till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their
Gods Holy Word might keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace It being a sad thing in his opinion that three Christian and Protestant Kingdomes under one Christian and Protestant King should have three several Confessions of Faith 4. Abolished several idle and barbarous Customs putting the Natives upon ingenious ways of Improving that rich Land by Flax Hemp c. infinitely to the Advantage of the King and Kingdom 5. Recovering near upon 40000 l. per year to the Church which by ungodly Alienations was made saith a Bishop of their own as low as Poverty it self bringing over with him as great Affections for the Church and all Publike Interests as he had Abilities to serve them 6. Put Ireland Anno 1639. in three moneths by a Parliament he got together in that short time into such a posture for Men and Money as was a Pattern to the following Parliament of England which resented that Service so much that the House of Commons gave him the Thankes of the Kingdome in their own House and waited upon him two of their most eminent Members supporting him to his place in the House of Lords In fine he wrought that wilde and loose people to such a degree of Peace Plenty and Security as it had never been since it was annexed to this Crown and made it pay for the Charges of its own Government which before was deducted out of the English Treasury Their Peace and Lawes now opening accesses to Plenty and Trade he remitted indeed nothing of that Authority Strictness Discipline or Grandieur that might advance the Interest or Honor of his Master yet he admitted so much moderation into his Counsels and Proceedings as that Despair added to former Discontents and the Fears of utter Extirpation to their wonted Pressures should not provoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to break out to all exorbitant Violence both by some principles of their Religion and the natural desires of Liberty both to exempt themselves from their present restraints and prevent after-rigors And when the Tumults of Scotland and the Discontents of England called for the same Counsel here that he had with success applyed to the distempers of Ireland how clearly did he see thorow the Mutinies and Pretences of the Multitude into the long-contrived Conspiracies and Designs of several orders of more dangerous men whose Covetousness and Ambition would digest as he fore-saw the rash Tumults into a more sober and solemn Rebellion How happily did he divine that the Affronts offered the Kings Authority on the score of Superstition Tyranny Idolatry Male-administration Liberty words as little understood by the Vulgar as the Design that lay under them were no other than Essays made by certain sacrilegious and needy men to confirm the Rapines upon Church and State they had made in Scotland and to open a door to the same practises in England to try how the King who had already ordered a Revocation of all such Vsurpations in Scotland and had a great minde to do the like in England would bear their rude and insolent Attempts whether he would consult his Power or his Goodness assert his Majesty or yield to their importunity How nimbly did he meet with the Faction by a Protestation he gained from all the Scots in England and Ireland against the Covenant of their Brethren in Scotland at the same time in several Books he caused to be printed discovering that the Scottish Faction that so much abhorred Popery proceeded in this Sedition upon the worst of Popish principles and practises And that this Godly League which was so much applauded by the people was a Combination of men acting over those Trayterous Bloody and Jesuitical Maximes of Mariana Suarez Sa Bellarmine which all good people abhorred Adding that those very persons that instructed the poor populary to quarrel with their Sovereign about Liberty should as it followed afterwards lay a more unsupportable slavery upon them than their most impious slanders could form in the imagination of the Credulous that they might fear from the King The power God had invested him with he intreated the King to own and the ways the Laws of God and the Land allowed him to maintain that power to make use of employing all the able men that pretended to skill either in Law or Government to see if Prerogative had any way yet left to save an unwilling People for knowing how prevailing the Seditious were always to disturb the Counsels of the Parliament he feared that from their proceedings the common Enemies would be encouraged as formerly to higher Insolencies and the envious Demagogues would contemn their own safety to ruine the Kings Honor therefore giving vigorous Orders for raising the Ship-money and a great Example towards Advancing a Benevolence subscribing himself 20000 l. and procuring the Subscription of 500000 l. from the Church the Court the City and Countrey besides some thousands by Compositions with Papists especially in Stafford-shire Lancashire York-shire c. and by Forfeitures observed by him in London Derry and other places held by Patent from His Majesty When he saw a Faction by the diligence of the Kings enemies and the Security and Treason of his pretended Friends who made it their business to perswade His Majesty that there was no danger so long until there was no safety formed into Councels and drawn up into Armies when he saw one Kingdom acting in open Rebellion and another countenancing and inclining to it when he discovered a Correspondence between the Conclave of Rome and the Cardinal of France between the King of France and the Rebels of Scotland between the Leaders of the Scottish Sedition and the Agents of the English Faction one Pickering Laurence Hampden Fines c. being observed then to pass to and fro between the English and the Scottish Brethren and saw Letters signed with the Names though as some of them alledged since without the consent of the Five Members c. when the Government in Church and State was altered the Kings Ships Magazines Revenue Forts and faithful Servants were seized on the Orders of State and Worship of God were affronted by a barbarous multitude that with sticks stools and such other instruments of Fury as were present disturbed all religious and civil Conventions and the Kings Agents Hamilton Traquair and Roxborough pleased no doubt with the Commotions they at first raised and by new though secret seed of Discontents improved increased the Tumults by a faint Opposition which they might have allayed by vigorous punishments all the Declarations that were drawn in the Kings Name being contrived so as to overthrow his Affairs In a word when he saw that the Traytors were got into the Kings Bed-chamber Cabinets Pockets and Bosom and by false representation of things had got time to consolidate their Conspiracy and that the Kings Concessions to their bold Petition about the Liturgy the High-Commission the Book of Canons and the â—ive
the affections of the Irish Subjects from the subjection of England Sixthly That they had agreed together to draw away the Subjects of Scotland from the King Seventhly That to preserve himself and the said Earl he had laboured to subvert the Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament in Ireland An Impeachment they drew that they might confine him but prosecuted not lest they should shame themselves but permitting him to go whither he would they waited the event of things and when that fell out much beyond their expectation they adventured to condemn him unheard In all their Treaties with his Majesty inserting Sir George Ratcliffe that Mr. Hampden said was one of the most dangerous men that adhered to the King for one that they would have utterly excluded Pardon The main instance whereby they intended to render him odious was doubtless his severity to the Children and Relations of those that came under the lash as disaffected to the Government but since Proles est pars parentis and one part of the body suffereth for the offences of the other the hand steals the feet are stocked the tongue forswears the ears are cut off it is thought conâ—istent with Divine Justice and necessary for humane prudence to correct the Children with the Parents that those people that are so hardy as to adventure their own Concerns for the disturbance of the Publick may yet be fearful of troublesome practises with regard to the Interest of their Innocent Children those Pledges Common-wealths have that men will be quiet When he had privately detected the Conspiracious laid open the Plots and taken off many Instruments of the Faction he died Anno 165. ... Leaving these remarques behinde him 1. That with Tamerlain he never bestowed place on a man that was over-ambitious for it 2. That he feared more the committing than the discovery of an Irregularity That he gave away to Charitable Uses a tenth of what he got that he loved a Grave rather than a gawdy Religion often using Tully's saying of the Roman Lady in reference some practices of the Roman Church that she danced better than became a modest Woman Being dead in the lower part of his body of a Palsie as we are informed his Soul retired to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Upper-room of his Clay Cottage as much employed in Contemplation the latter end of his Life as he had been in action in the beginning Ne Ingentes Augustissimi viri ruinae etiam Perirent Memoriae G. Ratcliffe Equitis Aurati D. D. C. Q. L. M. E. M. Monumentum saltem chartaceum ne desideret vir ultra Marmora perrenandus THE Life and Death OF DOCTOR POTTER Lord Bishop of Carlisle IN a time when this Kingdom flourished with Magnificent Edifices the Trade of the Nation had brought the Wealth of the Indies to our doors Learning and all good Sciences were so cherished that they grew to Admiration and many Arts of the Ancients buried and forgotten by time were revived again no Subjects happier though none less sensible of their Happiness Security increasing the Husband mans stock and Justice preserved his Life the poor might Reverence but needed not fear the Great and the Great though he might despise yet could not injure his more obscure Neighbor and all things were so administred that they seemed to conspire to the Publick good except that they made our Happiness too much the cause of our Civil Commotions and brought our Felicity to that height that by the necessity of humane Affairs that hath placed all things in motion it must necessarily decline At this happy time thus happily expressed by Dr. Perrinchiefe and Dr. Bates it was that I will not say the City of London for the better part of it abhorred it but to phrase the Men the Lord Digby's way I know not what 15000 Londoners all that could be got to subscribe complained in a Petition that Trade was obstructed Grievances increased Patents and Monopolies multiplied meerly because of the Bishops who were looked upon as the Great Grievance of the Kingdom in somuch that this Doctor who was born in a Puritane place at Westmester within the Barony of Kendal in Westmerland in Puritane times when that party guided Affairs 1578. Bred under a Puritane School-Master one Mr. Maxwell at School in the place where he was born and under a Puritane Tutor in Queens Colledge in Oxford and looked upon as so great a Puritane in King Iames his time that they would say in jest that the noise of an Organ would blow him out the Church and therefore he was called tho Puritanical Bishop though his love to Musick no doubt was as great as his Skill and his Skill so good that he could bear a part in it yet because he was a Bishop he was slighted when he came to London as Iuke warm and forsaken as Popish that had been so followed formerly as the most godly and powerful Preacher He had been a great Tutor at Queens where he had learned to train others by the Discipline he had undergone himself insomuch that when Bishop 33 Eminent Divines Lawyers Physicians and Statesmen formerly his Pupils waited on him together for his blessing He managed prudently as he was chosen into it unexpectedly and unanimously when an hundred miles off the Government and Provostship of that Colledge Vbi se ferebat Patrem-familia providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He resigned it self-denyingly judging that his Northern charge had more need of him as an able and skilful Minister than Queens Colledge as a Provost The meek and humble man looked not for Preferment yea avoided it with an hearty nolo Episcopari And his gracious Master King Charles unexpectedly when he was buried in his Living and resolvedly when there was a considerable Competition and not an inconsiderable opposition saying He would consider his old Servant and the good man whom he liked the better for being a man of few words but a sweet Preacher called at Court The Ponetential Preacher for being peaceable in his practice though singular in his Opinion and being not humorsome though precise having the severe strictness though not the sower leaven of the Pharisees His gracious Master not so much honoring him as he did the Function and that age in the freedom of his Noble and unsought for choice The man being so exemplary in his carriage that several Recusants that could not go with him to Church yet conversed much with him Because said they they would go with him to Heaven So good a Master of his Family that his House was a Church where Family-duties constant Prayers Catechizing reading Scriptures Expounding godly Conference speaking to one another in Psalms and Spiritual Hymns were performed so regularly and so constantly that hundreds left their distant Habitations to be near him though all accommodations about him were so much the dearer as his Neighborhood was the more precious It was as great a happiness
equal the greatness of your power That we who are the Servants to the great and mighty God may hand in hand triumph in the glory which this action presents unto us Now because the Islands which you govern have been very famous for the unconquered strength of their shipping I have sent this my trusty Servant and Embassadour to know whether in your Princely Wisdom you shall think fit to assist me with such forces by Sea as shall be answerable to those I provide by Land which if you please to grant I doubt not but the Lord of Hosts will protect and assist those that fight in so glorious a cause Nor ought you to think this strange that I who much reverence the peace and accord of Nations should exhort to a War Your great Prophet Christ Iesus was the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah as well as the Lord and giver of Peace must always appear with the terrour of his Sword and wading through Seas of blood must arrive to tranquillity This made James your Father of glorious memory so happily renowned amongst all Nations It was the noble fame of your Princely vertues which resounds to the utmost corners of the Earth that perswaded me to invite you to partake of that blessing wherein I boast my self most happy I wish God may heap riches of his blessings on you increase your happiness with your daies and hereafter perpetuate the greatness of your name in all Ages Virtues that had they been sweetned with little circumstances such as theirs are who observe some minute wayes of obliging and not reall solid and grand actions had pleased the world while he lived as they astonished it since he was dead he aimed at the general good of the Commonwealth and therefore he was not carefull to be plausible to particular persons verifying that maxime That Ordinary Princes are applauded but Heroick ones not understood Virtues that make it an Impertinence to tell the world that he was temperate eating for health not luxury and drinking wine mingled with water excepting when he eat Venison concluding the greatest entertainment with a glass of water beer and wine seldome drinking between meals that his Recreations were manly and sober Chesse Books Limning excellent Discourse and Hunting being the most usuall of them and that his private converse was free and ingenious witness his answer to a Presbiterian Minister who inquired for Captain Titus a person very well-deserving of him and his son that he wondred after so unhappy a discourse about Timothy he would look for Titus these being the inconsiderable Circumstances of his great goodness VIII A King so religious that his devotion in the Church when young was equal to his gallantry at Court his mind being no more softned and debauched by his fortune than his body a devotion not Popular nor Pompous but sollid and secret filling his Soul as God doth the world silently his Soul being wrapped up in his Prayer not to be disturbed either by the best or worst accident that could happen A Devotion to which he made his pleasure witness his constant calling for Prayers before Hunting though before day and his business witness his ordering of Prayers to be made to God before he Ingaged the Rebels at Brentford valuing his duty before his safety whereupon his private Prayers in restraint were admired by his Enemies and his constant attendance on and hast to Divine Service whereever he was by his friends At Bishop Lauds request he came to Church in the beginning of Divine Service to prevent any interuption might happen in the publick Devotion and of his own accord he continued to the end to avoid all Contempt of it Where his eye was in the beginning of Sermon there it was in the end his attendance edifying as much by the Example as the Preacher did by his Doctrine The established way of the Church of England was his profession not so much by Education as by Choice not as a profession he liked but understood the best in the world Nothing more usuall than to defame him and others for Inclination to Popery for to the great shame of our Profession and honour of the Roman all the Reason Order Discipline Laws and Religion that was in the world was then reckoned Popish and yet nothing rendred him a more conspicuous Protestant than the late Rebellion wherein besides his Constancy in Spain against the temptations of that Court the sollicitations of the Pope and the restless Importunities of Priests and Fryers he added these Arguments of his sincerity in Religion viz. That in his private Indearments to the Queen when he had most need of her assistance he saith Religion was the only thing in difference between them And in his Legacy to his Children he bequeatheth them not only Bishop Andrews Sermons and Mr. Hookers Policy that might confirm them in the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church but Arch-bishop Lauds book against Fisher the greatest and strongest Argument and Antidote against the Romists insomuch that if the faction had not overthrown his Government the Papists as appears by Habernefields discovery had ruined his Person as afterwards many of them obstructed his Restauration and his Sons for no other reason but that he was Heir of his Fathers Faith as well as his Throne Religion had the whole power of his soul as he should have had of his subjects whom he desired no further subject to him than he was to God How tender his Conscience that was resolved as he injoyned the most Reverend Father in God G. now Arch-bishop of Canterbury then his Chaplain if ever he saw him in prosperity to put him in mind of it to do publick Pennance for consenting to the E. of Strafford's death a deep sence of which action went with him to his grave and to the injuries done the Church in England and Scotland How careful his heart in that when the Commissioners at the Isle of Wight urged him to allow the lesser Catechism of the Assembly that being they said but a small matter he said Though it seem to you a small matter yet I had rather part with the choicest flower in my Crown than permit your Children to be corrupted in the least point of their Religion How great his Integrity when the Commissioners urged the abolishing of Episcopacy in England because he had consented to the abolishing of it in Scotland and it was replyed That in Scotland the Act made to that purpose in the minority of King Iames was not repealed and that his consenting to that was only leaving them where the Law left them He said That Reply was true but it was not all for the truth is they are his own words and tell them so the next time they urge that When I did that in Scotland I sinned against my Conscience and I have often repented of it and I hope God hath forgiven me that great sin and by Gods grace for no consideration in the World will
Imprisoned and Impeached for the peoples sake in spight of the peoples teeth both those that were at first against him being undeceived and those that were always for him indeed the whole Nations of England and Scotland venturing their lives to rescue the King when he was imprisoned in their name accused for shedding their bloud when they were killed by their fellow Subjects because they desired to save his A King that saw a Parliament accuse him of Breach of Priviledges when he came but to demand five men suspected for holding Intelligence with a Forraign Nation and yet the same Parliament suffer tamely its own Army to pull out by the ears more than half of the best Members that remained there for promoting the peace of their and Vote it the Priviledge of the Subjects to make tumults from all parts of the kingdom about Westminster to fright King and Bishops from the Parliament and a Breach of their Priviledge for the same people in throngs there from as many parts of the kingdom to Petition the return of the one and the other He from whom they extorted so much liberty in pretence for the Subject had neither liberty for himself being confined to hard Prisons and harder Limitations and Propositions nor for the Subjects who had they injoyed their own freedom had never endured his captivity He that could not deny the kingdom a Free-Parliament consisting of above an hundred Lords Spiritual and Temporal and five hundred Commons lived to see that very Parliament Exclude all its Lords and Reduce the five hundred Commons to thirty who in the name of the people when there was not one in five thousand of them but would have ventured his life against it threaten his life whom they had sworn when they entred that House to defend prepare to judge him who called them there to consult with them talk as if they would put a period to his days who gave them their being little dreaming that while they aimed at his Royal Neck they cut off their own for what is a Parliament called to advise with the King if there be no King to advise with He must be tried in whose name all others are tried by that Law himself hath made by those people that had sworn protested and covenanted with hands lift up to the most high God in publick and pawned their souls and all that they had privately to restore him whose only fault was that he went from that Parliament that murdered him when he returned to them Riddles Cromwell Whaley Ireton c. and the Army weep and grieve but the Hiena weeps when it intends to devour at the hard conditions the Houses put upon him and the Houses are displeased with the Armies hard usage of him and yet both ruin him the one bringing him to the Block and holding him there by the Hair of the Head and the other cutting off his Head The Scots durst not trust the Cavaliers with him nor the Houses the Scots nor the Army a King at lowest advanceth that party where he is though a prisoner the Houses nor the Juncto all the Army nor N. the Juncto being never safe till he put his finger into the Royal Neck to see after execution whether the head were really severed from the body All the quarrel was that the Cavaliers kept the King from the Parliament and the meaning of it it seems was That they kept him from the Block A Prince they destroyed that they durst not despise all the Grandees in the Army not daring to own the least murtherous thoughts towards him publickly when they set Agitators i. e. two active Souldiers out of every Regiment in the Army now modelled into such desparate Sects and Villanies to consult about the horrid Fact in private and to draw a bloudy Paper as the Agreement of the people which was but a conspiracy of Traitors Cromwell assuring the King as he had a soul that he should be restored And his Son Ireton at the same time Drawing up a Remonstrance that he should dye The Army treat him like a Prince and that they might deceive his devout soul the more securely allow him the service of his Chaplains and the Liberty of his Conscience the greatest injoyments left him in this world with a design the more successfully to use him like a Traitor Ah brave Prince that none durst have abused had they owned what they design whom the Houses had saved had they not been Cajoled by the Army and the Army had it not been Cajoled by the Houses The King granted too much saith Sir H. V. to him at the Isle of Wight and too little saith the same man to the Houses and the King must dye when whatsoever they asked they meant his life If the Tears Prayers Petitions Treasures or Bloud of the Nation if the intercession of forraign Princes if the importunity of all the good Relations that these Regicides had whereof one pressed hard on O. C. himself though without effect whence ever after he disowned his Relation and Name if the endeavours of Loyal souls to do that justice upon the Traitors that durst judge their King as one Burghill on Bradshaw as soon as he heard he was to be President who if not betrayed by his friend Cook had died the Villains robes in his own bloud before he could have done it in the Kings If the great Overtures of the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and the Marquiss of Hertford to ransom their Soveraign all ways imaginable even with their own bloud Offering that as they his Servants did all that was done under him so he as King being capable of doing no wrong they might suffer all for him If the horror that seized all Princes of the world Turkish and Heathenish as well as Christian upon the news of it with the hatred and scandal thence arising to the English Nation if the dissent of the Lords and all other persons of any quality that went along with them till now and had never suffered this to have happened the King but that by the just hand of God as bad had happened them that very Army that they imployed to turn his Majesty out of his just Power pulled them out of their usurped one If the Declarations of their own Judges if the strong Prayers and Sermons that could raise Armies against his Majesty indeavouring to advance the like for him if the Rational Pathetick and Powerful Remonstrances from all parts of the kingdom if the pressing of their own Oaths the scandal of Religion the ruin of the Nation if any Laws or Presidents had been of force to have prevented this Crimen post homines natos inauditum it had been only a Theory in some male-content Jesuits melancholy Chamber of Meditation and not the subject of this Book But stay Reader and take that Treason in the retail of it that thou art amazed at in the gross See a King having treated at the
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
Articles of Perth were but Encouragements to put up bolder finding that Force could obtain that which Modesty and Submission had never compassed and imputing all kindness to the Kings Weakness rather than Goodness His apprehensions in that affairs were as they were taken at Councel-Table-Debates about that business to this purpose In general after the Delivery of a Paper consisting of twenty seven Heads at Councel Board Dec. 5. 1639. against the Kings Indulgence to them he voted that they were to be Reduced by force being a people as his Majesty observed of them lost by favors and won by punishments in an Offensive War that would he would pawn his head on it put a period to all the Troubles in five moneths whereas a Defensive War will linger many years In particular Advising the setting up of the Commission of Array and Amassing a gallant Army for Honor and Service consisting of 24000 Foot 12000 Horse and 2000 Volunteers Lords and Gentlemen that brought the Scots to a Submission and Pacification such as it was which the Scots falsifying and breaking obtruding false Articles and observing none of the true ones he considering that they who had broken the Peace out of a desire of War would never leave the War out of a desire of Peace but would have if not rendred unable as well as unwilling as constant fits of Rebellion as they had of lusts or want advised the calling of a Parliament the most Authentick way of managing the Government Freeely saying in Councel That he knew a Parliament if but rightly tempered was so able to settle these Distractions that if he were sure to be the first man that should be ruined by it he would advice the Calling of it Altered the Model of the Army discharging the Hunting Lords as they were then called and recommending the Right Honorable and Well-beloved Earl of Northumberland General himself undertaking the place of Lieutenant General not doubting to chase the Rebels to use his own words in two moneths had not the Lord Conway whether out of design or weakness not yet decided disheartned the Army by the unsuccessfulness and indiscretion of his first Encounter and the English Lords prevented the Victory by a Petition for Peace and a Parliament to the King whose tenderness of his Subjects blood and prudence not to sully his glory with an unequal Combate would not permit him to fight when the gains of a Victory could not ballance the hazard of attempting it His Advices against the Faction were prudent and the Remedies seasonable 1. The exploding of their Doctrine when urged by some men whose compliance with the factious way was called Moderation in their own and the discovering of their practices in the Examen Conjurationis Scoticae Or The ungirding of the Scots Armor the Authour his servant and the thing his design to let the world see what it afterwards felt 2. Bringing all the Scots in Ireland to declare against the dangerous Covenant of Scotland 3. Making the loyal and ready Assistance of the Parliament of Ireland in 39. a president for that of England in 40. 4. And returning as seasonably to lay open their pretences and obviate their reaches in Treaties as he had done their Plot in Parliaments willing enough to hear of a present Peace but more willing to provide a future Security saying He could pardon but not trust a Scot. He managed his Army as Lieutenant General as if he had been ready to fight them and yet he ordered his Advices as if he were willing to close with them As they judged it their best way to ask with their Sword in their hands so thought he it the most expedient method to answer them so Since though God never intrusted Subjects with the Sword to obtain their priviledges yet he did Kings with it to awe to duty He knew what he did when he commanded the Governors of Barwick and Carlile to watch the Invaders on the Borders at the same time that he looked to them in Councels where he was resolved they should not obtain that by a Pacification that they could not hope for by a Battel perswading His Majesty to examine the Conspiracy to the bottom before he composed it lest the skinned Sore might rankle To which purpose he would deal with the Tumult not joyntly and all together where they were bold and reserved but singly and one by one for in that capacity Rebels are fearful and open though it was not then possibly so advised a saying yet it hath appeared since to be a very faithful and useful one that he hasting into England out of Ireland as they did out of Scotland should say upon the Delivery of his Sword If ever I return to this Honorable Sword I shall not leave of the Scots Faction neither Root nor Branch As Sylla said of Caesar there are many Marius'es in that Boy so he would say of this Conspiracy when low there are many Villanies in this Plot. He could endure as little the petulancy of the Scots as they could his prudence and Government When they having leavied Men and Mony seized the Kings Magazines and strong Holds raised Forts begirt his Castles affronted his Proclamations summoned Assemblies proclaimed Fasts deprived and excommunicated Bishops abolished Episcopacy issued out Warrants to choose Parliament Commissioners appealed from the King to the people trampled on Acts of Parliament discharged Counsellors and Judges of their Allegiance confirmed all this by a League and Covenant swearing to do what otherwise they would not have done that their consciences might oblige them to do that because they had sworn which because not lawful to be done was not lawful to be sworn He leavied Men and Money disarmed the Irish and Scots secured his Garrisons and Ports had an Army ready to serve His Majesty and five Subsidies to maintain it and confirmed all with an Oath imposed to abjure that Covenant He returns in 39. after five moneths absence having done as much as had been done in five score years before towards the reducing of the Natives of Ireland to the civility trade and plenty of England and disposing their Revenue so as to repay England the charge it had been at with Ireland when Walsingham wished it one great Bogge Neither was he less careful of the Churches Doctrine than Discipline forbidding the Primate's obtruding the Calvinists School points for Articles of Faith and in stead of the Polemick Articles of the Church of Ireland to recieve the positive plain and orthodox Articles of the Church of England neither admitting high Questions nor countenancing the men that promoted them aiming at a Religion that should make men serious rather than curious honest rather than subtile and men lived high but did not talk so equally disliking the Trent Faith consisting of Canons Councels Fathers c. that would become a Library rather than a Catechism and the Scots Confessions consisting of such School Niceties as would fill a mans large
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
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
I do so again Neither was he thus exceedingly religious as a man only but as a King Neither was Religion only his private Devotion but his publick Government wherein he aimed at 1. The peace of the Church wherein those parts and abilities that he saw lost in malice and dissentions might be very useful to the promoting of Religion and Godliness And 2. the honour maintenance and splendour of the Church For the first of which he consulted sufficiently in his favours to Arch-bishop Laud Bishop Neile Bishop Iuxon For the second by his endeavour to recover the Patrimony of the Church in England Ireland and Scotland where his religious intentions gave occasion to their rebellion who rather than they would part with their private sacrileges resolved on the publick ruine And for the third by his great charge in the repair of St. Pauls and other places To say nothing of his godly resolution to buy all Lands and Tythes alienated from the Church with his own Estate by such degrees as his other expences would give him leave the greatest testimonies of a design to make Religion as universal of his Empire next those from his own mouth First Before God The Kings Protestation at Christ-Church when he was to receive the Sacrament at the Bishop of Armaghs hands MY Lord I espy here many resolved Protestants who may declare to the World the resolution I now do make I have to the utmost of my power prepared my Soul to become a worthy receiver and so may I receive comfort by the blessed Sacrament as I do intend the establishment of the true Protestant Religion as it stood in its beauty in the happy daies of Queen Elizabeth without any connivance of Poperie I bless God that in the midst of these publick distractions I have still liberty to communicate and may this Sacrament be my damnation if my heart do not joyn with my lips in this protestation Secondly Before the VVorld The Kings Declaration to the Reformed Churches CHARLES By the special providence of Almighty God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To all those who profess the true Reformed Protestant Religion of what Nation condition and degree soever they be to whom this present Declaration shall come Greeting Whereas We are given to understand that many false rumours and scandalous Letters are spread up and down amongst the Reformed Churches in foreign parts by the politick or rather the pernicious industry of some ill affected persons that We have an inclination to recede from that Orthodox Religion which We were born baptized and bred in and which We have firmly professed and practised through the whole course of Our Life to this moment And that We intend to give way to the introduction and publick exercise of Popery again in Our Dominions Which conjecture or rather most detestable calumny being grounded upon no imaginable foundation hath raised these horrid Tumults and more than Barbarous Wars throughout these flourishing Islands under a pretext of a kind of Reformation which would not prove only incongruous but incompatible with the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this our Kingdom We desire that the whole Christian World should take notice and rest assured that we never entertained in our imagination the least thought to attempt such a thing or to depart a jot from that Holy Religion which when we received the Crown and Scepter of this Kingdome we took a most Solemn Sacramentall Oath to Profess and Protect Nor doth our most constant Practice and daily visible Presence in the Exercise of this sole Religion with so many asseverations in the head of our Armies and in the publick attestation of our Lords with the circumspection used in the education of our Royall Offspring besides divers other undeniable arguments only demonstrate this but also that happy Alliance of Marriage we Contracted between our eldest Daughter and the Illustrious Prince of Aurange most clearly confirmes the realty of Our intentions herein by which Nuptial engagement it appears further that Our endeavours are not only to make a bare profession thereof in Our own Dominions but to enlarge and coroborate it abroad as much as lyeth in Our power This most holy Religion with the Hierarchy and Liturgy thereof We solemnly protest that by the help of Almighty God We will endeavour to Our utmost power and last period of Our life to keep entire and immoveable and will be careful according to Our duty to Heaven and the tenour of the aforesaid most saCRed Oath at Our Coronation that all Our Ecclesiasticks in their several Stations and Incumbencies shall preach and practice the same Thirdly Before the Kingdom The Kings Declaration and Protestation before the whole Kingdom I Do promise in the presence of Almighty God and as I hope for his blessing and protection that I will to the utmost of my power defend and maintain the true Reformed and Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and by the grace of God in the same will live and dye I desire to govern by the known Laws of the Land and that the liberty and propriety of the Subject may be by them preserved with the same care as mine own just Rights And if it please God by his blessing upon this Army raised for my necessary defence to preserve me from this Rebellion I do solemnly and faithfully promise in the sight of God to maintain the just privilege and freedome of Parliament and to govern by the known Laws of the Land to my utmost power and particularly to observe inviolably the Laws consented unto by me this Parliament In the mean while if this time of War and the great necessity and straits I am now driven unto beget any violation of these I hope it shall be imputed by God and man to the Authors of this War and not to me who have so earnestly laboured for the peace of this Kingdom When I willingly fail in these particulars I will expect no aid or relief from any man or protection from Heaven But in this resolution I hope for the chearful assistance of all good men and am confident of Gods blessing Sept. 19. The Result of all which Holy Designs was these his own brave words viz. Though I am sensible enough of the danger that attends my Care of the Church yet I am resolved to defend it or make it my Tombestone A Prince of so much resolution and conduct that as he feared not a private man lodging Hamilton in his own Chamber all that time he was accused by Rey of Treason and saying to those that admired his confidence That Hamilton should know he as little feared his power as he distrusted his Loyalty and that he durst not notwithstanding the advantages of Night and solitariness attempt his life because he was resolved to sell it so dear It was his goodness that he desired not war and his fortune that he prospered not in it but his
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
him as one of the four Brittish Divines to Dort where his weak body agreeing not with the unquietness of those Garrisoned Towns after some pathetick Speeches and motions for accommodation after the expedient called Sintentia 4. Theol. Brit. for reconciliation and the Elegant Latine Sermon the night before he preached which he was wonderfully refreshed and enlivened beyond what he had been a moneth before for Peace he retired first to my Lord Ambassador Carletons at the Hague and with his Majesties leave Dr. Goad being substituted in his place to England taking his farewell of the Synod in these words Non facile vero mecum in gratiam redierit Cadaverosa haec moles quam aegre usque circum gesto quae mihi hujus conventus celebritatem toties inviderit jamque prorsus invitissimum a vobis Importune avocat divellit neque enim ullus est sub coalo locus aeque coalis aemulus in quo tentorium mihi figi malverim cujusque adeo gestiet mihi animus meminisse Beatos vero vos quibus hoc frui datur non dignus eram ego ut fidelissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat qui Christi ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem illud vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nempe audito quod res erat non alia me quam adversissima hic usum valetudine serenissimus rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quod cineres meos aut sandapylam nihil vobis prodesse norit succentariavitque mihi virum e suis selectissimum quantum Theologum De me profecto mero jam silicernio quicquid fiat viderit ille Deus meus cujus ego totes sum vobis quidem ita faeliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud Parum gratulemini cum hujusâ—odi instructissimo succedaneo caetum hunc vestrum beaverit Neque tamen committam 〈◊〉 Deus mihi vitam vires indulserit ut Corpore simul animo abesse videar Interea sane huic Synodo ubicunque terrarum sim vobis constliis conatibusque meis quibuscunque res vâ—stras me pro virili sedulo ac serio promoturum sancte voveo Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Legati Reverendissime praeses gravissimi assessores scribae doctissimi symmystae Colendissimi tibique venerandissima Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternum valedico Rogovos omnes obnixius ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere comitari prosequi velitis Though yet surviving all his Colleagues and living to see them and the whole Synod charged with a pre-ingagement by Oath to Vote down the Remonstrants and living likewise to vindicate them with the States and Princes that deputed them who had deserved well of him the President and Assistants waiting upon him by publick Vote the Deputies of the States by Daniel Hensâ—us with acknowledgement of his service in a Golden Medal containing the Pourtraict of the Synod These were his publick employments neither were his private less eminent 1. His Theses at Cambridge when Batchelor and Doctor of Divinity as seasonably chosen as prudently asâ—erted against the Adversaries of our Doctrine and of our Discipline 2. His Meditations and Sermons plausible at the Princes Court that failed and at the Earl of Carlisles that stood by him 3. His Letters and Resolutions that setled so many eminent Persons and obliged more solid and witty 4. His accorded truths upon the Dutch quarrel which we composed there raised here after Mr. Mountagues Books which expressed Overall rather than Arminius and the sidings in Press Pulpits and Parliaments thereupon out of Bishop Overall and our Divines at Dorts propositions shewing that these parties mistaked rather than mis-believed so reasonable that being presented to his Majesty Charles I. by Dr. Young the worthy Dean of Winchester with a Petition to confine the Debates thereof in their University and silence them in the Church Mr. Mountague offered to subscribe them on the one hand and most Anti-monstrants English Scottish and French on the other 5. His prudent assertion That when as the Papists urge us where our Church was before Luther and we produce witnesses of itâ— in every age with some disadvantage since our Church is not another from theirs but the same more Reformedâ— the Church of Rome is an ancient and true Church only it hath new Errors an assertion which with his former expedient exposed him so far to the zeal of narrow-sighted men that an Apologetical advertisement a rational reconciler backed by Bishop Mortor Bishop Davenant Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Primroses unquestionable testimony and his own moderation in silencing all the Writers of both sides as there were indeed to lay hold of any Controversie in order to the publick disturbance were little enough to allay the jealousie of his Lukewarmness and abatement of former zeal when alas he was only grown older and so wiser especially since it was but a little before that he was made Bishop of Exeter having refused Glocester where Providence setled him 1. By the delay of the Duke of Buckinghams Letter which coming two hours sooner had defeated him 2. By the unthought of Addition of the R. of St. Breock to a poor Bishoprick 3. By a prudent resolution put into his heart notwithstanding the spies laid upon him the jealousie entertained of him The expostulating Letters and wary Cautions sent to him his contests with Lords his three purgations of himself from some envious suggestions upon his knees before his Majesty in so much that he declared that be would be a Bishop no longer while so liable to mis informations to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of his new and divided charge winning the misguded encouraging the painful and corresponding so fairly withall his numerous Clergy who submitted to all anciently received Orders but two that fled from censure 6. His successful Letter to the House of Commons about their delay of supply and misapprehensions 7. His happy unanimity within his charge till the last year he was there when some factious Neighbor unkindly undermined him in the choice of Convocation-men for the Convocation 1639. only desiring to recommend grave persons to their Election leaving them to their freedom of choice and they polling to his face for persons he heard not of though he carryed it and at his return home was nobly welcomed by hundreds of the Diocesse which that year by his Majesties special favor he exchanged for that of Norwich which his prudent management of the former of Exceter wherein he miscarried only in some inadverted expressions which yet he submitted to the Churches censure and in an over-credulous Charity whereby yet he designed the Kingdoms peace First his motion to the Archbishop for a General Counsel of his Majesties three Kingdoms to shame the Scottish insolence and the English pretences against Episcopacy
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
in the world one in most great Actions from 1624. to 1645. to accomplish himself for the service of his own Country where he was Governor of Litchfield Staffordshire keeping with Col. Lanâ— Sir Richard Bagot Dr. Bird and my Lord Loughborough that Country in good order by suppressing the Moor-Lander though as envy always must be expected if it will not be surprised by worth most men supposing their Bayes to wither if others flourish some found fault with his Actions because they did them not themselves which he indured being used to hardship having not eaten his bread nor fasted neither in one place He was slain at Nazeby Harvy Bagot of Parkhall Warwick Esq paid 600l Composition 12. Col. Henry Tillier one of those eminent Commanders brought over by Prince Rupert from the Palatinate zealous for Religion and therefore might be called as well as Robert Fitzwalter Marshall of Gods Army and holy Church worth will not long want a Master his judgement was much relied on in the Relief of Newark in the ordering of Marston-moor fight where with Major General Porter he was taken Prisoner in the siege of Bristol at the Delivery whereof he Vavasor and Mynne drew up the Articles as he did those of Oxford taking as many of the Garrison as would be Listed into pay under him for the French service as the Spanish Ambassador did for the Spanish 13. Col. Robert and Col. Sir Edward Broughton the last of whom did his Majesty Knight service in Cheshire and Newark 1645. 1646. at Worcester 1651. being one of the few Loyal Subjects that appeared there in Cheshire 1659. with the Lord Booth for which he was long Imprisoned in the Gatehouse whereof he was afterwards Keeper woing the Widow whose Prisoner he was and in the Seaâ—fight 1665. between us and the Dutch with his Highness the Duke of York where he valiantly lost his life scorning to fall though in effect killed and in his stubborn way blundring out Commands when he could not speak them 14. Col. Sir Arthur Blainey and Col. Iohn Blainey bred in Ireland and after he had lost his arm in Anglesea a with success shewed it depended not on Valour 1648. killed there The first the plainer man and greater Souldier the second the faster man and deeper Politician whom his own Country cry up for such a man that it will be a question hereafter whether ever there was such a man When invited thither by the Right Honorable Lord Buckley an eminent Gentleman for his Majesty in Northwales basely murdered by one Chedle of the other side 15. Sir Fulke Hunkes an old Souldier from Ireland whose Valor was attended with such meekness that upon all occasions the biass of his inclination did still hang 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he took as much pains to bring over his old acquaintance on the other side by perswasions and Letters as to conquer them by force And indeed so weighty his overtures that qui deliberarun desâ—iverunt they that came to themselves and considered came over to him and revolted 16. Sir R. Leveson of Frentham Staff who with 360 l. per annum setled paid 6000 l. composition a great instance of Commines his rule that they who have the art to please the people have power to raise them He prevented all jealousies of his Majesties proceedings much more complaints doing what the people about desired before they desired it being very tender in bestowing Commands and Trusts since no man is served with a greater prejudice than he that employs suspected Instruments Coll. Tho. Leveson a Gentleman fearless of death always and yet always prepared for it that never begged or bought Command winning all he wore Governour of Dudley which he held till May 13. 1646. 17. Sir Tho. Dallison a Lancashire Gentleman of great service in Prince Ruperts Brigade whose Loyalty cost him his life at Nazeby and 12000 l. in his Estate being one of those noble persons whose too much courage as Buchanan saith in all defeats of the Scots was the reason they were conquered and their pursuing their Enemies too far the cause of their being beaten by them 18. Sir Richard Crane bred in the Palatinate serving the Prince Elector with whose son Prince Rupert he came over 1642. to serve his own Soveraign a Gentleman very careful against all ill opinions of his courage or prudence knowing that if the Enemy over-awed or over-reached him they for ever after had his measure Slain at a sally out of Bristol 1645. Be it here remembred that the Worshipful Iohn Crane Esq of Lorton Bucks paid 1080 l. composition 19. Coll. Anthony Eyre Coll. Rowland Eyre and Sir Gervase Eyre Robert Eyre of West Cabfield Wilts Esq hazzarded their lives and spent above 40000 l. in his Majesties Service commended not only by their side which may be partial but by their Enemies who cannot be suspected so for commanding their looks words and actions yea their very dress garb and accent as well as the pretenders by a rule and watching shrewdly in all Skirmishes the advantage of Ground Wind and Sun each singly considerable but little less than an Army when all put together 20. Coll. Cockram an Agent well versed in the humors and intriguies of the Danish Polish Swedish and other Northern Courts whence he procured considerable supplies both for England and Scotland reducing the former Leagues of those Crowns to more exact particulars with reference to the present state of his Majesties affairs 21. Coll. Edward Hammond Coll. Francis and Iohn Heath all astive in Colchester 22. Coll. Sandys slain at Alford Hampshire besides there were in the service of the name Coll. H. Sandys of St. Michaels Bedw Worcest 1400 l. Sir Martin Sandys Coll. Robert Sandys Coll. Sam. Sandys of Vmbersâ—â— Worcest Esq 1445 l. and Sir Tho. Sandys the first of whom would usually rise out of his bed dress him open the doors walk round about the field fight now striking now defending himself and return to bed not wakened the second for parentage person grace gesture valour and many other excellent parts among which skill in Musick he was the most acceptable person in all places he came of his time except his Enemies Quarters where his person was very terrible his actions more There is a Bird which hath looks like a man which killing a man comes to the Water to drink pineth away by degrees and never after enjoyeth it self An unhappy duel was a covering to one of these Gentlemens eves all his days ever after his Conscience loathing what he had surfeited on refused all challenges with more honour than others accepted them The fourth of these Gentlemen altered the Scene of the War from Defending to Offending and from Speeches to Syllogisms of Fire and Sword gaining much goods and doing more good in shewing that the King was not deserted 23. Sir Francis and Sir William Carnaby both Gentlemen of good quality of Thornum in Northumb. 10000 l. the worse for the War The
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl