midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
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
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
MEMOIRES OF THE LIVES ACTIONS SUFFERINGS DEATHS OF THOSE NOBLE REVEREND AND EXCELLENT PERSONAGES That SUFFERED By DEATH SEQUESTRATION DECIMATION Or otherwise FOR THE Protestant Religion And the great PRINCIPLE thereof ALLEGIANCE To their SOVERAIGNE In our late Intestine Wars From the Year 1637 to the Year 1660. and from thence continued to 1666. WITH THE LIFE and MARTYRDOM OF King CHARLES I. By Da Lloyd A. M. sometime of Oriel-Colledge in Oxon. LONDON Printed for Samuel Speed and sold by him at the Rainbow between the two Temple-gates by Iohn Wright at the Globe in Little-Britain Iohn Symmes at Gresham-Colledge-gate in Bishops-gate-street and Iames â—ollinâ— in Westminster-Hall MDCLXVIII To the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Henry Bennet LORD ARLINGTON Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL May it please your Honour IN this Collection which is humbly addressed to your Lordship as one of the most eminent surviving Instances of that Loyalty it treats of is contained Remarques and Observations upon above a thousand Persons in which number may be accounted no less than two hundred Peers and Prelates becoming the Excellency of that Royal Cause most Sacred in the two Branches thereof Government and Religion As the Slave in the Historian gathered up the scattered Limbs of his Great but Conquered and Murthered Lords burning them on some vulgar pile and repositing their Ashes in some poor room till more equal times should erect them a becoming Monument Covering them with a Pyramid or inclosing them in a Temple So I from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times have Collected some choice Memorials of those Heroes who deserved not to be forgotten in that Kingdom whereof I am a Subject and that Church whereof I am a Member which Collection may serve for a just though brief account of the great actions and sufferings of these Worthies till time shall produce a better History more lasting than its self that shall be a reproach to the weakness of Stone and Marble History saith my Lord Bacon which may be called just and perfect History is of three kinds according to the object it propoundeth or pretendeth to represent for it either representeth a time a person or an action The first we call Chronicles the second Lives and the third Narrations or Relations Of these although the first be the most compleat and absolute kind of History and hath most estimation and glory yet the second excelleth it in profit and use and the third in verity and sincerity For History of Times representeth the magnitude of Actions and the publick faces and deportments of Persons and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters But such being the Workmanship of God as he doth hang the greater weights upon the smallest wyars Maxima eminimis suspendens It comes therefore to pass that such Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof But Lives if well written propounding to themselves a Person to represent in in whom actions both greater and smaller publick and private have a commixture must of necessity contain a more true native and lively representation I do much admire that the vertues of our late times should be so little esteemed as that the writing of Lives should be no more frequent for although there be not many Soveraign Princes or absolute Commanders and that States are most Collected into Monarchies yet there are many worthy Personages that deserve better than dispersed Reports and barren Elogies There are Pyramids erected for the Maccabees those great sufferers for a good Cause at Modinum in Palestine the bottom of which contain the bodies of those Heroes and the tops serve for Sea-marks to direct Marriners sayling in the Mediterranean towards the Haven of Ioppa in the Holy-Land not unlike whereunto for the use and service thereof is this following Volume partly to do justice to those Worthies deceased and partly to guide and Conduct their Posterity to the same happiness by steering their course according to the honourable patterns of their Lives and the resolved manner of their Deaths being moreover useful intimations to oppressed vertue when neither Law nor Government can neither encourage or support and successful and prosperous Vices which neither is able either to suppress or restrain yet is History able to do Right to the one and Justice on the other History that holds a Pen in one hand that can set the most neglected and despicable goodness eternally beyond injury and being the greatest awe over great Villains on this side Hell a scourge in the other that shall give the most powerful and domineering Villany perpetual wounds beyond a remedy a fair warning to all men that have any sense of fame or honour to take as great care of their deportment before their death as the Roman Gladiators did of their postures before their fall Neither am I without competent hopes that it will be a cosiderable pleasure to those worthy Persons still surviving their former sufferings to see the Kings friends in a body in an History as once they saw them in the Field and be able upon the view to make a judgement what Families and Persons are fit to be employed and entrusted what deserving men have been neglected and who may be encouraged and rewarded without doubt many will with great satisfaction look on this Catalogue as K. Charles I. did on Essex his Army at Edge-hill when he gave his reason for his long looking upon them to one that asked him What he meant to do This is the first time that I saw them in a body And the rather because though not mentioned themselves as being alive Nec tanti est ut memorentur perire Nor is it worth their while to dye that they may be remembred yet by this poor attempt may guess that when other means prove ineffectual Monuments of Wood being subject to burning of Glass to breaking of soft Stone to mouldring of Marble and Mettal to demolishing their own Vertues and others Writings will Eternize them If any Persons are omitted as possibly in so great a variety there may be some or mistaken or but briefly mentioned be it considered that the Press like Time and Tide staying for no man and real Informations though diligently and importunately sought after comming in but slowly we were forced to lay this Foundation and intend God willing if an opportunity shall serve to compleat or at least more amply adorn the Structure One of the greatest Encouragements whereunto will be your Lordships gracious acceptance of this weak but sincere Endeavour of My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and devoted Servant David Lloyd THE TABLE A. ALderman Abel Fol. 633 Mr. Adams 507 Sir Thomas Ailesbury 699 Dr. Ailworth 541 Fr. L. D'Aubigney Lord Almoner 337 Dr. Jo. Maxwel A. B. of St. Andrews 643 Col. Eusebius Andrews 561 Dr. N. Andrews 530 Sir
would likewise in this Nation over-rule all Power Authority Order and Laws that keep them within compass from without when those unruly Lusts Pride Ambition Animosity Discontent Popularity Revenge c. would over-run all those Banks that were raised against them have been 1. The Dubiousness of the Royal Title the ground of thirty six Rebellions one hundred forty six Battle since the Conquest In all which though the Rebels were usually the most the Loyallists were always the best and when the many followed sometimes a prosperous Villany the most noble and excellent stood to or fell with an afflicted right and bore down all umbrages with this real truth That the Crown took off all defects and that any man may pretend arguments to begin a War when but few can make arguments when it is begun to make an end of it 2. The Liberty of the Subject forsooth the old Quarrel for which the Throng and Rabble would venture much when wiser men maintained that there was no greater oppression in the world than a Liberty for men to do what they pleased and that Government is the great security of freedome 3. Religion for whose sake so many resisted Authority when one of the Maximes of this Religion is that none should resist upon pain of damnation and albeit the Factious in all Ages have been many that have taught men for Religions sake to disobey Authority yet the sober in those Ages have been as many that taught them that for Religion-sake they should obey them that have the rule over them But when towards the last that is the worst Ages of the world wickedness grows wiser upon the experiences and observations of former times and twists all these pretensions into one there have been excellent persons that with their lives and fortunes asserted Government and have been Confessors and Martyrs to this great truth That it is upon no pretence lawâ—â—l to resist the Supream Authority of a Nation a truth that keeps up the world without which it had been long ere this a desolation Upon the Reformation in Henry the eighth's time it fell out in England as Luther observes it did in most other reformed Churches that the Papists finding that their way was so odious that it was to no purpose for it to appear here with open face to settle it self therefore did they under several covert pretexts and cunning scruples endeavour to unsettle all other ways and when it could not establish it self to hinder all other Professions from being established that at least they might watch some opportunities whereof there are many offered in distracted times For no sooner was our Church setled on the Primitive principles of Religion and Government than some of those that fled into the free States and the places of popular reformation in Germany returning when most preferments were gone and living upon the Liberality of well-disposed People set up some popular scruples against the established Government and among the rest Iohn Hooper having been long in Switzerland upon his election to be Bishop of Gloucester scrupled several Ornaments and Rights of our Church the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland having a design to oblige all Parties in order to a project he had set up to convey the Crown to his own family to preserve the Reformation though he died a Papist writes to Arch-Bishop Cranmer to dispence with the publick Laws to satisfie a private mans humor and when his Letter would not do makes the young King write another and now Cranmer and Ridley stand up for these great Principles of Government Let private Spirits yeild to publick establishments there is no end of yeilding to scruples one scruple indulged begetting another so long till there be no more Law than pleaseth the humoursome be well advised in making Laws and resolute in keeping them Notwithstanding that the learned and wise Ridley suffered almost as much for his asserting the Government of our Church at that rate from the Puritans as he did afterwards for asserting the Doctrine of it from the Papists he was Martyr to the Protestant Church and a Confessor to the Church of England Hooper not being reconciled to him until the Sun of their lives was going down and their heart-burning upon this occasion was not quenched till the Fire was kindled that burned both their bodies The Lord Admiral Seymour was a back-Friend to Common-Prayer and old Latimer takes him and others up for it I have heard say when that the good Queen that is gone had ordained in her house daily Prayers both before noon and afternoon the Admiral getteth him out of the way like a mole digging in the earth he shall be Lots wife to me as long as I live He was I heard say a covetous man a covetous man indeed I would there were no more in England He was I heard say a seditious man a contemner of Common-Prayer I would there were no more in England Well! he is gone I would he had left none behind him Yea when the death of King Edward the sixth put an end to these differences among Protestants but putting an end to the publick profession of the Protestant Religion it self in this Nation the forementioned scruples accompanied some hot-Spirited men to their exiles under Queen Mary When Master Calvins Authority who forsooth observed some Tolerabiles Ineptiâ in our establishment and Master Knox Master Whittingam Goodman and Foxes zeal cried down the whole Platform of our English Reformation the judgement and gravity of Master Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester the learning of Bishop Poynet and Iuel the piety and prudence of Doctor Sands and Doctor Coxe the moderation and calmness of Master afterwards Archbishop Grindall and Chambers the Reputation of Sir Iohn Cheeke Sir Anthony Cooke Francis afterwards Sir Francis Knolles bore it up until it pleased God that with Queen Elizabeth it was again established and restored by the Law of the Realm In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign all persons were so intent upon obviating the Publick Dangers that they had no leasure to minde particular Animosities though as the Danow and the Savus in Hungary run with party-colour'd Waters in the same Channel so the several sorts of Protestants upon that alteration with several Opinions maintained the same Religion until the year 1563. when the Canons and Articles of the Church being confirmed the Governours of the Church began as it was their duty to press Conformity and they whom it concerned to oppose that Establishment refused subscription Father Foxe as Queen Elizabeth used to call him pulling out his Greek Testament and saying He would subscribe to that and that he had nothing in the Church save a Prebend of Salisbury and if they would take that away much good may it do them Laurence Humphred determining something de Adiaphoris non juxtà cum Ecclesia Anglicanâ They are Camdens own words Nay Anthony Gibby of Lincolnshire declaring in Print That the
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
me And to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart have been innocent at least of this great offence may be believed will find no easie content to flesh and bloud But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I think best becomes me to look upon that which is most principal in its self which doubtless is the prosperity of your Sacred Person and the Commonwealth infinitely beyond any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the honor and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might be pleased to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships So now to set your Conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such mischief as may happen by your refusal to Pass the Bill by this means remove I cannot say praised be God this Accursed but I confesse this Unfortunate thing out of the way towards that blessed Agreement which God I trust will establish for ever between you and your Subjects Sir my Consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by God's grace I forgive all the world with all chearfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding Favours And onely Beg that in your goodnesse you would be pleased to cast your Gracious regard upon my poor Son and his Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise than their unfortunate Father shall appear more or lesse guilty of his death God long preserve your Majesty Tower May 4. 1640. Your Majesties most humble and faithful subject and servant STRAFFORD And then with much reluctancy the King being overcome rather than perswaded Passed by Proxies In hane formam The Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford extorted by a prevailing Faction by force from the Parliament 16 and 17. CAR. 1. Repealed by a Free and Full-Parliament 13 and 14. CAR. 11. WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parlament Assembled have in the names of themselves and all the Commons of England Impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford of High-treason for indeavouring to subvert the Ancient and Fundamental Laws and Government of his Majesties Realms of England and Ireland And to Introduce a Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government against Law into those Kingdoms and for exercising a Tyrannous and Exorbitant Power over and against the Laws of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties Estates and Lives of his Majesties Subjects and likewise for having by his own Authority commanded the Laying and Assessing of Souldiers upon his Majesties Subjects in Ireland against their Consent to Compel them to obey his unlawful Commands and Orders made upon Paper-Petitions in Causes between Party and Party which accordingly was executed upon divers of his Majesties Subjects in a warlike manner within the said Realm of Ireland and in so doing did Levy War against the Kings Majesty and his Leige People in that Kingdom And also for that he after the unhappy Dissolution of the last Parliament did slander the House of Commons to his Majesty and did Counsel and Advise his Majesty That he was loose and absolved from Rules of Government and that he had an Army in Ireland c. For which he deserves to undergo pains and forfeiture of High-Treason And the said Earl hath been an Incendiary between Scotland and England All which Offences have been sufficiently proved against the said Earl upon his Impeachment Be it therefore Enacted c. that the said Earl of Strafford for the heinous Crimes and Offences aforesaid Stand and be Adjudged and Attainted of High-treason And shall suffer such Pain of Death and Incurr the forfeitures of his Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in the said Kingdomes of England and Ireland which the said Earl or any other to his use or in trust for him have or had the day of the first Sitting of this present Parliament or at any time since Provided that nothing be Declared Treason hereafter but what might have been Declared for had this Act never been Passing Saving to all Persons and Bodies Corporate excepting the Earl and all Rights Titles Interests they did injoy the first day of this Parliament Any thing herein Contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That the Passing of this present Act determine not this Session of Parliament c. A Bill 1. So false in the matter of it grounded on the Evidence of Papists sworn enemies to the English Name and State that wanted only the death of this great Instrument of Government to commit those mischiefs they accused him of the Faction Carressing those very Rebels to assist them in shedding my Lord of Strafford's bloud that afterwards imbrued their hands in the bloud of so many innocent Protestants in Ireland 2. So shameful in the manner of it that as the Devil upbraids unhappy souls with those very crimes they tempted and betrayed them to so those very men made use of it to pollute the King's honour that had even forced him to it though the heaviest Censure was himself Who never left bewailing his Compliance or Connivance with this Murder till the issue of his bloud dried up those of his tears A Bill which might well accompany the other Bill about the Parliaments Sitting during pleasure this passing away the King's Honour and the other his Prerogative Neither was the Bill sooner Passed than his Execution was Ordered The King's intercession in a Letter sent by his own Son the Prince for so much intermixture of mercy with the publick Justice as to permit the Earl either to live out his sad life in a close Imprisonment or at least that his soul that found so much Injustice on earth might have a Week to prepare it's self for the mercy of Heaven Rather quickening the bloudy mens Counsels who thought not themselves safe as long as he was so and whose fears and jealousies created or entertained stories every minute of his escape or rescue than mitigating them And therefore the second day after a great man must be surprized secured as soon as accused tried as soon as secured condemned as soon as tried and executed as soon as condemned the very day Sir Henry Vane the Younger that contributed so much to this Murder was Executed afterwards After six months Imprisonment and twenty one whole days Trial wherein he answered the whole House of Commons for six or seven hours each day to the infinite satisfaction of all impartial Persons He was brought with a strong and solemn Guard to the Scaffold on Tower-hill In his passage thither he had a sight of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whose prayers and blessings he with low obeysance begged and the pious Prelate bestowed them
him though he either upon his friends intimation or his own observation of the danger he was in among those who are prone to insult most when they have objects and opportunities most capable of their rudeness and petulancy escaped in a disguise wearing a Vizard lawfully to save himself as others did then to destroy him and the kingdom that night or next morning betimes in a Skuller the Sea being less tempestuous than the Law to Holland where he safely heard himself charged with High-treason in four particulars 1. For not Reading as the Faction would have him the Libell Sir Iohn Clue drew up against the Lord Treasurer Weston in the Parliament 4. Caroli 2. For threatning the Judges in the matter of Ship-money 3. For his judgment in the Forrest business when he was Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas 4. For drawing the Declaration after the Dissolution of the last Parliament And staid so long until he saw 1. The whole Plot he indeavoured to obviate in the buds of it ripened to as horrid a Rebellion as ever the Sun saw 2. The Charges against Buckingham Weston Strafford himself c. ending in a Charge against the King himself whose Head he would always affirm was aimed at through their sides 3. The great grievance of an 120000l in the legal way of Ship-money redressed and eased by being commuted for a burden of 60. millions paid in the Usurped ways of Assessements Contribution Loans Venturing Publick Faith Weekly Meals the Pay of the three Armies Sequestrations Decimations those Bells and Dragons of the Wealth and plenty of England 4. The great fear that the King would make a great part of the kingdom Forrests turned into greater that the Conspirators would have the whole kingdom into a Wilderness 5. And the Declaration he drew about the evil Complexion of the last Parliament made good with advantage by the unheard of and horrid outrages of this In a word he lived to see the Seditious act far worse things against the King and kingdom than his very fear and foresight suspected of them though he gave shreud hints and guesses And to see God do more for the King and kingdom than his hope could expect for he saw the horrid Murder of Charles I. and the happy Restauration of Charles II. enduring eight years Banishment several months Confinement and Compositions amounting to 7000l THE Life and Death OF Sr FRANCIS VVINDEBANK WHEN neither sincerity in Religion which he observed severely in private and practised exemplarily in publick nor good affections to the Liberties of the Subject in whose behalf he would ever and anon take occasion to Address himself to his Majesty to this purpose Your poor Subjects in all humbleness assure your Majesty that their greatest confidence is and ever must be in your grace and goodness without which they well know nothing that they can frame or desire will be of safety or value to them Therefore are all humble Suiters to your Majesty that your Royal heart will graciously accept and believe the truth of theirs which they humbly pretend as full of truth and confidence in your Royal Word and Promise as ever People reposed in any of their best Kings Far from their intentions it is any way to incroach upon your Soveraignty or Prerogative nor have they the least thought of stretching or enlarging the former Laws in any sort by any new interpretations or additions The bounds of their desires extend no further than to some necessary explanation of that which is truly comprehended within the just sence and meaning of those Laws with some moderate provision for execution and performance as in times past upon like occasion hath been used They humbly assure Your Majesty they will neither loose time nor seek any thing of your Majesty but that they hope may be fit for dutyful and Loyal Subjects to ask and for a Gracious and Iust King to grant When neither the Services he performed in publick not the Intercessions he made in private in behalf of the People of England could save so well-affected religious able active publick-spirited charitable and munificent a Person as Sir Iohn Finch Baron Finch of Foreditch It s no wonder Sir Francis Windebank was loath to hazzard his life in a scuffle with an undisciplined Rabble which he freely offered to be examined by any free and impartial Courts of Justice where the multitude should receive Laws and not give them and reason should set bounds to passion truth to pretences Lawes duly executed to disorders and charity to fears and jealousies when the sacredness of some great Personages and the honour of others when the best Protestants and the best Subjects were equally obnoxious to the undistinguished Tumults which cried out against Popery and Ill-counsel but struck at all men in power and favour Sir Francis rather ashamed than afraid to see the lives and honours of the most eminent persons in the Nation exposed to those rude Assemblies where not reason was used as to men to perswade but force and terror as to beasts to drive and compel to whatsoever tumultuary Patrons shall project left the kingdom as unsafe where Factions were more powerful than Laws and persons chose rather to hear than to see the miseries and reproaches of their Country waiting for an Ebbe to follow that dreadful and swelling Tide upon this Maxime That the first indignation of a mutinous multitude is most fierce and a small delay breaks their consent and innocence would have a more candid censure if at all at distance Leave he did his place and preferment like those that scatter their Treasure and Jewels in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers troubled for nothing more than that the King was the while left naked of the faithful ministry of his dearest Servants and exposed to the infusions and informations of those who were either complices or mercenaries to the Faction to whom they discovered his most Private Counsels Those aspersions laid upon him by those that spoke rather what they wished than what they believed or knew he would say should like clouds vanish while his reputation like the Sun a little muffled at present recovered by degrees its former and usual luster Time his common saying sets all well again And time at last did make it evident to the world that though he and others might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable by second and better thoughts than those enorminous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State The event of things at last demonstrating that had the King followed the worst counsels that could have been offered him Church and State could not have been brought into that condition they were presently in upon the pretended Reformation Among the many ill consequences whereof this was not the least remarkable viz. that those very slanderers reputation and credit I mean that little
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
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
his Conduct in which he was not only nobly presented by that Prince but highly valued by his own Soveraign 2. His Integrity and Faithfulness in performing Trusts and keeping Secrets whereof several instances of Importance in Holland France and Flanders qualities that capacitated him not only for the service but the friendship of his Master who with the wisest Princes in the world considering the natural distance between them and their Subjects deny them the common comforts of intimate friends and familiars raise some tried persons to the intimacy of companions under the name with us of Favourites among the Romans of Participes Curarum in whose Breasts they may lay their Heads in whose Bosoms they may ease their griefs joys fears hopes suspicions counsels and whatsoever lieth upon them and would otherwise eat the Heart to oppress it in a civil kind of shrift or confession Friendship calming the Affections from storm and tempest and clearing the Understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts for whosoever hath his Mind fraught with many thoughts his Wits and Understanding do clarifie and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another though he be not able to discourse again so much is gained by tossing the thoughts more easily by marshalling them more orderly and seeing how they look when they are cloathed with words that whets that cuts not It 's my Lord Bacons opinion That a man had better relate himself to a Statue or Picture than to suffer his thoughts to perplex himself 3. Activity and Dispatch The Spartans loved four sorts of States-men 1. They that performed business reservedly to prevent noise 2. Effectually avoiding after-claps 3. Sweetly and oblgingly raising no discontents And 4. Quickly affecting not delays 4. And all this wrapped in a good Nature that made it its business to oblige others to his Master as much as he was obliged himself Some Druggs are very wholesome but very bitter good in the Operation but unkind in the Palate And some persons are very useful in their services but so morose in their expressions of them that Masters are afraid of their duties This honourable person was as affable to others as he found his Master was to him his performances being not like Pills that must be wrapped in something else before they could be swallowed but the candor and sereness of his disposition made his employment as amiable as it was serviceable He all sweetness all Balsom healing and helping translated into English the Roman Character Neminem unquam demisit tristem But neither did he esteem these happy qualities of his Person nor the former instances of his Service any way answering the great favours of his Soveraign without some new attempt as much beyond common performances as his obligations were beyond common kindnesses It was not enough to discharge his several Trusts faithfully to wear his Honour and his Grandieur becommingly Manage Affairs usefully to accommodaâ—e all Interests prudently these are too common returns of favour When the same Royal person was to adventure himself to secure our happiness who was himself a great part of it when his Highness the Duke of York was resolved to hazzard that dear life for his Brother and his Country that he had ventured for other Princes and meer Honour when all the hopes and concernments of the Nation were wrapped up in the Admiral and the Engagement neither the intreaties of his Friends nor the tears of his Spouse beseeching him by the Pledges of his Love one in her Armes the other in her Womb could diswade him though in no command save as he said the Commissions of Allegiance and Gratitude from attending that brave Prince in his dangers that he had waited on in affliction to whose quarrel every true English-man owed a life it being the three Nations Engagement and to whose family he owed Estate Honour and every thing he had to loose but a life they being the effects of Royal bounty when he knew he had the prayers of three Nations along with him while he lived with his Highness and their sorrows if he should have dyed with him Whom he had the honor to divertise with his Ingenuity to assist with his Counsel and as it were to redeem with his Death Those several Noblemen with his Highness being like the several king like persons about Richard III. to amuse fate and receive those dreadful Shots aimed at him in their own persons A death he would have undergone ten times over to save that life that was worth three kingdoms which since the Heroick Duke would not save alone by withdrawing he should not loose alone in Fight but as the kindest Wifes in Aethiopia will needs be buried with their Husbands alive so his dearest friends would needs perish with him congratulating their new honours for this reason that they might like the Sacrifice that is first crowned and then offered fall more Nobly and becoming a Princes companions and their bloud though it might dash might not stain their Royal Master Iune the 2. 1665 coming to wait on the Duke with his Soveraigns love in the one hand and his own life in the other but a little before the Fight he fell with two honourable persons one on the one hand and another on the other so near the Duke that his Brains dashed on his Cloaths The brave Prince no doubt reflecting on his friend as Sir Francis Drake did on his when he said Ah Dear I could grieve for thee but is is no time to let down my spirits And the proper bemoaning of a friends death in War being to revenge it resolving to appease his Ghost with Opdams bloud who attended him immediately to the other world with all those terrors about him that shall destroy this to have Victory bleeding by him a Prince in the same danger with him a Soveraign bemoaning him none envying all pittying is a happy way of dying that all men may wish few men obtain When Sejanus lived so much in the Emperours favour as that they two were reckoned and termed friends the Emperour writing to Sejanus thus in a Letter Haec pro amicitia non occultavi the whole Senate dedicated an Altar to the Goddess Friendship When a person shall be so happy as to injoy his Princes favour so grateful as to be ambitious of dangers to deserve it so innocent as not to wrong the meanest person by it being great only that he might be able to be good yet so unhappy as to dye the very beginning of it It is very fit we should Erect a Tomb to Friendship with this Inscription P. M. S. JOcantis fortunae magnum Ludibrium hic Jacet Regis amor spes regni Quem Hispania Cautum Gallia Ingenuum Belgia Assiduum Aula Integerrimum Anglia tota mirata est magnanimum Hic est ille Infaelicis virtutis Falmuthius Maritus charissimus Pater Indulgentissimus Filius humilimus affinis beneficus frater amantissimus Consiliarius fidelissimus Amicus
must have low and humble Foundations When the Dutch Encroachments allowed our Merchants no more Trade than they tought for Master Berkley as willingly served the King to vindicate and recover Trade as he had done his Master to understand it What was extravagancy in the young Merchant becomes courage and resolution in the Sea-men and Souldiers war and publick affairs exercising that spirit that was too big for soft peace and private business He was content to go first a Volunteer to observe the Conduct and Discipline of others and after evident trials of his personal valour to set out as Captain to exercise his own though yet not taking notice so much that he was advanced by his Princes favour to be a Captain over his men as that he was in his Service a Fellow-souldier with them The Conqueror when he first Landed his Forces in this Nation burnt all his Ships that despair to return might make his men the more valiant Younger Brothers they are the words of an ingenious Author being cut off at home from all hopes are more zealous to purchase an honorable support abroad their small arteries with great spirits have wrought miracles and their resolution hath driven success before it When the Orator was asked What was that that made an Orator successful He answered Action What next Action What next again Action Wonderful like saith the Lord Verulam is the case of boldness in Sea-affairs What first Boldness What second and third Boldness Though he never tempted dangers yet he never avoided them witness the Streights Expedition wherein though expectation commonly out-doeth ordinary performances yet he out-did expectation its self resolving not to Yeild even when it was impossible to Overcome and when Stiffled rather than Mastered he might have had Quarter with more honor than his enemies could give it yet Antaeus like taking courage from his misfortunes his courage whetted with anger and revenge not only fills up the great breach made in the Ship by the loss of an excellent Commander but managed it too with such a present courage as not only out-faced danger but even commanded and disciplined it too scattering a new vigor upon his new Command here then on this on that side his examples quickning his authority so that his very Conqueror became his Prize when he had men enough left to master the Ship and yet not enough without some more assistance to Man it winning on the enemy even when he seemed to have lost himself Great was the value others put on the Prizes now and at other times taken by him greater the esteem he had of the actions themselves which at Court deserved a Knight-hood an Honor that by an over-value of themselves make some fearful of those services that gained them that value yet raised rather than abated his resolution as well remembring the custome which is used at the Creation of some Knights wherein the Kings Master-Cook cometh forth and presents his great Knife to the new made Knights admonishing them to be faithful and valiant otherwise he threatneth them that that very Knife is prepared to cut off their Spurs And in the Fleet gained a Vice-Admirals Command a power the greater it was the more careful he was not to abuse it managing his authority at Sea as if what Sea-Captains seldom do he should give an account of it at Land None so wary in Council none so bold in Execution Valour in acting doth well in him that is under the direction of others prudence in advising becomes him who is to guide the ones excellency lying in not seeing dangers the others in seeing them His goodness sweetned his greatness and the best mettal and blade is that which bends and his industry and patience set off his goodness pains having knit the joynts of his Soul and made them more solid and compacted and his piety both of them seeing so much of God in the deep he saw the proper reason of that common Proverb He that cannot pray let him go to Sea And understanding himself so well that he was none of those Sea-men who as if their hearts were made of those Rocks they Sail by are so always in death that they never think of it Most young men when advanced are transported with the Footboys fancy in Huartus that thought himself a Monarch and the Doctor in Acosta that apprehended himself King and Pope so apt is heighth to turn the brain This Gentleman was of the Nobleman in Laurentius his temper that though otherwise very sensible yet was perswaded that he was Glass so much affected was he with the consideration of his frailty and mortality In all his great actions you might spye in his looks that he had a Monitor like the Emperors Boy following him with a Memento te esse mortalem In this capacity he rides in the Fleet under the command of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle when Iune 2. 1665. the Engagement between the Dutch and the English began wherein his place was ordered towards the Rear though his spirit made to the Front had Discipline endured it in reference to which he thought it greater service to submit to the command of Superiours than to be forward in the Engagement with his Enemies lest otherwise he might be served as the French Souldier was in Scotland about a hundred year ago who first mounted the Bulwark of a Fort besieged whereupon ensued the gaining of the Fort But Marshal de Thermes the French General first Knighted him and then hanged him within an hour after because he had done it without command The evil example out-weighed the good service The posture was so unhappy that he as well as Sir George Ascue his Admiral were parted from the Fleet first and afterwards from one another Castor and Pollux asunder betokened ill luck to the Sea-men and misfortunes following each other as waves do Sir William was divided from himself some of his Officers not thinking fit to obey what he thought fit to command and their performances were like to succeed when neither would follow and both could not handsomely go abreast In this condition he resolved his Valour should make amends for his misfortune and though he was unhappy he would not be unworthy too he had rather die ten times than once survive his Credit The sweetness of life being not able to make him swallow down the bitterness of disgrace He attempted a probability of success with a certainty of his own danger not without reason when the ignominy of a quarter from the Enemy he had to deal with was more intolerable than the pains of a death of which a Sea-man thinks that as it is far hotter under the Tropick in the coming to the Line than under the Line it self so the fear and fancy in preparing for death is more terrible than death it self Berkley against the whole Fleet himself a Navie yet carrying nothing about him impenetrable but his mind About six a clock he was shot
Oration used not one R Now the letter R is called the dogged and snarling letter This person could not indure a base and unworthy expression of the worst-deserving of all the adversaries because though it became them well to hear ill yet it did not become the other side to speak so it being below a good cause to be defended by evil speaking which might anger but not convince and discover the ill spirit of the party that managed the cause instead of keeping up the merit of the cause that was managed He was sad all his time but grew melancholy in the latter end of it conscience speaking than loudest when men are able to speak least and all sores paining most near night when he was not of Edward the II. mind who looked upon all those as enemies to his Person who reproved his Vices but of Henry V. who favoured those most when in years and a King that dealt most freely with him when young and a Prince A melancholy that was rather serious than sad rather consideration than a grief and his preparation for death rather than his disease leading to it wherein his losses were his greatest satisfaction and his sufferings his most considerable comfort Being infinitely pleased with two things King Charles the Martyrs rational and heroick management of his Cause and Sufferings and the Peoples being more in love with him and his cause since it miscarried than when it prevailedâ— an argument he thought that it was reason and not power something that convinced the conscience and not something that mens estates or persons that was both the ornament and the strength of the Kings side the reason he chearfully paid three thousand five hundred and forty pounds for his Allegiance as he had chearfully kept to it the only two instances of his life that pleased him If any body demand how he could suffer so much as he did at last and do as much as he did at first and how he could lay out so much to pious uses whom it had cost so dear to be a good subject The Spanish Proverb must satisfie him That which cometh from above let no man question Though indeed he was so innocent in that age that he could not be rich and of the same temper and equal fortune with Judge Cateline that Judge in Queen Elizabeths time that had a fancy full of prejudice against any man that writ his name with an alias and took exception against one on this very account saying That no honest man had a double name or came in with an alias And the party asked him as Cambden tells the story in his Remains What exception his Lordship could take against Iesus Christ alias Iesus of Nazareth A kinsman of whom having a cause in the Kings-bench where he had been Lord Cheif Justice was told by the then Lord Chief Justice That his kinsman was his predecessor in that Court and a great Lawyer And answered by the Gentleman thus My Lord he was a very honest man for he left a small estate There is one more of this name Sir George Berkley too who as it was his policy that in all discourses and debates he desired to speak last because he might have the advantage to sum up all the preceding discouses discover their failures and leave the impression of his own upon the Auditory So it shall be his place to be the last in this short mention in reference to whom remembring the old saying Praestat nulla quam pauca dicere de Carthagine Being not able to say much I will not say little of him this Gentlemans virtue forbidding a short and lame account of him as severely as Iohannes Passeravicius Morositis in Thuanus a good conceited Poet and strangely conceited man allowed not under the great curse that his Herse should be burdened with bad funeral verses Sir George Berkley of Benton in the County of Sommerset 450 l. 00 00 With 60 l. per annum setled Only it will not be amiss to insert an honorable Person in this place who though he appeared not with his Majesty so openly at first yet acted cordially and suffered patiently for him to the last I mean the Right Honorable GEORGE Lord BERKLEY Baron of Berkley Mowgray and Seagrave ONe of those honest persons that though ashamed of the Kings usage in London were sorry for the necessity of his removal out of it which left the City liable to the impostures and practices and his friends there obnoxious to the fallacies and violences of a Faction that had all along abused and now awed the Kings leige people that could not before by reason of their pretences discern what was right nor now by reason of their power own it This noble person did not think it adviseable to go from Westminster because his estate lay near the City yet he served the King there because his inclination especially when he was disabused was for Oxford He was of his Majesties opinion at the first Sitting of the Long Parliament that to comply with the Parliament in some reasonable and moderate demands was the way to prevent them from running into any immoderate and unreasonable The stream that is yielded to run smoothly if it be stopped it fometh and rageth but his honest nature being deceived in the confidence he had in others whom he measured by himself that is the advantage the cunning man hath over the honest pitied their unreasonableness rather than repented of his own charity and hope and ever after went along with them in accommodations for peace but by no means concurred in any preparations for war insomuch that when he despaired of reason from the Houses he was contented to deal with the particular Members of them being willing to hearken to Master Waller and some others Proposal about letting in the King to the City by an Army to be raised there according to the Commissions brought to Town by the Lady Aubigney when he could not open his way by the arguments used by him and others in the Convention Being a plain and honest man the factious papers and discourses took not with him they were so forced dark canting and wrested The Kings Declaration being embraced and as far as he durst published and communicated by him because clear rational and honest He might possibly sit so long at Westminster as to be suspected and blamed for adhering to the Rebellion but he was really with the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln Middlesex the Lords Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard impeached at Westminster of High-treason in the name of the Commons of England for levying war against the King Parliament and Kingdom It may be thought a fault that he vouchsafed the Juncto his company when they debated any overtures of peace but it was his commendation that he retired when the Earl of Essex was Voted General the King the Bishops and Delinquents lands seized on the New Seal made the War prosecuted c. And appeared only to ballance
us up then the Lord took him up not immediately Miracles being ceased but in and by the hands 1. Of Generous and Noble Guardians that much improved his Estate as well as himself 2. Of two Excellent School-Masters and Tutors in Memory of whom he kept his own Birth-day as the Athenians did that of Theseus doing alwayes some thing in Memory of his Teachers as they sacrificed a Ramme in Memory of his having designed we know not whether performed the endowment of a School where because 1. Raw Youths took Sanctuary in this Profession furnished only with a Rod and a Serida 2. Hopeful men slur it over in their way to a more profitable Employment 3. Indiscreet men meddle with this that understand Books but not Tempers well 4. Men undertake it against their Genius neither with delight nor dexterity who had as lieve be School-boys as School-Masters being ticed to the School as Coopers Dictionary or Scapulaes Lexicon is chained to the Desk or if good School-Masters they grow Rich and neglect it or if poor they are Masters to the Children and slaves to their Parents He intended an able discreet grave and dexterous man should be competently incouraged while he was able and provided for when not able to follow the School at the place either where he was born or which he valued more at the place where he was bred He would bless God that he had staid so long at the Gate of Wisdom supported like Wisdoms House in the Scripture by seven Pillars meaning the seven Liberal Sciences before he entred the Temple of it meaning the Profession of the Law That he might not be reckoned among those Sir Iohn Dodderidge calleth Doctum quoddam Indoctorum hominum genus natural abilities have gone far but Ingenious Education goeth further to understand our Law of which Sir Henry Finch observeth That the sparks of all other Sciences in the world are raked up under the ashes of the Law Which when admitted at the Temple he plied with 1. Reading 2. Hearing 3. Conference 4. Meditation 5. Recollection and 6. A good Common-place of Axioms Principles Rules and Aphorisms Apes debemus Imitori quae ut vagantur flores ad mel faciendum Idoneum Idoneos corpunt deinde quicquid attulere disponunt ac per favos digerunt Ita debemus quaecunque ex diversa Lectione congestimus separare melius enim distinct a servantur Sen. Epist. untill his Country-man Sir Randolph Crew and the great observer of Young men took special notice of him And likewise adorned with a grave Aspect vultu non destruens verba not contradicting that to the subtile eyes of those that dwell on Faces and from the workings of the Countenance discern the Intrigues of the minde which he spake to the Judicious Ear A sober and patient temper a reserved minde Modestus Incestus compositus ac probus vultus conveniens prudenti viro gestus And what was more practised with so much success and integrity that he had insinuated himself into the best acquaintance and most profitable practises of his time having been Steward to sixteen several Persons of Quality Executor to above three hundred Wills Feoffee in trust for fifty several considerable Estates Guardian to forty three several Orphans twice Reader of Grayes-Inn called to be Sergeant Term Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis made Judge of the Common-Pleas 5. Caroli 1. upon Sir Henry Yelvertons Death and 7. Caroli 1. was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the place of Sir Iohn Walter then discharged 5. Car. and dead 8. Novemb. 6. Car. in the right though not in the exercise of which place he died 164 ... Receiving the Absolution and Communion when sick according to the Common-Prayer and ordering his burial when dead so too as did Judge Hutton Baron Denham Sir Iohn Brampston and all the Eminent Lawyers of that time by particular Clauses in their Wills being observed many of them to have wept their Common-Prayers left behinde in their Closets into bluts and blots all over A Monument for the Iudges that suffered about Ship-money P. M. S. Uno sub Monumento claudantur unanimes reliquiae quibus olim una anima unicus Calculus Quos conjunxit ostracismus nec dividat Epitaphium Erudite pertinax Trevor Mansuete magnanimus Davenport prudentissimo patiens Westonus tria Legum Anglicanarum Oracula Quibus regi pio servire summa videbatur Libertas ruente Regno cecidere-Divinae legis tam devote observantes quam tantos Patriae exacte callidi Ne tantos viros longa temporum Injuriâ vel Sacrilegiâ sequioris saeculi Incuria oblivioni traditos Perpetuae Vel fuisse Laboraret Annalium fides sacram saltem eorum memoriam in Epitaphio superstitem voluit D. W. Onely let us add to Sir Humphrey Davenport a relation of his we suppose thus dealt with Will. Davenport of Boom-hall Chester Esq compounded for 0745 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE THIS Gentleman might say as one of the fore-going Judges did That he had been a very happy man had it not been for that he was born in that age wherein it was fatal to give good counsel He was Born Anno 1587. at ... in York-shire most of his relation taking to the Sword that gives laws whereof 3. slain at Museleburgh-field 2. died in the suppression of the Northern Rebellion 63 in 88. and 2. whereof that excellent person Sir Iohn Ratcliffe who when with Sir Charles Rich being sick and desired by the Duke of Buckingham to retire into the Ships returned No they came to fight and leaning on their Pikes challenged death its self at the Isle of Rhee He was bred to the Laws that were made by the Sword so earnest was he in the behalf of those laws when there was a suspicion that they should be made void by an Arbitrary power and Prerogative that I find Sir Thomas Wentworth removed from York-shire to Essex and Sir George Ratcliffe to Hertford-shire to be confined for stickling in the Parliaments Anno 1625 1626. and yet so zealous he was for the Kings Prerogative and just Power when it was in a real hazard to be over-born with tumults and combinations in the behalf of pretended Laws that I find Sir George Ratcliffe involved in all the Earl of Straffords troubles None will question his worth that considereth him as the great Consident of that Earl in his affairs and all persons must needs confess his faithfulness that observeth him that excellent persons companion in all his sufferings The Lord Viscount Wentworth understood men and therefore when he was advanced President in the North he made him Atturney General at York and he was so sensible of serviceableness there that when he was called to the Leiutenancy of Ireland he carried him as his chief favourite over thither Where his contrivance was so good that Cardinal Mazarine gave 10000. Pistols for a Copy of a model pretended to be Sir George Ratcliffes Intituled A model for
to be his Servant as his Neighbour England they say is a Purgatory of Servants but his House was a Heaven for them where their particular Calling helped forward their general one and the subjection to their Master occasioned their freedom from sin the condition of their persons breaking off the slavery of their Souls his service as well as Gods his Masters who might he said often have set him in the Stable and his Servant in the Pallace being perfect freedom neither did they thrive in their Estates under him less than they did in their Souls many able men in that Country owing their plentiful Estates to Gods blessing upon that Praying Family as it was called and his saving rule that grace was thrifty and Christianity the best Husbandry for Godliness and Religion have no idle expences So useful a Member of Parliament that as he spoke not much himself so he was the cause others spoke not so much as they intended awing the zeal of the most unruly to a moderation by the discretion good advice and excellent management of his own King Charles I. knew well the Import of that passage in Seneca when with a design to heal the Distempers of those times he restored the grave Arch-bishop and raised this moderate Bishop to Supream Council Lib. Epist. 1. Ep. 11. Aliquis vir bonus nobis eligendus est semper ante oculos habendus ut sic tanquam illo spect ante vivamus omnia tanquum illo vidento faciamus Elige itaque Catonem si hic videtur tibi nimis rigidus Elige Remissioris animi virum Lalium c. And in the same moderate way did he guide the Clergy both of his acquaintance and Diocess insisting much upon this sad observation that Jealousies and Animosities were easier raised than allayed and that it was not so obvious a matter to retreat from violent Engagements as to Engage in them that which hath in it any thing of Equity being not to be disparaged by mannaging it with undutifulness and pertinacy Though his Complexion was melancholy he loved not a morose Religion and though he was lean with study he would chide men that were so with Envy his constitution indeed was weak but his Spirit vigorous and good natur'd he that had been the support of moderate and sober Preachers lived to see himself despised by those he had countenanced He that was so indulgent to tender-consciences was hardly suffered to enjoy his own But seeing pretences of Conscience end in unconscionable practices scruples turned into tumults and Liberty prove Licentiousness heart-broken with the consequences of these sad premises he died 1642. and was buried by a great Man of the other side who braged that he had buried a Bishop and was answered That it was hoped that he buried him in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection There need no more added to his Life or written on his Grave than that this was the man 1. That had been a constant Preacher and repented at his Death that he had not been a more constant Catechist 2. That interceded for Liberty of Conscience so long for Non-conformists with the King till he saw neither the King nor himself could enjoy their own Consciences that feared the pretence of Religion would overthrow the reality of it and that the Divisions in his age would breed Atheism in the next How this Person in so great Esteem with that party when he was able to protect them could do so little to suppress them is not to be expressed any other way than King Iames in the Conference at Hampton-Court upon occasion of a needless exception taken by Dr. Reynolds at a passage in Ecclesiasticus expressed himself What trow ye make these men said the King so angry with Ecclesiasticus By my sal I think he was a Bishop or else they would never use him so One that a great while followed him but afterwards unworthily set up a Gallery in Mr. C. Church demonstrating that he attended not the Preacher but Interest for he was he said the same man still but they had not the same design and Young men were fittest to make use of to trouble or over-turn a State as Old men were fittest to settle it complained that once he personally inveighed against him whereunto a grave Gentleman not so Great but more Honorable than he returned Truly I thought it meant me for it touched my heart Good men make Sermons it is guilty hearts make Invectives When the Whirl-pool of the giddy times drew in those that went with the stream it could not swallow him that kept above it Long did he strive to bring off Stroud and others his Hearers to him and reason In vain did they strive with him to bring him to them and Faction as long as it was to any purpose he Preached to them their duty and when that would not succeed he constantly avoided their sins neither reading their Declarations nor observing their Fasts nor complying with their Festivals Insomuch that a leading man that had been of his Congregation upon a long Letter he sent to him containing an account of himself and his proceedings since the troublesome times expressed himself in the House to this purpose That he could not tell what they should do with the good old Puritans whose misguided zeal should do the Cause more harm than all their Young Friends pains could do it good He preached for the King as long as he could and when he could not by reason of infirmities and grief he prayed for him as long as he lived keeping honest men that were turned out of their own Churches to preach in his until he went out of the world Alledging to those that liked not that way that in times of persecution the Council of Carthage injoyned all Clergy-men that had Churches to offer their Desks and their Altars to them that had none As he preached not common-places of things to which he wrested the Scripture but went through the Scriptures as Gen. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 c. Chapters the Plagues of Egypt in Exodus the 16. of St. Luke the Beatitudes c. drawing from them genuinely Divine Truths so advised those about him not to follow men that set up notions of their own and then serve some Scriptures to make Affidavit for them but those that opened the Scriptures most skilfully and deduced obvious proper and clear conclusions out of them most faithfully This Primitive Mans gifts were like the Primitive Christians goods in common Being above others alone and above himself in company as Ambergreece is sweet in its self but incomparable when compounded He was a good Pastor himself most of the eminent both Christians and Ministers in London having profited by his Ministry and not jealous that his memory might be out-shined by a brighter successor nor willing that his people should finde his worth by the unworthiness of him that came after him prayed for a better His Estate was
hath this Character in all the Britannia's which escaped the Index Expurgatorius that for what reasons the Inquisitors knew best blotted these words out Verae Nobilitalis Ornamentis vir longe Honoratissimus and Iohn Lord Harrington Executor to the Lady Francis Sidney Daughter of Sir Henry Aunt of Sir Philip Sidney Relict of Thomas Ratcliffe the third Earl of Sussex and Foundress of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge the third Master of that House 1609. and by his Patron and Predecessor Bishop Mountague Arch-Deacon of Taunton where so moderate and milde his Government that there was not in the first eight years of his Government a Negative voice in any affair of the House he taking care to beget a general understanding about any matter in debate in private before they sate upon it in publick tuning each string before they set to a Consort his Discipline so becoming and exemplary that Sir Francis Clerk of East-Soton in Bedfordshire coming privately to Cambridge to see unseen took notice of Dr. Wards daily Presence in the Hall with the Scholars Conformity in Caps and diligent performance of Exercises to so good purpose the careful observation of old Statutes is the best Loadstone to attract new Benefactors that he augmented all the Scholarships in the Foundation Erected a new fair and firm Range of Building and Founded four new Fellowships discovering by the way such skill in Architecture and Arithmetick that staying at home he did provide to a Brick what was necessary for the finishing of the aforesaid Building 5. Such his Reputation for deep skill in Divinity that he with the Reverend Dr. Davenant of Queens Dr. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Hall Dean of Worcester was sent from the Church of England by King Iames to the Synod at Dort to assist the Dutch Churches in the five Controversies of Predestination and Reprobation of the extent of Christs death of the power of mans free will both before and after his Conversion and of the Elects perseverance and to that purpose with Dr. Davenant sent for by that Learned and deep-sighted Prince to Royston October 8. 1618. where His Majesty vouchsafed his familiar Discourse with them for two hours together commanding them to sit down by him till he dismised them with this solemn Prayer which the good man would recollect with pleasure That God would bless their endeavours At that Synod besides the common Applause he had with his Brethren testified by the 10 l. a day allowed them there the entertainments given them at the Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Vtrecht and Leiden by the 200 l. the Meddals and the Commendatory Letter sent with them at parting thence had they this peculiar Character that he was slow but sure recompensing in the exactness of his notion what he wanted in the quickness of it being but once contradicted and that at the first opening of that middle way he and his good Friend Davenant opened to them which surprized some in the Synod at first but reconciled the Synod to them and to its self at last the moderate that cut the hair in a Controversie like those that part a Fray meet with blows on both sides at first but embraced by those very arms that were lift upon them at last Bishop Carleton came home with this Commendation in the States publick Letter to King Iames. Dominus G. Landavensis Episcopus imago expressa virtutis Effigies Dr. Ward returned with these Testimonies from the most Eminent Scholars in those Parts Modestia ipsa quae plus celavit eruditionis quam alii habent Literarum Abyssus taciturnus profundus qui quot verba tot expressit e sulco pectoris or acula c. and among the rest in iis eam eruditionem pietatem pacis studium eumque zelum deprehendimus ut cum ipsius beneficii causa Majestatituae multum debeamus they are the States expressions to the King in their foresaid Letter of thanks Magna pars ipsius beneficii nobis videatur quod ipsi ad nos missi sunâ— with which testimonial Letters they came over and presented themselves to King Iames who seeing them out at a window when first entring the Court Here comes said he my good Mourners alluding to their black habit and the late death of Queen Anne When he was to perform any exercise as the part assigned him in the English Colledge which was generally to oppose because of his acuteness and variety of reading or to give his weekly account to the King as they all did by turns the expectation was great especially in one respect as King Iames would say that he would set down no idle or impertinent word 6. So good a man that he was Tutor as well as Master to the whole Colledge yea kept almost as big a Colledge by his goodness as he governed by his place more depending upon him there and abroad as a Benefactor than did as a Governor Being a great recommender as well as incourager of Worth he used to say that he knew nothing that Church and State suffered more by than the want of a due knowledg of those Worthy men that were peculiarly enabled and designed to serve both And as another Argument of his goodness he went alwayes along with the moderate in the censures of Preachers in the University practices in the Courts that were under his Jurisdiction And in Opinions in the Convocation whereof he was a Member much pleased with a modest soft way that might win the persons and smoother their errors being much pleased with his Friend Mr. Dods saying that men should use soft words and hard Arguments And this so much known to others though so little observed by him this meek and slow speeched Moses his face shining to all men but himself that it procured six or 7000 l. Improvement in his time to the Colledge besides the Building of that Chappel which he Dedicated by his own burial being the first that was buried there His Virgin body injoying a Virgin grave like that of the Lord wherein never man lay Sleeping there where the Franciscans had a dormitory The best Disputant having his Grave where the best Philosophers and School-Divines had their Beds and the modest man resting where that modest order slept who called themselves Minorites from Iacobs words Gen. 32. 10. Sum minor omnibus beneficiis suis. Yea his Adversaries themselves admiring him so far that he was named one of the Committee for Religion in the Ierusalem Chamber 1642. whither he came with hope that moderation and mutual compliance might finde expedients to prevent if not the shaking yet the overturning of Church and State so the wary Merchants throws somethings over-board to save the Ship which escapes not by struggling with the storm but by yielding to it And inserted one of their Assembly whither he came not being not called by the King one of the flowers of whose Crown it is to call Assemblies as appears by Bishop Andrews his Learned Sermon
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
well his care as the first Of a strange counsel that a Lord was reported to give him he said That none durst be so Impudent as to give it him For if they had said he I should have set such a mark upon them as that all Posterity should have known my Intentions by it which was ever to govern by Law and not otherwise He was as faithful of his word to others the reason why he would not grant the Faction all they desired as he was advised because he would make good to them what he granted as it was his Interest others should not be false to him His great word being Leave me to my Conscience and Honour and let what will befall me Trouble not your selves said he when advised to escape from Carisbrooke I have the Parliaments honour pawned for my security I will not dishonour my self by my escape Tell me not were his heroique words to a faithful Counsellour advising him to Expedients to save his Life what I may do to save my Life but what I may do with a safe Conscience God forbid that the safety or being of the Church should depend upon my Life or any mortal mans And I thank God I have a Son that I have reason to believe will love the Church as well as I do And being told his death was resolved on he answered like himself I have done what I can to save my life without losing of my soul I can do I will do no more Gods will be done A King so blessed while left to his own Justice and Government not only in his Family with a Son born May 29. 1630. when a new Star at Noon congratulated his birth the earnest of a more numerous Issue those Props of Empire surer than Armies or Navies but in his Realm with such peace plenty and power ar enabled him to check the greatness of Austria and the insolent Proposals of the King of Sweden To reduce Ireland to such a condition of peace and security as that it paid the charges of its own Government formerly deducted out of the English Exchequer To meditate the repair of St Pauls towards which he got together 146000l. To restore such Scottish Lands and Tythes as had been stollen from the Crown and Church during K. Iames his minority to the Crown with augmentation to the Clergy and ease to the People held in vassalage by their new Landlords reserving those Landlords those Lands to be held of the Crown at a moderate tent and in spight of these and other disaffected persons to ratifie such Laws for Church and State as King Iames had established To furnish out such a Navy as brought the Hollanders notwithstanding Grotius his Mare Librum against which Selden writ Mare Clausum to Caress the King and Queen with presents of Ambergreece and to crave a precarious use of our Seas c. and the Spaniard to coin all his Bullion in our Mint His own people could not wish for more happinesse than they enjoyed unless it were the addition of grace to understand their happinesse grown to such a height as by the necessity of nature which put all things in motion must decline Security increasing the trade arts glory and plenty of the Nation and Justice preserving them the meaner sort might Reverence but need not fear the greatest and the greatest might despise but durst not injure the meanest All Pickaroons and Pirats were forced to their nests and sneaking harbours More Privileges were granted the People than they had since the Conquests as that they should part neither with their money nor lives nor services nor houses without their own consent in Parliament that they should enjoy all the Rights and Liberties they ever had since they were a People that they should have a Parliament every three years that they should fear neither High Commission Star Chamber nor the disposal of their Children and Estates in the Court of Wards and more seeming gratitude a while returned to him than to any Prince before him all his future sufferings being only to set off his orient virtues and to let the wanton people know what a sad thing it is to lose the best of Kings and be given over to the pride and violence of the basest of men to punish our sins with his patience who had an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a constant course of prosperity in himself after a War and overthrow to be judged by all men to deserve that prosperity he wanted yea and to have from God a constant assurance that his prosperity should be the more prosperous for his misfortunes he asking Bishop Iuxon Whether the Blessed above knew any thing of what was done here upon Earth and upon his reply with the Ancients that it was probable they might answering That then his sufferings would be sufficiently recompenced with the knowledge he should have of his Sons prosperity One Night a Wax Mortar such as the King had alwayes by him in his Bed-chamber was as he thought quite extinguished in the Night yet in the Morning burned very clearly to his Majesty and the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton's wonder that lay in the same Chamber as Gentleman of the Bed-chamber that Night knowing it was really out and that none could come in to light it a presage he afterward applyed thus That though God might suffer his light to be extinguished for a time yet he would at last lighten it again Hear him himself thus discoursing on the various events in his affairs and his prospect of what was to come Upon the various Events of the VVar Victories and Defeats THe various successes of this unhappy War have at least afforded the variety of good meditations Sometimes God was pleased to try me with Victory by worsting my Enemies that I might know how with moderation and thanks to own him and his power who is the only true Lord of hosts able when he pleases to repress the confidence of those who fought against me with so great advantages for power and number From small beginnings on my part he let me see that I was not wholly forsaken by my Peoples love or his protection Other times God was pleased to exercise my Patience and teach me not to trust in the arme of flesh but the living God My sins sometimes prevailed against the Iustice of my cause and those that were with me wanted not matter and occasion for his just chastisement both of them and me Nor were my Enemies less punished by that prosperity which hardned them to continue that injustice by open hostility which was begun by riotous and un-Parliamentary Tumults There is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft-times over-ballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every gallant Man in the Worlds esteem a fit instrument to assert in the way of War a righteous cause The more men are prone to arrogate to their own skill valour and strength the lesse
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
take from his Clergy but what God gave them Concluding That he desired them to be subject to him no further than that he and they might be subject to God That a King that was and did so as he was and did should be first suspected and then opposed should be rendred ridiculous abroad and odious at home should easier perswade his foreign enemies to a Peace than his own subjects to contribute to a War and that of their own advising and perswading That such a King should first suffer in his prime Favourites and Ministers of State and then in his own Person That such a King should be forced to sell his Crown Lands to defend and serve them who would by no means yield any thing to maintain him yea questioned Sr. Iohn Wolstenhome Mr. Dawes and Mr. Caermarthen Farmers of the Custome-house for levying his ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage unless he acknowledged that as their favour which to maintain Convoy and Trade he enjoyed as an haereditary Right That under such a King any should say as Cooke and Turner did That the People had better perish by a foreign War than by a domestique Oppresssion and it should be a capital offence to enjoy his favour That one sort of subjects should invade and other abbet and libel him That his ancient Kingdom of Scotland should throw themselves upon the French King and the Kingdom of England upon French Counsels and Designs That so good a Master should be betrayed by his Servants have his Pocket pick'd his Letters discovered as Hamilton did Montross's and the E. of H. did the design against the five Members That malapert Burgesses should bawl out Remonstrances and Citizens affronts against so great and so excellent a Majesty It was introllerable to frame Conventicles Associations and Conspiracies against his proceedings in Church and State but horrid to do so against his Person That when they had stood out many years against allowing him any Taxes without their consent they shall seize his Crown and Dignity without his that those whom he had raised from the people should adhere to the people against him and when they had corresponded with armies that are but tumults mustered in the North they should incourage tumults which are but indisciplined armies in the South that the one might drive him out of his Kingdom for fear and the other out of the Royal City for shame that the Scots should sight and he not dare to call them Rebels and his faithful Counsellors should assist him and he not dare to own them as friends That such a King should be abused to Parliaments by his servants and to his people by Parliaments should be first intreated out of his Magazines Castles and whole Militia and then fought against with them should be forced out of one Town and shut out of another should see his Queen threatned with Articles at one time and though she would not believe that being loath to think the English should do her any ill offices to whom she had done none but good afterwards impeached without any regard to Sex Virtues Birth Allies and Majesty circumstances that would have guarded her from the Barbarous for no other fault but for owning that obedience to her Lord and Husband which they had renounced to their Soveraign That such a Prince should see his whole Court Voted and dealt with as Traitors his Estate Sequestred for Delinquency his Clergy and Church which he was by oath obliged to defend and maintain in its due rights ruined for keeping the Fifth Commandement and Rom. 13. his Churches turned to Stables his Loyal Subjects Murthered Plundered Banished and he not able to help them his Laws and Edicts over-ruled by I know not what Orders and Ordinances his Seals and great Offices of State counterfeited all the costly ornaments of Religion ruined and defaced Learning that was his honor and his care trampled on by its and his old enemies the Ignorant These are things that the world could never believe till it felt them and will not believe when the impressions of them are worn off This wise and good King the same in all fortunes was he that must pardon his enemies but must except his friends out of pardon he that when all his Subjects had sworn Oaths of Allegiance to him must swear an oath devised by his Subjects called Covenant against himself He without whom no oath could he imposed upon the Subjects hath an oath imposed upon him by his Subjects and in that oath must swear that government in the Church Anti-christian which was the only Christian government for 1500 years And when Divines dispute that and other points probably the poor King and his people must swear them peremptorily He that saw an army raised for the King that is himself and Parliament against himself and the instruments of death levelled against his person in his name And heard the very people promise to make him a glorious King who murthered him He that a people complained to of grievances that would not indure the remedies that complained that he made and continued a war when they would not endure a peace and when they had voted his Concessions sufficient grounds to proceed on to the settlement of the kingdom and yet ruined it He that they declared against for raising a Guard at York Nottingham to secure himself c. when they raised at Army at London to Take Imprison and Murther him That must be author of all the bloud shed in the three Nations after all his Concessions Messages Declarations Treaties and Overtures a sea and mercy to 20000 Rebels to stanch it And when all the bloud that was spilt before his death was to rob him of his life and government as appears by the five times more bloud that was spilt after his death to make good that robbery and murther He that saw a war begun to remove his evil Council and ended in the taking off his Head and that was said to begin a war when his first was dated the very day his enemies army was mustered the Faction having ordered an army to take him before he thought of one to save himself This is that Prince that saw a people in the Name of God lay hands on his anointed Preachers of the Gospel of peace trumpet it for war Religion made an argument against obedience and the Holy Spirit urged against peace and love and the Text He that resisteth the King the Ordinance of God resisteth to his own damnation understood thus He that resisteth not shall be Sequestred and that Curse ye Meroz that came not to help the Lord against the Mighty thus Curse ye all English-men that help not the Rebellious against Gods Anointed And Fear God Honor the King into fear the Lord and kill the King and that where the word of a King there is power understood thus The King shall not have a Negative Voice A King that saw himself Engaged
offer to both adding that we should think long before we resolve of great matters and an hasty Judgment may bring on that trouble and perpetual inconvenience to the kingdom that the Child unborn may repent of adjuring them as they would answer it at the dreadful day of Judgment to hear what he had to say The Club of Assassinates proceed to this horrid Sentence Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament have appointed them an High Court of Iustice for the Trying of Chales Stuart King of England before whom he had been three times Convented and at first time a Charge of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors was read in the behalf of the kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk Read the Charge Which Charge being Read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do and so exprest the several passages at his Tryal in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick Enemy shall be put to death by the Severing his Head from his Body To which horrid Sentence the whole Pack stood up by agreement among themselves before made and though they agreed in nothing else either before or since unanimously Voted the bloudy words words of so loud a guilt that they drowned all the earnest Proposals of Reason and Religion offered by a Prince that was a great master of both reason being a more dreadful Sentence against than that they pronounced against him and then used the sameforce to hurry the King away that they had imployed to bring him thither answering his Allegations with that violence wherewith they composed and made good their own The King always great was now greater in the eye of the world for the great Reason he offered the honorable Conduct 〈◊〉 managed and the freedom of Speech he used much beyond other times the captivity of his Person contributing much to the liberty of his Discourse All the great throng that pittied but could not help afflicted Majesty with whom they saw themselves drawn to the slaughter groaned upon the Sentence but with the peril of their lives It being as fatal then for any persons to own respect or kindness to Majesty as it was for the King to carry it and as dangerous for others to be good Subjects as for him to be a good King They that were to force him out of his Life forced others out of their Loyalty endeavouring fondly to depose him from his Subjects hearts as they had done from his Throne Several persons having since deposed that to set off their ridiculous Scene they had those who were appointed to force poor creatures to cry Iustice Iustice who as the excellent Prince observed would have done as much for money for their own Commanders a word one of them in Command then said since he cried because if it had been heard the Traytors had been at the Bar and the Judges of the Land at the Bench and deterr others from saying God save the King Notwithstanding which force this last voice was the most hearty and the other most forced Observable it is that to make his Majesty parallel with his great Pattern whom he represented equally in his Sufferings and in his Goodness and Power a wretch that was within a little while executed by his own Partner Spit in his Face whereat his Majesty not moved only wiped the Spittle and said My Saviour suffered much more for me The Excellent Prince while the Traytors before him were as much slaves to their base Malice Envy Fear Ambition and Cruelty as the poor People were to them exercising as ample a Dominion over himself now as he had heretofore over three kingdoms looking not as if he were before the Miscreants but they before him and he to give as he did and not receive a Doom I cannot forget how an Ancient Father saith That some creatures would not suffer God to be a God unless he please them These are the Creatures that would not endure Gods Vice-gerent should be so unless he served them Thus having formerly forgotten the Oaths of God that were upon them laid aside the Allegiance which they owed gone against the sense of the Law of the Clergy the Nobility the Gentry and most of the sober people of the Nation Besides above half of both Houses before they could fight the King But infinite were the obstructions they were to break through so carefully hath God guarded Kings before they could murther Him they must suppress the unanimous desires of the whole Nation expressed in the looks wishes and prayers of all men and the declared sense of several Countries in their respective Petitions which many thousands delivered in London with the hazard of their Lives and maintained in North-wales under Sir Iohn Owen in South-wales under Laughorne and Poyer in the Navy under the Prince in Kent Essex and Surrey under several of the Nobility and Gentry of those and the adjacent Counties they must steal the King that won ground from his Adversaries by his carriage as much as they had done upon him by their Arts and power reducing to an entire obedience to his Government all that conversed with his Excellent Person from those men that were now as ready to engage for him as ever they did against him as they did at Holdenby when it was said so considerable is a suffering King his very miseries being more powerful than his Armies by the Faction that now they had the King in their power they had the Parliament in their Pockets they must renounce those promises they made upon their Souls and as they and their Posterity should prosper that pittying the barbarous usage of His Majesty they were resolved never to part with their Arms till they had made his way to the Throne and rendred the condition of his party the more tolerable Promises that to enâ—nare the charitable Prince that suspected not that falshood in others that he found not in himself they gilded with the like specious but entrapping kindnesses as the permission of what they knew was as dear as his Life to the pious King the Ministry of his Chaplains Commerce by Letters with his Queen the Visits of his Party the service of his Courtiers some whom they also admitted to their Council of War to mould Propositions which they will urge in his behalf and alter them to the Kings gust and at his advice the intermingling with their Remonstrances such good words as these That the Queen and the Royal Family must be restored to all their Rights or else no hope of a solid Peace They must sacrifice Eleven of the most Worthy Members in the House of Commons and seven Noble Lords to the lusts and cavils of mercenary Soldiers that would not hearken formerly to the delivering of half so many to answer the Articles of their
Church a respectful carriage towards Church-men his punctal dealing with the Cathedral his good usage to the subordinate Tenants and good House-keeping that as he had got his Lease easily he would keep house on the Church-patrimony exemplarily what he said of Simoniecal Parsons is true of over-charged Tenants They can scarce afford to feed their sheep fat who rent their Pasture too dear These were his faults which were other mens virtue the slander of good and evil varying with the humors of men and the temper of times which turned about him as the Spheres about the Center or as the alterations of his Body about his Soul himself all the while immoveable reckoning that answer of the King when he was moved to interpose in his behalf with the Parliament so much honor to him that he wished it Inscribed on his Tomb. He that will Preach other than he can prove let him suffer I give them no thanks to give me my due I cannot but take notice of what was strange when he spoke and found a great truth by them that lived to see it viz. That whosoever lived to see an happy end of that War which they saw so unhappily begun should observe that no man of what perswasion soever but would be heartily sorry for it and heartily repent of it for they should find so many interests coming in to disappoint them in the end they aimed at in the war that they would wish they had never commenced it One Burgoes Pupilla Oculi was a Book he much recommended to young men to propose to themselves a pattern and Bishop Felton was his pattern was his advice to young Preachers to aim at some particular thing in the reading of any Book was his rule to young Students to be always doing something was his counsel to his young Hearers to Analyse Authors was his direction to young University Men to Pen Sermons and Pray them was his lesson to his young Curates on whom he called often for an account of their Studies dismissing them with this Caution of the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reverence thy self Do nothing unworthy your Calling You cannot be too humble as Men neither can you be too grave and reserved as Ministers Tanti eritis aliis quanti vobis met ipsis But he had his virtues too much to be exactly charactered being of the Captains mind who when another had made a large Recital of his own Atchivements asked him and what have you done Answered Others can tell you that not enduring to give any account of himself any more than the Conqueror at the Olympick Games endured the Laurel due to him until another put it on his Head which we shall hear do in these words Hic Iacet Firtus repulsae nescia sordidae Intaminatis quae fulsit honoribus Nec sumit out ponit secures Arbitrio Popularis aurae Duris ut Ilex tonsus Bipennibus Per damna per Caedes ab ipsis Duxit opes animumque Injuriis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anno Christi 164 ... Episcopatus 9. Aetatis 63. THE Life and Death OF Dr. ROBERT SIBTHORP IT were pitty to sever them in their Character that were so like in their Carriage both making themselves known to the world by the Shibboleth of the Authority of the Church and the Prerogative of the King the first was a rational man and dived to the bottom of his subject the other a smooth man that got in the bottom of his Hearers hearts whose discourse went off plausibly in the ayr of his good delivery though they passed not so well in the steady and fixed way of the Press The Preaching of the Sermon called Apostolick Obedience got him much repute at Court and as much envy for this passage in it viz. That the Prince hath power to direct his Counsel and make Laws and Subjects if they cannot exhibite active obedience in case the thing commanded should be against the Law of God or of nature or were impossible yet nevertheless they ought to yield a passive obedience and in all other cases they are bound to active obedience the time the loan was pressed by the King and so much disgusted by the people in the Country It was liked so well by those that heard it that they would have it Printed and so ill by Arch-bishop Abbot when he read it that he would not License it But it seems that Sermon that was not approved of by the Arch-bishop was not so much as questioned by the Parliament which found so much the more fault in the man as they found the less fault in the Sermon which vexed them grievously since they could not but be angry at it and could not punish it it being smart against their late courses yet cautious within their standing Laws But being an active man and if he had any fault it was too much heat he doth not only assert the doctrine of the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects but he suppresseth the impugners of it complaining with Dr. Lamb even of the Bishop of Lincoln against the Loan to the Council-board and pursuing that complaint in Star-chamber But the best jest is that those very people that found fault with this Sermon made it a Branch of their Articles against Arch-bishop Laud that he blotted several passages about Sabbath-breaking Evil Counsellors Popery which they say the Doctor had cunningly interwoven into his discourse to sweeeen the harsh point of the Prerogative out of that Sermon when indeed that Sermon came out with so much care on all sides that the King commanded four Bishops to view and judge it and every passage in it All the preferment that he had was his Vicarage of Brackley and a poor Prebends of Peterburgh though so deserving of the Church in that Diocess that Dr. Iohn Towers Bishop of Peterburgh in a Letter to my Lord of Canterbury wished him as heartily in the Deanery as he did himself in the Pallace It may be some that were in the Historians Character sola socordia innocentes that had flegm enough to make them as they phrase it discreet and moderate judged him one of those unhappy men that had a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heat or activity of spirit that is say they wonderful apt without a due corrective of wisdom and knowledge to break forth into intemperate carriage and disturb the peace and censured him as Tacitus doth some stirring Commonwealths-men Quod per abrupta inclarescerent sed in nullum Reipusum talking that zeal like Quick-silver must be allayed with wisdom and calling honest men in Livies phrase Spiritus magni magis quam utiles But let us hear in this case a most learned and a most ingenious person It s not for superiors to frown upon and brow-beat those who are hearty and exact in the management of their Ministry and with a grave and insignificant Nod to call a well-regulated and resolved zeal want of prudence and moderation such discouraging of men in
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
bettered by him as that he should be bettered by others observing little but what he would imitate and doing nothing but what might be imitated In the Morning he thought what he had to do for which he might ask Gods blessing and at Night what he had done for which he must needs ask pardon being ready always to part with and give account for his life not being afraid to look upon his score but fearful to increase it To despair because a man is sinful is to be worse because he hath been bad To be discontented he reckoned a folly because it makes that which was a punishment only before a sin now and by finding fault with God to make another fault in our selves He neither made another mans fault his own by aggravating it nor doubled his own by excusing it These virtues of his Person the great reputation of his Parts and Skill the eminency of his Practise and his known Integrity preferred him to a relation to many Noble Persons and at last to the Service of the Crown for having been some years Barrister of Grayes Inne and called with fifteen more to be Serjeant Term. Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis being Puisne to them all insomuch that it was remarkable at that time that he read in Grayes Inne after he had received his Writ to be Serjeant which was done by the advice of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges he was made the Queens Serjeant the next Term I. Car. and upon the death of Sir Francis Harvey one of the Justices of the Commons Bench. Wherein with what impartiality he administred Justice to the people and with what faithfulnesse he gave advice to the King especially in the matter of Ship-money may be guessed by his sufferings from the Faction and his love from the whole Kingdom Which since we could not be so happy as to have an account of this excellent Father from his excellent Son who is as well his Character as his Child his History as well as his Issue we must be contented to take from a friend of his who would have Posterity know him to whom they are so much obliged In honorem Iuris Anglici justitiaeque Catholicae hoc magnum utriusque ornamentum praesentibus posteris colendum Proposuit Johannes Extone qui seris nepotibus hand alio Innotescere gestit nomine quam quod fuerit Francisci Crawley amicus comes ut erat ille virtutum Ille qui in paenitentiam se natum putavit diu vixisse noluit nisi ut bene vivererit simul moreretur nec perfunctorie nec morose aut superbe pius non quid faceret Curavit sed quo animo ne vel ipso pecearet officio Et cautus et castus Spectabile probitatis exemplar non ut spectetur Nil mali minimum aestimavit nil boni nimium Haud quo Ib atur at quo eundum properavit â—d rationem potius quam exempla se exigens saltem voto perfectus Nec vitia rebellium pati potuit nec rebelles ejus virtutes Infaelix saeculum pronunciavit quod doctissime nequam erat Contemplativum potius quam Practicum THE Life and Death OF Mr. JOSIAS SHUTE HIS very name is as a Silver Trumpet to his Reputation sounding out a Quicquid doctiorum est assurgite huic tam colendo nomini With whom it was as with Iob appearing Chap. 29. The young men hid themselves and the aged rose and stood up when the Ear heard him then it blessed him and when the Eye saw him it gave witness to him His name I say is an Aromatick Oyntment diffusing a more rich Perfume then the choicest of our broken Boxes 2. He descended of a Learned Race the Son of an eminent Divine in York-shire and one of five famous Brother-Preachers A man of that latitude of Learning that length of Apprehension that depth of Judgment and height of Speculation so compleat in all Dimensions that I may justly renew that admiration of Naz. concerning Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where was there such a mixture of rare Parts and Graces What kind of Learning was he unacquainted with what kind was he not Excellent in as if he had studied that alone 3. And though he were a man of but a single heart yet was he one of divers Tongues able to read the Scriptures without the spectacles of Translators he both drank and derived those Holy Waters out of their sweeter Fountains the Originals And even Bellarmine acknowledges the Original is in several cases to be used Luther and Melancthon valued their Skill in the Originals above Kingdoms faith Amam in Paraen L. H. Our grave Author like a wise Merchant was well skill'd in the Tongue of the place he traded to being Master of those three Grand Mother-Languages inscribed on the Cross of Christ besides some others of their Progeny 4. Filius Ecclesiae in patribus versatissimus This Son of the Church of England was most familiar with the Ancient Fathers both of the East and West Of the Greek Chrysostom lay in his bosom even till he did Patrizare become like unto him in his flowing strife and golden Eloquence Among the Latine St. Augustine that Maul of Hereticks was in chief esteem with him 5. He was an exact Historian for Ecclesiastical History especially those Records of the Church the ignorance whereof is the Mother of many of our growing Errors and Indevotions nor was he less acquainted with the Schools though more delighted with the waters of Siloah than of Meriba even a Master of the Master of the Sentences and a Secretioribus unto the Councils even of their Cabinet 6. And because the flock is not only to be fed but cured sometimes he was a singular Casuist and Chyrurgeon that knew well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to set in joynt again and to binde up the broken heart A Soul-Chyrurgeon right for all those properties of heart and hand eye no less sweet and soft in exhortations consolations He was indeed another Apollos an Eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures and as another Basil he did thunder in his Doctrine and lighten in his Life his light shined before men not only that of knowledge but that of example also in his Piety and Charity in his Gravity and sweet Affability He guilded not over Luke-warmness with the Varnish of Discretion nor allowed he violence in unconcerning and indifferent Affairs under the pretence of zeal He was at last dignified with the Arch-Deaconry of Colchester and having been above three and thirty years Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard-street London an indefatigable most faithful and most beloved Preacher of the Gospel there lamenting the distractions fallen upon the Church he departed hence to rest with God Iune 22. 1643. He was born in Gislewick in York-shire and bred in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and afterwards became Minister of St. Mary Woolnoth in London and was Reader I do say and will
Hopton so eminently serviceable 1. His great in-sight into the Designs and prudent fore-sight of the events of present Counsel which when most doubted and wavered gave him that great resolution that undertook great difficulties and bore up against greater 2. His experience of War in general and his acquaintance with that seat of it committed to him in particular 3. His renown all over the Kingdom for Piety and Moderation and within his own association for Hospitality Civility and Charity 4. His Name among the Enemies as considerable for his Generousness and Justice as for his Valor and Conduct 5. His Estate that set him above Mercinariness and his care for Money that set his Souldiers above need the occasion of mutinying among themselves or of incivillities towards others This Noble Lord dyed a Bruges September 1652. without any issue besides those of his Soul his great thoughts and greater actions his Barony of Stratton being coferred on the Lord Iohn Berkley younger Son of Sir Maurice Berkley of Bruerton in Somerset-shire so highly concerned with him in the Martial Affairs of the West being one of them that reduced and commanded it he might well share with him the honor and as Queen Eliz. was pleased that none but a King should succeed in her Throne when dying she said My Throne is the Throne of Kings so this Lords Ghost would be infinitely satisfied to see that none but an excellent Souldier should inherit his honor for his honor was the honor of Chivalry Vivat Radulphus Hopton Terris quas domâ—it fama coelo cui vixit anima natalem geminum ipsa mors pariat Quicquid vires potuere quicquid honesti Doli Favente et statore Jove et Fugitivo Pedibus restituentibus rem manibus Fractam Fecit Vir magnus maximis excidens ausibus Cui saepissime in desperata sola salute salus monstrum martis superat fuga strata potestas est unita minor major ut una manus duplam meruit lauream ut pote cujus caput galeam habuit et intus et extra De membris acies de mente triumphat acumen Hac coiere greges hac coiere duces Hostes dextra domat cerebro victoria victa est Praefuit hinc magno Julius inde sibi THE Life and Death OF Sir EDMUND VERNEY SIR Edmund Verney whose Ancestor Iohn Verney stands as eminent in the Catalogue of Gentry made for Buckinghamshire in the twelfth year of King Henry the sixth 1433. as he doth in the Catalogue of Martyrs from 1637. to 1666. was born April 7. 1596. at London bred most part of his time at Court with an education answerable to his birth 1. Under such a discipline as moulded his tender soul to that frame that was not only advantageous towards the succeeding part of his education but towards the irregularity of his whole life 2. Under that tuition which successively instilled ingenious and good rudiments into his tender breast in the order that was proper to his tender years Age at once maturating his parts enlarging his capacity and advancing his Lectures until several years Education had accomplished his minde with that stock of active useful and manly knowledge which furnished him with those vertues that are a perfection to noble natures and a rest and tranquility to great minds 1. Bridling and checking the irregular sallies of the inferior faculties and the impetuous passions incident to younger years 2. Fashioning his behaviour to that humanity that was due to mankind and that modesty and gravity which was due to himself 3. Regulating his discourse to that temper that became the product of judgment and right reason and raised him to thoughts of imployment worthy and ingenuous abhorring to busie himself vitiously or impertinently In a word when Education had made him a compleat man he bethought himself that he was born to labour as the sparks are made to fly upwards being indued with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iamblichus calls it that ever moving and restless principle his soul and trusted with those abilities that suggested to him that he was not so far neglected by either God or Nature as to be placed in the world without imployment After sometime spent with my Lord Goring to see the Low-Country Wars and some sallies out with my Lord Herbert Sir Henry Wotton to see the Courts of France and Italy 1618. he goeth with my Lord of Bristol into Spain whence he returned so well accomplished as to be recommended to the service of the Prince where he as zealously opposed the plots and stratagems of the Papists in Spain as his Tutors Hackwell and Winniffe did in England insomuch that he struck an English sorbon Doctor called Maillard a Box on the Ear for visiting one of the Princes Servants sick of a mortal Feavor whereof he died and labouring to pervert him though with so much hazard that he had much ado to keep out of the Inquisition One reason of the Princes hastening out of Spain at whose departure I finde he presented Don Maria de Lande with a cross of ten thick Table-diamonds bought of his Servant Sir Edmund Verney His Master the Prince disposing of Offices about him agreeably to mens inclinations when King made this stout man Knight-Marshal in which capacity he was severely honest in time of peace and undauntedly valiant in time of war saying when by his place he held the Royal Standard at Nottingham That by the grace of God his word always they that would wrest that Standard from his hand must first wrest his soul from his body And accordingly at the battel of Edge-hill Octob. 23. 1642. when as Julius Caesar commanded his Standard to be thrown among his enemies that the Souldiers might be provoked in honor to fetch it so he adventured with his Majesties colours among the enemy that the Souldiers might be engaged to follow him and was offered his life by a throng of his enemies upon condition he would deliver the Standard he answered That his life was his own and he could dispose of it but the Standard was his and their Soveraigns and he would not deliver it while he lived and he hoped it would be rescued as it was when he was dead selling it and his life at the rate of sixteen Gentlemen which fell that day by his hand One of the strictness and piety of a Puritan of the charity of a Papist of the civility of an English-man whose family the King his Master would say was the model he would propose to the Gentlemen whose carriage was such that he was called the only Courtier that was not complained of At the same time that he ventured his life for his Soveraign at home he sent his Son Sir Ralph Verney to accomplish himself for his service abroad Reliquiae Edmundi Verney vere militis Banneretti qui Deum timendo nisâ—t timere didicit nihil non Ausus nisi quod omnes audent peccare O In
mercy of the Usurpers dying a while after of the Small Pox 1655 6. En Nobil Georgii Bar. Chandois cineres paenitentiales qui lachrimis mixti Invitam abluere culpam quae eadem erat Herois paena magnanimo munifico pio maximo viro erat unus error erat veneri una Labes Abi Generosa Iuventus quae tumida ferves vena nec tanti emas paenitere nec in facinus praeceps ruas bis lugendum cum patras cum Luis THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT DORMER Earl of Caernarvon RObert Dormer Grand-Child to Robert Dormer Esq Created Baronet by King Iames Iune 10. 1615. and Baron Dormer of Wing in Buckingham-shire the thirtieth of the same Month in the same year was by King Charles in the fourth year of his Reign made Viscount Ascot and Earl of Caernarvon a Person of whom King Charles the First might say as Lewis the 13 th said of his Favorite Luynes that considering the debonairness of his temper when disposed to be merry he was a very fit man to be trusted with the Kings Majesties Game as he was being by a Grant to him and his Heirs Chief Avenor and with respect to the vastness of his parts when disposed to be serious he was very capable of the most concerning trust which he had by Pattent as Lord Lieutenant His nature was not so much wild as great and his spirit rather extraordinary than extravagant to be admired rather than blamed as what age and experience fixed every day more and more into a comprehensive wisdom a deep understanding a strong resolution and a noble activity His Recreations were rather expensive than bruitish not unmanning his person as Drunkenness c. which he hated perfectly he being prone of those that gave occasion to the scandalous and odiously comparitive Proverb As drunk as a Lord as drunk as a Beggar but if moderately used becoming his Dignity as Gaming c. which he affected inordinately though he left this caution to Posterity That he that makes playing his business makes his business a play and that Gaming swallow Estates as the Gulf did Curtius and his Horse A man knoweth where he begins that pleasure but is utterly ignorant where he shall end besides that there is no pleasure worthy an excellent spirit in high Gaming which can have no satisfaction in it besides either sordid Coveting of what is anothers or a foolish Prodigality of what is their own making that breach in their own inheritance sometimes in one week which they and their Heirs cannot repair in many years The temperature of his minde as to moral habits was rather disposed to good than evil he was a Courtier and a young Man a Profession and an Age prone to such desires as when they tend to the shedding of no Mans bloud to the ruin of no family humanity sometimes connives at though she never approves of so that we may say of this Great man as one doth of a greater That those things we wish in him are fewer than the things we praise Being a Servant not only to his Majesties Prosperity but to his Person waiting on him not out of Interest but out of Love and Conscience no sooner appeared the Conspiracy in Buckingham-shire but he discountenanced it upon all occasions with his interest and when it brake out in the North he Marched to oppose it with two thousand men whom when he could in Parliament neither save the Life of his Majesties most faithful Servant not preserve the Honor of his Majesties Person being resolved rather to perish with the known Laws of the Land than to countenance them that designed the overthrow of them he led to wait on his Majesty to York where having with the rest of the Nobility attested the integrity of his Majesties proceedings and vowed his defence under his Hand and Seal he Rendezvouzed Marching to settle the Commission of Array in Oxford-shire and Buckingham-shire with so much activity that we finde him with the Earls of Cumberland New-castle and Rivers excepted by the Party at Westwinster out of the first Indemnity 1642. they offered for their actions in behalf of his Majesty as the Earl of Bristol the Lords Viscount Newarke and Faulkland Sir Edward Hyde Sir Edward Nicholas Master Endymion Porter were for their Counsels and Writing And having disciplined his Regiment we finde him the Reserve generally to the Kings Horse in all Engagements as first to Prince Rupert in Edge-hill where his error was too much heat in pursuing an advantage against the Enemies Horse in the mean time deserting and leaving naked his own Foot and afterwards to the Lord Willmot at Roundway-down where by Charging near and Drawing up his men to advantage not above six in a File that they might all engage he turned the fortune of the day as he had done at Newbury receiving Sir Philip Stapleton with this Regiment of Horse and Essex his Life-guard with a brisk Charge and pursuing them to their Foot had not a private hand put an end to his life and actions when breathing out his last he asked Whether the King was in safety Dying with the same care of his Majesty that he lived So he lost his life fighting for him who gave him his honor at the first battel of Newbury Being sore wounded he was desired by a Lord to know of him what suit he would have to his Majesty in his behalf the said Lord promising to discharge his trust in presenting his request and assuring him that his Majesty would be willing to gratifie him to the utmost of his power To whom the Earl replied I will not dye with a Suit in my mouth to any King save to the King of Heaven By Anne Daughter to Philip Earl of Pembrook and Mountgomery he had Charles now Earl of Caernarvon From his noble extract he received not more honor than he gave it for the blood that was conveighed to him through so many illustrious veins he derived to his Children more maturated for renown and by a constant practice of goodness more habituated to virtue His youth was prepared for action by study without which even the most eminent parts of Noblemen seem rough and unpleasant in dispight of the splendor of their fortune But his riper years endured not those retirements and therefore brake out into manlike exercises at home and travail abroad None more Noble yet none more modest none more Valiant yet none more patient A Physician at his Father-in-laws Table gave him a Lye which put the Company to admire on the one hand the mans impudence and on the other my Lords mildness until he said I 'll take the Lye from him but I 'll never take Physick of him He may speak what doth not become him I 'll not do what is unworthy of me A virtue this not usual in Noblemen to whom the limits of equity seem a restraint and therefore are more restless in injuries In the
quem non reperit argutum facit THE Life and Death OF HENRY HAMOND D. D. WHEN Doctor Henry Hamond was born Aug. 18. 1605. at Chersey in Surrey a place equally indeared to the pious but unfortunate King Henry VI. for bestowing on him a charitable Burial and to the excellent but not understood King Charles I. for giving this man a seasonable birth the hopeful circumstances of his relations promised as much in his Infancy as the eminent passages of his life performed in his Manhood Son he was to Dr. Iohn Hamond that exact Critick Grandchild to Dr. Alexander Nowel that reverend Divine God-son to Prince Henry that great Spirit To Eaton he was sent in his Long-coats initiated in Latine Greek yea and Hebrew too Languages that seemed to be his Mother tongue so early were they rather infused to him than acquired by him by his Fathers care and to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford at thirteen by Mr. Allens assistance his good friend and Mr. Bush his diligence his excellent School-master Here they that taught him Philosophy were not ashamed to learn of him the Tongues especially the Hebrew so rare a Quality in that age that at first admission as he had no less than eight Batchellors his Schollars for Greek so he entertained four Masters his Pupills for Hebrew wherein as in the whole Circle of Learning that though his Father and in him all his Interest dyed yet his own merit recommended him at once to the honor and advantage of Demy in that Colledge at fourteen years of age of Fellow at nineteen of Natural Philosophy-Reader at twenty and the Orator at Dr. Langtons Funeral at twenty two Having taken his Degree the ordinary method of those times had preposted his soul and ennarrowed his spirit by the contrived and interested systems of modern and withall obnoxous Authors but that his larger Genius and second thoughts prompted his great soul to a study equal with its self that took in all humane and sacred Learning from the clearest and most dis-interested sources of both wherein he gave on all the occasions his fifteen years continuance in the University offered him such pregnant Specimens of a vast proficiency as might be expected from that indefatigable man that constantly studyed twelve hours a day and left Notes and Indexes at the beginning and end of each Book upon almost all the Classick Authors extant This industry and this eminence could not in those days wherein Religion and Learning were at their fatal heighth both of perfection and encouragement escape either observation or preferment therefore being ordained at twenty four viz. 1629. and Batchelor of Divinity at twenty six viz. 1631. and regularly both in conformity as well to the Statutes of the House as to the Canons of the Church Anno 1633. he Preached Dr. Frewens Course the President of his Colledge since Lord Archbishop of York at Court with that success that with the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicesters favour then his Hearer he was upon an honest resignation of his Fellowship inducted Aug. 22. of that year to Pensehurst as not long after by the Reverend Father in God Brian Lord Bishop of Chichester then and since of Salisbury and Winchester he was dignified at Chichester His Preferments were not so suitable to his Desert as his Carriage was to his Preferment For When Rector of Pensehurst His Sermons were not undigested and shallow effusions but rational and just discourses his method was which he recommended to his Friends after every Sermon to resolve upon the ensuing subject and so pursue the course of study he was then in hand with reserving the close of the week for the Provision of the next Lords-day whereby not only a constant progress was made in Science but materials unawares were gained unto the immediate future work for he said be the subject treated of never so distant somewhat will infallibly fall in conducible to the present purpose but preaching being the least part of Religion Prayer and Devotion that power of Godliness was observed by himself and his Family guided by his good and prudent Mother publickly and privately every day according to the strictest rules of the Church for the assistance wherein he allowed a Curate a comfortable Salary His Administration of the Sacrament was as of old frequent and monethly wherein the Assertors was by his instruction and example restored to that repute as it not only relieved the aged and apprentised the young poor of Penshurst but afforded a surplusage to the necessities of Neighbor Parishes But that his other cares might be the more successful he brought an able School-master into the Town and the Church Catechism into the Church which with his half hours exposition before Evening Prayer he rendred so fully intelligible to the meanest capacity that he observed the older as well as the younger hearers reaped more benefit than from his Sermons Yet a Ministers converse must enforce his Doctrine and the endearing of his Person must recommend his instruction very Hospitable he was at all times especially those more solemn at his Table very charitable at his door besides the tenth of his Estate set apart for the poor in weekly Pensions and his Corn sold them below Market prices which though as he said he had reason to do it gaining thereby the charge of Portage was a great benefit to them who besides the abatement of price and possibly forbearance saved thereby a days work Very civil he was in letting his Tythes whereof one memorable instance in this Having let the tythe of a large Meadow and received half the Money at the beginning of the year the meadow was drowned and when the Tenant offered the payment he generously returned him the first with this Noble reflexion God forbid I should take the tenth where you have not the nine parts Very punctual he was in visiting the sick whose request he prevented in his addresses both in person and by writing taking as he would say the opportunity of that serious time to instill the most serious instruction but withall intimating the folly of remitting the great business of eternity to the last hour which God designed for the commensurate employment of the life so much Charity exercised among his Neighbors taught them that love among themselves that no difference there in his time went beyond his mediation and that kindness for him who had the rare happiness obliging both parties that as long as he was there he had never any trouble for his Dues and when forced thence no care for his Books and Estate which when plundred were redeemed and reserved for him by his Neighbors to the end of the War When Arch-Deacon so frequent were his publick Sermons at the Cross and elsewhere so earnest and pathetick his Discourses for obedience and union which his zeal and prudence charged as the Interest of the Clergy who saw
honorable Society of both the Temples to bless them as with his constant residence so with his fatherly instructions and prayers To signifie the reality of their Love and value to his Lordship they not only allowed an annual honorary recompence to express their thanks but they provided handsome Lodgings and furnished them with all things necessary convenient and comely for a Person of his Worth Such as could hear him preach rejoyced at his gracious words such as for the Crowd could not come nigh enough to hear him had pleasure to stay and behold him conceiving they saw a Sermon in his looks and were bettered by the Venerable Aspect of so worthy a Person God was pleased to exercise him with bodily pains indispositions and distempers sometimes with fits of the Stone but under all these God supported him with his grace as always humble devout and pious so for the most part sociable serene and chearful till he had lived to his sixty seventh year He had frequent infirmities a little before his death He would often say That it was a very cheap time to die there being so little temptation to desire life and so many to welcome death since he had lived to see no King in the State no Bishop in the Church no Peer in Parliament worthy of that name He only hoped and prayed God that he would favor him so far as with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to let him die without pain and indeed he did For after his Spirits were in ten dayes decayed and wasted he slumbred much yet had vigilant Intervals at which time he gave himself to prayer and meditation and holy discourses And being full of the Grace and peace of God and confirmed in it by the Absolution of the Church he rendred his precious soul to God that gave it Decemb 7. 1659. His body for Stature and Figure was somewhat taller and bigger than ordinary yet very comely No man ever became the Preachers Pulpit or the Doctors Chair or the Episcopal Seat better than he did carrying before him such an unaffected State and Grandeur such benign gravity and a kinde of smiling severity that one might see much in him to be reverenced but much more to be loved yet what was Venerable in him was very amiable and what was amiable was Venerable His remains lie in the Temple-Church with this following Inscription buryed at the Charge of both Temples to his great honor and their greater I know saith one of his death all accidents are minuted and momented by Divine providence and yet I hope I may say without sin his was an untimely death not to himself prepared thereunto but as to his longer life which the prayers of pious people requested the need of the Church required the date of nature could have permitted but the pleasure of God to which all must submit denyed otherwise he would have been most instrumental to the composure of Church differences the deserved opinion of whose goodness had peaceable possession in the hearts of the Presbyterian party I observed at his Funeral that the prime persons of all perswasions were present whose judgements going several wayes met all in a general grief for his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. M. S. Augustius Solito Virtutum exemplar Si tibi tuisque imitandum velis Mox Moriture Lector Subtus positas nepigeat contemplari EXUVIAS RADULPHI BRUNRICI S. T. D. IPS WICI peramaeni Icenorum oppidi Parentibus honestis Tantoque Filio beatis orti Infantulum terrestri orbum caelestis tenerius fovit Pater Piaque literatura pene ad miraculum imbutum Per omnes Academiarum gradus eductum Ad Aulae Catharinae praefecturam Ad Saepius repetitam Procan Cantab. dignitatâ—m Ad Exoniensis Episcopatus Honorem Caroli Regis favore evexit Quem afflictissimum fidelitate inconcussa coluit Vir undique egregius Doctior an melior Dubites Fâ—mâ— per omnem aetatem immaculata into splendida magnifica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 olim per biennium at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec conjugii spretor nec caelibatui impar Severu ubique castitatis exactor Tam vultus quam vitae majestate venerandus Quod enim vultu promisit optimum vita praestâ—t Tacita Sermonum urbana morum sanctitate Non jucundus minus quam utilis Supercilii non ficti non clati non efferi Humillima granditate cuncta gerens Credas nec conscio tantas cumulasse dotes Naturam prodigam benignamque gratiam Adeo omne tulit punctum idque levissima invidia In Concionibus sacris frequens dominator In disputationibus Scholasticis semper Triumphator Barnabas idem Boanerges Tam pugno quam palma nobilis Suavi terrore venerando amore ubique pollens Beat a uberrimi ingenii facundâ—a Honorum omnium votis et expectationi nunquam non satisfecit Quadratus undique Deo Ecclesiae sibi Constans A mobili et rotunda aevi figura penitus abhorrens Scenter sâ—pienter et semper bonus Reformatae olim in Anglia Religionis priscae Doctrinae Liturgiae Regiminis Ecclesiae integrae contra veteratores et Novatores omnes aequanimus ac acerrimus vindex Sero nimis pro temporum morbis et remediis Episcopali sublimitate meritissime auctum Bellorum et Schismatum late stagrantiuâ— incendia Optimum Antistitem una eum Coepiscopis omnibus viris ut plurimum in noxiis et eximiis Tota Ecclesia Rege Repub. mox deturbarunt Deturbatum facultatibus pene omnibus Spoliarunt Iacturâ—m ingenti ut decuit animo tulit de Sacrilegis non Spoliis Sollicitus Queis non minus carere 〈◊〉 recteuti didicerat Tandem ipsa obscuritate illustrior factus Generosae Templariorum Societatis amore allectus Concionatoris Honorarii munus ibidem suscepit Nec diu proh dolor sustinuit Quum enim Testamentum condiderat Quale primaevi solebant Episcopi Gratiarum in Deum Benignitatis in amicos Charitatis in omnes copia refertum Anno AEtatis Sexagesimo septimo Iniqui inquieti ingrati seculi mores Iamque merito recrudescentis belli minas Laetus fefellit Et ad meliorem Dominum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christiana plenus Optata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beatus Libens migravit Decemb. 7. 1659. Haec vero â—enerandi Praesumlis ramenta aurea Amplissimique viri parva compendia L. M. C. I. G. S. T. D. Magnalia ejus quae nec marmor breve Nec Tabula prolixa nec mens mortalis Capiet Beatae Aeternitati Silentio consecran da 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ite nunc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vestros recensere greges Multis Sectarum maculis variegata pecora Si quos inter vestros Gigantum fraterculos Vilis plebeculae vilia mancipia Pares â—imelesve invenistis Heroas Primaevis nuperisque nostris Episcopis Vsserium volo Mortonium Potterum Davenantium Hallum Prideauxium Westfieldium Winneffum Brunricum Alios meliori seculo Fato Dignos Extra irae invidiaeque vestrae
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
Persons of Quality as the Sons of the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Fairfax whose Son Sir Charles was his Gentleman-Usher desired to be admitted for Education 13. His Industry so great as if his labours were as it is said of his Kinsman Arch-bishop Morton his Recreation and his Motto Severus his who died at York where this Bishop was born Laboremus or Iulius Maximinus Quo major eo laboriosior 14. His Acquaintance the most grave and learned men of our own and forreign Churches Spanhemius Rivet Willius c. 15. His Retainers and Chaplains the most Eminent men in either University and Bishop Brownrig was one of them made by him Arch-deacon of Coventry and Prebendary of Durham the last of which preferments he held in Commendam with his Bishoprick till he died 16. His aptness to teach by every thing he did like Socrates whom he resembled in another particular in that he usually confuted his Adversaries always out of something they granted 17. His Converts Bishop Crofts of Hereford the Lady Cholmeley Dr. Swinborne Mr. Theoph. Higgens and twelve eminent Papists more 18. His Small Stature actuated by a great spirit 19. His affable virtues and parts 20. His extraordinary though secret mortification all which virtues and performances rendred him a Saint in his life a Doctor in his works a Confessor in his sufferings and a Martyr in his charity in visiting persons Sick of the Plague who being buried in Saint Peters Eâ—ston-mauduit hath this Monument In Memoria Sacra hic vivit usque usque vivat exiguum etiam illud quod mortale fuit viri pietate literis hospitalitatâ— eleemosinis Celeberrimi Reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini Thomae Dunelmensis Episcopi Eoque nomine Comitis Palatini Clara Mortonorum familia Oriundione Quem Richardo peperit Elizabetha Leâ—dale Sexto de 19. puerperiâ— Eboraci in lucem Editum Quem Col. Sancti Joh. Evangelistae in Acad. Cant. Alumnum fovit Instructissimum socium Ambivit selectissimuâ— Benefactorem sensit munificentissimum ornamentum celebrabit perpetuo singulare Marstonienis Alesfordiensis Stopfordiensis Rectorem sedulum Eboracensis Canonicum Pium  Quem Ecelesia Glocestrensis Wintoniensis Decanum Providum  Cestrensis Leich Covent Dunelmensis  Praesulem vigilantem   Habuere Qui post plurimos pro sancta Ecclesia Catholica Exantlatos Labores Elucubrata volumina toleratas afflictiones Diuturna heu nimium Ecclesiae procella hinc inde Iact at us huc demum Appulsus bonis exutus omnibus bona preterquam fama conscientia tandem etiam corpore senex Caelebs hic Requiescit in Domino Felicem praestolans Râ—surrectionem Quam suo demum tempore bonus debit Deus Amen Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum existimaverit Obiit Crastinâ— S. Mathaei Salutis 1659. Sepultus Festo S. Michaelis Anno Aetatis 95. Episcopatus 44. THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS COMBER Dean of Carlisle DOctor Thomas Comber Son of Comber Clarenciaux King of Armes was born at Shermanbury in Sussex on New-years-day and Baptized on the day of Epiphany 1575. the twelfth Child of his Father as Bellarmine Baronius Scultetus and many eminent men were who were the vigorous off-spring of their decayed Parents His first Education was at Horsham in the same County under a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who studying his meek but active temper as much as he did his Books rather mildly led than severely drive him to whom a frown was as bad as correction and a correction as bad as death whose great industry and happy memory taking in all the learning instilled into him and retaining all he had taken in twice reading sufficing him to gain any piece of an Author at eight years of age furnished him with so much skill in Greek and Latine Poetry History and Oratory as with Mr. Titchburns his exemplary Tutors improvement of him in Hebrew Syriack Arabick besides Logick Ethicks and a smattering in the Mathematicks recommended him after three years continuance in Trinity Colledge Cambridge where he was admitted to Dr. Nevill then intent upon planting a good Nursery in that Colledge knowing that learning propagates by example and one good Scholar begets another as one lights his Candle at the Candle of his Neighbour to be Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Foundation Where his proficiency was the effect 1. Of St. Bernards method which was written upon many of his Books ut Legeret Intelligendi fecit cupidites ut Intelligeret oratio Impetravit ut Impetraret quid nisi vitae sanct it as promeruit sic cupiat sic orat sic vivat qui se proficere desiderat 2. The industry he commended to others in these Instructions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shun Idleness as the common sewer that takes in all temptation employ your selves well or you will be employed ill 3. And the good example of other Students and he would use often that of Seneca magnum est quod a sapiente viâ—o vel tacente proficias and the accomplished man now dexterous in Hebrew Arabick Coptick Samaritane Syriack Chaldee Persian Greek Latine French Spanish and Italian and well versed in the Greek and Latine Fathers Schoolmen Councels and Modern Writers Great Abilities very much sweetned by his great Modesty and Humility appeared first an exellent Tutor bringing up his Pupils rather as Friends and Companions than Scholars stealing his vast Learning to them by Discourse and Converse rather than inculcating it by Set-Lectures and training them up to vertue and knowledge by his example more effectually than others did by Precepts giving this reason for it afterwards to other Tutors That young men admitted to the Company of those that were their Seniors would be decoyed into excellency being ashamed to speak or do any thing below the Company they kept And then a melting Preacher preaching as much by his silent and grave Gesture composed to a smiling sweetness as by his learned and honest Sermons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After that having filled his own Country with his hopes and name he travelled three years secured from the Vices of foraign Nations by his chast gravity and sage prudence and very capable of their vertues by exact Observations and good Company being all the while he was in France at the house of the Judicious Learned and Religious Mounsieur Moulin the Buckler of the Protestant profession Frequent Disputes at which he was so much of Chrysippus his faculty in disputando pressus concisus subactus that he was imployed at the command of our late famous King to Dispute at St. Andrews in Scotland in publick with the Divines there who admired him much for his solid quickness and various Learning Holy Conference the fruit whereof was the conversion of several Jews the good effect of Oriental Learning and particularly one Bardesius by name whom he convinced that it was impossible to maintain the truth of the Old
burn the City â—earing that he should not dye in his Majesties favour for dying under a suspition of such a thing so unworthy of him and disowned their authority preparing himself for that death he had so often looked in the face both in England and in France for he Commanded in both kingdoms with a becoming frame and temper ennobled with honorable and devout circumstances by the assistance of a faithful Minister that honored his Family and in the company of many Reverend and Noble Friends with the Offices of the Church of England every day from his first imprisonment to his death Iuly 10. 1654. all with as much reverence zeal thankfulness holy sorrows and joys as his great soul could hold When with a religious confidence took his leave chearfully and particularly of all his honorable and good friends he passed through the Guards on whom he bestowed money twice bare-headed out of an humble respect to the people that pittied him on each side till he rather leaped up than ascended the Scaffold upon Tower-hill smiling with a pretty glance of his Eye which was a natural loveliness in him on the Executioner and his Instrument and saying Welcome honest Friend that will do the deed I 'le warrant it And being refused by the Sheriffs Edward Sleigh and Thomas Allen to speak to the people Let us saith he to the Reverend Minister with him speak to God as they did for half an hour afterwards professing he died a faithful Subject to King Charles II. for whom he said he would lay down if he had them a thousand lives and a Son of the Church of England for both whose Restauration he prayed and desiring the people to remember a poor Soveraign abroad who he said deserved to be remembred bowed himself to the stroke of death with Christian meekness and courage extraordinarily mixed together the same time and place but not with the same weak spirit that Don Pantaleon sa dyed wih who for fighting with Mr. Gerard on the New-Exchange where one Mr. Greenaway no ways concerned in the quarrel was killed was brought to dye with him though on a different occasion on Tower hill Upon which day Mr. Peter Vowel a Bedford-shire man School-Master of Isâ—ington being betrayed by a blind Minister he relieved at his house and disowning the pretended High-Court of Justice whom as Ierome of Prague did his adversaries he cited to appear before the great Tribunal was murthered at Charing-Cross a pitiful Minister of theirs sent under pretence of comforting to trepan him passing as severe a sentence on his Soul as they had done on his body dying as they would tell him and he confessed confidently instructing the Souldiery in the dangerous principles they went on in and professing his adherence to the King and the Church desiring that none should be disheartned at his death being assured that sanguinis Martyrum which he said they shed as the Heathens did in their bloudy sacrifices should be semen Ecclesiae commending his soul to Gods mercy and his numerous family to his providence saying He was sure the King should be restored and that his poor family should be better provided for than it could be by him he and Mr. Gerard leaving these principles behind them 1. That men might be excellent if they looked to their thoughts before they became desires and happy if they had but a right Opinion of things and understood That all the good and evil of mans life though it may have its occasions without hath truly and really its causes prevented or lessened or turned into good by a vertuous disposition 2. And that they looked into Opinions before they turned into Passions Major Henshaw escaped by flying and Mr. Somerset Fox by Argument that Massacre as did Mr. Manley a Merchant The noble Gentleman Sir Humphrey Bennet a Brigadire in his Majesties Army Mr. Woodcock Mr. Carrent Mr. Friar Mr. Io. Sumner and Mr. Oliver Allen Mr. Hatgil Baron Mr. Stapely Mr. Mansel Mr. Iackson and Mordant 1658. Mr. Sidney Fotherby and Mr. Tudor a Chirurgeon In which yet Col. Benlow fell Oct. 1651. having been observed active in the engagement at Worcester being shot to death at Shrewsbury a Person very observant in his carriage of that Rule in Mr. Herbert Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In Love or Honour take account of all Shine like the Sun in every corner see Whether thy stock of Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And in his habit of this Affect in things about thee cleanliness That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r Slovens take up their stock of noysomness Before hand and Anticipate their last hour Let thy minds sweetness have his operation Vpon thy Body Cloaths and Habitation And Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh I think of Corkes-would in Cumberland Knight having paid 700 l. for the service of King Charles I. laid down his life for King Charles II. which he ventured magnanimously in the Field at Wiggan in Lancashire with the Earl of Derby with whom he being taken prisoner there lost it resoluteâ—ly by beheading after a Court-Martial at Chestâ—r where he denounced judgment on the Murtherers that passed sentence upon him setting the foulness of their fact with as much power on their Consciences as they did his Loyalty upon his Person and praying as heartily for the Kings person then in danger as for his own soul doing all he could honorably to save his life that he might not be felo de se and nothing dishonorably that he might not be a Traitor to Allegiance comforting himself with that saying of Pope Nicholas Martyrum solennia non funebria tanquam morientium sed utpote in vera vita nascentium natalitia vocantur and be it here remarqued that Sir Henry Fetherston and Col. Iohn Fetherston put as fair for Martyrdom as Sir Timothy which on all occasions to serve his Majesty they declined not by their own Cowardise but escaped by the Divine Providence winning and wearing the name of Confessors One whose Son lay very sick being told by a Physician that his Son was a dead man said I had rather a Physician should call him so an hundred times than a Judge on the Bench once whose pronouncing him for a dead man makes him one Sir Henry Hide Brother as I take it to the Lord High Chancellor bred a Turky Merchant and after the gaining of a considerable Estate and Experience made their Consul at Morea where his integrity and prudence gained him such respect in those parts that his Majesty having some occasion of correspondence at the Port sent him to use his own word Internuncio thither without any design against either the Merchants whom he had a charge to be tender of or Sir Thomas Bendish who had been a Prisoner in the Tower and paid a 1000 l. for his Loyalty to his Majesty by whose Commission he was there Ambassador and who hath published an Apology to clear
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
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
the Bishop indulged and Sir Iohn prosecuted though both at last suffered by them Sir Iohn hardly seven times in these Wars escaping for his life at his House in Northampton-shire whence coming to hide himself in London he dyed in the Bell-Inn in St. Martins lane London sundry losses by plunder having paid after for composition 628 l. Sir Henry Martin born in London bred in New-Colledge Oxford the smallness of whose Estate was the improvement of his Parts being left but 40 l. a year which made him a Student where as he would say 80 l. would have made him a Gentleman pleading in his Chamber by Bishop Andrews advice who directed him to the study of the Civil Law the important Causes transmitted to him weekly from Lambeth he attained to a great faculty in amplifying and aggravating extenuating any thing at the Court wherefore he became an eminent Advocate in the High-Commission no Cause coming amiss to him who was not now to make new Armor but to buckle on the old not to invent but to apply Arguments to his Client and was made Judge of the Prerogative for Probate of Wills and of the Admiralty in Causes concerning Forreign Trade whence King Iames would say pleasantly of him That he was a mighty Monarch in his Jurisdiction over Land and Sea the living and the dead in the number of which last he was for fear and grief 1642. Dr. Thomas Eden born at Ballington-Hall in Essex Fellow and Master of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he always concurred with the old Protestants in his Votes in censuring extravagant Sermons c. and joyned issue with them in his suffering only he that was so excellent an Advocate for others pleaded so well for himself that he was permitted to dye in Cambridge where he bestowed 1000 l. since nothing was left him to live on elsewhere his Places of Chancellor of Ely Commissary of Sudbury and Westminster Professor of Law in Gresham-Colledge being Sequestred as he did 1646. leaving Sir Iames Bunce a great Agent and sufferer for his Majesty being twelve years banished his Executor on this score being an utter stranger to him Sir Iames asking the Doctors advice about a â—lause in a Will wherein he was Executor and being told by him that it was capable of a double sense replyed Tell me what you think in your Conscience is the very minde of the Testator which I am resolved whatever it cost me to make good Dr. Cowel observed of Dr. Eden that had a happy name which commends to a Favourite that might be easily pronounced Dr. Morrison and Dr. Goad both of Kings great Civilians and great sufferers the first a great friend of Bishop Williams the second of Bishop Laud at first the Faction was not perfect in the art of persecution being more loose and favourable in their language of Subscriptions but afterwards grew so punctual and particular therein that the persons to whom they were tendered must either strangle their Consciences with the acceptance or lose their Estates for the refusal thereof Sir Richard Lane a Gentleman not lost in the retiredness of a good judgment but being able to expose his merit as well as gain it by a quick fancy sending before a good Opinion of himself to make way for his Person with this Caution That he took care he should not sink with two great an expectation Whence in an Assembly wherein they used to Epithet every man with reference to their most obvious defects or vertues he was called Tho. Wary and with good reason he keeping his converse as among Superiors within the compass modesty and reverence so among equals within the Rules of a sweet and honest respect it being he said both to command our own Spirits and endear our friends a great art not to be too familiar or presume too much on the goodness of other natures upon that of a mans own besides that he thought it injustice to give our familiars the froth of our Parts reserving the more solid part for strangers though he exposed not his good humors but upon an equal Theatre a mans esteem rising not from shewing himself but from keeping himself regular and equal as well in mean and common as in great and extraordinary actions pretending to nothing he had not left being discovered albeit when once men have a good opinion they seldom take pains to disabuse themselves he might be suspected in what he had and being sure of Correspondents knowing that a single interest or abilities would sink under Court-affairs He was preferred the Princes Sollicitor and Attorney in the best times and his Father Keeper of the Seal in the worst not parting from his Majesty till he did with his own soul dying with a good Conscience abroad with more comfort than if he had dyed with a good Estate at home having discharged his place under a distressed Soveraign with much courage as well as skill leaving this opinion behind that Projectors of new Engines were not to be too much encouraged in a populous Country since by easing many of their labor they out more of their livelihood and so though beneficial to private persons are pernicious to the publick to which what imployeth most is most advantageous Sir Iohn Bennet as much persecuted by the Parliament as by the High-Commission THE Life and Death OF Dr. WILLIAM JUXON Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury BOrn at Chichester in Sussex and bred in St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow and President his deep and smooth parts as appears by his Speeches and Poetry on publick Occasions particularly on King Iames his death exceeding his years and yet his modesty and other vertues so exceeding as to hide his Parts had not he been discovered for Preferment by the Perfume of his worth as the Roman Gentleman was by the sweet Odour of his Cloaths for punishment Bishop Laud had taken great notice of his Parts and Temper when he was Fellow with him but greater of his Integrity and policy when a stickler in the Suit about President-ship of the Colledge against him When observing him a shrewd Adversary he thought he might be a good Friend being though Doctor of Law yet a great Master of Divinity all hearing him Preach with great pleasure and profit so much he had of Paul and Apollos of learned plainness and an useful elaborateness when he preached saith one that heard him Of Mortification Repentance and other Christian Practicks he did it with such a stroke of unaffected Floquence of potent Demonstration and irresistible Conviction that jew Agrippaes Festaes or Felixes that heard but must needs for the time and fit be almost perswaded to be penitent and mortified Christians Dr. Laud finding him shining in each place he was as the Divine Lights in their Orbs without noise his Birth so Gentile that it was no disgrace to his Parts though not so Illustrious but that his Parts might be an Ornament to him his Vertues so modest that they
hid themselves from others and so humble that they were not known to himself A temper as little moved with others injuries as with his own merits fit to Rule others that commanded its self Recreations Innocent and manly traversing Hills and Dales for Health and for Instruction studying God at home and Nature abroad fitting himself by generous Exercises for generous Employments to which he knew a body comely quick and vegel with Exercise was more suitable than a minde dulled with studies Though when he came to his Throne over affections the Pulpit or his Chair of State over reason his Colledge it appeared that his severe pleasures that refreshed his body loosned but melted not his minde I say sagacious Dr. Laud finding him every way rather than designing him his successor brought him out of his privacy as Pearls and rich mettals are out of obscurity to adorn his Majesties Court his modesty gaining him that respect which others seek by their ambition To have one near the King he could trust in his old age made him Dean of Worcester and Clerk of the Closet first after that Bishop elect of Hereford and then after himself Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer In the first of which places being to have Saint Pauls combate with Beasts he used Saint Pauls art became all things to all and as those that were of old exposed to Beasts overcame by yielding being most mild and most vigilant a Lamb and a Shepheard The delight of the English Nation whose Reverence was the only thing all Factions agreed in all allowing that honor to the sweetness of his manners that some denied the sacredness of his Function being by love what another is in pretence an universal Bishop the greatest because the last Bishop that was ruined that insolence that stuck not at the other Bishops out of modesty till 1649. not medling with him The other charge of Treasurer whereby all lay upon him both what the good Worship and the bad Religion and Money which was now safe under the Keys of the Church so the Romans Treasury was in their Temple and the Venetians have the one Guardian of their City and Money St. Mark he in the middest of large Expences and low Revenues managed with such integrity handling temporal wealth with the same holy temper he did the most spiritual Mysteries that the Coffers he found empty he in four years left filling and with such prudent mildness being admirably master of his Pen and Passions grace having ordered what nature could not omit the tetrarch humor of Choler That Petitioners for money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his civilly languaged denials and though a Bishop was then odious and a Lord always suspected yet he in both capacities was never questioned though if he had he had come out of his trial like his gold having this happiness in an age of the bravest men to see more innocent than the best and happier than the greatest and if it was a comfort to them to suffer for their too great and to the Commonalty unknown and therefore suspected virtues it was more to him to be loved for that integrity which could be unkâ—own to few and hateful to none He was above others in most of his actions he was above himself in two 1. His honest advice to save my Lord of Straffords life who having appeared before a Parliament was set at last before him who though he heard Noblemen yea Clergy-men too pressing his death for the safety of the people the highest law they said the King the Church the Commonwealth asserting his life by law and right which is above all these And that brave Maxime like another Athanasius of Justice against the world Fiat justitia ruat coelum terra Ecclesia Respublica 2. His holy attendance on his late Majesty who gave him the title on his death of That honest man whereof before in his Majesties Life and Death Recollecting there all his virtues to see what the excellent King with a recollection of all graces was to suffer with a clear countenance at least before his Majesty chusing to disturb nature rather than the King looking on what his Majesty with a chearful countenance endured Thus the Sun at our Saviors Passion whereof this a Copy that was Ecclipsed to others shined clear to Christ. It was much to see the King dye with so undaunted a spirit it was more to see the Bishop behold him with so unmoved a countenance but so it became him whom his Majesty had chosen his Second in that great Duel committing to him the care of his soul both departing in himself and surviving in his Son and with it his memory and what was more his Oblivion with which and the other holy suggestions of that Royal soul he came down from the Scaffold as Moses did out of the Mount with Pardon Peace and New Law to a sinful people after the breaking of the old After God had preserved him through the many years miseâ—ies of the usurpation and the inexpressible torment of â—his disease the Stone which he endured as chearfully as he did his pleasures having patience to bear those pains which others had not patience to hear of to deliver that message to the Son which he received from the Father he Crowned King Charles II. April 25. 1661. at Westminster and went Iune 1663. to see King Charles I. Crowned in heaven having seen the Church Militant here settled 1662. he was made a Member of the Triumphant 1663. full not only of honor and days but of his own wishes too leaving near 10000 l. to augment the St. Iohns Revenue at Oxford Colledge Repair St. Pauls and Cantâ—rbury Cathedrals and finish the building of the New-hall at Lambeth which he had begun besides directions throughout the Province to repair Churches and Church-aedisices improve Vicarages and establish peace Iuly 9. he was buried in St. Iohns with as great solemnity as the University could afford Dr. South making an excellent Oration upon the occasion in the Divinity Schools and Dr. Levens of St. Iohns the like in the Colledge Crete being not more proud of the Grave and Cradle of Iove nor the King of Spain of the Suns rising and setting in his Dominions than that House may be that Dr. Iuxon and Dr. Laud was bred there As he had gone on in the same course acted on the same principles enjoyed the same honors so he lieth in the same Grave with his friend and patron Archbishop Laud. Dr. Walter Curle born in Strafford near Hatfield my Lord Cecil's house to whom his Father was serviceable in detecting several Plots referring to the Queen of Scots as his Agent and in settling the estate he had from the Queen of England as his Steward And by whom he was made Auditor of the Court of Wards to Queen Elizabeth and King Iames and his Son preferred in Christ-Colledge and Peter-house in Cambridge His Lord gave him a
resign when his Conscience and Imployment could not consist together and much troubled between his unhappiness that he could not serve his Generation and his temper that would have its liberty having quitted his place 1653 4. he injoyed not long his life Dr. Lambert Osbaston suffering more for his Conscience by the Faction than he had done for his waggery by the Government he went beyond Canterbury but he could not go beyond Westminster where many of his own Scholars that he made not onely Scholars but men teaching his charge not only their Books but themselves breeding them to Carriage and Address as well as Learning and infusing a spirit with his notion were as severe to him as he had been to them Some favour they shewed his Person for his former services which he repented but Sequestred all his Preferments for his present integrity in pressing all those he had an interest in even Bradshaw himself upon his Death-bed to repent He was turned out of one Living in the Country for insufficiency and yet employed at most examinations at Westminster for his parts where he made boys do that which men durst not tell truth to Oliver then their Nose and Face he being not pedantick in his carriage and discourse was by some not thought rich in Learning because he did not Jingle with it in his discourse He gave the best alms to the poor learning never paying boys because their Parents did not pay him encouraging poor Children to be painful in School but never poor Scholars idly begging before it Mr. Bust the admirable Greek School-master of Eaton never suffered any wandring Scholar Rogues in the front of the Statute to come to his School privately relieving and publickly chiding such left his boys might be discouraged to those that had taken pains at School for maintenance come beggars out of the University He never dulled a quick head by mawling it nor awed a fluent tongue into stuttering by affrightment nor commuted correction into money nor debased his Authority by contesting with the obstinate turning such out when he could do them no good and they might do others much hurt studying the Childrens dispositions as they did their books the invincibly dull he pityed consigning them over to other Professions Ship-wrights and Boat-makers will chuse those crooked pieces of Timber which other Carpenters refuse The dull and diligent he encouraged he had been a Child himself if he had corrected nature as a fault in Children the ingenious and idle he quickned the ingenious and industrious he doted on not only pardoning but being infinitely pleased with a well-humored fault that discovered parts as well as youth and was an ingenious error Mr. Iohn Cleaveland owing his Birth and School-breeding to Hinckley in Leicester-shire the heaving of his natural fancy by choicest Elegancies in Greek and Latine more elegantly Englished an exercise he improved much by to Mr. Vines then Schoolmaster His University Education to Christs Colledge where he was Scholar and St. Iohns where he was Fellow besides his being an exquisite Orator and a pure Latinist The first recommending him to the honor of making those publick Speeches of his to his late Majesty the Prince the Prince Palatine c. lately published and the other preferring him to the place of Rhetorick-Reader he was a general Artist and universal Scholar that had the patience to squeeze all the proper Learning that had any coherence with it into each fancy which ran like the soul it dwelled in in a minute through the whole Circle both of Sciences and Languages by the strength of an exercised memory that conned out of book all it read Mr. Cleaveland reckoned himself to know just so much as he remembred his fancy in his elaborate Pieces of Poetry wherein he excelled summing whole books into a Metaphor and whole Metaphors into an Epithite walked from one height to another in a constant level and Champion of continued elevation he ventured his Person and Preferment for his Majesty at Newark where he handled his Sword in the quality of Advocate and his life at Oxford where he managed his Pen as the highest Panegyrist witness his Rupertismus his Elegy on my Lord of Canterbury c. on the one hand on the one side to draw out all good inclinations to vertue and the smartest Satyrist witness the Rebell Scot the Scots Apostacy the Character of a London Diurnal and a Committee-man blows that shaked triumphing Rebellion reaching the soul of those not to be reached by Law or Power striking each Traitor to a paleness beyond that of any Loyal Corps that bled by them the Poet killing at as much distance as some Philosophers heat-scars lasting as time indelible as guilt-stabs beyond death on the other to shame the ill from Vice sinking in the common ruine of King and Kingdom he was undone first and afterwards secured at Norwich because he was poor and had not where withall to live whereupon he composed an Addresse to the Pageant Power at Whitehall of so much gallant Reason and such towring Language as looked bigger than his Highness shrinking before the Majesty of his Pen the only thing that ever I heard wrought upon him that had been too hard for all Swords representing that of his Master and Cause like Faelix trembling Paul flattered one of the meanest of three Nations that he Ruled and ominously sent him to study the Law which he saw would prevail it being in vain to suppress that was supported by the two greatest things in the World Wit and Learning This great Wit great in his easie veins and elaborate strein no less to be valued by us because most studyed by him dyed at Grays-Inn April 29. 1658. and being carryed from thence to Hunsdon-House was buryed on May-day at Colledge-hill Dr. Iohn Pearson his good friend preached his Funeral Sermon who rendred this reason why he cautiously declined all commending of the party deceased because such praysing of him would not be adequate to any expectation in that Auditory seeing some who knew him not would think it far above him while those who knew him must needs know it far below him Mr. Richard Crashaw his Father had done so well in the Temple where he was Preacher and he promised so much where he was a Scholar that two great Lawyers I think Sir Henry Yelverton and Sir Randolph Crew took him to their care the one paying for his Diet the other for his Cloaths Books and Schooling till he was provided of both in the Royal Foundation at Charter-House where his nature being leisurely advanced by Art and his own pretty conceits improved by those of the choicest Orators and Poets which he was not onely taught to understand but imitate and make not only their rich sense his own but to smooth his soul as well as fill it for things are rough without words their expressions too the essays Mr. Brooks his worthy Master still alive whose even constant and pursuing
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
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
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl
and Hopes d â—â—â—eupon he in disdain threw the Cap down and trampled it under fâ—eâ— An Omen said some what an enemy be would he to the Arch-bishops O der which had never since it needed such a better friend though he suspended the Arch-bishop e When the Chaplains received direction from the King not to dispute without great necessity but if they did George should hold the Coâ—clusien and Charles c. f Mr. Vines saying That he was the best Divine in England III His Carriage while Prince g To whom he was very dear h The Q of Bohemia whose Brideman he was i Who might 〈◊〉 plaâ— uites â—b◠〈◊〉 bâ—â—cts of the peoples disconâ—â—nt k As his own Grandmother the Q of 〈…〉 to England l This K. James was not sinsible of â—ill Arâ—hec Clapped his Cap on his head for â—â—â—ting the Prince goe to Spain and saying That if he returned he would take off â—he Cap from â—he King of England 's head and set 〈◊〉 â—n the K. of Spain's Which â—ad the King melanchâ—lly 〈◊〉 heard hâ— Pâ—â—nce was at Sea IV His Carriage when King 1 His Marriage his Chastiâ—y and Gods blessing him with Children m Given the D. of Chevereux n Trinity Sunday 16â—5 o No Subject fought him for injuring â—hem he having by his power and example â—â—â—ured them in all their Relations 2 His first Parliament p Muâ—ining against their Commander the Lord Wimbleton q With a Plaguâ—bred by theâ— Discontent As discontented mâ—n are most subject to that Distemper 3 His Coronation and Frugality 4 His second Parliament V The Benefits of his Government 1 â—â—s dismission of the Insolent French r Besides Land Merigaged for 120000 l. to the Câ—â—â— and 30000 l. borrowed of the East-India Company s In that tryal of â—umbâ—â— which he judâ—â—d unlawful wherein one Rey would have proved that one Ramsey would have hâ—d him serve D. Hamilton to attain the Kingdom of Scotland whose right to it they blazoned abroad t Which his Enemies knew so well that it was bâ—â— effecâ—ing him Propo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 repugnant to his Conscience and thâ—y need not fear a Peace VI The blessing of God 〈◊〉 him and his fortunâ— u Many Arts revived VII His Mercy and Love to his People Humiâ—ity and Patience w Oliver they say could not endure to hear a man speak sence Plato was like to eye because he â—â—med wiser than the Sicilian Tyrant x Being deluded as he said to unworthy thoughts of him but nâ—w convineed to a great reverence of him y There are methodical and siâ—â—wy extracts of his drawâ—â— out of Bishop Laud Mr. Hooker and Bish Andrews therein he draw together all the arguments giving light and strength to them even while he â—â—tomised them z Witness his â—â—um vednass at Prayer when â—he sad News of the Duke of Buckinghams death was brought to him bidding the Chaplain go on when he stopped at the disturbance a Meaning the Bishop of Armagh 〈…〉 IX His Valouâ— Resolution and Conduct b The Senate of Rome thank'd a Consul though he was beaten that he did not despair of the Commonwealth c This was at Edgehill Oct. 13. 1641. a In France a Who had an honest design to undo the whole Conspiracy X What great things the King granted and did for the Nation during the 23 years that he reigned f For which the last Parliament would have given him 600000 l. g At the Isle of Wight XII His Sufferings h As appears by a Letter under Londons handâ— to desire Protection of the French King i And a Lady that formerly had followers for beauâ—y and â—ow for intelligence k â—s Fulke and Ven did a He called them Rebls in the first Speech Oct 3 1640. 〈◊〉 was forced to explain himself afterwards b As he was to that first 1640. by Sir H V. who exâ— asperated them by demanding twice more Subsidies than he had order to d◠〈◊〉 so occasioned their Dissolution And to the Parliament of Scotland by H. and Tra. who under the pretence of being Mediators and Commissioners put the worse constructions they could upon his actions to the Parliament and upon theirs to him a Who after the King death finding their Masters jugglers would have done in much for them as they had done for the King until the Officers would have laid them aside which they could not do till several of them were executed a Where â—nâ— lay with a Sword and Pistal without ready is murder the King if became out while others perswaded him to escape out through that window within b A Vote once before Passed but surreptitiously and repealed by the whole House a And yet neither Lords nor Iudges four hundred fifty of eight hundred Commons confess nor a man in England except twenty Rebels owned it b Villains that overthrowed all the Laws of this Nationâ— to try the King for doing it When he died rather than he would do it c They complain of his Arbitrary Power when there was nothing more Arbitrary than for them First To Vote themselves but twenty in number to be the whole kingdom Secondly To Vote a Conventicle where there were neither Lords nor King nor ten lawfully chosen Commons for a Parliament Thirdly To Vote the Kings defensive war which he made with the assistance of his People a Treason against his People Fourthly To Vote him guilty of that bloud that they shed Fifthly To Vote him a Traytor when there is no Treason but against him And what was more than all the rest to Vote themselves after a Nation had been an hereditary Monarchy for a thousand years the Supream Power of it in an hour d When they began the war against him who with his people was forced to defend himself or be accessary to that overthrow of all Religion and Government which though not believed he saw they aimed at then and all the world saw they designed now e Not till the Traytors had set a force upon the whole Nation those very persons against whom he began the war abhorring the thoughts of calling him in question for it and thinking it a great favour if they could be secured from being called in question for it themselves Observe the impudence of the men these slaves and instruments that durst not fight against the King but in the names of the Lords and Commons yet dare murther him in their own and that for levying war against those Lords and Commons to whom before they could meddle with the King they offered violence themselves f The Parliament as they called it had received such Concessions in order to a peace that this murder could never have been attempted upon the King till these wretches had attempted another violence upon them The Parliament they say delayed this Iudgment when God knows they always abhorred it and these men first turned out of the House for refusing to consent to this murder and then they commit the murder in
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his
a 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—clâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—â—â—y at Blandâ—ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was â—â—â—ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have hâ—d the benefit of the Aâ—â—â—cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they â—â—verâ—ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain protâ—sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but superâ—â—â—ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summoâ—s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b Dâ—â—â—ing his â—reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 think â—â—â—â—â—y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide Dâ—bâ—ney South 9â— l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Arâ—hbâ—shop Laud for his deâ—â— eâ—â—y activity and intâ—gâ—ity and Sequestred d Berbaâ—ously and foolish â—ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq â—aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loyâ—â—y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 â—llcx Gent. 30â— g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composiâ—ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet â—â— the Country be â—â—d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fairâ—ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Crâ—â—â— did the King this service i Thoâ—pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny bâ—nâ— Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Beconâ— field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid â—â—r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rupâ—â—â— with 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—e and 2000. Foot upon Dâ—râ—â—â— Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were sâ—ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they câ—me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reformaâ—es from all parts a Note that it â—as the poâ—â—nt 〈◊〉 of the â—â—anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Doubleâ— now I wiâ—â—â—ook â—n on my Brâ—eâ—â— b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselvâ—s in the exigencies of thâ—se times he and Mr. Maurice of â— Lanbeder Denâ— Another undâ—unted sufferer maâ—â—yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ruâ—then one of whom Mâ—s. Maurice suâ—feâ—d â—y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a â—hoâ—e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides decâ—nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and â—sapnâ— they would no come to the â—â—â—l of Repenâ—auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in Iâ—agâ—res Sir George Weâ—worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of Sâ—â—offords Brother his life at Marsâ—on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See Mâ— Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R â—ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yarâ—â— Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with â—â—râ—s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a gâ—â—en Tâ—â—â—râ—hed house he said â—e â—aid â—n a Bâ—gâ— uâ—der a Meadow b It is sâ—â—d of his A câ—â—â—or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the â—â—â—â—able times â— 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a Wâ—llâ—w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caergâ—y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by cransâ—â—ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usherâ—s Catechism Dr. Prideâ—ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Malloâ— be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commuâ—es his fault was 〈◊〉 excellâ—â—cy Viz. that he câ—uld with a grace relaâ—e Magnaâ—â—m â—â—um mâ—uâ—â— the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the Câ—â—â—s in â—â—gl are cist wâ—â—n a â—â—â—e of their house where â—â—y were â—â—â—n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir Jâ—cob Ashleâ— to get the â—â—â—h into a body aâ—â—er Naseby where he â—ed beeâ— sâ—abbed but for Sir Jo. â—â—â—â—us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him imâ—private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Seâ—l when ever the King senâ— for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After thâ—y had in vâ—in samâ—â—neâ—
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