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A51537	A most choice historical compendium fitted for the use of all ingenious and inquisitive persons who are curious to know what wonderfull events have come to pass for almost 1000 years, under the figure 8, from 818 to 1688 inclusive : wherein is briefly comprised, the life and death, rise and fall of kings, queens, noblemen, clergymen, warriors and several famous poets : with many other curious remarks and observations, not here mention'd / written in a plain method, by A.M., Gent.	A. M., Gent.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3; ESTC R9727	48,168	167

with due commendation so long as either Ingenuity or Learning are fashionable in our Nation He died An. 1638 and was buried in the Abby Church of Westminster under a small Stone with this Inscription O rare Ben. Johnson Sir Robert Car Son to Thomas Laird of Fumhurst in the South of Scotland who being active for Mary Queen of Scots was thereupon forced to fly to York was born in this City 'T is reported that his first making at Court was by breaking his Leg at Tilting in London whereby he came first into the cognizance of K. James who reflected on him whose Father had been a kind of Confessor for the cause of the Queen his Mother besides the young Gentleman had a handsom Person and a conveniency of desert Honours were crowded upon him made Baron Viscount Earl of Somerset Knight of the Garter Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. He was a good natur'd Man doing himself more hurt than any Man else but yet much harm to others viz. Sir Tho. Overbury lost the favour of this Earl by dissuading him from keeping Company with a Lady Wife of another Person of Honour to whom afterwards he was married her first Husband still living Earl of Essex and had a Child by her a Daughter who was afterwards married to a Person of Honour but Sir Tho. Overbury under a pretence for refusing to be sent Ambassador to Russia was sent to the Tower and his strict restraint encouraged his Enemies to practise his death which was by Poison effected for which divers were executed the Earl had the sentence of death which by K. James contrary to his word was never executed but gave him a lease of so many years as a pardon for his Life though he was banished the Court lived privately even from the sight of his Wife and in much sorrow and grief died An. 1638. In this year 1638. Lewis XIV King of France was born or rather per ignotam illicitam viam by that politick and governing Cardinal sent into the World to be a Plague to all Christendom a spoiler and robber of his own Country a troubler of the Gallican-Clergy a great opposer of his Infallible Holiness a severe and cruel Tormenter of the Hugonots first eating and plundering their Goods by his Booted Apostles his Dragoons and then unmercifully abusing their Bodies by Wounds Irons Whippings Prisons Famine and Death it self but without burial which by us is never denied to any Roman-Catholick He governs all his Vassals and Slaves that should be his Subjects by his will rigour and injustice and when they have got any thing for their own Family the King's Officers take it for their Master and there is no remedy for this general contagion But yet let me inform you of one piece of good nature that is rooted fast to him tho' he resists the Pope he loves the Turk and much condemns the Emperor for fighting against him and the French K. has many times lately assured his Brother the Turkish Emperor That he will divert all his Enemies that is all Christian Princes from invading his Countrey by his own powerful Armies And pray do not think much of these his strange and extravagant expressions for he hopes as there is but one King of Heaven so there will be but one on Earth and that must be a French one There was also in this year 1638. a many little Devils called the Covenanters in Scotland gathered into a riotous Body and chused David Leisley for their General and sollicited France for aid and though it took little effect yet you may learn that the Scotch were always great lovers of the English Their Covenant consisting of 666 words the mark of the Beast was set on Foot and every one willing or not swallowed it down by the help of labouring Preachers the Covenanters All this was but a preparative for their coming into England which they did the next year and according to their Covenant to settle the King in his Throne in Peace and Honour and make him a Glorious King which contrary to their Covenant by Perjury falsehood and selling his Person was accomplished in an 1648. next to be observed being a year full of wonder and horrour but before we give an account of that take notice there was four persons concerned in a Tumult in Moor-fields pretending to reform by pulling down Baudy Houses on the Easter Holidays who was sentenced and executed as Traytors May 9. 1638. I wish the Mobile in these our days were well informed of this late action Now also in this year take in John Lilburn the Quaker who was whipped at a Carts Tayle in Febr. 1638. Anno 1648. At Preston in Anderness Duke Hamilton Aug. 7th entred England with an Army Most beheld him as one rather cunning than wise yet rather wise than valiant however he had Officers what did ●ken the geat of fighting as wool as ony of oor Age. He would accept of no English assistance Their Van and their Rear were many miles asunder and they met the resistance of Major General Lambert before they expected it He at Preston gave the Scotch Army such a blow as stunned it though it reeled on some miles more Southward into Staffordshire Where at Vlcester the Duke was taken Prisoner and utterly defeated and afterwards made a Prisoner in the Tower and then condemned and executed with the Lord Capel which is the next to be taken notice of Arthur Capel Esq of Hadham Hartf was by Ch. I. Created Baron 1641. after the surrender of Oxford he retired to his House from whence he went to Colchester His Loyalty to his Master was proof against all Batteries and Sollicitations of his Enemies He was sent Prisoner to the Tower by the Parliament which was butindeed but a part of the Dom. Com. He escaped from the Tower in Feb. but was retaken and sent back and the next day an Act made for his Tryal and being condemned was beheaded 1648. undaunted on the Scaffold Hence one alluding to his Arms a Lyon Rampant in a Field Gules betwixt three Crosses made these following Lines Thus Lyon like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood He wrote a book of Meditation wherein judicious Piety is discovered he was Grandfather to this present Earl of Essex The Earl of Holland was executed at the same time with this Noble Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton March 9th an 1648. And now give me leave to bring in a Murder without any former precedent and I hope none will be so wicked and horrid as to think of the like fact for the future Char. the I. our Lawful and good King was taken from his own House at Holdenby in Northamptonshire and carried to Childersley by Cornet Joice then to Roysten Hatfield Windsor Hampton-Court this was done in May and June Then the King escaped to the Isle of Wight but stay'd not long before he was brought back and Jan. 4. an Ordinance was engrossed and read for

returning for England landed at Plimouth Sept. 9. 1588. In his next Voyage he was severed from his Company near Port Desire by him so called formerly in the Magellan-straits and never seen or heard of afterwards Queen Mary eldest Daughter to K. Henry VIII and Q. Katherine of Spain was born at Greenwich Feb. 18. 1518. She derived a great Spirit from her Father and her Devotion from her Mother She attained to the Crown by complying with the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk promising them to continue Religion as Established by King Edw. VI. After the breach of which Promise she never prospered losing successively the hearts of her Subjects the hopes of a Child the company not to say affection of her Husband the City of Calais her Mirth her Health and her Life which ended November 17. 1558. Cardinal Poole died the same day Note That in this Queens short Reign being but 5 Years 4 Months many were made Martyrs for the Truth of the Gospel the Romish Superstition so much prevailing and tyrannizing that 408 or more suffered Fire and Faggot whereof 44 of note were in the County of Essex This was carried on chiefly by Bishop Bonner who was a Bastard-son of one Savage a Priest brother to Sir John Savage Knight of the Garter Privy-Counsellor to H. VII His Mother Concubine to this Priest was sent out of Cheshire to cover her shame and laid down her burden at Elmley in Worcestershire where this bouncing Babe Bonner was born he caused the death of twice as many Martyrs as all the Bishops in England besides after 10 Years Imprisonment in the Marshalsea he died and was buried in St. George's Church-Yard in Southwark But enough of this Herostratus who burned so many living Temples of the Holy Ghost Let them which would be more fully informed of Queen Mary and Bonner read Fox's Works lately reprinted in Folio with new Copper Cutts Q. Eliz. 1558. The second Daughter to K. H. 8. born at Greenwich who coming to the Crown at Q. Mary's death upon the 17th Novemb. still a vulgar error accounted for Queen Eliz. birth day who was born in Septemb. She was Heir to the Learning Bounty Courage and Success of her Father besides Goodness wherein she was daughter to her Mother Her learning appears in her two Latine Speeches to the University and a third a l●ttle better than extempore to the Poland Embassador Her bounty was founded on merit Her courage was undaunted never making her self so cheap to her Favourites but that she valued her own authority A prime Officer with a white staffe was commanded by the Queen to confer a place then void on one of her servants whom she commended unto him Pleaseth your Highness Madam saith the Lord the disposal thereof belongeth to me by vertue of this white Staff conferred on me True said the Q. yet I never gave you your Office so absolutely but I still reserved my self of the Quorum but of the Quarum Madam returned the Lord presuming on the favour of her Highness Hereat the Q. in some passion snatching the staff out of his hand you shall acknowledge me said she of the Quorum quarum quorum before you have it again The Lord waited staffless almost a day before the same was reconferred Her success was admirable keeping the K. of Spain at Arms end all her Reign by her Policy and Prosperity She was much beloved by all her people in so much that since it hath been said that Q. Eliz. might do that lawfully which K. James might not Her popularity having sugared many things her Subjects thanking her for those Taxes which they refused to pay to her Successor You shall find more of her valour and Noble Actions in 1588. She dyed at Richmond William Winter Knight and Vice-Admiral of England assaulted the Fort of French in the Island of Inchkeeih in Edenburgh Frith He with Sir Tho. Smith demanded the restitution of Calais he conducted a great Treasure of the Genoa Merchants safely into the Netherlands in despite of the French opposing him 1568. He with Rob. Beale was sent into Zealand to demand restitution of some English Ships He did signal service when the Spanish Fleet was fallen towards the coast of Zealand 1588. Lidney House in Gloucester the seat of the Family had produced many more Mariners happy in Sea Voyages John Russel born at Kingston Russel Dors bred beyond the Sea was a man of great accomplishment and was recommended by Phil. King of Castile Father to Ch. 5. Emp. to Hen. 7. as a person of great abilities he could see more with his one eye than many others could with two King Hen. 8. made him a Controller of the Houshold and Privy Counsellor and an 1538. created Lord Russel and made him Keeper of the Privy Seal A good share of the golden showr of Abby Lands fell into his lap K. Ed. 6. who made him Earl of Bedford sent him down to suppress the Western commotion and relieve Exeter Which he performed with great wisdom valour and success and some few years after dyed and was buried at Cheineys in Buckinghamshire William Cecil our English Nestor for Wisdom and Vivacity born at Burn in Lincolns was Secretary and Treasurer above 30 years together He steered the Court at his pleasure and whilst the Earl of Leicester would endure no equal and Sussex no superior therein he by siding with neither served himself with both you may easily imagin how highly the wise Queen Eliz. valued so great a Minister of State coming once to visit him when sick and being much hightned with her head attire then in fashion the Lord's servant who conducted her through the Door may your Highness said he be pleased to stoop the Queen returned for your Masters sake I will stoop but not for the King of Spains All England in that Age was beholden to him for his bounty as well as the poor in Stamford for whom he erected a fair Bead-house acknowledged under God and the Q. their Prosperity the fruit of his prudence He dyed very aged 1598. Jane Cecil Wife to Sir Rich. Esq and Co-heir to the worshipful families of Ekinton and Walcot saw being near a 100 years of age the preserment of her Son Sir William Treasurer of England she Leaded and Paved the Friday Market-cross at Stamford besides 50 l. given to the Poor She dyed 1588. and was buryed in St. Martins in Stamford Barnaby Potter was born within the Barony of Kendal Westmerl 1578. and bred at Queens Coll. in Oxford whereof he became Provost he was chaplain in Ordinary to Prince Charles being accounted at Court the Penitential Preacher and by K. Ch. the I. was preferred Bishop of Carlisle He was commonly called the Puritanical Bishop and they said of him in the time of King James that Organs would blow him out of the Church which is not probable because he loved Vocal Musick and could bear his own part therein He was a constant Preacher and a hard Student