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
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
Penruddock proclaimed the King in his own person and thence to Southmoulton in Devon-shire where being overpowered by Captain Vnton Crâ—â—ke Sir Io. Wagstaffe Sir R. Mason Esquire Clarke Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaping in the dark as Major Hunt did afterwards in his Sisters cloaths they yeilded upon quarter for life which being unworthily denied after a close imprisonment at Exeter and strict examinations before O. P. at London to discover the Maâ—quesses of Hertford and Winchester Mr. Freke Mr. Hasting and Mr. Dorrington where they desired and had the prayers of several Congregations they were tried at Exeter where Mr. Grove knowing that the Judges were prepossessed addressed himself to the Jewry shewing them by the known Laws of the Land that this Loyal Attempt was Duty and not Treason which being over-ruled as the whole current of the Law was according to their Sentence having prayed for the King the Church and the Nation and forgiven Sheriff Dove his false-swearing against him and Crookes breach of Articles with him beheaded in Exeter Castle yard and buried in the Chancel of Saint Sidwells with this honest Epitaph considering those times Hic jacet Hugo Grove in Comitatu Wilts Armiger in restiâ—uendo Ecclesiam in Asserendo Regem in propugnando Legem ac Libertatem Anglicanum Captus Decollatus May 6â— 1655. Colonel Iohn Penruddock the third Brother of that Ancient and Gentile Family that died in and for his Majesties service in whom Virtue Religion and Learning for he was a choice compound of all these three was not Frowning Auster Servile Sad Timerous and Vulgar but Free Chearful Lofty Noble and generous grounded neither upon that Delicate and Poetical Piety made up of pretty conceits which prevailed lately in France and since in the more generous part of England nor upon that Enthusiastical imagination that obtains among the lower sort of people amongst us but upon solid reason that might satisfie the judgement and rational principles and maximes according to the Analogy of Faith professed in ours and in the ancient Church as he declared at his death to Dr. Short and others attending him at his death that might comfort his conscience reducing all things by Philosophy exalted with Religion to these two Heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what was not in his power was not in his care what was in his power was within his injoyment so in the great alterations he saw without him injoying peace within Right the good man Prov. 14. 14. that is satisfied with himself submitting to God in the things without him and conforming himself to God in the things within This brave temper with his vigorous parts and obliging carriage made him capable of making this Attempt for his Majesty and able to go bravely through the disasters that followed it not yielding but upon honorable Articles which were not kept with him and when he had yielded offering nothing but good security that he would be more a Gentleman than to use his life afterwards against those that saved it to O. P. and others which was not accepted from him because he would not betray others to save himself and so redeem his life with the price of his conscience He proved irrefragably and very ingeniously at the Bar with as much Law Reason and Will as ever Gentleman spake with that the Treason he was charged with was his loyalty and duty and declaring at the Block the sad condition of people that instead of known Laws were subject to arbitrary Injunctions where forgiving his enemies with an extraordinary charity praying for his Majesty the Church and Realm with an heroick zeal comforting his Relations with this consideration that this disaster was so far from pulling down that it was likely to build it a story higher acknowledging the civilities of the always Loyal City of Exeter to their whole party and to him in particular and saying that he deserves not one drop of bloud that would not spend it in so good a Cause He died by Beheading as generously as he lived Quid nempe martinum nisâ— beneficium malo animo datum J. P. May 6. 1667. With him fell 1. Mr. Io. Lucas of good quality in Hungerford Beheaded on the same account a plain and a wise man of a Loyal name Io. Lucas of Axminster Devon paying in way of Composition 125 l. Sir Robert Lucas of Leckstone Essex 637 l. who puts me in minde of a notable person who finding the first admission to Court to be the greatest difficulty appeared in an Antick Fashion till the strangeness of the shew brought the King to be a spectator then throwing off his disguize Sir said he to the King thus I first arrive at your notice in the fashion of a Fool who can do you service in the place of a wise man if you please to imploy me 2. Mr. Kensey a Gentleman as they say of the French in a manner born with his sword by his side a modest man that understood the world and loved himself too well to be ambitious to go out of that vale where is least agitation and most warmth 3. Mr. Thorpe Iohn Friar and Iohn Laurence murthered at Salisbury besides eleven more at Exeter whose names we hope are in the Book of Life thought not in ours persons that were a great instance of Charrons Tenet viz. that Nobility is but there being mean persons of the noblest extractions and noble persons of the meanest who have this honor that the chief of their Judges lived to beg his pardon and life with tears for condemning them when the most inconsiderable of them scorned to beg their lives of him Two of whom indeed Mr. Iones and Mr. Dean owed their lives to them who usurping mercy as well as majesty disparaged the kindness so far that these Gentlemen would say they had not a good tenure of their till his Majesty pardoned them the fault of holding them of Tyrants Colonel Iohn Gerard Brother to the Right Honorable Sir Gilbert Gerard who had eight of the name Colonels in the Kings Army viz. the Lord Gerard Colonel Edward Gerard both the b Sir Gilbert Gerards Colonel Ratcliffe Gerard Colonel Richard Gâ—rard Colonel C. Gerard and himself and these of the same name Sequestred viz. Thomas Gerard of Ince Lanc. paying 209 l. Thomas Gerard of Angton Lanc. 280 l. Richard Gerard of Brin Lanc. Esq 10â—l Sir Gilbert Gerard London 200 l. William Gerard of Penington Lanc. 30 l. A Gentleman of so much loyalty and spirit that it was but employing a few emissaries to cast out a word or two in his company in the behalf of his Majesty and his tender nature presently took the occasion for which being convented on the testimony of his young Brother Charles then but nineteen years old frighted to what he did as the Colonel said on his death sending him word that he loved him notwithstanding with all his heart he cleared himself of all the imputations of a design to
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
much desired might be carefully preserved This was that which he left to posterity in pios usus for the furtherance of piety and godliness in perpetuam Eleemosynam for a perpetual deed of Charity which I hope the Reader will advance to the utmost improvement He that reads this will find his learning Christeniâ—â— him The Divine and his life witnessing him a man of God a â—â—â—â—â—â—er of righteousness and I might add a Prophet of things to 〈◊〉 they that read those qualifications which he in his second 〈◊〉 â—rd book requires in them which hope to understand the Scri◠〈◊〉 right and see how great an insight he had into them and now many hid mysteries he lately unfolded to this age will say his life was good Superlatively good The Reader may easily perceive that he had no designs in his opinions no hopes but that of wealth nor affection of popularity should ever draw him from writing this subject for which no man so fit as he because to use his own divine and high Apothegm no man could write of justifying faith but he that was equally affected to death and honour THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord COTTINGTON SIR Francis Cottington being bred a youth under under Sir Stafford lived so long in Spain till he made the garb and gravity of that Nation become his and become him too He raised himself by his natural strength without any artificial advantage having his parts above his learning his experience and some will say his success above all so that at last he became Chancellour of the Exchequer Baron of Hanworth in Middlesex Constable of the Tower 1640 and upon the resignation of Doctor Iuxon Lord Treasurer of England gaining also a very great estate Very reserved he was in his temper and very slow in his proceedings sticking to some private principles in both and aiming at certain rules in all things A temper that endeared him as much to his Master Prince Charles his Person as his integrity did to his Service nor to his Service only but to that of the whole Nation in the merchandize whereof he was well versed to the trade whereof he was very serviceable many ways but eminently in that he negotiated that the Spanish Treasure which was used to be sent to Flanders by the way of Genoa might be sent in English Bottoms exceedingly enriched England for the time and had it continued it had made her the greatest Bank and Mart for Gold and Silver of any Commonwealth in Europe Indeed the advantage of his Education the different Nations and Factions that he had to deal with the direst opposition of enemies the treachery of friends the contracts of States-men the variety and force of experience from the chief Ministers of State with their Intrigues of Government made him so expert that the Earl of Bristol and Sir Walter Aston could do nothing without him and he only could finish the Treaty which they had for many years spun out Men take several ways for the ends they propose themselves some that of confidence others that of respect and caution c. when indeed the main business is to suit our selves with our own times which this Lord did and no man better until looking into the depths of the late Faction he declared at the Council-table 1639. That they aimed at the ruin of Church and State And viewing the state of the kingdom he advised That Leagues might be made abroad and that in this inevitable necessity all ways to raise money should be used that were lawful Wherefore he was one of those few that excluded the Indempnity by the Faction and had the honour to dye Banished for the best Cause and Master in those Forraign Countries where he suffered as nobly for the Crown of England in his latter days as he had acted honourably for it in his former When he never came off better than in satisfying the Spaniards about Tolleration reducing the whole of that affair to these two Maximes 1. That Consciences were not to be forced but to be won and reduced by the evidence of truth with the aid of Reason and in the use of all good means of Instruction and Perswasion 2. That the causes of Conscience wherein they exceed their bounds and grow to matter of Faction lose their nature and that Sovereign Princes ought diligently to punish those foul practices though over-laid with the fairer pretences of Conscience and Religion One of his Maximes for Treaty I think remarkable viz. That kingdoms are more subject to fear than hope and that it 's safer working upon them by a power that may awe the one than by advantages that may excite the other Since it 's another rule That States have no affection but interest and that all kindnesses and civilities in those cases are but oversights and weakness Another of his rules of Life I judge useful viz. That since no man is absolute in all points and since men are more naturally inclined out of envy to observe mens infirmities than out of ingenuity to acknowledge their merit he discovereth his abilities most that least discovereth himself To which I may add another viz. That it is not only our known duty but our visible advantage to ascribe our most eminent performances to Providence since it not only takes off the edge of envy but improves the reason of admiration None being less maliced or more applauded than he who is thought rather happy than able blessed than active and fortunate than cunning Though yet all the caution of his life could not avoid the envy of his advancement from so mean a beginning to so great honours notwithstanding that it is no disparagement to any to give place to fresh Nobility who ascend the same steps with those before them New being only a term saith one only respecting us not the world for what is was before us and will be when we are no more And indeed this personage considering the vanity and inconstancy of common applause or affronts improved the one and checked the other by a constant neglect of both Three things inraged the Faction against him 1. His attendance on his Majesty when Prince as his Secretary in his Journey to Spain 2. His activity in promoting the King's Revenue and Trade And 3. His great insight into the bottome of their Confederacy In the first whereof he acted only as a discreet Minister observing more Intrigues and offering several Considerations especially of address formality and caution that escaped greater persons In the second as a faithful Counsellor by the same token that he had the fairer quarter of some adversaries because in the management of the Revenue and the vacancy between the Lord Treasurer Weston's death and the Lord Treasurer Iuxon's advancement to that trust he had some misunderstanding with my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury And the King in an Express to the Queen Ian. 23. 1642. speaking of competitions for Offices hath these gracious syllables in behalf of
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
Nations Insomuch that though my Lord Goring would not admit Sir Iohn Suckling into the Secret Councils they held in the North because he was too free and open-hearted yet the King gave him a Command there because he was valiant and experienced He raised a Troop of Horse so richly accoutred that it stood him in 12000 l. bestowing the Horses Armes and Cloaths upon each person that was Listed under him which puts me in mind of the Duke of Burgundy's rich preparations against Swisse of which Expedition it was said The Enemy were not worth the Spurrs they wore And of his late Majesties report upon the bravery of his Northern Army That the Scots would sight stoutly if it were but for the English mens fine cloaths And of another passage at Oxford where the King in some discourse of the Earl of Holland and other Commanders in the first Expedition against the Scots was pleased to express himself to this purpose That the Army was not in earnest which made him chuse such Commanders in Chief But indeed it became him better to sit among a Club of Wits or a Company of Scholars than to appear in an Army for though he was active he was soft and sweet withal insomuch that Selden went away with the character of Deep and Learned Hillingworth was reckoned Rational and Solid Digby Reaching and Vigorous Sands and Townsend Smooth and Delicate Vaughan and Porter Pious and Extatical Ben. Iohnson Commanding and Full Carew Elaborate and Accurate Davenant High and Stately Toby Mathewes Reserved and Politick Walter Mountague Cohaerent and Strong Faulkland Grave Flowing and Steddy Hales Judicious and Severe but Sir Iohn Suckling had the strange happiness that another Great Man is eminent for to make whatsoever he did become him His Poems being Clean Sprightly and Natural his Discourses Full and Convincing his Plays Well-humored and Taking his Letters Fragrant and Sparkling only his Thoughts were not so loose as his Expression witness his excellent Discourse to my L. of Dorset about Religion that by the freedom of it He might as he writes to my Lord put the Lady into a cold sweat and make him be thought an Atheist yet he hath put wiser heads into a better temper and procured him the reputation of one that understood the Religion that he Professed among all persons except those that were rid by that fear of Socinianism so that they suspected every man that offered to give an account of his Religion by reason to have none at all nor his Life so Vain as his Thoughts though we must allow to his sanguine composition and young years dying at 28. some thing that the thoughts and discipline of time experience and severer years might have corrected and reduced Amo in juvene quod amputem But his immature death by a Feavor after a miscarriage in his Majesties service which he laid to heart may be a warning to young men of his quality and condition whose youth is vigorous pleasures fresh joynts nimble bodies healthful enjoyments great to look on his ghastly face his hollow eyes his mouldring body his noisom dust and to entertain but this one thought that what he was they are and what he is they shall be that they stand on his Grave as the Romans did on their Friends with these words Go we shall follow thee every one in his own order Rejoyce O young man in the days of thy youth but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment A Gallant would do well with the Noble Ioseph of Arimathea in their Gardens and among their pleasures He died Anno 164 ... leaving behind him these thoughts of those times to his dear friend Mr. Iermin since the Right Honorable Earl of St. Albans 1. That it is fit the King should do something extraordinary at this present is not only the opinion of the wise but their expectation 2. Majesty in an Eclips is like the Sun most looked upon 3. To lye still in times of danger is a calmness of mind not a magnanimity when to think well is only to dream well 4. The King should do before the People desire 5. The Kings friends have so much to do to consult their own safety that they cannot advise his the most able being most obnoxious and the rest give the King council by his desires and set the Sun or interest that cannot err by passions which may 6. The Kings interest is union with his People 7. The People are not to be satisfied by little Acts but by Royal Resolutions 9. There 's no dividing of a Faction by particular obligations when it is general for you no sooner take off one but they set up another to guide them 10. Commineus observes That it is fit Princes should make Acts of Grace peculiarly their own because they that have the art to please the people have commonly the power to raise them 11. The King must not only remove grievances by doing what is desired but even jealousies by doing something that is not expected for when a King doth more than his people look for he gives them reason to believe that he is not sorry for doing what they desired otherwise a jealous people may not think it safe enough only to limit the Kings power unless they overthrow it 12. The Queen would do well to joyn with the King not only to remove fears especially since she is generally believed to have a great interest in the Kings affection but to arrive beyond a private esteem and value to an universal honor and love 13. The conservation of the general should guide and command the particulars especially since the preferment of one suspected person is such a dash to all obliging acts 14. Q. Whether the Kings way to preserve his obnoxious friends is not to be right with his distempered people 15. Q. Whether the way to preserve power be not to part with it the people of England like wantons not knowing what to do with it have pulled with some Princes as Henry the Third King Iohn Edward the Second for that power which they have thrown into the hands of others as Q. Elizabeth 16. Q. Whether it be not dangerous to be insensible of what is without or too resolved from what is within And these Advises to his friends about him at that time when he best understood himself 1. Do not ill for Company or good only for Company 2. Shun jests in Holy things and words in jest which you must give an account of in earnest 3. Detract from none but your self and when you cannot speak well of a man say nothing 4. Measure life not by the hopes and injoyments of this world but by the preparation it makes for another looking forward what you shall be rather than backward what you have been 5. Be readier to give than to take applause and neither to give nor to take exceptions 6. It s as much more to forgive one injury than
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
a place disadvantageous to their horse by reason of the Cunniberries there the deserted Foot leaving the field with one thousand five hundred Prisoners two thousand Armes some Ordnance with four Drakes with all their Ammunition and Baggage An happy Victory had it not cost the life of this gallant and faithful Lord of whom the King said That he was the greatest loss but one he had had since the beginning of the Civil War who Charging in the Head of his Troops and by the unevenness of the ground with the force of the Enemy unhapply unhorsed refused Quarter saying He would not owe his life to those who had forfeited theirs and having so many wounds that he need fear none being one great wound himself he fell to the great loss of his Majesty and his Cause not without a noble testimony and resentment from his very enemies victory attending him to his Grave March 19. 1642 3. dying as good a Protestant as he had lived Mancum cadaver terrae mandavit Integrum animum seminanimo Populo legavit virtutem filio hac tumulum adornans epigraphe Non si nunc olim sic erit THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM COMPTON AN honorable person of such temperance from his youth that he seemed to be the St. Nicholas of our Church of whom the report is that when an Infant hanging on his Mothers breast he fasted Wednesdays and Fridays and would not suck He had no sooner accomplished himself by travel and study but his honorable Brother before mentioned intreats his Company in his Expedition towards the settlement of the Association for his Majesty in their Country where he had an excellent faculty of undeceiving those that wrested the Scripture by Scripture his Head being a Concordance especially of St. Pauls Epistles and he advising it as very prudential to condescend to level discourses at the capacity of the people and to convince them in their own dialect having with him one who had the best command of rain and sun-shine in his Face to smile and weep at pleasure his tears flowing at will melted the affections of many though others better acquainted with the man no more regarded his weeping than they did the moist droppings of a stone-wall against rainy weather Small resistance he had the disorderly people not knowing how to digest themselves into a body as who expects that a rolling Snow-ball should have any curious fashion men at first only fighting in a complement until having bravely brought off his Regiment after three onsets wherein his horse was twice shot under him by two Brigades of the enemy it fell to his lot to be Governor of Banbury for the retaking whereof he had contributed so much by his courage and counsel where his first care was a civil and strict carriage to win those professing people disposing his men so easily paying for so honesty and countenancing Religion among them so exemplarily that the people of the place professed that if the Kings Army carried its self so in other places they admired with what conscience any godly man could lift up a hand against them and his next by his own industry being in his turn upon all works and watches as well as the meanest man among them and the peoples to strengthen the Town which by reason of its nearness to Oxford and its command over the adjoyning Counties he resolved to keep as a place of very great consequence to the King and aimed at as of no less consequence to the other side especially since his indefatigable way of Beating up Quarters reâ—dred him of whose men some in their turns for three years together were observed always on horseback either relieving neighbors witness that admirable relief of Iackson gathering Contributions or alarming the enemy as troublesom at Banbury as Colonel Massey was at Glocester the reason why after some little attempts before 1644. the enemy came from Northampton with so many Miners and Colliers July 19. continuing their Mines till Aug. 27. on which day it was assaulted by several Mines Storms and Batterings with a Summons to which Sir William returned this answer That they kept the Castle for his Majesty and as long as one man was left alive in it willed him not to expect to have it delivered And after several Batteries on three sides of the Castle and seven Mines obstructed by water with an endeavor with much loss to drain the outmost Mote Another September 16. to which Sir William returned this answer by the Trumpeter That he had formerly answered them and wondered they would send again whereupon they proceed fiercely to their Assaults and Batteries together with their Granadoes and great Ordnances of the one 346. of the other 767. for a week together though answered with frequent Sallies insomuch that having made a breach upon the West-wall of the outward of the Castle the upper part near thirty yards in length but the inside wall lined with earth they Storm it about nine a clock in the morning September 23. with six hundred of their choicest men twelve being picked out of each Company with burdens on their backs to fill the Mote falling on with Scaleing-ladders in four several places besides a great throng of them in the Breach but without effect Sir William himself maintaining the Breach and giving order in all the other parts so that they fell off desiring leave after the Garrison had stripped them to bury their dead especially after the dreadful execution made upon them by a sally Sir William ordered upon them under Leiutenant Colonel Green the next day when with the men of Sechem they were very sore And not long after according to the good correspondence and intellegence Sir William had with his Majesties Forces the Siege was raised by the right honorable the Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage on the one side and himself on the other the Besiegers being dispersed and their Carriages Horses three Waggons of Armes and Ammunition two Field-pieces being taken and sent into the Castle A piece of service considering that Sir William was not for a eleven weeks in Bed so great his vigilance nor for a week off the Works so unwearied his diligence that he had Prayers four times every day the spiritual armes seconding the temporal so eminent his piety that he acted all things by common counsel and consent such his wariness and prudence He countermined the enemy a eleven times and over-reached them by stratagems six times such his skill He trusted no man without his own immediate over-sight such by care he seldom failed in his aim so exact this level he had no Mutinies either in Town or Garrison so equal his Justice and happy his Government not to be equalled but by another in 1646. when Banbury was besieged the second time as Ierusalem was in the time of a Passeover when all the Synagogues doing homage to the Mother-Temple all Iudaea was there the Guests Cavaliers come from
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
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
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
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
Thomas Fuller bestoweth this Epitaph upon him Hic Johnsone jacet sed si mors cederet herbis Arte fuguata tua cederet illa tuis Col. Henry Gage in whose wreath of Laurel his twice relieving this house in two still foggy nights not knowing his way but as he fought it through four times the number of the wearied men he had with him deserves to be twisted and whose history is drawn up on his Monument which after two Funerals will not suffer him to dye being likely to continue his worth after our ruins as long as Seth intended his stones should Letters after both the destructions of the world in Christ Church Oxford thus P. M. S. Hic situs est Militum chiliarcha Henricus Gage equitis aurati Filius hares Johannis Gage de Haling in agro surriensâ— Armigeri Pronepos Johannis Gage honeratissimi ordinis peris celidis equitis in Belgio meruit supra annos XX. in omnipraeliâ— obsidione Berghae ad Zomam Bredae ac praecipue S. audomori ex Belgio ad M. Brit. regem missus attulit armorum VI. M. Cujus imperio Bostalii aeâ—es expugnavit Mox Basingianis prasidiariis commeatu interclusis strenue rejam desperata suppetias tulit castrum Bamburiense cum Northamptoniae comite liberavit hinc equestri dignitate ornatus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit jamque gubernator Oxon. creatus cum ad Culhami Pontem inhostes jam tertio milites audacter duceret plumbea traject us glande occubuit Die XI Janua 1644. aetat suae 47. funus solemni luctu prosequnti Principes Proceres Milites Academici Cives â—mnes Iam tristissimi ex dessiderio viri ingenio linguarum peritia gloria militari pietate fide amore in principem patriam eminentissimi THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord DIGBY Earl of Bristol THis Noble man was the younger Son of an Ancient Family of the Digbies long flourishing at Coleshull in Warwick-shire who to pass by his Infancy all children are alike in their Long-coats in his Youth as his Son did gave pregnant hopes of that eminency which his Mature Age did produce and coming to Court with an Annuity of fifty pounds a year besides a good Address and choice Abilities both for Ceremonies and business He kenned the Ambassadors craft as well as any man living in his time employed by King Iames in several services to forraign Princes recited in his Patent as the main motives of the Honors conferred upon him among which the Spanish Match managed by him from 1616. to 1623. was his master-piece wherein if his Lordship dealt in generalities and did not press particulars we may guess the reason of it from that expression of his I will take care to have my Instructions perfect and will pursue them punctually If he held affairs in suspence that it might not come to a war on our side it may be he did so with more regard to his Master King Iames his Inclination than his own Apprehension If he said that howsoever the business went he would make his fortune thereby it rather argued the freedom of his spirit that he said so his sufficiency that he could do so than his unfaithfulness that he did do so This is certain that he chose rather to come home and suffer the utmost displeasure of the King of England than stay abroad and injoy the highest favour of the King of Spain He did indeed interceed for Indulgence to Papists but it was because otherwise he could do no good beyond sea for the Protestants The worst saith a learned Protestant that conversed with him much at Exeter during the siege of it and was invited to live with him beyond Sea after it he saying that as long as he had a Loaf the Doctor should have half of it I wish such who causlessly suspect him of Popish Inclinations is that I may hear from them but half so many strong arguments for the Protestant Religion as I heard from him who many years after the contract with the Duke of Buckingham which the Duke fearing his preventing policy as he did the Dukes after-power became a drawn battel under the Kings displeasure and as the Court-cloud makes the Countries shine in the peoples favour yet bestowed his parts and interest in the beginning of the Long-Parliament upon the vindication of the Church as appears by his excellent Speeches for Episcopacy and the peace of the kingdom as he shewed in his admirable discourse 1641. of an Accommodation The reason which together with a suspicion that he was the Author of most of his Majesties Counsels and Declarations inrolled him always among the excepted persons in the number of whom he died banished in France about 1650. having met with that respect in Forreign that he missed in his Native Country 1. For whatever was at the bottom of his actions there was resolution and nobleness at top being carried from Village to Village after the King of Spain without the regard due to his person or place he expressed himself so generously that the Spanish Courtiers trembled and the King Declared That he would not interrupt his pleasures with business at Lerma for any Ambassador in the world but the English nor for any English Ambassador but Don Juan 2. When impure Scioppius upon his Libel against King Iames and Sir Humphrey Bennets complaint to the Arch-Duke against him fled into Madrid my Lord observing that it was impossible to have justice againstâ— him from the Catholick King because of the Jesuites puts his Cousien G. Digby upon cutting him which he did over his Nose and Mouth wherewith he offended so that he carried the mark of his blasphemy to his Grave 3. Where he was an extraordinary Ambassador in Germany upon his return by Hâ—ydelâ—ergh observing that Count Mansfield Army upon whom depended the fortune of the Palsgrave was like to disband for want of money he pawned all his Plate and Jewels to buoy up that Sinking Cause for that time There were besides him of this Family these famous men 1. Sir Iohn Digby a Sommerset-shire Gentleman of good education beyond Seas and of a great temperance and conduct at home careful of removing the jealousies got among the people being of the Earl of Bristol's minde in that that it is easier to compose differences arising from reasons yea from wrongs than from jealousies and that the nicest point in all Treaties is security Commanding a Tertia of the Kings Army which he raised in Sommerset-shire with great vigilance activity and charge spending 25000 l. from the time he waited on his Majesty at Nottingham 1642. having put the Commission of Array in execution in Sommersetshire to the time he 1645. received his deaths wound in a gallant action at Langfort in the foresaid County whereof he died 2. His Brother for parts as well as bloud Sir Kenelme Digby both bred abroad and both out of gratefulness faithful to King Charles who restored them upon his Queens Intercession
unsuitable to his honor as to his inclination Go thy way saith the King thou art a good man So that he might have said when persecuted and imprisoned as our Saviour Io. 10. 32. when reviled for which of my good deeds Sir Christopher Cletherow a great stickler for the Church and a great Benefactor to it a great honorer of Clergy-men in the best times to whom some of his nearest Relations were marryed in the worst espousing their Persons as well as their Cause He was careful by Industry in getting his Estate and forward by Charity to bestow it having learned the best derivation of dives a dividendo dividing much of his Estate among those that were indigent He was much intent upon the clearing and cleansing of the River Thames from Sholes Sands and other obstructing impeachments that might drein dry or divert it so as they might not leave it to Posterity as they found it conveyed to them by their Fathers to Ease Adore and inrich feed and fortisie the City to which we may apply the Millers Riddle If I have Water I will drink Wine But if I have no Water I must drink Water Sir Henry Garraway Sheriff of London 1628. and Lord Mayor 1639. effectually suppressed the Tumults at Lambeth when he was a Magistrate executing the Ring-leaders and imprisoning the promoters of that Sedition clearing the streets with his Presence and awing the combination with his Orders and zealously opposed the Rebellion at London when a private man For those smart words in a Speech at Guild-Hall These are strange courses my Masters they secure our Bodies to preserve our Liberty they take away our Goods to maintain Popery and what can we expect in the end but that they should hang us up to save our lives he was tossed as long as he lived from prison to prison and his Estate conveyed from one rebel to another He dying of a grievous fit of the Sone used to say I had rather have the Stone in my Bladder than where some have it in the Heart That was the case of Sir Edward Bromfield who was made a prey by the Factious after his Mayoralty 1636. for keeping a strict hand over them during it being troubled as was Alderman Abel for what he levyed of the Sope-money Ship-money and Customs in his Office immediately after it Honest Alderman Avery and the Aldermen Iohn and George Garnet men of that publick honesty that they hated Caesars temper who said Melior causa Cassii sed denegare Bruto nihil possum private respects swaying nothing with them in publick Trusts of very private Devotions knowing well the Import of the good Fathers saying Non est vera Religio cum templo relinquitur pitying the Controversies of our ages which they looked upon as Childrens falling out and fighting about the Candle till the Parents come in and take it away leaving them to decide the differences in the dark fearing that those who would not be such good Protestants now as they might be should not dare to be so good Christians the common Enemy coming in upon us through our breaches as they should Good Benefactors to Churches that we might repair at least what our Fathers built Mr. Thomas Bowyer whose Grand-father Francis Bowyer Sheriff of London 1577. obliged the Church of England much under the Romish persecution under Queen Mary in saving and conveying away one eminent servant of God Dr. Alexander Nowel as he did in the Genevian Persecution in King Charles his time in relieving many keeping above forty Orthodox Ministers Widows in constant pay all his life and leaving an 100 l. to be divided among twenty at his death besides a competent provision left by him to relieve ten Sea-men maimed in Merchants service to put ten poor but hopeful youths forth to Apprentice-ships and to maintain the poor of several Parishes besides private Charities which my hand cannot write because though both his were giâ—ving hands yet his right hand knew not what his left gave Zeaâ—lously he asserted the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church and piously did he retire by a chast coelibacy all his life and by giving over his secular affairs some years before his death to her devotion much delighting to hear honest men and more to converse with them He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at Olaves Iury. Richard Edes and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. Peter Paggon Mr. Charles Iennings Mr. Edward Carleton Mr. Robert Abbot Sir Andrew King Mr. William White Mr. Stephen Baltonâ— Mr. Robert Aldem Mr. Edmund Foster Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp no other Memorial than that Commission of great importance sent them 1643. to London by the Lady D' Aubigney to their lasting honor and executed by them as far as it was possible to their great danger Mr. Iefferson Mr. Austin Mr. Bedle Mr. Batty Mr. Long Mr. Lewis all of Broadstreet Ward Mr. Blunt Mr. Wright Mr. Drake Mr. Walter c. refusing to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion and so were disarmed themselves Mr. Iohn Crane a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire and Apothecary in Cambridge-town with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived himself and to whom he left most of his estate with which he would entertain openly all the Oxford Scholars at the Commencement and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the Usurpation and whereof he bestowed 3000 l. to charitable uses whereof 200 l. to two Bishops Bishop Wren and Bishop Brownrigge 500 l. to forty Orthodox Ministers his fair house to the Cambridge Professor of Physick the rest equally and discreetly on Wisbich where he was born Lyn where he was well acquainted Ipswich where Dr. Butler was born Kingston where his estate lay and Cambridge where he lived where observing the bad effects of naughty fish and fowls bought for the University he gave 200 l. to be lent gratis to an honest man the better to enable him to buy good He died May 1650. Mr. William Collet the faithful and methodical keeper of the Records in the Tower which he neither washed to make them look clear nor corrected to make them speak plain Mr. Selden and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities whereof Mr. William Collet is the Caterer He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire bred a Clerk in London and died beloved and missed by all Antiquaries in the Tower 1644. Mr. Edward Norgate Son to Dr. R. Norgate Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely encouraged in his natural inclination to Limning and Heraldry lest he might by a force upon nature be diverted to worse became the best Illuminer and Herald of his age wherefore and because he was a right honest man the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pictures whence returning by Marseilles he missing the money he looked for and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of that City was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur
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