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A16906	A sermon preached at Westminster May 26. 1608 at the funerall solemnities of the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Dorset, late l. high treasurer of England by George Abbot ... ; now published at the request of some honourable persons, very few things being added, which were then cut off by the shortnesse of the time.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 38.5; ESTC S555	25,872	37

the time that his Lordship was Counsellor before that he was aduanced to that high office which afterward he bare in which time he daily shewed great diligence and sound iudgement in her weightiest affaires The last of all was that space wherein he held the roome of Lord High Treasurer of England in which place she noted the continuall and excessiue paines and care which his Lordship did take in her businesse his fidelitie in his aduices his dexterity in aduācing of her profit Thus it seemed good to that Queen of blessed memory in particul●● discourse touching her faithfull seruant This was while his Lordship liued and since his death his Maiestie that now is the most religious the most learned the most iudicious King that this land euer enioied as I haue beene aduertised from persons of high qualitie hath beene pleased diuers times to giue many excellent speeches before the Lords concerning him as his Highnesse had done formerly while this noble man did liue Heere may I not say with the Poet Principibus placuisse viris non vltima laus est To please great Princes is not the least commendation Nay I may change the verse and alter it in this fashion Principibus placuisseistis ter maxima laus est To please such Princes as these is a very great commendation And indeed these were most gracious testimonies of two such Soueraignes to their seruant who desired much to please them with loyaltie and fidelitie with vigilancie and care with industrie and diligence incredible but vnto those who did know it And neuer was there any Noble man who with more humble agnising with more feeling and affectionate gratefulnesse did entertaine the fauours of his Soueraignes than this honorable person did as may fully appeare by many w●●ds in his last will recommending to his posteritie a speciall grace of his Maiestie in sending a Ring vnto him which he wisheth his to keepe as a iewell of highest value thorowout all generations The words are worth the reading but they are too long to rehearse in this place 12 Now for other parts of morall vertues how many rare things were in him Who more louing vnto his wife that Honorable Ladie the mirrour of all true vertue It is a most worthy testimonie that he hath giuen thereof and hath left it to be recorded for those that shall come after Who more kind vnto his children and to his Grand-children Who more fast vnto his friend who more moderate to his enemy if truth were once found out and staining imputations were wiped away from the integritie of his Honor Who more true of his word It was a noble testimonie which a most Honorable personage gaue of his Lordship since his death in a right worthy assemblie that in much conuersation and concurrence in many causes of great waight and importance hee neuer heard him speake or in earnest affirme that which he found to be otherwise What noble man in our time was more giuen to hospitalite and keeping of a great house Hauing liued seuenty and two yeeres for so was his age accounted and being married more then fifty and three yeeres vnto one and the selfe same Lady he kept house for fortie and two yeeres in an honorable proportion For thirtie yeeres of those his family consisted of little lesse in one place or another than two hundred persons But for more then twentie yeeres besides workmen and other hired his number at the least hath beene two hundred and twenty daily as appeared vpon checke-rowle A very rare example in this present age of ours when house-keeping is so decaied Who more magnificent than than his Lordship in solemne entertainments as besides other particulars was manifested not long since abundantly to the world when his Maiestie with the Queene and Prince together with a great part of the Nobilitie spent diuers daies at Oxford Who was euer more desirous to doe wrong vnto none His Lordship bought no land but hee commonly paid more for it than it was worth yeelding this reason of it that it would the better prosper and continue in his name and posteritie In his Will how carefull was he that all debts should be paid yea though there were no specialty whereby it might be challenged yet if it might appeare that ought was due vnto any man his charge is to his Executors that they should giue satisfaction The like also for wrong done to any one whatsoeuer whereof he protested before the eternall Maiestie that he did not remember any And if there should grow difference betweene his Executors and any person demanding his hearty praier and desire is to the Deanes of Windsore Westminster and Pauls for so his Lordship doth ranke them to heare order and determine all controuersies depending Which if they refuse to doe which he hopeth they will not or if the partie claiming shall not obey their award he leaueth them to the ordinarie course of law but chargeth and requireth his Executors to answer them in all Courts of Iustice immediately without all delaies whatsoeuer Vnto those honorable parts I may adde a great many more As his good and charitable disposition toward his Tenants of whom ordinarily he tooke lesse fines by a third part than by other Lords is vsually accustomed and his Farmers held his Farmes as is well knowen to the world but at reasonable rents As his releefe to the poore in pinching times of dearth In the yeere 1597. which was a time of the greatest scarcitie that euer we did know his Lordship sent into Sussex of his free gift vnto six parishes store of Danske Rie bought at Billingsgate Diuers other yeeres and namely this present yeere 1608. his Lordship hath caused weekely certaine quarters of Wheat to be caried from his owne Granary at Lewes in Sussex and to be sold in the market to the poore at a farre lower rate than the price which commonly men did take And that this his Lordships bountie might continue after his death by his last Will and Testament he hath bequeathed a thousand pounds for the erecting of a Granarie at the place which last I named for the vse and benefit of poore people in those parts And two thousand pounds as a stocke for the storing of that house against times of dearth and scarcitie Vnto this he hath also ioined a thousand pounds to be bestowed on the building of a Chapell where his ancestors doe lie and where his Lordship desired that his bodie might be enterred These are fruits of a liuely faith and so must be reputed 13 But because a right beleefe and religion toward God is the highest point of all I may not heere omit to say something touching that There are arguments most euident to demonstrate vnto all men that his faith was agreeable vnto the word of God and according to the profession of the renowmed Church of England In that famous Vniuersitie of Oxford where his Lordship for more then sixteene yeeres was

he ioyed no way apparantly as neither on the other side he gaue testimonie of griefe for the death of one of his sonnes who died a very few dayes before the time of his triumph with which patience he also tooke the death of another of them within a few dayes after But albeit in all that he did beare himselfe with great constancie yet in another case hee had other cogitations For hauing ouerthrowen in battell Perseus the king of Macedonia and hauing chased him vp and downe so that there was small hope to escape Perseus writeth letters to him that he would yeeld into his hands his kingdome and his person which when Aemilius had receiued he could not stay from weeping remembring the inconstancie and mutabilitie of all states and conditions So did that noble Marcellus in his entrance into that rich citie Syracusae when he had long besieged it and at last by composition it was surrendred vnto him the teares trickled from his eyes to see so woorthy a place now brought into captiuitie Scipio another Romane when he saw the citie Carthage raced downe vnto the ground though it had beene enemie to his countrey yet could not forbeare to weepe to thinke that empires and nations were so subiect to ouerturning Thus did the grauest and wisest men that were among the olde Romans in the happiest and most glorious things that euer did befall them while they were heere amongst men Such meditations as these were would well become Gods best seruants to lay it vnto their heart that the heigth of earthly felicity being taken in it selfe is but store of the lightest vanitie Grasse is no better than grasse and flowers are no better than flowers these fade the other withereth 9 The reason of the whole now followeth The spirit of the Lord bloweth vpon it God dissolueth all at his pleasure and marke with what facilitie this matter is brought about but as with a puffe of the winde or as with the blast of the mouth That breath which made the world can marre a man in a moment The Lord sayth of himselfe I kill and I giue life I wound and I make whole neither is there any that can deliuer out of mine hand Hanna the mother of Samuel in her song remembreth this The Lord killeth and maketh aliue bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp And my Prophet in the same Chapter whence my text is taken He speaking of God bringeth the Princes to nothing and maketh the Iudges of the earth as vanitie These things teach vs the Lords power and his sway ouer men Hee setteth them in a standing place like sentinels in a watch and when he list he dischargeth them When he calleth for the greatest there is no way of auoiding there is no meanes of withdrawing there is no place for absenting there is no course of resisting And so I end this Proclamation 10 What I haue spoken all this while touching the maine of my text is verified in that spectacle which is now before our eyes which can not chuse but be vnto vs a memoriall of mortalitie For heere we are to celebrate the funerall solemnitie of an honourable personage a graue Counseller of Estate a great Officer of the Crowne a faithfull seruant vnto his Maiestie Touching whom since you expect that something should be sayd I shall draw the beginning of that which I must deliuer from a witnesse beyond all exception and that is the late Queene of euerlasting memorie Her Maiestie not long before her death being pleased as 〈◊〉 seemeth with some speciall piece of seruice which his Lordship had done vnto her grew at large to discourse touching this Noble man as an honorable person and a Counseller of Estate in writing hath aduertised me Her Highnesse was then pleased to decipher out his life by seuen steps or degrees The first was his yoonger daies the time of his scholarship when first in that famous Vniuersitie of Oxford and afterward in the Temple where he tooke the degree of Barrister he gaue tokens of such pregnancie such studiousnesse and iudgement that he was held no way inferiour to any of his time or standing And of this there remaine good tokens both in English and in Latine published vnto the world The second was his trauell when being in France and Italy he profited very much in the languages in matter of story and State whereof this Common-wealth found great benefit in his Lordships elder yeeres in the deepest consulations that belonged vnto this kingdome And being prisoner in Rome for the space of foureteene daies which trouble was brought vpon him by some who hated him for his loue to religion and his dutie to his Soueraigne he so prudently bare himselfe that by the blessing of God and his temperate kind of cariage he was freed out of that danger The third step which her Maiestie did thinke good to obserue was vpon returne into England his comming vnto her Court where on diuers occasions he bountifully feasted her Highnesse and her Nobles and so he did to forren Embassadors At that time hee entertained Musitians the most curious which any where hee could haue and therein his Lordship excelled vnto his dying day Then was his discourse iudicious but yet wittie and delightfull Thus he was in his yoonger daies a scholar and a traueller and a Courtier of speciall estimation 11 The fourth step of his life noted by her most sacred Maiestie was his imployment of higher nature in Embassages beyond the seas As first when his Lordship was sent to the French King Charles the ninth partly to congratulate his mariage with the daughter of Maximilian the Emperour and partly about other weighty affaires touching both the kingdomes At which time his Lordship was so honorably attended with Gentlemen of choice qualitie and was so magnificent in his expence as was admirable to the French honorable to his countrey and gaue much contentment vnto his Soueraigne The Chronicles at large relate the maner of it Secondly when afterward in a seruice of tickle nature he was imploied into the Low Countries where notwithstanding the sharpe sight which by some was caried ouer him yet his Lordship behaued himselfe so warily and discreetly that no blame could be fastened on him The fift time obserued was his temper and moderation after his returns from thence when her Maiestie to giue contentation to a great personage in those daies of high imploiment was pleased to command him vnto his owne house there priuately to remaine till her farther pleasure was knowen Where his Lordship did beare himselfe so dutifully and obsequiously vnto her Highnesse command that in all the time of his restraint for nine or ten moneths space hee neuer would endure either openly or secretly either by day or by night to see either wife or childe A rare example of obedience and obseruance vnto his Soueraigne The sixt degree which was noted by that most renowmed Ladie was