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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.
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Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
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Wing L2648; ESTC R200986
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High-Commision and Oath Ex Officio that he put his Adversary to silence Others lay to his charge that he gave ma 〈…〉 blanck Licences the common occasion of unlawful Marriages and the procurer is as bad as the th 〈…〉 robbing many a Parent of his dear Childe thereby But always malice looks through a multiplying glasse Euclio complained Intromisisti sexcentes 〈◊〉 quos Thou hast let in six hundred Cooks wh 〈…〉 there was but two truly told Antrax and Cong 〈…〉 so here was but one which a Fugitive servant sto 〈…〉 from a Register to make his private profit thereby GOD in his sicknesse granted him his desire which he made in his health that he might be free 〈…〉 from Torture which his corpulency did much suspect bestowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon him a sweet and quiet departure Pious his dying expressions I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Phil. 1. The wages of sin is death Rom. 6. Come Lord Jesus comâ— quickly Revel 12. And his last words were these Farewell my surviving friends remember your Mortality and Eternal life He gave forty pounds to the building of a Chamber in Trinity-Colledge and fifteen pounds per annum for the maintenance of two Scholarships therein a good gift out of his estate who left not above fifty pounds a year clear to his Heir a great argument of his integrity that he got no more in so gainful a place Dying at Doctors Commons he was buried by his own appointment in 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 Consinum potiere dii componeâ—e tantas Lites quod vero jure peritus erat A most moderate man he was in his own nature but more earnest in the businesse 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 Cosen at his charge in his own Family who in expression of his Thankfulness wrote this Dr. Cosen's Life out of which most of the aforesaid Character hath been taken Observations on the Life of the Lord Chief-Justice Cook THis accomplished person was well born at Mileham in Norfolk of Robert Cook Esquire and Winifred Knightly his Wise 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 Inne and then in the Inner Temple The first occasion of his Rise 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 Inne 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 John Paston Esquire whose portion moderately estimated Viis modis 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 Norfolke their Knight for Parliament the Queen her Speaker therein as also her Solicitor and Attorney King James 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 good pennyworths in Purchases leading a thrifty life living to a great age during flourishing and peaceable times born as much after the persecution under Qu 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 Hellâ—ones qui Dominia Maneria 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 donaevit As for the many Benefices in his own Patronage he freely gave them to worthy men being went to say in his Law-language That he would have Church-Livings passe by Livery and Seisin not Bargain and Sale He was our English Trebonianus very famous for his Comments on Littleton and our Common-Law 1628 A Parliament was call'd and the Court-party was jealous of Sir Edward's activity against them as who had not digested his discontentments as he had done the Law Hereupon to prevent his Election as a Member he was confined to Buckingbamshire as a Sheriffe He scrupled to take the Oath pretending many things against it and particularly that the Sheriffe 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 〈◊〉 that Lollard in the modern sense imported the oppos 〈…〉 of the present Religion as established by Law in the Land No excuses would serve his turn but he must undertake that Office 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 nor his hand to corruption In three things he did much applaud his own successe 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 Judgement faithful Memory active Fancy and the Jewel of his minde was put into a fair Case a beautiful body with a comely countenance A case which he did wipe and