before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
and council such Irish as could not endure the strictness and civility of his government In fine such whose frauds and force were met with by his prudence and prowess He whom three Kingdomes agreed against in their Faction indeed so excellent a Personage was not to be ruined but by the pretended hatred of the whole Empire He whom the Mercenary Lawyers and Orators represented so monstrously appeared so innocent that some of his very Enemies said in much anger you may be sure that their Charge of Misdemeanors proved no other than a Libel of Slanders and the disingaged and honest part of the Nation with as much pleasure to find so great faults reflected on the unhappiness of great Ministers whose parts and trust must be their crimes whose happy councils are envied and unsuccesseful though prudent ones severely accused When they err every one condemneth them and their wise advices few praise For those that are benefited envy and such as are disappointed hate those that gave them The Faction thus baffled by his Abilities and Innocence and run down by Master Lane the Princes Atturneys Argument for with much ado they allowed him Master Lane Recorder Gardiner Master Loe and Master Lightfoot for Council though in point of Law in such matters as they would allow them to plead in viz. That these words in the Statute of 25. Edw. 3. Because particular Treasons could not be then defined therefore what the Parliament shall declare to be Treason in time to come should be punished as Treason being the words of a declarative and penal Statute ought to be understood literally and that this Salvo was Repealed 6. Hen. 4. when it was Enacted that nothing shall be esteemed Treason but what is literally contained in the Statute 25. Edw. 3. drew up the Bill of Attainder a Law after the Fact with a shameful Caution that the unparallel'd thing should not be drawn into a Precedent so securing themselves who really designed that alteration of Government they falsly charged him with from the return of the same Injustice on themselves which they Acted on him A Bill that they Passed in two days so eager were they of bloud and so fearful of delays and sober consideration notwithstanding the generous dissent of a fifth part of the Commons men of honest hopes who disdained to administer to the lusts of the Faction in the bloud of so much innocent Gallantry though with the hazard of their lives being Posted and Marked out to the fury of the Rabble And by the Midwifery of a Tumult of 5 or 6000. people instigated and directed by unquiet Members of the House of Commons that were seen amongst them to the great dishonour of their persons and places forced upon as many of the Peers as would or durst Sit and that was scarce a third part in whose thin house after the King had so frankly declared three things May. 1. in the Earles behalf before both House viz. 1. That he was never advised to bring the Irish Army into England 2. That no man ever durst create in him the least jealousie of his English Subjects Loyalty 3. That no man ever dared to move him to alter the least much less all the Laws of England It scarcely Passed after so many hideous Riots raised by the Pulpit Demagogues Sunday May 2. by seven Voices And when brought to his Majesty who had earnestly intreated them by all the Franke Concessions he had made to them that Parliament not to press him in so tender a point and though the Tumults without and the Sollicitations within several Courtiers looking on the Earl as the Herd doth on an hurt Deer hoping his blood would be the lustration of the Court ran high the Gracious King being loath to leave so faithful and brave a man a Sacrifice to popular rage there stuck until 1. The Judges upon whose judgment the Bishops when sent for advised his Majesty to rely in matter of Law they being sworn to declare the Law equally between the King and his People pronounced him guilty of Treason in the general though they confessed he was not so in any particulars the point his Majesty pressed much upon them 2. The Parliament City and Country importuned him his very followers tyring him with that Maxime the weaknesse whereofâ— many of them lived to see and suffer Some talk of a Paper-promise the King gave him wherein was write upon Better one man perish though unjustly than the people be displeased or destroyed And the Parliament wearying him with that clamor rather than reason that their Vote though against his Judgement should satisfie his Conscience 3. The Earl offered himself a Victime like Hurtius for the Kingdomes Peace and the Kings Safety in this Letter to his Majesty The Earl of Strafford's Letter to the King May it please your Majesty IT hath been my greatest grief in all these troubles to be taken as a person who should indeavour to represent and set things amisse between your Majesty and your People and to give council tending to the disquiet of the three Kingdomes Most true it is that mine own private condition considered it had been a great madnesse since through your gracious favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mend my fortune or please my mind more than by resting where your bounteous hand had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majesty is well known my poor and humble advises concluded still in this that your Majesty and your people could never be happy till there were a Right Understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this happinesse but by the counsel and assent of the Parliament or to prevent the growing evils upon this State but by intirely putting your self in your last resort upon the Loyalty and good Affection of your English Subjects Yet such is my misfortune this truth findeth little credit the contrary seemeth generally believed and my self reputed as something of separation between you and your people under a heavier censure than which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of men are more incensed against me notwithstanding your Majesty hath declared that in your Princely Opinion I am not guilty of Treason nor are you satisfied in your Conscience to Passe the Bill This bringeth me into a very great streight there is before me the ruin of my Children and Family hitherto untouched in all the branches of it with any foul Crimes Here is before me the many Ills which may befal your Sacred Person and the whole Kingdom should your self and the Parliament part lesse satisfied one with another than is necessary for the preservation of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortal man Life or Death To say Sir that there hath been no strife in me were to make me lesse than God knoweth I am and mine infirmities give
an happy guess of what was to come yet his opinion was neither variably unconstant nor obstinately immoveable but framed to present occasions wherein his method was to begin a second advice from the failure of the first though he hated doubtful suspense when he might be resolute This one great defect was his good nature that he could never distrust till it was dangerous to suspect and he gave his Enemy so much advantage that he durst but own him for his Friend One thing he repented of that he advised his Majesty to trust Duke Hamilton his adversary with the affairs of Scotland in compliance with the general opinion rather than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times wrongs him and gives advantage to the subtile while he rather pities their faithlessness than repents of his credulity so great advantage have they that look only what they may do over them that consider what they should do and they that observe only what is expedient over them that judge only what is lawful Therefore when those that thought themselves wise left their sinking Soveraign he stuck to his Person while he lived to his Body when dead and to his Cause as long as he lived himself Attending the first resolutely burying the second honorably and managing the third discreetly undertaking without rashness and performing without fear never seeking dangers never avoiding them Although when his friends were conquered by the Rebels he was conquered by himself returning to that privacy where he was guessed at not known where he saw the world unseen where he made yielding conquest where cheerful and unconcerned in expectation he provided for the worst and hoped for the best in the constant exercise of that Religion which he and his maintained more effectually with their examples than with their Sword doing as much good in encouraging the Orthodox by his presence as in relieving them by his bounty In a word I may say of him as Macarius doth of Iustine there was no vice but he thought below him and no virtue which he esteemed not his duty or his ornament Neither was his prudence narrower than his virtue nor his virtue streighter than his fortune His main service was his inspection into the Intrigues and Reserves of the Parliamentiers at Vxbridge and his Cajoling of the Independants and Scots at London where the issue of his observation was That the King should as far as his conscience could allow comply with the unreasonable desires of an unlimited ambition to make it sensible of the evils that would flow from its own counsels being confident as events have assured us that the people would see the inconvenience of their own wishes and that they would return that power which they sought for but could not manage to its proper place before it became their ruin For unbounded liberty overthroweth its self But alas it was too late to grant them any thing who by having so much were only encouraged more eagerly to desire what they knew the King in honor could not give for when a Prince is once rendred odious or contemptible his indulgencies do him no less hurt than injuries As his Services were great so were his Recreations useful Hunting that manly exercise being both his pleasure and his accomplishment his accomplishment I say since it is in the list of Machiavel's Rules to his Prince as not only the wholesomest and cheapest diversion both in relation to himself and his people but the best Tutor to Horseman-ship Stratagems and Situations by which he may afterwards place an Army whatever Sir Sidney's apprehension was who used to say Next Hunting he liked Hawking worst His other Brothers died in the Field vindicating his Majesties Cause and he pined away in his house mourning for his Majesties Person whom he would have died for and when that could not be died with his innocent temper having rendred him the Kings Bosom Friend as his conscience made him his Good Subject Hic Jacobum Richmondiae ducem ne conditum putes eorundem quibus vixit perpetuum Incolam Cordium Caeca quem non extulit ad honorem sors sed aequitas fides doctrina pietas modesta prudentia neu morte raptum crede agit vitam secundam Caelites Inter animus fama Implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara Dicata sempiternae memoriae Aenigma saeculi omnia Intelligens a nullo Intellectus E vivis migravet non e vita marcido in corpore diu sepultus Intra penates Lugendo consenuit Diu exspiravit vivum Cadaver sero mâ—ritur jam mortuo similis Cogitando vitam absolvit ut contemplando aeternitatem Inter beatorum libros Indefesso studio versatus ut beatoruâ—â— societatis dignior pars esset 165 5 THE Life and Death OF FRANCIS Lord AUBIGNEY Lord Almoner to Her Highness Mary The Queen Mother of England TIme was when the despised Priesthood was so honorable that the same great word signified and the same eminent Persons among the Iews the Aâ—gyptians the Graecians and Romans executed together the two excellent Functions of Priest and Prince Rex Anius Rex Idem hominum Phaebique sacâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—rg Aâ—ncid l. 3 And most of the Roman Emperors were as proud of the sacred Title of Arch-flamens as they were of the Câ—â—racter of Semper Aâ—gusti As to come nearer our selves there were at one time in England three Kings Sons six Dukes eight Earls and fourteen Lords Sons in Holy Orders Time was when Abbies and Monasteries were an easie out-let for the Nobility and Gentry of this Land to dispose of their younger Children that Son who had not mettal enough to manage a sword might have meekness enough to wear a Cowle Clap a vail on the head of a younger daughter especially if she were superannuated not overhandsome melancholy c. and instantly she was provided for in a Nunnery without cost or care of her Parents One eminent instance whereof we have in Ralph Nevil first Earl of Westmerland of that Family whom we behold as the happiest Subject of England since the Conquest if either we account the number of Children or measure the heighth of honor they attained to for of nine Children he had by Margaret his first Wife Abbess of Barking and a second viz. Elizabeth was a Nun And of a eleven by his Wife Ioan one Iane was a Nun all the other seventeen being Lords and Ladies at that time of the highest quality in the Kingdom And no wonder saith our Author if our Earls preferred their Daughters to be Nuns seeing no King of England since the Conquest had four Daughters living to womans estate but he disposed one of them to be a Votary by the
Bishop of Exceter and Mr. Ashwell and when restored chosen by the Fellows for President of that Colledge wherâ— he had been so usefully a Fellow and a Tutor but superior power guiding that choice as it happened very well another way he was entertained Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England by whom he was preferred Rector of the great Parish of St. Andrews Holborn where he was buried 1665. 12. Dr. Meredith Fellow of All-Souls Chaplain to the Earl of Newburgh Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster who bestowed on him an Hospital in Leicester-shire belonging to that Dutchy out of which and his Fellowship he was turned 1647. and restored to both 1660. when he succeeded Dr. Sheldon now Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Wardenship of the Colledge as he did Dr. Monke in the Provostship of Eaton an excellent Companion where-ever he was entertained in the time of the Troubles when he was every where welcome so good his nature and where ever he entertained since for then he made excellent persons as welcome as they had done him of a noble spirit in his Magnificent Treatments to the Rich and Liberal Erogations to the Poor weekly while he lived and yearly when he died 1665. 13. Dr. Peter Turner of Mâ—rton Colledge active in composing the new Statutes of the University of Oxford and most elegant in expressing them and the excellent Preface to them 14. Iohn Graves the excellent Mathematician Linguist and Traveller of the same House as famous for his discourse of Pyramids as the Kings of Aegypt thought to make themselves by building them Brother to the reverend Dr. Graves a very sober person a general Scholar and an exact Linguist sometimes Scholar of the Charterâ—house and Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and now Prebend of Peterburgh whom I will wrap up in the same character wherein I finde another very learned Linguist and Critick Mr. H. Iacob of Merton Colledge express his great friend Mr. H. Brigges in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Translated by Mr. H. Briched of All-Souls Circuitor terrae stellisque Coambulo cujus Ad sphaeram Cerebri movit uterque Polus Vixisti mathesin quadrans ad pectora voces Normatus factis sidereusque â—ide Nec moritur studium vel in ipsa morte sepultus Commetire solum corpore mente polum 15. Master Francis Newman Fellow of All-Souls a Person of great parts and a good carriage who coming by White-hall when the King was put to death he laid the horrid fact so to heart that coming home to Master Heywoids house at Westminster whose Sister he had married he fell into such an agony that going up immediately into his Chamber he told his friends about him though he was then as well as ever he was in his life that he should never stir out of that Chamber alive as his heart breaking under the great weight of his grief for the horror of the act its self and his thoughts for he was a fore-seeing man of the sadness of the consequence of it he did not dying 1649. All hopeful persons that had the happiness to know what was excellent and best abilities to attain it lighting each others Torch and warming one another as embers by converse Of whom one of their acquaintance leaves this Memorial to Posterity Si nostri memor Gens posterorum haud ulla magis virtute gloriaque censeri volo quam quod altum Masterum suavissime strenuum Diggesium mellifluum Waringum cui communium locorum methodus Index rerum pariter verbo rum optima ubique eruditum Stotevill Chidmea Mede Powellos utrosque fratres stupendum Gregorium modestum Sparke Rouse Bogan Wats Taylerum Acutissimum Sugge magnificum Meredith maximum Turnerum Gravium Newman Sanderum prudentissime Doctum saeculi sui gloriam pudorem amore pro secutus sum sumo in illustri Oxon. Ingeniorum Olim minimus amore sancto nulla quem sequens dies expunget aevo dum decus suum Piis constabit literis honos aetas virtutum ferox Aurei propago secli Orta coelo pectora O dulce mentium contubernium Illi enim non erant fluxa quos tuentibus figura monstrat quosque contrectat manus erant illi animarum Igneus vigor Quae quasi separatae corporise contagione nil traxere O quibus nomen obtigit Livore majus senecta temporum exorsque Lethi O cultos mihi semper colendos antiqua fide sublime Coelo laetus efferam caput si me benignus Eruditorum Chorus Consentiensque post-humae gentis favor tali coronae accensere ultimum velit H.G.D.H.A. THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable HENRY SPENCER Earl of Sunderland THis Noble Person whose Ancestor when created Baron of Wormeleighton in Warwick-shire primo Iacobi as he said for the report of his being the greatest Moneyed man in England was the fifth Knight of his Family in an immediate succession descended from the Spencers Earls of Gloucester and Winchester was himself when made Earl for his great merit in Court and Camp 19 Car. 1. 1643. the thirty ninth Gentleman bearing arms successively in his house being allied as it appeared then to all the Nobility that time at Court but Duke Hamilton A taunt a Boy gave him when a Child proved a sober Precept to him when a Man and the bare being upbraided that he would be a wicked and an useless Nobleman obliged him ever after to approve himself otherwise When Monicaes St. Augustines Mothers Companion called her Toss-pot in her anger it gave her occasion to be sober and temperate all her life Bitter Jeers sometimes makes wholsom Physick when God sanctifieth malice to do the office of good will Mr. Perkins having taken so much liberty in his younger years as cost him many a sigh in his reduced age heard a Tutor in the next Chamber to him chiding a Pupil thus What will you be such a Bake-hell as Perkins and immediately upon it was reclaimed and the Quick-silver of his extravagant studies and courses fixed to a very great improvement Three dayes were very lucky to him May 6. Iuly 11. and September 19. and two unlucky Sept. 20. and Ian. 6. Great men have their great days it was the sixth of April whereon Alexander was born the sixth of April that he conquered Darius the sixth of April that he won a battel at Sea and a sixth of April that he dyed on On the thirtieth of September Pompey the Great was born on the thirtieth of September he triumphed for his Asian Conquest and on the thirtieth of September he dyed on On the nineteenth of August Augustus was adopted on the nineteenth of August he began his Consulship on the nineteenth of August he Conquered the triumviri and on the nineteenth of August he dyed The sixth
his friends by Letters a way he much delighted in without He died 1656. having spent most of his suffering time in reconciling differences among his indiscreet friends and in encouraging hope which he would say was at the bottom of the box among his desponding acquaintance a person that was not sensible of his oppression because he was not subject to passion With Dr. Smith were Dr. Ailworth of All-Souls Dr. Edward Hide Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Rector of Brightwel in Berk-shire and a grave Preacher as long as he was permitted to the great satisfaction of good people at Holywell in Oxford writing good Books such as The Christian Legacy and A Vindication of the Church of England and giving good instructions to young men such as he designed Nurseries for the Church of England recommending to them a methodical Learning an exemplary zeal at their devotion and a strict life making great use of Bodley's Library while he was permitted and when forbidden retiring to his own He died at Salisbury 1658. where I think his Reverend Brother is Bishop of the Stone under which God exercised his patience as he did under the usurpation his faith and heroick charity Whose advice was by all means use to be alone be acquainted with your selves and keep your selves discreetly in a capacity of serving the Church for he would say did all men comply the Church would be at a loss for Champions to defend her at present and were all obnoxious the Church might be at a loss for Worthies to propagate it for the future Dr. Richard Bayly for forty years President of St. Iohns and for above thirty Dean of Salisbury an excellent Governor a good Landlord preferred by Bishop Laud his kinsman one of whose Executors he was at St. Iohns as Dr. George Walker another allyed to him was at the University Colledge in Oxford whereof he was thrice Vice-chancellor much a Gentleman and therefore in the late times much a Sufferer when P. E. of P. told his Masters at Westminster how among other Exploits he had done at Oxford he had by force turned out Dr. Bayly and his wife with six pretty children out of St. Iohns He lived chearfully behind the Schools all the sad times as he died hospitably in St. Iohns in better A right primitive Church-man for his good Table great Alms just and generous Dealings and the Repair of every place he came to Thrifty but not covetous giving his need his honor and his friend his due Never saith our sweet Singer was scraper brave man get to live than live and use it Dr. R. Kettle and Dr. Hannibal Potter both Presidents of Trinityâ—Colledge â—Colledge men that if they could not play on the Fiddle that is if they were not so ready Scholars yet could build and govern Colledges and make as Themosticles a little City or Colledge a great one the Whetstone is dull its self that whets the things Dr. Metcalf was a better of St. Iohns in Cambridge than Dr. Whitacres because the first though a Sophister put a fallacy upon him cosensu diviso ad sensum compositum found the Colledge spending scarce 200 Marks per annum and left it spending by his own and his friends benefactions a thousand and the other though a great Scholar following Studies and remitting matters to others to the general decay of the Colledge The Government of a Colledge is commended by the proficiency of the Students among whom its honor enough to the House to mention 1. Mr. William Chillingworth born in Oxford and so falling out of his Mothers arms into the Muses lap a general Scholar made ready in himself by teaching others taking great delight in directing and encouraging young men and in disputing with the elher so accute and subtile a Disputant that the best disputation that ever was heard in Oxford Schools was when he Mr. Halke and Dr. Hammond disputed together Admirable at opposing and overthrowing any Position though solid and wary enough at answering and Dr. Potter being sickly sent for him to reply to Mr. Knots Answer to his Book of Charity whereupon having obtained leave to travel he resolved to finde out Mr. Knot himself and agreeably to his great spirit designing to answer not onely that Book but all that could be said for Popery to dive by converse and dispute with the choicest Romanists in the world to the bottom of all the Intrigues and Quirks of that Controversie to which end he entred himself of one of their best Colledges whereof upon the stupendious reach of his reason he became presently Sub-Rector continuing there until by continual discourses wherewith he tired them all he had distilled the quintessence of their reason into a book answering it upon his return in the Book called The Religion of Protestants a saâ—e way to salvation which was never answered but with a War sent amongst us with the extract of Catholick reason called by unreasonable men that make Christianity a Supersedeas for Humanity Socinianism approved by Dr. Fell Dr. Bayley and Dr. Prideaux his adversary who compared his Book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string was taken out of it As great his faculty in reclaiming Shismaticks as in confuting Papists seldom either discoursing or preaching but he convinced the parties he spoke or preached to His great skill in Mathematicks whereby he drew several regular Fortifications against Glocester and elsewhere being called The Kings little Engineer and Black-art-man fixing and clearing his reason in all subjects he had occasion to insist upon His counsel was that young men should be sure to be good Artists and then the Arts knitting together all other learning they would be good Scholars He was taken prisoner by the Enemies Forces who found him sick and by hard usage hastened his death 1645. being buried at Arundle-castle with this Character from an adversary That his Head was made for contrivances and his Heart for that which makes men wise viz. Doubts and Scruples resting no where in his disquisition but upon first principles 2. Mr. Anthony Farington Bachelor of Divinity an excellent Tutor and Governor while Fellow of that House an imitable Preacher for High Rhetorick Copious Learning and Moral Instructions while resident in the University a grave Pastor and charitable Neighbour while Vicar of Bray and Preacher at Windsor and so honest and orthodox that the old Proverb true of his predecessor who kept his Vicaridge under Henry the eighth Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth saying He was no Turncoat keeping always to his principles which was this that he would live and dye Vicar of Bray and turn his Mill with the Wind rather than loose his Grist could not be applied to him The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still He after Ireton who had been of the same House with him had revenged a piece of discipline he exercised upon him for his ominous knavery in affronting his superiors whereupon Mr. Farington
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