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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91832	Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a Lover of the Truth.	Raleigh, Carew, 1605-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing R149; Thomason E490_2; ESTC R206058	10,006	24

OBSERVATIONS UPON Some particular PERSONS and PASSAGES in a Book lately made publick INTITULED A COMPLEAT HISTORY of the LIVES and REIGNES OF MARY Queen of SCOTLAND AND OF HER SON JAMES The Sixth of Scotland and the First of England France and Ireland Written by a Lover of the Truth Mat. 7. 5. First cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye Ecclus. 4. 25 26. In no wise speak against the truth but be abashed of the errour of thine ignorance Be not ashamed to confess thy sins and force not the course of a river LONDON Printed for GA BEDELL and THO. COLLINS at the middle-Temple Gate Fleet-Street 1656. THere is one Mr. Sanderson who hath lately written a booke which he calls a Compleat History of Mary Queen of Scotland and James her son the sixth of Scotland and first of England In which he hath compiled not a History but a Libel against all the good men and good actions of those times and with most servile flattery praised and exalted the bad both men and matters His whole book is a rapsody of notes and scattered papers from other men collected without either order or method being exceedingly defective both in time place and nominations and written in so unseemly and disjoynted a stile that you may easily perceive he hath taken up other mens words without understanding their matter and unlesse it be where he rails on persons of honour which he doth plainly and often though sometimes very falsly his language is dark harsh and unintelligible But that you may the better know what ware you are like to have out of this mans shop I shall give you his character and trace him from his parent His father was a Gentleman though poor but that I take to be no sin though this man doth and how he can clear himself from that offence I know not he was of kin to Sir Walter Raleigh and in the time of his prosperitie and greatnesse was his servant and intrusted with receiving great sums of money for him out of his Office of Wines and other his places by which he became in arrears to Sr. Walter Raleigh in divers great sums which after his troubles being a prisoner in the Tower Sr. Walter sent unto Sanderson for But he was so far from paying them presuming that Raleigh was there friendlesse that he pretended Sr. Walter Raleigh should owe him 2000 li. Whereupon Sir Walter in great anger commenced a suit against Sanderson which was managed by his servant and solicitor John Shelbury And Sanderson being overthrown and found in arrears to Sir Walter Raleigh in very great sums was cast into prison and there dyed a poor contemptible beggar And hence originally sprang all the spleen and malice of this man to Sir Walter Raleigh For this man himself he lived for ought I could ever hear at first very obscurely and as I conjecture by some passages in his book studied Hiraldry for he often brings in many impertinent digressions to shew his skill that way But afterwards he tells us he was servant to the Lord Ross in his Spanish Embassie a fit servant no doubt for such a Master For what that Lord was I shall not need to mention it being so notoriously known to most men yet living After this he tells us he was at the siege of Breda under the Earl of Oxford to whom in his book he was pleased to give the title of a deboyst Lord with many other unhandsome Epithites But I cannot learn that this man had ever any relation to the Court more then at large until he became Secretary to the Earl of Holland when he was Chancellor of Cambridg where he behaved himself so corruptly that he was with great disgrace and scorn turned out of his place for taking Bribes of divers Scholars to make them Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity when the King came to an entertainment at Cambridg So that for a long time after these men were by every boy called Sandersons Doctors A pretty while after this he married the late Queens Landresse and so might perchance creep again into her chamber below stairs but for any other imployment in Court after his Secretary-ship I could never hear he had any And now you may guesse what liquor you are like to draw out of a vessel thus seasoned I shall proceed to examine some particulars in his book wherein I shall absolutely decline saying any thing concerning the Queen of Scots or that part of the Story both the errors and excellencies of that Lady and the inevitable causes of her deplorable destinie being sufficiently known to all Only I shall observe that in some passages of Queen Elizabeths Raigne he gives a harsher censure upon Essex and his offences then any writer heretofore As likewise in fol. 128. he seemes to intimate out of some discourse between Davison the Secretary and Queen Elizabeth That she would have had the Queen of Scots poysoned by Paulet and Drury her keepers which they refused But is it likely Kings should want fit ministers for such mischiefs when common men can hire them daily I think not and if they refused others might easily have bin had But this is a scandal raised upon that excellent Princesse which I never heard or read of before There is no Innocence so clear which this mans pen will not slubber For what need she have gon so fouly to work to take away her life whom the whole Parliament of Eng. petitioned her to execute which this Author confeseth fol. 117. and I hope it is no secret that her death proceeded even frō the Scots themselves yea even from those whom K. James sent to solicit for her Witness that speech of the Master of Gray tua non mordet As for her Son King James truly I believe none will deny him to be a Learned Prince and of great experience which the troubles and vexations he had endured in his youth by his own undutiful and head-strong Scots subjects had well taught him But it cannot be denyed that he failed even in that which he most boasted of his King craft for he never treated with any Prince or State in Christendome that he was not over-reached he spent more in frivilous Embassies then would have raised an army to have setled his Children in their inheritance and being wooed and courted to have been head of all the Protestant Princes in Christendome which would have impowred him to give the Law to all this part of the world he refused and inclined to their enemies whereby as much as in him lay he ruined the one and advanced the other And whereas his accession to this Kingdome hath been thought by some the greatest happinesse that ever befel the Nations it hath proved by what secret predetermination of the allseeing God no man knoweth the greatest misfortune to both For after a miserable and wasting civil war we see his

chuse so weak and vitious a person for his most intimate friend and indeed his governor Haply Overbury might have some tincture of pride in him as indeed who would not that had the power and interest of such a favourite at his command that commanded the King himself and often was known to threaten him if he denyed what he desired But that he should be his baud to Essex his Wife is most unlikely when all the world knows he was her greatest enemy and that his hatred to her and the House of the Hawards was his ruine How doth this passage agree with that which follows after wherein this Author sayes in the relation of this Ladies Divorce from Essex that she was a pure Virgin and so delivered in upon oath from the inspection of divers Ladies But this Author often forgets and contradicts himself Haply Overbury had hindred or thwarted this Gentleman in some illegal projects of which they say he had alwayes store which he had offered to Summerset and therefore he is not only contented his body should have been poysoned whilst alive but he will as far as in him lyes if any would believe such a fellow murther his fame too after his death I shall next only mind you of a letter which he sets down fol. 421 of Summersets to the King wherein there is this passage speaking concerning his estate which he desired the King to spare And I may say further that the Law hath not bin so severe upon the ruine of innocent posterity nor yet cancelled nor cut off the merits of Ancestors before the politick hand of State had contrived it into these several forms as fitted to their ends and government And yet this man Summerset could begg all the lands of Raleigh could begg the 10000 li fine of the Earl of Northumberlands and could enjoy the greatest part of the forfeited Lands of the Earl of Westmorland without any scruple But we are alwayes blind in our own affaires And in fol. 429 I take notice of another scandal which he throws upon his quondam Master Henry Ritch Baron Kensington and Earl of Holland scoffing at him for imitating the Earl of Carlile in his expensive wayes and calling him the natural son of the then Earl of Warwick which why he should do I can not imagin for certainly the Lady Ritch was the then lawful wife of the Lord Ritch after Earl of Warwick and if any of her children were to be stiled natural it were those which she had by the Earl of Devonshire not these by Ritch For as this Author saith in another place King James told Devonshire that he had gotten a faire Wife with a foul soul But no doubt this Author had a pick at Holland for turning him out of his service as is mentioned before I omit his slight character of Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury scoffing at his judgment in the businesse of Essex his Divorce calling him Puritan and a fomentor of factions His despising our Nation in the expedition of the Palatinate branding them with the fag end of an old Ballad saying they went abroad to fight and so came home againe as if they had only danced a morice thither when it is well known they defended Manheinu and Frankendale nobly and Hydelburge with so much honour that Sir Gerard Herbert Commander in chiefe there lost his life at push of Pike How contemptuously doth he speak of the Earls Oxford and Essex terming them young men apprehending no danger and so ignorant they knew not how to avoid any How improbably doth he cast the compiling of the History of the Councel of Trent upon a Protestant thereby to vilifie the work as partial fol. 471 And how doth he throughout his whole book contemne and vilifie both the Reformers and Reformation of Religion I shall now only give you an Item of some few of his mistakes He tells us that King Hen. 8 was a Lutheran when all Story assures us he lived and dyed a Papist T is true he put down Monasteries for his own profit and he declyned the Popes Supremacy for his own pleasure and for defending of these he put Sir Thomas Moor and Bishop Fisher to death with many others But at the same time he put multitudes to death for not subscribing and submitting to the six Articles which were all of them ranke Popery He tells us fol. 487 that all our marriages with Spain have been unfortunate to this Crown and then ravels into the story of the Black Prince as if he had married in Spain but if he will read our English Chronicles he shall find to speake the truth though I love not the nation that the Spanish wives were good and that it was the French wives which proved so unfortunate to our Kings Such was Elenor Wife to Hen. 2 who set all his Sons together by the eares with him Such was Isabel Wife to Ed. 2 who for the love of Mortimer suffered her husband to be miserably and cruelly murthered And such was Margaret Wife to Hen. 6 who by her pride perversnesse and evil government was one of the chief causes in the ruine of that meek and gentle Prince vvhom she lived to see murthered in the Tovver and her onely Son the Prince stabbed to death at Tewxbury field and her self sent home poor and miserable to her more poor and beggarly Father in Provence I need name no more Another mistake he hath concerning the Duke of Buckinghams talking with Yelverton in the Tower which surely the Duke never did But that Sir William Balfore should tell him so as being then Lieutenant of the Tower can not be for Balfore came in to be Lieutenant after Sir George More which was long after this time Another such mistake he hath in point of time relating the publick combat which should have bin between the Lord Rey and David Ramsey which he saith was in the time of King James when in truth it was in the Reign of King Charles and after the Marquis Hamiltons expedition into Germany Speaking of the troubles of the Earl of Middlesex he tells us that to his knowledg the Duke bought Chelsey house for the truth of this I refer my self to the Widow Countesse of Middlesex now living who hath told me many times that the Duke had Chelsey for nothing and that her husband never received one peny for it In another story he inverts the same just upon Middlesex saying that he bought Copthall of the Countesse of Winchelsey when I my self know very well that the Lady gave Copthall furniture and all to Middlesex and the Duke of Lenox to be made Countesse and Middlesex indeed bought out the Dukes estate but his mistakes ignorances and wilful errors are infinite both in the language and the matter I shall therefore conclude with that wholsome advice which once that Grave and Learned Lord Chancellor Elsemore gave to Sir Edmond Scony presenting him with a book in hope he would have given him something being then very poor his father yet alive which book the Chancellor having read over saith to Sir Edmond Sir Edmond Scony you gave me a book for which I will give you I humbly thank your Lordship cryes Sir Edmond I will give you good counsel Read more and write lesse Sir Edmond for indeed it is a very foolish book So say I Read more and write lesse Mr. Sanderson for indeed it is not only a very foolish but a very false and scandalous book far fitter for the fire then for the Presse FINIS