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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93189	A short and true narrative of the departure from England, sicknesse, and death, of that late worthy knight, Sir Philip Stapleton, attested under the hands of foure of those gentlemen that went with him. With a briefe character of his person, &c.		1647 (1647)	Wing S3554; Thomason E409_3; ESTC R10571	8,518	11

A SHORT AND True Narrative of the departure from England Sicknesse and Death of that late worthy Knight Sir PHILIP STAPLETON Attested under the hands of foure of those Gentlemen that went with him With a briefe Character of his Person c. HAving met abroad with so much noise and to many malicious false reports touching the Conversation quality life and death of that truly honourable Gentleman Sir Philip Stapleton the glory and honour of his Country and Family I thought sir bring neere him in most of his undertakings Military and Civil wherein both in publike and pri●●●e his undaunted courage and accomplished endowments were sufficiently tryed to publish this short narrative to the world to silence those Calumnies and Aspersions daily spread abroad against him which though its much short of his true worth yet 't is a witnessing to the truth and can be denied by none that have either known of or been conversant with his person parts honour Religion or Family and first For his Family he is descended from royall stemms of honour and majesty For his Religion he was a true and zealous Protestant though not any way new fangled yet abundantly carefull and curious enough to discover the saving truths in fundamentalls of Faith and knowledge and living thereafter ever using all duties suitable to a sincerely hearted Christian in his Family and otherwise towards God and man both in publike and private to his dying day which he prosecuted with a modest zeale and faithfull constancy Nor was he easily engaged into any thing of Change no not into that way he so much sustred for the Covenant and Church-government by Presbytery though afterwards he looked upon it both in divine and prudent considerations as the way of God suiting most and best with the union of the Nations and in that the welfare of both And the next way under God moderately advanced to make the three Kingdomes happy and upon those very grounds with most Christian and indefatigable endeavours was a Cordiall promoter of it He was a religious lover of both his Wives and all his Children without partiality breeding them up in the feare of God Giving life unto his admonitions and counsells by his holy 〈◊〉 and affectionate carriage and conversation towards them walking with and before them as a Husband and a Father looking at and depending upon his and their Father in Heaven And yet so as taking care of and providing for them competencies our of that little God had made him steward of All which he both faithfully and providently expressed in his life and affectionately and prudently disposed of at his death For his Honour he had more then can well be allowed to any but the best of Englishmen and of them the most indeed ●e was as much an Englishman and as truly noble in his heart as England hath ever bred he abounded in curtesie to all even his enemies that which was their shame to contrive or act against him hee made it his honour to passe by A most faithfull friend their extremities were his opportunities in which he never thought he had done enough his compassions overflowed to the distressed endeavouring upon all occasions with all his interest to give freedome releif to the oppressed indeed he made this his businesse For injuries received though he was quick enough in the first resentment of them he heaped Coales upon their heads in his returnes of favour he was indeed a friend to all that needed him and an enemy to none though sometimes he was unhappy in not being rightly understood by them which bred some mistakes and those ill reports of him but he well knew that is part of the Good mans Portion in this world hoe therefore walked above them Hee was a most faithfull lover of his Cou●try the settlement of the Peace of which as he desired it above his temporall felicities so he was willing to spend himselfe and to be spent for it He was so farre from making these troubles a stirrup to his advantage that though others too many and most of them pretend to piety and selfe-denyall have reaped very many thousands more then otherwise they ever were or would have been masters of here refused Great things offered and voted to him 't is well knowne to divers of his neerest friends hee hated the thoughts of Glory or Ri●e this way often solemnly professing the peace of the Kingdome once setled he would retyre and spend his remaining dayes in blessing God for his mercies to this poore Kingdome and endeavour after a holy life suitable to such an engagement But God would not have it so but would rather honour him with a kind of martyrdome for this Kingdome who not sensible of his worth knew not how to put a true value upon such a Jewell nor indeed was worthy of him And therefore God thought fit to call him to himselfe there to glorifie him For his parts they were very eminent he was quick of apprehension sound of judgement of cleare and good clocution and in things wherein the just Rights of the King the Priviledge of the Parliament and the safety of the Kingdom against what power soever was concerned or the re●ig'● of any distressed required it he ever spake freely and with great abilities by which he not onely gained much interest in the house and abroad but also contracted upon himselfe much envy from others as the great obstructer of their designes he very well fore-knowing and constantly in publike and private asserting that the Change of this Government so much aymed at by some though otherwise pretended is contrary to the well being at least of this Nation and to the union with our brethren of Scotland and will be when ever attempted destructive to the safety of both And he would often say that though hee and others possibly through the power some had might be persecuted to banishment or death and that it might be 〈◊〉 on against 〈◊〉 under 〈◊〉 of justice and righteousnesse in those that did it suggesting dangerous designes to be underhand contrived by himselfe and others contrary to the interest of this Kingdom and the trust put upon him and them in Parliament which he abhorred and of which he ever solemnly took God to witnes he was innocent of those other of those things of which they were falsly accused And though he did of late foresee it would be done though by never so unjust and unwarrantable wales the principle those people ground their actions upon being guided by light and conscience as they falsly pretend to destroy all men of parts or interest that oppose their way it may be blindly supposing they do God good service in it Yet when God had suffered them to goe so farre he was confident it would returne upon them in the latter end to their owne shame and ruine And for him and the rest though they perished under it yet their overthrow would become their crowne and therefore

he submitted it to God acquiessing in his will For his person he was of a thin body and weak constitution but full of spirit which was too soone spent if God had seene it good with the manifold endeavours and excessive paines he day and night undervvent for the service of this poore Kingdome And though he found his body not able to endure much hardship yet when the Kingdome had need of it and God called him to it he exposed himselfe to the greatest hazards in the warre daring as much and going as farre in that service as any mortall ever did witnesse those eminent engagements of his in the two great Battels of Keinton and Newberry in which he was in a very high degree instrumentall to the gaining of the day in both And being afterwards with that most famous and ever to be honoured the Lord Generall the Earle of Essex and others by the selfe-denying vote which how and to what ends made use of by some the world well knowes and God will judge called off he and they all layd down his Armes without any dispute which will one day rise up in judgement against the men of this world of our dayes pretend what they will who as he frequently said persecuted him for his judgement and conscience declared where it was his duty to speak both though they pretend it a Liberty of Conscience to speake and act what and where they ought not he valued himselfe so little in comparison to his service to this Kingdome that he would willingly have suffered to Assasination rather then have declined his ●●●●ng in Parliament but finding upon serious debate that at present to give way to the furious multitude madded with a pretence of zeale to Justice and Righteousnesse it probably might be of better service to the Kingdome to withdraw did it And though afterwards at the Call of the House sate againe which he and the rest might have done at their pleasure his reasons at are well known to some were so publike that for this alone he deserves the highest honour thus to hazard himselfe again upon this ground that if it were possible by improvement of Councells and means the utter violation of the Parliament● and the plunder and destruction of the City who had been so much a●●istant to the preservation of this Parliament and Kingdome so much threatned might be prevented But when another way was taken which possibly hee thought not honourable then againe upon the aforesaid Grounds by the leave and passe of the House formerly ordered ●otally withdrew and travailed as it unhappily proved to England having at that time a Flux upon him with his journey and voyage by Land and Sea increased c. SIR OBeying that necessity that enforced us out of England Foure of us vi● Sir William Waller Sir William Lewis Sir Philip Stapleton though then Feaverish with a Flux that had followed him some daies before with Col. Long began our Journey on Saturday the 14th of his instant towards whole Haven in ●ssex where wee were by eight the next morning to meet Sir John Clo●worthy who was to come thither by water In which journey out first inconvenience was A report we met at Aveley 16. miles from London that a party of Sir Thomas Fairfax his Horse with some of those Dragoones that lately had taken Til●ury Fort were quartered in our way to the Haven above-mentioned which made us leave the road not willing to trust to the security our Passes should have given us against the insolencies that the Troupers might have been over-apt unto And that from our experience of their way in avowing their Actions without orders from their Officers which cast us on such ill Lodgings that night that few of our Company put off their clothes whereby Sir Philip Stapletons distempers were much increased but yet his willingnesse to goe on his journey was such that we all went on board a Pinke that was to carry us on Sunday about one in the afternoone where the first nerves that saluted us was that some Watermen on shoare had threatned the Master of the Vessell that he would runne himselfe into a great danger by carrying of us over which made him leave his Vessell and our Voyage to the care of his servant though halfe his wages were paid before our comming out of London and a Gentleman that acc●mpanied Sir Philip Stapleton to the water side hearing the Watermen therein some unnecessary discourse concerning our Journy knocks one of them over the pace which wrought so with them that they became so diligent in pressing the Master of the Backs danger upon him that the fellow having had neither the wit nor the honesty to aske us for the sight of our Passes became so frighted therewith that hee hastened along the Coast to stop us And wee being under sayle came by Gods blessing though the wind was high and we once in great danger of being cast away some three Vessells having by that storme perished neere Callice as farre as Margetts and Anchor'd against that place for that night which was a very blustring one without any accommodation for any of us wherewith we were the more afflicted from Sir Philip Stapletons sufferings by reason of his want of health And he sing Sayle the next morning though at our comming out we resolved for Plushing yet we determined for Callice the cu●● being shorter and the wind blowing fairer thither having had enough of the Sea in our small Barke to give us cause to wish our selves ashore And in our passage we came by some of the Parliament Ships under the Command of the Vice-Admirall riding at the Downes and sayling within call of the Nicodemus Frigott wee were questioned whence wee came and whither we were bound to which having answered from London and for Callice we passed on having in view of the Fleet taken up a Pilot of Sandwich to assist the manning of our Barke finding our selves much inconvenienced for want of the Masters help therein and so holding on with a faire wind had recovered neere Callice the afore-mentioned fright had so wrought on the Master of the Barke that recovering Margetts he disperst a report there that we had stolne away without Passes conveyed with us 16000 pounds in Treasure and taken away his Barke without his consent Whereupon the Drums were beaten up there and a Boat manned out after us with some forty in Armes who not able to reach us came with that false alarum to the Captaine of the Nicodemus Frigott above-mentioned and he thereupon slipt his Anchors and being a swift sayler overtooke us about noone within some two leagues of Callice where shooting a warning-Peece at us some of his men came aboard us and some of us went aboard to him and he requiring us to returne to the Vice-Admirall wee tackt about and the wind being contrary it was neere ten at night e're we could recover into his Ship who seeing our Passes was troubled that we