Nations Insomuch that though my Lord Goring would not admit Sir Iohn Suckling into the Secret Councils they held in the North because he was too free and open-hearted yet the King gave him a Command there because he was valiant and experienced He raised a Troop of Horse so richly accoutred that it stood him in 12000 l. bestowing the Horses Armes and Cloaths upon each person that was Listed under him which puts me in mind of the Duke of Burgundy's rich preparations against Swisse of which Expedition it was said The Enemy were not worth the Spurrs they wore And of his late Majesties report upon the bravery of his Northern Army That the Scots would sight stoutly if it were but for the English mens fine cloaths And of another passage at Oxford where the King in some discourse of the Earl of Holland and other Commanders in the first Expedition against the Scots was pleased to express himself to this purpose That the Army was not in earnest which made him chuse such Commanders in Chief But indeed it became him better to sit among a Club of Wits or a Company of Scholars than to appear in an Army for though he was active he was soft and sweet withal insomuch that Selden went away with the character of Deep and Learned Hillingworth was reckoned Rational and Solid Digby Reaching and Vigorous Sands and Townsend Smooth and Delicate Vaughan and Porter Pious and Extatical Ben. Iohnson Commanding and Full Carew Elaborate and Accurate Davenant High and Stately Toby Mathewes Reserved and Politick Walter Mountague Cohaerent and Strong Faulkland Grave Flowing and Steddy Hales Judicious and Severe but Sir Iohn Suckling had the strange happiness that another Great Man is eminent for to make whatsoever he did become him His Poems being Clean Sprightly and Natural his Discourses Full and Convincing his Plays Well-humored and Taking his Letters Fragrant and Sparkling only his Thoughts were not so loose as his Expression witness his excellent Discourse to my L. of Dorset about Religion that by the freedom of it He might as he writes to my Lord put the Lady into a cold sweat and make him be thought an Atheist yet he hath put wiser heads into a better temper and procured him the reputation of one that understood the Religion that he Professed among all persons except those that were rid by that fear of Socinianism so that they suspected every man that offered to give an account of his Religion by reason to have none at all nor his Life so Vain as his Thoughts though we must allow to his sanguine composition and young years dying at 28. some thing that the thoughts and discipline of time experience and severer years might have corrected and reduced Amo in juvene quod amputem But his immature death by a Feavor after a miscarriage in his Majesties service which he laid to heart may be a warning to young men of his quality and condition whose youth is vigorous pleasures fresh joynts nimble bodies healthful enjoyments great to look on his ghastly face his hollow eyes his mouldring body his noisom dust and to entertain but this one thought that what he was they are and what he is they shall be that they stand on his Grave as the Romans did on their Friends with these words Go we shall follow thee every one in his own order Rejoyce O young man in the days of thy youth but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment A Gallant would do well with the Noble Ioseph of Arimathea in their Gardens and among their pleasures He died Anno 164 ... leaving behind him these thoughts of those times to his dear friend Mr. Iermin since the Right Honorable Earl of St. Albans 1. That it is fit the King should do something extraordinary at this present is not only the opinion of the wise but their expectation 2. Majesty in an Eclips is like the Sun most looked upon 3. To lye still in times of danger is a calmness of mind not a magnanimity when to think well is only to dream well 4. The King should do before the People desire 5. The Kings friends have so much to do to consult their own safety that they cannot advise his the most able being most obnoxious and the rest give the King council by his desires and set the Sun or interest that cannot err by passions which may 6. The Kings interest is union with his People 7. The People are not to be satisfied by little Acts but by Royal Resolutions 9. There 's no dividing of a Faction by particular obligations when it is general for you no sooner take off one but they set up another to guide them 10. Commineus observes That it is fit Princes should make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own because they that have the art to please the people have commonly the power to raise them 11. The King must not only remove grievances by doing what is desired but even jealousies by doing something that is not expected for when a King doth more than his people look for he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired otherwise a jealous people may not think it safe enough only to limit the Kings power unless they overthrow it 12. The Queen would do well to joyn with the King not only to remove fears especially since she is generally believed to have a great interest in the Kings affection but to arrive beyond a private esteem and value to an universal honor and love 13. The conservation of the general should guide and command the particulars especially since the preferment of one suspected person is such a dash to all obliging acts 14. Q. Whether the Kings way to preserve his obnoxious friends is not to be right with his distempered people 15. Q. Whether the way to preserve power be not to part with it the people of England like wantons not knowing what to do with it have pulled with some Princes as Henry the Third King Iohn Edward the Second for that power which they have thrown into the hands of others as Q. Elizabeth 16. Q. Whether it be not dangerous to be insensible of what is without or too resolved from what is within And these Advises to his friends about him at that time when he best understood himself 1. Do not ill for Company or good only for Company 2. Shun jests in Holy things and words in jest which you must give an account of in earnest 3. Detract from none but your self and when you cannot speak well of a man say nothing 4. Measure life not by the hopes and injoyments of this world but by the preparation it makes for another looking forward what you shall be rather than backward what you have been 5. Be readier to give than to take applause and neither to give nor to take exceptions 6. It s as much more to forgive one injury than
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
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
of Matthew and the first of Iames and he opened those Scriptures in such sort that they were all hushed and did not again offend in that kind while he was present amongst them The Word of God was his great delight his meditation was of it in the night and his discourse in the day When those that were with him were speaking of earthly things he would finde out some way to bring in Heavenly When he could not sleep in the night he would say That the meditation of the Word was sweeter to him than sleep When he had preached twice on the Sabbath and was a weary yet to those that came to him he would go on afresh in holy Discourses and the comforts which he found in his soul made him sometimes forget his body that he hath been speaking till he was ready to faint His eminency was in frequency aptness freeness and largeness of godly discourse in which respect it may be said of him that in the Countrey where he lived none were known who therein were equal to him But he was Mi cans inter omnes velut inter ignes luna minores He was very merciful himself and to move Parents that were rich to mercy he would say thus You are caring and contriving to lay up for your children but lay up for your selves a good foundation against the time to come being rich in good works you will lay up treasure in the earth which is an unsafe place lay up treasure in Heaven that is the sure and safe place Master Throgmorton an approved good man dying the same year of a Consumption came to Asby not far from Tansley to have the help of Master Dod's comforts and counsels he was oppressed with melancholy and a little before he gave up his soul to Christ What can ye say of him that is going out of the world and can finde no comfort To whom he answered What will you say of our Saviour Christ who when he was going out of the world found no comfort but cried out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me This speech refreshed Master Throgmorton and within a little space of time after this he went to his heavenly Inheritance Master Dod as he was of a weaned disposition from the World himself so he laboured to wean others He put this difference between rich Christians and poor That for poor Christians their Father kept the purse but the rich Christians keep the purse in their own hands But it might oftner fall out and did and therefore the purse was better in the Fathers hand than in the Christians He was wont to compare wicked men to waves of the Sea those which were of a great Estate were great waves those which were of small estate were small waves but all were restless as waves To a friend of his that raised from a mean estate to worldly greatness he sent word That this was but as if he should go out of a Boat into a Barge or Ship but there ought to be a serious and godly remembrance that while we are in this world we are upon the sea He often repeated this That nothing could hurt us but our own sins and they should not hurt us if we truly repented for them and nothing could do us good but Gods favour and that we should be sure of if we unfeignedly sought it Speaking of Davids penning the 51. Psalm after his murther and adultery put this gloss upon it That hearty and true repentance shall have cause to praise the Lord for his pardoning mercy He said Afflictions were Gods Potions he might sweeten by faith and faithful prayer but we for the most part made them bitter puting into Gods cup the ill ingredients of our own impatience and unbelief He gave this reason why many of Gods people lived uncomfortably for that they shut their ear against what God said where they should open it and they opened their ear to what their carnal reason and Satan and the world said where they should shut it but said he the Psalmist was wiser Psal. 85. 8. he would hear none of them all I will hear what the Lord God will speak His Preaching was searching and when some did suppose that he had Informers and Spies because he came so close to them he answered That the Word of God was searching and that if he was shut up in a dark Vault where none could come at him yet allow him but a Bible and a Candle and he should Preach as he did He had an excellent gift in similitudes which did flow freely and frequently from him as all those knew who either heard him Preach publickly or discourse privately He called Death the friend of Grace though it were the enemy of Nature and whereas the Word and Sacraments and Prayer do but weaken sin death builds it Speaking of prayer he said a man was never in a hard condition unless he had a hard heart and could not pray Having Preached out of that Text O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt He invited some women to Dinner and told them it was a usual saying Let a Woman have her will and then she shall be quiet Now the way for a woman to have her will is to have a strong faith and to pray as that woman in the Gospel did Upon a time when he had Preached long so that it was somewhat late before he went to dinner he said You shall have some Gentlemen will follow Hounds from seven in the morning till four or five in the afternoon because they love the cry of Dogs which to me was unpleasant hearing So if we love the Word we should be content though the Minister stood above his hour And he added me thinks it much better to hear a Minister preach than a Kennel of Hounds to bark Speaking of recreation he said he marvelled what the vocation of many was who were so eager for recreation And if we should come into a house and see many Physick-boxes and Glasses we would conclude some body is sick So when we see Hounds and Hawks and Cards and Dice we may fear there is some sick soul in that Family He told some friends that if he were to pass sentence who was a rich man he would not look into his Purse or Chest how much gold he had laid up but look into his heart what promises were treasured up there For we count him rich that is rich in bonds and the pleading of the promises in prayer is suing of the bonds Speaking to a Minister who was to go to a place where there was but small means he told him That his care was to Preach and do God service and then God would provide for him When he preached at Fausley was much resorted unto he told a godly man of his acquaintance that if the Country knew so much by him as he knew by himself they would not have him in so much admiration
to perform Us such service as he much desireth to have according to his duty done his further Attendance might be by Us in Our Grace dispensed with To the end all Our loving Subjects who have and shall faithfully serve Us as We declare this Our Servant hath done may know That as We shall never expect much less require or exact from them performances beyond what their healths and years shall enable them so We shall not dismiss them without an Approbation of their Service when We find they shall have deserved it much less expose them in their old Age to neglect As Our Princely Testimony therefore that the said Sir George Crooks being dispensed withal proceeds from Us at the humble Request of the said Sir George Crook which We have cause and do take well that he is rather willing to acknowledge his Infirmity by his great Age occasioned than that by concealing of the same any want of Justice should be to Our People and not out of any Our least displeasure conceived against him Do hereby Declare Our Royal Pleasure That We are graciously pleased and do hereby dispence with the said Sir Crook's further Attendance in the said Courts or in any Our Circuits And as a Token of Our Acceptation of his former good and acceptable Service by the said Sir George Crook done to Our deceased Father and Our Self do yet continue him one of Our Judges of Our said Bench And hereby Declare Our further Will and Pleasure to be That during his the said Sir Crook's life there shall be continued and paid by Us to him the like Fee and Fees as was to him or is or shall be by Us paid to any other of Our Judges of Our said Bench at Westminster and all Fees and Duties saving the Allowance by Us to Our Judges for their Circuits onely After which Honourable Discharge from his Service at Court God gave him a Quietus est from this Life at Waterstock in Oxfordshire Anno Christi 1641. Aetatis 82. Caroli I. 17. When he lived to see the New Canons made 1640. so much aggravated by others yet so much admired by him that upon the sight of them he blessed God that he lived to see so much good by a Convocation There passeth a pleasant Tradition in Cornwal how there standeth a man of great strength and stature with a Black in his hand at Polston Bridge the first Entrance into Cornwal as you pass towards Launceston where the Assizes are holden ready to knock down all the Lawyers that should offer to plant themselves in that County This man was brought to Westminster-Hall door Anno 1641. no honest or able Lawyer daring to appear there upon pain of forfeiting either his Conscience in complying with the Tumult or his Estate Liberty yea and Life too in dissenting from it Otherwise our Judge deserved to be Comes Imperii primi Ordinis according to the Constitution of Theodosius the Emperor allowing that honor to Lawyers Cum ad viginti annos observatione Iugi ac sedulo docendi labore pervenerint Having been twenty years a Judge that would hear patiently help Witnesses laboring in their Delivery condescendingly check forward Speakers gravely dealt impartially his private Inclinations being swallowed up in the common Concern as Rivers loose their names in the Ocean Cut off Delays and impertinent Controversies discreetly was zealous of kindness because fearful of Bribes Great obligations upon persons in Place like wandering Preachers Sermons end in begging merciful in his Judgement A Butcher may not be of the Jury much less should he be a Judge Being outed his Place with as much honor as others are advanced glorying in that though the Parliament could make him no Judge they could not make him no upright Judge He lived privately the rest of his days having besides the estate got by his Practice no mean estate by his Birth and by his Marriage having little reflection on his own condition he was so taken up with the sad condition of the whole Kingdom Vitae est avidus quisquis non vult mundo secum pereunte mori And thus we leave our Judge to receive a just reward of his Integrity from the Judge of Judges as well as from the King of kings at the great Assize of the world Plinic reports it as worthy a Chronicle that Chrispinus Hâ—llarus with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him this Reverend Person sacrificed to Allegiance himself attended with many well resolved Relations round about him For it is fit posterity should hear of Col. Mark Trevor since deservedly ennobled in Ireland for Valour that feared no dangers Activity that went through all hardships Integrity that was proof against all corruptions Iohn Trevor a Person that suffered not his parts to be depressed by his fortune but to make his minde the more proportionable he made it his business to be as able in Prudence and Knowledge as he was in Estate for which he suffered twice severely that Party being of the Miller of Matlocks minde of whom we read this pretty Story Molendarius de Matlocki tollavit bis eo quod ipse audivit Rectorem de eadem villa dicere in Dominica Ram. Palm Tolle tolle That is the Miller of Matlock took Toll twice because he heard the Rector of the Parish read on Palm-Sunday Tolle tolle that is Crucifie crucifie him There was ARTHVR TREVOR Esq A Lawyer of the Temple that died lately and suddenly a Passage others may censure we must pity since sudden and rash Judgement is always sinful but sudden and unexpected death is not always penal Nothing so certain as that we shall die nothing so uncertain as how we shall die Therefore Life should be in our apprehension what it was in the Philosophers definition a Constant Meditation of Death Epiminondas came to a careless Soldier that was asleep when he should watch and run him through saying Sleeping I found thee sleeping I leave thee And God sometime surprizeth a loose man that lives carelesly with a Careless I found thee and careless I leave thee for ever A man that lives as if he had onely a body desires to die so too and therefore wisheth to depart without delay that he may go without pain being of Caesars minde who was not afraid of death but of dying But the man that makes so much use of his soul that he knoweth he hath one desires rather to be taken than snatched out of the world ut sentiat se mori and to use the words of Judicious Mr. Hooker in defence of that necessary Prayer in our Liturgy which no devout man would leave out From sudden death against which we have not prepared our selves and which alloweth us no respite for preparation good Lord deliver us for vertuous considerations is prevailed upon by wisdom to desire as slow and deliberate death against the stream of sensual in clination content to endure the longer grief
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
a place disadvantageous to their horse by reason of the Cunniberries there the deserted Foot leaving the field with one thousand five hundred Prisoners two thousand Armes some Ordnance with four Drakes with all their Ammunition and Baggage An happy Victory had it not cost the life of this gallant and faithful Lord of whom the King said That he was the greatest loss but one he had had since the beginning of the Civil War who Charging in the Head of his Troops and by the unevenness of the ground with the force of the Enemy unhapply unhorsed refused Quarter saying He would not owe his life to those who had forfeited theirs and having so many wounds that he need fear none being one great wound himself he fell to the great loss of his Majesty and his Cause not without a noble testimony and resentment from his very enemies victory attending him to his Grave March 19. 1642 3. dying as good a Protestant as he had lived Mancum cadaver terrae mandavit Integrum animum seminanimo Populo legavit virtutem filio hac tumulum adornans epigraphe Non si nunc olim sic erit THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM COMPTON AN honorable person of such temperance from his youth that he seemed to be the St. Nicholas of our Church of whom the report is that when an Infant hanging on his Mothers breast he fasted Wednesdays and Fridays and would not suck He had no sooner accomplished himself by travel and study but his honorable Brother before mentioned intreats his Company in his Expedition towards the settlement of the Association for his Majesty in their Country where he had an excellent faculty of undeceiving those that wrested the Scripture by Scripture his Head being a Concordance especially of St. Pauls Epistles and he advising it as very prudential to condescend to level discourses at the capacity of the people and to convince them in their own dialect having with him one who had the best command of rain and sun-shine in his Face to smile and weep at pleasure his tears flowing at will melted the affections of many though others better acquainted with the man no more regarded his weeping than they did the moist droppings of a stone-wall against rainy weather Small resistance he had the disorderly people not knowing how to digest themselves into a body as who expects that a rolling Snow-ball should have any curious fashion men at first only fighting in a complement until having bravely brought off his Regiment after three onsets wherein his horse was twice shot under him by two Brigades of the enemy it fell to his lot to be Governor of Banbury for the retaking whereof he had contributed so much by his courage and counsel where his first care was a civil and strict carriage to win those professing people disposing his men so easily paying for so honesty and countenancing Religion among them so exemplarily that the people of the place professed that if the Kings Army carried its self so in other places they admired with what conscience any godly man could lift up a hand against them and his next by his own industry being in his turn upon all works and watches as well as the meanest man among them and the peoples to strengthen the Town which by reason of its nearness to Oxford and its command over the adjoyning Counties he resolved to keep as a place of very great consequence to the King and aimed at as of no less consequence to the other side especially since his indefatigable way of Beating up Quarters reâ—dred him of whose men some in their turns for three years together were observed always on horseback either relieving neighbors witness that admirable relief of Iackson gathering Contributions or alarming the enemy as troublesom at Banbury as Colonel Massey was at Glocester the reason why after some little attempts before 1644. the enemy came from Northampton with so many Miners and Colliers July 19. continuing their Mines till Aug. 27. on which day it was assaulted by several Mines Storms and Batterings with a Summons to which Sir William returned this answer That they kept the Castle for his Majesty and as long as one man was left alive in it willed him not to expect to have it delivered And after several Batteries on three sides of the Castle and seven Mines obstructed by water with an endeavor with much loss to drain the outmost Mote Another September 16. to which Sir William returned this answer by the Trumpeter That he had formerly answered them and wondered they would send again whereupon they proceed fiercely to their Assaults and Batteries together with their Granadoes and great Ordnances of the one 346. of the other 767. for a week together though answered with frequent Sallies insomuch that having made a breach upon the West-wall of the outward of the Castle the upper part near thirty yards in length but the inside wall lined with earth they Storm it about nine a clock in the morning September 23. with six hundred of their choicest men twelve being picked out of each Company with burdens on their backs to fill the Mote falling on with Scaleing-ladders in four several places besides a great throng of them in the Breach but without effect Sir William himself maintaining the Breach and giving order in all the other parts so that they fell off desiring leave after the Garrison had stripped them to bury their dead especially after the dreadful execution made upon them by a sally Sir William ordered upon them under Leiutenant Colonel Green the next day when with the men of Sechem they were very sore And not long after according to the good correspondence and intellegence Sir William had with his Majesties Forces the Siege was raised by the right honorable the Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage on the one side and himself on the other the Besiegers being dispersed and their Carriages Horses three Waggons of Armes and Ammunition two Field-pieces being taken and sent into the Castle A piece of service considering that Sir William was not for a eleven weeks in Bed so great his vigilance nor for a week off the Works so unwearied his diligence that he had Prayers four times every day the spiritual armes seconding the temporal so eminent his piety that he acted all things by common counsel and consent such his wariness and prudence He countermined the enemy a eleven times and over-reached them by stratagems six times such his skill He trusted no man without his own immediate over-sight such by care he seldom failed in his aim so exact this level he had no Mutinies either in Town or Garrison so equal his Justice and happy his Government not to be equalled but by another in 1646. when Banbury was besieged the second time as Ierusalem was in the time of a Passeover when all the Synagogues doing homage to the Mother-Temple all Iudaea was there the Guests Cavaliers come from
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
sequestred by the Parliament he brought 600 Horse and Foot to his Majesty with whom he did more service than any Gentleman in York-shire being always in action till he was overpowered by Sir H. Ch. at Gisâ—orough where he was taken prisoner till exchanged for Col. Sanderson with an undaunted Industry upon all occasions pursuing his Majesties interest both when he was taken with Iohn Berkely in the West and with divers other Gentlemen in the North being a Prisoner in Hull off and on during the whole Usurpation till being trepanned by some words of the Officers of that Garrison against the Usurper together with some Inclination towards his Majesty after some cautious pauses to sound the villains made use there of some old Commissions he had under his Majesties hand for which being brought before a packed Court of his enemies he was condemned to be murthered Iune 8. 1658. notwithstanding that he there discovered the juggle and plot of the Officers and the Impossibility of the thing it self as he was notwithstanding the Intercession of his Nephew the Lord Viscount Faâ—lcon-bridge the Sultan being as he said Inexorable to perswade people forsooth of the horror of the Fact not to be pardoned in a relation laying down after devout and serious prayers together with a short speech declaring upon his death the odiousness of the Trepan and his sorrow that it was not for some more effectual service to his Majesty with courage and resolution saying he was ready to submit his Neck to the Executioners stroke In the Company of Dr. Iohn Hewet a Norfolke man by extraction and Birth and a Cambridge man by Education carrying the Gentility of his Family in the gentileness of his behaviour He stayed not long in Cambridge to be a Scholar before he came to London where in those dayes young men learned to be preachers whom so sweet his voyce and so comely his presence and behaviour that as many came to hear him read prayers then as afterwards flocked to hear him preach So devout grave and distinct his pronunciation that it is probable the prayers of the Church had never been turned out of it if Moses had been so preached that is edifyingly read the seriousness of the office suiting with the weight of the prayers in our Synagogues and those maintain the true worth of Common-Prayer in their arguments did not undervalue them in their Administration His civility and good carriage preferred him to a relation to the Earle of Lindsey as Chaplain and to his virtuous Sister as husband with whom he went through the blackest adversity guilding it with that serenity of temper which others want in their brightest prosperity which together with the smoothness the pleasure of his converse and diligence of his discourses the sweetness of his gesture each part the lifted-up hands the Heaven-ward fixed eyes his sweetly grave and sober countenance and the erect posture preaching eloquently their respective Sermons and the whole one great Rhetorick Schemâ— begat him great applause as that did great envy in so much that when he was convented for the supposed entertainment of my Lord of Ormond his journey to Bruges and the feigned Plot of burning London to make him odious in that place where he was so popular the Usurper did not so much examine as revile him discovering his own spleen rather than the good Doctors design telling him among other approbrious Imputations that he was in the City as a Torch set in the midst of a sheaf of Corne and when he was sentenced by the bloud-hounds for denying their authority and illegal and arbitrary way of proceeding alledging against them the known Law of the Land in the best authorities and presidents no intercession of the Tyrants own dearest Daughter Cleâ—poole who immediately upon it fell mad and before her death told him such bloody things as hastened his both dying not long after the Doctor after whose death the prosperous villany never saw good day could prevail for his life no nor of those very Ministers who were suspected out of aemulation to irritate him to thirst after his innocent blood and therefore for shame beseeched him to save it But Iune 8th aforesaid having made his peace with God and by his charitable Letters to all persons he might of infirmity at anytime have offended as much as in him lay endeavoured to be at peace with all men he came with an holy resolution to the Scaffold at Tower-hill in the company of Dr. Wild Dr. Warmestry and Dr. Berwick of each of whom more hereafter as he said To bear witness to the truth as he did to the Religion Laws and Liberties of England denying upon his death the matters laid to his charge and there with Christan magnanimity sealed it by being beheaded with his bloud As did Colonel Ashton a Prisoner for debt who being allowed a little liberty upon design fell into some emissaries company who as he said upon his death spoke those dangerous words which they testified against him and for that was Hang'd Drawn and Quartered Iuly 2. 1658. in Tower-street as did Mr. Iohn Betley a young man of excellent parts in Cheap-side who after he was thought dead pulled off his Cap and looked upon the people and Mr. Edward Stacy who suffered two days after the last Martyr under the Usurpation Under which suffered Col. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the Parish of Ewford in the County of Wilts Esq a Pious Honest Meek and very grave Gentleman of serious Thoughts and few Words that was all fear and reverence in the Church that heaven he called it where God was more than he making Conscience of giving God to use his own Word his Day and Due and all integrity without an integrity made up of Iustice of which he would say he could not offer an injury to any but thereby he taught that person to injure him adding that our honesty was our security and Charity of which he would often with contentment repeat that Verse of his dear Herbert Ioyn hands with God to make a Man to live Who undertaking with the whole Nation for that noble Engagement was national for his Majesties Restauration the just Priviledges of Parliament the Rights and Liberties of the People and the established Religion rose with Sir Ioseph Wagstaffe in the West upon confidence of the generality of the design the discontents of the lately dissolved Parliament though betrayed by Manning Colonel Mannings Son who was slain at Aâ—esford-fight who was formerly Secretary to the Earl of Pembroke and then Clerke to one of his Majesties Secretaries betrayed all his Majesties correspondencies till Colonel Tukes broke into his Chamber and caught him in the very fact for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country appearing on Munday Mâ—rch 9. at Salisbury in the Assize time whence having seized the Lawyers horses and the Judges Rolls and Nicholas Commissions they marched to Chard in Sommerset-shire where Colonel
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
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