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
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
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
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
according to Law And this whole affair was no new thing but the practise of the wise and religious King Iames who understood the interest of the Protestant Religion as well as any Prince in the world and promoted the concerns of it more ways than any man in England in whose Reign Anno 1622. this Letter was sent to the Judges After my hearty Commendations to you HIs Majesty having resolved out of deep reasons of State and in expectation of the like correspondence from Forraign Princes to the Profession of our Religion to grant some Grace and Connivance to the Imprisoned Papists in this kingdom hath Commanded me to Issue out some Writs under the Broad Seal to that purpose c. I am to give you to understand from his Majesty how his Majesties Royal Pleasure is That upon receipt of these Writs you shall make no niceness nor difficulty to extend that his Princely Favour to all such Papists as are Prisoners upon the concerns of Religion only and not matters of State Westminster Colledge August 2. 1622. Your loving friend JO. LINCOLNE The clearness of this honest but unfortunate Gentleman's Proceedings gave so much reputation to him abroad even in his lowest condition wherein great men like Dyals are not looked on because the Sun is off of them as that the Governour of Callice Le Comte de Charraâ— offered him his Coach to Paris with many other unusual Civilities Mounsieur de Chavigny not only commanded Licence for his departure from Callice but expressed great respect to his person and gave order for his accommodation with any thing that that place could afford Cardinal Richlieu invited him to his Ballet with order to Mounsieur Chavigni to bring him to his Eminence and assurance of welcome and an exceeding good Reception as he had March 12. 1640. The Cardinal after extraordinary Civilities bringing him from his own Chamber into the next giving him the upper hand and holding him by the hands Yea the King and Queen of France admitted him to a very great motion of familiarity with them respectively and upon Mounsieur Senetens ordered a Priviledge to be drawn up in as large and as ample manner as he could contrive it to free him and the other English that were Exiles there on the account of their Loyalty from that Confiscation of Estates after their deaths to which other Aliens are obnoxious by the Laws of that Kingdom Upon all which favours he makes this reflection in a letter to his Son So as though in mine own Country it be accounted a Crime to me to be her Majesties Servant yet here I shall have Reputation and receive much Honour by it As not only he did in France but likewise his Son in Rome where Cardinal Barharino treats him at a very high rate of kindness and civility â— remember it was wondered at much by some that a person rendred so odious should escape so well as to injoy his life and estate and more by others that so worthy a man that with his Father these are his own words had served the Crown near fourscore years and had the honour to be employed by the late Queen Elizabeth King Iames and his now Majesty in businesses of great trust should be outed his Secretaries Place and Banished his Country for obeying his Master's Command and that sometimes much against his own mind and opinion insomuch that Master Read protests he did many of them with a very ill will His rule was to be constant but not obstinate in his opinions he was of and when he had proper and secret motions of his own yet to yield as the Orbs do for the order of the Universe to the way of the first Mover Especially since he desired that his Secretary Master Read should come over and give an account of the grounds and reasons of all those transactions wherein he had been ministerial so confident was he of his integrity And after such a fair examination of his Services he requested only the favour of a charitable construction if his Services wherein he said he had no ill intention nor had offended willingly or maliciously and permission to return in safety to England to pass that little time which remained of his life privately in peace and mark these expressions in the Church of England whereof these are the very syllables of his Petition he will in Life and Death continue a true Member and in which he desireth to bestow the rest of his time in devotion for the prosperity thereof So modest were his expectations It was pity he was forced to live and dye among strangers more kind to him than his own Nation who while they perswaded the world he was a Papist had without God's special grace made him so by the unkindness of some Protestants who dressed him and others with Nick-names of Popery as the Heathens did the Martyrs in Beasts Skins that they might first expose and afterwards beat them Only he was happy in this that the Faction did not persecute him so rigidly as all the Court loved him intirely those very Lords that favoured the Conspiracy being very careful of him who lived to see them repent more of their Compliance than he had occasion to do of his Loyalty though his little state the argument of his honesty and generosity was broken his Relations distressed his Son Thomas of the Privy-chamber to the King displaced and what was sadder then all this one of his young Sons commonly called Colonel Windebank Shot to Death at Oxford for Delivering up Blechingdon-house to Cromwell's Horse upon first Summons there being no Foot near whatever Cromwell threatned so much to the disadvantage of Oxford A wonderful passage had it happened in any other age but that wherein men admired nothing not so much from any knowledge they attained in the causes of things as from the multitude of strange effect Some Venison there is not fit for food when first killed till it 's a while buried under-ground Some Mens Memories do not rellish so well till a while after their Interment Of this unfortunate States-men I may say what a wise man said of another Nunc quia Paula domi non sunt bene gesta foresque Paucula successus non habuere suos Creditur esse dolus fuerat quae culpa Putatur â—t scelus infaelix qui modo lapsus erat Rumpatur livor dicam quod sentio certe Infaelix potius quam sceleratus erat THE Life and Death OF Dr THOMAS IACKSON President of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford IT is true this Excellent Person died just when the Rebellion began to offer violence to others yet dying then he could not escape from the violence of it himself Peter Martyrs wife P. Fagius and Martin Buâ—â—rs are reckoned a sort of Queen Maries Martyrs though they dyed before because their bodies were then digged from their Graves and buried in a Dunghill And this great man claimes justly a place in the Catalogue of
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
person nor failed but by doing it by his Lieutenants Here rather oppressed with number than conquered by prowess opposing his single Regiment to a whole Brigade and his Person to a whole Company after eighteen wounds passages enough to let out any soul out of a body above sixty but that great one of the Earl of Lindsey he was forced to yield himself first to the numerous Enemies about him and next day being hardly used to the Enemy Death his Side winning the day and loosing the Sun that made it Vpon Edgehill the Noble Lindsey did Whilst Victory lay bleeding by his side At Edgehill that was true of him and his Country-men the Loyal Gentry of Lincoln-shire that was observed of Cataline and his followers That they covered the same place with their Corps when dead where they stood in the Fight whilst living This was the Noble Lord that pursued twelve French Vessels in his own single one to their Haven heated at once with anger and shame He of whom it is said that when the Duke of Buckingham returning from the Isle of â—hee was told by his Majesty That the neglect of his Releif must lodge on his friend and confident Holland He acknowledged That indeed he had very affectionately intrusted him in ordinary affairs but never had him in such an esteem as to second him in armes that place being more proper for my Lord of Lindsey whose judgement of that expedition was that it was Friendship in Earnest and War in Iest. He who when all men were amazed at the Dukes fall was assigned his successor And certainly saith one there present he was a man of no likely Presence but of considerable experience by his former Expeditions and one that to the last of his life made good his Faith with gallantry and courage notwithstanding his ill success the times fate rather than his Heros O Stratiarcha tuo qui funere vitam Expiraturi renovas nefunere regni Vt cum sanguinco sol declinavere axe Clarior ego fulâ—or succedit olympo Inter mavortis densut a tonitrua quanti Cordis erat majore ferens quam mente ferini Par Decio sacrum occumbens generale Cadendi Certus at occasu recidivi certior ortus Confirmans Actis Pompeii Dicta Britannis Nunc opus est ut stem non est opus ipse superstem Solus erat clypeus virtus Haec Aegide major Enecuit totas etiam sine Gorgone turmas Busta Polymniadis nostri sed Palma Coronat Dumque jacet victus victrici morte triumphat Sic ubi succumbunt arces saevitur in omnes Subjectos ubicuuque lares spargantque ruinam Exemplo tamen usque viget Dux ante secundi Iam belli Genius devoto in milite pugnax Quippe animant manes sociorum Corda viroque Mens uno vixit vivit nunc umbra viri itim THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable MOUNTAGUE Earl of LINDSEY Son and and Heir of ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY LOve is as strong as Death both when it descends as it was in the Duke of Chastillions Case who ventured his own life through twenty thousand men to rescue his Son and this noble Lord who observing his great Father like to be lost in a Croud rather than an Army took with him not so many as he desired but so many as he could finde about him either to rescue the noble Lord or to perish with him made an attempt worthy his Relation and Cause through three thousand men wherein when he could not save his dear Father he was taken with him and after his death so valued by his Majesty that he sent a Trumpet immediately to exchange him for the Lord Saint-Iohns Earl of Bullingbrook and so esteemed on by the enemy that they would not part with him for all their Prisoners taken by his Majesty so true was that observation of his Majesty That he â—ought Gold to Dirt. His education happy as he used to observe himself in six things 1. The example of a wise and good Father 2. The Learning and Experience of discreet and knowing Tutors whom he mentioned with no less honor than Aristotle was remembred by Alexander who equalled him that gave him Education with his Father that gave him Being or his Master by Augustus who gave him so honorable an Interment or his Tutor by M. Antonius who erected him a Statue or Ausonius by Gratian who made him Consul 3. Travel and Observation which fixed those notions in his minde that lay so loose in others 4. Hardship and Patience to which he was used in a way of choice when he travelled abroad that he might use it in a way of necessity if there were occasion at home 5. Good and useful Company generally above seldom beneath himself knowing that gold in the same Pocket with silver loseth both of its colour and weight 6. An Inquisitive Nature not contented with the superficial and narrow notions others acquiesced in from Tradition and Authors but with a large soul enquiring after such an account of things as was derived immediately and genuinely from the nature of the things themselves Happy in observing that rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember to distrust and wishing heartily for a systeme of principles gathered by observation and experience upon the systeme of nature The result of these and other advantages was a competent skill in Arts especially Phylosophy Mathematicks Physick and the two parts belonging to it Chirurgery and Botanism or a great skill and insight in Herbs and Flowers and Arms this accomplishing him for publick Service and the other being the satisfaction and ornament of his private Life the one being gained by experience in the Low-Country Wars where he learned in the time of our peace what rendred him serviceable in the time of our war the other by severe study weighing observations and good discourse His converse gave the world a singular pattern of harmless and inoffensive mirth of a nobleness not made up of fine Cloaths and Courtship a sweetness and familiarity that at once gained love and preserved respect a grandeur and nobility safe in its own worth not needing to maintain it self by a jealous and morose distance the confirmed goodness of his youth not only guarding his minde from the temptation to vice but securing his same too from the very suspition of it So out-stripping in wisdom temperance and fortitude not only what others did but even what they wrote being as good in reality as in pretence to which he added this unusual glory that since there was but a small partition between the Kings of Iuda's beds and the Altar through which they said David had a secret passage arguing the nearness there should be between Religion and Honor and that the Crosse was an ornament to the Crown and much more to the Coronet he satisfied not himself with the bare exercise of Virtue but he sublimated it and made it Grace As he understood himself well so he did his Estate being taught to
Praetor in Tyberius his time was to handle a Chamber-pot having a Ring on his Finger graved with the Emperors Image 3. A very great resolution in the strength of which in the great difference between the French King and Cardinal de Retz at Paris he and others of the Channons of Nostredame durst serve the Majesty of afflicted truth before that of a glorious King and indure the Restraint of Imprisonment that he might injoy Liberty of Conscience To smell to a Turf of fresh earth is wholesom for the body no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul therefore the sight of death when it surprized him with a choice Feavor 1664 5. was neither strange nor terrible to him who died daily Interest Posterorum novisse 1. Jacobum Richmondiae ducem qui illustris licet modeste latuit 2. Georgium Dominum Aubigney placide Animosum Heroem 3. Johannem Dominum Stuart stupendum Iuvenem qualis hic esset Senex 4. F. Dominum Aubigney in quo ut olim apud Iudeos Regalis sacerdotalis arctissime consociabantur tribus ut-pote summe pio nobili 5. Bernardum Comitem Lichfieldiae cui morum venustas quanta pâ—ncis contigit desideratur omnibus Fratres arctiori virtutis quam sanguinis faederati nexu qui eosdem mores per omnes fortunae vices sibi similes finxere Quinque it a compositos ut quod uni vix contigit unum hominum agerent quos eadem agere pati semper necessarium fuit quia non novere nisi optima Firmius vel Stoica Catena vinculum ubi Perpetuam animorum cognationem inducit non eandem Parentem habuisse sed eandem vivendi originem Rationem quod vim habuit vitaliorem ejusdem honesti affectu Imbui potius quam eodem sanguine eadem numerare bona mala chariora longe nomina quam communia pignora Curatii Horatii Anglicani quos pro regia causa non homines Credas sed tot concurrere gentes quibus Addendus Esme Dux Richmondiae Jacobi Filius unicus una quicquid est amabile Patres guod optent aut quod orbi lugeant correptus levi Febricula vita decessit Parisiis decessere quot una spes Parentum Eheu delicias breves Quicquid placet mortale non placet diu Quicquid placet mortale ne placeat nimis THE Life and Death OF RALPH Lord HOPTON SOn of Sir R. Hopton born 1601. in South-Wales where his Mother had relations and bred in Somersetshire where his Father had his seat His education such that he learned to pray as soon as he could speak and to read as soon as he could pray before three year old he read any character or letter whatsoever in our Printed Books and within a while any tolerable Writing Hand getting by heart at four years and an half five or six hundred Latine and Greek words together with their Genders and Declensions Horrori fuit Ingenium From a strict School and able School-Master in the Country he was sent to a well-governed Colledge and an excellent Tutor Mr. Sanderson after Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln of Lincoln-Colledge in Oxford who put his young reason by his judicious and exact method into such a frame that he would bless God for it he had a habit which men of a superficial education sleight immethodical thoughts were strangers to of considering matters proposed to him leisurely and soberly of recollecting the proper circumstances of a business pertinently of looking through sophismes and appearances discerningly of searching into the bottome of things quickly of observing advantages and disadvantages in Marching Qâ—artering Rallying Leaguering c. dexterously It s a great matter to put young and flexible faculties by being solidly grounded in the Initiatory Arts and Sciences or in the exact notions and apprehensions of things into an unerring and comprehensive frame of thoughts reasoning and discourse But as youth not yet accustomed to dissembling easily discloseth its temper he soon discovered by those rancounters which he had with his School-fellows and Fellow-pupils in the School and Colledge as prolusions to those engagements he afterwards had in the Field that he was born for action the life of a Man rather than speculation the life of a Scholar Letting it suffice others to meditate upon the great things which former ages have done while he did great things which future ages might meditate upon They may rest when they have raised a Scheme a Frame and Idea within themselves proportionable to the order and method of things without them while he compently understanding this all was urged by his eager virtues to perform things as great as those he under stood and actions as great as his thoughts From the University therefore he goeth to the Camp putting off his Gown to put on his Corslet and exchanging his Pen for his Sword First exercising himself in the Low-Countryes the then Nursery of English Gentry as a Volunteer and afterwards practising in the Palatinate as Captain where he gathered such choice observations principles and maximes of war that being an eye-witness in the long Parliament wherein he was chosen a Member of their dangerous proceedings which he opposed with strong reasonings in the House and offered to contradict against the Ringleaders of the Faction with his Sword and Life challenging several of them in Westminster-hall he privately retired to countenance the Kings more just proceedings in the Country giving order for providing Armes and Ammunition at his own charge and direction to secure and fortifie all such places as were tenable in Sommersetshire Wiltshire and Devonshire out of his own experience until he Sir Bevill Greenvill Sir Io. Stawell and Sir Nicholas Flanning raised with their interest and arguments Sir Ralph Hopton pleading the Kings at the Assizes Sessions and all other publick meetings of the Country that his eloquence had as great success upon the wavering populacy as his Armes had against the most obstinate Rebels a choice Army in the West an instance of what great concernment it was to keep the Militia in the Crown and not to separate the Sword from the Scepter not to make a war as he declared to the Country but to prevent it Thus Caesar that fought best in his age spake so too and the sharpness of his wit was equal to that of his Sword With which Army the Marquiss of Hertford then Commander in Chief with his direction Aug. 3. 1643. defeated the Faction in Sommersetshire took Shepton-Mallet cleared Dorsetshire maintained Sherburn with such conduct and resolution as daunted the men at Westminster for two months and Octob. 3. breaking through the Besiegers who thought to use their own words to put an end to the war if they could but take him and one or two more men of so considerable fortunes valor and conduct as both raised and kept up the war Whereupon non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus qui eminebat he was chosen Commander
gloriam fortitudinem quae pati tantum potuit THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable SPENCER Earl of NORTHAMPTON SPencer Compton Earl of Northampton Son to William the first Earl of the Family Created 1618. 16. Iac. by Sir Francis Beaumont the Duke of Buckinghams Uncles Daughter had as many remarkables as he said in his life as there were years to his death He was born at Compton in Warwickshire the very same day and hour that the Powder Traytors were defeated at Dun-church in that County an Omen that that life like Caesars who was born at the defeat of a Tumult should be hazarded for the suppressing of Rebellion that was begun with the suppression of Treason The first step he went by himself was to reach the Kings Picture and the first word he ever spoke was the King an argument he used upon his retirement 1641. to those of the party that had so much as to understand worth and making advantage of his solitude for a tempâ—ation pressed him to a neâ—trality why besides the impossibility of being a Neuter he was resolved to stand by the Soveraignty and Government of his Native Country while he could either speak or stand his parts were so great and his appetite to knowledge so large that it was as much as four several Tutors at Home at Cambridge and in France and Italy each taking his respective hour for the Art and Science he professed to keep pace with his great proficiency the vigor of his soul advantaged by the strong constitution of his body as that was by the temperance of his dyer I am informed that in all his life time he took but one Antidote and never purged but once and then the Physick found no obnoxious humor to work upon so healthful was his temper The symbolizing of their sober and grave temperr rendred him as great a Favorite to Prince Charles as his Cousin the Duke of Buckingham was of King Iames being his Companion at home and an Attendant on him abroad particularly in Spain where I am told he waited upon him in the quality of Master of his Robes and Wardrobe and had the honor to deliver all the Presents made by the Prince there amounting to 64000 l. As he held the Kings Train at the Coronation 1525. as Master of the Robes to his Majesty with the Earl of Denbigh who was Master of the Wardrobe Two things he would have nothing to do with 1. Church-lands because his direct Ancestor being not only Chief Gentleman of King Henry the Eighths Bed-chamber but the third man in his favor had not a Shooe-latchet of Abbey-land as there was none in all his ancient paternal estate though saith my Author nothing debarred him save his own abstineâ—ce 2. Inclosures since Captain Powch a poor fellow with a powch wherein he said there was that which would secure his followers though there was nothing in it but a piece of mouldy Cheese with so many thousand people did so much mischief because of Inclosures in Warwick-shire Northampton-shire and Leicester-shire He could not endure jesting with Religion there being no people of what Religion soever but had serious and great thoughts of their Numen nor an oath on any except Judicial and Solemn occasions often repeating that of Prince Henry That he knew no game or Value to be won or lost that was worth an Oath Having been so many years a witness of the Kings Majesties gracious disposition for solong a time had experience of the benefit of his Majesties Government the comfort of the Religion established upon the Faction breaking out of their shell upon the warmth of the present peace and plenty and peeping out of their privacy wherein like the Hedge-hogg they rounded themselves in their prikcles without motion took aim at the government seeing the contracts of the Nobility and tumults of the commonalty walking formerly so ugly they are in themselves with the borrowed face of Religion but now in the heat of their success casting off that cloak break out daily into outrages as much against Policy as Piety as simple as scandalous the licentious having given reins to their loosness are not able to stop themselves he not only dissented from their proceedings in all publick counsels but prepared to second that dissent with Arms wherewith he was the best furnished when there was occasion to make use of them of any Nobleman in England having settled his estate and advanced several thousands towards the publick service making the noblest appearance 1639. against the Scots and the most effectual provision 1642. against the English waiting upon his Majesty to York to advise in the Ardua Regni attest the clearness of his Majesties procedures and vow his assistance as appears by his hand to several publick Declarations from that place from whence summoning as many good Souldiers and honest Gentlemen as were of his acquaintance the one to raise the Country and the other to lead and command by the untained reputation of his name the moderation and sobriety of his principles the exemplary regularity of his person and family the justice and generosity of his dealing with his neighbors and dependants the hospitality and almes of his house the sweetness of his spirit amazed such a Body in Warwick-shire as having seized on the Ordnance at Banbury and marching resolutely against the Lord Brooks checked his Career awed the Country to Allegiance consining that Lord to two or three Garrisons he had suddainly made for his retreat and this notwithstanding a Letter from the Parliament May 30. 1642. to him and such other Lords as they thought most serviceable to his Majesty naming him in the first place and after his generous answer Iune 8. a Charge and Impeachment against him of very great Crimes and Misdemeanors proceeding so vigorously that he in twelve Skirmishes put a great stop to Essex his grand Rendezâ—â—vous at Northampton insomuch as that Essex should say The going away of these sober Lords from us is a great blow not only in regard of thâ—ir interest and reputation but of their vigilance and activity Upon which score hoping to gain them by their worst way of cruelty their kindness they forbear to proclaim my Lord Traytor to render him desperate though in vain as he observed since they had charged him with Misdemeanors that made him irreconcileable Therefore he proceeds securing most of the Armes Ammunition and Garrisons in Warwick-shire Stafford shire and Northampton-shire and settling the Association so as to be able to surnish his Majesty with two thousand of the best disciplined men in all the Kings Army to Keinton-fight and to Besiege Lichâ—ield having made the Country from Garrison to Garrison one Line of Communication when receiving intelligence of â—râ—râ—ton and Gells coming to the Relief of the Place with near four thousand horse and foot he drew out a eleven hundred horse and dragoonsâ— so dextrously that he surprized and routed their house at Hopton heath
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
to Immortality And a fair vertuous Name can stand alone Brass to the Tomb and Marble to the Stone THE Life and Death OF Drâ— RICHARD HOLDSWORTH A Divine and to confute the common slander fastened upon Ministers Sons a Divines Son Richard Holdsworth the Son of Richard Holdsworth born at Newcastle upon Tyne where his Father was an eminent Preachâ—er and bred there under Mr. William Pearson to whom he was committed the youngest of his dying Fathers Sons at seven years of age an exact Preacher in the same place He came very young to St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge with very pregnant hopes and went away young with very great accomplishments the ornament of that Society whereof he was a Member and the great Vote of it insomuch that they endeavoured to chuse him Master First to be Chaplain to Sir Henry Hâ—bart Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas where he was very honorably treated and thence to be Minister of St. Peters in the Poor London which he had in exchange for another Living whereto an honorable Patron presented him and where-from a reverend Prelate that was loath to loose him in the Country disswaded him in the West-riding of Yorkshire the Scene of his renowned performances while he was alive and the Grave of his virgin body when dead There he filled not the Peoples ears with empty noise but ravished their Hearts with solid truths here the Church rung not with the Preachers raving but with the Hearers groans the Walls Pillars and Windowâ— dropping with the Auditors sweat and tears extorted from themâ— not by a furious thundering but by a zealous and hearty Eloquence which awed Impiety comforted the Religious was the delight of good Men and a pleasant song even to Hypocrites being followed by all sort of people who delighted in him not as St Iohn Baptists Hearers did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a time till the Civil Wars when the times turning and he standing still the People in the late Tumults like those at Sea thought he who was as immoveable as the earth moved and altered and they whose Heads turned like Folks-heads at Sea thought themselves the same Once he was Preaching to them upon the Acclamation made to Herâ—d and the Consequence of it in Merâ—â—rs-Chappel and they Hummed him so that they could not hear him he cryed out to them several times I pray remember the Text to teach them to have no mans person in admiration Another time they thronged to hear his Sermon and he dismissed them with the Prayers and a Homily of the Church Reading both in his Surplice to inform them that he preferred the publick Offices before his private Abilities which though more fluent than any Gifted-man about Town tied himself to one sober Form of Prayer and to one grave Method of Preaching The Plague in 1625. when he first came to Broad-street could not drive him from his dear Flock though another Murrain 1640. among the Flock its self I mean the late Herefies and Schisms did But one Stage was not equal to so great Abilities that could fill both the Chair at Gresham-Colledge on the one side of Broad-street in as great confluence of Scholars and Divines as he did the Pulpit on the other side with a great throng of Citizens His learned labours returning upon him with fresh applauses each week in both places a specimen of the last whereof we have in his learned Lectures published by the reverend learned and good-natured Dr. Richard Pearson lately of St. Brides London who having power to Print them from one of the Doctors Overseers Bishop Brownrig as he had with much ado obtained leave of the modest Doctor himself who never Printed any thing but one single Sermon and that not till a third Command from his Majesty who otherwise was very conscientiously observant of his least Order that Pamphlet called by the Transcriber The Valley of Vision a Valley indeed not for the fruitfulness but for the lowness especially if compared to the pretended Authors high parts but little vision Printed them with that care that became an ingenious man who reverenced the memory of the Author who was by Relation his Uncle in Affection his Father in Favours his Patron in his Academical Studies his Tutor and in his Ecclesiastical his Compass Entring on his Lectures 1630. with great expectation and continuing them for eight years above it his own Colledge St. Iohns Voted him Master and when the perversness of some and the prevalency of others defeated the Colledge of that Vote the honor whereof his own modesty declined Emanuel Colledge gained him at once the most obliging and the most resolute Master that ever was in that House old Dr. Chadderton that had resigned to Preston and survived two Masters saying That he was the only Master that ever he saw in that House and he carrying it so civilly towards the old Doctor that he did nothing and went no whither about Colledge Affairs without Father Chadderton on his right hand telling him That as long as he lived he should be Master in the House though he himself was forced to be Master of the House Until opposing the torrent of the late Civil Wars as Vice chancellor for three years together by Preaching Loyal Sermons at St. Maries by Licensing his Majesties Declarations to the Press by discountenancing evil Principles and propagating good ones by forwarding Supplies to the King to suppress the Rebellion and by denying any to the Faction to maintain it he was advised to withdraw himself from that Tumult which it was in vain to contend with as he did first to the Country and then to London the best Hiding-place in the kingdom where being concealed a while God Almighty thinking it not fit that so great a virtue should in a time when there was so much need of it be hid and drawing it out to be as exemplary in its sufferings as it had been in its other performances he fell by accident as he walked an evening into their hands whom he desired to avoid for being known by a Captain of one of those Guards that Watched each Street and Corner he was brought before a Close-Committee and Committed by them first to Ely-house this prophane War turning Noblemens Palaces into Prisons as it did afterwards Gods Houses into Stables and afterwards to increase the charge as well as the severity of his Imprisonment to lessen both his Liberty and Estate to the Towâ—r which he called Davids Tower for four years together where Archbishop Laud sent particularly to this excellent person for his Prayers a little before his death and whence not without a great sum of money and as great intercession of friends on condition not to stir above twenty miles out of the City to enjoy only his choice Library that escaped their fury and his Parish in the City his Colledge in the University and a good Parsonage bestowed upon him by the Earl of Rutland being kept from him the Title of
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
softly and unperceivably into the hearts of all that knew him but those that first vexed him out of St. Stephens Walbrook London where he was Minister and afterwards sequestred him for going away whereupon his Majesty promising himself good effects of his clearness candor solidness sweetness eloquence and good repute recommended him to the Diocess of Bristol 1644. where like Gregory Thaumaturgus he found few well-affected to the Church and left few dis-affected upon which account that honourable City as I have been told hath taken care for his childrens comfortable Education out of gratitude to their Father in Christ. A man not only flourishing with the verdure and Spring of Wit and the Summer of much Learning and Reading but happy in the Harvest of a mature Understanding and a mellow Judgment in matters Politick and Prudential both Ecclesiastical and Civil one who like Diogenes confuted the Enemies of his Function not his Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by circumspect walking He died about the year 1646. and his brother Mr. Iames Howell of the same Colledge mentioned by Sir Kenelm Digby in his discourse of the Sympathy Cure of Wounds at Montpelier with so much respect Secretary to the Lord Scroop when President of the Council in the North relating to my Lord Conway in the Marriage-Treaty with Spain many particulars whereof may be met with in his familiar Letters which as all private Letters do give the best History I meet with in that and other affairs of that Time Assistant to Sir R. Mansel in the Glass-Works and in some place about the Clerks of the Council before the late Civil Wars when he was imprisoned in the Fleet where and in other places of his suffering he wrote 49 Books most Translations out of French Spanish Italian and Portugez wherein he had a good faculty and a great advantage with a handsome Parabolical and allusive fansie according to his Motto Senesco non segnesco He died 1665. Mr. Launce of St. Michael in the Quern a grave man and Minister to whom his people would have given their right eyes till he began to open them by telling them the truth A choice man in the Books he read and in the friends he conversed with many mens excellent parts are kept low for want of a well contrived and by reason of a scant ill chosen Library The knowledge of Books as it is a specious so he would say it was an useful part of Learning as whereby upon any emergent doubt or difficulty a man may have recourse unto the advise of grave and learned men who it may be have bestowed a great part of their time and study in the resolution of that particular business The presence of a Bishop at a Marriage is a License and his appearance before the War was among his Neighbours countenance enough to any action the good he did by the holy Ingenuity of his private Visitations wherein his discourses were quick and cheerful was not inferiour to the effects of his publick administration those indeed making way for these and by his inviting looks far from the threatning aspects of some men to both the predominant habit of the Mind by the conformity of the Fansie spirit bloud and constitution to those habits like the black and yellow Jaundies leaving a notable tincture and signature on the eye and aspect especially when men come to be fixed in their desires and designs vultu promisit quicquid vita praestitit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. de Basil. fornia innocentissimus ingenio florentissimus propositio sanctissimus vit a innocentissimus in a word he was one well seen in the different conditions of the people of God which he studied that he might divide the Word aright and give unto every one a due proportion to every state Impatient of two things in a Sermon a jeering Irony or a furious Zeal advising that if the matter required a passion it should be the zeal of a displeased Friend rather than the biterness of a provoked Enemy to convince rather than exasperate He died 1665. Dr. Swadlin of St. Bololph Aldgaie sequestred plundered imprisoned at Gresham Colledge and Newgate his wife and children turned out of doors he himself administring to most of the Martyrs before their death and preaching so boldly in the behalf of both their Majesties as if he did intend to be a Martyr himself saying when he heard of some horrid action of the Adversary Blessed be God! now their oppressions are at highest they will be at an end the night is darkest ever upon the break of day Dr. Walter Balcanguel known by his place and discreet interposals in the Synod of Dort when very young representing the Church of Scotland by his shrewd accounts of that Synod when something farther in years a very pathetick Preacher having a great command as Orators should over his own affections and his Hearers and a notable prudential man he being Duke Hamiltons creature having the draught of the grand Declaration about the Scotch affairs for which he was made Dean of Durham as he was before Master of the Savoy one of a nimble wit and clear expression sequestred plundred and forced to fly in which condition he died in Chirk Castle 1644. Dr. Thomas Fuller born at Oâ—ndle in Northamptonshire where his Father was Minister and bred in Queens and Sidney Colledges in Cambridge under Dr. Ward and Dr. Davenant Master of a good Method and by that of an extraordinary memory which qualified him for an excellent Historian and by keeping the coherence of things in his mind for a great Wit his Writings are very facetious and where he is careful judicious his Pisgah sight is the exactest his Holy War and State the wittiest his Church-History the unhappiest written in such a time when he could not do the truth right with safety nor wrong it with honour and his Worthies not finished at his death the most imperfect A good natured man too credulous and a witty man too quick considering that every thing is big with Jest if we have the vein not so well skilled where to spare his Jests as where to spend at once serious and Cheerful moderate in his judgement and practice and therefore faring as moderate men use to do who are suspected on both sides and Guests at the middle of a Table who can reach to neither Mess either above or beneath He was so good Company that happy the person that could enjoy him either Citizens Gentlemen or Noblemen he removing up and down out of an aequanimous civility to his many worthy friends that he might so dispense his much desired company among them that no one might monopolize him to the envy of others so general a Scholar that it was his insight into every thing he had read that together with his thinking and meditating nature out of which he could not be got sometimes for several hours together made his fansie so nimble
is slack And Rots to nothing at the next great thawâ—k Dr. Richard Zouch not beholden to his Noble Extraction for his Reputation founded on his own great worth and Books Reprinted beyond Sea Fellow of New-colledge Principal of Albanehall Regius Professor of Law in Oxford for almost forty years and Judge of the Admiralty an exact Artist especially Logician reducing all his Reading especially in History wherein he excelled to the Civil Law as appears by the method of his Writings both of the Law and some other inferior Sciences He was as useful in the world as his profession and that time that foolishly thought it could have carried on things without the Civil Law could not without Dr. Zouch the Living Pandect of that Law when the Usurper in the Case of the Portugez Ambassador must needs have his advice in London who had grudged him his place in Oxford Dr. Owen in the same discourse I mean his Preface to Dr. Zouch his Book de legatis wherein he commendeth Grotius with qualification extolleth Dr. Zouch without who was the ornament of this Nation as Grotius was of Christendom He had a great hand in the Oxford Articles being one of the Treaters upon the Surrendry and after composition he had a great benefit by them he died 1660. To whom I might adde his very good friend Degory Whear Principal of Glocester-hall and History Professor in Oxford well known by his excellent Methodus Leg. hist. Cro. and his Epistolae Eucharisticae and Dr. Thomas Claiton the first Master of Pembroke-colledge in Oxford and the Kings Professor of Physick Father of Sir Thomas Claiton now Warden of Merton-colledge Dr. Thomas Soames born in Yarmouth an holy Fisher of Men Son of a Fisher-man bred in Peter-house Cambridge where his Uncle was Master Minister of Staines in Middlesex and Prebend of Windsor having sent all he had to the King he had nothing left to be taken by the Rebels but himself who was Imprisoned in Ely-house New-gate and the Fleet because he had so much of the primitive Religion in his excellent Sermons and so much of the primitive practice in his looks and life reckoned a blessing wherever he came these sad times by his Fatherly Aspect his Zealous Prayers and his Divine and in many respects Prophetical discourses He died not long before his Majesties Restauration of whom his modest relation have been as deserving as any persons of their quality in England Stephen Soanes of Throwlow in Suffolk Esq paying 0700l 00 00. THE Life and Death OF WILLIAM St. MAUR Duke of Somerset WILLIAM St. Maur Marquiss of Herford Duke of Somerset and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter noble in his extraction being restored to use his Majesties words because he had merited as much of his Majesties Father and Himself as a Subject could do and he hoped none would envy the Duke because he had done what a good Master should to a good Servant created Duke of Somerset 1660. 12. Car. 2. an Honor his good Grand-father in Edw. 6. time had from whom Somerset-house which he built hath that name Edward Duke of Somerset injoy and descending from the ancient Lords Beauchamp illustrious in his alliance his Aunt Iane Seymour being Wife to one King Henry 8. and Mother to another Edward 6. Was none of those male-contents who by the sins of their riper years make good the follies of their youth and maintain oversights with Treason As he was patient under his Imprisonment for the one so he was active in his Services against the other not more dutifully submitting to the severity of King Iames for a marriage without his Majesties privity or consent with the Lady Arabella Stuart nearly related as himself to the Crown than Loyally assisting by several Declarations for the King and Bishops in the Long-parliament by his attendance on his Majesty at York to be a witness to the world of his Majesties proceedings and subscribe with other Lords his own Allegiance and a resolution to oppose others Treasons by his raising the Western Country by his interest and yielding the Command of the Army he had raised as the Kings first General against the Earl of Essex to more experienced Commanders though he had been a Souldier abroad out of prudence governing his Majesty then Prince under his Tuition with discretion and moderation by bringing his Majesty 60000 l. of his own and others to set him by securing for him forty five Inland Garrisons and six Sea-towns by waiting on his Majesty in his Privy Counsel and Parliament at Oxford and in all his treaties and negotiations and offering himself when there was no other remedy to dye for him by supplying his present Majesty and his Friends with near 5000l yearly one year with another during the Usurpation for which services he paid at Goldsmith-hall 1467 l. the necessities of King Charles in his war It s true he was drawn in by a pretending moderate party to subscribe the untoward Propositions for an accommodation with the Scots 1640. at York but it is as true that when he discovered the bottome of the design he did of his own accord disown the unnatural Plot in London 1641 2. where the King advanced him to the tuition of the Prince and he went himself to the defence of the King at what time such his popularity that he raised an Army himself such his humility that he yielded the Command of it to another as if he knew nothing but others merits and his own wants being own of those men that admire every thing in others and see nothing in themselves His face his carriage his habit favoured of lowliness without affectation and yet he was under what he seemed His words were few and soft never either peremptory or censorious because he thought both each man more wise and none more obnoxious than himself being yet neither ignorant nor careless but naturally meek lying ever close within himself armed with those two master-pieces Resolution and Duty wherewith he mated the blackest events that did rather exercise than dismay that spirit that was above them and that minde chat looked beyond them the easiest enemy and the truest friend whom extremities obliged while he as a well-wrought Vault lay at home the stronger by how much the more weight he did bear He died 1660. full of honor and days the exact pourtract of the ancient English Nobility As was his Brother Sir Francis Seymor a wise and religious person a great Patriot in the beginning of King Charles his reign for three Parliaments together in the first year of whose reign he was High-sheriff as long as the people desired reason and as great a Courtier towards the latter end of his reign when he saw some projectors under colour of the peoples good plotting Treason He was indeed one of the Lords being Created Baron of Trowbridge in Wilt-shire Tebig 1640. 16. Car. I. that Petitioned his Majesty against several grievances
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
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
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
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
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
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