thus prepared him to heare hee went further putting him in mind of the Exceeding great danger hee was in and that although hee might recover as hee hoped hee should yet hee might also die and that since it was an inevitable and irrevocable necessity that All must once die late or soone Death being the reward of sinne hee asked if it should so fall out whether or no hee was well pleased to submit himselfe to the Will of God to which hee answered yea withall his heart Then the Archbishop went on demanding questions of his faith First of the Religion and Church wherein hee lived which his Highnesse acknowledged to bee the onely true Church wherein onely and without which there was no salvation Then of his faith in Christ onely by him and in him without any merits of his owne being assured of the Remission of all his sinnes which hee professed hee did hoping and trusting onely therein Then of the Resurrection of the body life everlasting and the joyes of Heaven All which hee confessed and beleeved hoping withall Saints to enjoy the same This conference with a great deals more the Archbishop had with him to this purpose which may also give unto you absolute satisfaction of his Soules health if thereunto his life bee considered After which fearing hee should too much disquiet him with many good exhortations hee tooke leave for that time This day being the fifth of November a day of everlasting remembrance and thanksgiving for our deliverance from the Powder Treason was order given every where unto all Churches to pray for his Highnesse untill when the great danger was unknowne to the Commons which was effectually as ever untill his death performed This day and at sundry other times since his confusion of speech hee would many times call upon Sir David Murray Knight the onely man in whom hee had put choise trust by his name David David David who when hee came unto his Highnesse demanding his pleasure in extremity of paine and stupefaction of senses confounding his speech sighing hee did reply I would say somewhat but I cannot utter it which forme hee still used so long as hee had any perfect sence or memory This done also but too late to assist the rest came Doctor Palmer and Doctor Gifford famous Phisitians for their honesty learning and Phisick who with the former foure went all six to a consultation what now remained finally to bee done wherein by some as they say was againe propounded the necessity of bleeding the oportunity whereof by the evacuation of his belly was now over passed In the end the Doctors long before this despairing of his recovery did at last agree upon Diascordium as the onely meanes under God now remaining which tempered with cooler Cordials was given him in the presence of many honourable Gentlemen about tenne a Clock at night the operation whereof was small or none neither all this while did nature of it selfe incline towards sweating and to force the same they thought it to no purpose This night was unquiet as the rest his accidents remaining in the same sort but now and then speaking but so confusedly that hee could not bee understood Among the rest this night about midnight Master Nasmith his Majesties Chirurgeon sitting on his bed side his Highnesse pulled him unto him by the hand speaking unto him somewhat but so confusedly by reason of the ratling of his Throat that hee could not bee understood which his Highnesse perceiving giving a most grievous sigh as it were in anger turned him from him thereafter unlesse hee were urged never speaking unto him or any In this extremity Sir David Murray who in this one death suffered many came unto him intreating him asking him that if hee had any thing to say which troubled him that hee would betimes make knowne his mind but his Spirits being overcome and nature weake hee was not able to say any thing save that of all other businesse hee gave order for the burning of a number of Letters in a certaine cabinet in his closet which presently after his death was done Not long after as I thinke on Friday morning about three a clock his backbove shoulders armes and tongue by reason of the horrible violence of the convulsions dis-joyntingly deviding themselves the effect shewing that the retentive power was gone the Spirits subdued the seat of reason overcome and nature spent in which extremity fainting and sounding hee seemed twice or thrice to bee quite gone at which time there arose wonderfull great shouting weeping and crying in the Chamber Court and adjoyning streets which was so great together with somewhat else which they used that they brought him againe This crie was so great that all those in the streets thought hee had beene dead whereupon it went for the most part currant in the City and Countrey that hee was gone I am not able to expresse the unspeakeable sorrow which every where was for this wofull newes chiefely in that dolefull house you may imagine no thought can thinke the greatnesse thereof nor understanding conceive the same this little which I have said overlading my weakenesse Thus given over of all into the hands of God did his Highnesse lie in extreame paine during which still now and then till two or three houres before his death looking up and speaking or endeavouring to speake which for confusion and extremity of paine being so neere gone could not bee understood all the World were ready in this despaire to bring cordiall waters Diaphoretick and Quintissentiall Spirits to be given unto him amongst which one in the afternoone was ministred which set that little nature remaining on worke forcing a small sweat which too late was the first hee had Sir Walter Raleigh also did send another from the Tower which whether or no to give him they did a while deliberate After the operation of the first his Highnesse rested quietly a little while presently after falling into his former extremities whereupon as the last desperate remedy with the leave and advise of the Lords of the Counsell there present the cordiall sent by Sir Walter Raleigh after it had beene tasted and proved was given unto him but in vaine save that forcing that sparke of life that remained it brought him againe into a sweat after which as before hee had some rest for a little while But no remedy death would needs bee Conquerour in vaine did they strive against the streame for hee shortly after became wonderfull ill againe sight and sence failing as also all the infallible signes of death approaching In which extremity the Archbishop of Canterbury being there present who seeing it was now the time of times before the last gaspe to minister some comfort unto his Highnesse if as yet there were any sence remaining came unto him first speaking aloud putting him in mind of all those things which hee had spokn unto him the day before in his perfect sense calling aloud in his eare to remember
when hee was many times most offended he would overcomming himselfe say nothing mercifull he was after he had a little punished the offendors neither did hee judge rashly but after due examination of both parties Dissimulation he esteemed most base chiefly in a Prince not willing nor by nature being able to flatter fawne or use those kindly who deserved not his love Quicke hee was to conceive any thing not rash but mature in deliberation yet most constant having resolved true of his promise most secret even from his youth so that hee might have beene trusted in any thing that did not force a discovery being of a close disposition not easie to be known or pried into of a fearelesse noble Heroicke and undanted courage thinking nothing unpossible that ever was done by any a few faire words prevailed more with him then all the threats of the world very pittifull and tender-hearted unto any in misery whom upon Petition he ever some way releeved Most ardent in his love to Religion which love and all the good causes thereof of his heart was bent by some meanes or other if he had lived to have shewed and some way to have compounded the unkind Iarres thereof He well shewed his love to good men and hatred of the evill in discerning a good Preacher from a vaine-glorious in whom above al things he abhorred flattery loving and countenancing the good of the idle and loytering never speaking but with disdaine in which he shewed he had a heart flexible to good and al kind of goodnes which as I thinke was the cause one day he uttered this speech of the Deane of Rochester his Chaplaine That he thought whereas hee and others like him at their first entry into the Pulpit did looke him in the face their countenance did as it were say unto him Sir you must heare me diligently you must have a care to observe what I say As also in his constancie in observing the Prayer time duely before Dinner and Supper which untill his death hee never willingly omitted whatsoever haste hee had or were it never so late What should I yet adde his conscience of an Oath that hee was never heard I now appeale to Envy it selfe to take Gods Name in vaine with an addition of any other seeming light much lesse horrible Oathes with full swinge of passion witnesse the testimony of the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Funerall Sermon wherein was remembred by him amongst many other things that ever memorable reply of his Highnesse who being asked one day by one that greatly rejoyced his Highnesse was no swearer why he did not sweare in play aswell as others to his eternall praise made this reply That he knew no Game worthy of an Oath To live long he never desired nor aspired many times saying That it was to small purpose for a brave gallant man when the prime of his dayes were past to live so long untill he were full of aches soares c. uttering contemptible speeches of Death affirming many times that hee neither desired nor aspired or hoped to live long and that when hee should be sicke three or foure daies together then God have mercy on me would he say Popery with all the adjuncts and adherents thereof hee hated to the death yet he would now and then use particular Papists very kindly shewing that hee hated not their persons but their opinions I must not forget his love to Learning to the Muses to all the Learned who any way did excell to the two Universities chiefly Oxenford because mourning Cambridge did never injoy his presence whose unspeakeale sorrow for his death will shew the great portion of his love they injoyed I should but increase sorrow to tel you how exceeding kindly their Vice-chancellour Doctors Graduates and Students were used when they came to see him at Woodstock What care he had to give them contentment how carefull he was and what speciall commands were generally given throughout the whole house that they should not want the same of his mild and grave carriage towards them and his loving speeches in their absence No lesse carefull hee was to obey the King his Father in every thing being also very diligent to observe and honour the Queene his Mother so much as in him lay or as possible hee might wise hee was to know and not know see and not see almost every thing which was done or said Wonderfull was his care and wisedome in governing of his house and revenewes giving order and seeing every thing done almost himselfe so that scarce were there any of his Houshold Servants whom hee did not know by name amongst whom there was not one knowne or suspected Papist his care being so great that all Communicantes names should bee written up that hee might know if there were any that would not receive So that I may most truly affirme that since the beginning of Princes no house did ever exceede him in all things His Revenewes hee left increased by thousands a yeare Sparing hee was yet liberall where either honesty desert or poverty did move him neither whatsoever the World thinke was hee ever knowne to give away any thing or promise any thing but upon mature deliberation As for those pensious which hee gave a little before his death they were either given to such as had very well deserved them or who having spent their meanes in his service hee could not out of his Noble disposition but relieve thinking it better to doe so then bestow upon them other unknowne suites and leases which otherwise hee must needs have done Hee was loving and kind to Strangers whose hearts upon small acquaintance hee did easily gaine In state matters and petitions not pertaining unto him hee was ever sparing and not willing to meddle In his owne affaires touching coppy-holds leases or any thing of like nature whatsoever abuses were hee ever redressed or minded to helpe upon petition of the party aggreeved Friday being the day wherein hee died I know not by what naturall inclination or motion hee did not of a long time before his death love misliking it above all the dayes of the weeke upon which hee would not willingly use any kind of exercise or ride any journey sometimes not so much as play at cards thereon alleaging that hee continually found some indisposition upon that day and that hee never had good luck upon a Friday such an ominous conceit of the dismalnesse of this day having possessed him which at length proved to bee the period of his dayes He loved and did mightily strive to doe somewhat of every thing and to excell in the most excellent Hee greatly delighted in all kind of rare inventions and arts and in all kind of Engines belonging to the Warres both by Sea and Land In the bravery and number of great horses in shooting and levelling of great peeces of Ordnance in the ordering and marshalling of Armes in building and gardening and in
ILLUST HENRICUS PRINCEPS WALLIAE W. M. Sculp THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OVR Late most Incomparable and Heroique Prince HENRY Prince of WALES A Prince for Valour and Vertue fit to be Imitated in Succeeding Times Written by Sir CHARLES CORNVVALLISKnight Treasurer of his Highnesse Houshold LONDON Printed by Iohn Dawson for Nathanael Butter 1641. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES Prince of WALES c. SIR FInding this Manuscript amongst others I could not passe by it as I did the rest The subiect thereof being so rare a Prince as it may seeme worthy Your Highnes perusall In reading Him You may read Your self His Titles of Honour were the same with Yours Your titles of Vertues the same with His He was as You are the Mirror of the Age which that You may still continue shall ever be the prayer of Your Highnes most humble servant N. B. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HENRY Prince of WALES SIR YOur imposed taske when with the eyes of my mind I considered I found such a multitude of letts and rubs therein that it seemed unto me a thing impossible to dare to looke after much more to adventure to write any thing touching the Life and Death of our late most noble and ever renowned Prince whose high soaring thoughts because the world was not able to containe the heaven of heavens vouchsafed to entertaine for both his farre every where renowned Fame thorowout this Isle and the whole world being too great that who should adventure to say any more should but in vaine adde water to the Sea As also the numbers of others neerer unto him of most assured knowledge and better judgement all which knew him a great deale better then I being able to give the world and you more full and absolute satisfaction together with the multitude and divers sorts of Religious wise grave juditious learned Critticke and curious censurers all who if it should happen but once to peepe into the world for the welbeloved subject therof would gredily entertane and welcome the same with their divers humors and piercing judgements These and many more with the conscience of my unworthines insufficiencie to performe so high a task which rather would become some Homer Virgil Demosthenes Cicero or rather some one in whom all their excellencies are combined to performe aright like mountaines appeared at first in my way yet because as one saith In magnis voluisse sat est rather then it should not be done at all and with the losse the remembrance also perish how and in what manner we lost so brave a Prince Sometime the expectation of the world and that it might for ever be knowne unto it and you both how exceeding great this last duty is which I owe to the dead as also how absolutely you may command him whom your love long since hath strictly bound to be perpetually yours in place of a better I haue adventured upon these ensuing conditions to lanch out my fraile barke into that great Ocean of sorrow even from the cradle to the grave whence storme-beaten as you see I have with much adoe recovered my desired haven First that whatsoever distaste you finde therein of any thing you would not impute it to any presumption of mine but rather to my frailty and ignorance which rather then to offend you I have herein bewrayed Next that whatsoever is here written of his late Highnesse not content herewith you would only use the same as a Ladder to mount up your thoughts to a far more excellent meditation of his vertues further also that you would not be too busie upon this report to censure any of your Phisitians or any other al whom I protest I have endeavoured to please without partiality so farre as in my judgement the truth would suffer me rather imputing the blame unto my relation then any of their actions As also that with your accustomed patience you would delay to censure me for this letter untill with mature judgement you have throughly perused the same considering how much more easie it is to censure others then to doe well our selves Again that since the way by which I must passe is through a long darke silent solitary untroden path leading even to the chambers of death fraught altogether with sorrow ending in teares wherein I cannot chuse but by the excesse thereof many times fall stumble and misse of my way you would with your gentle excuses reach out your hand of love to helpe me up againe rather expecting what is entended then done Lastly that you with my other discreet Reader who hereafter shall see the same would onely use it as a Hunters baite to stay your stomacks a little until some others of better knowledge and sounder judgement doe feed you with a better dinner KNow then that the Kings Majestie and the Queene lying at the Castle of Striveling a place famous for Antiquitie faire for Building pleasant for Scituation on Tuesday the 19. of February 1594. about 3. a clocke in the morning his Highnesse was born to the great joy of all the whole Isle and all forraigne true hearted Princes and people his Majesties well-willers and Confederats but chiefly the Phaenix of her age great matchlesse Elizabeth to shew the exceeding love to his Majestie did not onely â—end the Right Honourable the Earle of Sussex with rich presents to the Christing but also by him and for Her did give unto his Highnesse the Name of HENRY most renowned and Victorious after which by speciall appointment from his Majestie he was resigned to the custody and keeping of the Earle of Marre assisted also by the continuall and vigilant care of the venerable and noble Matron his Mother unto whom the chief charge of his Highnesse person by his Majestie was given Shee also for many yeares before being his owne great happy Nurse with whom he no lesse prospered in all things then his Royall Father before him did in the selfe same place and keeping Thus continued the strength of his Father and the glory of his Mother a great while in the hands of women giving in this his tender age by his wonderfull courage infallible tokens of a Noble and Heroick Spirit no musick being so pleasant in his eares as the sounding of the Trumpet the beating of the Drumme the roaring of the Canon no sight so acceptable as that of Pieces Pistols or any sort of Armour all which evidently shew that if hee had lived Mars himselfe would not one day have dared to looke him in the face Thus he remained untill the 5. or 6. yeares of his Age at which time his Majestie thought it expedient he should no longer want a Tutor Whereupon Master Newton afterwards his Secretary was by his Majesty thought fittest for the said place who presently with all care possible did begin to teach his Highnesse the grounds of Learning with the Introductions leading to the same A little after the Women being put from about his Highnesse divers
of good sort were appointed to attend upon his Person amongst whom as chiefe was the Right Honourable the Earle of Marre together with Sir David Murray Knight first and onely Gentleman of his Highnesse Bed-chamber to lye therein continuing so alwaies untill his death assisted also by sundry Lords Barons Knights and Gentlemen at which time in the 7. 8. and 9. yeares of his Age leaving those Childish and idle toyes usuall to all of his yeares he began to delight in more active and manly exercises learning to Ride Sing Dance Leape shoot a Archery and in Peeces to tosse his Pike c. Whereof all these things in young yeares to the admiration of all chiefely strangers he did wonderfully performe and that with such a grace as it seemed incredible to forraigne Nations save that those of their owne who were spectators of the same did assure them thereof Now beganne those sparks of Pietie Majesty Gravity c. which before were true though small to flash out biger every day using a milde and gentle behaviour towards all chiefly to strangers before whom hee used if they were of good sorts and Nobles to shew these exerciâ—es wherein he excelled all those of his age thereby filling their hearts with love and all their sences with delight departing exceeding well pleased that they had seene Prince Henry Meane while swift winged Time the mother of Change whilst we expected no such alteration joyning with the Eternall Decree which pittying that Elizabeth now overcloyed with earthly â—oyes should any longer bee detained in â—his vale of Misery did send the blessed Angels to change her corruptible for an incorruptible Crowne The Newes whereof in a shorter time then ever was â—oasted so great a Iourney was brought into his Majestie by the Honourable Sir Ro. Carey Knight who out of the abundance of his love preventing all others was the first Newes-bringer not onely of so lamentable death but also of the sudden ensuing joy of his Majesties Right Lawfull Lineall Proclaimed Succession who shortly after was seâ—onded by honourable Gentlemen Sir Charles Percie and Sir Thomas Somersett Knights with a Letter from the Right Honourable the Peeres of England and Lords of Her late Majesties most Honourable Privy Counsell presenting â—eapes of all sorts of dutifull services from so loving Subjects to so beloved a King withall wishing a hastie dispatch of his Majesties Affaires that they the sooner might enjoy His Royall presence which being with speed performed they also out of their great love longing for the rest The Queene with his Highnesse took their Iourney from Edenborough the first of June 1602. the last of the said Moneth comming to Windsor where what joy was at so loving a meeting and so long wished I leave for you to imagine His Majestie lying at this foresaid Towne his Highnesse and some other Lords were installed Knights of the most Honourable and Noble Order of the Garter after which the Sicknesse increasing His Highnesse removed from thence to Oatelands where by appointment from his Majestie he tooke house by himselfe having so many to attend upon him in every Office as was thought fitting for his yeares A little after removing to Nonsuch and from thence being sent for to Winchester by his Majestie he againe returned to Oatelands where he begun to ply his Booke hard for two or three yeares continuing all his Princely Sports Hawking Hunting running at the Ring Leaping riding of great Horses Dauncing Fencing tossing of the Pike c. In all which he did so farre excell as was fitting for so great a Prince whereby together with his continuall travaile being ever in action he came to have a very active and strong body so that then he would many times tyre all his followers before he himselfe would be weary Much about this time being thirteene yeares of age he began to know himselfe a little better and finding himselfe to bee a Prince indeed began not onely to strive for vertues answerable but also to chase away the reliques of childish imperfections naturall to all increasing every day in favour with God and man In the 14. and 15. yeares of his age he began to be very juditious almost in every thing drawing neerer to a Majestique gravity to be a reverent and attentive hearer of Sermons to give commendations to the same to have Boxes kept at his three severall standing Houses Saint-Iames Richmond and Nonsuch causing all those who did sweare in his hearing to pay moneyes to the same which were after duly given to the poore he beganne now also to be of an excellent discourse putting forth and asking strange Questions and Suppositions both of this and forraine States and desiring to know and to be resolved almost of every thing whereby at length he attained to have a reasonable insight and judgement in State-affaires now also delighting to shoot in great and small Field-pieces to levell them to the white and see them shot off The 16. yeare of his Age being to come to the time of his Investment in the Principalitie of Wales and Cornewall He did advance his owne Title and Right so farre as with modestie he might which presently was gently and lovingly entertained and granted of his Majestie with the consent of the Right Honourable the High Court of Parliament The fourth of Iune following being appointed for that solemne action the Christmas before which his Highnesse not onely for his owne Recreation but also that the World might know what a brave Prince they were likely to enjoy under the Name of Meliades Lord of the Isles an ancient Title due to the first borne of Scotland did in his Name by some appointed for the same of purpose strangly attired accompanied with Drummes and Trumpets in the Chamber of Presence before the King and Queene and in the presence of the whole Court delivered a Challenge to all Knights of Great Britaine in two Speeches the relation whereof were out of purpose but the summe was That Meliades their Noble Master boyling with an earnest desire to trie the Valour of his young yeares in foraigne Countreyes and to know where Vertue triumphed most had sent them abroad to espy the same who after their long Travailes in all Countreyes and returne shewing how no where in any Continent save in the Fortunate Isle of Great Britaine they had found his wishes which ministring matter of exceeding joy to their young Meliades who as they said could lineally derive his Pedegree from the famous Knights of this Isle was the cause that he had now sent to present the first fruits of his Chivalrie at his Majesties feete Then after returning with a short speech to her Majestie next to the Earles Lords and Knights excusing their Lord in this their so sudden short warning and lastly to the Ladies they after humble delivery of their Chartle concerning time place conditions number of weapons and Assailants tooke their leave departing solemnly as they entred Now began every where preparations to
which together with the ulceration of his throat made him loth to speake but when hee must needs and then not without great paine the extremity as it were of the evill overcomming and stupifying the vitals and senses striving to subdue naturall heat and oppressing the heart notwithstanding the doubling and trebling of the Cordials to withstand the same This day also Nature as the day before though not in quantity did as was said shew the necessity of bleeding for which cause it was with more instance againe propounded and urged then ever as th' onely meanes under God to save his Highnesse at length after much adoe pro contra Doctor Mayerne urging and Master Butler chiefely withstanding the same mistaking the first beginning of his Highnesse sicknesse in the end the three Doctors Mayerne Hamond and Butler did agree that on the morrow being Sunday the eight broken and the seventh whole day of his last sicknesse a vaine should bee opened all this while untill his bleeding was past they conceived good hope of his recovery yet hee remained dangerously ill you must imagine that all this while of his sicknesse the whole World did almost every houre send unto Saint Jameses for newes the better sort who were admitted to visit him or acquainted with those neere unto him knowing the danger the rest fearing nothing imagining it onely to have beene some Common Tertian for which cause in many places neere unto the City hee was thought dead and gone before they knew that hee was dangerously sick This night was more cruell and unquiet unto him then any other The eight Day On Sunday the first of November and the eight day of his sicknesse according to their former agreement after much adoe Master Butler resisting to consent that hee should bee let bloud because as hee said it was the eight day profering to have left them untill hee was forced to stay and give his consent Doctor Hamond and others proving unto him that it was not the eight day his Highnesse being ill of a long time before howsoever hee strangly with a wonderfull courage and patience concealed the same his Highnesse being still after one in the presence of the foresaid Doctors and divers others of very good worth in the morning was drawne out of the Median of his right Arme seven or eight ounces of bloud during which time hee fainted not bleeding well and aboundantly desiring and calling to them to take more as they were about to stoppe the same finding some ease as it were upon the instant The bloud being cold was seene of all to bee thinne corrupt and putred with a cholerick and blewish water above without any Fibres or small strings therein scarce congealed This day after his bleeding hee found great ease insomuch as since the beginning of his sicknesse hee had not found himselfe so well his pulse inclining towards a more Gentle motion missing his former wonted cruell doublings and his former accidents being lesse and more mild This afternoone hee was visited by his Royall Father Mother Brother Sister the Palsgrave with divers others of the Court all which conceiving good hopes departed from thence reasonably cheerefull Yet that night though better then others hee passed unquietly The ninth Day On Monday the second of November and ninth of his sicknesse hee became worse then ever the great redoubling comming upon him accompanied with rednesse of face shortnesse of breath increase of drought blacknesse of his tongue with excessive heat somewhat lesse then it was the seventh day and benumbings which now with the encrease of all the former accidents tormented him briefely so many evill signes appeared that some of the Doctors then plainely affirmed that by violence of the disease the bloud and humours were retired in aboundance with great violence towards the braine filling the vaines aboundantly as afterwards in the opening did appeare by reason whereof the paine of his head was extreame great his Spirits being as it were overcome This morning Doctor Atknis a Phisitian of London famous for his practice honesty and learning was sent by his Majesty to assist the rest in the cure whose opinion as they said was that his Highnesse disease was a corrupt putred Fever the seat whereof was under the liver in the first passages the malignity whereof he thought by reason of the putrifaction in almost the highest degree was venemous This day and the next he was visited by the King his Father and others of the Court whose exceeding sorrow I cannot expresse yet were they still fed with some good small hopes of his recovery All this while although hee grew every day worse and worse yet none discouraged him with any speech of death so loath they were to thinke of his departure hee himselfe being so tormented with this and the next dayes sicknesse that he could not thinke thereof or if hee had yet the Physitians courage and hope of life which good opinion his unspeakable patience not any way complaining so that he could not have beene knowne to be sicke but by his lookes moved them to conceive telling him there was no danger dashed the same This night came upon him greater alieanation of braine ravings and idle speeches out of purpose calling for his Cloathes and his Rapier c. saying he must bee gone hee would not stay and I know not what else to the great griefe of all that heard him whose hopes now began to vanish The tenth day On Tewsday the third of the Moneth and the tenth of his Sicknesse he became worse then before all his former accidents encreasing exceedingly his boundings being turned into Convulsions his raving and benumming becomming greater the Feaver more violent wherupon bleeding was againe proposed by Doctor Mayern and the Favorers thereof who still affirmed that he did mislike the too sparing proceeding with his Highnesse aleaging that in this case of extremity they must if they meane to save his life proceed in the Cure as though it were to some meane person forgetting him to bee a Prince whom they had now in hand otherwise he said for ought he saw because hee was a Prince he must die but if he were a meane person he might bee saved But this his opinion being disallowed of most they continued and increased their Cordials giving unto him a Glister which brought away abundance of corrupt and putred matter together with some Raysons which as was thought hee had eaten twelve daies before This day also for easing of the extreame paine of his head the haire was shaven away and Pigeons and cupping Glasses applyed to lessen and draw away the humour and that superfluous blood from the Head which hee endured with wonderfull and admirable patience as though he had beene insensible of paine yet all without any good save perhaps some small seeming hope of comfort for the present Now began the Pilots who guided this fraile Barque of his highnesse body almost to despaire to escape the ensuing Tempests
Christ Jesus to beleeve hope and trust onely in him with assured confidence of mercy to lift up his heart and prepare him to meete the Lord Iesus with many other divine exhortations Thereafter calling more loud then ever thrice together in his eare Sir heare you mee heare you mee heare you mee If you heare mee in certaine signe of your faith and hope of the blessed resurrection give us for our comfort a signe by lifting up of your hands which hee did lifting up both his hands together Againe hee desired him yet to give him another signe by lifting up his eyes which having done they let him alone For the Archbishop had with streames of teares powred out at his bed side a most exceeding powerfull passionate prayer All this while also from three a clock in the morning untill night there was continuall prayer in the house and in every place where the danger was knowne by which his time growing neerer and neerer and hee weaker and weaker Thus did hee lie patiently striving betwixt death and life unavoidable necessity and Gods will forcing patience and againe invincible courage and magnanimity loath to bee overcome shewing some indignation and contempt of death yea death it selfe for all his cruelty stood a long while hovering in doubt what to doe so did his Highnesse young yeares his Triumphes at hand the teares and exceeding sorrow of Father Mother Brother Sister the howling cries of his Servants and of the whole Land who said her losse above all was most unspeakeable move his hard heart to pitty But a greater crie before this having outcried those cries even the crie of our sinnes there was no remedy for death although unwilling not being able to resist the fore-passed decree must needs strike the cruell stroke Many times did hee from that morning untill night offer to shoote and thrust in his dart a little yet pulling it presently back againe as it were of purpose delaying the time expecting some mercifull Message from Heaven untill at last the cloudy night bewraying the irrevocable doome by natures decay the excesse of paine having taken away the sense thereof of meere pitty that thereby hee might open unto him the doore of Heaven for his passage into glory being loath that the Angell who had long attended to convey his Soule unto Heaven should make any longer stay he thrust his Dart quite thorow After which his Highnesse quietly gently and patiently halfe a quarter or thereabouts before eight a clocke at night yeelded up his Spirit unto his Immortall Maker Saviour and Restorer being attended unto Heaven with as many Prayers Teares and strong Cries as ever Soule was on Fryday the sixth of November 1612. The Corps shortly after as the Custome is was laide along upon a Table on the floore being the fairest clearest and best proportioned without any kinde of spot or blemish as ever was seene On the Morrow after came the Lords of the Councell by appointment from his Majestie to give order for the opening of his Body c. which was the same night effected about five a clocke in the Evening in presence of the Physitians and Chirurgions who assisted the Cure together with the Phisitian of the Prince Palatine with many other Knights and Gentlemen in the Chamber where he dyed by the Chyrurgeons of his Majestie and his late Highnesse under all their hands as followeth The skinne like that of a dead man blacke but no way spotted with blacknesse or pale markes much lesse marked with purples like flea-bites which could shew any contagious or pestilentiall Venome About the place of his kidnyes hips and behind the thighes full of rednesse and by reason that with great paine he had a long while lien upon his backe his belly somewhat swollen and stretched out by reason of the windinesse which issued out of the smallest opening made in the Navill somewhat high naturally incontinently the belly falling The stomacke whole and wholesome within and without having never all his sickenesse time beene troubled with vomitings loathings or yealpings or any other accident which could particularly shew that it was attainted The Liver without in his highest parts marked with small spots and in the lower with small blackish lines paller and blacker then was fitting The Gall Bladder void of of any humour full of wind The Spleen on the top and in the lower end blackish filled with a blacke heavy blood The Kidneies faire and without any blemish The Midriffe under the Filme or Membrane containing the heart which contained a little moisture spotted with blacke as it were a Leadish colour by reason of the bruising The lungs almost for the greatest part blacke the rest all spotted with blacke all imbrewed and full of a dust blood with a corrupt and thicke serocitie which by a vent made in the body of the Lungs came forth foaming in great abundance in which doing and in cutting the small skinne which invironeth the heart to shew the same the Surgeon by chance having cut the Trunck of the great veine the most part of the bloud issued out into the Chest leaving the lower veines empty upon sight whereof the Company did draw consequents of an extreame heat and fulnesse the which appeared yet more evident in this that the windepipe with the throat and tongue were couvered with a thicke blackenesse and amongst other accidents the tongue cleft and dry in many places The heart sound and dry in all appearance good in all his quallities The hinder veines which are in the inmost filme of the braine called Piamater swolne and stuft with aboundance of blood a great deale more then naturall the substance of the braine faire and cleare but the ventricles thereof full of a cleare water which after the incision ranne foorth in great aboundance One part of which accidents as they thought was ingendred onely by reason of the Fever maligne by reason of the putrifaction of divers humors gathered together of a long time before his Highnesse not being subject to any dangerous sickenesse by birth the other part by reason of the convulsions resoundings and benummings which by reason of the fulnesse choaking the naturall heat and destroying the Vitals by their malignitie have conveyed his Highnesse to the grave without any token or accident of poyson Thus or very neere thus lost wee the delight of mankind the expectation of Nations the strength of his Father and glory of his Mother Religions second hope Foolish people immagine that they have done enough when they have railed upon the Physitians as though they could have altered Providence by prolonging his life never truly beholding the Omnipotent power bereaving him which although in his sicknesse untill the blow was given could not be seene yet now even of the blind may be easily discerned And I pray you if we narrowly looke upon the practise of the meanes what omission of duty shall we find therein Some neere his Highnesse together with Doctor Mayern at first called and
to Westminster Abbey the buriall place where after the dolefull musick of all sorts being ended the Coffin was set under a great stately Herse built Quadrangle wise with eight Pillars shewing three to the view on each side foure square Cannopy like rising small on the top trimmed and set thick within and without with divers Scutchions small flagges and pensels of his Highnesse severall Armes of the Vnion chained Scotland Wales Cornewall Chester Rothsay Carrick c. mingled heere and there with his Highnesse Motto Fax mentis honestae Gloria and that of the Funerall Herse Juvat ireper Altum After which the whole Assembly having taken their places banners bannarets and pensils of all sorts being at rest after an universall silence the Archbishop of Canterbury who was appointed to doe his Highnesse the last duty was seene in the Pulpit who with a grave sober countenance shewing the inward sorrow of his heart after a little pause and prayer did with exceeding passion make the Funerall Sermon Of which though you write that you are marvailous desirous to heare the relation yet I am loath to say any thing fearing to wrong so grave and great a Person Neverthelesse since I have adventured thus farre I hope without offence I shall heere as neere as I can remember rehearse a word or two thereof whereby you may judge of the rest The Text was out of the 82. Psalme the sixt and seventh Verses I have said yee are Gods and yee are Children of the most high But yee shall die as a Man and yee Princes shall fall like others Where after hee had most learnedly by way of introduction spoken of the Authour occasion scope and meaning of this Psalme he devided the same into two maine branches First the Exaltation of Princes I have said yee are Gods c. Secondly in what respect they are so called Again in the humiliation least they should bee out of measure exalted he admirably proved by infinite variety of examples both divine and morall the vanity and inconstancy of greatnesse with all the shadowish toyes thereof Thirdly for ocular proofe and use of all inviting their eyes to the present dolefull spectacle of their late ever renowned Prince who not long agoe was as fresh brave and gallant as the best of them unto whom all the delights and pleasures of the World did begge for acquaintance lacking nothing which heart could wish for who yet now for our sinnes lay thus low bereaved of life and all being forced to prove the truth of this Text not onely to fall but to fall as others After which when hee had most truly and excellently shewed a part of his Highnesse Excellencies and many Noble vertues for all was not possible chiefely his rare and singular piety both in himselfe and in the governement of his Houshould which hee so extolled that hee professed hee would not bee ashamed hereafter to propose the same for a rule unto himselfe For consolation unto them all hee shewed the exceeding measure of felicity his Highnesse had attained unto by death and that now in respect of himselfe hee was not to be pittied being compared with those who had out lived him the same one brave ship lying amongst a number of others all tending towards one Haven whither at length they must needs all come or ship-broken perish by the way which setting forth betimes as it were new fresh and strong with a faire gale of wind arriveth quickly without any danger at the Haven of safety whereas the rest loytering a long time by these and these Inticements set forth at last in a more dangerous season some overladen some missing of their way some with leakes some wracked some starved some drowned all exceedingly tempest-beaten with much adoe recouering their desired Haven Even so hee said his late Highnesse had gotten the like advantage of all those that had out-lived him all which laded with infinite more sinnes indangering their safe passage must either perish by the way or storme beaten arive with much toyle whither hee betimes with ease attained So with exhortation unto all to make right use thereof with exceeding great passion and many teares hee ended This very day also the two Universities Oxford and Cambridge did solemnize this blacke day with all the signes of sorrow which could be imagined having in their two Universitie Churches Funerall Sermons all mourning both in heart habite and countenance the fore-runners of which their extreame sorrow long before this in their severall Bookes of mourning Epitaphs burst forth Oxford in her Iusta Oxon and Cambridge in her Epicedium Cantabrig c. with divers other Orations to this purpose The Funerall Sermon in Saint Maries Oxon was Preached by Doctor Goodwin Deane of Christ-Church Colledge there The Text being out of Esay the 57. 1. The Righteous perisheth and no man considereth in his heart and mercifull men are taken away from the evill to come In which he was not onely exceedingly moved himselfe but also moved the whole Universitie and City to shedde fountaines of teares The other of Cambridge was Preached by Doctor Carey Master of Christs Colledge and Vicechancellour of the Universitie his Text being out of the second of Samuel Chap. 3. verse 34. the last words of the Verse And all the people wept againe for him In speaking whereof and weeping himselfe hee made all the people weepe againe and againe The Archbishops Sermon as aforesaid being ended the Earles Lords and Barons c. by this time having offered up their severall Banners and Honours which they carryed as also the great Officers of his House Sir Thomas Challenor Chamberlaine Sir Charles Cornwallis Treasurer Sir John Hollis Comptrouler together with his three Gentlemen-Ushers Walter Alexander Anthony Abington and Iohn Lumley having all by degrees Sir Thomas Challenor beginning broken their White staves and Rods crosse-wise over the Coffin thereby resigning their places the Assembly dissolved the Coffin with the representation as is before said remaining still under the Hearse to be seene of all untill the 19. of the said Moneth of December when decked and trimmed with cloathes as he went when hee was alive Robes Coller Crowne Golden Rodde in his hand c. it was set up in a Chamber of the said Chappell at Westminster amongst the Representations of the Kings and Queenes his famous Predecessors where it remaineth for ever to be seene He was of a comely tall middle stature about five foot and eight inches high of a strong streight well-made body as if Nature in him had shewed all her cunning with somewhat broad shoulders and a small waste of an amiable Majesticke Countenance his haire of an Aborne collour long faced and broad forehead a piercing grave eye a most gracious smile with a terrible frowne courteous loving and affable his favour like the Sunne indifferently seeming to shine upon all naturally shamefaced and modest most patient which he shewed both in life and death slow to anger that even then