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A15043	A remembraunce of the precious vertues of the right honourable and reuerend iudge, Sir Iames Dier, Knight, Lord cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas who disseased at great Stawghton, in Huntingdon shire, the 24. of Marche, anno. 1582. The reporte of George VVhetstons, gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1582 (1582)	STC 25345; ESTC S111683	7,053	21

time was come Could by no Plea defer his fatall doome VVhen Sicknesse came the messenger of death He patiently his sommons did obay See heere the end of all that draweth breath Night clowdes quod he the sun brightest day The huge high Oke a blast dooth ouerwaye So Prince not peere to saue them from the graue Noe Charter haue more then wretched stand A heauy tale vnto the worldly wight That hath health wealth and in his bowels peace But folish man and foe to thy delight Thy sorrow leaue thou liu'ste by this discease As buryed corne consumes ere it increase For flesh and blood no lasting life can giue But beeing dead the soule dooth euer liue If mén with zeale this difference foresawe A chaunge in life I hope would foorth with bee Fiat per me could neuer stand for lawe The Cleargies workes should with their wordes agree The Iudge would Iudge as he would Iudged be This sentence would the murdrers hart affright The sheathe shall woūd who with the sword doth smight And to be short all sorte of men would learne To liue to die and die to liue againe For what auay les a world of rule to yearne To lose the soule and leaue the same in fyne Bothe lands and goods men must of force resigne And onely keepe their actions good and bad Them to condemne or else with joyes to clad More would I saye if greefe to ease gaue place But all in vaine weakenes commaunds my wyll The tyred Iade dooth trip at euery pace when pampred horse doo praunce against the hill So fewe woords the sicke mans hart dooth kyll VVhen healthfull men with long discourses play But what is breefe may best be borne away These woords and more of more deuine regarde He soundly spake when as his hart was ill His seruaunts paines he largely did rewarde To Orphants poore whose Father he was still Bothe lands and goods he did bequeathe by will And other gifts of charitie did giue VVhich scape my Pen but make his same to liue Lords claime quod he a Heriot of the dead A homage dew and men their rights must haue bound to my Prince by seruice looue and dread Tys iust I paye a Heriot for my graue VVherefore I will her Maiestie shall haue My Diamonde and my Chaine of honnor eke So showde his zeale at death was not to seeke His worldly wyll in order thus dispos'de His care was past he found his conscience cleare VVho yet aliue through hope in heauen repos'de And neither hell the Diuell nor Death did feare Thus like a Taper light his life did were And in the end at Stawghton he did die VVhere longe helyu'de and little liu'de awrye The heuē his soule the tomb thus shrowds his corse the world his fame while world doth last wil keep Vnto the wyse his deeds remay ne in force VVho for his death their harts in sorrow steepe But wronged men haue cause on cause to weepe VVherefore of right for euery eye to see VVheteas he lyes this moneing rau'de would be ¶ In obitum venerabilis et Consularis uiri Iacob Dier Equitis aurati et iurisperitssimi Epitaphium Conditur in tumulo Cato nostri temporis isto conditur O maestas Consulis ex●●ias Flet Princeps lugent proceres et corde sub imo plebs fundit refluas cum gemitu lachrymas Et merito nam fautor erat virtutis et auctor Consilijque simul Iusticiaeque Parens Et vitij durus Iudex censorque malorum et pius et multis vir generosus auis Et semper bonus ille bonis fuit ergo bonorum sunt illi demium pectora Sarcophagus Viuit post funera virtus The moste famous Orrators Poets of Greece were hyred by Queene Artimisea to eternise the life vertues of her husbād Mausolus The vveapons of vertue A custome vvith which the Venetians in their funetals do honour their Maiestrates Meete vertues for a Iudge He was borne in an house of aunce 〈…〉 woorship Vertue the best Cognizance of a Gentle Strand Inne sometimes an Inne of Chauncerie A good example for lawiers He liued 23 yeares to this 〈◊〉 He contraryed Arist opinion Amor et odium et proprtum comodum semper facet indices non cognoscere verum A good consideration Summum ius est ium ma iniuria The testimony of a good conscience Sufficient men ought to be placed in offices because they are seruaūrs of the common weale Sic volo sic Iubeo stet pro ratione voluntas Needefull reprehention Non facias altrui quod non vis tibi fieri Ignorantis iuris non excusat Sute of lavv is greeuous to all men The of fice of a good man The vertue of Musique ●emo sine ●crimine v●uit The enuious vvound themselues The imperious subscription of the Pope in his commissions and warrants alluded vnto tiranous Prynces which make their wyls a lavve He gaue to the Hospytall of saynt Bartholmea tvvo fayre houses and to other Hospitalles and almes houses money and lyuinges He bequethed the Queenes Maiestie his Coller of Esses and a very ritche Diamond

¶ A remembraunce of the precious vertues of the right Honourable and reuerend Iudge Sir Iames Dier Knight Lord cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas Who disseased at great Stawghton in Huntingdon shire the 24. of Marche Anno. 1582. The reporte of George Whetstons Gent. Forme nulla fides ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewood The Right Hon ble Charles 〈◊〉 Bruce of Ampthill Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury and Baron Bruce of Whorleton 1712 ¶ To the right Honourable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chaunceler of England and of her Maiesties moste Honorable priuie Counsell George VVhetstones wisheth long continuaunce of honour health and happines ⸪ RIght Honourable so blessed hath beene the estate of this little Realme since the hower of her sacred Maiesties moste prosperous raigne as it hath beene a question whether the people of forraigne nations doo bemone their owne callamities or enuie our felicitie moste and as the godly wise inserte the miseries of other people to the vengeaunce of God executed vppon their owne bowels through the tyranie of their Kings together with the ambytion and enuie of their principall Maiestrates so doo they also acknowledge that our especiall happines proceedeth from the deuine blessing of the hiest who in the heate of percicution gratiouslie sent vs a moste gratious Princes led by a spirit onely composed of pietie bountie and pittie and further strengthened her highnesse with a Senate and other needefull maiestrates so graue and pollitique as establish wholesome lawes for the publique benefit of her Maiesties Subiects and withall with lynxes eyes so prie into forraine practises that by their wisdomes in the beginning they returne the weapons prouided for our mischeefes into the practisers owne entrailes so that more for feare then loue beeing through the world for our prosperitie enuied we haue free passage in forraigne nations and finde the seale of peace vppon the Gates of our owne Citties which duly considered that English subiect may iustlie be proclaimed enimie to grace humanitie that rendreth not hartie thankes vnto God dutifull obedience vnto her Maiestie and reuerent loue and affection vnto the Maiestrates for this peace plentie and protection and seeing forraigne writers that haue their Colledges enuironed with Armes finde meanes to present the world with the tirannies of their Maiestrates oppressions of the people and ruines of their Citties English Historiographers which haue quiet recorse vnto the Muses are bound to eternise the memories of the good maiestrates disseased who were the instruments of our blessings that the dead may haue their right and the liuing incouragement to vertue Right honorable bound by these considerations to discharge the office of a poore writer in monuments extant I haue regestred the liues of manie woorthie personages disceased and at this present mooued with the passion of a common sorrow to showe the reuerēt zeale I bare vnto Iustice I haue made a weake remembraunce of a fewe of the pretious vertues which gouerned the good Lord Dyer late cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas which I humblie laie before your Lordships searching iudgement no better garnished then Diamonds set in Brasse assuring my self that your honour will reade his full merrit if not in my woords in the woorking of your owne vertues who with the wings of this iust Iustiser are mounted into the soueraigne seate of Iustice Capitoll where poore iniured sutors zealouslie praie long to enioie your countenaūce whose conscience is the ease of their oppressions so that knowing that my indeuor shall finde grace in your gratious sight being the dew of this good Maiestrate and a testimonie of the seruice I vowe vnto your vertues I boldelie approche your presence with this simple present leauing the view thereof to your good Lordships moste conuenient leasure the 17. of Maie 1582. Your Honours bounden to doo you seruice George VVhetstones A remembraunce of the pretious vertues of the right Honorable and reuerend Iudge Sir Iames Dier Knight Lorde cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas. LIdgate Bawldwin and many writers moe the heauie faules of naughty mē haue showne VVhen their good deedes to tell they all are slowe VVhose vertuous liues deserueth to be blowne with such shrill trūps as made Mausolus knowne The cause think I through ruthemēs harmes they raise And doo enuy to sound the worthies praise But so or no the wrong dooth much increase which my weake muse hath laboured lōg to right VVho liuing in a chosen place of peace where vertue raignes conquers Enuies might who not with laūce but lawrel bough doth fight Her Cheefetaines then of writers iustly claime That Death not time their memoties may maime Among the moe that worste may paye this debte vppon the good I haue bestow'd my zeale Not like their woorth but able wittes to whet For to expose their vertues euery deale Who stayes were of our happy common weale That their good rules such as succeede may guide And liue by Fame as they had neuer dy'de To bothe effects who liuing did no wronge The breathles course of good Iames Dier knight Of Common Pleas the Lord cheefe Iustice long In Scarlet Robes I laye in open sight To shewe that death ore honout hath no might Whose deeds doo shine as Diamonds in the darke And liues though dead if to his Fame you harke Like him that long against the sonne dooth gase To prie into his vertues dimme my eyes VVhose Monuments shine as a Pharoes blase In Iudgement iust in counsell graue and wise Clearer of doubts in law like clowds which rise A liue refuge of those whom wronge did paine A Dyer such as dy'de without a staine But to discribe this woorthy Iudge at large Let it suffice to showe from whence he came The purple Grape a Thorne dooth neuer charge Nor rascall rase oft breedes a Childe a fame His birth was good his acts doo blaze the same In woorship borne in honour he did ende Ray sde by desart and not by sate or freend In tender yeares he was to learning set And Vessels long their seasoned liquors taste As time grew on he did to Oxford get And so frō thence he was in Strand Inne p●aste But him with fame the middle Temple graste The deapth of lawe he searcht with painefull toyle Not cunning Quirks the simple man to spoyle His wi●te was quicke his Iudgement was as found His Clyents such as weare with wrong opprest His conscience good him first with credit cround who with much care his clyents wrongs tedrest By vertue thus he clymde abooue the rest And feard no fall sithe men it was his guide VVhen teaching heads o●te slip inel●cesest pride From roome to roome he stept by true degrees And mounts at length to soueraigne Iustice place VVhere long he sat cheefe Iudge of cōmon Pleas And to say truthe he sare with Iustice grace VVhose sacred will was written in his face Setled to heare but very slowe to speake

Till either part at large his minde did breake And when he spake he was in speeche reposde His eyes did searche the simple sutors harte To put by bribes his handes were euer closde His prosesse Iust he tooke the pooremans part He rulde by Lawe and lystned not to Arte. These foes to truthe looue hate and ptiuate gaine which most corrupt his conscience could not staine The freendles wight which did offēd through need He euer more with mercy did respect The prowder cheete that did his Trespasse feede Through trust to freends with scourge of law he for by the fault not freends he did direct checkt Thus he with grace the poore mans loue did draw And by sharpe meanes did keep the prowd in awe As good things are by cuill men ofte abusde euen so the lawe to wrong sometime is wrest The lawe pronounst no trauell herefusde To ease their greefes whom that he foūd opprest And fewe so bad as disobay de his heast This he good Iudge in circute as he rode As cause requyrde still as a Chauncelor stoode Fit men he did in office euer place and ofte put by his freends and neerest kin Affirming though the gifte were in his grace The Common weale cheefe intrest had therein And therefore meete the worthy should it win VVords like himself who fauoured publique good Before then gaine that were spronge of his blood VVhere he was borne all sorts his bountie knew He still stay de strifes in places as he goeth At VVestminster his death poore sutors tewe Who for the poore was Iudge and pleader bothe The riche mans cause he fauord but in trothe Where as he dwelt the County sounds this mone 〈◊〉 the good Lord Dier now is gone And not alone but all the realme besyde His fatall losse haue cause for to lament VVho father was of lawe which right dooth guide And as his Childe the same to Iustice bent VVhich to his will the Iudge vniust dooth rent But he good man did washe his hands fro wronge And sildome sought to laye his foe alonge He neuer raylde nor rag'le atfaulty men But in good woords gaue sentence of their paine VVhere grace he spi'de he gaue such counsell thē As many euill to goodnes he did gaine From selfe reuenge he euer did refraine And yet seuere when it with Iustice stoode A Tullie right all for his Contryes good He did not prie into his neighbours state Vnlesse it were for to sustaine his right His godly minde flew no ambitious gate But in the meane did euermore delight whē climing heads oft reache beyond their might He iustly did discharge his charge assynde And neuer wrought to crosse his soueraignaminde Lords Letters sent to winke at some abuse He aunswerd thus I am to Iustice sworne I must offend or your desire refuse which woords to deeds he euer more did tourne Yet in such sorte as reau'd conceight of scotne Thus say lde the best from Iustice him to drawe VVhen most men make the mighties will a lawe The Lawyer lewde as many naughty are And yet the law to cloke their wrongs do straine He thus would check this string my frend doth iar You of the Lawe would make a backsword faine For others eg'de for your offences plaine You can by lawe vnpunisht steale a Farme But mend or hell will sure your catcas warme You not sustaine but doo the lawe oppresse And so a foe vnto the Common weale Lawe frends the good dooth the leawd suppresse you would make the good her vengeaūce feele Your neighbor vse as he with you should deale Gods lawe sayth so with which ours ought agree VVhich learne for ignoraunce no plea wilbe The like aduise he dayly did bestowe Vppon all sorts as their vocations were The spender he the paines of want would showe The greedy man how that his catke and care Fastned on goods for other men to share Shrowd mes complaints he in this check did blame The blinde for floth may ill vpbraide the lame The labouring man that liues by sweate of blowe If him he found in wrangeling to delight He thus would charme good neighbor ply the Plow Lawe tireth such as haue freends coine and might Let honest men be ●aies men of thy right Thus he good Iudge the poore mās wealth did prise Before their gaine which by the Lawe dooth 〈◊〉 One all degrees in counsell or in meede He thus performde the office of a freende The fatherles and VViddowes he did feede Sustainde their rights their iniuries did end A Cato right that did his substaunce spend On such as lackt affirming how that these His Chuldren vvere VVile kinsefolke and alyes For publique good whē Care had cloide his minde The onely ioye for to repose his sprights Was Musique sweet which showd him wel inclind For he that dooth in Musique much delight A conscience hath disposed to most right The reason is her sound within out eare A Symphathye of heauen we thinko we heare And therefore calde the Image of the soule Forth of the hart which care greefe dooth wrest The Swan in songs her passing Bell dooth knowle The Nightingale with thornes against her brest Dooth wake to singe when other birdes doo rest As showen before for to deceiue their paine VVhose tormēts else would make thē crie amaine This vvas his life to vvorke his Countries vveale He did his health vvith care and studdie vvound VVhen as his minde diseased he did feele This vvas his ease sweete harmonie did sounde Thus all vvas good vvhereto himselfe he bound But some the best vvith enuie vvill assaulte And carping saye none liues without a fault I graunt it true but theires more greater are the Bee sometimes the huswiues hād doth stinge But with his Combe the householde better fare So good men do themselues with trespas wringe And with good deedes a number profit bring Now see if these through sorrow purchase grace Offend like those that would their fames deface No Enuie no thy Barke stayes on a shelfe The vertuous are with such a Mirror armde As doo returne thy Darts vpon thy selfe Their bodies ofte I graunt by thee are harmd but their good deedes are frō thy venim charm'd VVherefore in spight of Enuie Time and Death This Iudges fame my muse shall keepe in breath Not like his worth whose life before is tould the more out losse his death doth now draw neere Yet when he was infirmed weake and olde In Iustice seate his iudgement still was cleare Yea to his end he traueld sutes to heare Yeares could no whit his memorie asswadge VVhen many wise are childish in their age VVell Time in time what worldly is will weare And more will waste the world it selfe to naught The Cannons force the lofty Towers teare The strongest man how proude so be his thought In trackt of time vnto his Graue is brought Euen so this Iudge when as his