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Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James
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Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.
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1658
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Wing O515; ESTC R23008
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no wiser heads be found in the Election than their own Nature hath employed three Senses chiefly to wait on the Body and but two on the Minde yet under this advantage that these last are distinctly double For which of them we stand most obliged to Nature is not yet Pass'd decision since though in regard of Pleasure Sight may have the Royalty yet in respect of Wisdome the Prerogative must not be denied to Hearing It being the far greater Wonder to finde a prudent man Deaf than Blinde so as some are recorded to have put out their Eyes as enemies to Contemplation It is ordinarily affirmed I have seen this or that when the most of it hath arrived at us from Report And in this sense I may be said to have seen these and a number more which out of respect to others Fame or mine own Safety I wilfully omit But lest this Confession might seem to cast a vail of prejudice over the face of that Truth I here expose to the curious eyes of this Age as nakedly as Modesty will give a toleration for I shall say in behalf of Tradition That all Books are her Tenements and contain little of History whatever they may do of Invention but what they hold from Manner of some Report or other Nor hath the beginning to be sure if possibly the end and period of any Nation God in his love did establish or fury destroy a more faithful Register than Traditional Reports not commonly loading its memory with the exact calculation of Time which rightly weighed is but the pedantick part of History and so not unlikely the cause we finde such differences arising amongst our Chronologers the main fons or bottome of her account being no farther corresponsible than for a just and even balancing her layings out with what she hath received To conclude with an Answer to those that may require some account of the present Undertaking I think it far on this side such impudence as ignorance is found to plaister her Libels with against incomparable Queen Elizabeth to own a strength able by rubbing off such dirt especially where Defert lies so thick upon her Tomb to gild her Name though the manner of doing it may stain mine own since the few spots discernable in her Government are hidden like those this Ages curio sity hath detected in the Sun from any farther notice by the splendor of the rest THE Principal HEADS Of the following MEMOIRES On the Reign of QUEEN ELIZABETH 1. Queen Elizabeth her moderate carriage at first till exasperated by the Popes rashness Why the Infancy of her Reign continued quiet notwithstanding so great a shake and turn in Religion 2. To which she was in a manner necessitated 3. How the Parliament confirmed It and Her 4. She breaks with Spain assists the Dutch makes Leagues abroad suppresses Consp racies at home Papists prosecuted The Pope's too late Concession being refused is seconded with an Interdict which proves fatal to the Papists and Queen of Scots Her death and the D. of Norfolk's c. Censured 5. Q. Eliz. galls the Spaniard Cales voyage under Essex gets him Love and Envy 6. The Queen foments Factions at home and what use she makes of them and of her ownInconstanty The Spanish Armado in 88. 7. The Queens favour to Essex how often by him hazarded His quarrel with Blune designed for his Rival 8. His Enemies restless endevours to ruine him by setting him on high his ample Irish commission A Character of the Q. Court Majesty Thrist Provisions rated Exactions of Purvoyers punished 9. A witty Example thereof in Kent 10. Her Houshold-Servants the goodliest of Person c. that could be got as 11. Her Councel the choicest for Prudence apparent in her Marriage-Treaties with Spain and France 12. Her Councels Integrity Offices the reward of Merit Her exact Intelligence B. Bancroft's Art in dividing the Iesuites and Regulars afforded him Popish Intelligence His Character His endevours for Uniformity of Worship hindred by the influence of the two clashing Factions at Court upon the other Bishops c. 13. Letters of State writ in a plain Style involving sometimes an obscure sense as those about her Marriages with France 14. Court-Hospitality 15. Her prudence in receiving Treats from her more ambitious Subjects how she diverted their humour of Popularity 16. She opposes the Declaration of a Successor and why Denies the Parliaments Petition for her Marriage 17. Contrary Reports about her Concupiscence Her Art of Government and choice of Ministers Why some of less Abilities were taken in afterwards â— of Notingham Admiral his Character The Queen sparing in giving Honours or suffering her Subjects to accept them from Forreign Princes Examples thereof in Sir F. Vere Sir W. Rawley Sir Mat. Arundel Sir P. Sidney 18. Her modesty in point of Augmentation of Empire refusing the Dutch as Subjects though she took their Cautionary Towns and Havre de Grace to regain Calis The Spaniard by cutting off the Heads of the Dutch Nobility makes way for the springing up of their Hydra of Popular Government 19. Leicesters hopes of marrying the Queen his freedom of discourse with her about It and otherwise His Character 20. In Forreign Injuries she never precipitated Revenge 21. Parliaments frequent and consequently moderate She restrains their Debates about Succession and Religion Keeps the church humble and carries fair with her Parliament The Schismaticks leave England how it might have been safely prevented what hindred it the fatall inconveniences of those proceedings 22. Ireland neglected and why The Lord Mountjoy ends the War The baseness of the Natives how much Priest-ridden 23. Essex unfortunate Expedition thither Cecils artifice to fetch him back to his Death From which neither the Love of the People nor of the Q. his Mistris could bail him and After which she never joyed The occasion of her Death reported to proceed from the Countess of Notinghams not delivering the Q. a King sent her by Essex to whom she had formerly given it as a Pledge of her Affection and his Safety which the Countess on her Death-bed discovering to the Queen was by her sent with curses in stead of forgiveness into another world 24. After Essex death Cecil being left without controll not onely urges the Q. to declare Iames her Successor but uses other endevour to effect the same 25. The happy condition Q. Eliz. left England in No considerable Enemy How we stood related to other Nation Spain Ireland France Netherlands c. 26. How at home as to Parliaments Credit Treasure Debts Iustice The Church 27. The Conclusion Some Traditionall Memorialls on the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth 1. AFter the death of Mary eldest daughter of Henry the eighth had delivered this Nation for that time from an imminent danger of becoming Tributary to the spanish King who ownes none for a naturall Subject indued with lesse Pride and Austerity then may serve to face a Tyranny equall to the Grand Signior's And left the