghton-Conquest in Bedford-shire and of Dunnington in Cambridge-shire Sequestred for blessing God for the examples of the Saints departed and Preaching much upon holy Reverence and Obedience as likewise for lending and giving his Majesty money besides those turned out in both Universities for refusing the Covenant and disowning the Parliaments Authority to Visit the Universities whereof his Majesty was by their Statutes Visitor as his Predecessors were Founders in Oxford Dr. Samuel Fell Student Prebendary and Dean of Christ-Church
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
there before they were aware of him and so couragiously that he came back disputing nine Passes and after twelve Skirmishes maâ—gre all the opposition made against him routing first and last in that famous Expedition 9000. men A little before Naseby fight my Lord declared for breaking into the Associated Counties and so through them to the North to chase away the Scots when that battel was resolved on where he said when he was desired to Lead the Left Wing of Horse in that sight that by reason of the Leicester Plunder the averseness of his men from fighting save in their own Country and the tired condition of the whole Army would ruin his Majesty as it did he being never able to make head for him but once afterwards 1648. when with Sir Phillip Musgrave having surprized Carlisle and Berwick he joyned 3000. brave English to Hamilton's Scots beating Lambert back to Appleby and taking several strong holds by the way as he had done the kingdom had his advise been hearkened to in marching directly to York and so to London whereas they wandered in Cumberland and Westmerland as Colonel Stuart when afterwards upon the Stool of Repentance for that Expedition being asked gravely by the Ministers whether by his Malignancy he went not out of the way answered that he went wrong to Westmerland when he should have gone to York that Scots Army being beaten as soon as seen there being no more effectual resistance made by the 16000. horse and foot under Hamilton of whom the King said when he heard that he was Commander in Chief that he expected no good from that Army than was made by Sir Marmaduke with the 2000. English that he had raised and commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken Prisoner and by caressing his Guards made an ingenious and bold escape to his Majesty beyond Sea where he carried that seriousness in his countenance he was a very lean and much mortified man the enemy here called him Ghost and deservedly they were so haunted by him that gravity in his converse that integrity and generosity in his dealing that strictness in his devotion that experience moderation and wariness in his Counsel that weight in his discourse as much endeared to strangers his Royal Masters Cause and his own person in all the Countries he travelled as he did many and all the Armies he engaged in as he did in most then afoot in Europe till he was restored with his Majesty 1660. when appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale of Holmes till his Majesty by the Act of Indemnity and disbanding the Army was fully setled he returned to his considerable Estate in York-shire satisfied for 160000. l. loss in his Majesties service with the conscience of having suffered it in a good cause and acquitted himself bravely and played the man if thou do ill the joy fades and not the pains if well the pain doth fade the joy remains His Discipline was strict and exact It was present death to wrong the meanest person in the least thing where he had any Command saying that he must make the people believe that his Army was raised to protect them and therefore it was not fit in an Army of his wherein every Souldier was a Gentleman He died 1661. Deterrimi saeculi optimi heroes G. Dux Somersetensis H. Comes Cumberlandiae Marmaduke Baro Langdale Pulverem Sparge Lector abi â—egi vult modesta virtus non legi cujus hoc dogma ama nesciri Sir Thomas Glemham having most of the noble blood of England in his Veins had most of the virtues that belonged to such blood in his Soul having had experience of the German Wars then the great Nursery of our English Gentlemen he was the fitter for service in our wars being an admirable Commander of Horse and a discreet and watchful Governor of a Garrison forcing York he was made Governor of it and Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces upon the borders whence he writ to Argyle as smart a discourse as was written during the wars about the Scots Invading England against their Allegiance the late Pacification and the many obligations of his Majesty upon them upon the invitations of a few inconsiderable men that carried on designs of Innovation contrary to the known Laws Government Liberties and Priviledges of the Kingdome disabusing those parts and people as to the â—alse rumors and aspersions spread by the Scots among them Against whom and all the Northern Forces whom he made to shrink like Northern Cloath He kept the City of York 18 weeks till after he had gallantly withstood 22 Storms Counter-mines 4 slain 4 or 5000 of the enemies he was forced after the fatal Battel all Marston-moor which he would not have had fought to surrender up the City upon very honorable conditions for themselves and good for the City and Country whose Trade Freedom Estates and Government were secured in the Articles as their Persons were at the surrender Iuly 16. 1644. As he did the Garrison of Carlisle after 9 moneths seige in which time he kept it to astonishment against Pestilence Famine and all the power of Scotland upon the same terms to the Scots and the head Garrisons of Oxford upon the Kings order the noblest terms that ever Garrison was delivered on to Sir Tho. F. his Army over which his Majesty placed him because of his moderation sobriety popularity good temper reputation and his skill in fortification many additions to the works of that Garrison being made by him whereof one was of most dangerous consequence to the enemy viz. the breaking of the ground before the Trenches into pits full of stakes that nei-Horse nor Foot could attempt the Works nor a close seige especially in the Winter-floods be laid to them After an Arrest in London contrary to the Oxford Articles and sometimes Imprisonment in the Fleet thereupon he passed to Holland and there falling sick Sir M.L. and he for some reasons little frequenting the Court died some twelve years agoe by the same token that a Horse-farrier that belonged to him formerly in the North being commended to him for a great Doctor in Holland the honest man when he saw him desired to be excused calling for a more expert Physitian and telling him privately entreating his privacy that the doses he used to administer to the Northern Horse did agree infinitely well with Dutch bodies His Brother the Reverend Dr. Glemham is now Dean of Bristol and Bishop Elect of St. Asaph Tho. Glemham Cuj castra Carleolente Eboracense Monumentum sunt Oxonium Epitaphium Sir Henry Slingsby the Head of an ancient and numerous family of which Sir Arthur Slingsby Col. Tho Slingsby Col. Slingsby in York-shire whre he was High-Sheriff 9 Iacobi and always a good Justicer a noble Landlord a serious man much conversant with Holy men and our best Divines a generous Master a Gentleman of a large Estate spent most of it in the Kings service and the rest
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
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
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
Elocution the seriousness and greatness of his Spirit admitted him with advantage upon an Act-Sunday to the Pulpit at St. Maries upon a solemn Festival to preach before his Majesty and upon a Fast before the Parliament being after his travels and relation to Sir Will. Russel to whose nearest Relations affecting his great accomplishments recommended him and after one Marriage that intervened providence made way for him and the Earl of Warwick he was setled first at Brightwell in Berk-shire 1641. secondly at Bocking in Essex 1644. thirdly at the Temple London 1659. and at the Bishoprick of Exetâ—r 1660. succeeding in both those places Bishop Brownrigge whose Life he writ and exemplified and at last Bishop of Worcester 1662. where he dyed 1663. having commanding qualities which carryed all the Country where he was to his Opinion about the Covenant 1644. and all the Kingdom to his sentiments about the King and Church the first of whom he vindicated in a pathetick Remonstrance delivered the General the second he asserted vigorously in its Doctrine and Discipline in his Hieraspistes 1653. pleaded for seriously in its Ministers in his Declaration to O. P. about the Edict Ian. 1. 1655. that turned out Orthodox Ministers out of all capacities of subsistence sollicited for effectually in its Tyths and other Priviledges 1649. 1650. c. in other Treatises mourned for pathetically in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Sighs and Groans of the Church 1659. Preached for boldly before the City Feb. 1659. in his Slight Healers in the Temple Dec. the same in Bishop Brownriggs Funeral Sermon before the Parliament April 30. in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cleared unanswerably in his satisfactions given Sir L. Bromfield and other scrupulous but moderate Persons and adorned exemplary by his excellent advices to and conversation among his Clergy his generous and obliging behaviour towards the Gentry and gallant and healing Discourses in Parliament many young Noble-men as Mr. Richard Heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick c. had their Education in his Family more Scholars and Clergy-men owe their parts to his direction several Citizens were inriched by his Correspondence who was as great a Merchant as a Scholar as great a Courtier and States-man as either and indeed the great Restauration was not a little furthered by his universal acquaintance and ubiquitary activity not be paralleled but by his Brother Mr. Gauden his Majesties Purveyor for the Navy an employment to be managed by no one man with such an universal satisfaction as it is now but by himself and 1668. they say Sheriff of London In fine he was born for great things having such a Copia verborum and those so full pregnant and significant joyned with such an active fancy as rarely accompanyeth so sound a Judgment and so deep an Understanding Such a publick Spirit and ready Parts that besides the many motions he made for the promoting of Commenius his way of advancing general Learning Duraeus his indeavour of procuring universal Peace the Royal Societies Noble attempts for compleating Philosophy Bishop Walsons and Dr. Castles Heroick Essayes for propagating the Eastern Learning every man that came to him went the better from him Such great prudence in the managery of Affairs like the providence that governs the world that he could quickly see into the depth and soon turn round all the sides of business so as to be full and clear in his Resolutions and Debates dexterous in his advice upon all straits his Learning being so concocted into an active wisdom that he was fit for any Imployment understanding things so well at first sight that he seldom had a second thought generally standing to the resolution and determination of his first Adde to this the integrity of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dipped into Justice the stateliness of his Speech the ingenuity aptness freedom and gravity of his fansie the luxuriancy of his ready invention tempered with such solid and serious mixtures such grave Retreats and Closes that it seemed no other than beauty well dressed or goodness appearing in a fair and chearfull Summers day becoming him as smiling doth a good Man and a good Conscience or flouring a laughter as we say doth a generous pleasant and spiritful liquor the apt facetiousness of his native and fluent Wit making way in converse for his more serious and weighty Conception as did his Catholick love tender of all even as appears by his discourse of the Oaths imposed upon them of the poor Quakers themselves but fond of worthy and good men that he picked up all over the Nation in his respect to whom you might 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Historiola haec monstrat quem fama monstrat magis sed ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis ille totam solus Implevit tubam tot ora solus Domuit famam quoque fecit modestam Ingens Academiarum certamen quot quin ipse Academiae In quo musae omnes gratiae nullibi magis sorores sub preside religione in tenacissimum sodalitium Coaluere Peralta rerum pondera cum vaga mens indomito Cucurrit animo et natur amexhausit totam mille faeta Artibus mille Scientiis se in eruditionem varians omnigenam et toti cognata encyclopaediae Coelo satur nativo in suam evolavit originem relicto sub tantillo marmore quanto hospite Eo nimirum majore Monumento quo minore tumulo morte pariter etvita modestus Dr. Henry Ferne Fellow and Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Lord Bishop of Chester well known in the late times by his clear resolutions of the Cases in difference between the King and Parliament between our Church and Rome on the one hand and Geneva on the other in all which there were such weight of Arguments such clearness of Expression and such piety and seriousness of Spirit that two Adversaries confessed that that Cause never looked so clearly and devoutly in any writings as in Dr. Ferns and as well known by his Sermons at Oxford then pressing Humiliations holy Vows and Resolutions and at Cambridge and London pressing the keeping of those Vows He dyed within few Moneths after he was made Bishop 1661. being buryed at Westminister without any other Monument than his Name of whom I may say Adeo se occuluit ut vitam ejus pulchram dixeris R. C. et Pudicam dissimulationem I mo vero et mortem Ecce enim in ipso funere dissimulari se passus est Dr. Iohn Earls on whom Merton Colledge where he was bred and buryed bestowed this History in this Epitaph Amice sâ— quis hic sepultus est roges ille qui nec meruit unquam nec quod majus est habuit inimicum qui potuit in Aula vivere et mundum spernere Concionator educatus Inter principes et ipse facile princeps inter Concionatores evangelista Inde festus Episcopus Pientissimus
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
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
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
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