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than the Marquess Huntly his friend in compliance with his own real interest An advice wherein his publick-spiritedness superceded his particular concerns and his good nature his prudence So true it is that the honest man's single uprightness works in him that confidence which oft times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
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
same token that Bridget the fourth Daughter of King Edward the fourth was a Nun at Dartford in Kent the last English Princess that entred into a Religious Order If former Ages so much the piety of their Noblemen for that the Earls of Devonshire Courtneys the Earls of Essex Bouchers the Earls of Warwick the Dukes of Lancaster Beausort for having two Priests a piece of their respective Families this Age may observe one Priest of noble Family of the Earl of Manchester Mr. Mountague one of the Earl of Baths Mr. Greenvile one of the Earl of Northamptons Mr. Compton one of the Earl of Kent one of the Lord Crews Dr. Crew and to name no more one of the Duke of Richmonds the Lord Aubignâ—y one of those illustrious persons that made us happy in that Age Plato wished for When princes were Philosophers and Philosophers Princes Who was born in London 1609. and bred when a Child not as those who in point of judgment are never to be of age but only able in pleasures but as he would say In those Arts whereby a man might be good Company to himself for his honorable Relations perceiving in him more than ordinary natural perfections were careful to bestow on him Education in piety and Learning suitable to his high Birth he meeting their care with his towardliness being apt to take fire and blaze at the least spark of instruction put into him The sharpness of Winter correcting the rankness of the earth cause the more healthful and fruitful Summers so the strictness of his breeding compacted his soul to the greater patience and piety which with other virtues and abilities raised him to so much reputation in the Court and University of Paris that he was preferred Canon of Rotterdam 1641. Lord Abbot of in France a place worth 1200 l. a year 1643 4. and was in nomination for a Cardinals dignity upon the inthronization of Pope Innocent the tenth 1644 5. as appears by this passage in a Letter My Lord Aubigney is now made an Abbot the Queen of France hath given him one worth 2400. Pistols per annum there is a speech that he shall be a Cardinal Sir Kâ—nelme Digby goeth Ambassador to Rome to the new Pope from the Queen c. And this the necessity of affairs or at least the conceived necessity will cast it meaning the Cardinalship upon the Lord you know i. e. Aubigney who hath very powerful advancers by his friends in this Court and is much liked and in a manner accepted of in Italy he himself declaring himself in so hopeful a way for it that he had thereupon taken the Sentane Paris Octob. 21. 1644. Of which dignities I may as St. Ierome doth in another case Habuit ut calcaret only he would bless God that he had that time to think how to live well that poorer persons were forced to imploy in thinking how to live and that his Place gave so much countenance to his Actions that against the too prevalent customs of the world they might have the authority of Examples and so much power to his words that against the fond opinions of the world they might have the force of Rules especially since his advancements brought with it abilities for that which is Gods nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore mans duty viz. to do good the paceful comeliness of his body at once representing and adorning the virtues and beauties of his charmed hearts to the love of the first beauty with as much success as ever fair Tablets did Eyes to the admirations of the fair things they represented and commanded souls to duty as happily as Edward the fourth that goodly Prince who as Commâ—nes observed won London twice by his presence and aspect awed and obliged his Subjects to Allegiance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Max. Tyr. A fair soul in a fair body is as a River that windingly creepeth with many wavy turnings within the Enamel of a beautiful Meadow pleasing and refreshing the world Tecum vident Milites admirantur diligunt sequuntur oculis animo tenent Deo se obsequi putant cujus tam pulchra sorma est tam certa divinitas Therefore in his discourses with Ladies he used to urge to them the advantage they had to reform a debaâ—ched world with the instance of the women in Ludovicus Vives who so reclaimed a loose City by vouchsafing none their favors but the virtuous the beauty of whose soul since the soul wears all the beauties of the universe contracted in it as Aaron did all the glories of the world embroidred upon him answered to that of their own bodies as Diamonds and Pearls do to rich Cabinets and Pearls And now I speak of souls his good soul slept not in the body affording only now and then some glimmerings of common sence and reason but sparkled briskly being to a stupid world a great argument of the Deity it worshipped Hoc nempe habuit argumentum divinitatis suae quod illam divina delectaverint nec ut alienis interest sed ut suis. Sen. And indeed he used to say that he much questioned the integrity and consequently the state of that soul that besides the exemplariness and communion of publick devotion did not use to retire to the intimacy of that more private consisting chiefly in these great parts 1. Self-examination consideration and meditation soliloquies for which in every place he resided he prepared a Closet dressed as his breast for holy and serious thoughts pleasantly yet dark scituated and furnished with two things the matters of his Devotion and of his Charity wherein he expended the thrid part of his revenue yearly in such a way that it was almes to the poor souls as well as relief to the distrested bodies which he esteemed the life because the effect and the expensive tryal of his devotion and this Closet he consecrated into a private Chappel by his solemn entrance into it never without a prayer The words of his friend He taking it for a certain argument that the serious belief of a God and of the World to come is much wanting in his heart who dares be nought idle or sinfully merry if he can but get out of mans sight and congnizance which office he kept as constant on his servent heart as ever the people of God of old kept up the continual Burnt-offering upon the Altar making as much conscience of laying out his time as he did of expending his estate And the result of all these accomplishments was 1. A moderate and tender spirit towards all sorts of Christians expressing himself to several Ministers of the Church of England with such a latitude that upon the principleâ— he expressed he might have held communion with them and they with him concluding his discourses with this That he approved not a nice scrupulous and uncharitable religion 2. A great reverence to himself being as much afraid to concern his divine soul in any mean office as Paulus the
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
of the Poet and Orator as Charles the 5 th assisted at his Funeral His travels were so many Victories over the times and the Vices of those places he lived in no insight into the Arts and Intrigues of ill being able to biass his soul from its noblest design of vertue whereof he learned from bad Customs the excellent practice and of truth which he taught all the Languages he was Master of as an exquisite Latinist as Englishman a facete Italian an exact Spaniard a fluent French man and a skilful Portugez to speak a strange Current this that passing through several soils yet received no taints from the several passages nor ever travelled from his own nature Having had the honor to serve his Majesty in his younger years with such fidelity and dutiful affection to his Person which found his gracious acceptance together with some incouragement from his own mouth to hope a new and a more fixed relation to him in the future and having in times unhappy indeed to the State but glorious to many good men to whose abilities and integrity calms had been no tryals run all the hazzards of his suffering Master and his afflicted Cause in the quality of his Secretary in Holland France Scotland and what was more at Worcester where he was wounded and taken Prisoner such services without worldly hope to allure could have only pure Conscience for their principle and it was the bare Right of his Master joyned with a love to the owner and a belief of Providence made him digest all the misfortunes of an unhappy allegiance having I say thus deserved of his Majesty in his afflictions he knowing his abilities were as great as his merits advanced him at his Restauration to be one of the Masters of Request The great Ambassador of honor to Wooe his Queen for Marriage in the Court of Portugall 1661. 1662. 1663. where he behaved himself with a great Address and of business to work his Allies to a firmer Peace by Treaty of Commerce in the Court of Spain 1664. 1665. where he managed things with great Integrity being so far above private advantages that he nobly threw away that Wealth which others grasp at to preserve Kingdoms tying himself with the same truth to the business of his Prince that he had done to his Fortune at Madrid He died Iuly 1666. leaving behind him the Character 1. Of as able a man as one grown studiously gray in Travel Universities and Courts which infused into him whatsoever of excellent such eminent Schools by long observation could teach so apt a Scholar 2. Of a plain-heartedness dwelling in a breast and temper large and open made indeed to hide his Masters secrets but not dissemble his own inclinations 3. Of a great industry and patience whereof the whole course of his life is an Argument particularly his two Journeys from Madrid to Lisbon and back again to accommodate some jealousies over so long a Tract of ground in so short a time 4. Of great exactness in all his Addresses Observations and Correspondencies 5. Of a sweet nature a familiar and obliging humility and a knowing and serious Religion Sir William Boswell I know not whether a more exact Scholar Fellow of Iesus Colledge Camb. and Proctor of the University 1624. or an accomplished Statesman Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton Leiger Ambassador in Holland and afterwards Leiger Ambassador there himself The World is beholding to him for giving famous Mr. I. Mede Money at Sturbridge Fair to buy some Books which he saw him look melancholly upon and of which upon discourse with him he said if he could not have bought them he was resolved to withdraw to a Countrey retirement then offered where he had been buryed alive and the rich Notions and Observations in the Critical Learning and Chronology of the Scripture wherein he was the happiest man living buried with him He managed a Negotiation between Scholars as appears by his Letters to Mr. Mede and others to improve Learning as well as be-between States to improve Trade he understood Trade well and Books better by this being able to better mens nature and the other only their Interest having as strict an eye upon Frankford Mart as Amsterdams Religion had as much of his care as either Learning or Traffick as appears in the Discoveries he made by Andreas ab Habernfield of the plots against it and the pains he took in the business of the Marriage of the Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary with other Treaties for the promotion of it To his Negotiation we owe all the Arms Ammunition and Officers we had from Holland and all the Civilities we found there where I am told he died 1646 7. in the 54 th year of his age Rather than omit I will here misplace Dr. Mark Frank who will be known to Posterity by this Monument near the entrance of the North-door of St. Pauls Hoc marmore tumulatur Doctrina Pietas Charitas Quippe Monumentum Illius Marci Franke S. Th. D. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi a sacris Sancti Albani Archidiaconi hujus Ecclesiae The saurarii Prebendarii Aulae Pembrochiae Cantabrigiensis Praefecti Cujus Virtutem Humilitatem eloquentiam In singulis sagacitatâ—â— Dictis metiri non Liceâ—t dicat Posteriâ—as Obiit Aetatis anno Ll. Salutis MDCLXIV Which Character becomes well Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean Bois his Brother-in-law and himself Dean of Canterbury a Gentleman of an unwearied study great travels intimate acquaintance with Padre Paulo of Venice who told him that the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England were the most â—rimitive of any in the world and of great esteem with the Parliament 1622. 1623. 1624. 1626. 1627. 1628. who took the Sacrament constantly at his hands at St. Margarets Westminster where he was many 〈◊〉 the faithful Minister and advice from his mouth often at â—â—â—â—cation whereof he was several times an eminent and activeâ—â—â—ber that had suffered for his Zeal in a Sermon before the Parliament 1623. upon that Text I will wash 〈…〉 and compass thine Altar against Popery evil Counsellors and Corruption and now suffered for being a Patron of both his House being ransacked his Family frighted and abused the will of Dr. Boyes and some Gold they found in his Wives now 80â— years of age Chamber threatned to be embezzeled his Wife led up and down the House in her Morning Gown at midnightâ— his son carried Prisoner to Dover Castle and as Witches draw the Picture of the man they would enchant so they drew a scandalous Character of this Gentleman which indeed was so unlike his modesty and civility that he need not fear the charms and at last the Dean himself seized at Gravesend and sent Prisoner to the Fleet with sorrow for which usages from one the Commander in this business whom he had saved from the Gaâ—lows at Maidstone some years before he died heart broken and it is well if his Enemies did so with repentance To him I may adde 2.