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A43042	The advice of that vvorthy commander Sir Ed. Harvvood, collonell written by King Charles his command, upon occasion of the French kings preparation : and presented in his life time by his owne hand to His Maiestie : hitherto being a private manuscript : also a relation of his life and death : whereunto is also annexed divers remarkable instructions written by the late and ever-famous, Earle of Essex : all tending to the securing and fortifying of this kingdome both by sea and land and now seasonably published for the benefit of these times.	Harwood, Edward, Sir, 1586?-1632.; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.; Harwood, George, 17th cent.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1096; ESTC R22426	17,986	40

the quelling the Arminian faction hee alone was trusted with a message to King Iames and upon his returne Barnevell went to his last home In the leaguer of the Busse hee had the charge of the Vello● when Picolominy was in the bowels of the Countrey with 10000. men His Excellency intrusting him with the sole trust mannaging and ordering of that service without limiting his commission left it though a matter of maine concernment to his wisedome and fidelity In which service hee watched 30. whole nights on Hor●eback and never in that time came in bed and in conclusion by his providence and vigilancy discharged that great trust and fully secured the Countrey At Cadiz voyage Wch was a matter of trust great difficultie hee had imposed on him the Charge of bringing up the Reare where the Enemie setting upon many scattered Troupes hee brought them off with safety by an honourable Retreat For want of which at the Isle of Ree how many brave Engglish lost their lives and our Nation much of their honour Lastly his Valour was unstained as all the Services he was in can beare large testimony thereof To be short He was first hurt by a Granado in the foot at Mastrick a sufficient warrant to have exempted him from the Service for that day yet would he not leave the prosecution of the designe though often disswaded and advised of the great danger he adventured by the worthy Gentleman Captaine Skippon now Serjeant Major Generall for the Citie of London but going often into the Trenches to view the Enemies Workes in a Scarlet Coate gave the Enemy so faire a marke that he received from the wall a sudden shot out of a small Brasse Piece which strucke him through the heart and was from thence by Command of the Prince of Orenge carryed to the Hague where he was interred with as much honour as ever was any that dyed in those parts of his quallitie In fine Thus much I must say of him He was true to his Principles a rare vertue in this Age Hee was neither above nor beneath his Calling but very aeduquate and true unto it So sad serious and skilfull in his way that you may doe well to beleeve what he writes Hee was a good man a good Souldier a good Christian and is now wearing his Crown Much more I might have said but I must not make the Porch greater then the Building and therefore I conclude Sic O praecabor usque vivere Me posse dein sic mori Mori me posse dein sic Vivere So I desire of God to live and dye And so to dye to live eternally Epitaph IF Rimes might raise him Columnes I beleeve Nor hearts nor heads nor pens would wanting be But sure such Varnish can small lustre give To blaze his worth his Freinds may spare that Fee For lesse desert we may such paines yet keepe Let 's now remember Harwood and then weepe HVGH PEETERS COLLONELL HARVVOODS advice to King CHARLES OR A Discourse on the rumour of the French Kings Preparation at Sea THe particulars of his preparations not being certainely knowne there is no certain judgement to be made of them I will therefore only take the case as I suppose it will be granted That the French King endeavours to make himselfe strong at sea and that by two meanes one encouraging his subjects to trade at sea giving his Merchants great priviledges and immunities another of his owne proper cost buying and building many great and good ships and ordaining a yearely brave proportion out of his revenue for the increasing and maintaining his Navie as some say 300. thousand l. sterling others but 300. thousand crownes one or other are considerable and may prove of danger to this state For this disposition of his argues that hee intends either to enter into a new war with his Majestie or at least to put himselfe into such a condition as when he shal thinke fit hee may doe so without his disadvantage That this his Arming at sea must be intended in emulation of His Majesties Lordship of the narrow Seas to equall ore-top him at sea is probable For against whom else Not against the Hollanders they are his obsequious friends desirous of his friendship fearefull of his displeasure not against the King of Spain for he can more easily invade him by land when hee will as Spaine can him Besides the French King shewes no disposition to enter into open warre with him for having taken on him the protection of Mantua and not well dealt with by him in the last treaty for Italy making a peace in shew and yet after taking his advantage renuing the warre in the Emperours name yet doth he not enter into open war with him but will only be an assistant else had it not beene more facile for him to have invaded Flaunders or Artois and so by diversion aided the Duke of Mantua then by sending an Army into Italy in the winter therefore this preparation of the French King for the sea hath his chiefe ayme in present or future at His Majestie I suppose not to invade England or it may be none of His Majesties Ilands though that is more then we can be assured of some of his ships of warre were this winter on His Majesties coast went from Harbour to Harbour doubtlesse to discover them and not for any good to His Majestie besides who cantell since the Ilands of Garnesey and Iersey are the only remainders of the large Dominions His Majesties Predecessors formerly have possessed in France if hee have not an itching to joyne them to France againe or if not them nor Wight yet to share the dominion of the narrow Seas with His Majestie and that is to take it from him if he can to which hitherto hee hath not pretended as not being able to match His Majestie at Sea but if he continue these His preparations and that His Majestie out of hand prepare not also against it hee will in short time undoubtedly effect it It will be said it may be hee hath no good ports or havens that is an errour it is true he hath not so many good harbours as His Majesty hath yet some he hath not inferiour to any of His Majesties it may be also said that his Subjects are not so proper for the Sea nor so affected to Trade as his Majesties are it is true but if he continue to encourage his Merchants turne Merchant himselfe will not his Princes great Lords and Gentlemen follow his example For Saylors if he give great pay and pay well he will not want them of other Nations nay if his Majesties owne Subjects have not the like great and good payment it is to be feared he may draw many of his to his service at first untill there be open warres twixt the Kingdomes for doe not at this present many hundreds I might say thousands of his Majesties Subjects serve other States at Sea as the Hollanders nay the

Turkes without either leave or knowledge of his Majestie Now if the French King should come to bee as powerfull or more then his Majestie at Sea he will be a more dangerous and fearfull neighbour to England then Spaine whom hitherto this Kingdom have of latter yeares onely had cause to feare for that against Spaine the Low-Countries will ever bee a good Bulwarck who if the King of Spaine at any time make any great preparations at Sea will be ever jealous it is intended 'gainst them and so ever arme against him and be alwaies ready to joyne with and to assist his Majestie 'gainst Spaine which may bee doubted they will not so readily doe against France with whom they are in league and not jealous off Besides the King of Spaine hath not so populous a Countrey as hee can easily prepare either a great Fleet or Land Army and much lesse both without long time and so his Majestie may have the more warning thereof Then Spaine is further from England and so the journey is the longer and from thence cannot come many Horse which are the forces most to be feared in England Whereas France being so neere us and so full of Souldiers both Horse and Foot if it once come to be able to equall England at Sea by sudden and quicke preparations stealing opportunities he may oretop England at Sea and then transport such an Army of Horse and Foot as we might justly be afraid of For old Souldiers both Horse and Foot France abounds in and the French have a vertue proper to them that not a Gentleman thinkes himselfe any thing untill he have seene the Warres learned at least good and perfect use of his Armes and naturally they are all good Horsemen their Land affords Horses fit for service and every man almost knows to use Pistoll and Carabin wheras in England unlesse those which have beene Souldiers few or none can use their Armes and of those which have bin Souldiers it may be not all can well use their Armes especially the Musquet which is of most offence which our Nation are not naturally so prompt to learn the use of as the French are and for Horse this Kingdom is so deficient as it is a question whether or not the whole Kingdome could make 2000. good Horse that might equall 2000. French To redresse these deficiences In all humility I here present my poore and slender advice under correction and with submission to better judgments First and principally I would advise that his Majesty would arme at Sea for that is the surest defence for we can never be hurt by a forraigne enemy by land till we be first beaten at Sea and therein I cannot give better advise then to doe what the French King doth as to repaire and increase his own Royall Navie which is the greatest and best assured strength of England and to that end to set apart some certaine large proportion of his revenue that His Sea-men may have good pay and well paid and if there be good and strict courses taken that there be no abuses in the Musters victualling consumption of Ammunition which without good payment cannot well be executed His Majesty will be a Gainer thereby in matter of profit besides the reputation and advantage of his service and it is my opinion that no Prince nor State but had better give 40 in the hundred for monies to pay his Militia well then not to pay well Then to encourage his Merchants and other subjects to trade and in making new plantations For his land-forces that His Majestie would take order that the numbers of trayned men were increased or rather that the whole Kingdome from 18. or 20. to 35. or 40. as many men as were able of bodies were armed one third with pikes and armours another with muskets and the third with calivers that there were powder bullets and match through the whole Kingdome magazines thereof in suncry places of the Kingdome in such a quantity as if it were invaded in one or divers parts there be no want of Ammunition in any place for it would be then too late to fetch it else-where and much worse then to make it or send over Seas for it That there were care taken that these men then armed might be well exercised and to that end that there be in every hundreth or wapentake some old souldier Sergeant or other inferiour Officer had out of the Low-countries well chosen t●at might teach men the use of their Armes and that there were certaine dayes set and appointed for the shewing their Armes and exercising them and if the Statutes which were formerly for sporting in the Long Bow were revived or converted with deliberation for the musket and Caliver to practise by shooting at markes on ordinary Holy-dayes and such like times and at some time some small prize for them that shoot nearest under correction I thinke it were much for the strength of the Kingdome Then that there were good choyse made of the Mustermasters none to be but such as had borne office in some actuall warre of reputation for better there were none and their allowances divi●ed unto sundry inferiour men then for one to draw a great pay that either knowes not to doe or doth not any thing for it and because there is or may be such as have borne office in the warres and yet discontinue so long as they have forgotten their trade or that the fashion of the warres and exercising bee changed since hee was last a souldiour that every Mustermaster shall not onely at his first enterance bee approved by such as are able to judge him to bee fit for that charge but to the end hee may continue so hee bee injoyned once in 4 or 5. yeares to goe personally for the Sommer time into some actuall warre abroad if any bee to retaine and renew his knowledge That the Captaines of the Trained bands bee injoyned themselves to passe the Seas to learne the duties of their places or at least to keepe of his owne charge one that can discharge his place and if neither to quite their commands to such as will doe the one or other By this meanes his Majesty may have an Army of foot on a sodaine in any part of England to answer all occasions without drawing his forces much farre out of their proper Countries for an Enemy may make shew of landing in one place and having drawen the greatest strength of the Kingdome thither windes serving for it sodainly transport himselfe to another before that Army can by land come there Now for horse wherein this Kingdome is more defective then I thinke is any other it were a worke worthy of his Majesty seriously to take it into consideration how to amed it and though on a sodaine it is not to bee hoped to bring the worke to any great perfection yet a good foundation once well layed in processe of time it may bee effected and for the present bee much

Plurality of Religion profest in one Estate that it was against the policy of all States because where there is no unity or order in the State it is the manifest ruine of that State for as the mingling of poyson with wholesome liquor in one vessell doth not correct that which is Lethal but corrupts that which is wholesome so the poysoned doctrine of those Hispanioliz'd Iesuites once brought in that state will not indure any profession save their owne Fiftly for the sweet harmony betwixt a loving Prince and loyall subjects Thus doth he say wee thankes be to God have a Queene who hath never beene wastfull in her private expence yet will shee sell her plate and jewels in the Tower ere her people shall be undefended We are a people that will turne our silken coats into iron Iacks and our silver plate into coats of plate rather then our Soveraign shall be unserved Sixtly and lastly his pleasing reprehension of the superfluous expences of those times it is by way of objection that was made in those times that they could neither have a good peace or jnst warre and of two evils it were better to have a patched peace then an unsupportable warre To which he answers that those that did so thinke were injurious First to our men of warre that fight for them and defend them in thinking their armes which have ever done honour to our nation and stricken terrour into the hearts of our enemies lesse able to defend our countrey then their treaties which have never beene free from scorne and disadvantage Injurious they are to the Countrey that bred them which being one of the bravest strongest and happiest States in Christendome is judged by these men to be as weak as their owne weake hearts Injurious they are to her Majestie who being so great so glorious and so victorious a Queene shall be judged unable to maintaine warre when she cannot have peace but at the pleasure of her enemie Yea injurious and most unthankfull they are to God himselfe who hath hitherto fought for them in that for an unsafe peace with an idolatrous and irrelegious nation they would leave an honourable and just warre But when some objections might bee made that Her Majesties Treasure was drawne deepe into and if there were any weaknesse in our meanes to make warre it was in our Treasure To this he answers that though Her Majesties treasure be drawne deep into and the poore Hus-bandman by the late hard yeares past hath now left scarce any meanes to live yet if our sumptuous buildings our surfetting diet our Prodigality in Garments our infinite Place and costly Furniture of our houses be well considered England cannot be thought poore can we exceed all nations in Christendome in wastfull vanities and can we not arme our selves against one nation whom wee have ever beaten for our necessary defence Was Rome so brave a State that the very Ladies to supply the common Treasure and to maintaine the warres spoyled themselves of their Iewels and rich ornaments and is England so base a State as that the people therein will not bestow some part of their superfluous expences to keepe themselves from conquest and slavery Did the godly Kings and religious people which wee read of in the old Testament to maintaine warre against the enemies of God sell the ornaments of the Temple and the things consecrated to holy uses and shall not wee that have as holy a warre spare those things we have dedicated to our owne idle and sensuall pleasures Could our owne nation in those gallant former ages when our countrey was farre poorer then now it is levy armies maintaine warres atchieve great conquests in France and make our powerfull Armies knowne as farre as the Holy-Land And is this such a degenerate age as wee shall not be able to defend England no no there is yet left some seed of that ancient vertue I remember with what spirit and alacrity the Gentlemen of England have put themselves voluntarily into our late actions there wil ever be found some valorous which so the State may stand and flourish care not though they leave not wherewith to bury themselves though others bury their money not caring in what case they leave the state The Conclusion THus farre are his owne words and here I intended to have finished this discourse but my thoughts prest me to a new taske and what shall I say most Noble Lords and worthy Gentlemen I will say to you even as Abraham did to God Seeing saith hee I have begunne to speake unto my Lord that am but dust and ashes Let not my Lord bee angry I will speake but this once Seeing I have taken upon mee to publish something that I hope may tend to the good of our bodies give mee leave now to adde something which I hope may bee no lesse for the good of soules and that is this most Humbly to crave that you will bee pleased to take to your most wise and grave considerations that noble and pious worke happily begunne and successefully proceeded in of the Feoffees for redeeming in impropriations of which body before it was supprest I was though unworthy a member and therefore can say the more of which I dare bee bould to say it was one of the most glorious workes that ever was undertaken in this Kingdome of late yeares and did more conduce to the spreading abroad of the glorious Gospell of IESVS CHRIST then any I ever understood of or heard of Of which I may truly say as Solomon of the vertuous Huswife to those that did contribute to it Many Daughters have done vertuously but thou surmounts them all I deny not but it is good to give to Hospitals to repairing of Churches setting up of Free-Schooles building of Almes-houses and the like But I have ever thought such as concerne soules to bee as farre above them as the soule is above the body This Pious Worke it was well approved by his Majesty as we were informed at our first taking of ●t And I am sure of all the best Subjects onely the Diotrephes that Saint Iohn speakes of That love Preheminence and thrust their Brethren out of the Church the Prelates of our time that never did further but ever hinder any good Worke that tended to the advancement of the Gospell of Christ if it did not Comply with their ambitions But of them I will say no more you have said so much and so wel But for this Pious worke I dare be bound to say if it had continued and not beene supprest by their meanes That by this time most of the Impropriations of this Kingdome had beene brought in and laid unto the Church againe A worke fit for such an Age as this that hath enjoyed the Gospell so long to have propagated it to the darke corners of this Kingdome and this to be effected and done not by a forced and strained exaction but by a free and willing contribution of such as understand the nature of it and saw the present good fruits and effect of it which adde much to the glory of it The Contributions at first were very incouraging and some underwrit yearely good summes others to every impropriation we brought certaine summes but towards the time of our unhappy dissolution the contribution grew much greater for not a weeke before we were supprest a Lady yet living sent us word shee would give a thousand pounds presently to the furtherance of the Worke and many wills have since beene altered that we heard off that gave brave proportions to it I never heard of nor can yet see any such way to spread the Gospell to the remote and blind corners of this Kingdome neither can we for ought I know ever hope to see Popery quelled till a godly painfull Ministry be established and that will never be till competent meanes bee provided both these had been effected and the effects in time would have manifested what I have said and the benefit thereof would not onely have extended to the Church but also to the Common-wealth for where a good Ministery is placed in a Towne there idlenesse will be abolished the poore and impotent children and vagrant set on worke and His Majesty have gained true and loyall Subjects such as he may repose himselfe in their loves and fidelities It s the glory of our Religion it was never stained with those hellish Plots Massacres and Treacheries against their Soveraigne and if ever Popery bee put downe to purpose it must be by the meanes of establishment of a powerfull Ministry then shall we see Satan fall downe like Lightning It must be the breath of the Lord that must abolish the man of Sinne I deny not but good Lawes doe well but what through favour conniving and want of execution we dayly see they have not such good effect as were to be wished that I am confident it must be the powerfull conscionable Preaching Ministery of the Gospell that must especially effect it and to procure that nothing wil more conduce then a full free and plentifull provision for the Dispencers of it and not for such as doe least to have most The Lord in mercy direct you blesse and prosper your proceedings and in his good time give us to enjoy the happy fruits and effects of your great long and unwearied Paines FINIS