much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
still-born have hastned to their Tomb God that Rewards him now forbad his store Should all lie hid and he but give i th' ore Many are stamp't and shap't and do still shine Approv'd at Mint a Firm and perfect Coyne Witness that Mart of Books that yonder stands Bestow'd by him though by anothers Hands Those Attick Manuscripts so rare a Piece They tell the Turk he hath not conquer'd Greece Next these a second beauteous heap is thrown Of Eastern Authors which were all his own Who in so various Languages appear Babel could scarce be their Interpreter To these we may that fair-built Colledge bring Which proves that Learnings no such Rustick thing Whose Structure well contriv'd doth not relate To Antick Fineness but strong lasting state Beauty well mixt with Strength that it Complies Most with the Gazer's use much with his Eyes On Marble Columns thus the Arts have stood As wise Seth's Pillar 's sav'd 'em in the Flood But did he leave here Walls and onely own A Glorious Heap and make us Rich in Stone Then had our Chanc'lor seem'd to fail and here Much honor due to the Artificer But this our prudent Patron long fore-saw When he refin'd Rude Statutes into Law Our Arts and Manners to his Building falls And he Erects the Men as well as Walls Thus Solons Laws his Athens did Renown And turn'd that throng of Buildings to a Town Yet neither Law nor Statute can be known So strict as to himself he made his own Which in his Actions Inventory lies Which Hell or Prinne can never scandalize Where every Act his Rigid Eye surveys And Night is Bar and Iudge to all his dayes Where all his secret thoughts he doth comprize And ev'ry Dream is summon'd t' an Assize Where he Arraigns each Circumstance of care Which never parts dismis'd without a Prayer See! how he sifts and searches every part And ransacks all the Glosets of his heart He puts the hours upon the Rack and Wheel And all his minutes must confess or feel If they reveal one Act which forth did come When humane frailty crept into the Loome If one thred stain or sully break or faint So that the man does interrupt the Saint He hunts it to its death nor quits his fears Till 't be imbalm'd in Prayers or drown'd in Tears The Sun in all his journey ne're did see One more devote or one more strict then He. Since his Religion then 's unmixt and Fine And Works do warrant Faith as Ore the Mine What can his Crime be now Now you must lay The Kingdom Laws subverted in his way See! No such Crime doth o're his Conscience grow Without which Witness ne're can make it so A clear Transparent White bedecks his minde Where nought but innocence can shelter finde Witness that Breath which did your stain and blot Wipe freely out though Heaven I fear will not VVitness that calm and quiet in his Brest Prologue and Preface to his place of Rest VVhen with the VVorld he could undaunted part And see in Death nor Meagre looks nor dart When to the fatal Block his gray Age goes VVith the same ease as when he took Repose He like old Enoch to his Bliss is gone 'T is not his Death but his Translation The second by Mr. Iohn Cleveland On the Right Reverend Father in God Wil. Laud Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I Need no Muse to give my Passion vent He brews his Tears that studies to Lament Verse chymically weeps that pious rain Distilled with Art is but the sweat o' th' brain VVho ever sob'd in Numbers Can a groan Be quaver'd out by soft Division 'T is true for Common formal Elegies Not Bushels VVells can match a Poets Eyes In wanton VVater-works hee 'l tune his Tears From a Gâ—neva Jig up to the Spheres But when he mourns at distance weeps aloof Now that the Conduit-head is his own Roof Now that the fate is Publick we may call It Britains Vespers Englands Funeral VVho hath a Pencil to express the Saint But he hath Eyes too washing off the Paint There is no Learning but what Tears surround Like to Seth's Pillars in the Deluge drown'd There is no Church Religion is grown From much of late that She 's increas'd to none Like an Hydropick body full of Rheumes First swells into a body then consumes The Law is dead or cast into a Trance And by a Law-dough-bak't an Ordinance The Lyturgy whose doom was Voted next Dy'd as a Comment upon him the Text. There 's nothing lives Life is since he is gone But a Nocturnal Lucubration Thus have you seen Deaths Inventory read In the Summe Total Canterbury's dead A sight would make a Pagan to Baptize Himself a Convert in his bleeding Eyes VVould thaw the Rabble that fierce Beast of ours That which Hyena-like weeps and devours Tears that flow brackish from their Souls within Not to repent but pickle up their Sin Mean time no squalid grief his look defiles He guilds his sadder fate with Noble smiles Thus the Worlds eye with reconciled streams Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams How could success such Villanies applaud The State in Sâ—rafford fell the Church in Laud The Twins of publick rage adjudg'd to die For Treasons they should Act by Prophecy The Facts were done before the Laws were made The Trump turn'd up after the Game was play'd Be dull great Spirits and forbear to climbe For Worth is Sin and Eminence a Crime No Church-man can be innocent and high 'T is height makes Grantham Steeple stand awry The III. By Mr. H. Birched Sometimes Fellow of All-Souls Reverendissimo in Christo Patri D. Guliel Laud Dom. Archiep. Cantuariensi Parentalia Dithyrambus Heb. Sheteph Oda Nempe erratica vel missa ECclesiae pene heic triumphantis Archangelum ah vere nimis Jam militantis Archimartyrem quâ nam Sat Celebrabimus Apotheosi Qui sidelitate non fide Romanus Christi sponsam Schismaticis deformatam defloratam haereticis Primaevae restituebas virginitati clariori Pulchritudinis Pompae Tu pietatem doctrinali pabulo fovebas nec non decoro vestiebas Disciplinae Lautus amictu Torpeat ne Nuda Sanctitas Aut famelica Languescat Perfecta Religio nec umbra nec cadaver est Testor ut Aedem sacratam Literataque testor maenia te nunquam Ambiisse titulum novae fundationis aut ecclesiae Attamen Novatae simulatione honesta beneficentiam condidisti magnificus simul modestus hac etiam templi renovatione Antiquitatis aemulus Nec matri natus erat gratior ecclesiae quam Nutrici alumnus academiae suffulciit eam dextera vestra firmis Aedificiorum Justinis Legum Columnis mage mansuris Accepit Pumiceum Sed Marmoreum Reliquit heu Lycaeum At Athenae vel relictae linqui non videntur donec ades muneribus perennis Cujus Laudibus Beneficia sua Materiam suppeditarunt verba Amalthaea folia vel Amalthaea Diphthera Salomonis Pancarpia
Hammonds Worth deserved or the Reverend Dr. Peirces affection could Indite upon whose affectionate Pen the Elogy grew thus Sed latere qui voluit ipsas latebras illustrat Et Pagum alias obscurum Invitus cogit inclarescere Nullibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illi potest deesse Qui msi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nihil aut dixit aut fecit unquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Animi dotibus ita annos anteverterat ut in ipsa linguae infantia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eaque aetate Magister artium Qua vix alii Tyrones esset Tam sagaci fuit industria ut horas etiam subsicivas utilius perderet Quam Plerique Mortalium serias suas collocarunt Nemo rectius de se meruit Nemo sensit demissius Nihil eo aut exceltius erat aut humilius Scriptis suis factisque Sibi uni non placuit Qui tam calamo quam vita â—umano generi complacucrat Ita Labores pro Dei sponsa ipsoque Deo exant-lavit ut Coelum ipsum ipsius humeris incubuisse videretur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnem super gressus Romanenses vicit Profligavit Genevates De utrisque merito triumpharunt Et Veritas Hammondus utrisque merito triumphaturis ab Hammondo victis veritate Qualis ille inter amicos censendus erit Qui demâ—reri sibi adversos vel hostes potuit Omnes haereses incendiarias Atramento suo deleri maluit Quam ipsorum aut sanguine extingui Aut dispendio Animae expiari Coeli Indigena Eo divitias praemittebat ut ubi cor jam erat ibi etiam thesaurus Quod prolixe bene-volus prodiga manu erogavit aeternitatem in faenore lucraturus Quicquid habuit voluit habere etiam invalidae valetudinis Ita habuit in deliciis non magis facere quam sufferre Totam Dei voluntatem ut frui etiam videretur vel morbi taedio Summam animi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 testatam fecit Hilaris frons exporrecta Nusquam alius in filiis hominum Gratior ex pulchro veniebat corpore virtus omne jam tulerat punctum omnium plausus Cum Mors quasi suum adjciens Calculum Funesta lithiase Coeli avidum Maturum Coelo Abi viator Pauca sufficiat delibasse Reliqua serae posteritati narranda restant Quibus pro merito enarrandis una aetas non sufflcit The Third are his Books more lasting than Marble viz. ANnotations on the New Testament Fol. Annotations on the Psalms Fol. A Volume of Sermons Fol. Practical Catechism Octavo A Vindication of some Passages therein from the Censures of the London Ministers Quarto Tracts 1. Of Conscience 2. Of Scandal 3. Of Will-Worship 4. Of Superstition 5. Idolatry 6. Sins of Weakness and Willfulness 7. Of a late or Death-bed Repentance Of Fraternal Admonition or Correction Quarto Of the Power of the Keys of Binding and Loosing Quarto A View of the New Directory and Vindication of the Ancient Lyturgy of the Church of England Quarto Considerations concerning the danger of Changing Church-government Quarto Of Resisting the Lawful Magistrate under the colour of Religion Quarto A View of some Exceptions made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Faeulkland's discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome Quarto A Copy of some Papers passed at Oxford between the Author and Master Cheynell An Address to the Lord Fairfax with a Vindication thereof A Vindication of the Dissertations concerning Episcopacy from the London Ministers Exceptions in their Ius Divinum Ministeri Evangelii Six Queries resolved 1. Of the way of Resolving Controversies 2. Of Marrying the Wives Sister 3. Of Poligamy and Divorce 4. Of Infant Baptism 5. Of Imposition of Hands for Ordination 6. Of the Observation of Christmass and other Festivals of the Church Twelves Of Fundamentals in a Nation referring to Practice Octavo Of Schism against the Romanists Twelves A Reply to the Catholique Gentleman about the Book of Schism Quarto A second Defence of that Book Quarto Controversies about Ignatius his Epistles Quarto Defences of the learned Hugo Grotius An Account of Mr. Cawdreys Triplix Diatuba of Superstition Will-worship and Christmass Festivals The Baptizing of Infants Revived and Defended against Master Tombes Dissertationes quatuor de Episcopatu contra Blondellum c. Paraenesis Or a seasonable Exhortatory to all true Sons of the Church of England wherein is inserted a discourse of Heresies in defence of our Church against the Romanists Twelves Discourses against Mr. Ieanes about the Ardency of Christs Prayer and other then agitated Controversies A Latine Tract of Confirmation wherein Mounsieur Daillee is concerned A single Sheet shewing to what shifts the Papists are driven Two Prayers for the Nation when under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure His fourth and last as durable as the rest is his Life I know not whether better lived by himself or writ by the Reverend Doctor Fell from whose exact Syllables it were a vanity impardonable in me while I have before me Dr. Hamond that compleat Idea of what is fit to vary further than my enjoyed brevity enforced me because no Pen can more elegantly express that Person than his who so severely practiseth his virtues To the Church of Englands honour and advantage be it spoken in this last age when ancient virtue had lost its reputation and was outshined by the success and gallantry of new vices it recovered its own amiableness in Dr. Hamonds person and Dr. Fells Character A character that is his nature not his fancy and writ well because lived so THE Life and Death OF Dr. RALPH BROWNRIG Lord Bishop of Exceter BIshop Brownrig was a person of that soundnesse of Iudgement of that conspicuity for an unspotted Life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was Virtutum norma as Ierome of Nepolian ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset So eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had but oâ—e only There was never any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone He was born at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk in the year of our Lord 1592. His Parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away â—his earthly Father that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan by the prudence of his pious Mother his youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good learning He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge There his modesty pregnancy and piety soon invited preferment He was first made Scholar of the House and after Fellow a little sooner than either his years or standing in rigor of Statute permitted but the Colledge was impatient not to make sure of him by grafting him firmly into that Society which had been famous for many excellent men but none more than Brownrig When Bachelor and
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
reproving sin as to spare the person and yet so discreetly tender towards the person as not to countenance sin A man that would not give his heart the lie with his tongue by not intending what he spoke or his tongue the lie with his actions by not performing what he promised that had rather friendly insinuate mens errors to themselves than detractingly blaze them to others a man that would not put off his Devotion for want of leisure nor his Charity for want of Ability that thought it better to deny a request for that was onely discourtesie than not to perform a promise for that is injury that would not rebuke as the Philosopher would beat his servant in anger angry reproofs being like scalding potions that work being to be done with compassion rather than passion Many excellent books were dedicated to him its pity but there should be an intire book made of him Vivere Deo incepit eodem quo credebat Deum vixisse hominibus nempe Mortii 25. 1641. Ne dignissimum virum qui nil servâ—ra dignum perire passus est vel fuisse seri nepotes nesciant hoc Monumentum aeter â—itati sacrum esse voluit W. D. E. A. Qui cordicitus amavit Pristinae sidei virum decoctum generosum pectus honesto Annex we to both their Lives THE Life and Death OF IOHN DAVENANT Lord Bishop of Salisbury THeir good Friend who told Dr. Ward when he saw what his and other mens indulgence to dissenting persons was like to come to that he was ashamed to live when he should have nothing left him but to live and when such immoderate courses were taken by them against Government for whom he and others had so often interceded for moderation from the Government to see the most irreligious things done under the pretence of Religion to see that he that had with so much success moderated Controversies in the Schools offered expedients in Convocations decided the Debates of Synods his prudent directions interpositions seasonable and obliging Authority contributing much to the peaceable end of that Convention governed Universities perswaded Kings nay and by reason of his agreement with the Faction in some Doctrines done them many favours in Discipline could not among the leading men of the party that he had so much obliged by their Oaths and their Allegiance by the honor of Religion and the dangers of it by love to Brethren or respect to the designs of enemies by the spirit of Peace and the God of love by their bowels towards their Country or their Fosterity the Children yet unborn by the prayers and tears of their ancient Friend and a Reverend Bishop gain so much as Christian accommodation and mutual forbearance but after a most excellent Tract of the Peace of the Christian world wherein he taught how that the few necessary things wherein men agreed should be of more power to unite them than the indifferent things wherein they dissented should have power to divide them That the Christian world might have unity in the few Fundamentals that are necessary liberty in the things that were indifferent and so Charity in all things despairing of perswading men to peace by Arguments who were set on War and Tumults by their Lusts which were to be subdued rather than convinced He died of an old Consumption improved with new grief for the misery of those times which he fore-saw sad and saw dangerous April 1641. being though his Father was a Citizen living in Watling-street London extracted of an ancient Family of Davenants-Land in Essex he was remarkably born in the seventh Month after Conception and such Births if well looked too prove vigorous and as remarkably preserved in the first half seven years from his Birth falling down an high pair of stairs and rising at the bottom with so little harm that he smiled They say when Chryâ—omes smile it is because of some intercourse between them and the little ones Guardian Angels when this Infant smiled it was certainly at the preservation of him by such an Angel and beyond all these preferred when his Father in his life-time not allowing him to be Fellow no more than he would his rich Relations to one of whom he said when he had given his voice against him Cousin I will satisfie your Father that you have worth but not want enough to be one of our Society he was against his will made Fellow of Queens the Provost alledging to him that Preferment was not always a relief for want but sometimes an encouragement for worth and against seven Competitors made Margaret Professor Dr. Whitacre having when present at some of his youthful exercises the earnest of his future maturity pronounced that he would in time prove the honor of the Vniversity when but a private Fellow of a Colledge and before three others chosen Master of Queens when not forty years of age and Bishop of Salisbury upon the death of Dr. Toulson his Brother-in-law that he might provide for his Sister and her numerous family when he had not a Friend at Court but the King The rest of his Life take in this Epitaph Hic jacâ—t omne gâ—nae eruditionis modesta Epitome Cui judicium quod asservit Maxime discretiorum quicquid uspiam est literarum Hebraicarum Ethnicarum aut Christianarum omnes linguas artes historias quicquod praedicarunt patres disputarunt Scholastici decreverunt consilia in sobriam pacificam practicam concox it Theologiam Quae in concionibus dominat a est Scholis Imperavit Synodis leges dedit Prudens pariter ac simplex ille ille cui severior vita quam opinio ut pote strictius vitam agens quam sententiam Doctrina magna lux ecclesiae exemplo major Cujus libri omnes una hac notabantur Inscriptione Praefuit qui Profuit qui Regem venerabatur sed timebat Deum non tam suo quam publico morbo succubuit Aprilis 3. 1641. extremam in haec verba agens animam Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum THE Life and Death OF THOMAS HOWARD Earl of Arundel THomas Howard Earl of Arundel and Surrey the first Earl and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the Garter Son to Philip Earl of Arundel Grand-son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Gandfather to Thomas now Duke of Norfolk to whom the honor of that Dukedom was restored 1661. by his Majesty King Charles the Second which was lost for his Ancestors great kindness to his Great Grand-Mother Mary Queen of Scots whose life Thomas the foresaid Duke of Norfolk endeavored to save with the loss of his own and Courting her love lost his Mistress Queen Elizabeth who spilt that bloud then called amorous rather than traiterous that he intended to make Royal and to prevent a Marriage between him and the Queen of Scots divorced his Head from his Body making him contented to lie in his Ancestors cold Grave for aspiring to a Queens warm
two Voyages of King Lewis to Palestine and thereupon ever since by Custom and Priviledge the Gentlewomen of Champaign and Brye ennoble their Husbands and give them honor in marrying them how mean so ever before George Lord Aubigney younger Brother to the Duke of Richmond born 1615. in London bred for the most part in France owing his Education to that Country whence he had that he was bred for his Honor the Lordship of Aubigny a Town and Seigniory adorned with many priviledges an ample territory and a beautiful Castle in the Province of Berry in France bestowed by Charles the sixth on Robert the second Son of Alan Stuart Earl of Lenox in Scotland for his many signal Services against the English and was till of late and it s hoped will be the honorary title and possession of the second branch of that Noble and Illustrious Family hence called by the name of Lords of Aubigny A Person whose life was nought else but serious preparations for death his younger apprehensions when living being of the mature with the oldest mens thoughts when dying well knowing that his extraction and conditions â—â—ould be as little excuse from strict expectations of his latter end â—s they could be none from the summons to it the Series of his liâ—â— carried with it such an awe of God and sence of true Piety and â—eligion as clearly evinced he had strong and habituated Meditations of that Levelling Day wherein the highest stands on the same ground with the meanest Religion was not then thought a stain 〈◊〉 honor and the minding of heaven the business only of those who had nothing to do on earth A person that had so much the character of Titus The delight of mankind that he was born to conquer by love and could he but have been heard to speak he need not Pretty was the return he made when disswaded from Embarking himself in the best cause in the world I would have all those that refuse serving in this War served as they that were backward â—o engage in the Holy War to each of whom was sent a Spindle and Diâ—taffe the upbrading ensigns of their softness and effeminacy the delicaâ—y of our mould and make speaking of Noblemen the quickness of our spirits the sprightliness of our faculties the exact proportion of our parts the happiness of our address the accomplishments of our persons the soundness of our constitutions and it may be whatever Aristotle thought the difference of our souls the happiness of our opportunities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mithridates called Occasion the Mother of all affaires And in fine our being born happy and as the Panegyâ—ist of Constantine Enrolled in the list of Felicity as soon as of Nature engageth us to do so much more than others as we are more than others The hardest temptation he ever found against virtue was a kind of blush and shame in the owning of it with much regret reflecting on mens glorying in their shame and being ashamed of their glory But I thank God he would say I can undergo the bloudless martyrdom of a Blush and the greatest help to it resolution business taking up all the parts of time and the workings of a restless minde temperance and sobriety seriousness and patience consideration and circumspection according to the Duke of Bavares Motto and Medal prudence with a Ballance in her hand Know Choose Execute quickly and which included all a mean or moderation My Lord being very much pleased with the story of the French King who one day inquiring of an experienced man how to govern himself and his kingdom had a large sheet of Paper presented to him with this one word instead of the many precepts he looked for Modus a Mean His good example had pressed many to the service of virtue when it flourished when the war broke out he was told by a prevailing Member that the Scots must be kept in Arms to awe the English as long as the Sons of Zeruiah were too hard for the well-affected engaged as many to the service of it when afflicted for with three hundred Gentlemen worth near 300000 l. he came to assist his Majesty marching along with him till he came to Edge-hill where come in to the succor of the Lord General it s a question whether was more remarkable his conduct or courage his followers being so advantageously placed that every particular man performed eminent service to borrow a few words belonging to the courage of the English in the battel of Newport 1600. to express the valor of these Gentlemen in the battel of Keinton Et fere nemo in illis Cohortibus vel ordine vel animo ante vulgus â—uit quem non dies iste sicuti virtute sic teste virtutis vulnere Insignivit Himself persisting in the Fight though most of his party were dead round about him till his bloud more Royal now that it was shed for one good King than that it was extracted from many great ones issuing out at twelve wounds left him weak indeed but not spiritless his soul loath to withdraw not only when the party it commanded but also when the body it lived in deserted it In which condition he was carried to Abingdon and thence when dead not long after to Christ-Church in Oxford where he was buried with as many sighs as blasted hopefulness and expectation is attended with there being not a sadder sight next the publick Calamities than to see a great virtue accomplished by industry and observation by a suddain and surprizing stroke made useless to others but in the example and to himself as to any employment in this world besides the sitting of him for a better Leaving behind him First An honorable Lady that espousing his Quarrel as well as his Cause like Dame Margaret Dimocke wife to Sir Iohn Dimocke who in King Richards time came to the Court and claimed the place to be the Kings Champion by virtue of the Tenure of her Mannor of Scrinelby in Lincoln-shire to Challenge and Defie all such as opposed the Kings Right to the Crown appearing with a spirit equal to her Relations and above her Sex if there be any Sex in souls in her heroick expressions upon her dear Lords death in a Letter to Archbishop Laud dated Ian. 2. I Confess I cannot as yet be so much my self as to overcome my passion though I know my Lord died in a just and honorable action and that I hope his soul finds which consideration is the only satisfaction of Your Graces humble Servant Kath. Aubigney Secondly In her Noble Attempts First in venturing to settle a correspondency between London and Oxford and then carrying the Kings Commission of Array in her own person to several Lords and Gentlemen of both Houses and Citizens made before-hand to seize into their Custody the Kings Children some of the pretended Members the wrong Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia the City Out-works and Forts the
the abstractions refined what was rugged for many ages lost its horror and pleased and the thornes of Philosophy turned Roses by him that the Theatre was thin to his School and Comedy was not half so good entertainment as his Philosophy So ravishing by the comeliness of his presence for his body was as handsome as his soul and the beauties of his discourse in his Sermons made up of learned and holy extasies that by a strength mixed with sweetness vigorous and fair he winged up his hearers hearts to the same height with his own expressed strict vertue into the greatest pleasure strowed the streight way to ease and delight chained up all thoughts to his ravishing with a Masculine vigor his hearers not only by way of perswasion but command He speaks and streight our thoughts are his not ours What 's in our souls his Verse controuls We quit our minds and he commands our powers He shufstes souls with us And frames us thus or thus We change our humors as his discourse doth flowers In fine to have a person compleat in the circle both of Arts and Vertues Whose universal Genius did know The whole worlds posture and mixt Idiom too But these as modern faculties his soul Reared higher up learnt only to controul In abler Works and Tengues yet more refin'd Thou wed'st thy self till they grew to thy mind They were so wrapt about thee none could tell A difference but that Cartwright did excell So just a Poet that Ben. Iohnson our ablest Judge and Professor of Poetry said with some Passion My Son Cartwright writes all like a man What had Ben. said had he read his own Eternity in that lasting Elegy given him by Mr. Cartwright or that other by his good friend Mr. Robert Waring neither of which pieces are easily to be imitated dropping not a line against the Laws either of Art or Vertue the best times best ready and clear to teach and please in whom Poetry now expiring as dying things contract all their strength and vigor to one great action collected all its rich Beauties Wit Art Iudgement in one rich soul That fill'd the Stage the Schools and Pulpit too An universal Wit All things and men could fit So shap'd for ev'ry one As born for that alone Not as where Growth Sense Reason one controuls But as if he had had three rational souls He wrote so brave a Verse that none knew which Is best the Art or Wit it s all so rich His fancies are all New His Language choice and true The whole Contexture wrought Above our reach or thought Dramatick Lyrick and Heroick thou Knew'st when to vary shapes and where and how Confined neither to one shape nor to one language being as Elegant in Latine Greek French and Italian as in English sense and reason speak all Languages To have the same person cast his net and catch souls as well in the Pulpit as the Stage and as well in the Schools as in both Where language he to sence did reconcile Reducing reason into square and file Whose stubborn knots retain'd their strength though spread And moulded in a soft and even thread When that his Voice did charm th' attentive throng And every ear was hook'd unto his tongue The numerous praess closing their souls in one Stood all transform'd into his passion To see all Learning like unpolished Jewels framed into Figures smoothed into pleasure and a Miracle of Industry and Wit sitting sixteen hours a day at all manner of knowledge and by the happy Alchymis of wit turning the Axioms of Aristotle the Problems of Euclide the summes of Aquinas the Code of Iustinian the Contexture of History the learning of Rabbines the Mythology of Gentilism the Fathers Councels Martyrologyes and Liturgicks and Christians the Poetry Oratory and Criticism of the world into a good Man a great Schollar a most ingenious Poet and Orator and an excellent Preacher in whom hallowed fancies and reason grew Visions and holy passions Raptures and Extasies and all this at thirty years of age When he dyed Proctor of the University 1643. of a Malignant Fever then raging in that Garrison and heart-grief expressing its self thus I see the seeds of miseries that will continue an age and a blot upon our Nation and Religion that will last with the world Dr. Lluelin on the Death of Mr. W. Cartwright THey that have known thee well search'd thy parts Through all the Chain of Arts Thy apprehension quick as active light Clear Iudgment without night Thy fansie free yet never wild or mad With wings to fly and none to gadde Thy Language still in Rich yet comely Dresse Not to expose thy minde but to expresse They that have known thee thus sigh and confess They wish they 'd known thee still or known thee less To these the wealth and beauties of thy minde Be other Vertues joyn'd Thy modest soul strongly confirm'd and hard Ne're beckned from its guard But bravely fixt midst all the baits of Praise Deeming that Musick treacherous Layes Those put that Rate and Price upon thy breath Great Charles enquires thy health the Clouds thy death For nobler Trophies can no Ashes call Kings greet thy safety Thunder speaks thy fall THE Life and Death OF Mr. DUDLEY DIGGES YOunger Son of Sir Dudley Digges Master of the Rolls and Fellow of All-Souls in Oxford whose pregnant soul inured from its Childhood to great and rich thoughts by an innate habit of observing it was his friend Mr. Masters of New Colledge that vast Scholar general Artist and Linguist and soring Wit rule to Pâ—pils look on nothing without an observation a great Memory raised by meditation method exercise and discourse he reading few things that he did not cast into some choice thoughts which he set down in writing or expressed in converse He finding that true which the Rabby propounds as experimental he learned much of his Masters or Books by taking in their notions more of his Fellows and Companions by strengthning his notions with theirs and twisting rayes by a fansie corrected in its luxuriancesâ— a while by others judgement the Beaumont to this Fletcher Whose thoughts and his thoughts dresse appear'd both such That 't was his happy fault to do too much And when by marking the arguments reasons of their alteration why that phrase least proper this passage more cautious and advised he was able to make his own by his own which let it smile but not giggle inflamed by that only way to be excellent imitation When the great soul of the Author lies upon the capable soul of the Reader as Elishas body upon the Child phancy upon phancy reason upon his reason till he be warmed and quickened into the same great accomplishments by an exact and unerring reason that apprehended things in the same order and coherence they subsist whose Idea answered the order of the world as near abating humane frailties as that did the first Idea
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
traâ—elâ—ing with him in â—â—ayers as well as birth See her exemplary life Printed by honest Mr. Royston a He was Knight of the Garter b He was vâ—ry well skâ—lled in all the points of the Religion of the Church of England c Though yet he was once excepted from Pardon to try whether he might be fâ—ghted out of his Allegiance upon his first going after his Majesty to York and bearing witness of his integrity for peace and subscribed a Petition that he would live and dye by him if he was fâ—rced to a wâ—r d Allowing 〈◊〉 a year for that purpose besides that he inâ—â—â—ed Mr. Thrâ—scrâ—sse c. to accept of an honorable laâ—ary to take the freedom of his hâ—use and the advantage of his Protection a He with the Earls of Lindsey and Southamptyn offering themselves to dye for his Majesty having been the instruments of his commands and it being a Maxime that the King can do no wrong he doing all things by his Ministers a VII Tarnov â—xrecitat Bilâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—2â— Ed heador Vâ—â— 4â—2 â—â—â—ascenâ—de 〈◊〉 Fide 〈…〉 vid. Casaâ—b 〈◊〉 Sueâ—â—â— Aug. 31. a Pangyâ—in Consâ—ant a Senec. de benef l. 3. c. 36. b At Sommerset house c Joseph Antiq. l. 4. c. 4. Philo Jud. de mon. arch l. 2. Domino Dr. Flâ—etword Coll. Reg. Cant. Qui Pâ—aep I tinery studiorum duce C. W. b In Moun. â—â—â—â—hshire a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b He carried the Queen of Bohemia he hiâ—â—â—â—umâ— afterâ—â—â— saâ—l bâ—ttel 〈◊〉 Prâ—gaâ— 40 mâ—lâ—s a Credanâ— haud gratâ—iâ—am in â—anâ—a majestate comitatem Leo. a Riâ—tous â—iplings quarrels murders uncleaness disorderly asesembly a Iove â—atore Vid Liv Flor â— 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fugâ— Pâ—aeses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schol Aâ—ollâ—n Aâ—gon l. 2. v 1151. c. 4. v. 699. a An action 〈◊〉 to one so nâ—arly 〈◊〉 to Sâ—â— R. Vâ—â—â—â—â— â—â—o when Sheriff of Warwickshire pursued 〈◊〉 Powder Tâ—aytoâ—s â—ut of Warwickshire into Worcestershire b Ultimus Aâ—gliae Bannereâ—tus â— a Whâ—â—â— Mother â—â—d married his Vnâ—le Sir 〈◊〉 Compton a As it was called a Gul. Câ— miti Northamptoniae qui toâ—e Bâ—lli civilis tempore patesâ—ae haeres erat viâ—utis vindâ—â— caâ—iâ—â— a Especiallâ— in mâ—king and dâ—stâ—â—â—uâ—â—ng Provisions a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer a Exhâ—â—tiâ—g some to sicquent prayers â—thers to temperance others to seriousness a Vel presentâ—â— dâ—sideramuâ— b Being Leiutenant of the Tower when a Warrant was brought to Execute Queen Eliz. he shewed it Queen Mary who â—rofessed that she knew nothing of it and so saved hâ—r a Here 's the sundry Oaks in the Woodâ— which the Spaniard in Queen Eliz time dâ— contrive by secret practises to have cut down and embezled and therefore they say he was the first that proposed the setting up of Iron mills thereabout b Vid. Hotcomm Spelm in verbo Ordeal c This is remarkalâ— in this story that Mr. Gâ—seâ—led his Estate upon the aforesaid Lady and that she the next day after his death made it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his relations a In the fourth Article of Essex his commission b Septemb. 20. 1643. a Wing in Buckingham-shire a Sir Edward Cook hath somewhere a saying that Divines meddle with Law but they commit great Errors b 〈…〉 c With whom he was very familiar calling him to an account about his fludy every night and conserâ—ing with him about Affairs and Histoâ—ies a He left 1000l per annum to his Heir who is a Knight and Beronet dying March 25. 1 4 when it was a question whether his Râ—â—t belonged to his â—â—â—â—cuto or his Heir b Sir Jâ—hn Cook was sent to command him into the Country out of his Deanery of Westminster He asked 〈◊〉 John how dâ—â—st he command a man out of his Free-hold which wrought upon the old Gentleman so far that he never rested until he had his pardon sâ—aled for it c At the Meeting in Jerusalem-chamber March 1641. with 20. moderate Conformists and Non-conformists appointed upon his motion to consider of the reformation of discipline and government worship and doctrine with the innovaâ—ious lately crept into all of them a Seâ— his Sermâ—ns on King James his buncial of Appâ—â—el of â—â—â—â—ag b Aâ— he plainly told the Duke of B. at Oxford a Dr. Gâ—yn b Ebocacâ—â— 1641. §. His Birth a Where it is thought Caesar first passed his Army over the Thames b By his Mothers side c Whose Physician his Father was Sâ—ct His Education d A good Grecian who had a hand in the publication of Sir H. Savileâ— Magnificent Saint Chrysostome Sect Hâ—â— Course of study e As may be seen in his Library Sect His Preserment Sect. His Carriage in all his places 1. at a Minister 1 Sermons 2 Prayers 3 The Sacrament a The 〈◊〉 use 〈◊〉 of you may sie in his Sermon of the Pâ—o â—hans Tyâ—bings 4 Catech â—sing 5 His Hospitality to 〈◊〉 râ—â—h his 〈…〉 to the Pâ—or his â—isâ—s to all and his 〈◊〉 with them 2 As Arch-Deacon 3 Dr. of vinity Sect His 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 a Vid. Ciâ— de Divin Pâ—ucerum Wier de prest dâ—mo num 〈◊〉 Zomâ—n de â—piritibus c. Câ—saâ—b 〈◊〉 c 5. Bâ—ld Câ—f Câ—nse de Div. Goâ—dw de somâ—is Filliâ—cum quaest Moral â—ract 24. c. 5 n. 123. 12â— Hippocraâ—em de inâ—omnâ—is Galen de praescagio ex insomniis Sandeâ—sonum in Gen. 20. 6. Sect. What he did during the Wat. D. 〈…〉 Sect. How he was 〈…〉 at the end of the 〈◊〉 a Mr. C. of M. C 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 and to that 〈…〉 Sect. How be disâ—ose of himself after the Kings death 1. To write his tâ—â—ct of Christian Religion 2 The occasion and method of composing the Annotationâ— on the New Testament 3 The occasion and method of his dissertations Sect. His remove to Worcester-shire and his reflectâ—â—â— on what pâ—ssed â—here 1651. 〈…〉 of the times Sâ—ct◠〈…〉 in the Ministry Sect. 〈…〉 to thse that we 〈◊〉 nished abroâ—d which was â—â—â—covered 〈◊〉 Cromwell who 〈…〉 of it Sect. 〈◊〉 action 〈…〉 to his Death 1. The fâ—ame of his Body 2 The â—acultiâ—s of his Soul Sect. His Iâ—tellectual and acquired abilities Sect. His Moralls a 1 Cor. 7. 26. b Epist ad Ageâ—â—uchiam Sect. His disposal of his time His Devotion Sect. His Friendship Sect. His Charity Sect. His alms of Lending Sect. His generosity Sect. His estate and the managing of it Provost of Q. C. Oxon. and Dean of Worcester Sect. His 〈…〉 Sect. His humility and condescenâ—ion 1. In reference to himself 2 In reference to others Instances of his Condescension Sect His â—alâ—e of souls Sect. His instructions to his Conveâ—ts His Advises Sect. His Patience Sect. The Principles whereupon he composed and setled his minde ☞ What Rules be recommended at his death Sect. His 〈◊〉 Monuments 1 His resolution a Being not cast away like the first 〈◊〉 of a Vessel hardly 〈◊〉 if once neglâ—cted b Aâ—
if there were no Babes in the Church which could not digâ—st meat nor pick bones a Doctor Young his old friâ—nd Prâ—â—ching his Consecration Sermon on this Text The waters 〈◊〉 risen O Lord the waters are risen which inundeâ—ions of popular fury when Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge he by his prudence set banks to a while and by the proâ—erity of his parts and 〈…〉 ough a Troubled with the Stone Hyropick inclinations and other distempers incident to 〈◊〉 bodies a Iuly 1 1574. b Newly come fâ—om Cambridge to be Lecturer of that place c Who was born at the same time with him a Founded by Master Blundel b Master Grandidge c Daughter to Master George Wâ—nniffe of Brettenham a Or Shernâ—â— heav ill 〈◊〉 Shâ—â—phili b As Fridays Washing in such a Ialâ—ll c Of the Carmelites b At Richmond c Delivered without book with the same exactness they were Penned d Ten pound more being allowed Doctor Hall for his pains e Then Dean of Windsor and so Patron of the Church f Which was Printed since in his remains p 306. g Of Predestination and Reprobation of the Latitude of Christs death of the power of mans free-will bâ—fore and after his conversion and of the Eâ—lects perseverance in grace See his Letter at large in the Author of the Church History protesting against the aspersion a See his Remains a By his own power and his interest abroad apparent in his Letters to â— isâ— in the behalf of worthy persons b See Parliament proccedings three 〈◊〉 years of K C. I. by Tâ—â— Fuller c Who repented solemnly for being made a Bishop d Especially iâ— the point of Anti-christ the Sabbataâ— riâ—nism the jus positionum mediatum Whether â—piscapocy an order or degree with other observations the result of great prudentâ— a Vpon the Earl of â—ssex his motion b By Wild and Cotbet a The excellent Doctor Brown of Norwich b Vidâ— Câ—lumb Noâ— c Which he called his other soul. Thucideâ— Eâ—napius Lipsius Halycarnasseus Caussinuâ— St. â—erom Heinsius a Especially in his admirable Royal Slave his Play and his Prophesiâ— made 1636. to entertain the King and Queen at Christ-Church in Oxâ—n when Doctor Dupps said Cartwright finds 〈◊〉 and we Money 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 See Dr. Baâ—hurst of Tim. Col. Oxâ—ns Verses 〈◊〉 him Dr. Mâ—in upon him Mr. S. verne upon him Dr. Towers upon him Sir Edward 〈◊〉 his Poems Sir John Pettus upon his Poetry Dr. Fâ—ll now Dean of Christ Church Oxonâ— upon him a 〈…〉 Cleavelands 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 English as 〈…〉 published by 〈…〉 bain b There was 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Oxford always â—â—â—ther as 〈◊〉 Sâ—gge 〈◊〉 Cartwâ—â—â—â— Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 head Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈…〉 a In whose behalf he 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 which made him 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 b 1644. when the University of Oxford 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 of Bishop Usher to 〈…〉 a He bestowed his Books upon the Library of Christ-Church b And his friend Mr. Bogan Author of Homer Hebraison c Dum Insanos â—mitatur vallus vibius quod assimulabat cum vivum redegit Coel. Chod l. 11. c. 13 Cic. epist l. 2. c. 9. d Who hath written an exact account of the Creeds of the Catholick Church a Out of whose Papers it is thought many learned discourses hâ—ve been compiled excellent for Latine Greâ—ian and Eastern learning a Another Mr. Powel of Christ Church a 〈◊〉 Orator who presented his present Maâ—esty and thâ— Duke of York at the Coâ—vocation 1643. b Of Merton who when undergraduate was Master of all that learning that is crowded in Archaelogia Attica whereof he was Aâ—ther a And the very same day was seven time somineâ—s to the 〈◊〉 Caracâ—lia a The best Sheep in 〈◊〉 are in Warwickshire and the best there are in Worâ—l ighâ—on the Seat of this Lord. a At Bringâ—on in Northhamptonshire a When they were â—etled in Hurst â—errepoint in Sussex a For be it was that managed Henry the sevenths escape and marriage with Elizabeth daughter to Edward thâ— fourth b R. Motton of Dorsetshire descended from one of the Executors of the aforersaid Cardinal exquiring this Bishop out upon the Princing of his first Book and claiming kindred with him though he was so modest as not to look upon his Pedigree when once presented though fairly rewarding the man that brought it c Where Guy Faux 〈◊〉 his School-fellow d Into Dr. Keâ—sons Foundation a Generally his own Pupils as Mr. Jo. Pierce Prebendary of Leichfield and Mr. Level of Durham b Master Young a Priest and Mr. Stillington a Layman g Particularly Father Mulhufinus who gave him a book of his own with this Inscription Prodomino Mortono Nich. Serarius Rector of the Colledge at Menâ—z whâ— mentioneth him civilly in a book he writ against Joseph Scaliger Becanus the two last desiring his prayers at parting ex animo though their Church thought him an heretick though Becanus galled by Arguments slighted his Devotions h As he did with Dr. Reynolds of Christ-Church Colledge and Dr. Airey of Queens i Where he gâ—ew intimately acâ—uainted with Doctor Lake then Master of St. Crosses Dr. Hanmer Warden of Winchester and Sibrandus Lubbertus Professor at Franeker in West-Friezland who dedicated to him his 〈◊〉 against the 99. Eâ—rors of Vorstius k The Inscription written by Dr. Tho. Goad Rector of Hadley in Suffolk l Diodati was 〈◊〉 at Geneva and Du Moulin Preacher at Chareâ—town by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of those that bindred and those that to serve their Friends promoted him to use his own words from a Pleasant Dale to a Bleak hole m So really did â—e nolle Episcopariâ— That though elâ—â—ed 1615. he was not Consecrated till 1616. at Lambeth very solemnly by reason of the Marquess of Huntleyes Absolution performed there at the same time before three Archbishops twelve Bishops English and Scots thirty Noblemen eighty Gentlemen of great Quality Prince Radzivills Son and another Nobleman of Poland receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the same time n Vsâ—ng a fatherly mildness together with strength of argument as appears by the Conference he had with the Non-conformists since Published and called The Defence of three Innocent Ceremonies o As appears by the gracious testimony given him in his Majesties Declaratioon 1618. in these words There is now no little amendment in those Counties meaning Cheshire and Lancashire which is no small content to us The Declaration I mean is that about Sports on the Lords-day which he made some opposition to a while and when he was over-ruled he drew upon K. James his â—rdâ—r and with Bishop Andrews his advice the six limitation to the Liberty granted in that Declaration which was the best way to bring the people of that Countrey to Conformity p Particularly with Spalato his friend whom he diswaded by Writing and Conference from his return to Rome telling him the entertainment he found there Leich tibi in animo convertere Papam Spal an