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city_n	esquire_n	john_n	knight_n	10,718	5	9.6406	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48794	State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I.	Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing L2646; ESTC R21786	462,324	909

Lambeth Church and Doctor Andrews preached his Funeral-Sermon Amongst the many Verses made by the University of Cambridge this with the allowance of Poetical Licence came from no bad Fancy Magna Deos inter lis est exorta creatas Horum qui lites dirimit ille deest Co●inum potiere dii componere tantas Lites quod vero jure peritus erat A most moderate man he was in his own nature but more earnest in the business of the Church in the behalf of which he writ many Books of validity c. It must not be forgotten that Doctor Barlow afterwards Bishop of Lincoln was bred by Doctor Cosin at his charge in his own Family who in expression of his Thankfulness wrote this Dr. Cosin's Life out of which most of the aforesaid Character hath been taken Observations on the Life of the Lord Chief-Iustice Cook THis accomplished person was well born at Mileham in Norfolk of Robert Cook Esquire and Wini●red Knigh●ly his Wife and as well bred 1. When ten years of age at Norwich School 2. At Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge 3. After four years University-study first in Cliffords Inn and then in the Inner Temple The first occasion of his Rice was his stating of the Cooks Case of the Temple so exactly that all the House who were puzzled with it admired him and his pleading it so that the whole Bench took notice of him Such his proficiency that at the end of six years exceeding early in that strict age he was call'd to the Bar and soon after for three years chosen Reader in Lyons Inn. Here his learned Lecture so spread forth his fame that crouds of Clients sued to him for his Counsel and his own suit was the sooner granted when tendering his Affections in order to Marriage unto Bridget daughter and Coheir of Iohn Paston Esquire whose portion moderately estimated Viis medis amounted unto thirty thousand pounds her vertues not falling under valuation and she enriched her Husband with ten Children Then began preferment to presse upon him the City of Norwich choosing him Recorder the County of Norfolk their Knight for Parliament the Q●een her Speaker therein as also her Solicitor and Attorney King Iames honoured him with Knighthood and made him Chief-Justice first of the Common-Pleas then of the Kings-Bench Thus beginning on a good bottom left him by his Father marrying a Wife of extraordinary wealth having at the first great and gainful practice afterwards many and profitable Offices being provident to choose ●y●●d penny worths in Purchases leading a thrifty e●d● living to a great age during flourishing and peac●●ble times born as much after the persecution under Q. Mary as dying before our Civil Wars no wonder if he advanced to a fair estate so that all his sons might seem elder brethren by the large possessions left unto them Some falsely character him a back-friend to the Church and Clergy being a grand Benefactor to the Church of Norwich who gratefully under their publick Seal honoured him with this ensuing Testimony Edwardus Coke Armiger saepius in multis difficillimis Negotiis Ecclesiae nostrae auxiliatus est Nuper eandem contra Templorum Helluones qui Dominia Manerìa Haereditamenta nostra devorare sub Titulo obscuro Concelatum dicunt sponte suâ nobis insciis sine mercede ullâ legitimè tutatus est atque eandem suam nostri Defensionem in perpetuam tantae rei memoriam posterorum gratiâ si opus fuerit magna cum industria scriptis redegit Nostrae Ecclesiae donavit As for the many Benefices in his own Patronage he freely gave them to worthy men being wont to say in his Law-language That he would have Church-Livings pass by Livery and Seisin not Bargain and Sale He was our English Trebonianus very famous for his Comments on Littleton and our Common-Law 1638. A Parliament was call'●●●●nd the Court party was jealous of Sir Edwar● ●e●ctivity against them as who had not digested 〈◊〉 discontentments as he had done the Law Hereupon to prevent his Election as a Member he was confined to Buckinghamshire as a Sheriff He scrupled to take the Oath pretending many things against it and particularly that the Sheriff is bound thereby to prosecute Lollards wherein the best Christians may be included It was answered That he had often seen the Oath given to others without any regret and knew full well that Lollard in the modern sense imported the opposers of the present Religion as established by Law in the Land No excuses would serve his turn but he must undertake that O●f●ce However his friends beheld it as an injurious degradation of him who had been Lord Chief-Justice to attend on the Judges at the Assizes Five sorts of people he used to fore●design to misery and poverty Chymists Monopolizers Concealers Promoters and Rhyming Poets For three things he would give God solemn thanks That he never gave his body to Physick nor his heart to cruelty ●or his hand to corruption In three things he did much applaud his own success In his fair fortune with his Wife in his happy study of the Laws and in his free coming by all his Offices nec prece nec pretio neither begging nor bribing for Preferment His parts were admirable he had a deep Judgment faithful Memory active Fancy and the Jewel of his mind was put into a fair Case a beautiful body with a comely countenance A case which he did wipe and keep clean delighting in good Cloaths well worn and being wont to say That the outward neatness of our bodies might be a Monitor of purity to our souls In his Pleadings Discourse and Judgements he declined all Circumlocutions usually saying The matter lyes in a little Room In all Places Callings and Jurisdictions he commended Modesty and Sobriety within their boundaries saying If a River swelleth beyond the banks it loseth its own Channel If any adverse party crossed him he would patiently reply If another punisheth me I will not punish my self In the highest Term of Business he made Vacation to himself at his Table and would never be perswaded privately to retract what he had publickly adjudged professing He was ● Iudge in a Court not in a Chamber He was wont to say No wise man would do that in prosperity whereof he should repent in adversity His Motto was Prudens qui Patiens and his practice was accordingly especially after he fell into the disfavour of King Iames when he did Frui suo Infortunio and improved his loss to his advantage He triumphed in his own Innocency that he had done nothing illegally calling to mind the Motto which he gave in his Rings when made Sergeant Lex est tutissima Classis The Law is the safest Helmet And now he had leisure to peruse what formerly he had written even thirty Books with his own hand most pleasing himself with a Manual which he called VADE MECUM from whence at one view he took a