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A15040	A mirror of treue honour and Christian nobilitie exposing: the life, death, and diuine vertues, of the most noble, and godly Lorde Frauncis Earle of Bedford, Baron Russell, Lorde chiefe Iustice, [and] Iustice in Oier, of all the Queene forrests, [and]c. ... Who deceased at Bedford house, the xxviij. of Iune. 1585. AEtatis suæ. 58. Wherevnto is adioyned a report of the vertues of the right valiant & worthy knight S. Frauncis, Lord Russell, sonne and heire apparant of the honour and good giftes of the sayd right noble Earle, who vpon a daye of truce was slaine, by a treacherous strategeme of the Scots, the 27. day of the said month of Iune. The report of George Whetstone, Gent. a faithfull seruant of the sayd right honorable Earle.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1585 (1585)	STC 25342; ESTC S111688	14,333	24

of our most gratious Queene Did glad his hart but with no clyming vaine Which swelleth still where princes fauours raigne She lou'd him as her strength in time of need He honord her with duty zeale and dread 68 He straind him selfe farre more then was his case To serue her highnesse in his latter health In Parlament he did himselfe dissease About sound lawes to arme the Common wealth But priuate gaine he grounded on a shelfe Came the Brydegrome by day or els by night In his cleare lampe he euer more had light 69 Not like his worth his life before is showne The more our losse his death doth now draw neare What was his life his godly death made knowne His sharpe assaulte his faith did nothing scare His care was past he found his Conscience cleare He saw by faith the perfect life in dead The VVomans seede trode on the Serpents head 70 In those fearce panges mans sences often quaile Their feeble heads are full of Idle thought Their hollowe eyes of worldly sight do faile Their foltring tonges do wag and vtter nought Their harts do pant as they with death had fought But he whose life by none of these did wrōng In death had vse of eye hart head and toung 71 His head was free from worldly thought and care His harte did still contemplate of gods booke His toung his faith did in his end declare His eyes abroade did towards heauen looke His hands he heau'd when strength the rest for sooke His chamber seem'd a heauenly preaching place Him selfe euen then the soundest teacher was 72 Among the rest his sayings full of Grace For our regard this one would here remaine I do thanke God that I shall dye in peace And do not liue for to beholde the paine Which for our sinnes on earth is like to raigne Regard it well and each man one amend What good men dreed God forth most doth send 73 S. Austine saith that God is all in all And with his Grace is euer with the good It followes then the wicked to appaule His vengeance is euen mixed with their blood His mercy long his Iustice hath forestood But tempt not farre the lothest man to fight When he is wou'd the soundest blowes doth smight 74 England beware bewarnd if thou be wise Thy ●ecret sinnes ●or open vengeance crye The words are mine but his the sound aduise What men forshaue that ready are to dye The sage do hold euen for a prophesie His eyes no dobut the hyest heauens did peace And saw euen that his toung did then rehearce 7● For to conclude the word the deuill and death He vanquished in all his housholds sight From Gaspes or Grones ware free his latter breath His life did weare euen like a Taper light O happy soule that made so strong a fight And thus in fine he mildly did disseace Euen in the place where long he liu'd in peace 76 A happy ende that Plato calleth blest The end that he most gladly did imbrace The ende his end that many since haue mist. The end that failes his memory to deface Whose vertues liue and shineth in his race The end that soone had raisd this heauy mone Alas the Earle of Bedford now is gone 77 Yea he forth of this sinfull world is gone Gone from the traines of Enuy and disdaine Gone gone before the knowledge of this mone Which would haue grieu'de him more then all his paine His noble sonne treacherously is slaine His sonne his heire of honor Grace and all Stout Lord Russell whom Mars we well might call 78 A passion heare so dul● my heauy muse As that I faint to sound his high renowne My hand and iudgement haue forgot their vse To staine my worke the teares do trickle downe O dismall tune where in the heauens should frowne To reaue at once two Starres of Russels Fame The Sire and So●●e to all this Realme amame 79 Frauncis the Sire derrast by natures Corse Frauncis the Sonne was slaine by Fortunes spight By Fortunes spight armed with treacherous force But yet in spight of all the spights their might His fame shall shine when shame shall raigne light Upon his foes and all the cursed seede That gilty are of this most impious deede 80 God wil be iust you Murthrers then vniust Your iudgement heare although pronounst by me The God that sayd to Cain most accuest Who Caine doth kill shall scanenfolde punisht be Your Murther heare euen in the worst degree Where law of Armes and martiall faith was broke Of God and man will feele the wrathfull stroke 81 I iudge not who are gilty of this deed God will reueale the deepth of all this reach But this I say his valour they did dread Experience erst before their eyes did teach Where danger stood his courage made a breach Which made them seeke by Cowardise his breath Who would himselfe haue els reveng'd his death 82 A shamefull part vpon a day of Truse Where mortall foes no sharpe reuengement trye But once againe who set this fowle abuse T'ware good that he the 〈…〉 ●ye And desarts haunt till vengeance 〈◊〉 dye Yea there to dreede vntill his 〈…〉 Each bush that strrres a RVSS 〈◊〉 frend 83 But leaue we here his foes vnto their fall And see how hye ●●●●●e vertue ●a●●d this Lord When Treason arm'd the Northerne parts with thrall In tender yeares with noble courage sturde He left the Court and tooke him to the sword But did not with the multitude retower When Rebels fled before their Princes Power 84 To stay him there he maried in those parts A louing wife and S Iohn Fosters heire Who dyed soone yet for her sweete desarts And for the zeale he to that seruice bare To leaue those parts he neuer since had care Whose gouerment and hazard oft of blood Approu'd him arm'd to do his Country good 85 The Romaine warres record a noble fight By Mantius sonne in Combat with his foe His father yet in all his Souldiers sight Put him to death because he did vndoe His Order made that none should hazard so This Lord likewise commaunded was to ward For valiantues beyonde his lifes regard 86 Knighted he was and worthy in the field Who neuer yet did faint to see his foe Yea thus betrayde when he was wild to yeld He aunswered thus That will I neuer doe Add drewe his sword but o they shot him through Yet home he went and caried death aliue So lōg as strēgth with mortal woūds might striue 87 What should I say In field a Mars he was In time of peace a stayde and noble Knight In pride of yeares to be cut vp like gras Giues cause of mone to many a worthy wight Of Chiualrie who held him for the light But all in vaine To market to be sold The young sheape comes aswell as doth the old 88 To ward Deaths Dart Honnour is no

shield Yong yeeres faire lookes nor prayer may intreate The Prince the Peere and evry estate must yeld Of fame yeat Death the 〈…〉 not get Desire whereof mens mindes 〈…〉 set And sure this Lord by Fame 〈◊〉 here Old Iohn of Tymes that saw 〈◊〉 ●●●dred yeare 89 He liued so as he shall neuer dye In Heauen nor earth while any earth remaine His godly life is crownde aboue the skye His noble deedes which no fowle deed doth staine Though veniall sinne in evry flesh doth raigne Doth make his life his mortall life I saye In fame to liue till Mor●all Tyme decaye 90 I say no more that can not praise too much This Lord that liued well and dyed blest Fame spreades abroade reports I dare not tuch Ti●l leaue do ioyne in knowledge with the rest Truth shields frō shame and Truth is yet exprest And I in time God willing will expose With leaue obtainde the practise of his foes Viuit post funera virtūs AN EPITAPHE VPON THE DEATH of the right honorable Frauncis Earle of Bedford Baron Russell c. And of his most valiant Sonne and heire S. Frauncis Lord Russell treacherously slaine by a Stratageme of the Scotes and dyed the day before his noble father HEare vnderneathe the Earle of Bedford lyes Whose head was fraught with Grace godly care Who eares were ope to heare the poore mās cries Whose eyes to wi●h his neighbours goods forbare VVhose toung pronounst but good and godly speach VVhose hands 〈◊〉 and seldome did receiue VVhose holy 〈◊〉 ●●rts of men might teach This painted wo●●d did nothing but deceiue He liu'd and dy'de as he with God should raigne But O his losse ioynes with an other rod. His noble Sonne slaine by a Scottish traine His father lead the happy way to God Vpon a day of trute they did him wound VVhome shame no doubt by vengeance will confound Nemo ante obitum beatus The Order of the Romaine funerals to be attired withall his honors Ill men are not lamented being dead He was a liberall Comforter of the poore His Ancestors were Lords of the manner of Barwick in Dorcetshire H. ● Dorcetsh His noble fathers vertues and dignities By H. 8. He was created Earle of Bedford by E. 6. His saying Sans ●ayde de Dieu le ne puis He was in mortall peril of drowning and yet preserued His seruice in King Henry 8. dayes His Father being a generall he had chardge at Muttrill whē he was but 18 yeares of age His most valiant seruice in suppressing the Western Rebels in King Edward the 6 dayes He was alwayes a most godly Protestant The bishops in Queene Maries dayes narrowly searched him Vide acts monum He was Prisoner with the old ● Rich 〈◊〉 Queene M●●nes dayes His seruice in Queene Maries dayes at S. Quintes at his owne charge Queene Mary made him Lieutenant of the West Countries The tyranny of the papists in Queene Maries dayes He was most honorably ●ntertained ●y forraine Princes Disposition of english fugitiues Tyranny no warrant to rebolt The short raignes of Tyrants Example by England Queene Elizabeth He was the first that was sworne of Queene Elizabethes Counsell H●r great zeale to advaunce the Gospell Hee made high accou●● of good preachers Hee litle passed of dum Preachers Hes poesie applied to Gods power ouer all actions Antipater was driuē by a subtill pollicie to get Alexanders body buried the glory that Caesar esteemed His bounty and mercy very great A gratefull parte Passiōs which followes Princes Courts An honorable disposition Her Maiestie sēt him Ambassadour into Fraunce He was Gouernour of Barwicke in her Maiest Time A reuenge contrary to Martiall or politicke Iustice. He was her Maiesties deputie to cristen the scottish king Lord Darley her Maiest subiect ●e was Warden of the stanerie in the West The true cōmendatiō of the Iustice which he administred He was Lieutenant of the Counties of Dorcet Deuō of Cornwaule at the time of his death and oftentimes before The Lawiers in the Westerne Circuts murmured that he ended so many matters Vnkind sutes vnnaturall in this peaceable Gouernment The Petifogger a dāgerous neighbour The best end of law To appease smal discords a speciall duty of Iustices of peace Written vpō a cruel worldlings house A most honorable vertue in this Lord. He was a gret comforter of persecuted strangers He was highly regarded of forraigne princes which profes the ●ospell He greatly in what he might ●urthered the succour of Flaunders He was highly honored of strangers His wiues were most gratious Ladies 3 Daughters of his were al maried to Earles His sonnes were all Lords or Knights in his life time Pharos a wōderfull light made by Ptholomie Philodelphus for the derectiō of sea-faring men He was afflicted with a most violent sicknes one yeare and more past He was wonderfully martered by the Phisitions Surgieons The gretnesse of his patiēce The Doctors and Surgions gaue him ouer M. Marrad Fow●er westerne men Surgion● Discription of the world and of all estates The vncertaintie of Life The certainty of death The worldly mans felicity Nemo ante obitum ●eatus Life like voyages at Sea Hee neuer had great care of worldly causes since his former sicknes Her Maiestie oftentime most gratiously visited him in his former sicknes His most godly and blessed ende One of his godly sayinges in his last ende The senses of a number fayle before they deseace He had parfect vse of his senses vnto his latter gaspe He lyuely cōfessed his faythe in the tremblyng passage of deathe A frutefull admonition vpon hi● last sayinge His departure most quiet Of the valiāt Lord Russell God pun●●●eth murder for the most pai●e with visible vengeance At the spu● In the last siege of Edenbrough Vide Holengh Cre. He was treache●ously slaine vpon a daye of Truse Euer 〈◊〉 last rebellion in the 〈◊〉 He followed all o●ters of seruice in Scotland and the Norther● partes He maried the daughter and heire of S. Iohn Foster Knight L. Warden of the midle marcher TITVS MANLIVS being Consul commaunded that none of his Souldiers should fight but when he commaunded them Ge●●iu● Metius one of his Enimyes pricked forth of his Campanie and chalenge Ma●●ius Sonne The commandement of his father was that h●● should not fight But he being the Consul Sonne rather then the Ehim 〈…〉 him with Cowa●dise preferred a certaine death by breac● 〈…〉 Commandement before a dishonorable life in refusing 〈…〉 Hee slew his enimie and was himselfe put to death 〈…〉 iustice Euen so this noble Lord although not so 〈…〉 because hee valiauntly aduentured his person in a 〈…〉 at the assaults of Edinbrough Castell which Sir W Drurie ●●●●●enant had appointed for men of meaner reputation was by the sayd Lieutenant Committed toward But albeit discipline in martiall pollicie it to be reuerēsed The noble courage of this Lord aunswered 〈…〉 saying 〈…〉 matters of honorable danger there ought to be no difference betweene a king and a meane Souldier and through that thought vpon a mortall drought hee powred a present of 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 because it sufficed not to releaue his whole Armie Vid●●●oling Cro. He was Knighted by the Earle of Sussex generall of the field His stont aunswere to his treacherous enimies He liued vntill the daye after that hee was wounded Spes famae solet ad virtutom impellere multos Iohannes de Temporib●s liued in Charles the 5. time

4 My Muse is bound by seruice zeale and loue The spight of death and fortune here to showe The Sire Sonne whose soules are crownd aboue With ethers corse posses the earth below Untill the daye of Christe his glorious showe By natures corse the one bereft of breath By fortunes spight the other brought to death 5 First of the first that Earle of Bedford hight A gratious Lord as euer lui'd on earth A Counseller and of the Garter knight Right honorable in vertue lore and birth Image of Grace and goodnes here on earth Whose life may be a Mirrour for the best Whose death nay life proclaimes his soule at rest 6 His purple rohe doth show his honor sound His armed sword the metle of his hart His forward leg in S. Georges Garter bound A token is of courage and desart His Counselers place to valour ioyneth Art His loyall truth aboue the rest doth shine His Godly zeale may well be cal'd deuine 7 His mourners clothd in harts as sad as weedes His vertues blasd for few bad men bemone Among the rest his charitable deedes with his sweete soule to Abrahms brest are flone The poore dismayd crye out that he is gone Whose sights and teares their eyes do scald or blind as men past hope his like againe to finde 8 But to discribe this gratious Lord at large His birth life death his gifts and godly feare For Homers pen or Virgils ware a charge Whose vertues firme beseemes the noble peere As Honors Grace within his brest to beare His perfect life the best devines might teach What workes become the holy words they preach 9 First of his birth which in his actes appeare By oft decents a Gentleman he was Ten worthy Squiers the Russels Armes did beare To Knights likewise decended of the race And through desart which hath the hyest place His noble Sire in Henries eye a pearle Clim'de by degrees vntill he was an Earle 10 Eight Cotes he bare which hereditare were The Russels first of all men knowne his owne Delatowres the next a Westerne heire Muschamp the third a Northerne Baron knowne Herringham the fourth a neighbour of his owne Frewxmer the fift from Worcetshire which came Wise was the sixt in Devonshire long of name 11 Deriu'd from Truth and lawfull Pedigrewe These former six his noble Father bare The other too were to his Mother dewe Sabcote she hight Inheritrix and heire With Saint Marke ioynde both in Northampton shire Long thus he was as I haue sayd before A Gentleman and Caesar was no more 12 And sith his howse is built of Honer now You well shall see the ground worke to be found Aduaunce I graunt to weake desart may bow And weaker Grace the building may confound But this strong forte is raisde on noe such ground The noble Lord first Earle of all his race The ground-worke layde by Vallor lore and Grace 13 He did not mount as some men with a starte Vallor him proud a Scevola to be Baronde he was on tryall for desarte Through wisedome then he climed by degree King Henries eyes did iudge as well as see Who with these roomes and Garter did him staule Lord Preauy zeale and eke Lord Admirall 14 Edward the sixt of Christ endeme the pearle For seruice great and loyalty vnstainde Created him of Bedford then the Earle Who still confest these guts by God he gainde And blest of God his vertues all remainde as ioynde vnto the honnor he begonne Unto this Lord the noble Earle his sonne 15 Gods wisedome oft euen from the Iawes of death Saues those whome he to worthy charges caule Throwne in the deepe he gaue to Moyses breath At Lycaonia Stonde he did reuiue S. Paule That there escapes might cōfort thraules in thraule To shew his strength and for a thousands good The Lord this Lord preserued in the stood 16 In tender yeares where one Instruction might Grafte lore and grace which make the noble shine His vertues blasde so cleare in all mens sight As by the same a number did deuine What frutes would grow vpō those bloomes in fine At eighteene years when youth would wāder far This Lord was stayd tooke a chardge in war 17 The West doth know the valour of his hart The Rebels strong he nobly did dismaye The people since haue honord his desart His Syre and he did bring them to obaye And euer since haue kept them at that staye His deeds were knowne by Iustice Trueth zeale To God his Prince and to the Common Weale 18 His holy zeale he builded on Gods word In all his pompe the Pope he did defie When Mary rain'de and bishops rul'de the sworde To cut him short who all his Acts did eye A godly feare his loyall truth did trye His seruice then and hye regard therefore Doth Papists teach their Princes to adore 19 Yet eare I showe his seruice vnconstrain'de I neede must showe how hardly he was vide A Prisoner with the Lord Rich he remainde Till papists had his actions all pervide Which fauteles were but he reuenge resusde He layd his wrong not to his Countries chardge But heaping trueth did sheild her with his tearge 20 Well armed with a stout and loyall hart At S. Quintins he seru'd with proper charg● There needs no trompe to sounde his hye desart Truth bydes the push vnarm'd with shield or targe Malgre his foes his merits were so large As that the Queene esteemde him with the best And made him then lieutenant of the We●t 21 The trust was great but far more great his trueth Yet he profest the faith he did before When as he saw the Clergie voyde of ruth Wherin their rage they seamde a Forest Bore And Christians blood they dronke vp more more He grieu'd to liue where as such Tyrants rainde Yet loyally this bitter Crosse sustainde 22 To trauell then his noble minde was set Which knowledge sought to do his Coūtrey good Abroade his port such noble praise did get As Princes when his fame they vnderstood They honord him by all the meanes they could God did him shield in spight of all his foes And yet he liu'de vnder the Pope his nose 23 Abroade he did not as our papistes doe In practise ioyne their Countrey to confownde Although his Queene were to gods word a foe He neuer wrought that she should be vncrownd No no his faith and honour both were sound Who oft had read and did regard it well That Tyrants were no warrants to rebell 24 No Tyrants are the scourges of Gods Ire Sent from aboue to chasten sinne below But as the Rod the father throwes in fire If in his sonne he sees that grace doth grow The soueraigne God with Tyrants dealeth soe Their rules are short and long his mercies raigne When as he sees that we our sinnes refraine 25 England doth know my censure to be

iust When God from heauen our patient bondage eide The Papists hope he soone consumde to dust Queene Mary dy'de euen in their whottest pride Then downe did fall their pompe of evry side The Image then of Plenty Power and Peace His mercy sent whose raigne the same encrease 26 This noble Lord vpon this blessed chaunce In Counsell sate among the grauest Wights His care was set the Gospell to aduaunce His zeale out shinde the Papists taper lights To do good deedes were set his whole delights His noble howse of Conscience seemd a Court Such heapes of men for succour did resort 27 While fortune smilde he did not like the world Bye vild serach craue gape are gaine could fall Behinde his backe these worldly Ioyes he whurld He fixt his eyes vpon Gods Church in thrall Which he too free set hand hart purse and all His bordes were spred his gates wyde open stoode For Pastors pure which ministred heauenly foodee 28 The Idle Dronne the forme that onely had He thought vnmeete to take a holy charge But some saye though the minister be bad Gods word is pure which we must make our targe I say no les and yet they roue at large A Diamond keepes his vertue set in bras But set in Gold it hath a perfect grace 29 Gods word is pure though preached by the Deuil The holy Ghoste yet seldome comes in hell Without whose gift mans nature is most euill Much like a foole that bytes the bitter shell And leaues the nut the barke not tasting well The multitude of perfect iudgement barde The Preachers words so by his life regard 30 This noble Lord this grocenes did perceiue That simple men Iudge by the outward face And therefore did his benefices giue To such as had both learning gift and grace Would God the like ware seene in eury place The God of Heauen should be glorified then Euen by the workes the liues and lights of men 31 Although this Lord was honord by the sword His wisedome iudg d that learning was deuine Which to aduaunce his bounty did afford Allowance great as if he had a mine 〈◊〉 Schollers poore in whome good gifts did shine In mournfull Cryes he both his eares bestowde His purse wide ope a fruitefull pitty showde 32 To show he bilt his acttions of the Lord Not as the most on fortunes smiling cheare He chose Che sera sera for his word Gods will shal be in heauen aboue and heare The Thunder bolte the strongest towres teare The lightning flash consumes the house of reede And plagues do raigne vpon the wicked seede 33 What did become of Caesars clyming head Of Pompeis rule and Alexanders raigne A light account so soone as they were dead Yea they whose mindes a world could not cōtaine With much a doe a seemely Tombe did gaine Their conquestes great returnde and waxed lesse For nought may stand but what gods hād doth bles 34 The Plow in vaine is set into the ground Unlesse the seede God blesseth with encrease The bilding of the wicked is vnsound Although of bras he frameth euery peace Yea sinketh oft before his owne disseace This Prouerbe old doth profecie his fall Though man propose yet God disposeth all 35 This noble Lord that hath both seene and read The Rules and Raignes y t Time did sinke shake That euen those men that fortune most had fead That liu'de like Gods their leaues as mē did take And haue no name of whom ten thousands spake By his Poesie in true construction then Gods power showes ore all the works of men 36 And that the Lord might all his labours blesse His chiefest workes his temple was to bilde To comfort those that languisht in distresse Such to receiue as Tyranny exilde To cloth and feade the widdow and her childe On these good deedes which holy men may name This Godly Lord did build his forte of fame 37 Caesar oft sayd he gloried most in this Vnto his friend he neuer was vnkinde And oft forgaue his foe that did amis Two worthy gi●ts beseeming Caesars minde Which in this lord his vertues brightly shinde For to his friend none could more fauour show Nor none that liu'd that more forgaue his foe 38 This gratefull part though many I could show Among the rest a good remembraunce Gods will this Lord into the Theames did throw A waterman did rush among the waues And by Gods ayde his dangered life he saues Whose ayde this Lord did nobly then reward And afterward to multiply regard 39 The thriftles man by some vnhappy corse Offended in a veniall cause of death The law did pas This Lord then tooke remorse On him that once his life did helpe to saue In lewe whereof his perdon he did craue And afterward that he might truly liue This man he did a yearely pension giue 40 Ambition wrath enuy and disdaine Haunt Princes Courts and doe the most enthrall But none of these his honor once could staine Like to the snaile he neuer clymde to fall No wrathfull moode his wisdome could appaule On worldly pride he fixt no enuious eye Nor scornde the poore where he good gifts did spye 41 Although he liu'd in fauour of his prince He neuer rose by any mans disgrace His actes so iust as Enuy did convince To noble to craue for to inrich his race Ready to giue and gaue in evry place On Honour he and Uertue made his stay And neuer faund where fortune bare the sway 42 His wisedome knowne in many a cause before Right meete his prince and Cōmō weale to serue Her maiestie by him did set much store And to say trueth no man could more deserue Who with a charge from which he did not swerue In noble sorte as seemde so sad a chaunce Went to Condole the King his death of Fraunce 43 His honor thus by noble actions grewe And all was grace in which he was attir'd At home abroade in peace and warre most true Aboue his hart his vertues farre aspir'de And crownde him with more praise then he desir'de The Scottish traines did axe a trusty eye Then through the North with speed this lord did hie 44 Of Barwicke he the Gouernour was made In which hye charge he ruld without suspect The Souldiers old he did re●resh and ayde Who well deseru'de he nobly did respect Who did offende he mildely did correct With Iustice he did euer measure Grace Which made him fear'd th●ough loue in evry place 45 The deadly foode that thirsteth after blood His wisedome in those parts appeased much The hollowe Scots that seldome wisht vs good Would often saye there neuer gouernd such Tride by his foes his vertues bid the tuch And truth to say generall was the song Th'earle of Bedford did neuer Person wrong 46 In Scotland when that in our soueraignes place He Cristened the seemely Scottish King He did the