brought by Sir R. Dalling 〈…〉 Greek Suâ—â—â— there into the Chartet-house 〈◊〉 was Majâ—â— and 〈◊〉 b Mr Herbert Brother to 〈◊〉 Loâ—u 〈◊〉 of Châ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 University of 〈…〉 of the Church of England whose 〈◊〉 be was 〈…〉 are with 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—ms the Timple c A. C. d He was turned out for not taking the Covenant e In his book called White-salt or some sober Corrections for a mad world a The Guaâ—dian wâ—it by hâ—m 1640 at thâ—se years b See his Poâ—em of Plâ—nts Herbs and his Dovideus c Diou Hâ—liearnass de Alâ—aeo Vide A. C. presâ—t ad suâ— carmina a Sâ—â— his Misâ—â—â—ss on incomparable 〈◊〉 b In his Plague of Athens when Dr. Cowley presâ—wed his Boâ—k to the Vniversity of Oxon for which the Vaive 〈◊〉 presented him with a Degree 1656. Mr. Sprat writ an inimiâ—able Poem in Latine on his Poems to be â—â—en annexed to them in Wadham-colledge Library c Clerkâ— of the Green-cloath and Pâ—rveyor of the Navy to QEliz and Brother to Sir Robert â—uarles St. Basil apud D. Mossom a Not making himself what he foreâ— warned others not to do his preparation for death his 〈◊〉 bed task b So his book about Sigulor Dandiolo converted by him and the Revâ—rend Dr. Gunning Champion general of that Cause at that â—â—ne c See his Aâ—anâ—â—l called The Box of Spikenard a In most Legacies for châ—râ—â—able uses he was in hiâ—â—â—me the thâ—â— pâ—â—son geneâ—ally concerned b Iâ— his Magnificent recâ—ptâ—â—â— upon his return from Scotland besides that he assisted his Majesty in levying â—uâ—nage and Poundage and Ship-money supp effect unlawful Assemblâ—es and Petitions quâ—shâ—ng â—ll 〈◊〉 was motions at Common counsel a His Kinsâ—os the accomplished M. Crisp of C. C. C. Oxon. and Morall Philosophy Lâ—ctuâ—er preaching at his Funeral 〈◊〉 Grand 〈◊〉 the R. â—â—â—hipfal Sir 〈◊〉 crisp enâ—â—â—â— his Estate a With Sir John Shaw this gâ—eat safferâ—â— and noble Personage the most publick spiriâ—ed Sir Rob. Viner in the Custom-house John Soams of Orpinham Norfolk 1430l a Stephen Soams of Throwlon Suffolk Esq 800l b Sir Henry Gibbs and Thomas his Son paid for composition 517l c See his Funeral Sermon at the end of M. Faringdons Sermons that preached it He was born at Charley in Shrop-shire his Father was Mr. William Whitmore who was a great Benefactor of the Habâ—rdâ—shers Company London Sir George Binion â— Gentleman that hath done and suffered much must not be forgotten whose hoâ— sal Hâ—gh-gate was pulled dowâ—â—o the ground a Being the second in the Commission brought to London by the Lady Aubigney â— find in the Catalogue of Compounders this Note Sir George Stroud of Squeriers Kent 2814l H. Strode of Ditsham Devon 184 l. Jâ—an Stroud and George her Son of Stoke under Hampden Somerset Gent. 365 l Jo. Stroud of Parneham Dorset Esq 470l And I find Mr. Stroud an eminent Voluntier 〈◊〉 in in the first battel of Newberâ—â— a Sir Paul Pindar rented the Mine-Royal of Allum for 15000l paying 800â— men a day by Sea and Land constant Salaries b Dr Paul my Lord of Ely a Alderman Abel an active projecto with Mr. Kilvert 〈◊〉 his Majesty and a great sufferer with him b Living in Olaves Jury London where which is much in London his Posterity lived to a third Generation Be it here recorded that Sir Tho Bowyeâ— of Leathorne Suss. paid 2033 l. besides many Immunities a 〈…〉 b Tâ— which 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 b December 156â— a Peter-house a The Lord Ogleâ—y was one 〈◊〉 much who with several of his Family suffered a tedious imprisonment afterâ—â—wards b And that he had hindred them last Summer but could not do it any longer a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 a Particuâ—larly Dundee the nest of the Rebâ—llien b 〈…〉 c â—here was 〈◊〉 the Lâ—â—d Gorden a He came to Scotland the less time with an excellent Portraict of hâ—â—iate Majesly â—headed with â—hese words Judge and revengâ— my cause O Lord and an excellent Declaration which was hanged about his neck b Together with Church Lands and Tithes c And being buried at Westminster a Worth yearly 30000l b There was a trial of combat between Rea and Ramsey 16â—â— thâ— one offâ—ring with his lâ—fe to prove that the other had discovered â—o him Hamiltons Dâ—sign to make himself King of Scotland c Author of Philos. Theol. Ancillans and De formali objecto sidei d Fâ—ther and Son whose Instrâ—ct Theol. and Irenium â—ubulus are â—â—â—ent Besides him James Penniman Esq of Orness in Yorkshire paid for his Loyalty 2000l Composition and Sir James Penniman jun. 530. an eminent Commander at Oxford and elsewhere in the Kings Army a Being of opinion that his Majesty should march either into the North or into the associated Countries whiâ—â—er Faiâ—sax following after he knew would give him several advantages which he had a shrewd way to take b He was â—red up in the Wars of Germany from his youth Besides Sir Arthur there were in the Kings Army the Lord Aston who aazzarded himself much about the relâ—â— of Cheâ—ster Sir Thâ— Aâ—â—on and Câ—llâ—â—el Ralph Astâ—n 〈…〉 rants of that Câ—â—ntry Lâ—ncâ—shire the piercing air whereof makeâ— the Inhabitants bâ—dies as able as their mâ—nâ—s willing for any laborious employment To whom I may joyn Edward Ashâ—on of Aldenham Salop Esq whosâ— Loyalty cost him besides many troublâ—s plunderings and other unknown charges 2000 l. Composition a Evident in his Boâ—k De Venture in Latine and French c. the former kept in the Pâ—pes Vatilan b Whither he was imployed by the E. of Pembrokes recommendation his Mother Mris Suf. Newport went to live at Camb. en purposâ— to breed up her children well Mr. G. Herbert was his Brother Mr Francis Herbert oâ— Dolgion paid 500 l. for his Loyalty Sir Hen. Herbert of Ribsford Worc. 1330 l. Sir R. Herbert of Langley Bucksâ— 500l Jo. Herbert of Great Hoel Brecon 397. Ed. Herbert of Bray Berks 266 l. a 〈…〉 a Kekerman of Danzick a great Port Town de re nautica all owneth the English the best the Dutch the next Sea-men of the 4 first Circumnavegators aâ—out the world 2 were English 1. Magâ—llane a Spaniard 2. Drake 3. Cavendish 4. Noort an Hollander Conducted by the English Capt. Mollis his Pilot. a Ashbey of De la zouch called the Maiâ—â—n Garrison never touched the E. of Leicester Sir Richard Hastings a Col in the Kings Army deserves to be inserted into this Catalogue b Among whom is Sir Wolstan Dixby of Normaron Derby 1835 l. composition His composition cost Mildmay Earl of Westmerland 1000 l. a Sir Hen. Cary of Cockingham Devon paid besides noble Contributions to the King and losses by the Parliament 1985 l composition he commanded Kingssworth when Sir The. F. assaulted it b I think the fiâ—st Earl of M. and the Earl of Dover were Brothers a Col. Philip Stanhop was a considerable peâ—sâ—n in the Army Governor of Shelford house taken by
managing his command over them the better by making himself equal with them When the English at the Spanish Fleet 's approach in 88 drew their Ships out of Plymouth Haven Cambden attributes their success to the Lord Admiral Howard's towing a Cable in his own person the least joynt of whose exemplary hand drew more than twenty men besides 4. By observing as well as commanding them and orderly preferring them as well as observing them neither disheartning nor exasperating true Valour 5. By sharing with his Souldiers in their wants as well as in their other hardships indigency is an honour when it 's the chief Commanders condition Two words to his Souldiers did a brave Prince good service once in a streight I am your fellow-commoner and your fellow-labourer 6. By understanding well the defects and failings of the Garison as well as its accommodation It 's a very remarkable passage that when my Lord Fairfax made three approaches upon three great though not commonly observed disadvantages of the Garison he charmed the Council of War to an opinion of a noble surrender with this Story A man with an Ulcer on his face passed over a Bridge where the passengers were to pay a certain piece of money for every malady of body found about them and was required to pay the accustomed Tribute for the Ulcer in his face But he refusing to pay it the Officer pull's off his hat intending to keep it for a pawn his hat being taken off another malady appears in his bald head Now Sir said the Officer I must have a double Tribute of you Nay saith the Traveller that ye shall not and begins to struggle with the Officer who being too strong for him gave him a foil by means whereof there was a Rupture perceived under his coat The more we strive with these people the more we discover our infirmities This Trust he managed so well that the Queens Majesty interposed earnestly for his preferment in these very expressions in a Letter dated March 13. 1644. Farewel my Dear Heart Behold the mark which you desire to have to know when I desire any thing in earnest* I pray begin to remember what I spake to you concerning Jache Berkley for Master of the Wards And the King in his confinement was very earnest for his company making use of him in all his transactions with the Parliament and Army especially in that fatal escape from Hampton-Court where the Army observing how the King was caressed from all parts of the Kingdom buzzed up and down a jealousie among the Kings followers that he should be assaslinated that he might flie out of the place where he was most secure being near his friends the City and Parliament then well inclined towards him to a place where he was most in danger being far off the Faction having fore-cast that the King in the perplexity of his affairs would cast himself when in danger of his life upon Col. Hammond for his relation to Dr. Hammond his Majesties beloved Chaplain for that very purpose not long before made Governour of the Isle of Wight as he did in the company of Sir Iohn Berkley Col. Io. Ashburnam and Col. Will. Legg who smelt the Plot by the slightness of the Guards that dark and tempestuous Night and a whispering that there was of the King 's going to the Isle of Wight in the Army a Fort-night before and therefore Sir Iohn was for going to Iersey especially when he considered that most of the Advices given the King to escape proceeded from Whaley and those of the Army especially the Letter of Intelligence which he would take upon his Oath was feigned mentioned by Sir W. S. p. 1018. if any where the Advise being to have staid there and cast no fears jealousies or new disputes which the Army aimed at among an already distracted people But as God would have it that his Majesty should not escape those greatest tryals and most glorious acts of patience he had designed him for Hammond to whom they went with the hazard of their lives could be wrought to nothing but some formal civilities and yet they being so far gone into the Net must be trusted to though with the King 's extraordinary Regret Sir Iohn Berkley offering then a desperate attempt for the King's escape at last cast though the King refused it saying That he would always humble himself to Gods good pleasure Nay which was more Sir Iohn would have been taken to let the King escape Therefore the Parliament so strictly enquired after him although his own friends censured him so interpreting this action by the success not considering the numerous difficulties in forming any resolution nor the fallacious representation of affairs to him by those that contrived this whole Plot to take the Parliament off from the King by his disturst of them and confidence in the Army but only looked on his improsperous services according to the fate of unhappy Counsels which is To have that Condemned which is put in Execution and that Practised as best which was never Tried 1. The King was no sooner in the Isle of Wight than the Faction let loose their fury upon the Gentlemen that attended him commanding Hammond to send them up to London to be proceeded against which he refused pretending First The just offence thereby given the King in removing his only Friends and Familiars then his honour engaged as he said for their Indemnity The King himself likewise Interposing that if those Gentlemen were taken away and punished as evil doers for counselling him not not to go out of the kingdom but rather to come to the place where he now is for the ends aforesaid and for their indeavours accordingly to attend him thither he cannot but expect to be dealt with accordingly his case being the same Sir Iohn escaping the danger of this fatal piece of service addressed himself to more in the way of Intelligence and Correspondence between the King and the West between the West and the North and between all these Parts and France where the Queen kept up the King her husband's Reputation and promoted his Interest until being forced from the King he and Colonel Walter Slingsby were secured Anno 1648. at Colonel Trevanions house in Cornewall and underwent all the sad effects of the Tyrannies acted here for twelve years together without any other comfort than some opportunities of serving his Sacred Majesty with better Intention than Success using means and leaving events to God being resolved to win the Roman Consul's Elogy who was commended for not despairing of the Commonwealth his spirit being above his own Fortune and his Enemies too who indeed had put an end to the War yet could not find the way to Peace their souls being unequal to their victory and not able to temper their success but turning those arts and arms wherewith they had prevailed against their Soveraign so true is that of Seneca Scelera dissident against one another until they
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
with him while he lived and offering himself upon a tryal by a noble Counsel of War by whom after an affixer set and a Proclamation for any person to come in and prosecute him none appearing he was quitted Oct. the second 1643. His pious Relations at London something misled I think by some modern Preachers more taken with the seriousness of their preaching and praying than the irregularity of their proceedings befriended him with the Parliament during the Usurpation as he did them with his Majesty after the Restauration having been thousands out of purse to his Majesties Father before the Wars in Custom-house he had a considerable interest in the farming of it since having a peculiar faculty of advancing Trade and consequently Tallage till he dyed 1666. his body being buryed in Mildred Breadstreet with his Ancestors and his heart at a Chappel in Hammersmith built at his Charge He was well known by his large heart in inventing some new kind of Benefaction there as he was by his large head in finding out new Inventions having done many good works in and about the City while he lived and left considerable Legacies there when he dyed Deserving a Marble Monument for his new way of making Brick and an Epitaph as clear as he could speak for the obscure way safe to himself and friends though dark to his foes he had to write expressing himself in these sad times as O. P. whose abilities were not to be gathered from his words any more than his meaning save that the more intangled they were they were the more judicious his Interest obliging him to a Reserve for he durst neither clearly own his thoughts nor totally disclaim them but opening them with such advantages that he was neither mistaken by his friends nor understood by his enemies We must not separate Sir Nicholas Crisp from the Worshipful Sir Iohn Iacob his partner both in the Farming of the Custom-house and his sufferings about them a man ever forward to assist his Majesty saying What! shall I keep my Estate and see the King want where withall to protect it if it please God to bless the King though I give him all I have I can be no looser if not though I keep all I can be no saver and to relieve the Clergy valuing more their Prayers and Gods blessing than his own Estate employing under him only those honest Cavaliers that suffered with him On whose Grave and Sir Abraham Dawes whose misfortues for his Integrity and Loyalty are recompensed in the blessing of his Posterity both his Children and Grand-children flourishing in an Honorable and Worshipful Estate in Surrey indued with excellent Parts good and obliging Tempers a great Reputation and considerable Estates whereby they are as able to serve their present Soveraign as their Ancestor was the Father who when discouraged to advance his share of the 100000 l. with Sir N. C. Sir I. I. Sir I. W. the King had need of with threatnings that he should re-imburse it or as much to the Parliament answered no more But that is the worse that can happen God be thanked I love my Allegiance so well that I cannot only pay it but pay for it And the Worshipful Sir Iohn Wolsten-holm still by the blessing of God upon his chearful spirit which is the result of a good nature and a good Conscience surviving all his sufferings and doing his Majesty and the Kingdom eminent service in the great Trust committed to him though almost eighty years of Age with incredible activity and dispatch eminent for his exemplary Hospitality and Charity his great care to keep a good understanding in the City and his readiness to encourage any publick good work tenderly asking for Sion Colledge and other ruined places as my good friend Mr. Whitle Secretary of the Custom-house who is never wanting to speak a good word for a good work hath often told me to which he hath been formerly a good Benefactor I may say of him as Mr. Crashaw doth of Mr. Aston THe modest front of this small floor Believe me Reader can say more Than many a braver Marble can Here lies a truly honest man One whose Conscience was a thing That troubled neither Church nor King One of those few that in this Town Honour'd all Preachers heard their own Sermons he heard yet not so many As left no time to practice any He heard them Reverendly and then His practice preach'd them o're agen His Parlor-Sermons rather were Those to the Eye than to the Ear. His prayers took their price and strength Not from the loudness nor the length He lov'd his Father yet his Zeal Tore not off his Mothers Veil To th' Church he did allow her Dress True Beauty to true Holiness Peace which he lov'd in Life did lend Her hand to bring him to his End Sir Martin Noel Farmer of part of the Customs born at Stafford in Stafford-shire and dying in Bishops-gate London was very like Sir Nicholas Crisp in the activity of a designing spirit being in all forty several Inventions for Trade and the Charity of a publick one having built and indowed a fair Hospital in the Town of his Nativity one of the first in that kind in that Country and he drew the first Letter with a flourish being bred a Scrivener while he lived besides what he left when he dyed 1665. and was buryed by his own order at old Iury Church with only the Office in the Common-prayer said at his Funeral and the Book put into his Grave Sir Edmund Wright Lord Mayor 1640. Memorable for his Justice to one Clergy-man in his Office Mr. Chestlen of Sr. Matthews Fryday-street molested by a combination in the Parish to pay him no Tythe to weary him out and bring Burton now brought home in a bold affront to publick justice in who appealing to him according to the Statute 37 Hen. 8. found him so resolvedly honest that when Pennigton threatned him to stave him off from doing justice he replyed What shall I be afraid to do justice and ordered him his Tithes pursuing his order so far as to commit them to the Goal without Bail or main-prize that refused to submit to that order till two of the then House of Commons took the Prisoners out of Newgate by force whither they were sent by Law and his Charity to all Clergy-men deprived of their places out of it Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor 1648. and Imprisoned in the Tower two moneths for not consenting to his Majesties murther and the alteration of the Government which proved the end of that War which Sir Richard Gurney so seasonably would have prevented in the beginning of it and not discharged till he had paid 2000 l. fine and as far as lay in his enemies who had destroyed the foundation of honor lost his honor in a way that increased it In reference to whom be it remembred that his Lady would not suffer the messenger that brought the Proclamation for
as Ghosts do about the seat of their hid treasure 11. Sir Arthur Georges Chelsey Middlesex 512 l. Sir Richard Grosven Eaton-Chester 5350 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Gibbs and Thomas his son of Huntingtonâ— Warwick 517 l. Sir Io. Gibson of Weston York 1947 l. in Land and Money Sir H. Griffith of Agnisborton York 10649 l. in Land and Money Walter Grosvenor of Totten-hall Staff 300 l. Fulk Grosvenor Morhal War Esq 356 l. Ralph Goodwin Ludlow Esq Angel Gray Kingston Marwood Esq 718 l. Anthony Gosborough Sapley Huut. Esq 440 l. Richard Goddard Swinden Wilts Esq 413 l. Sir Tho. Gemham of Gemham Suffolk 951 l. Henry Gilbert Locked Derby Esq 680 l. Sir Tho. Garden Cuddleston York 982 l. Sir Edward Griffin Dingley Northam 1700 l. Sir Thomas Gower senior and junior Stilnam York 1730 l. Richard Goddard Sarum Wilts Esq 862 l. Sir Charles Gawdy Growsbal Suff. 4264 l. in Land and Money Mich. Grigg Hadley Middl. Esq 1060 l. Robert Gosnal Otley Suff. Esq 600 l. Sir Richard Graham Norton York 1384 l. Tho. Goodale Lichfield Esq 830 l. Iohn Gifford of Brightley Devon Esq 11 6 l. Samuel Gorges Wruxal Som. Esq 582 l. Sir Gordicke Ribston York 1343 l. Sir Richard Grimes Pecham Surrey 500 l. Peter Griffith Carnoy Flint Esq 113 l. A Catalogue of Worthies that instilled into their respective Neighbours the good principles of Allegiance and were able to go to the charge of then most of them most active as natural motions are most swift towards the end of the War when the air being corrected by cold and nipping misfortune there was no danger of taking the Kings side as some did in warmer times only by Infections professing themselves better able to manage great miscarriages than a great success most of them provided for the War suitable supplies while others performed in it great actions Admiral Colligni was wont to say He that would paint the Beast War must first begin to shape the Belly meaning that the chiefest care in War should be the supply of the Army Many of whose Ladies deserve to be mentioned among these men for having done in the War more then Women One especially who trained a Pigeon to carry Letters which were sent as they were written with the wing of a Fowl all of them at last conquering that party by yielding which they could not by fighting lurking in corners as Truth doth often fearing her Judges though never suspecting her Cause till the Conquerors having so much choice had in effect none at all being able among so many Governments to pitch upon none fell of the Collick I mean the Divisions in the r own bowels partly as well as Cowardise the disease of their hearts and these Gentlemen who followed the Crown with the Cross at first and afterwards endured the Cross without the Crown at last injoyed the Crown without the Cross. They who never refuse what God carveth them do never cut ill for themselves being contented to see much misery upon condition their eyes should not be put out and they in compliance with their fortunes should not be compelled to do any thing unworthy of their Birth patiently bearing their Masters loss of his Crown of Gold in consideration that their Saviour wore one of Thorns being comforted with this general Opinion that his Majesties worse Vice was his Vertue Jo. Warden Ches 600 l. Sir Tho. Wildbraham Woodhay Ches 2500l W. Waldron Wells Somerset â—sque 630l Arth. Warren Lond. Esq 850l Jo. Were Silvert Devon Esq 526l R. Walker Exon. 886 l. Sir W. VValter Sarsd Oxon 1607l Edw. Whitchot of Bishops-Norton Linc. Esq 1700l in land and money Dr. Maurice Williams of Oriel Col. Oxon. 1100l Jo. Walpool Spalding Linc. Esq 450l Sir Michael Wharton of Benly York 9999l in land and money 12. Sir Thomas and Sir William Bridges both Colonels able to serve his Majesty in the War and one or both Prentices but of very good Families ready to serve their Country in time of Peace by their good service under Command deserving one Sir Thomas as discreetly deserting both in time while he might have good conditions when untenable as he stoutly maintained Leicester while tenable Sir Henry Billingham well known for his eminent services not only in Kent but in Christendom and Thomas Billingham Esq who seeing the differences among us grown so great that they could not be united by either Law or Reason endeavored to cut them asunder with their Swords much against their wills not that they were worse Souldiers than others but that they were better Christians their demurre being not in their Courage but Conscience Sir Thomas Bower of Lethoru Sussex a Gentleman whose soul was enriched with many vertues whereof the most Orient was his Humility which took all mens affections without resistance but those men who had guts and no bowels to whom he paid 2033 l. and he said he had a cheap penny-worth of the Peace of his Conscience Sir Thomas Bosvile Eynsford Kent 205 l. of whom and of Col. Bamfield who conveyed away his Highness the Duke of York from St. Iames that rule holds not true that Ambition is the spur of a Souldier 13. Sir William Bulton of Shaws Wiltshire a Gentleman to whom his Ancestors honor were a spur to Vertue his Parents not satisfying themselves that they had begot him honor unless they bred him so too and implanted in him those Vertues to support the Family that raised it by Dr. Prideaux his tuition whose Pupil he was at Exeter Col. Oxon. and Sir Arthur Hoptons Company whom he attended in his Embassie through France into Spain by Geneva untainted with the levity of the French the pride of the Spaniard the superstition of Italy or the novelties of Geneva but nobly accomplished for the service of his Country had it been capable of it Having a large Estate and no Children his Hospitality was exemplary his charity to his poor Neighbors great to poor Ministers and Cavaliers greater to poor Scholars at School and the University greatest of all his Devotion according to the way of the Church of England strict both at his Parish Church and in his Family and his duty and conscience justly valued above his Estate whereof besides his contributing to his Majesty he paid 2380 l. composition to the enemy dying April 1660. and buried at North-Wraxall the 12 th of the same moneth with this noble Character of a most beloved Patriot a most indulgent Husband a loving Brother a fast Friend a good Landlord a bountiful Master and a very just man 14. Sir Thomas Ailesbury one of the Masters of Request to King Charles I. whose Ancestors were High-Sheriffs of Bedford and Buckinghamshire often in Edw. 2. and Edw. 3. time the Countess of Clarendons Father and the Dutchess of Yorks Grandfather suffering much in his Estate at home and dying I think banished abroad 15. Sir William Valentine Lane and Col. Io. Osburn Prince Ruperts old Souldiers at whose advance such a
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
the Arch-bishop and Windebanke Sir Henry Vane affirmeth the words I deny them then there remain four for further Evidence viz. The Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who have all declared upon their honour that they never heard me speak those words nay nor the like Lastly suppose though I granted it not that I spake those words yet cannot the word this rationally imply England because the Debate was concerning Scotland as is yielded on all hands because England was not out of the way of obedience as the Earl of Clare observed well and because there was never the least intention of Landing the Irish Army in England as the foresaid Lords of the Privy Council are able to attest Concluding his defence with a sinewy summary and a close recapitulation of what he had said and a gallant Speech to this purpose My Lords THere yet remains another Treason that I should be guilty of The endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Land That they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason Accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Vnder favour my Lords I do not conceive that there is either Statute-law or Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws to be High-treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear off declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for Life and Honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesuâ— Where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundreds of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burnt out to consume me and my Children extreame hard in my opinion that punishment should proceed promulgation of Laws punishment by a Law subsequent to the acts done Take it into your consideration For certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conform our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a Crime that doth proceed the Law What man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords It is hard in another respect that there should be no Token set upon this Offence by which we should know it no Admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man pass down the Thames in a Boat and it be Split upon an Anchor and no Buoy be set as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that owes the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were markâ— out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime where is the token this is High-treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can avail nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisdome and let us rest upon Divine Revelation if you will condemn me before you forewarn the danger Oh my Lords May your Lordships be pleased to give regard unto the presage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such contractive interpretations and these are where Laws are not clear or known If there must be trials of Wits I do humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be somewhat else than the lives and honours of Peers My Lords We find that the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the Books of Curious Arts and burned them And so likewise as I conceive it will be wisdome and providence in your Lordships for your posterity and the whole Kingdomes to cast from you into the fire those bloudy and most misterious Volumes of constructive and arbitrary Treasons and to betake your selves to the plain letters of the Law and Statute that telleth us where the crime is and by telling what is and what is not shews us how to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to be more wise and learned in the killing arts than our forefathers were It is now full two hundred and forty years since ever any man was touched for this alledged crime to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that our fathers have left us and not awaken thâ—se sleepy Lions to our own destructions by taking up a few musty Records that have lain so many Ages by the Walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be nobly pleased to add this to those other misfortunes befallen me for my Sins not for my Treasons that a President should be derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular cause be looked upon as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Commonwealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Commonwealth yet in this particular I indeed speak for it and the inconveniencies and mischiefs that will heavily fall upon us For as it is in the first of King Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put My Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of State that men of wisdome honour and virtue may not with chearfulness and safety be imployed for the publick If you weigh and measure them by Grains and Scruples the publick affairs of the Kingdom will be laid waste and no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to loose MY Lords I have now troubled you longer than I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in Heaven left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my Indiscretion should forfeit for my Child it even woundeth me to the very soul. You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it pass And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the affâ—iction of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquillity of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous Iudgement shall be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus A defence every way so compleat That he whom English Scots and Irish combined against in their Testimonies such English as cavied his virtues and power such Scots as feared his wisdom
being for the Laws and Liberties of this Land and for maintaining the true Protestant Religion He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Lauds Book against Fisher which would ground me against Popery He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded us and all the rest of my Brothers and Sisters to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that his thoughts never strayed from her and that his love should be the same to the last Withal he commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to her and bid me send his Blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all his Friends So after he had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further he commanded us all to forgive those People but never to trust them for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and he feared also to their own Souls and desired me not to grieve for him for he should dye a Martyr and that he doubted not but the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that we should be all happier then we could have expected to have been if he had lived with many other things which at present I cannot remember Elizabeth Till at last all indeavours for preventing so great a guilt failing even Col. Downes one of their own Members attempting a Mutiny in the Army and the Lord Fairfax being resolved with his own Regiment to hinder the Murther until the Conspirators in vain urging That the Lord had rejected him took him aside to seek the Lord while their instruments hasten the Execution by private order and then they call that a return of their prayers On the Fatal day Ian. 30. having desired five Preachers sent to pray with him by the Juncto to pray for him if they pleased telling them that he was resolved that they who had so often and so causelessly prayed against him should not in his agony pray with him and preparing himself with his own Devotion in the offices of the Church he was strengthened in his own sufferings by the sufferings of his Savior whose Body and Bloud he received that morning and the History of whose Passion fell to be the Chapter of the day of His who had he been before Christ had a condition and an innocence that had made him a Type of him So that he came chearfully from St. James's to White-hall often calling on his slow Guards that kept not pace with him who always walked fast to move faster with these words I now go before you to strive for an heavenly Crown with less sollicitude than I formerly have led my Souldiers for an earthly Diadem with extraordinary alacrity ascending the staires leading to the Long-gallery and so to the Cabinet-chamber whence his supplications being ended he went through the Banqueting-house to the adjoyning Scaffold every way dressed to terror with the same spirit he used to ascend his Throne shewing no fear of death but a sollicitude for those that were to live after He thought it to as little purpose to Harange the Army as to complement a Mastive or a Tyger and others were kept at such distance that they might see but not hear and therefore expressed himself thus to those that stood near him His Majesties Speech upon the Scaffold I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here Indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it my duty to God and to my Country to clear my self as an honest man as a good King and a good Christian. I shall first begin with my Innocency In troth I think it is not very needful for me to insist long upon this for all the world knows that I did not begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God witness to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend to incroach on their Priviledges they began upon me It is the Militia they began upon they confest the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any man will look to the dates of Commissions of theirs and mine and likewise to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy Troubles not I So that as the guilt of these enormous Crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I do believe that illinstruments between them and me has been the chief cause of this blood-shed So that by way or speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should bâ— so ill a Christian as not to say Gods Judgements are just upon me many times he does pay Justice by unjust Sentence that is ordinary I will only say this that an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me this I have said to shew you that I am an innocent Man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the world and even those in particular that have been the causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in this particular I pray God with St. Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not only so but that they may take the right way to the Peace of the Kingdom for my charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the Peace of the Kingdom So Sir I do wish with all my soul and I do hope there are some here will carry it farther that they may endeavour the Peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and will put you in the way First you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just cause either for matter of wrong or just title and then if you go beyond it the first quarrel that you have to it is it that makes it unjust in the end that was just at first
But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander that he was the greater Robber himself but a petty one And so Sir I think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir to put you in one way believe it you will never do right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the People their due I am as much for them as any of you you must give God his due by rightly regulating his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order To set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Axe said Hurt not the Axe that may hurt me For the King the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whatsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean contrary things and therefore until they do that I mean that you do put the People in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sir it was for this that I am now come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People Introth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will only say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you may take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own salvations Dr. Iuxon Will your Majesty though it may be very well known your Majesties affections to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say somewhat for the worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the word and I declare before you all that I dye a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs Excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care they do not put me to pain and Sir this if it please you Then a Gentleman coming near the Axe The King said Take heed of the Axe pray take heed of the Axe Then speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr. Juxon for his Night-cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Do's my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then the King turning to Dr. Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr. Juxon There is but one Stage more this Stage is troublesome and turbulent it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven And there you shall find a great deal of cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world Dr. Iuxon You are Exchanged from a Temporal to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange The King then said to the Executioner Is my Hair well Then the King took off his Cloak and George and giving his George to Dr. Juxon said Remember Then the King put off his Doublet and being in his Wastcoat put his Cloak on again and looking on the Block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put my hands out this way stretching them out then ... After that having said two or three words as he stood to himself with Hands and Eyes lifted up immediately stooping down laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said thinking he had been going to strike Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and please your Majesty Then the King making some pious and private Ejaculations before the Block as before a Desk of Prayer he submitted without that violence they intended for him if he refused his Sacred Head to one stroke of an Executioner that was disguised then as the Actors were all along which Severed it from his Body In the consequence of which stroke great villanies as well as great absurdities have long sequels the Government of the world the Laws and Liberties of three Kingdoms and the Being of the Church was nearly concerned So fell Charles the First and so expired with him the Liberty and Glory of three Nations being made in that very place an instance of Humane Frailty where he used to shew the Greatness and Glory of Majesty All the Nation was composed to mourning and horror no King ever leaving the world with greater sorrows women miscarrying at the very intimation of his death as if The Glory was departed Men and women falling into Convulsions Swounds and Melancholy that followed them to their graves Some unwilling to live to see the issues of his death fell down dead suddenly after him Others glad of the least Drop of Bloud or Lock of Hair that the covetousness of the Faction as barbarous as their Treason made sale of kept them as Relicks finding the same virtue in them as with Gods blessing they found formerly in his person All Pulpits rung Lamentations and the great variety of opinions in other matters were reconciled in this That it was as horrid a fact as ever the Sun saw since it withdrew at the sufferings of our Saviour and the King as compleat a man as mortality refined by industry was capable to be Children amazed and wept refusing comfort at this even some of his Judges could not