Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
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
they had done great things for their Sovereign they might suffer greater THE LIFE ACTIONS AND DEATH OF Sir THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of STRAFFORD Protoâ— Martyr for Religion and Allegiance SIR Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford owed his Birth to the best govern'd City London his Breeding to the best modelled School York and a most exact Colledge St. Iohns in Cambr. his Accomplishments to the best Tutors Travel and Experience and his Prudence to the best School a Parliament whither he came in the most active and knowing times with a strong Brain and a large Heart His Activity was eminent in his Country and his Interest strong in King Charles's Parliament where he observed much and pertinently spake little but home contrived effectuallyâ— but closely carried his Designs successfully but reservedly He apprehended the publick Temper as clearly and managed it to his purposes as orderly as any man He spoke least but last of all with the advantage of a clear view of others Reasons and the addition of his own He and his leading Confidents moulded that in a private Conference which was to be managed in a publick Assembly He made himself so considerable a Patriot that he was bought over to be a Courtier so great his Abilities that he awed a Monarchy when disobliged and supported it when engaged the Balance turning thither where this Lord stood The North was reduced by his Prudence and Ireland by his Interest He did more there in two years then was done in two hundred before 1. Extinguishing the very Relicks of the War 2. Setting up a standing Army 3. Modelling the Revenue 4. Removing the very Root and Occasions of new Troubles 5. Planting and Building 6. Setling Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts 7. Recovering the hearts of the People by able Pastors and Bishops by prudent and sober Magistrates by Justice and Protection by Obligations and Rewards 8. Recovering the Churches Patrimony and Discipline 9. Imploying most able and faithful Ministers and Instruments 10. Taking an exact view of all former Presidents Rules and Proceedings 11. An exact correspondence with his Majesty and the Favourites of England None was more conversant in the Factions Intrigues and Designs than he when a Common-wealths-man none abler to meet with them than he when a States-man he understood their Methods kenned their Wiles observed their Designs looked into their Combinations comprehended their Interest And as King Charles understood best of any Monarch under Heaven what he could do in point of Conscience So his Strafford apprehended best of any Counsellour under the Sun what he could do in point of Power He and my Lord of Canterbury having the most particular account of the State of Great Britain and Ireland of any persons living Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished yet Doctrine and Discourse had much allayed the severity of this Earls Nature and Custom more None more austere to see to none more obliging to speak with He observed pauses in his discourse to attend the motion and draw out the humour of other men at once commanding his own thoughts watching others His passion was rather the vigour than the disorder of his wel-weighed Soul which could dispense its anger with as much prudence as it managed any Act of State He gave his Majesty safe counsel in the prosperity of his Affairs and resolute advice in Extremity as a true Servant of his Interest rather than of his Power So eminent was he and my Lord of Canterbury that Rebellion despaired of success as long as the first lived and Schism of licentiousness as long as the second stood Take my Lord of Strafford as accused and you will find his Integrity and Ability that he managed his whole Government either by the Law or the Interest of his Country Take him as dying and you will see his Parts and Piety his Resolution for himself his Self-resignation for the Kingdoms good his Devotion for the Church whose Patrimony he forbad his Son upon his Blessing Take him as dead you will find him glorious and renowned in these three Characters The first of the best King I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose great Abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest Affairs of State for those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract great store while moving in so high a Sphere and so vigorous a lustre he must nedds as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations which condensed by a popular Odium were capable to cast a Cloud upon the brightest Merit and Integrity Though I cannot in my judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of Times and the Temper of that People more than led by his own disposition to any heighth 〈◊〉 â—igour of Action c. The second of the best Historian He was a person of a generous Spirit fitted for the noblest Exercises and the most difficult parts of Empire his Counsels were bold yet just and he had a vigour proper for the execution of them Of an eloquence next that of his Masters Masculine and excellent He was no less affectionate to the Church than to the State and not contented while living to defend the Government and Patrimony of it he commended it also to his Son when he was about to die and charged his abhorrency of Sacriledge His Enemies called the majesty of his Mind in his Lieutenancie pride and the undaunted execution of his Office on the Contumacious the Insolency of his Fortune He was censured for that fatal errour of following the King to London and to the Parliament after the Pacification at York And 't was thought that if he had gone over to his Charge in Ireland he might have secured both himself and that Kingdom for his Majesties Service But some attribute this Counsel to a necessity of Fate whose first stroke is at the Brain of those whom it designs to ruine and brought him to feel the effects of popular Rage which himself in former Parliaments had used against Government and to find experience of his own devices upon the Duke of Buckingham Providence teacheth us to abhor over-sine Counsels by mischiefs they often bring upon their Authors The third of Common Fame A Gentleman he was of rare Choice and singular Endowments I mean of such as modelled fashioned accomplished him for State-concernments of a searching and penetrating Judgment nimble apprehension ready and fluent in all results of Council most happy in the vein of Speech which was alwayes round perspicuous and express much to the advantage of his sense and so full stocked with Reason that he might be rather said to demonstrate than to argue As these Abilities raised him to State-Administration so his addressing his applying those Abilities so faithfully in promotion of the Royal Interest soon rendred him
stood by that that was a point worth his consideration The Earles Reply That he expected some proof to evidence the two first particulars but he hears of none For the following words he confessed probably they might escape the Door of his Lips nor did he think it much amiss considering the present posture to call that Faction Rebels As for the last words objected against him in that Article he said that being in conference with some of the Londoners there came to his hands at that present a Letter from the Earl of Lichester then in Paris wherein were the Gazettes enclosed relating that the Cardinal had given order to â—evy Money by Souldiers This he onely told the Lord Cottington standing by but he made not the least Application thereof to the English affairs 21. That being Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces against the Scots 1639. he Imposed 6d per diem on the Inhabitants of York-shire for the maintenance of Trained Bands by his own Authority threatning them that refused with imprisonment and other penalties little below those inflicted for High-Treason The Earles Reply That his Majâ—sty coming to York it was thought necessary in regard the Enemy was upon the Borders to keep the Trained-bands on foot for the defence of the Country and therefore the King directed him to Write to the Free-holders in York-shire to declare what they would do for their own defence that they freely offered a months pay nor did any man grudge against it Again it was twice propounded to the great Council of Peâ—rs at York that the King approved it as a just and necessary act and none of the Council contradicted it which he conceived seemed a tacit allowance of it That though his Majesty had not given him special Order therein nor the Gentry had desired it yet he conceived he had power enough to Impose that Tax by Vertue of his Commission But he never said that the Refusers should he guilty of little less than High-â—reason which being proved by Sir William Ingram he was but a single Testimony and one who had formerly mistaken himself in what he had deposed 22. That he being Lieutenant-General against the Scots suffered New-Castle to be Lost to them with design to incense the English against the Scots And that he ordered my Lord Conway to Fight them upon disadvantage the said Lord having satisfied him that his Forces were not equal to the Scots out of a malicious desire to Engage the two Kingdomes in a National and Bloudy War The Earles Reply That he admired how in the third Article he being charged as an Incendiary against the Scots is now in this Article made their Confederate by Betraying New-Castle into their hands But to answer more particularly he said That there were at New-Castle the 24. of August ten or twelve thousand Foot and two thousand Horse under the Command of the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Ashley and that Sir Jacob had writ to him concerning the Town of New-castle that it was Fortified which also was under his particular Care and for the passage over the River of Tine His Majesty sent special direction to the Lord Conway to secure it and therefore that Lord is more as he conceives responsible for that miscarriage than himself These replies were so satisfactory in themselves and so nobly managed by him that they exceeded the expectation of the Earles Friends and defeated that of his Enemies Insomuch that finding both the number and the weight of their former Articles ineffectual their multitude being not as they designed able to hide their weakness they would needs force him the next day notwithstanding a â—it of the Stone that made it as much as his life was worth to stir abroad which though testified by the Leiutenant of the Tower they measuring the Earles great spirit that scorned to owe his brave Life to ignoble Acts by their own mean one believed not and when convinced aiming at his ruin rather than tryal regarded not to answer others I mean those obscure Notes that Sir Henry Vane whose covetousness having as great a mind to a part of the Earles Estate as others ambition had to the snips of his Power betrayed his trust and honour to satisfie his malice took under his Hat at Council-board May 5. 1040. the day the last Parliament was Dissolved treacherously laid up in his Closet maliciously and by his own Son Harry who must be pretended forsooth as false to the Father as ever the Father had been to his Master and when sent to one Closet finding a little Key there to have ransacked another where these Notes lay conveyed to Master Pym slyly by Master Pym and the Commons who would needs have a conference with the Lords that very afternoon urged so vehemently that the Lords who thought it reasonable that the Earles Evidence might be heard as well as his Adversaries were bassled to a compliance with the Commons in this Vote that the Earl should appear April 13th as he did And when these Notes were Read viz. No danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. C. H. How can we undertake an Offensive War if we have no money L. L. Ir. Borrow of the City an hundred thousand pounds go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money your Majesty having tried the affections of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rules of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty hath tryed all ways and being refused shall be Acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may Imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on foot and if any of them stir we will make them smart Answered thus calmly and clearly his nature being not overcome nor his temper altered by the arts of his Adversaries That being a Privy Counsellor he conceived he might have the freedom to Vote with others his opinion being as the exigent required It would be hard measure for Opinions Resulting from such Debates to be prosecuted under the notion of Treason And for the main Hint suggested from these words The King had an Army in Ireland which he might Imploy here to reduce this Kingdom he Answereth That it is proved by the single Testimony of one man Secretary Vanâ— not being of validity in Law to create faith in a Case of Debt much less in Life and Death That the Secretaries Deposition was very dubious For upon two Examinations he could not Remember any such words And the third time his Testimony was various but that I should speak such words and the like And words may be very like in Sound and differ in Sense as in the words of my charge here for there and that for this puts an end to the Controversie There were present at this Debate but eight Privy Counsellors in all two are not to be produced
with tears having a little Weeping bitterly before the King when the Bill of Attainder Passed before by Sir Dudley Carleton been informed what the Parliament demanded of the King and what the King had granted the Parliament Information that amazed him indeed at first but at last made him infinitely willing to leave this sad world and there managed the last Scene of his life with the same gallantry that he had done all the rest looking death in the face with the same presence of spirit that he had done his enemies Being accompanied besides his own Relations and Servants by the Primate of Armagh who however mis-represented in this matter was much afflicted all along for this incomparable person's hard measure who among other his vertues owned so singular a love to this Reverend and Learned Person that taking his leave of Ireland the last time he was there he begged his blessing on his Knees and the last minute he was in the world desired him to accompany him with his Prayers Addressing his last Speech to him Thus My Lord Primate of Ireland IT is my very great comfort I have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known these many years and I do thank God and your Lordship for it that you are here I should be very glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not the noise is so great My Lords I am come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay that last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Jesus Christ to righteousness and life eternal Here he was a little interrupted My Lords I am come hither to submit to that judgment which hath Passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I thank God I do freely forgive all the world a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outwards as they say but from the very heart I speak in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought arising in me towards any man living I thank God I can say it and truely too my Conscience bearing me witness that in all my employment since I had the honour to serve his Majesty I never had any thing in the purpose of my heart but what tended to the joynt and individual prosperity of King and People although it hath been my ill fortune to be misconstrued I am not the first that hath suffered in this kind It is the common portion of us all while we are in this life to err we are very subject to be mis-judged one of another There is one thing I desire to free my self of and I am very confident speaking it now with so much chearfulness that I shall obtain your Christian charity in the belief of it I was so far from being against Parliaments that I did always think the Parliaments of England were the most happy Constitutions that any Kingdom or Nation lived under and the best means under God to make the King and People happy For my Death here I acquit all the world and beseech the God of heaven heartily to forgive them that contrived it though in the intentions and purposes of my heart I am not guilty of what I dye for And my Lord Primate it is a great comfort to me that his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as is the utmost Execution of this Sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and I beseech God to return it into his own bosome that he may find mercy when he stands in most need of it I wish this Kingdom all the prosperity and happiness in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do most humbly recommend this to every one who hears me and desire they would lay their hands upon their hearts and consider seriously whether the beginning of the Happiness and Reformation of a Kingdom should be written in Letters of Bloud Consider this when you are at your houses and let me never be so unhappy as that the last of my bloud should rise up in judgment against any one of you But I fear you are in a wrong way My Lords I have but one word more and with that I shall end I profess that I dye a true and obedient Son to the Church of England wherein I was born and in which I was bred Peace and prosperity be ever to it It hath been objected if it were an objection worth the answering that I have been inclined to Popery but I say truly from my heart that from the time I was one and twenty years of age to this present going now upon forty nine I never had in my heart to doubt of this Religion of the Church of England nor ever had any man the boldness to suggest any such thing to me to the best of my remembrance And so being reconciled by the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour into whose bosome I hope I shall shortly be gathered to those eternal happinesses which shall never have an end I desire heartily the forgiveness of every man for any rash or unadvised words or any thing done amiss And so my Lords and Gentlemen farewel farewel all the things of this world I desire that you would be silent and joyn with me in prayer and I trust in God we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happiness where every tear shall be wiped away from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God bless this Kingdom and Jesus have mercy upon my soul. AN EPITAPH ON THE Earl of Strafford HEre lies wise and valiant Dust Huddled up 'twixt Fit and Iust Strafford who was hurried hence 'Twixt Treason and Convenience He spent his time here in a mist A Papist yet a Calvinist His Prince's nearest Ioy and Grief He had yet wanted all Relief The Prop and Ruin of the State The peoples violent Love and Hate One in extreames lov'd and abhorr'd Riddles lye here and in a word Here lies Bloud and let it lye Speechless still and never cry Exuâ—ge cinis tuumque â—â—us qui potis es scribe Epitaphium Nequit Wentworthi non esse facundus vel cinis Effare Marmor quem caepisti Comprehendere Macte Exprimere Candidius meretur urna quam quod rubris Notatum est litteris Elogium Atlas Regiminis Monarchichi hie jacet â—assus Secunda Orbis Britannici Intelligentia Rex Politiae Prorex Hiberniae Straffordii virtutum Comes Mens Iovis Mercurii ingenium lingua Apollinis Cui Anglia Hiberniam debuit seipsum Hibernia Sydus Aquilonicum quo sub rubicunda vespera accidente Nox simul dies visa est dextroque oculo flevit Laevoque laetata est Anglia Theatrum Honoris itemque
of Matthew and the first of Iames and he opened those Scriptures in such sort that they were all hushed and did not again offend in that kind while he was present amongst them The Word of God was his great delight his meditation was of it in the night and his discourse in the day When those that were with him were speaking of earthly things he would finde out some way to bring in Heavenly When he could not sleep in the night he would say That the meditation of the Word was sweeter to him than sleep When he had preached twice on the Sabbath and was a weary yet to those that came to him he would go on afresh in holy Discourses and the comforts which he found in his soul made him sometimes forget his body that he hath been speaking till he was ready to faint His eminency was in frequency aptness freeness and largeness of godly discourse in which respect it may be said of him that in the Countrey where he lived none were known who therein were equal to him But he was Mi cans inter omnes velut inter ignes luna minores He was very merciful himself and to move Parents that were rich to mercy he would say thus You are caring and contriving to lay up for your children but lay up for your selves a good foundation against the time to come being rich in good works you will lay up treasure in the earth which is an unsafe place lay up treasure in Heaven that is the sure and safe place Master Throgmorton an approved good man dying the same year of a Consumption came to Asby not far from Tansley to have the help of Master Dod's comforts and counsels he was oppressed with melancholy and a little before he gave up his soul to Christ What can ye say of him that is going out of the world and can finde no comfort To whom he answered What will you say of our Saviour Christ who when he was going out of the world found no comfort but cried out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me This speech refreshed Master Throgmorton and within a little space of time after this he went to his heavenly Inheritance Master Dod as he was of a weaned disposition from the World himself so he laboured to wean others He put this difference between rich Christians and poor That for poor Christians their Father kept the purse but the rich Christians keep the purse in their own hands But it might oftner fall out and did and therefore the purse was better in the Fathers hand than in the Christians He was wont to compare wicked men to waves of the Sea those which were of a great Estate were great waves those which were of small estate were small waves but all were restless as waves To a friend of his that raised from a mean estate to worldly greatness he sent word That this was but as if he should go out of a Boat into a Barge or Ship but there ought to be a serious and godly remembrance that while we are in this world we are upon the sea He often repeated this That nothing could hurt us but our own sins and they should not hurt us if we truly repented for them and nothing could do us good but Gods favour and that we should be sure of if we unfeignedly sought it Speaking of Davids penning the 51. Psalm after his murther and adultery put this gloss upon it That hearty and true repentance shall have cause to praise the Lord for his pardoning mercy He said Afflictions were Gods Potions he might sweeten by faith and faithful prayer but we for the most part made them bitter puting into Gods cup the ill ingredients of our own impatience and unbelief He gave this reason why many of Gods people lived uncomfortably for that they shut their ear against what God said where they should open it and they opened their ear to what their carnal reason and Satan and the world said where they should shut it but said he the Psalmist was wiser Psal. 85. 8. he would hear none of them all I will hear what the Lord God will speak His Preaching was searching and when some did suppose that he had Informers and Spies because he came so close to them he answered That the Word of God was searching and that if he was shut up in a dark Vault where none could come at him yet allow him but a Bible and a Candle and he should Preach as he did He had an excellent gift in similitudes which did flow freely and frequently from him as all those knew who either heard him Preach publickly or discourse privately He called Death the friend of Grace though it were the enemy of Nature and whereas the Word and Sacraments and Prayer do but weaken sin death builds it Speaking of prayer he said a man was never in a hard condition unless he had a hard heart and could not pray Having Preached out of that Text O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt He invited some women to Dinner and told them it was a usual saying Let a Woman have her will and then she shall be quiet Now the way for a woman to have her will is to have a strong faith and to pray as that woman in the Gospel did Upon a time when he had Preached long so that it was somewhat late before he went to dinner he said You shall have some Gentlemen will follow Hounds from seven in the morning till four or five in the afternoon because they love the cry of Dogs which to me was unpleasant hearing So if we love the Word we should be content though the Minister stood above his hour And he added me thinks it much better to hear a Minister preach than a Kennel of Hounds to bark Speaking of recreation he said he marvelled what the vocation of many was who were so eager for recreation And if we should come into a house and see many Physick-boxes and Glasses we would conclude some body is sick So when we see Hounds and Hawks and Cards and Dice we may fear there is some sick soul in that Family He told some friends that if he were to pass sentence who was a rich man he would not look into his Purse or Chest how much gold he had laid up but look into his heart what promises were treasured up there For we count him rich that is rich in bonds and the pleading of the promises in prayer is suing of the bonds Speaking to a Minister who was to go to a place where there was but small means he told him That his care was to Preach and do God service and then God would provide for him When he preached at Fausley was much resorted unto he told a godly man of his acquaintance that if the Country knew so much by him as he knew by himself they would not have him in so much admiration
to perform Us such service as he much desireth to have according to his duty done his further Attendance might be by Us in Our Grace dispensed with To the end all Our loving Subjects who have and shall faithfully serve Us as We declare this Our Servant hath done may know That as We shall never expect much less require or exact from them performances beyond what their healths and years shall enable them so We shall not dismiss them without an Approbation of their Service when We find they shall have deserved it much less expose them in their old Age to neglect As Our Princely Testimony therefore that the said Sir George Crooks being dispensed withal proceeds from Us at the humble Request of the said Sir George Crook which We have cause and do take well that he is rather willing to acknowledge his Infirmity by his great Age occasioned than that by concealing of the same any want of Justice should be to Our People and not out of any Our least displeasure conceived against him Do hereby Declare Our Royal Pleasure That We are graciously pleased and do hereby dispence with the said Sir Crook's further Attendance in the said Courts or in any Our Circuits And as a Token of Our Acceptation of his former good and acceptable Service by the said Sir George Crook done to Our deceased Father and Our Self do yet continue him one of Our Judges of Our said Bench And hereby Declare Our further Will and Pleasure to be That during his the said Sir Crook's life there shall be continued and paid by Us to him the like Fee and Fees as was to him or is or shall be by Us paid to any other of Our Judges of Our said Bench at Westminster and all Fees and Duties saving the Allowance by Us to Our Judges for their Circuits onely After which Honourable Discharge from his Service at Court God gave him a Quietus est from this Life at Waterstock in Oxfordshire Anno Christi 1641. Aetatis 82. Caroli I. 17. When he lived to see the New Canons made 1640. so much aggravated by others yet so much admired by him that upon the sight of them he blessed God that he lived to see so much good by a Convocation There passeth a pleasant Tradition in Cornwal how there standeth a man of great strength and stature with a Black in his hand at Polston Bridge the first Entrance into Cornwal as you pass towards Launceston where the Assizes are holden ready to knock down all the Lawyers that should offer to plant themselves in that County This man was brought to Westminster-Hall door Anno 1641. no honest or able Lawyer daring to appear there upon pain of forfeiting either his Conscience in complying with the Tumult or his Estate Liberty yea and Life too in dissenting from it Otherwise our Judge deserved to be Comes Imperii primi Ordinis according to the Constitution of Theodosius the Emperor allowing that honor to Lawyers Cum ad viginti annos observatione Iugi ac sedulo docendi labore pervenerint Having been twenty years a Judge that would hear patiently help Witnesses laboring in their Delivery condescendingly check forward Speakers gravely dealt impartially his private Inclinations being swallowed up in the common Concern as Rivers loose their names in the Ocean Cut off Delays and impertinent Controversies discreetly was zealous of kindness because fearful of Bribes Great obligations upon persons in Place like wandering Preachers Sermons end in begging merciful in his Judgement A Butcher may not be of the Jury much less should he be a Judge Being outed his Place with as much honor as others are advanced glorying in that though the Parliament could make him no Judge they could not make him no upright Judge He lived privately the rest of his days having besides the estate got by his Practice no mean estate by his Birth and by his Marriage having little reflection on his own condition he was so taken up with the sad condition of the whole Kingdom Vitae est avidus quisquis non vult mundo secum pereunte mori And thus we leave our Judge to receive a just reward of his Integrity from the Judge of Judges as well as from the King of kings at the great Assize of the world Plinic reports it as worthy a Chronicle that Chrispinus Hâ—llarus with open ostentation sacrificed in the Capitol seventy four of his children and childrens children attending on him this Reverend Person sacrificed to Allegiance himself attended with many well resolved Relations round about him For it is fit posterity should hear of Col. Mark Trevor since deservedly ennobled in Ireland for Valour that feared no dangers Activity that went through all hardships Integrity that was proof against all corruptions Iohn Trevor a Person that suffered not his parts to be depressed by his fortune but to make his minde the more proportionable he made it his business to be as able in Prudence and Knowledge as he was in Estate for which he suffered twice severely that Party being of the Miller of Matlocks minde of whom we read this pretty Story Molendarius de Matlocki tollavit bis eo quod ipse audivit Rectorem de eadem villa dicere in Dominica Ram. Palm Tolle tolle That is the Miller of Matlock took Toll twice because he heard the Rector of the Parish read on Palm-Sunday Tolle tolle that is Crucifie crucifie him There was ARTHVR TREVOR Esq A Lawyer of the Temple that died lately and suddenly a Passage others may censure we must pity since sudden and rash Judgement is always sinful but sudden and unexpected death is not always penal Nothing so certain as that we shall die nothing so uncertain as how we shall die Therefore Life should be in our apprehension what it was in the Philosophers definition a Constant Meditation of Death Epiminondas came to a careless Soldier that was asleep when he should watch and run him through saying Sleeping I found thee sleeping I leave thee And God sometime surprizeth a loose man that lives carelesly with a Careless I found thee and careless I leave thee for ever A man that lives as if he had onely a body desires to die so too and therefore wisheth to depart without delay that he may go without pain being of Caesars minde who was not afraid of death but of dying But the man that makes so much use of his soul that he knoweth he hath one desires rather to be taken than snatched out of the world ut sentiat se mori and to use the words of Judicious Mr. Hooker in defence of that necessary Prayer in our Liturgy which no devout man would leave out From sudden death against which we have not prepared our selves and which alloweth us no respite for preparation good Lord deliver us for vertuous considerations is prevailed upon by wisdom to desire as slow and deliberate death against the stream of sensual in clination content to endure the longer grief
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
Sickness to prepare for death some years before he died he did so inure himself to devotion That all thâ— days of his appointed time he waited until his change should come expecting at all times that which might come at any time and must come at one time than which nothing more certain nothing more uncertain He died at Venice 1646. Marmora Arundeliana Quae nec annorum series nec flâ—mma vorax toti minitans rogum orbi Neâ— popularium rabies abolere queant Virtutes nempe aere perenniores In Piam memoriam Thomae Comitis Arundeliae Surriae ex saecunda nobilitatis stirpe maxima nempe Howardorum familia oriundi Thoma jam nobiliori Cui generosa mens rerum hominum peritissima ad Intimae rationis potius quam exteriorum morum Normam composita â—ui verbum juramentum erat jus fas vitae duces Sancti pectoris recessus more Imperatorio pauca dixit sed forâ—ia nobilioâ—i beatus Laconismi utpote â—ui quot verba tot sententa quot sententiae â—ot sacramentâ— in vicinium tam potens ipse quam in ipsum Rex mensa magnus elimosinis ne vel Insimo injuria notus sed summis beneficio Illius familia collegium erat ubi disciplinam vivebant bonae Indolis Iuvenes non luxum THE Life and Death OF Sir FRANCIS CRAWLEY THIS Gentleman who with Zorastes laughed at his birth and death was born at Lutton in Bedford-shire the very same day and hour as it was computed that Ploiden died at London the very reason why his Father recommended so earnestly and he embraced so willingly the study of the Law than which no study more knotty he would say to the Novices that were first admitted to it none more pleasant to the Ancients that had experience in it wherein he profited as he might have done in any profession since very happy in those two qualities Secrecy and Celerity the two great wheels of considerable performances improving faster than fame the wings of industry surprizing men beyond those of fame His deterity in Logick in the University promised him an able Pleader at the Inns of Court It was his observation that the fashioning of a Mans Head to the minute subtilties of a Sophism opened and fitted it to entertain the distinct and least circumstances of a Case He wore a signet Ring wherein was Ingraven his famous Ancestors Picture with better success than Scâ—pio Alsricanus did that which carried his Fathers Face which was taken off by the people of Rome because he was unworthy to wear his Fathers Portaiture that did not follow his Pattern it being not fit his Picture should go without his Virtue One part of his time he spent with his Acquaintance and the other with his Books the one bringing him to practice as the other enabled him for it He studied the English Nobility and Gentry for his pleasure observing their Alliance in Heraldry and for his profit noting their correspondence in Interest being as able to put suitable Persons together to make a Party as any Herald was to put Kindred together to frame a Pedigree His Study was like his Converse rather well contrived than toilsom his Art not his Drudgery his soft and fair went far in Labyrintho properantes ipsa velocit as Implicat He is not the likeliest man to run out of a Maze that runs fastest He was as rich in his observations of his own age no remark being missed in his Table-book as he was in his History of Former Ages Happy in himself more in his Relations especially those he called his Blessings as if peculiar to him his good Wife and excellent Children of whom he was loving not fond One point of his devotion was remarkable that he never met a person subject to infirmities but in stead of deriding them in the other man he blessed God that he had not occasion to grieve for them in himself And another of his instructions to those about him notable that it s not the least a man skillful to have so much command of himâ— self as to be contented to submit to the commands of others The Courtesies he bestowed were gifts never remembred by him those he received loans never forgotten The Discourse he loved was that which had left of other mens vices and most of their virtues without censure of Superiors scorn of Inferiors vain-glory or a supercilious reservednesse when men are rather Riddles than Company in the persons themselves Liberal he was of every thing especially of good advice covetous of doing good He would hardly receive an ill opinion of any and more hardly expresse it He dispensed Justice to his friends not as a friend but as a friend answering when it was told him that that was not the way to be rich That it would never repent him for being the poorer for doing justice He neither incouraged an ill-inclined person by overmuch mildnesse nor discouraged a well-inclined one by extream severity He could pardon a man that he caught in a mistake for it was a common frailty commending in him the acknowledgment of it as a great virtue the noblest thing that St. Augustine did was his Retractation but reject him that stood in it as a hopelesse wretch a man he called not constant but obstinate it being more to justifie a fault than to fall into it His Apparel was neither mimically in fashion nor ridiculously out neither vain nor singular His short divertisement fitted him for business rather than robâ—bed him of time he would say to his Sons That they who make recreation a business will think business a toil To be without an estate and not want to want and not desire to manage well a great estate and to bear a mean to be sensible and patient not to grow great by corruption nor to grow proud with greatnesse not to ebbe and flow with a mans condition and to be neither supercilious nor dejected to take the changes of the world without any change in a mans self not to defer death but sweeten it to be neither loath to leave the world nor afraid to give account for it were qualities that he admired in others and lived to be Master of himself He never commended a man to his face but before others to create in them a good opinion of him nor dispraised any man behind his back but to himself to work in him a reformation of himself avoiding the appearance of evil left he should do ill unawares or hear ill undeservedly He could not with patience hear what was unseasonable or unsavory arguing want of goodnesse or judgment Speak well was his rule or say nothing so if others be not bettered by thy silence they will not be worse by the discourse Being more intent upon knowing himself than letting others know him he found that the greatest part of what he knew not was the least of what he knew He was as careful that others should be
fire-feeding unctuousness therein This Gentleman having measured his thoughts of Good and Evil by the respects of a transitory life but with relation to an eternal state to which his life was in his esteem only a state of tryal dyed by an unhappy accident a fall off his Horse at Northampton a truly wise-man that had not respect to a few things the least of any man needing that death-bed Repentance he used so much to plead for of the opposite opinion to which he would say That it was a Tenent that would make heaven very empty and yet never the more room there for the maintainers of so uncharitable opinion leaving this observation of the late Usurpation that the ruine of it was the old but not so well-weighed custom of Tyrants to cut off all those steps by which they ascended to their height left leaving those stairs standing others also might climb up the same way M. S. Caroli Comptonii Eq. Aur. cui commune cum Sculteto symbolum vicisse voluptatem volupt as maxima THE Life and Death OF Sir SPENCER COMPTON A Fourth Brother of this Noble Family of whom the excellent Dr. Pierce in his Sermon upon his Parallel Mr. Peito delivered this Character at Chesterton That he was a Person so singularly qualified by Grace Nature and Education that however his extraction was highly Noble yet he thought he might confidently say it was the lowest thing in him An happy Person that from a due estimate of himself and this world arrived at just thoughts of his work in the world and finding his duty ingraven in his Being lived as a man ought to do who being a middle person between those purely intellectual Beings that could not injoy this world and the purely sensual that could not understand it was pitched upon as the fittest creature to inhabit this world soberly injoying the comforts of it and seriously and devoutly reflecting on the Author of it A Person that had just sentiments of the dignity of humane Nature in himself and an universal Charity for it in others one that measured not the wisdom he studyed by the subtilty and curiosity of Speculation by fineness of thoughts depth of design but a Noble design to keep up the Dignity of Mankind by a discreet piety towards the first Being by a sober and due government of his own actions and a publick justice and kindness towards all men confining all thoughts of glory within the compass of vertue and being good and thinking nothing more dishonorable than sin and being bad pitying those ruines of mankind that had nothing about them but laughter and the shape of men and thought themselves then to act most like men when they approach nearest beasts and so hitting upon right Principles lived a great deal of life in a little time When I consider how ingeniously upon the great principles of Reason and Religion he would baffle those unhappy men who having betrayed their weakness in giving themselves over to leud courses throw away that little wit in defending them how successfully would he reprove them who as he said laughed themselves into eternal misery to this purpose Ah! Sirs it is easier to laugh at goodness than to practise it it were worth the while to mock at sin if so we could annihilate it and make it as well nothing in it self as to us If the nature of things would so far vary with our humors that goodness would be less excellent by being despised or sin less dangerous by being thought so urging them to name the man in all the Histories of the world to whom the very suspicion of evil was not a dishonor though the real guilt of it were now a glory A discourse so much the more effectual from him because he prevented the common cavil made against dehortation from sin That it was only a thing some men live by declaining against and others cannot live without the practise being as much by his virtue above the latter imputation as he was by his fortune above the first What a vast progress he made through all solid and gentle Learning that was either for ornament or use and what a great proficiency in the experimental part of Religion I cannot but annex to his life those words that being made perfect in a short time Right honest was to him a nobler title than Right Honorable and therefore he adhered to his Soveraign the closer for that which others deserted him viz. his afflicted virtue following the misfortunes of that Court the pleasures whereof he would have avoided and been afraid of chusing it surely then as the great Scene of Virtue for though his extraction was noble his fortune fair his abilities great by nature and greater by art and industry yet was his modesty and meekness so far beyond all these that the only vice we knew him guilty of that he made it his business rather to hide than to exercise his virtue And those two virtues his modesty and his meekness made him so swift to hear so low to speak as appeared when he was pleased to express himself speaking much in few words equally free from impertinency and superfluity A sober honest and good man three of the most illustrious Titles of Honor in the world â—that led so well composed a life as he did must needs have an easie death as he had the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the happy calmness of death the Emperor Augustus was used to wish for for though sick of a Feavor yet the union between his soul and body was not violently broken but leisurely untied they parting like two friends not by a rude falling out but a loving farewell A farewel to all the contentments of the world not easily parallelled for calling to him such excellent and reverend persons then at Bruges when he died 1659. as Dr. Morley and Dr. Earles he raised himself upon his Pillow and held out his armes as if he were to embrace one saying O my Iesus and intimating the comforts that then flowed in from the holy Jesus into his soul after which holy extasie composing himself to a calm and serious discourse like Iacob scattering blessing when gathered he said to the then standers by O be good O be virtuous c. An argument of the sincerity of his own goodness that he was so zealous to have it communicated to others it being natural as well to the living Christian as to other living things to beget his like Departing as much desired when he was gone as admired by those that knew him whilest living a loyal Subject a generous Man a good Christian a loving Master and entire Friend an excellent Neighbor and a very extraordinary Example one of those to whose virtues and prayers winning upon men and prevailing with God we owe our Restauration Spencer Comptonius Eq. Aur. modesta nempe virtus quae Elogi nec voluit viva nec caret mortua quid enim pluribus de eo bene Scribamus de
disposed to assist the Palatine in the affairs of Germany Luynes said We will have none of your advices The Ambassador replyed That he took that for an answer and was sorry only that the affection and the good will of the King his Master was not sufficiently understood and that since it was rejected in that manner he could do no less than say That the King his Master knew well enough what he had to do Luynes answered We are not afraid of you The Ambassador smiling a little replyed If you had said you had not loved us I should have believed you and made another answer In the mean time all that I will tell you more is That we know very well what we have to do Luynes hereupon rising from his Chair with a fashion and countenance a little discomposed said By God if you were not Mounsieur the Ambassador I know very well how I would use you Sir Edward Herbert rising also from his Chair said That as he was his Majesty of Great Brittains Ambassador so he was also a Gentleman and that his Sword whereon he laid his hands should do him reason if he had taken any offence After which Luynes replying nothing the Ambassador went on his way toward the door and Luynes seeming to accompany him he told him there was no occasion to use such Ceremony after such Language and departed expecting to hear further from him But no message being brought him from Luynes he had in pursuance of his Instructions a more civil Audience of the King at Coignac where the Marshal of St. Geran told him he had offended the Constable and he was not in a place of Security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his Sword by him Luynes resenting the affront◠got Cadenet his Brother Duke of Chaun with a ruffling train of Officers whereof there was not one as he told King Iames but had killed his man as an Ambassador Extraordinary to mis-report their Traverses so much to the disparagement of Sir Edward that the Earl of Carlisle sent to accomdate le Mal Entendu that might arise between the two Crowns got him called home untill the Gentleman behind the Curtains out of his duty to Truth and Honor related all circumstances so as that it appeared that though Luynes gave the first affront yet Sir Edward kept himself within the bounds of his Instructions and Honor very discreetly and worthily Insomuch that he fell on his knees to King Iames before the Duke of Buckingham to have a Trumpeter if not an Herauld sent to Mounsieur Luynes to tell him that he made a false relation of the passages before mentioned and that Sir Edward Herbert would demand reason of him with Sword in hand on that point The King answered He would take it into consideration But Luynes a little after dyed Sir Edw. was sent Ambassador to France again and otherwise employed so that if it had not been for fear and jealousies the bane of publick services he had been as great in his actions as in his writings and as great a Statesman as he is confessed a Scholar Sanctior in sacra tumulatur pulvis arena dum mens sideribus purior Astra colit Mnemosynum cui ne desit marmorque dolorque Aeterno Fletus nectare nomen alunt Pignoraque ingeniis matrissantia formis tot stant historiae tot monument a tui Veritatem Quaerit Philosophia Invenit Theologia fruitur pietas THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Archbishop of York DOctor Iohn Williams born at Aber Conway in Caernarvon-shire bred Fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University hath this Character That a strong Constitution made his parts a strict Education improved them unwearied was his Industry unexpressible his capacity He never saw the Book of worth he read not he never forgot what he read he never lost the use of what he remembred Every thing he heard or saw was his own and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost His Extraction being Gentile his large and Noble his Presence and Carriage comely and stately his Learning Copious his Judgment stayed his Apprehension clear and searching his Expression lively and Effectual his Elocution flowing and Majestick his Proctorship 1612. discovered him a Person above his Place and his Lectures to his Pupils above his Preferment Bishop Vaughan first admitted him to his Family and then to his bosom there his strong Sermons his exact Government under my Lord his plentiful observation his numerous acquaintance made him my Lord Chancellor Egertons Friend rather than his Servant his Familiar rather than his Chaplain Never was there a more communicative Master to instruct than my Lord Elsemere never a more capable Scholar to learn than Dr. Williams who had instilled to him all necessary State Maxims while his old Master lived and had bequeathed unto him four excellent Books when his Master was dead These four Books he presented to King Iames the very same time that he offered himself to the Duke of Buckingham The excellent Prince observed him as much for the first gift as the Noble Duke of Buckingham did for the second The King and Duke made him their own who they saw had made that excellent Book his Willing was King Iames to advance Clergy-men and glad to meet with men capable of advancements His two Sermons at Court made him Dean of Westminster his exact state of the Earl of Somersets Case made him capable of and the Kings inclination to trust his Conscience in a Divines hand setled him in a Lord Keepers place actually only for three years to please the people who were offended with his years now but thirty four and his Calling a Divine◠but designedly for ever to serve his Majesty The Lawyers despised him at first but the Judges admired him at last and one of them said That never any man apprehended a Case so clearly took in 〈◊〉 the Law Reason and other Circumstances more punctually recollected the various Debates more faithfully summed it up more compendiously and concluded more judiciously and discreetly For many of them might have read more than he but none digested what they had read more solidly none disposed of their reading more methodically none therefore commanded it more readily He demurred several Orders as that of my Lord Chancellors pardon the Earl Marshals Pattent c. to let his Majesty see his Judgment yet passed them to let him see his Obedience He would question the Dukes Order sometimes discreetly to let him know he understood himself yet he would yield handsomely to let him see he understood him and indeed he had the admirable faculty of making every one of his actions carry prudence in the performance Necessary it was for one of his years and place to keep his distance to avoid contempt yet fatal was to him to do so and incur envy Well
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
and when that was not judged expedient his second for the Archbishop of Armagh Bishops of Kilmore Down and Conner in Ireland the Bishops of Durham Salisbury and his own in England with three more of Scotland and the Professors of Divinity of the respective Universities judgment in that point and when that was not convenient considering the variety of mens apprehensions his chearful undertaking of the Treatise called Episcopacy by Divine Right upon my Lord of Canterburies noble motion and one G. Grahum a Bishop in Scotland most ignoble Recantation referring the fifteen heads of his discourse to my Lords examination who altered some of them to more expressiveness and advantage and perused each head when finished and compleated with the irrefragable propositions deserved But the Plot against Episcopacy being too strong for any remedy this good man was one of thâ—se Charged in the House of Lords and a strong Demurrer stopping that proceeding one of those endangered by the Rabble hardly escaping who one night vowed their ruin from the House under the Earl of Manchesters protection having in vain moved both Houses for assistance One of them that protested against all Acts done in the House during that violence in pursuance of their own right and the trust reposed in them by his Majesty and that being not as was intended proposed either to his Majesties Secretary to himself or the Lord Keeper to be weighed but hastily read in the House apprehensive enough of misconstruction He being able to do no good in the Subcommittee for Reformation in the Ierusalem Chambers with 11 of his Brethren Ian. 30. late in a bitter frosty night was Voted to the Tower after a Charge of High-treason for owning his Parliamentary right received upon his Knees where Preaching in his course with his Brethren and Meditating he heard chearfully of the Bonfires Ringing in the City upon their Imprisonment he looked unconcernedly on the aspersions cast on them here and in Forreign parts in Pamphlets and other methods he suffered patiently the Dooms prepared for them he Pleaded resolutely several times at the Bar. The pretended Allegations brought against them being admitted to Bail by the Lords he went patiently again to the Tower upon the Motion of the Commons and being Released upon 50000 l. Bond retired to Norwich his and his Brethrens Votes being Nulled in Parliament where being Sequestred to his very Cloaths he laying down mony for his Goods and for his Books his Arrearages being stopped his Pallace rifled in Norwich his Temporal Estate in Norfolk Suffolk Essex was Confiscated the 400 l. per annum Ordered by the Houses as each Bishops competency was stopped the Synodals were kept back Ordination was restrained The very Mayor of Norwich and his Brethren summoning the grave Bishop before them an unheard of peremptorinesse for ordaining in his Chappel contrary to the Covenant And when they allowed him but a fifth part Assessements were demanded for all extremities none could bear but he who exercised moderation and patience as exemplarily as he recommended them to others pathetically and eloquently who often passionately complained of the sacrilegious outrages upon the Church but was silent in those unjust ones on himself who in the midst of his miseries provided for the Churches Comfort by his Treatises of Consolation for its Peace by the Peace-maker Pax Terris and Modest offer for its Instruction by his frequent Sermons as often as he was allowed for its Poor by a Weekly Contribution to distressed Widows to his death and a good sum in the Place where he was born and the City where he died after it for its Professors by holy admonitions counsels and resolutions for its Enemies by dealing with some of them so effectually that they repented and one among the rest a great Commissioner and Justice of Peace I mean Esquire Lucas who though a man of a great Estate received Orders at his hands and recompenced in injuries to the Church as Committee-man by being a faithful Minister of it to this day and when he could not prevail with men especially about the horrid Murder of his Gracious Soveraign he wrestled with God according to his Intimation in his Mourners of Sion to all other Members of our Church in a Weekly Fast with his Family to his death the approaches to which was as his whole life solemn staid composed and active both in Presse and Pulpit his intellectuals and sensuals the effect of his temperance being fresh to the last till the Stone and Stangury wasted his natural strength and his Physicians Arts and he aser his fatherly reception of many persons of honor learning and piety who came to crave his dying Prayers and Benedictions one whereof a Noble Votary he saluted with the words of an ancient Votary Vide hominem mox pulverem futurum After many holy prayers exhortations and discourses he rouzed up his dying spirits to a heavenly Confession of his Faith wherein his Speech failed him and with some Struglings of Nature with the Agonies of Death he quietly gradually and even insensibly gave up the Ghost Having Preached to two Synods reconciled â—ix Controversies for which he had Letters of Thanks from Forreigners of all sides Served two Princes and as many Kings Sate in three Parliaments kept the Pulpit for fifty three years managed one Deanery and two Bishopricks written forty six Excellent Treaties seen his and the Churches enemies made as odious at last as they were popular at first directed the most hopeful Members of the Church in courses that might uphold it 1656. And of his Age eighty two years leaving behind him three Monuments of himself 1. His excellent Children in some of whom we yet see and enjoy him 2. His incomparable Writings of which it was said by one that called him The English Seneca That he was not unhappy at Controsies more happy at Comments very good in Characters better in his Sermons best of all in his Meditations now Collected in three Volumes with his Remains And 3. In his inimitable Virtues so humble that he would readily hear the youngest at Norwich so meek that he was never transported but at three things 1. Grehams horrid Apostacy 2. The infamous Sacriledge at Norwich And 3. The Kings unparalled Murder So religious that every thing he saw did or suffered exercised his habitual devotion so innocent that Musick Mathematick and Fishing were all his Recreations so temperate that one plain meal in thirty hours was his diet so generally accomplished that he was an excellent Poet Orator Historian Linguist Antiquary Phisolopher School Divine Casuist and what not no part of Learning but adorns some or other of his Works in a most eminent manner I cannot express him more properly than his worthy Sons Heirs to his worth and to his modesty intimate him with Pericles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Socrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Pythagoras Ejus singula
things that as he was honoured with King Charles the first his Writ to be Baron in Parliament a favour his Ancestor Robert de Piere-point had in Edward the thirds time but did not enjoy being summoned a Baron in Parliament and dying before he Sate therein by the Title of Baron Piere-point and Viscount Newarke and afterwards 4. Caroli primi Earl of Kingston for his moderate opinions between the extreams then prevailing in Parliaments which he was able to accommodate as to State Affairs as an experienced man and as to Church Affairs as a Christian and a great Scholar Whence he would commend a general learning to young Noblemen upon this ground because the great variety of Debates that came before them wherein the unlearned Gentry either rashly offer dangerous proposals to impose on others oâ— sloathfully rest in a tame yea and nay being easily imposed on by others The effect whereof we found both in his and his hopeful Son the now Illustrious Marquess of Dorchesters learned and rational Defences of the Spiritual Function and Temporal Honors and Imployments of Bishops 1641 2. which though they could not convert any of the obstinate Anti-episcopal men not a speech to satisfie their reason but a grant to gratifie their interest must effect that yet confirmed they the wavering Episcopal party When it came to passe in the Civil Wars of England as it had done in those of Rome that the Seditious Brutus and Cassius were followed by the lower sort of the people Ex subditis Romanorum saith Dion while Caesars Army consisted Ex Romanis nobilibus sortibus This honorable Person and his Eldest Son attended his Majesty the Father with the Sword and the Son with the Pen more fatal to the Faction that the Sword and therefore the first men excepted out of Pardon were such excellent Pen-men as the Lords Viscount Newark and Faulkland Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and Mr. Endintion Porter the quickness of whose honorable Declarations and Replies amazed the Conspiracy as the smartnesse of them betrayed and defeated it their writings being like truth naturally clear and the Rebels like error forced and obscure He brought to his Majesty 4000 men of whose number 2000 were able and willing to serve him with their Persons and the râ—st with their Armes and Money to the value of 24000 l. and having the care of the Country with his near Relation the Duke of New-castle he vigorously opposed the legitimate Commission of Array to the by-blow of the Militia till he was surprized at Gainsborough by the Lord Willoughby of Parrham and being looked upon as a person of great concernment to the Kings affaires the Country calling him usually the good Earl of Kingston sent towards Hull in a Pinnace which Sir Charles Cavendish who knew well the value of that noble person as well as the enemy pursued demanding the Earl and when refused shooting at the Pinnace with a Drake that unfortunately killed him and his servant placed a mark to his friends shot who when they took the Vessel put all the Company to the Sword a just though not a valuable sacrifice to so noble a Ghost which King Charles the I. would have ransomed at as high a rate as his Ancestor Robert Peire-point was redeemed in Edward the III. time who cost that King when taken at Lewis 700 mark the Ransom as money went in those days of a Prince rather than a Subject Robertus Baro Peire-point Comes Kinstoniae quem amici servando occiderunt ab ubinon mors Si caecus amor ipso infestius odio sâ—miae more affectu necat amplexibus strangubat THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Duresm HE was of the same original and stock with that Eminent Prelate and wise States-man Iohn Morton Loâ—d Chancellor and Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose contrivance and management the Houses of York and Lancaster were united as appeareth by his Coat-Armor and Pedigree He was born in the ancient and famous City of York March 20. 1564. his Parents were of good repute Mr. Richard Morton a well known Mercer and Mrs. Elizabeth Leedale by whom the Valvasours and Langdales acknowledge themselves to be of his Kindred by whose care he was brought up in Piety and Learning first at York under Mr. Pullen and afterwards at Hallifax under Mr. Maud of whom he always spake with great reverence as a grave Man and a good Scholar and from thence 1582. went to the University of Cambridge at the eighteenth year of his age and there was admitted into St. Iohns Colledge under Dr. Whitacre wherein were so many eminent Scholars at that time as he was wont to say It seemed to be a whole University of its self His Tutor was Mr. Anthony Higgon afterwards Dean of Rippon who lest him to the care of Mr. Hen. Nelson Rector of Hougham in Lincolnshire who lived to see his Pupil pass through all the other Dignities he had in the Church till he came to be Bishop of Duresm and a good many years after Being chosen Scholar of Constables Foundation 1584. In the year 1590. he took his Degree of Master of Arts having performed all his Exercises with great approbation and applause Afterwards he continued his Studies in the Colledge at his Fathers charge for above two years March 17. 1592. he was admitted Fellow meerly for his worth against eight Competitors for the place which he was wont to recount with greater contentment to himself than his advancement to any Dignity he ever enjoyed in the Church About the same time he was chosen Logick Lecturer for the University which place he discharged with much art and diligence as appears by his Lectures found among his Papers fairly written In the same year he was admitted to the Order of Deacon and the next after of Priesthood Having received his Commission from God and the Church he was very ready to assist others in the way of charity but not too forward to take upon him the particular care of souls And accordingly we finde him for the space of five years after this continuing in the Colledge prosecuting his own private Study and reading to such Scholars as were committed to his Care and Tuition Anno 1598. He took his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity and about the same year being Presented Instituted and Inducted to the Rectory of Long-Marston four miles distant from his native City of York he betook himself wholly to the cure of Souls there committed to him which he discharged with great care and diligence and yet he did not intermit his higher studies the general good of the Church while he attended it To that end he had always kept some person to be his Assistant whom he knew to be pious and learned And this assistance was more necessary because his great parts and worth would not suffer him to enjoy his privacy in a Country cure For first he was made choice of by the
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
up all he was a Wise Prelate a Learned Doctor a Just Man a True Friend a great Benefactor to others a thankful Beneficiary where he was obliged himself He was a faithful Servant to his Masters a Loyal Subject to the King a zealous Assertor of his Religion against Popery on the one side and Fanaticism on the other The practice of his Religion was not so much in Forms and exterior Ministries though he was a great observer of all the publick Rites and Ministries of the Church as it was doing good for others He was like Myson whom the Scythian Anacharsis so greatly praised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he governed his Family well he gave to all their due of maintenance and duely he did great benefit to Mankind he had the fate of the Apostle St. Paul he passed through evil report and good report as a deceiver and yet true He was a man of great business and great resort Semper aliquis Cydonis domo as the Corinthian said there was always some-body in Cydons house He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he divided his Life into labour and his Book he took care of Churches when he was alive and even after his death having left five hundred pounds for the repair of his Cathedral of Armagh and St. Peters Church in Drogheda He was an excellent Scholar and rarely well accomplished first instructed to great excellency by natural parts and then consummated by Study and Experience Melancthon was used to say that himself was a Logician Pomeranus a Grammarian Iustus Ionas an Orator but that Luther was all these It was greatly true of him that the single perfections which make many men eminent were united in this Primate and made him Illustrious At at Quintilium perpetuus sopa Vrget Cui pudor justitiae sorer Incorrupta fides nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem It will be hard to finde his equal in all things Fort asse tanquam Phaenix anno quingente simo nascitur that I may use the words of Seneca nec est mirum ex intervallo magna generari mediocria in turbam nascentia saepe fortuna producit eximia vero varitate commendat For in him was visible the great lines of Hookers Judiciousness of Iewells Learning of the Acuteness of Bishop Andrews He was in more great things than one and as one said of Phidias he could not only make excellent Statues of Ivory but he could work in Stone and Brass He shewed his Equanimity in Poverty and his Justice in Riches he was useful in his Country and profitable in his Banishment For as Paraeus was at Anvilla Luther at Wittenburg St. Athanasius and St. Chrysostome in their Banishment St. Ierome in his Retirement at Bethlehem they were Oracles to them that needed it so was he in Holland and France where he was abroad and besides the particular endearments which his friends received from him he did do Relief to his Brethren that wanted and supplied the Souldiers out of his Store in York-shire when himself could but ill spare it but he received publick thanks from the Convocation of which he was President and publick Justification from the Parliament where he was Speaker So that although as one said Miraculâ— instar vitae iter si longum sine off ensione percurrere yet no man had greater enemies and no man had greater justifications Johannes Bâ—amhall S. Th. Dr. Ecclesiae Anglicanae filius observantissimus Hybernicae Primas Pater dignissimus utrinsque vindex acerrimus Martii 12 mo 1662 3. Caetera narrabunt posteri Historia enim An. Britanniae Hiberniae cujus pars quanta est vir bonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amplissimo praesuli in Epitaphium cedet ut Ecclesia restaurata in Monumentum Erat nempe ille ex beatorum Plinianorum numero quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere feribenda aut seribere legendae THE Life and Death OF Dr. ACCEPTED FREWEN Lord Arch-bishop of York THE three last Arch-bishops of York were men of as great sufferings as enjoyments I. Dr. Richard Neile born in Westminster whereof he was Dean and bred in St. Iohns Colledge Cambridge whereof he was Fellow going by the favor of the Cecills bred in the same Colledge with him through several Preferments and Dignities from the Vicaridge of Chesthunt in Hertford-shire to the Deanery of Westminster and by the bounty of his two Royal Masters who had the same apprehensions with him about the Church a publick body he would call it not only to be taught by Preachers its duties but to be kept as long as men are men by Discipline and Government from scandals came by the intermediate advancements of Rochester 1608. Coventry and Lichfield 1610. Durham 1617. Winchester 1627. from the Deanery of Westminster to the Arch-bishoprick of York 1632. was much envied for his Preferment more for his Principles most of all for his Favorites and followings the Parliament in 1628. threatning for preferring Dr. Laud to be a Bishop and the Faction 1641. charging Bishop Laud for making him an Arch-bishop II. Arch-bishop Williams of whom before III. Arch-bishop Frewen bred Demy Fellow and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a general Scholar and a good Orator made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1643 4. a Preferment he suffered rather than enjoyed and after fourteen or fifteen years sufferings and privacy with his Relations in London upon his Majesties Restauration Installed Arch-bishop of York His particular temper was that by his goodly presence and great Retinue he hazarded the envy of people to avoid contempt a thing he would say a man should avoid as death it being an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselesness and inable attended with an untoward endeavor to engage the world in the same belief and slight esteem a rising man prevent as ruine to be thought down is the very Preface to be so a contempt like the Planet Saturn hath first an ill Aspect and then a destroying influence and a Governor provide against as a deposing what obedience can he expect from them that give him not so much as respect the carriage cannot reverence the person over whom the heart insults nor the actions submit if the apprehensions rebel Reputation is power which who despises weakens for where there is contempt there can be no aw and where there is no aw there will be no subjection and we have known that the most effectual method of disobedience is first to slur a Governors person and then to overthrow his power He knew that though he must approve himself to wise men by his vertues he must take the vulgar that see not beyond the surface with his carriage they as the Spaniard being of opinion that if you would know a man you must know him by his gate He dyed 1663 4. P. M. Accepti Freweni quis seit si ultra quaeras jam dignus es qui nescias THE Life and Death OF Dr.
much by the late Wars much by the late Fire hath besides the Liberal endowing of a Free-School in the House of his Nativity that others might have their Breeding where he had his Birth given 40 l. per annum to maintain that Lecture a Salary he did promise before and did settle since the Fire observing a Rabbinical precept in his Rabbinical Donation if thy Goods consume make Alms of the rest Gettin 7. 1 Sowing upon the Fires as he had done upon the Waters whose immature death about 1654. put a stop not only to this noble design the Persian New Testament lying upon his performance but to Learning it self his industry that translated the New Testament into Persia to convert that Nation a design some in this age may deride the effect whereof another age may admire he that seeth the Acorn set liveth not to see the grown Timber-Oak and set out an accurate Edition of Bede in the Saxon Tongue with a translation and learned Notes upon it that excelled in Greek so vast a stoage had his thoughtful soul for Words and Languages standing in competition upon Andrew Downs his death for the Greek Lecture having given the earnest of very great expectations for the propagating of Religion and Learning being able to be the Interpreter general not only for the Queen of Sheba to Solomon or the wise men to Herod but to mankinde and serve instead of the universal Character being by the way the likeliest man to make one this humble and affable man this Iuventutis Cantabrigiensis Doctor ac Pater as one calleth him dyed at London in the sixtieth year of his age and lyeth buried in St. Bottolphs Church near Aldersgate 2. Dr. Gerard Langbaine born at Kirke Banton in Northumbeland Scholar Fellow and Provost of Queens Colledge in Oxford an in genious man witness his Greek and Latine Poems and Speeches a great Linguist translating the Review of the Counsel of Trent translated out of French a choice book declaring the dissent of the Gallican Churches from that Councel and Longinus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Notes into as good Latine as it was Greek a publick-spirited man as those that have not Children of their own are fond of other mens so he when not at leisure to make his brain the Mother such a Book he made it the Midwife of Sir Iohn Cheeks seasonable book of Rebellion and Obedience in the beginning of the Wars and Sir Henry Spelman of Sacriledge towards the later end of it An excellent Antiquary being as skilful to satisfie Doubts as discreet to compose Controversies depending upon the Statutes of the University and of the Land when Antiquary of the University of Oxford A good man because Bishop Vshers bosom-friend and a great Scholar because one of Mr. Seldens Trustees he dyed 1657. of an extream cold taken by sitting in the University-Library whole Winter days and thence after his return home continuing in his study whole Winter nights without any food or fire being intent upon the Continuation of Bishop Ushers Chronicle and Brian Twines Antiquities of the University of Oxford with other exquisite Pieces of much Learning and Importance very happy in the Government of his Colledge keeping up the Exercises of the House by his own Presence quickning them by his own Essayes of Disputing Oratory or Poetry when he Corrected the flatness of the Incongruities of their performances with his own D. O M. Gerardo Langbaino S. S. Th. Professori Collegii Reginalis per annos xii Praeposito viro Antiqua pietate summa Integritate Ingenio literarum omnium Capaci omnibus supra fidem exculto Iudicio Acerrimo Industria animo pari cui corpus quamvis validum Impar literis Iuvandis propagandisque nato qui temporibus suis omnia omnibus naturam suam restituere poterat In quo nec Collegium cui praefuit nec Academia cui se Impendit vel fidem unquam dâ—sideravit vel successum Qui saeculo difficillimo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus Clavum rectam tenuit vixit Annos L. M. I. D. VI. Animam Deo Reddidit A. D. IV. Id. Heb. A.S. MDCL VII H. M. P. conjux maestissima 3. Mr. Iohn Selden who indeed sate a while among the men at Westminster but puzzling them in their Debates for the change of Church-Government and deserting them in their Resolutions for it gravelling the Houses with smart retorts as when one urged that Arch-bishops are not Iure divino is no Question ergo whether Arch-bishops who are certainly not Iure divino and Bishops who are not certainly Iure divino should suspend Ministers who are certainly Iure divino I leave to you Mr. Speaker Mr. Selden answered That Parliaments are not Iure divino is out of question That Religion is Iure divino is past dispute whether Parliaments which without doubt are not Iure divino should meddle with Religion which without doubt is Iure Divino I leave to you Mr. Speaker and the Assembly where he was a Sanedrim himself with learned Collections making it evident that Presbytery had as little footing in the the Jewish or Christian Church by his Eastern learning as Dr. Featley did by his Western He was bred a Commoner in Trinity Colledge and Hart-hall in Oxford and in the Inner-Temple in London where on the top-stone of his Sepulchre five foot deep in the ground is written Hic Inhumatur Corpus Johannis Seldeni As on a blew Marble-stone on the surface of that ground is Inscribed J. Seldenus I. C. hic situs est And on a Monument of white and black Marble in the Wall Graven Johannes Seldenus Heic juxta situs natus est 16. Dec. 1584. Salvingtoniae qui viculus est Terring occident alis in Suffexiae maritimis Parentibus honestis Johanne Seldeno Thomae Filio e Quinis secundo Auno 1541. nato Et Margareta Filia baerede unica Tho. Bakeri de Rushington ex Equâ— stri Bakerorum in Cantu familia silius c cunis superstitum unicus Aetatis fere 70 Annorum Denatus est ultimo die Novembris Anno salutis reparatae 1654. per quam expectat heic Resurrectionem faelicem A large soul finding that as our Swadling of Children too close about the Breasts occasioned their being short breathed so the tying of young wits to narrow Systems and Methods made them narrowly learned not fond of the School Rudiments he was initiated to and utterly neglecting the University Rules he was confined to he spent his time in making a General Survey of all Learning and drawing up an Index Materiarum of all Books Printed and M. SS he could meet with in the world to understand which he learned most Languages so far as to understand their Grammar and Dictionary and no further except Greek Latine Hebrew and Saxon being much assisted in that Study by an Analogy of all Tongues given him by a learned friend in his younger years whereby he made one Tongue help him to understand and
good Living as a Scene of his abilities and his good carriage in that place wherewas no quarrel grown into a Law-suit during his time where he did nothing below his Function and something in a resolute suppressing of all houses of debauchery above it regulating the disâ—rders he found there by the rules of Christian piety and the known measures of Laws gaining many dissenters from the Church by wise and meek discourses and by a good example leaving the obstinate to the wise and merciful disposition of the Laws commended him to his Majesties immediate service as Chaplain who preferred him to the Deanery of Lichfield in which capacity he was Prolocutor of the Convocation 1628. afterwards made Bishop of Rochester 1628. and then Bath and Wells 1629. upon his friend and contemporaries death Bishop Maw and at last of Winchester after his Patron Bishop Neils Translation to York a charitable reliever in all places of Gods poor his living Temples and a careful repairer of his Temples and Houses his dead poor Much maliced because a strict asserter of the Churches authority yet not hurt because wary in the exercise of his own insomuch that at the yielding of Winchester where he was during the war Peters and the Faction that hated his Function were very civil to his person having ignorance enough not to understand his worth and not malice enough to disparage it After he had given most of his estate to his Master and lost the rest promoting the Polyglot Bible and any thing that seemed serviceable to the afflicted Church He died 1650. deserving the character of one of his predecessors Vir fuit summa pietate ex rerum usu oppido quam prudens doctrina etiam singulari Dr. Brian Duppa 1. Born at Lewsham in Kent in which Country his Father was a good benefactor in erecting one Almes-house and the Son a better in erecting another 2. Bred at Westminster where he then grew to a constant superiority above others being Paidonomus a Lord of his School fellows in jest a presage that afterwards he would be one in earnest all his after greatness being but a paraphrase upon those beginnings 3. Preferred first Student of Christ-Church and after the discharge of some Offices there that are bestowed on the deserving both as rewards and tryals Fellow of All-souls 4. Imployed as Proctor of the University where the comeliness of his presence the gentleness of his carriage the variety and smoothness of his learning brought him first to the notice and then to the service of the most learned and eloquent Earl of Dorset who recommended him to his Majesty first for his own service as Chaplain and after he made him Dean of Christ-Church for his Sons the Princes and the Dukes of York as Tutor to whom the Countess of Dorset was Governness managing that trust by very prudential Lectures in his own person and by the pleasant Instructions of the choices wits in the University as Mr. Cartwright Dr. LLuelin Mr. Gregory Mr. Waring c. to whom he was a very eminent Patron as he was to all ingenuity in any kind extant After he had been Vice-chancellor of Oxford 1632. rendred him fit for another the Bishoprick of Chichester 1638. and the Bishoprick of Salisbury and his great sufferings with and services at Oxford where he set Dr. Hammond and others to vindicate the King and Church and at the Isle of Wight where by his excellent Converse and Sermons he comforted his Majesty himself for King Charles I. made him capable of many Letters of Trust one about supplying the Church with new Bishops upon the decay of the old about which service his Lordship and four more whereof the Reverend Bishop King was one had several Consultations and Propositions from Charles II. during the Usurpation and of the Bishoprick of Winchester and the noble places of Prelate of the Garter and Lord Almoner after the Restauration When having seen the two things he so much desired to see his Soveraign restored to his Crown and the Church to her Rights he departed in peace April 1662. leaving besides the charity of his Soveraign which he disposed of to suitable objects great Legacies to Christ-church and All-souls in Oxford to the Cathedrals of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and a conspicuous Monument of his charity the Almes-house at Richmond the place of his last retirement erected at his peculiar charge together with his exemplary virtues 1. His excellent parts and comely deportment making him acceptable to the King and Court A man fit to stand before a King Prov. 22. 29. whilest able to come thither and when disabled rendring him worthy several Royal Visits made by his Majesty to him in person both to see him in his weakness and to comfort him amidst his pains kneeling at his beds side a little before he died and begging his blessing which he bestowed with one hand laid upon his Masters head and the other lifted up to heaven 2. His bountiful heart as large as his fortune his generous way of living and hospitable table 3. A free and open disposition Vbique sentires illum hoc afficiquod loquebatur 4. His general and great learning and elegant and elaborate gift of Preaching whereof we have an instance in one Sermon Preached at the Isle of Wight 1648. aiming not at the delight of the Ear but the information of the Conscience Dr. William Roberts Fellow of Queens-colledge in Cambridge and Proctor of that University known to Bishop Laud by his activity under Bishop Bayley in injoying Church-discipline and preferred by him for discovering 1000 l. concealed Church-goods He was made Bishop of Bangor 1637. sequestred of all his estate spiritual and temporal 1649. restored 1660. and died 1664. being succeeded by Bishop Price Colonel Price of Rhulas an eminent actor and a great sufferer for his Majesty his Uncle who died Bishop elect of Bangor 1665. as he is by the learned pious prudent Gentleman Bishop Morgan who in the late times kept up his Majesties interest in keeping up himself in the good affections of the Gentry of Anglesea Caernarvon-shire Merionith-shire As Dr. George Griffith a Scholar of Westminster and an Eminent Student and Tutor of Christ-church Prebend of Saint Asaph and Parson of LLanymynech in Montgom did in Denbighshire Montgomeryshire Flintshire and Shropshire much service to his Majesty 1. Baffling the Itenerants particularly Vavaser Powell at the Disputation in Montgomeryshire where he rendred him as ridiculous by his false Latine no Logick and little Sence as he was before odious 2. Rightly principling the most ingenious young Scholars of those times 3. Keeping up the Offices and Ceremonies of the Church 4. Maintaining a good correspondence with the Orthodox at London and among the Gentlemen of the Country for which services and his sufferings he was Consecrated Bishop of Saint Asaph October 28. 1660. in which place he died 1666. Being observed a discreet and moderate man in all
the old Religion against what he supposed the new in his Under him the Welch at Brentford made good the Greek Proverb with right Brittish valour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that flieth will fight again those who being little better than naked cannot be blamed for using swift heels at Edgehill must having resolution to arm their minds as soon as they had armour to cover their bodies be commended for using as stout arms as any in this fight which cost the Family though Sir Thomas died not long after 2000 l. 5. Sir Evan Lloyd of Yale a sober Gentleman and one of the first that waited on his Majesty at Wrexam for which he suffered deeply several times till his Majesties Restauration by whom he was made Governour of Chester a City of which it is said that it was more honour to keep a Gate in it than to command a whole City elsewhere seeing East Gate therein was committed formerly to the Earl of Oxford Bride Gate to the Earl of Shrewsbury Water Gate to the Earl of Derby and North Gate to the Major He died as soon as he was invested in his Government 1663 4. Godfrey Lloyd Charles Lloyd and Tho. Lloyd were Collonels in the Kings Army and Coll. Rob. Ellis a vigilant sober active and valiant Commander 240 l. Sir Francis Lloyd Caerm 1033 l. Walt. Lloyd Lleweny Carding Esq 1033 l. 6. Col. Anthony Thelwall a branch of the Worshipful Family of the Thelwalls of Plasyward near Ruthin in Denbighshire known for his brave Actions at Cropredy where his Majesty trusted him with a thousand of the choicest men he had to maintain as he did bravely the two advantagious Villages Burley and Nelthorp and at the second Newberry fight where he did wonders with the reserve of Sir G. Lisles Tertia and had done more had he not been slain for not accepting of Quarter Not long after Daniel Thelwall of Grays-Inn Esq paid 540 l. composition Io. Thelwall of Pace-Coch Denb Esq 117 l. The Right Honorable Thomas Wriothsley Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy-Counsellor to both Kings Charles I. and II. bred in the strictest School and Coll. Eaton by Windsor and Magdalen Colledge in Oxford to a great insight into general and various Learning and in the Low-Countries and France to a great happiness in Experiences and Observations in the Affairs of War Trade and Government the result of which and his retired studies by reason of the troubles of the Age and the infirmities of his body much troubled with the Stone with a sharp fit whereof he died 1667. was as King Charles the First who conversed with him much in his Closet called it and King Charles the Second who came often with the Counsel to his House and Bed side found it Safe and clear Counsel a sober and moderate Spirit the reason together with the general opinion of his great integrity and unblemished reputation he was so much reverenced and courted by the Parliament as they called it and so often imployed in seven Publick Messages and three solemn Treaties between the King and Parliament a serious temper and deep thoughts understanding Religion well he was reckoned the best Lay-Divine by his Polemical and Practical Discourses after the Kings death in England and practising it better Prayers Sermons and Sacraments being performed in no Family more solemnly than in his house private preparations before the monethly Communion used no where more seriously than that of all that belonged to his noble retinue in his Closet his stipends to the poor Clergy and Gentry in the late times were constant and great near upon besides what he sent beyond Sea 1000 l. a year his charity to the Poor of each place where he had either his residence or estate Weekly Monethly Quarterly and Yearly above 500 l. a year among those few Ministers reduced into distress by the late fire he bestowed besides particular largesses and a resolution to take them if unprovided to any Preferments that should fall in his Gift an 100 Pieces in Gold giving always his Livings to the choicest men recommended to him by the Fathers of the Church whose judgements he much relied upon in those Cases in the Kingdom he reckoned it certainly a more blessed thing to give than receive when besides his great Hospitality during his life and his manifold and large Benefactions at his death he gave away so much for publick good and as I am told received not one farthing all the while either as Lord Treasurer or Privy Counsellor for his own private advantage He was one of the Honorable Lords who offered his life to save his Majesty pleading that he had been the Instrument of his Government and hazzarded it to bury him His Composition was 3466l in Money and 250 l. a year in Land taken from him and his losses in the War 54000 l. Sir Walter VVrotsley not VVriothsley of VVrotsley Stafford 1332 l. 10 â— with 15 l. per annum Land taken from him Sir Frederick Cornwallis Treasurer of the Houshold Comptroller and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty whose old Servant he had been and his Fathers and Uncles before him at his Restauration and made Baron Cornwallis of Eye in Suffolk at his Majesties Coronation The Temple of Honor being of right open to him in time of Peace who had so often hazzarded himself in the Temple of Vertue in the time of War particularly at Copredy-bridge where the Lord Willmot twice Prisoner was rescued once by Sir Frederick Cornwallis and the next time by Sir R. Howard Sir F. being as the last Pope said of this a Man of so chearful a spirit that no sorrow came near his heart and of so resolved a mind that no fear came into his thoughts so perfect a Master of Courtly and becoming Raillery that he could do more with one word in Jest than others could do with whole Harangues in Earnest a well-spoken man competently seen in modern Languages of a comely and goodly Personage died suddainly of an Apoplectical fit Ian. 7. 1661. Pope Innocent being in discourse about the best kind of death declared himself for suddain death suddain not as unexpected that we are to pray against but suddain as unfelt that he wished for To him I may adde Sir Will. Throgmorton Knight Marshall to his Majesty who died 166â— A Gentleman of an Ancient Family to whom a great spirit was as Hereditary as a great Estate who did much service to his Majesty in England and was able to do more to him and his Friends in Holland where he was formerly a Souldier and then an Inhabitant worth is ever at home and carryâ—th its welcome with it wherever it goeth who had lost his life sooner with a Bullet got into his body had not he done as they say Mr. Farnaby the Grammarian did who coming over from the Dutch Camp poor and wounded at Billingsgate met with a poor Butterwoman of whom he bought as
much as he was able to pay for melted it down and scoured his body with it when he kept School first in a Cellar in Aldersgate-street In the Wars there were for personal Valour very eminent Sir Baynam and Sir Clement Throgmorton who whilest others boast of their French bloud may with their English Family vie Gentry with any of the Norman Extraction 1 For Antiquity four Monasyllables being by common pronunciation crowded into their Name The Rock More Town 2 For numerosity being branched into so many Countries 3 For Ingenuity Character'd by Cambden to be fruitful of sine Wits and to them Sir Simon Archer of Tanworth in Warwickshire and his Son there of his studiousness as well as Estate a great Antiquary careful in collecting and courteous in communicating singular Rarities which were carelesly scattered up and down these Wars and prudently brought up by him and the Honorable Persons fore-going who were not as the Toads who suck up the precious stone in their head envying the use of it sparing no cost for their love to Antiquity and being put to many thousand pounds charge for their hatred of Novelty as was The Honorable Iohn Son to Nich. Tuston created Earl of Thanet an exemplary Person in the strictness of his Life and the good Government of his Family who for encouraging the Kentish mens Loyalty though he left them upon their unconstancy paid for his own 9000 l. and Tho. Lord Viscount Falconbridge 5012 l. for his Col. Mynne Governor of Hereford there were in the Army besides Col. Robert and Col. Nicholas Mynne one or both Knights Harbingers and signing the Articles at the Rendition of Bristol an experienced Commander first in Ireland and afterwards coming over with a Brigade 1653. over whom he was General in England distressing Glocestâ—r from Berkly and thereabout with continual Skirmishes Massie saying He had plaid till these came over A restless man in pursuit of some project every day to hearten and employ his own Souldiers and weary the Enemy as he was going to joyn the Forces of Hereford and Worcestershire at Castlelane with a design on Glocester and others not keeping touch with him he was cut off with the best Regiment made so by continual exercise within three miles of Glocester in disadvantagious Inclosures the consequence whereof was the defeating of the Kings Power in Southwales being much missed by his Friends and honored by his Foes who gave him a stately Burial 1644. in Testimony of his Worth and Valor being the fairest and shrew dest Enemy in Christendom whose Monument shall be supported by First Col. H. Washington who blocked up Glocester on Tewxbury side a Gentleman though disobliged by being put upon designs without Money to pursue them never suffered his Heat and Feaver to turn to a Frenzy unworthily attempting what he could not handsomely atchieve though vext that his swelling and prosperous sails should be silled rather with airy promises than real supplies and Eversham scoured the hedges near Stopwash a Border-Town of Cheshire to make way for Prince Rupert to enter into that Important Garrison kept Worcester till his Majesty under his hand Iune 10. 1646. commanded him to yield it against all Assaults and Summons and did Wonders by Patience and Resolution at Colchester as he did at the first taking of Bristol the first breach whereof entred was called by his name made terrible thereafter by his brave Regiment of Dragoons whose fierce and active Gallantry bestowed a Proverb on every resolute Exploit Away with it quoth Washington Secondly The Honorable Col. Oneal the onely Protestant of his Family it s a question whether gaining more honor by his hard service about Glocester and in both the Newberries with King Charles the I. or by his assiduous Negotiations and Messages posting from place to place in Holland where he was warned to the Countess of Chesterâ—ield in France where he was welcome to the best Cavaliers and Germany for King Charles the II. especially in the various Occasions Opportunities and Revolutions 1659. at Fontarabia Scotland Flanders England c. that made way for his Majesties Restauration who let him to Farm the Post-Office He died 1664. It s more to be called an Oneal than an Emperor in Ireland 3. By Collonel Will. Pretty who when Backehouse sent him word he woulk Breakfast with him returned that then he would Dine at Glocester a Gentleman that loved his last thoughts as Mothers the youngest Child best declaring siercely Sept. 2. 1645. That Bristol was Tenable by force and needed not the courteste or charm of words meaning Treaties with Fairfax to maintain it onely the Souldiery were to be refreshed and the Bayes of Victory are not to be plucked up till by fair opportunities they are grown ready 4. Collonel Pert who received his Deaths wound 1645. in Cornwall not to be gained by Power or Policy from the ground he stood in the Riddle of the Army never appearing what he was nor being what he appeared giving his Enemies always too little hope to trust and too little to distrust him Such must be as dark as midnight who must perform actions as bright as Noon-day 5. Col. Taylor there was one Mr. Taylor Resident for his Majesty with the Emperor in honorable esteem who made the Glocestershire Forces pay as he said Cost and Dammage for the death of Col. Mynne at last killed himself 1645 at Bristol when unus homo pereundo restituit rem where he died in the bed of honor about which we can only draw the Curtain Richard Taylor ofâ—rnely â—rnely Sussex paid 500 l. composition Jo. Talbot of Thornton York 800 l. Sir Jo. Talbot Lanc. 600 l. Tho. Taylor Ocle Pichard Her 265 l. Rich. Taylor Clapham Bedf. Esq 450 l. 6. Col. Rich. Poore that little man and great Souldier slain in Wales 7. As was Col. Will. Wynne of Berthu at Wem the Bulwark of Northwales which as Souldiers cry was all and one his because of his large alliance obliging spirit exemplary sobriety great conduct and fidelity to which the Enemy never entred while he lived no more than the English could while Owen Glendower Commanded such a strong Line of Communication he had formed in all the Marches and so watchful and active was he in maintaining that Line The Worshipful Wynnes of Gwyddir were great sufferers for his Majesty 8. Col. Dalby that excellent Engineer killed at Wingfield Mannor Derbyshire 9. Col. Io. Marrow slain near Sandiway in Cheshire 10. Sir Matthew Carew whose Misfortunes were his advantage It is an ill wind that bloweth no body good his Company being delightful when his service though prudent and valiant was unsuccessful and he fit to stand before Princes and not before mean men a man of spirit for his non Faelix carrying a badge of Valor no blemish but Beauty Mars hath his spots as well as Venus in his face Sir Francis Carew Beddington Surrey paid 1000l Composition 11. Col. Bagot who had travelled most places
be no exceptions From Nottingham-shire he passed with some Troops to countenance the Commission of Array in other Counties and particularly in Oxford-shire to secure the University from the Rebels and the Scholars and their Plates for his Majesty when assaulted by the Forces of Northampton and betrayed by the Town of Brackley so that he lost his Carriages and Cabinet he writes to Mr. Clark of Craughton in whose Custody they were to restore them Which if you do saith he I shall represent it to his Majesty as sty as an acceptable service if not assure your self I shall finde a time with advantage to re-pay my self out of your Estate and consider that as Rebellion is a weed of an hasty growth so it will decay as suddenly and that there will be a time for the Kings Loyal Subjects to repair their losses sustained by Rebells and Traytors Upon the sending of which Letter to the Parliament and their proclaiming him and his Adherents Traytors for their Allegiance to their Soveraign he marched to Worcester a very commodiously situated place taking it in and Garrisoning it decoying thither the Lord Say Colonel Nath. Fines and Sandys into a trap by a mistake of Prince Rupert for the Earl of Essex and gaining the first Victory and Reputation to his Majesties Side and Party which was judged never able either to form an Army or to aim at Victory How valiantly and warily he led on the Kings Horse at the first Newbery Fight when Col. Middleton protested there was no dealing with Biron who would give no advantage is well known and how prudently and industriously he pursued his Majesties Interest about Wales where he was Field Marshall General may be guessed by the Command given him of that Important Place both for passage into Ireland and Westchester and power over the Circuit of four Counties for Contribution where his Honorable and Obliging Deportment his judicious Works his frequent Sallies his great Word Cconsider so much you know as you consider his magnanimous performance in most Storms in Person his great Art of keeping both Town and Garrison contented with Cats Dogs yea and those failing with but one meal in three dayes while there was any hope of Relief refusing nine summons and not answering the tenth till his messenger returned with assurance that there was no hope of relief when he yielded upon the most honorable terms for himself and the whole Garrison that were given in England except those he afterwards gained at Caernarvon having indured a long and gallant Siege the benefit whereof he injoyed with a notable escape or two to rally the decayed and scattered spirits of the Kingdom into further attempts for his Majesty travelling invisibly and with incredible speed from place to place for a year together not sleeping four nights together in a place for a year till the fatal drowsiness hanging over the Kingdom put him upon taking his rest too and withdrawing to France to follow his ingenious Studies which the War had interrupted in the course but not in the effect of them his admirable discourse to his Mother discovering him as compleat a Scholar him as compleat a Scholar as he was an accomplished Gentleman dying oppressed with the sad thoughts of the consequence of the horrid Murther of his sacred Master about 1650. whose Monument is supported by four excellent Brothers I. Sir Philip Biron a Gentleman of a wide and capacious soul to grasp much and of an enlarged heart to communicate it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Servant of love a great Master of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of love as if with Socrates he that knew every thing knew nothing but how to love After many signal services in York-shire in each whereof there was always observed something of a judicious stratagem in a general Storm by the whole Parliament Army upon Tork he was killed in the Head of his Regiment which never went out but he would tell them That never brave man came to any thing that resolved not either to Conquer or perish July 19. 1644. II. The Right Honorable Sir Richard now Lord Biron of Rochdale succeeding his noble Brother in that honor King Charles I. Octob. 24. 1643. invested him with to be Chronicled for his Government in and many surprizes of the enemy about Newark III. Sir Nicholas Biron as excellent a Commander of Foot as Sir Iohn was of Horse one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Life-guard of the world by his Piety and by his Prudence a person whom his late Majesty in all Engagements would have always near him IV. Sir Robert Biron all Colonels in his Majesties Army this last excellent Person higher in his relation to God by his second Birth contingit sanguine Coelum than to his Noble Family by his first All these Heroes deserving that Epitaph the great Family De Haro have always upon their Graves viz. Regum subditi amici THE Life and Death OF Dr. IOHN BRAMHALL Lord Archâ—bishop of Armagh c. HE was bred in Cambridge in Sydney Colledge under Mr. Hulet a grave and a worthy man and he shewed himself not only a fruitful Plant by his great progress in his Studies but made him another return of gratitude taking care to provide him a good Imployment in Ireland where he then began to be greatly interested It was spoken as an honor to Augustus Caesar that he gave his Tutor an honorable Funeral and Marcus Antonius erected a Statue unto his and Gratian the Emperor made his Master Ausonius to be Consul And our worthy Primate knowing the obligation which they pass upon us who do Obstetricari gravidae animae help the parturient Soul to bring forth fruit according to its seminal powers was careful not only to reward the industry of such persons so useful to the Church in the cultivating infantes plamarum young Plants whose joynts are to be stretched and made streight but to demonstrate that his Scholar knew how to value his Learning when he knew so well how to reward the Teacher Having passed the course of his studies in the University and done his Exercise with that Applause which is usually the reward of pregnant Wits and hard he was removed into York-shire where first in the City of York he was an assiduous Preacher but by the disposition of the Divine Providence he happened to be engaged at North-Alerton in Disputation with three pragmatical Romish Priests of the Jesuits Order whom he so much worsted in the Conference and so shamefully disadvantaged by the evidence of the Truth represented wisely and learnedly that the famous Primate of York Arch-bishop Matthews a learned and an excellent Prelate and most worthy Preacher hearing of that Triumph sent for him and made him his Chaplain in whose service he continued until the death of the Primate but in that time had given so much Testimony of his great Dexterity in the Conduct of Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs that he grew dear
to his Master In that imployment he was made Prebendary of York and then of Rippon the Dean of which Church having made him his Sub-Dean he managed the Affairs of the Church so well that he soon acquired a greater same and entred into the possession of many hearts and admiration to those many more that knew him There and at his Parsonage he continued long to do the duty of a learned and good Preacher and by his Wisdom Eloquence and Deportment so gained the affections of the Nobility Gentry and Commons of that Country that as at his return thither upon the Restauration of his most sacred Majesty he knew himself obliged enough and was so kinde as to give them a visit so they by their coming in great numbers to meet him their joyful Reception of him their great caressing of him while he was there their forward hopes to enjoy him as their Bishop their trouble at his departure their unwillingness to let him go away give signal Testimonies that they were wise and kinde enough to understand and value his great worth But while he lived there he was like a Diamond in the dust or Lucius Quintius at the plough his low fortune covered a most valuable person till he came to be discovered by Sir Thomas Wentworth Lord President of York whom we all knew for his great Excellencies and his great but glorious Misfortunes This rare person espyed the great abilities of Dr. Bramhall and made him his Chaplain and brought him into Ireland as one whom he believed would prove the most fit Instrument to serve in that design which for two years before his Arrival here he had greatly meditated and resolved the Reformation of Religion and the Reparation of the broken fortunes of the Church The Complaints were many the Abuses great the Causes of the Church vastly numerous but as fast as they were brought in so fast were they referred back by the Lord Deputy to Dr. Bramhall who by his indefatigable pains great sagacity perpetual watchfulness daily and hourly Consultations reduced things to a more tollerable condition than they had been left in by Schismatical principles of some and unjust Prepossessions of others for many years before For at the Reformation the Popish Bishops and Priests seemed to conform and did so that keeping their Bishopricks they might enrich their kindred and dilapidate the Revenues of the Church which by pretended-Offices false Informations Fee-farms at contemptible Rents and ungodly Alienations were made low as Poverty it self and unfit to minister to the needs of them that served the Altar or the noblest purposes of Religion for Hospitality decayed and the Bishops were easily to be oppressed by those that would and they complained but for a long time had no helper till God raised that glorious Instrument the Earl of Strafford who brought over with him as great Affections to the Church and to all publick Interests and as admirable abilities as ever before his time did invest and adorn any of the Kings Vicegerents and God fitted his hand with an Instrument good as his skill was great For the first specimen of his Abilities and Diligence in the recovery of some lost Tythes being represented to his late Majesty of blessed and glorious Memory it pleased his Majesty upon the death of Bishop Downham to advance the Doctor the Biâ—â—oprick of Derry which he not only adorned with an excellent spirit and a wise Government but did more than double the Revenue not by taking away any thing from them to whom it was due but by resuming something of the Churches Patrimony which by undue means was detained in unsitting hands But his care was beyond his Diocésse and his zeal broke out to warm all his Brethren and though by reason of the favor and Piety of King Iames the escheated Counties were well provided for their Tythes yet the Bishopâ—icks were not so well till the Primato then Bishop of Derry by the favor of the Lord Lieutenant and his own incessant and assiduous labor and wise Conduct brought in divers Impropriations cancelled many unjust Alienations and did restore them to a condition much more tollerable for he raised them above contempt yet they were not near to envy but he knew there could not in all times be wanting too many that envied to the Church every degree of Prosperity So Iudas did to Christ the expence of Oyntment and so Dionisius told the Priest when himself stole the Golden Cloak from Apollo and gave him one of Arcadian home-spun that it was warmer for him in Winter and colder in Summer And so ever since the Church by Gods blessing and the favor of Religious Kings and Princes and pious Nobility hath been endowed with fair Revenues inimicus homo the enemy hath not been wanting by pretences of Religion to take away Gods portion from the Church as if his word were intended as an Instrument to rob his Houses But when the Israelites were governed by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and God was their King and Moses his Lieutenant and things were of his management he was pleased by making great provisions for them that ministred in the service of the Tabernacle to consign this truth for ever That Men as they love God at the same rate are to make provisions for his Priests But this to no other end than to represent upon what Religious grounds the then Bishop of Derry did with so much care and assiduous labour endeavor to restore the Church of Ireland to that splendor and fulness which did much conduce to the honor of God and of Religion This wise Prelate rarely well understood it and having the same advantage and blessing as we have now a Gracious King and a Lieutenent Patron of Religion and the Church he improved the â—â—posita Pietatis as Origen calls them The Gages of Piety which the Religion of the ancient Princes and Nobles of this Kingdom had bountifully given to such a comfortable competency that though there be place for present and future piety to inlarge it yet no man hath reason to be discouraged in his duty insomuch that as I have heard from a most worthy hand that at his going into England he gave account to the Archbishop of Canterbury of 30000 l. a year in the recovery of which he was greatly and principally instrumental But the Goods of this World are called Waters by Solomon stollen waters are sweet and they are too unstable to be stopp'd Some of these Waters did run back from their Channel and return to another Course than God and the Laws intended yet his labours and pious Counsels were not the less acceptable to God and to good Men and therefore by a thankful and honorable recognition the Convocation of the Church of Ireland hath transmitted in Record to Posterity their deep resentment of his singular services and great abilities in this whole affair And this honor will for ever remain to that Bishop of Derry he had a
SAMUEL MARSH Dean of York DOctor Marsh born Feb. 6. 1586. at Finchamsted in Herts and bred Fellow of All-Souls took to his book and became a Scholar against the will of his friends and a Divine against his own upon the same occasion that others become Physicians for being serupulous and inquisitive he spent so much time in settling his own soul that before he was aware he was immersed in that noble Science and Art of saving others Art I say for it was his Motto He that winneth souls is wise and he did profess to a friend as Bishop Williams once did that though he had gone through several honorable employments yet he would take more comfort in begetting one soul to God in travailing in birth till Christ were formed in an immortal spirit than in gaining all the honors in the world to himself he was one of those Reverend Divines the late King desired to converse with in his solitude and to advise with in his Treaties and one of them the Parliament feared most making the Kingdom his Church when he had none and instilling every where wholesome notions and rectified apprehensions into mens minds as likewise implanting the truth after godliness in their hearts teaching men not to be linked to this or that body of men in a design but with all good Christians in Communion many were his afflictions but according to that Text he said he kept up the heart of his Hearers with Preaching upon it God delivered him out of them all He could have lived as a Physician a Lawyer as well as a Divine he did as Nazianzen said of Philagrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 play the Philosopher in his sufferings calling his tribulations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learned afflictions full of great instructions which taught he said much real Christianity and made his soul of a more strong able and athletick habit and temper speaking in his distresses that he hoped he had learned all that for which God sent it and that he thought God kept us so long in that dispensation under those pressures and sufferings that Patience might have its perfect work and that the world might see what the true Protestant Religion was able to do what might power and virtue there was in it to bear up souls under the greatest misfortunes This would he say is the time to let men see we can live up at the same rate as we have formerly discoursed Four things he had a special care of in the late times 1. The Confirmation of well-affected People and the grounding of their Children from house to house where he was the more welcome by the sweetness and chearfulness of his converse 2. The furnishing of private Schools and Families with those excellent Scholars and honest Men to whom Zenodotus his Proverb was very applicable in those times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Either he is dead or he teacheth School Expressing himself about that Care of his as Sir Walter Mildmay did about Emanuel Colledge whereof he was Founder That he set Acorns which others might live to see Oaks 3. The restraining of the Kings friends from rash and exorbitant expressions or actions That the Tyranny to use his own words might wear its self out upon their patience which might seed its self upon their peevishness 4. To widen his Majesties Interest by matching his friends to some of his not implacable and more generous foes who should espouse their Cause as well as their Relations intermarriages as he observed by the care God took in that case among his own people being able to turn the humor of any Nation In fine having saved the Plate and Books of Sion-Colledge in London when he was President having bestowed his own upon the Church to which he owed it hating to enrich private Families into Pride with the publick emoluments of the Church given to Piety and having led an exact and an exquisite life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a conversation so studied that it was in all things consonant with its self in most unaffected gravity wonderful simplicity and a stern Countenance proportionable to the vigor and strength of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a look that was not one key below his intent eager and sprightly minde wholly careful of the things he hoped for and regardless of the things he saw He died in a good old age 1662 3. Dr. Samuel Marsh Iocus Protervae Ludicrumque fortunae sed major ipsa Pallidoque Livore utriusque victor hoc jacet Busto nequid Aevi saeculique vis possit diesque long a deleat viri nomen devinxit ipsum Marsh sibi tempus Doctor Marsh his name puts me in minde of Dr. Thomas Paske whom he used to call his Glass so faithful a friend he was in discovering to him his defects and so good an example in proposing to him a pattern of perfection Against his will Master of Clare-hall Vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1621 2. when the contest was between Dr. Micklethwait and Dr. Preston about the Lecture at Trinity Church in that University without his knowledge made Archdeacon of London Minister of Much-haddam in Hertfordshire and St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey A Gentleman that did nothing so chearfully as suffer for his late Majesty and his Son eighteen years Modestly refuse first and then unhappily miss a Bishoprick under his Majesty that now is and dye The right square man and honest Cube that throw him where you would fell upon his base denying himself he injoyed the world none being able to deal more severely with him that he did with himself no condition afflicting him because no condition surprized him according to his usual saying That distresses were like Cockatrices if they see you first they kill you if you see them first you kill them Si tantum sperare dolorem preferre soror potero Disappointments kill some but as the Consumption did Dr. Butler who died of it as he said because he never feared it No wonder he was not ambitious of gain and preferment who was so civil in the in joyment of it that he would say He would not go to Law with his Parishioners for any part of his Tyths because if he lost their love as he must do if he were contentious he lost all probability of doing them that good for which he had all his Tyths Protesting that he had rather gain his Neighbours by spending all his Tyths in Hospitality than lose one by laying it all in his Purse Wherefore I hope he will see as many of his People happy about him in heaven as he saw of his Scholars and Pupils eminent here on earth three Bishops four Privy-Counsellors two Judges three Doctors of Physick one day appointing to Reverence that Person to whose Rules and Examples they owed their Merit as they did to their Merit their Greatness being much beholding to his Method Rules and Choice Books more to his Watchful Observation and most of all to his