with much honour and magnificence Sir Themas Overbury And Sr. Thomas Overbury congratulating the Ceremony with as publique profession as others in Court expressed And it concerned this great Favourite to look upon Him with respect of preferment and as he failed not the meanest so it became Him to advance his Confident Overbury most eminent Pamph. 65. Whose Character Our Pamphletter hath more deservedly hit upon than any other And therefore it was his own seeking as best fitting his excellent parts to present the Kings Person in Embassie to France which to my knowledge he accepted and seemingly prepared to advance Conceiting perhaps that the power which he usurped over Somerset and the Interests of eithers affection which Overbury knew best how to Master could not endure absence without much regret which accordingly had for some time the true effects as Overbury intended But when Somerset had wisely considered that there would be no great loss of so loose a friend Then Overbury would not goe no though I know his Instructions were drawn and Additionalls thereto by his own consent And this was a just and true ground for the King and Councell to punish so great Insolency with Imprisonment in the Tower which Somerset heartily endeavoured in due time to release But Overbury to shadow his own demerits devised the reason and cause from his disaffection of the former Marriage and which he published with much dishonor though not the tythe which is studied in our Pamphleters Libell For which the Malice of Women as it often meets sought Revenge by Poyson to punish him to the death And for which Fact they were arraigned and some suffered death In prosecution of which it behoved the Kings Piety and Iustice to be severe and serious without any King-craft And therefore needed not such an additionall falsehood as to kneel down to the Iudges when then as usuall he gave them their Charge upon their Itinerate Circuits For then the truth of Overburies poysoning was but suspected And therefore it was not unnaturall nor wonderous for the King to take his leave of his Favorite and friend with expressions of great kindness who yet in Iustice he exposed to Persecution And truly in this much forced story of our Author take him at his own dimension an ingenious good Nature may find out much strugling in the King to make Iustice and Mercy kiss each other I was present at their Arraignments and the Pictures Puppets for Magick spells were no other but severall French Babies some Naked others Clothed which were usuall then and so are now a dayes to teach us the fashions for dresse of Ladies tyring and apparrell And indeed Foremans Book was brought forth wherein the Mountebanck had formerly for his own advantage and credit sawcily inserted the Countesses name so of many others that came to seek Fortunes which she cleared by her own Protestation and Foremans confession that she was never with him Sir Thomas Monson was brought to the Bar Sir Thomas Monson and began his Tryall but was remitted to the Tower with as much Civility as is usuall to other Prisoners And Sir Geo. More then Lieutenant of the Tower took him from the Bar and both together were carried in his Coach to the Tower I say the truth for I saw it But I cannot pick out the meaning why so much pains is taken to tell out Monsons tale was he Guilty or No By the story he had hard measure So perhaps had some of the others for He was a Creature of that Family And yet for some no doubt private respects of our Author for he was his Companion He is in and out and out and in and in and out again And now comes Somerset Pamph. 115. who he sayes being warned to his tryal absolutely refused and was assured by the King never to come to any when was this assurance For he tells us At their parting at Royston they never met after but we must conceive it by Message And why for this must More a wise man be at his wits end The warrant for Tryall came over night late and it is so usual as it never failes that the Lieutenant of the Tower hath freedome of accesse to waken his Soveraign at any hour The importance of his Place and Trust having that consequence annexed And in speciall to give Knowledge of Warrants either of Tryalls or of Execution of Prisoners And this of Course he did When the King in tears is told a tale in his Eares that none knew but he that was furthest off A trick of wit brings him to the Barre and a desperate plot by two men placed at his Elbow with Clokes to clap over him made him calm at his Tryall And thus it was that the Lieutenant on his right and the Gentleman Iaylor on his left hand with Clokes on their backs but not on their armes might colour our Authors conceipt It had appeared a mad President when a Prisoner at his tryall upon Life and Death hath Freedome to speak for himself in publique Course of Justice to be snatch'd from the Bar and from the power of the Iudge at the pleasure of a Iaylor But to make out this Monument the King rewards him with 1500 l. Pamph. 119. And for a truth More tells all this to the Author of whom himselfe confesses he had no assurance of his honesty nor I beseeve any body else The Conclusion of all is That due execution was done upon Sir Iervice Ellowayes Mrs. Turner Weston and Franklyn Moâ—son cleared the Countesse and Earl reprieved our Author and most men cleer him of the Poyson and condemn him only in the high point of friendship for suffering his imprisonment which he could not release And the Countesse only guilty of connivance And now comes this Our Prefacers 3. Remarke to the Iudgment Seat for sentence Let him pick out a greater President in any History more Remarke than this of the King to make good this His former Protestation wherein by the way He may take leave to be allowed His owne even Conscience for Iustice and Mercy both Which no doubt hath found acceptance at Gods Tribunall in behalfe of Him and His His own death being Ordinary not forced by any Poyson And His posterity in due time by our Saviours merits shall be gathered up in the mystery of everlasting salvation But by the way how smoothly we are told a Story of the Pittifull Palsgrave how He Married a Kings Daughter with much joy Pamph. 82 Palsgrave and great misfortune to all the Princes of Christendom but fayling of that and all the rest how He was cast out He and His to beg their bread But had His Father-in-law been half so wise with our Authors good Counsell to boot and had He bought swords with a quarter expence of words He had bin What As his Sonne that succeeds him Palsgrave But we hasten Prince Henry having much matter to meddle with confusedly put together
of a decrepid old Man to a proper young Lord and strengthned with the abilities of an experienced Assistant Pamph. 124. without deserving the least quarrelling Item of our Carping Pamphleter The next in our way Chancellor Egerton is that of the Lord Egerton He was Chancellor of England a man very aged and now with sicknesse fallen on his aeath-bed Pamph. 125. The Term come and the Scal to be disposed In order thereunto the King sent Secretary Winwood not Bacon for the Seal with this Message That himself would be his under keeper and not to dispose it whilst he lived to bear the name of Chancellor Nor did any receive the Seale out of the Kings sight till Egerton was dead which followed soon after Sir Francis Bacon succeeded him in the Chancery Chancellor Bacon He was Attorney Generall and as others by that Place and the usuall way of preferment time without memory come to high Office of Iudicature either in Chancery or to the other Benches so did he rise He was a man of Excellent parts of all other learning as of that of the Law and as proper for that place as any man of the Gown His merits made him so then which in after time his vices blemished and he justly removed to his private Studies which render him to the world full of worth and with the small Charity of our Author might merit the Bayes before any Man of that age And so we shall spare our labor to observe his entrance into that Honor by the idle Message from Buckingham Pamph. 127. made up only by our Authors mouth Who tells us of his growings heighth and pride Particularly intimated afterwards to the King in Scotland Pamph. 131. by Letters from Winwood which the King read unto our Author At which he sayes they were very merry Good God! The King opens his bosome to him at that instant not usuall to any of the Green-cloth when this Man so vilely studied and plotted his Soveraigns and that Kingdoms dishonor Vide Preface for which he was turned out of the Court. Was the King so gracious to him he so graceless then and since in the Pamphlet to defame him and his Posterity He that eats of his bread lifts up his hand to destroy him And afterwards we are told his downfall which he says at last humbled him to a Horse boy He did as became him to do to the House of Peers prostrate himself and sins which ingeniously he acknowledged craving pardon of God and Them promising with Gods mercy to amend his life which he made good to the worlds Eye Those excellent works contrived in his Retirements d ee manifest And let me give this light to His better Character from an observation of the late King then Prince returning from hunting He espied a Coach attended with a goodly Troop of Horsemen who it seems were gathered together to wait upon the Chancellour to his House at Gorembury at the time of his declension At which the Prince smiled Well! do we what we can said He This Man scornes to go out like a Snuffe Commending his undaunted Spirit and excellent parts not without some regrett that such a Man should be falling off And all this much differing from Our Authors Character of Him Those times are complained of Pamph. 129. What base courses our Favourite took to raise moneys for advance of his beggerly Kindred Heretofore we are told that the Great Men mastered all now the affairs are Managed with beggerly fellows concludes against himselfe that Riches make Men Cowards and Poverty Valiant T is true Plenty makes Men Proude and Industry brings a Man to Honour Had our Author lived to these our dayes and observed as much now as he pried into then He must have spoke other Language unlesse as likely He could hold with the Hare and run with the Hounds We all know the Duke of Buckingham had many Kindred for his Family were Antient. And dispersed by time into severall Matches with the Gentry who no doubt did addresse to the Favourite for preferment And what strange or new device was it in Him to raise them that were neere in Blood by Noble and worthy wayes as he did and if our Author had liked to lick after the Kitchen-maid had it been handsome for a Kinsman to have kickt at his kindnesse Pamph. 129 130. Good God what a Summary Bead-roll of Pensioners are listed in our Authors Account Sure He became Register to the Revenue of that Rabble Chancellour Attorney Deans Bishops Treasurers Rich and Poore raking upon the rates of Offices Bishopricks Deaneries with Fines and Pensions Otherwise he sayes It had been impossible that three Kingdomes could have Maintained His Beggerly Kindred Oh Pamph. 7. but He must tell us He made them all Lords w ch got him much haued He did so and he did well He made his two Brothers Peers his Mother and Sister Countesses the rest of his kindred by his Countenance got means to live like their Birth-rights being a Race Handsome and Beautifull And yet let me tell him I have been often present when it hath been urged as a Crime to this great Man the neglect of his owne when the discourse hath been prest for preferment of his Freinds And this I know for I acted therein The Late King in honour of Buckinghams Memory supplied the necessities of his Kindred which his untimely death left without support As for the base Observations through and through the Pamphlet though I liv'd in the shadow of the Court reasonable years to see many turns of State Yet I confesse my time other wayes diverted than to rake after so much Ribaldry and beastly bawdery as now to question this his peeping pimping into each Petticoat Placket and for his sufficienency therein he might have been made Master of the Game In Bacons place Pamph. 139. Doctor Williams Lord Keeper comes to preferment Doctor Williams by the title of Keeper of the Seal during pleasure which the Chancellor hath for life He was also Dean of Westminster and Eishop of Lincolne brought in sayes he to serve turns to do that which no Layman was sound bad enough to undertake Former Ages held it more consonant to Reason to trust the Conscience of the Clergy with the Case of the Layman they best knowing a Case of Conscience And antiently the Civill Law was allwayes judged by the Ministers of the Church and the Chancery and Courts of Equity in charge of a Divine Minister So ran that Channell till Bacons Father had it from a Bishop and now a Bishop has it again And had King Iames lived to have effected his desires the Clergy had fixed firm footing in Courts of Iudicature out of the rode of the Common Law And this was the true Cause of Williams Initiation thither How he fell from that and other his wayes since from worse to worst of all we leave him if he be
told he should tell the Duke Forsooth That which the King spake in Parliament not to spare any that was dearest or lay in his bosome by which he pointed to you meaning the Duke And must Buckingham adventure his and the Lieutenants head to learn this News which no doubt the Duke heard before being then at the KING's Elbow Pamph. 161 After this impertinent digression or great secret he discovers which none ever dream'd of a wonderfull failing of the Spaniards both wisdom and gravity And why gravity forsooth That which had bin against all Humanity Comerce and Custome of Nations the Spaniard mist of the advantage to imprison the Prince a sure pledge no doubt for the Spaniard to have gotten the Heir-dome of England And this he tells us for truth out of their own confessions But they were caught with a trick having the Princes faith and his Proxy to boot remaining with Digby which might cosen them into this kindnes to let him come home again Where at a Conference of both houses of Parlament Bristoll is blam'd and it being truth the Prince owns it and Bristoll is sent for by authority otherwise it had bin petty Treason in him to return home from his Commission Pamph. 163 The King of Spain he sayes disswades Bristolls return as doubting the successe as well he might knowing him to be his Pensioner who for his sake is like to suffer But he being come and convented before the Parliament endeavors to cleer himself with a single Copy of a Paper and a bawdy tale to boot against Buckingham but forbore to tell it out for offending their chast Ears In this Pamph. 165 the Author is so ingenious as to be judged by the Reader what a horrible wound Bristoll gave the Prince or Buckinham and yet by his Confelsion the wisdome of the House committed Bristoll to the Tower but some dayes after not the next day he was set at liberty nor durst any bring him to further tryall He was committed for his contempt and might have lain there longer Prisoner But the Duke made means for his Release lest it should move a jealousie that it was his designe thereby to delay the Tryall Which to my knowledg was earnestly pursued by the Duke and had that Parliament lasted might have been a dear bargain for Bristoll In this Parliament Pamph. 168 our Author observes the Princes early hours to act by where he says he discerned so much juggling to serve his own ends that being afterwards come to be King he could not affect them A notable Note he calls that Parliament Iugglers and gives it a reason why the late King must needs disaffect all other Parliaments that succeeded Then have we a discovery of our Authors owne making Pamph. 169 which is intended he says as a caution to all States men with a singular Commendation of the wisdome of the late Earl of Salisbury whom before throughout his Pamphlet he loads with singular disgraces He tels us of a Treaty heretofore with Spain for a Match with Prince Henry where the jugling was discovered that there was no such intention And that the Duke of Lerma the Favorite of Spain leavs the Spanish Ambassador here in the lurch to answer for all who in a great snuff against those that sent him hither prostrates his Commission and letters of Credit under the King his Masters hand and seale at the foot of our Councell Table and so returnes home and yet was not hanged for his labour but liv'd and died bonus Legatus And thus our author having hunted the King hitherto blowes his death at parting Pam. 171. King James's Sickness which he sayes began with a Fever but ended by a poysoned Plaister applyed by Buckingham For which being questiond the very next Parliament it was hastily dissolved for his sake only to save his life In the entrance of the Spring the King was seized with a Tertian Ague which to another Constitution might not prove Pestilentiall But all Men then knew his Impatience in any pain and alwayes utter Enmity to any Physick So that nothing was administred to give him ease in his sits Which at length grew violent and in those Maladies every one is apt to offer advice with such Prescriptions as have been helpfull unto others and in truth those as various as the disease is Common So it was remembred by a Noble vertuous The Playster and untaint Lady for Honour and Honesty yet living of a present ease by a Plaister approved upon severall Persons which because the Ingredients were harmless and ordinary it was forthwith compounded andready for application not without serious resolution to present it to the Physicians consent But the King fallen into slumber about Noone the Physicians took opportunity to retire having watch'd all Night till that Time When in the interim of their absence the King wakes and falls from a change of his Fit to timelier effect than heretofore it usually happened which to allay this Playster was offered and put to his Stomach But it wrought no mitigation and therefore it was removed by the Doctors Who being come were much offended that any One durst assume this boldness without their consents But by Examination they were assured of the Composition and a peece therof eaten downe by the Countesse that made it and the Playster it selfe then in being for further tryall of any suspition of poyson Which if not satisfactory it must and ought to lodge upon their score Sir Mathew Lister Doctor Chambers and others who were afterwards examined herein with very great satisfaction to clear that calumny and are yet living to evince each ones suspition It was indeed remembred the next Parliament following and whereof the Duke was accused as a Boldness unpardonable But in the Charge which as I remember Littleton Managed at a Conference in the Painted Chamber it was not urg'd as poysonous but only criminous But ere the King dyed Pamph. 174. it is told us That Buckingham was accused to his face by an honest servant of the Kings name him if you can who valiantly tript up the Dukes heels that his pate rung Noone for which he call'd upon the gasping King no body being by for Justice And though speechlesse we are told what he would have said viz. Not wrongfully accused And here observe Pamph. 175. he makes Archbishop Abott the Kings Confessor at his death who before he sayes pag. 78. lived in disgrace and excluded the Counsell Table And dyed in disgrace of this King on Earth 175. but in favour of the King of Kings Bishop Williams then Lord Keeper was the other Confessor and in the mouths of two Witnesses consists the Truth What regrett and jealousie remaines then in our Authors heart that some Mischief should lye hid in the secrets of the Sacrament of Confession which he could not learn to out-live the Honour and Fame of his Sacred Soveraign How hath our Author patch'd up a Pamphlet of State Notions
forewarning of the Duke of Florence by expresse Message of Sir Henry Wootton to King James a year before his comming to these Kingdomes against Her beloved and undoubted Heir and in Them to destroy the Protestant Religion The most remarkeable was Gowries Conspiracie that of Gowries Conspiracy in Scotland And I never read or hear'd till our Pamphlet That Sir George Hewms his gravity and Wisdome ushered him into the Secrets of the KING therefore and chiefly to make good that story Pamph. 8. The first passage of the Preface Remarkable For of that Nation both the wisest and most honest gave great Credit thereto And the commemoration was advisedly settled by Acts of their Parliament which Anathematize upon Gowries House and Name And Solemnized there and here with Narratives in print of each particular Circumstance and the ground the cause inviting that Treason And truely the Anniversary feast-day in August was usually solemnized to God's Glory by the most Reverend Preachers witnesse those rare Divine Sermons of our Bishop Andrew's and others whose Consciences no doubt were not so large to cozen God Almighty with a fained tale Indeed there might have been more additionall truths annexed to the relation which I have heard to make it more apprehensive to our Pamphleter whose Speculations in this as in other his stories of Court and State took Information belike but in his Office Below-staires And which makes his faith drawe downe the effects of those Sermons for the Father Pamp. 10. as a Cause of the sad Events and sufferings of the Son and us all to this present The Name of Ruthen in Scotland was not notorious until Anno 1568 when Ruthen amongst others confederates in those divided times of trouble laboured much for the Imprisoning Queene Mary Mother to King James In 1582. his sonne William was created Earle Gowry in the time of that King's minority Though the father bore deadly hatred to the King's prosperity And in 1584. himselfe was in actuall Rebellion in which he suffered at Dondee His eldest son John then in travell in Italy returns home to inherit his lands and honours But not one jot changed in disposition from the traiterous wayes of his Predecessors For not long after he falls into this Conspiracy Which is not so antient but that many then and now living can relate and my self have often heard the repetition The House of Gowry were all of them much addicted to Chimistry And these more to the Practise often publishing as such professors usually do more rare experiments then ever could be performed wherein the King a general scholar had little faith But to infuse more credit to the practise Alexander Ruthen the second Brother takes this occasion and withall conspires with Gowry to assassinate the King and taking opportunity in his hunting not far from his house St. Johnstone invites the King to be an eye-witnesse of his productions In their way Sir Thomas Erskin after Lord Kelly overtakes them and others Demanding of the Duke of Lenox then present why Alexander had ingrossed the King's eare to carry him from his sports Peace man said the Duke Wee's all be turned into gold Not far they rid but that the Earle Gowry made good by protestation his Brother's story And thus was the King brought to Guest Neere the end of Dinner at his fruit and the Lords and Waiters gone to eate Alexander begs of the King at this opportunity to withdraw and to be partaker of his Production to the view of that which yet he could not beleeve And up he leades the King into by-lodgings locking each door behind them till they came into a back-Roome Where no sooner entered but that Alexander claps on his Bonnet and with sterne Countenance faces the King and saies Now Sir you must know I had a father whose bloud calls for revenge shed for your sake The King amazed deales gently with his fury excuses the guilt of his death by his then Infancy Advising him not to lay violent hands on the sacred Person of his Anointed Soveraigne Especially in a cause of his Innocency Pleading the laws of God and Man which so much wrought upon him that he said well I will speak with my Brother And so put the King into a Lobby Room next the Chamber where no sooner entered but that there appeared a fellow weaponed ready for execution to whose custody the King is committed till his return Alexander gone downe the fellow trembles with Reverence puts down his sword and craves pardon which gave the King occasion to worke upon that passion and to aske him whether he resolved to murther him Being assured to the contrary the King gets leave to open a window that looked into a back Court When presently Alexander returnes and tells the King that he must dy But much affrighted at the fellowes countenance with his sword offers violence to the King Which the fellow seemingly opposes and betweene them began a scuffle which gave advantage to the King to cry Treason at the Window which looked into a back Court where Sir Thomas Erskin and one Herries were come In pursuite of the King who was rumored to be gone out the back way to his hunting At the cry of Treason and known to be the King's voice they both hastened up a back staire called the Turnepike being directed by a servant of the house who saw Alexander ascend that way And so forcing some doores they found them above panting with the fray And up comes also at heeles of them John Ramsey after Earle of Holdernesse by them Alexander was soon dispatched Not long after came the Earle Gowry by his double key the first way with a case of Rapiers his usuall weapons and ready drawn To whom Erskin said as to divert his purpose what do you meane my Lord the King is killed for the King was shadowed having cast himselfe upon a Bed from his sight and his cloak was thrown upon the Body of Alexander bleeding on the ground At which Gowry stops sincking the points of his weapons when suddainly Herries strickes at him with a hunting fawchion And Ramsey having his Hawke on his fist casts her off and steps into Gowry and stabs him to the heart and forthwith more Company came up And the truth very notorious then to every eye and eare-witnesse not a few There remained but one younger sonne of that House who though a childe was from that time Imprisoned by Act of their Parliament And so continued afterwards here in the Tower of London until that King's death and the grace of the late King Charles restored him to liberty with a small pension which kept him like a Gentleman to these times But now failing he walks the streets poore but well experienced also in Chimicall Physick and in other parts of Learning Not long after this Conspiracy Herries dies well rewarded John Ramsey hath the Honor of Knighthood with an additional bearing to his Cote of Armes A Hand holding
was the Instrument of messages and letters betweene Ralegh and Cobham often to protest in my hearing That in truth he was threatned with the Rack which was shewed to him but had he tasted therof he said that he should have bin inforced to tell an odd tale meaning of discovery Sr. Walter was admitted a chair pen Inck and paper for his memory And truly he rather tyâ—ed the Court and Jury Repreeâ— ed. with Impertinences And thus was Sr. Walter Ralegh reprieved to the Tower and many years of Imprisonment in that liberty till his future merits and fame of learning begat many to pitty his sufferings So that at last by meanes of the French Embassadour with others of our own Lords he had freedome to repair for his health to his House at Saint James and after a year or two he procured a Commission to make a Voyage to Gueana in the West-Indies for the return of Gold Oare or Mine But was expresly limitted not to trench upon the Spaniard to the breach of Peace His landing was at St. Tomaz a Town of the Spaniards upon the opening of the Great River Orenoque in America Where he killed many of them and there lost his eldest son Walter under the Walls Then sends he Captain Kemish his old Servant upon whose confidence it appears this voyage was resolved up this River to the foot of a Mountain where heretofore and also during Ralegh's Imprisonment he had been sent and returned with wonderfull Remarks of a rich Mine or rather Madre-del-Ore But now comes from thence And all the account came to no more but that the Mountain was fled away he could not find it Upon this the whole sleet 4. or 5. saile mutiny forces him home again as a Prisoner in the return Kemish kills himself in his own Cabin so no tales could be told Ralegh's ships were first cast upon the south of Ireland then they land in the West of England where warrants were ready to apprehend him Prisoner to the Tower In the West he is discovered to deal with a French Master of a ship to steal away into France Then in his journy to London he combines with a French Mountebanck who assisted him with Ingredients which he desired that would without danger of life bring him to breake forth into Blanes Purposely done by this meanes to get longer time to work opportunities to save his life which he knew he had so deeply forfeited Then being delivered into the hands of Sir John Stukely Lieutenant of the Tower he deales with him for a sum of Money part in hand being paid to join with him in Escapeboth of them into France Stukely yields to all and accompanies him by water in the way to Gravesend where by designe of Stukelie's treachery in that and so it prospered with him being hang'd afterwards for clipping of Gold they were seized and brought back to the Tower From whence very speedily Ralegh was commanded to the King's-Bench-bar at Westminster before the Lord chief Justice Mountegue where the Records of his former Sentence only were read hedemanded why Execution should not be done Sir Walter acknowledged that Sentence and the King's Mercy for his life thus long And that he hoped seeing he had bin imployed by Commission with power of life and death over the King's Lie ge People it did make void that former sentence He was told to the contrary and that his time of Execution was the next morning and so the Sheriff of Middlesex took him into custody to the Gate-House and to Execution the next day in the old Palace yard at Westminster where he had the favor of the Ax. which he said smilingly touching it was a sharp Medioine but a true Physitian to cure all diseases and so it proved to him at this very time in his Ague sit At his death himselfe endeavoured to cleere some points which it seemes our Pamphleter knew not of otherwise he would have done it for him To have had often plots with France which he denied but confessed that he had bin solicited thence and indeavoured to escape thither at twice That the French Agent came oft to him with Commission from that King to him But he returned the Commission That he should speake disloyally of the King his accuser he said was a base runagate Frenchman and perfideous whom he trusted being sworne to secrecie which he betrayed much he said in these particulars which he did not deny but traversed So then there were other businesse of charge to which he was liable to a new Tryall But the prudence of the King would not hazard further proceedings having a sufficient upon the old score Pamp. 38. And now for that additional tale of the Pamphleter concerning Sir Walters recovery of Queen Anne for which he begg'd the boone viz. for the Examination of the Lord Cobham by 4. Earles and 2. Councelors I never heard nor read thereof before nor can beleeve it For this I know by severall relations of those great Ladies of her Bedchamber and of her Chirurgians and Physitians now living That She was never cured of her disease but by death that ends all Maladies It followes in the Pamphlet That after he hath ranted his Stories of Mansell and Monson and of the peace ratifyed and sworne He makes Cecill the chief Ringleader of the King by the Nose But to say truth The King was alwaies brought up to his ease though the fore-part of his Raigne in Scotland proved troublesome enough to his Councell And therefore now he was to follow his affaires in peace and his own Inclination in a Sportfull life The rather He being much Subject to unwildines or weaknes in his Limbs and which because of his extream dis-affection to Physick he was advised to the best Aire most agreable to the Nature of Scotland fresh and bleak and for that end he chose Roystan and Newmarket Without that Scandalous Intimation of leaving his Queen without any love or liking We are forced to fall upon One Lake Sir Tho. Lake Pamp. 54. whom we find to be that learned Gentleman Sir Thomas Lake apted in his youth with rudiments of the Book to attend Sir Francis Walsingham that subtile Secretary of State to Queen Elizebeth as Amanuensis to him And after good experience of his desarts he was recommended to the Queen and read to her French and Latine In which tongues she would say that he surpassed her Secretaries and was so imployed to her death for he was reading to her when the COUNTESSE of WARWICK told him that the Queen was departed But not long before merits she received him Clarke of her Signet And he was chosen by this State in that place to attend the King from BARWICK And so sufficient he was that the King made use of his present service in some French affaires after he came into England Which indeed Secretary Cecil had reason to resent as too much trenching on his Office And therefore
The Gall Bladder Gall. void of any humour full of wind The Spleen on the top Spleen and in the lower end blackish fill'd with black heavy blood The Kidnies without any blemish Kidnies The Midrise under the Filme or Membraine Midriffe containing the Heart wherein a little moysture spotted with black leadish colour by reason of the brusing Heart The Lungs the greatest part black Lungs the rest all spotted with black imbrewed and full of adust blood with a corrupt and thick Serocity which by a vent made in the Lungs came out foming in great abundance In which doing and cutting a small Skin which invironeth the Heart to shew the same the Chirurgian by chance cutting the Trunck of the great Veine the most part of the blood issued out into the Chest leaving the lower Veins empty upon sight whereof they concluded an extream heat and fullnesse the same more appeared that the windpipe with the Throat Tongue Throat were covered with thick blacknesse The Tongue cleft and dry in many places Tongue The hinder Veins called Piamater Piamater in the Inmost Filme of the Braine swolne abundance of blood more than naturall The Substance of the Braine Braine faire and clcere but the ventricks thereof full of cleere water in great abundance which was engendred by reason of the Feaver Maligne divers humors being gathered together of a long time before He not being subject to any dangerous Sicknesse by Birth The other part Without poyson by reason of the Convulsions resoundings and benummings and of the fullnesse choaking the naturall hear and destroying the vitalls by their Malignity have convayed Him to the Grave without any teken or accident of Poyson His admirable patience in all his sicknesse might deceive the Physicians never dreaming danger The Urines shewd none And the unknown state of His greatest griefe lay closely rooted in His head which in the opening was discovered But the Picture of Death by a strange extraordinary Countenance from the beginning And vainly surmised possessing him hath been the cause that some vainely rumored that He was Poysoned But no Symptome appearing By sent it is surmised that He might be Poysoned by a Sent. But indeed He died in the Rage of a Malicious Extraordinary Burning Fever The seventh of December He was Interred at Westminster 1612. His Motto's Fax mentis Honestae Gloria Juvat ire per Altum He was comely tall Description five Foot eight Inches high Strong and well made somewhat broad Shoulders a small Waste Amiable with Majesty and His Haire Aborn colour Long Faced and broad For-head a pearcing grave Eye a gracious Smile but with a Frowne danting Courteous and affable Character naturall Shamefast and modest Patient and slow to Anger Mercifull and judicious in punishing offendors Quick to conceive yet not rash Very constant in resolves Wonderfull secret of any trust even from his Youth His Corage Prince-like fearless noble undaunted saying that there should be nothing impossible to Him that had bin done by another Most Religious and Christian Protesting His great desire to compose differences in Religion In a word He was never heard by any body living to swear an Oath And it was remembred at his Funerall Sermon by the Archbishop that He being commended by one for not replying with passion in Rlay or swearing to the truth He should answer That He knew no Game or Value to be won or lost that could be worth an Oath To say no more Such and so many were His Virtues that they covered Sin We are told by our Pamphlet that his death was foretold by Bruce Pamph. 85 who was therefore banished And if so he deserved rather to be hanged But in truth He was not banished at all but wisely removed himself into Germany where his Profession of Prophesying gained most profit And from whence all Christendome are fill'd with such lying foretellings But in this particular he needed not much Art or Devills help to say That Salisburies crazy body should yeeld to Nature before Prince Henry's And this true story of Prince Henry Pamph. 86 may answer the fourth Remarke in the Preface that he came not to untimely death Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Lionell Cranfield and Sir Lionell Cranfield our Pamphlet couples upon the score of Merchants though the latter being of merit and was rank'd with the Peers Ingram was bred a Merchant and for his wit and wealth imployed as a Customer and afterwards came to that esteem as to be preferred Cofferer in the Kings house and with much Reason and Policy so to be For the vast expence of the State kept the Treasury dry Especially the needfull disbursements of the Court divided into Severalls of King Queen Prince Princess and Palsgrave and Duke And at this time also of the Marriage and who more proper to assist the Revenue failing but such able men as these who could and honestly might discover the cunning craft of the cosening Merchant And it was high time so to doe or the Customers had Ingros'd all the wealth of the Commonweal Though our Pamphlet bestowes on them the Characters of evill Birds desiling their own Nests what is our Anthor then Pamph. 87 who desil'd the Court that gave him breeding defamed the King that gave him hread And this I know That the King most prudent put this course in practice at Court somewhat differing I confess in the Line of Ascent to the Houshold preferment which rises by Order and Succession This Man Sir Arthur Ingram a stranger in Court stept in to discover the concealments of the Green Cloâ—h also and when this Tyde had its Ebb it returned again to its wonted Chanell And 't is true that the King shifted the fault upon his Favorit An ordinary fate which of ten follows them to beare the burthen of their Masters mistakes Which yet was but an Experiment proper enough for the Lord Chamberlain to put in practice He being layd aside Sir Lionell Cranfield Sir Lionell Craufield came into publick upon such like Design but in a nobler way I find him of an antient Family in Glocestershire as by their bearing of Arms in the Heralds office appears This Gentleman a Brother unto Sir Randall Cranfield who inherited his fathers possessions there and in other Counties of good value And in Kent Neighbouring Our Authors habitation He was bred a Merchant Adventurer in London and by his extraordinary qualities and the blessing of God upon his indeavours in that most commendable way of Adventure besides his great understanding in the affairs of the Customes became usefull to the State And first had the honour of Knighthood then the Custody of the Kings Wardrobes afterwards Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries and lastly succeeded Suffolke in the place of Treasurer of England and in that time created Earle of Middlesex In all which Offices of Trust