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A43043	Certaine choise and remarkable observations selected out of a discourse written long since by the late and ever famous Earle of Essex, very usefull for these times ; whereunto is annexed the advice of that worthy commander, Sir Edvvard Harvvood, Collonell, written by King Charles his command upon occasion of the French kings preparations and presented in his life-time by his owne hand unto His Sacred Majesty ; all tending to the securing and fortifying of the kingdome both by sea and land ...; also a relation of his life and death ...	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.; Harwood, Edward, Sir, 1586?-1632.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.; Harwood, George, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1096A; ESTC R42071	18,047	38

my brothers opinion for making Sea preparations which with my Brothers I humbly offer to your considerations there being none under Heaven to whom we can addresse our selves for power and fitnesse to correct the malignant aspect of these influences besides your honours And now most noble and grave Senators the true and ever renouned Patriots of your Country if my Zeale for my countries freedome and prosperity have borne me beyond my bounds impute it to my errour of judgement and let your candor close with the good intentions of him who is more in wishes and hearty desires then in parts and abil●ties for the felicity of his Countrey And he shall ever remaine Your Honours most humble and obsequious servant GEO. HARVVOOD THE LIFE AND DEATH of Collonell Harwood Gentle Reader THis little Manuscript penn'd by my honoured friend Sir Edward Harwood Colonell of an English Regiment in the Low-Countries was intended for the presse and ready thereunto when by Gods gratious providence I coming over having had much experience of his worth and in some respect obliged unto him was not a little glad to meet with an oportunity to shew my love and respects to him I therefore desired leave of his brother of whom I have now obtained it though with some difficulty to offer to the World some Testimony of it wherein I will forbeare to say what I may neither is there need for mee in that kind to say any thing at all in respect of those that knew him and have beene conversant with him they have beene eye witnesses to more then I write but for their sakes who did not know him I desire a little to acquaint them with his worth To the end that they who have alove to that Honourable profession may have a worthy example to incite them to imitation It being my portion to travell with him one whole night not loing before his decease Hee was beyond his custome kept awake all that time by his owne Spirit which constrained him to open his bosome to mee and to give mee an Epitome of his time and Gods dealing with him of which and my owne observations concerning him you may please to take this briefe extract His Birth was Gentile and from a roote fit to engraft his future education and excellency furnished hee was with such learning as his age was capable of and grew up in an especiall respect unto the faithfull Dispensors of the Gospell and accordingly reapt the fruits of it in Gods season His spirit though sad enough yet accompanied with much naturall mettall and courage and look's above other callings to that which narrow minded and effeminate men close not with Hee soone attended the Schoole of warre of those times where quick and curious designes issued into dayly action and execution There my Lord Veere who could well distinguish of men cast his eye upon him by whose favour exhal'd by his owne worth hee was not long ascending the usuall step whereon the warres placeth reward for its followers as hee grew skilfull in his trade so was hee amiable to others They live who know how deare hee was to that justly lamented Prince Henry who tooke such delight in him that his closset thoughts were open to my Noble friend from whom that Noble Prince got no smale advantage in his military way Hee was also ever precious to King James of blessed memory so also no lesse in the esteeme of our now gracious Soveraigne witnessing their Royall affection toward him in severall expressions of their favours The illustrious Princesse the Queene of Bohemia who hearing of his death cried out in a great passion Oh that uggly Towne of Mastricht that hath bereeved mee of so faithfull a Servant Also to that mirrour of his time the last Lord Harrington to whom hee was so endeared that hee offered to hazard estate liberty and life for his good as by divers of his Letters still extant appeares To the late Duke of Buckingham who after the defeat at the I le of Ree remembring what service hee did at Cadiz voyage in bringing of the retreat cried out Oh Ned Harwood Ned Harwood that I had had thee heere To the last Lord Steward To the old Earle of Southampton To the late Earle of Bedford To this now Earle of Essex And to the now Earle of Leycester who was sometime his Colonell To the Earle of Warwick To the Lord Carleton and to most of the chiefe Nobilitie of this Kingdome Whose Letters found among his papers mention such reall affection as is scarcely credible from men of their quality Neither was hee a little deare to that highly honoured Lord the Lord Craven who beside the late reall expression of love to his Brother and for his many great noble and pious workes deserves to have his name written upon pillers of brasse who when hee heard of his death as was related to his brother cast himselfe on his bed cried out hee had lost his Father such was his love and opinion of him Moreover when his death was noised in the Army there was such a generall lamentation for his losse that his Excellency was faine to send speciall command to still it least the enemy should take courage as thinking it were for some of greater quality And his Excellency himselfe in my owne hearing I being appointed to goe before his Excellency after the Hearse heard him say to Count Earnest He had lost his right hand in the losse of Monsieur Harwood To bee briefe his name amongst Souldiours was In omni ore tanquam mel suavis est tanquam instrumenta musica in convivio lauto Hee lived desired and died lamented Hee soone ascended in the States service to the highest step that Englishmen usually tread that was a Collonell in which condition I had my knowledge of him And these things my eye observed that Religion fidelity and prowesse so met in him that there seem'd a constant strife among them which should most appeare and often shewed themselves together by which hee brooke the back of that Proverb Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur The first of these shewed it selfe in attendance upon the word intimate acquaintance with and respect unto the faithfullest dispensours of it The exercise of his family therein His purse standing open to the advancement of every worke of that nature in England and Holland Hee gave a large summe annually to the redeeming impropriations the ruine whereof was none of his least griefes together with the many soules that suffer by it His conceipt was that nothing lesse then Atheisme and hellish malice could blast it Hee kept a diary of his inward man wherein hee wrot his owne slips infirmities and Gods severall wayes of providence toward him which stood him in no small stead He was very often in humiliations and loved those dayes in his life time and to his death being slaine in a publique day of fasting In all his actions hee gave testimony

that hee thought as much of dying as of living For the second hee was famous and precious to both the Princes of Orange in that respect In the quelling the Arminian faction hee alone was trusted with a message of King James and upon his returne Barnevell went to his last home In the leaguer of the Busse hee had the charge of the Velloe when Picolominy was in the bowels of the Countrey with 10000. men His Excellency intrusting him with the sole trust mannaging and ordering of that service without limiting his commission left it though a matter of maine concernment to his wisedome and fidelity In which service hee watched 30. whole nights on Hor●eback and never in that time came in bed and in conclusion by his providence and vigilancy discharged that great trust and fully secured the Countrey At Cadiz voyage Wch was a matter of trust great difficultie hee had imposed on him the Charge of bringing up the Reare where the Enemie setting upon many scattered Troupes hee brought them off with safety by an honourable Retreat For want of which at the Isle of Ree how many brave Engglish lost their lives and our Nation much of their honour Lastly his Valour was unstained as all the Services he was in can beare large testimony thereof To be short He was first hurt by a Granado in the foot at Mastrick a sufficient warrant to have exempted him from the Service for that day yet would he not leave the prosecution of the designe though often disswaded and advised of the great danger he adventured by the worthy Gentleman Captaine Skippon now Serjeant Major Generall for the Citie of London but going often into the Trenches to view the Enemies Workes in a Scarlet Coate gave the Enemy so faire a marke that he received from the wall a sudden shot out of a small Brasse Piece which strucke him through the heart and was from thence by Command of the Prince of Orenge carryed to the Hague where he was interred with as much honour as ever was any that dyed in those parts of his quallitie In fine Thus much I must say of him He was true to his Principles a rare vertue in this Age Hee was neither above nor beneath his Calling but very aeduquate and true unto it So sad serious and skilfull in his way that you may doe well to beleeve what he writes Hee was a good man a good Souldier a good Christian and is now wearing his Crown Much more I might have said but I must not make the Porch greater then the Building and therefore I conclude Sic O praecabor usque vivere Me posse dein sic mori Mori me posse dein sic Vivere So I desire of God to live and dye And so to dye to live eternally Epitaph IF Rimes might raise him Columnes I beleeve Nor hearts nor heads nor pens would wanting be But sure such Varnish can small lustre give To blaze his worth his Friends may spare that Fee For lesse desert we may such paines yet keepe Let 's now remember Harwood and then weepe HVGH PEETERS COLLONELL HARVVOODS advice to King CHARLES OR A Discourse on the rumour of the French Kings Preparation at Sea THe particulars of his preparations not being certainely knowne there is no certain judgement to be made of them I will therefore only take the case as I suppose it will be granted That the French King endeavours to make himselfe strong at sea and that by two meanes one encouraging his subjects to trade at sea giving his Merchants great priviledges and immunities another of his owne proper cost buying and building many great and good ships and ordaining a yearely brave proportion out of his revenue for the increasing and maintaining his Navie as some say 300. thousand l. sterling others but 300. thousand crownes one or other are considerable and may prove of danger to this state For this disposition of his argues that hee intends either to enter into a new war with his Maj●stie or a least to put himselfe into such a condition as when he shal thinke fit hee may doe so without his disadvantage That this his Arming at sea must be intended in emulation of His Majesties Lordship of the narrow Seas to equall ore-top him at sea is probable For against whom else Not against the Hollanders they are his obsequious friends desirous of his friendship fearefull of h●s displeasure not against the King of Spain for he can more easily invade him by land when hee will as Spaine can him Besides the French King shewes no disposition to enter into open warre with him for having taken on him the protection of Mantua and not well dealt with by him in the last treaty for Italy making a peace in shew and yet after taking his advantage renuing the warre in the Emperours name yet doth he not enter into open war with him but will only be an assistant else had it not beene more facile for him to have invaded Flaunders or Artois and so by diversion aided the Duke of Mantua then by sending an Army into Italy in the winter therefore this preparation of the French King for the sea hath his chiefe ayme in present or future at His Majestie I suppose not to invade England or it may be none of His Majesties Ilands though that is more then we can be assured of some of his ships of warre were this winter on His Majesties coast went from Harbour to Harbour doubtlesse to discover them and not for any good to His Majestie besides who cantell since the Ilands of Garnesey and Iersey are the only remainders of the large Dominions His Majesties Predecessors formerly have possessed in France if hee have not an itching to joyne them to France againe or if not them nor Wight yet to share the dominion of the narrow Seas with His Majestie and that is to take it from him if h● can to which hitherto hee hath not pretended as not being able to match His Majestie at Sea but if he continue these His preparations and that His Majestie out of hand prepare not also against it hee will in short time undoubtedly effect it It will be said it may be hee hath no good ports or heavens that is an errour it is true he hath not so many good harbours as His Majesty hath yet some he hath not inferiour to any of His Majesties it may be also said that his Subjects are not so proper for the Sea nor so affected to Trade as his Majesties are it is true but if he continue to encourage his Merchants turne Merchant himselfe will not his Princes great Lords and Gentlemen follow his example For Saylors if he give great pay and pay well he will not want them of other Nations nay if his Majesties owne Subjects have not the like great and good payment it is to be feared he may draw many of his to his service at first untill there be open warres twixt the