Nations Insomuch that though my Lord Goring would not admit Sir Iohn Suckling into the Secret Councils they held in the North because he was too free and open-hearted yet the King gave him a Command there because he was valiant and experienced He raised a Troop of Horse so richly accoutred that it stood him in 12000 l. bestowing the Horses Armes and Cloaths upon each person that was Listed under him which puts me in mind of the Duke of Burgundy's rich preparations against Swisse of which Expedition it was said The Enemy were not worth the Spurrs they wore And of his late Majesties report upon the bravery of his Northern Army That the Scots would sight stoutly if it were but for the English mens fine cloaths And of another passage at Oxford where the King in some discourse of the Earl of Holland and other Commanders in the first Expedition against the Scots was pleased to express himself to this purpose That the Army was not in earnest which made him chuse such Commanders in Chief But indeed it became him better to sit among a Club of Wits or a Company of Scholars than to appear in an Army for though he was active he was soft and sweet withal insomuch that Selden went away with the character of Deep and Learned Hillingworth was reckoned Rational and Solid Digby Reaching and Vigorous Sands and Townsend Smooth and Delicate Vaughan and Porter Pious and Extatical Ben. Iohnson Commanding and Full Carew Elaborate and Accurate Davenant High and Stately Toby Mathewes Reserved and Politick Walter Mountague Cohaerent and Strong Faulkland Grave Flowing and Steddy Hales Judicious and Severe but Sir Iohn Suckling had the strange happiness that another Great Man is eminent for to make whatsoever he did become him His Poems being Clean Sprightly and Natural his Discourses Full and Convincing his Plays Well-humored and Taking his Letters Fragrant and Sparkling only his Thoughts were not so loose as his Expression witness his excellent Discourse to my L. of Dorset about Religion that by the freedom of it He might as he writes to my Lord put the Lady into a cold sweat and make him be thought an Atheist yet he hath put wiser heads into a better temper and procured him the reputation of one that understood the Religion that he Professed among all persons except those that were rid by that fear of Socinianism so that they suspected every man that offered to give an account of his Religion by reason to have none at all nor his Life so Vain as his Thoughts though we must allow to his sanguine composition and young years dying at 28. some thing that the thoughts and discipline of time experience and severer years might have corrected and reduced Amo in juvene quod amputem But his immature death by a Feavor after a miscarriage in his Majesties service which he laid to heart may be a warning to young men of his quality and condition whose youth is vigorous pleasures fresh joynts nimble bodies healthful enjoyments great to look on his ghastly face his hollow eyes his mouldring body his noisom dust and to entertain but this one thought that what he was they are and what he is they shall be that they stand on his Grave as the Romans did on their Friends with these words Go we shall follow thee every one in his own order Rejoyce O young man in the days of thy youth but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment A Gallant would do well with the Noble Ioseph of Arimathea in their Gardens and among their pleasures He died Anno 164 ... leaving behind him these thoughts of those times to his dear friend Mr. Iermin since the Right Honorable Earl of St. Albans 1. That it is fit the King should do something extraordinary at this present is not only the opinion of the wise but their expectation 2. Majesty in an Eclips is like the Sun most looked upon 3. To lye still in times of danger is a calmness of mind not a magnanimity when to think well is only to dream well 4. The King should do before the People desire 5. The Kings friends have so much to do to consult their own safety that they cannot advise his the most able being most obnoxious and the rest give the King council by his desires and set the Sun or interest that cannot err by passions which may 6. The Kings interest is union with his People 7. The People are not to be satisfied by little Acts but by Royal Resolutions 9. There 's no dividing of a Faction by particular obligations when it is general for you no sooner take off one but they set up another to guide them 10. Commineus observes That it is fit Princes should make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own because they that have the art to please the people have commonly the power to raise them 11. The King must not only remove grievances by doing what is desired but even jealousies by doing something that is not expected for when a King doth more than his people look for he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired otherwise a jealous people may not think it safe enough only to limit the Kings power unless they overthrow it 12. The Queen would do well to joyn with the King not only to remove fears especially since she is generally believed to have a great interest in the Kings affection but to arrive beyond a private esteem and value to an universal honor and love 13. The conservation of the general should guide and command the particulars especially since the preferment of one suspected person is such a dash to all obliging acts 14. Q. Whether the Kings way to preserve his obnoxious friends is not to be right with his distempered people 15. Q. Whether the way to preserve power be not to part with it the people of England like wantons not knowing what to do with it have pulled with some Princes as Henry the Third King Iohn Edward the Second for that power which they have thrown into the hands of others as Q. Elizabeth 16. Q. Whether it be not dangerous to be insensible of what is without or too resolved from what is within And these Advises to his friends about him at that time when he best understood himself 1. Do not ill for Company or good only for Company 2. Shun jests in Holy things and words in jest which you must give an account of in earnest 3. Detract from none but your self and when you cannot speak well of a man say nothing 4. Measure life not by the hopes and injoyments of this world but by the preparation it makes for another looking forward what you shall be rather than backward what you have been 5. Be readier to give than to take applause and neither to give nor to take exceptions 6. It s as much more to forgive one injury than
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
would bear the charge of his Suit with his Adversary which being over-heard by the Noble-man he sent presently to the Brewer resolving he would no longer go to Law with him who upon such easie and cheap terms could manage his part of the Suit And when some ill-minded people thought to disturb the peace of his soul by the confluence that attended his Neighbour's Ministry and the solitude of his he would at once please himself and displease them with this Repartee That to one Customer you will see in a substantial Whole-saleman's Ware-house you will meet with twenty in a pedling Retailer of Small-wares Shop A man would wonder how so good a nature could have an enemy but that as Culpitius Severus noteth of Ithacius that he so hated Priscillian that the very Habit which good men used if it were such as Priscillian had used made him hate them also so it was observed in those times that any thing that was Episcopal was so odious that some men whose Callings were much indeared by the excellent endowments of their persons had yet their persons much disrespected by the common prejudices against their Callings Ah shall I be so happy as to be taken away from the evil to come They are his dying words as Augustine before the taking of Hippopareus before the Siege of Heidelbergh and the good Christians before the Siege of Ierusalem Shall I go as old Gryneus said ubi Lutherus cum Zwinglio optime jam convenit If they knew what it was to dye they would not live so When Bees Swarm a little dust thrown in the Air setleth them and when People are out of order a little thought of their mortality would compose them And since they are mortal their hatred would not be immortal O set bounds to our zeal by discretion to tumults by law to errours by truth to passion by reason and to divisions by charity And so this good man went up to that place that is made up of his Temper Mirth and peace For all we know of what is done above By blessed Souls is that they Sing and Love THE Life and Death OF Sir ROBERT BERKLEY THE two great Boundaries that stood in the way of the late Sedition were Religion and Law which guide and regulate the main Springs that move and govern the affections of reclaimed nature Conscience and Fear by the first of which we are obliged as we live in the communion of those that hope for another world And by the second as we live in society with those that keep in order this Ministers and Lawyers are the Oracles we depend upon for Counsel and Instruction in both those Grand Concerns so far as that we think it our duty to submit to the reason of the one and to believe the doctrine of the other without scruple or argument unless in matters most notoriously repugnant to the Elements of Policy and Religion These two professions the Conspiracy endeavoured to make sure of either by cajoling or persecuting drawing the one half of them to sin with them oh what a case the Nation was in when Juglers and Impostors took up its Benches and Pulpits and marking out the other half for persecution by them miserable kingdom where the Law is Treason and Gospel a Misdemeanor One of those that could better endure the Injuries than the Ways of the Faction was Sir Robert Berkley a person whose worth was set in his Pedigree as a rich diamond in a fair Ring his extraction not so much honouring his parts as his parts did illustrate his extraction When a Pippin is planted on a Pippin-stock there groweth a delicious fruit upon it called a Renate When eminent abilities meet with an eminent person the product of that happy concurrence is noble and generous The Heveninghams of Suffolk reckon twenty five Knights of their Family the Tilneys of Norfolk are not a little famous for sixteen Knights successively in that House and the Nauntons have made a great noise in history seven hundred pounds a year they have injoyed ever since or even before the Conquest And this person took a great pleasure in reflecting on the eight Lords forty two Knights besides a great number of Gentlemen that amongst them possess nine thousand pounds a year for five hundred years together When he came to Study the Law he knew that though to have an Estate be a sure First yet to have Learning is a sure Second skill being no burthen to the greatest men that being often in his mouth in effect which I find in another Judges Book in express terms Haec studia adolescentiam alunt senectutem oblectunt secundas res ornant adversis persugium praebent delectant domi non impediunt foris pernoctant nobiscum Peregrinantur Rusticantur He observed it a great happiness that he fixed on a profession that was as Aristotle saith among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suited to his genius and inclination The reason of his considerable proficiency in his Profession being judged the greatest Master of Maximes in his time and therefore his only fault was that being made Serjeant 3. Caroli with great Solemnity and at the same Term sworn the King's Majesties Serjeant at Law he argued against the factious Members of the Parliament 4. Caroli Sir Iohn Aliot c. so shrewdly that Sir G. C. said of him Prerogative and Law will not be over-run while Serjeant Berkley lives A testimony of him suitable to the inscription on his ring when made Serjeant Lege Deus Rex Two things he abhorred 1. The impudence of those men that by misconstruction of Laws misapplying of Presidents torturing or embezzeling of Records turn the point of the Law upon its self Wounding the Eagle with a feather from his own wing and overthrowing the power of Princes by their authority 2. The uncharitableness of others void of the ingenuity either of Scholars or indeed of men who charged him and others with opinions which they heartily disclaimed meerly because they think such an opinion flowed from his Principles an uncharitableness that hath widened the breach irreconcilably among both Lawyers and Divines in this Nation This was the reason why when the other Judges were Charged with Misdeamenors when the Parliament was upon the business of Ship-money this Judge was Accused of Treason and why when his fellows got off with a check and a small Fine he suffered three years Imprisonment and afterwards was released upon no lower terms than a Fine of two thousand pounds an incapacity of any Dignity or Office in the Common◠wealth and to be a Prisoner at large during pleasure After having been eleven years a good Justice in the Kings bench he died heart-broken with grief Anno 1649. Aetatis 63. Hard indeed were this Gentleman's Arguments against the times but soft his words often relating and its seems always reflecting on Mnemon's discipline who hearing a mercenary Souldier with many bold and impure reports exclaiming against Alexander lent
must have low and humble Foundations When the Dutch Encroachments allowed our Merchants no more Trade than they tought for Master Berkley as willingly served the King to vindicate and recover Trade as he had done his Master to understand it What was extravagancy in the young Merchant becomes courage and resolution in the Sea-men and Souldiers war and publick affairs exercising that spirit that was too big for soft peace and private business He was content to go first a Volunteer to observe the Conduct and Discipline of others and after evident trials of his personal valour to set out as Captain to exercise his own though yet not taking notice so much that he was advanced by his Princes favour to be a Captain over his men as that he was in his Service a Fellow-souldier with them The Conqueror when he first Landed his Forces in this Nation burnt all his Ships that despair to return might make his men the more valiant Younger Brothers they are the words of an ingenious Author being cut off at home from all hopes are more zealous to purchase an honorable support abroad their small arteries with great spirits have wrought miracles and their resolution hath driven success before it When the Orator was asked What was that that made an Orator successful He answered Action What next Action What next again Action Wonderful like saith the Lord Verulam is the case of boldness in Sea-affairs What first Boldness What second and third Boldness Though he never tempted dangers yet he never avoided them witness the Streights Expedition wherein though expectation commonly out-doeth ordinary performances yet he out-did expectation its self resolving not to Yeild even when it was impossible to Overcome and when Stiffled rather than Mastered he might have had Quarter with more honor than his enemies could give it yet Antaeus like taking courage from his misfortunes his courage whetted with anger and revenge not only fills up the great breach made in the Ship by the loss of an excellent Commander but managed it too with such a present courage as not only out-faced danger but even commanded and disciplined it too scattering a new vigor upon his new Command here then on this on that side his examples quickning his authority so that his very Conqueror became his Prize when he had men enough left to master the Ship and yet not enough without some more assistance to Man it winning on the enemy even when he seemed to have lost himself Great was the value others put on the Prizes now and at other times taken by him greater the esteem he had of the actions themselves which at Court deserved a Knight-hood an Honor that by an over-value of themselves make some fearful of those services that gained them that value yet raised rather than abated his resolution as well remembring the custome which is used at the Creation of some Knights wherein the Kings Master-Cook cometh forth and presents his great Knife to the new made Knights admonishing them to be faithful and valiant otherwise he threatneth them that that very Knife is prepared to cut off their Spurs And in the Fleet gained a Vice-Admirals Command a power the greater it was the more careful he was not to abuse it managing his authority at Sea as if what Sea-Captains seldom do he should give an account of it at Land None so wary in Council none so bold in Execution Valour in acting doth well in him that is under the direction of others prudence in advising becomes him who is to guide the ones excellency lying in not seeing dangers the others in seeing them His goodness sweetned his greatness and the best mettal and blade is that which bends and his industry and patience set off his goodness pains having knit the joynts of his Soul and made them more solid and compacted and his piety both of them seeing so much of God in the deep he saw the proper reason of that common Proverb He that cannot pray let him go to Sea And understanding himself so well that he was none of those Sea-men who as if their hearts were made of those Rocks they Sail by are so always in death that they never think of it Most young men when advanced are transported with the Footboys fancy in Huartus that thought himself a Monarch and the Doctor in Acosta that apprehended himself King and Pope so apt is heighth to turn the brain This Gentleman was of the Nobleman in Laurentius his temper that though otherwise very sensible yet was perswaded that he was Glass so much affected was he with the consideration of his frailty and mortality In all his great actions you might spye in his looks that he had a Monitor like the Emperors Boy following him with a Memento te esse mortalem In this capacity he rides in the Fleet under the command of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle when Iune 2. 1665. the Engagement between the Dutch and the English began wherein his place was ordered towards the Rear though his spirit made to the Front had Discipline endured it in reference to which he thought it greater service to submit to the command of Superiours than to be forward in the Engagement with his Enemies lest otherwise he might be served as the French Souldier was in Scotland about a hundred year ago who first mounted the Bulwark of a Fort besieged whereupon ensued the gaining of the Fort But Marshal de Thermes the French General first Knighted him and then hanged him within an hour after because he had done it without command The evil example out-weighed the good service The posture was so unhappy that he as well as Sir George Ascue his Admiral were parted from the Fleet first and afterwards from one another Castor and Pollux asunder betokened ill luck to the Sea-men and misfortunes following each other as waves do Sir William was divided from himself some of his Officers not thinking fit to obey what he thought fit to command and their performances were like to succeed when neither would follow and both could not handsomely go abreast In this condition he resolved his Valour should make amends for his misfortune and though he was unhappy he would not be unworthy too he had rather die ten times than once survive his Credit The sweetness of life being not able to make him swallow down the bitterness of disgrace He attempted a probability of success with a certainty of his own danger not without reason when the ignominy of a quarter from the Enemy he had to deal with was more intolerable than the pains of a death of which a Sea-man thinks that as it is far hotter under the Tropick in the coming to the Line than under the Line it self so the fear and fancy in preparing for death is more terrible than death it self Berkley against the whole Fleet himself a Navie yet carrying nothing about him impenetrable but his mind About six a clock he was shot
well his care as the first Of a strange counsel that a Lord was reported to give him he said That none durst be so Impudent as to give it him For if they had said he I should have set such a mark upon them as that all Posterity should have known my Intentions by it which was ever to govern by Law and not otherwise He was as faithful of his word to others the reason why he would not grant the Faction all they desired as he was advised because he would make good to them what he granted as it was his Interest others should not be false to him His great word being Leave me to my Conscience and Honour and let what will befall me Trouble not your selves said he when advised to escape from Carisbrooke I have the Parliaments honour pawned for my security I will not dishonour my self by my escape Tell me not were his heroique words to a faithful Counsellour advising him to Expedients to save his Life what I may do to save my Life but what I may do with a safe Conscience God forbid that the safety or being of the Church should depend upon my Life or any mortal mans And I thank God I have a Son that I have reason to believe will love the Church as well as I do And being told his death was resolved on he answered like himself I have done what I can to save my life without losing of my soul I can do I will do no more Gods will be done A King so blessed while left to his own Justice and Government not only in his Family with a Son born May 29. 1630. when a new Star at Noon congratulated his birth the earnest of a more numerous Issue those Props of Empire surer than Armies or Navies but in his Realm with such peace plenty and power ar enabled him to check the greatness of Austria and the insolent Proposals of the King of Sweden To reduce Ireland to such a condition of peace and security as that it paid the charges of its own Government formerly deducted out of the English Exchequer To meditate the repair of St Pauls towards which he got together 146000l. To restore such Scottish Lands and Tythes as had been stollen from the Crown and Church during K. Iames his minority to the Crown with augmentation to the Clergy and ease to the People held in vassalage by their new Landlords reserving those Landlords those Lands to be held of the Crown at a moderate tent and in spight of these and other disaffected persons to ratifie such Laws for Church and State as King Iames had established To furnish out such a Navy as brought the Hollanders notwithstanding Grotius his Mare Librum against which Selden writ Mare Clausum to Caress the King and Queen with presents of Ambergreece and to crave a precarious use of our Seas c. and the Spaniard to coin all his Bullion in our Mint His own people could not wish for more happinesse than they enjoyed unless it were the addition of grace to understand their happinesse grown to such a height as by the necessity of nature which put all things in motion must decline Security increasing the trade arts glory and plenty of the Nation and Justice preserving them the meaner sort might Reverence but need not fear the greatest and the greatest might despise but durst not injure the meanest All Pickaroons and Pirats were forced to their nests and sneaking harbours More Privileges were granted the People than they had since the Conquests as that they should part neither with their money nor lives nor services nor houses without their own consent in Parliament that they should enjoy all the Rights and Liberties they ever had since they were a People that they should have a Parliament every three years that they should fear neither High Commission Star Chamber nor the disposal of their Children and Estates in the Court of Wards and more seeming gratitude a while returned to him than to any Prince before him all his future sufferings being only to set off his orient virtues and to let the wanton people know what a sad thing it is to lose the best of Kings and be given over to the pride and violence of the basest of men to punish our sins with his patience who had an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a constant course of prosperity in himself after a War and overthrow to be judged by all men to deserve that prosperity he wanted yea and to have from God a constant assurance that his prosperity should be the more prosperous for his misfortunes he asking Bishop Iuxon Whether the Blessed above knew any thing of what was done here upon Earth and upon his reply with the Ancients that it was probable they might answering That then his sufferings would be sufficiently recompenced with the knowledge he should have of his Sons prosperity One Night a Wax Mortar such as the King had alwayes by him in his Bed-chamber was as he thought quite extinguished in the Night yet in the Morning burned very clearly to his Majesty and the Right Honourable the Earl of Southampton's wonder that lay in the same Chamber as Gentleman of the Bed-chamber that Night knowing it was really out and that none could come in to light it a presage he afterward applyed thus That though God might suffer his light to be extinguished for a time yet he would at last lighten it again Hear him himself thus discoursing on the various events in his affairs and his prospect of what was to come Upon the various Events of the VVar Victories and Defeats THe various successes of this unhappy War have at least afforded the variety of good meditations Sometimes God was pleased to try me with Victory by worsting my Enemies that I might know how with moderation and thanks to own him and his power who is the only true Lord of hosts able when he pleases to repress the confidence of those who fought against me with so great advantages for power and number From small beginnings on my part he let me see that I was not wholly forsaken by my Peoples love or his protection Other times God was pleased to exercise my Patience and teach me not to trust in the arme of flesh but the living God My sins sometimes prevailed against the Iustice of my cause and those that were with me wanted not matter and occasion for his just chastisement both of them and me Nor were my Enemies less punished by that prosperity which hardned them to continue that injustice by open hostility which was begun by riotous and un-Parliamentary Tumults There is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft-times over-ballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every gallant Man in the Worlds esteem a fit instrument to assert in the way of War a righteous cause The more men are prone to arrogate to their own skill valour and strength the lesse
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
his Grave A carceribus ad metam the consciousness of their guilt in burying him above ground in his Imprisonment could no ways be satisfied but by Imprisoning him under ground by his Burial When they wanted nothing to compleat their guilt but this death concerning which his Majesty in his Letter to the Queen expresseth himself thus Nothing can be more evident than that Straffords Innocent Blood hath been one of the great causes of Gods just Judgment upon this Nation by a Civil War both sides hitherto being almost equally punished as being in a manner equally guilty but now this last crying bloud being totally theirs I believe it s no presumption hereafter to hope that his hand of Justice must be heavier upon them and lighter upon us looking now upon our Cause having passed by our faults they preached and talked that nothing interrupted their success but his death imputing all their disasters to his impunity as the Heathens did all theirs to those like him The first good Christians Then upon any publick misfortune it was Christiani ad Leones and at this time upon any misadventure Execute the Arch-bishop Neither was he offered only to the revenge of the English but likewise of the Scots too whose Covenant was to be Celebrated with this Sacrifice and Union cemented with this bloud Since neither the Law nor Reason neither Religion nor Nature neither the Kings power nor the Subjects innocence could preserve his life the excellent man prepared himself with the comforts of all for death having before setled his Estate in a charitable and pious way he had the better leisure to settle his soul had not the cruelty of some people that thought his very solitude too great an injoyment for him shewed themselves as much enemies to private as publick Devotions disturbed his retirements with contumelies upbraiding those very Devotions that then interceded for them who would have laughed at Christ if he had used his own prayer Now if ever the Lion and the Lamb dwelt together the highest Courage and the sweetest Meekness together inhabiting one Breast The great Pastor of the Church going to die with the innocence and silence of a Lamb in the midst of contumelies speaking not again himself though his bloud doth and did His last nights repose was the Emblem of his last rest his slâ—ep the true image of his death serene and calm Having stripped him of all the Honors of an Archbishop they would have denyed him the priviledge of a Malefactor to have his own woâ—thy Confessor Dr. Sterne since Archbishop of York about him taking it so ill that he would not admit of Marshall that was fitter to be the Executioner than a Chaplain that because he would not die according to the humor of the Presbyterians he should not die in the honorable way of an Archbishop 1. Sheriff Chambers of London bringing over night the Warrant for his Execution and acquainting him therewith he betook himself to his own and desired also the prayers of others and particularly of Doctor Holdsworth his Fellow Prisoner there for a year and a half though all that time there had not been the least converse between them The next morning being brought out of the Tower to the Scaffold he ascended it with an extraordinarily chearful and ruddy countenance he that had been so long a Martyr no doubt thinking it release of misery to be made a Martyr as if he had mounted rather to have beheld a triumph than to be made a sacrifice and came not there to die but to be translated and exchange his Miter for the Crown of Martyrdom The clearness of his Conscience being legible in the chearfulness of his dying looks as the ferenity of the weather is understood by the glory and ruddiness of the setting Sun there desiring to have room to die and declaring that he was more willing to go out of the world than any man to send him he first took care to stop the chinks near the block and remove the people he spied under it expressing himself that it was no part of his desire that his bloud should fall upon the heads of the people in which desire it pleased God he was so far gratified that there remaining a small hole from a knot in the midst of a board the fore-finger of his right hand at his death happened to stop that also and then at once pardoning and over-coming his Enemies many of whom coming thither to insult went away to weep for him who had this peculiar happiness with his Master that he gained that reverence by his Adversity that neither he nor any gained in Prosperity he turned his Scaffold to a Pulpit and Preached his own Funeral in these express words delivered by him to the excellent Dr. Sterne to be communicated to his Fellow-Chaplains His Graces Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Ian. 10. 1644. To his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how have I looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I finde the Cross a death of Shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the brink of the very brink of it An Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sower herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sower herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hand that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these for men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above St. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of Red Wine might pass from me St. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
a place disadvantageous to their horse by reason of the Cunniberries there the deserted Foot leaving the field with one thousand five hundred Prisoners two thousand Armes some Ordnance with four Drakes with all their Ammunition and Baggage An happy Victory had it not cost the life of this gallant and faithful Lord of whom the King said That he was the greatest loss but one he had had since the beginning of the Civil War who Charging in the Head of his Troops and by the unevenness of the ground with the force of the Enemy unhapply unhorsed refused Quarter saying He would not owe his life to those who had forfeited theirs and having so many wounds that he need fear none being one great wound himself he fell to the great loss of his Majesty and his Cause not without a noble testimony and resentment from his very enemies victory attending him to his Grave March 19. 1642 3. dying as good a Protestant as he had lived Mancum cadaver terrae mandavit Integrum animum seminanimo Populo legavit virtutem filio hac tumulum adornans epigraphe Non si nunc olim sic erit THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM COMPTON AN honorable person of such temperance from his youth that he seemed to be the St. Nicholas of our Church of whom the report is that when an Infant hanging on his Mothers breast he fasted Wednesdays and Fridays and would not suck He had no sooner accomplished himself by travel and study but his honorable Brother before mentioned intreats his Company in his Expedition towards the settlement of the Association for his Majesty in their Country where he had an excellent faculty of undeceiving those that wrested the Scripture by Scripture his Head being a Concordance especially of St. Pauls Epistles and he advising it as very prudential to condescend to level discourses at the capacity of the people and to convince them in their own dialect having with him one who had the best command of rain and sun-shine in his Face to smile and weep at pleasure his tears flowing at will melted the affections of many though others better acquainted with the man no more regarded his weeping than they did the moist droppings of a stone-wall against rainy weather Small resistance he had the disorderly people not knowing how to digest themselves into a body as who expects that a rolling Snow-ball should have any curious fashion men at first only fighting in a complement until having bravely brought off his Regiment after three onsets wherein his horse was twice shot under him by two Brigades of the enemy it fell to his lot to be Governor of Banbury for the retaking whereof he had contributed so much by his courage and counsel where his first care was a civil and strict carriage to win those professing people disposing his men so easily paying for so honesty and countenancing Religion among them so exemplarily that the people of the place professed that if the Kings Army carried its self so in other places they admired with what conscience any godly man could lift up a hand against them and his next by his own industry being in his turn upon all works and watches as well as the meanest man among them and the peoples to strengthen the Town which by reason of its nearness to Oxford and its command over the adjoyning Counties he resolved to keep as a place of very great consequence to the King and aimed at as of no less consequence to the other side especially since his indefatigable way of Beating up Quarters reâ—dred him of whose men some in their turns for three years together were observed always on horseback either relieving neighbors witness that admirable relief of Iackson gathering Contributions or alarming the enemy as troublesom at Banbury as Colonel Massey was at Glocester the reason why after some little attempts before 1644. the enemy came from Northampton with so many Miners and Colliers July 19. continuing their Mines till Aug. 27. on which day it was assaulted by several Mines Storms and Batterings with a Summons to which Sir William returned this answer That they kept the Castle for his Majesty and as long as one man was left alive in it willed him not to expect to have it delivered And after several Batteries on three sides of the Castle and seven Mines obstructed by water with an endeavor with much loss to drain the outmost Mote Another September 16. to which Sir William returned this answer by the Trumpeter That he had formerly answered them and wondered they would send again whereupon they proceed fiercely to their Assaults and Batteries together with their Granadoes and great Ordnances of the one 346. of the other 767. for a week together though answered with frequent Sallies insomuch that having made a breach upon the West-wall of the outward of the Castle the upper part near thirty yards in length but the inside wall lined with earth they Storm it about nine a clock in the morning September 23. with six hundred of their choicest men twelve being picked out of each Company with burdens on their backs to fill the Mote falling on with Scaleing-ladders in four several places besides a great throng of them in the Breach but without effect Sir William himself maintaining the Breach and giving order in all the other parts so that they fell off desiring leave after the Garrison had stripped them to bury their dead especially after the dreadful execution made upon them by a sally Sir William ordered upon them under Leiutenant Colonel Green the next day when with the men of Sechem they were very sore And not long after according to the good correspondence and intellegence Sir William had with his Majesties Forces the Siege was raised by the right honorable the Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage on the one side and himself on the other the Besiegers being dispersed and their Carriages Horses three Waggons of Armes and Ammunition two Field-pieces being taken and sent into the Castle A piece of service considering that Sir William was not for a eleven weeks in Bed so great his vigilance nor for a week off the Works so unwearied his diligence that he had Prayers four times every day the spiritual armes seconding the temporal so eminent his piety that he acted all things by common counsel and consent such his wariness and prudence He countermined the enemy a eleven times and over-reached them by stratagems six times such his skill He trusted no man without his own immediate over-sight such by care he seldom failed in his aim so exact this level he had no Mutinies either in Town or Garrison so equal his Justice and happy his Government not to be equalled but by another in 1646. when Banbury was besieged the second time as Ierusalem was in the time of a Passeover when all the Synagogues doing homage to the Mother-Temple all Iudaea was there the Guests Cavaliers come from
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
of the Right of calling Assemblies on Numbers 10. 12. nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King and Church with his parts he did with his Interest chearfully sending the Colledge Plate to the King and zealously when the Committee of the Eastern Association was setled there protesting against any Contribution to the Parliament as against true Religion and a good Conscience for which he was Imprisoned Plundered and tormented and as high winds bring some men to sleep so these storms brought this good Doctor to rest whose dying words as if the cause of his Martyrdom had been Ingraven on his heart breathed up with his Divine Soul Now God bless the King though the worst word that came out of his mouth was to Cromwell That when they destroyed the Church Windows you might be better Imployed A Pupil of his compares him and Dr. Collings Professor to Peter and Iohn running to our Saviors Grave in which race Iohn came first as the youngest and swiftest and Peter entred into the Grave Dr. Collings had much the speed of him in quickness of parts the other pierceth the deeper into under-ground and deep points of Divinity neither was the Influence either of Loyalty or Sufferings confined to his own Person but was effectual upon all his Relations for we finde Richard Ward of London Gentleman Compounding for 0234 l. 00 00 And Henry Ward for 0105 l. 00 00 Besides Mr. Seth Ward the Ornament not only of his Family but of his Countrey expelled Sidney Colledge for his Loyalty tossed up and down for his Allegiance till his incomparable temper and carriage recommended him to the Family of my Lord Weinman at Thame-Parke in Oxfordshire his great skill in Mathematicks opened his way in those sad times to the Astronomy Professorship in Oxford they thought there would be no danger in his abstracted and unconcerned discourses of the Mathematicks his extraordinary worth commanded Respect and Incouragement from Worthy men of all perswasions excepting O. C. who told him when he stood for the Principality of Iesus Colledge in Oxford That he heard he was a deserving Person but withall a Malignant his great Ability especially for Discourse and Business commended him to the Deanery first and afterwards to the Bishoprick of Exeter no Imployment a Clergy-man ever was capable of being above his capacity who writes to the eternal honor of this Doctor his Unkle in the Preface to his Lectures set out with Bishop Brownrigg's his Overseers consent and Dr. Ward Mr. Hodges Mr. Mathewes and Mr. Gibsons pains thus Ille me puerum quandeconnem a Schola privata ubi me tune aegre habui ad Academiam vocavit ille me valetudinarium recreare solitus est omni modo refocillore ille mihi animum ad studia ad motis lenitur Calcáribus praemiisque ante oculos positis accendere solebat ille mihi Librorum usum suppeditavit ille me in Collegii Societatem quam primum Licebat cooplavit ille mihi Magister unicus erat Patronus Spes Ratio studiorum With whole words we will finish this poor account of him whose worth might be guessed by the method of his Study the exactness of his Diary the excellency of his Lectures Novit haec omnia Collegium Sidneianum cui plus quam 30 annorum spatio summa cum prudentiae Integritatis sanctitatis Laude praefuit novit atque admirata est Academia Cantabrigientis ubi Cathedram Professoram D. Margarete tot annos summo cum honore tenuit errorum malleus atque hâ—resum norunt Exteri testantur haec opera quae nunc Edimus ista certe ut non nescires tui meique interesse existam abam caetera norunt Et Tagu Ganges forsan Antipodes Here after these Noble and Loval Ushers comes in the King himself not the exact time he was beheaded on but yet the very minute he suffered for though Charles was Martyred 1648. the King was killed 1644. For it is not the last blow that fells the Oak besides that the lifting up of some hands in the Covenant now inforced was to strike at his life according to the most refined sense of that solemn snare declared by Sir Henry Vane who best understood it having been in Scotland at the contrivance of it at his death Iune 14. when he was most likely to speak sincerely what he understood His Person was in danger when they aimed at his Prerogative The Conclusion is to a discerning person wrapped up in the premises for I reckon his life was in danger when their was nothing left him but his life to lose The Life Reign and Death of the Glorious Martyr CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory I May Praeface this sad Solemnity as the Romans did their more joyful ones that were to be seen but once in an hundred years Come and see what none that is alive ever saw none that is alive is ever like to see again See a King and all Government falling at one stroke A Prince once wished that his People had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow here the People saw all Princes with one Neck which they cut at one attempt a stroke levelled not at one King but Monarchy not at one Royal Person but Government See England that boasted of the first Christian King Lucius the first Christian Emperour Constantine the first Protestant Prince Edw. 6. glorieth now in the first Martyr'd King Charles I. A Martyr to Religion and Government The Primitive Institutes of the first of which and the generally owned Principles of the second of which other Princes have maintained with their Subjects blood he with his own Others by Laws and Power kept up both these while they were able he with his Life when he was not able supporting that very Authority it self that supports other Princes throwing himself the great Sacrifice into the breach made upon Power to stop popular fury and choosing rather not to be himself in the World than to yield that that World by his consent should be Lawless or Prophane A Martyr who stood to the Peoples Liberty though with his own Captivity that held up their Rights with the loss of his own had a care of their Posterity with the ruine of his own Family that maintained the Law that secures their lives with his own that could suffer others to distress him but not to oppress his People that could yield to dye but not to betray his Subjects either as Christians or as Englishmen See the last Effort of Virtue Reason Discipline Order bearing up against that of Villany Disorder Licenciousness and things not to be named among men See a King that had deserved a Crown in all mens judgement had he not worn one that other Nations wished theirs
before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am