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A06935	Honour in his perfection or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 17361; ESTC S112100	25,787	50

Aubery Vere was created Earle of Oxford and High Chamberlaine of England to him and his heires males for euer in the daies of Henry the first who was sonne to William the Conquerour which is Honour almost as early as could be for before the Conquest there is no certaintie any of Honour hereditarie in this Land and thus they haue successiuely followed till this day Next O Britaine reade vnto thy softer Nobilitie the Storie of the Noble House of Southampton That shall bring new fier to their blouds and make of the little sparkes of Honour great flames of excellency shew them the life of Thomas Wriothesley Earle of Southampton who was both an excellent Souldier and an admirable Scholler who not only serued the great King his Master Henry the eight in his warres but in his Counsell Chamber not only in the field but on the Bench within his Courts of ciuill Iustice This man for his excellent parts was made Lord Chauncelour of England where he gouerned with that integritie of heart and true mixture of Conuience and Iustice that he wonne the hearts both of the King and people After this noble Prince succeeded his sonne Henry Earle of Southampton a man of no lesse vertue prowesse and wisedome euer beloued and fauoured of his Prince highly reuerenced and fauoured of all that were in his owne ranke and brauely attended and serued by the best Gentlemen of those Countries wherin he liued his muster role neuer consisted of foure Lackeys and a Coachman but of a whole troupe of at least an hundred well mounted Gentlemen and Yeomen he was not knowne in the Streetes by guarded Liuories but by Gold Chaines not by painted Butterflies euer running as if som monster pursued them but by tall goodly fellowes that kept a constant pace both to guard his person and to admit any man to their Lord which had serious businesse This Prince could not steale or drop into an ignoble place neither might doe any thing vnworthy of his great calling for hee euer had a world of testimonies about him When it pleased the diuine goodnesse to take to his mercy this great Earle hee left behinde to succeede him Henry Earle of Southampton his Sonne now liuing being then a childe But here mee thinkes Cinthius aurem vellet something puls me by the elbow bids me forbeare for flatterie is a deadly sinne and will damme Reputation But shall I that euer loued and admired this Earle that liued many yeares where I daily saw this Earle that knew him before the warres In the warres and since the warres shall I that haue seene him indure the worst mallice or vengeance that the Sea Tempests or Thunder could vtter that haue seene him vndergoe all the extremities of warre that haue seene him serue in person on the enemy and against the enemy shall I that haue seene him receiue the reward of a Souldier before the face of the Enemie for the best act of a Souldier done vpon the Enemie Shall I be scarrd with shadowes No Truth is my Mistresse and though I can write nothing which can equall the least sparke of fire within him yet for her sake will I speake some thing which may inflame those that are heauy and dul and of mine owne temper This Earle as I said before came to his Fathers dignitie in his childhood spending that and his other yonger times in the studie of good Letters to which the Vniuersitie of Cambridge is a witnesse and after confirmed that Studie with trauell and forraigne obseruation As soone as he came to write full and perfit Man he betooke himselfe vnto the warres was made Commander of the Garland one of Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie her best ships and was Vice-Admirall of the first Squadron In his first putting out to Sea hee saw all the Terrours and Euils which the Sea had power to shew to mortaiitie insomuch that the Generall and the whole Fleete except some few shippes of which this Earles was one were driuen backe into Plimouth but this Earle in spight of stormes held out his course made the coast of Spaine and after vpon an Aduiso returned The Fleete new reenforst made fourth to Sea againe with better prosperitie came to the Ilands of the Azores and there first tooke the Iland of Fiall sackt and burnt the great Towne tooke the high Fort which was held impregnable and made the rest of the Ilands as Pike Saint Georges and Gratiosa obedient to the Generals seruice Then the Fleete returning from Fiall it pleased the Generall to diuide it and he went himselfe on the one side of Gratiosa and the Earle of Southampton with some three more of the Queenes Ships and a few small Marchants Ships sailed on the other when early in a morning by spring of day This braue Southampton light vpon the King of Spaines Indian Fleete laden with Treasure being about foure or fiue and thirty Saile and most of them great warlike Gallioons they had all the aduantage that sea winde number of ships or strength of men could giue them yet like a fearefull heard they fled from the fury of our Earle who notwithstanding gaue them chase with all his Canuase one he tooke and sunke her diuers hee dispierst which were taken after and the rest he draue into the Iland of Tercera which was thē vnassaileable After this he ioyned with the Generall againe and came to the Iland of Saint Michaels where they tooke and spoiled the Towne of Villa Franca and at Porte Algado made a Charrackt runne on ground and split her selfe after being ready to depart the enemie taking aduantage of our rising and finding that most of our men were gone aboard but only the General the Earle of Southamptō Sr. Francis Vere som few others left on Shoare they came with their vtmost power vpon them but were receiued with so hot an incounter that many of the Spaniards were put to the sword and the rest inforced to runne away and in this skirmish no man had aduantage of safetie for the number was on our part so few that euery man had his hands imployment and here the Earle of Southampton ere he could dry the sweat from his browes or put his sword vp in the scaberd receiued from the Noble Generall Robert Earle of Essex the order of Knighthood After this he returned for England and came fortunately home but fel he here a sleep with any inchantment either of Peace or Pleasure O no but here he did as it were but new begin the progresse of his more noble actions for now the wilde and sturdy Irish rebels fatned with some Conquests and made strong with forraigne aide to get more Conquest began to rage like wilde Boares and to root vp euery fruitfull place in that Kingdome so that without a sodaine chastisement it was likely the euill would grow past all cuer To this worke

in which charge he bore himselfe so nobly and with such Brauerie of spirit that whilst Arnam or the Sconces Duesburie Zutfen Deuentrie Blankenburie and a world of other places taken from the enemie stand the renowne of this Noble man can neither perish nor be forgotten He is no sooner entranchised from this seruice but the poore King of Portugale Don Antonio held violently out of his right by the King of Spaine after the death of Sebastian comes into England fals at the feet of the great Queene Elizabeth shewes his Iniury and pleads to her mercy for Succour Shee who was altogether a plentifull Fountaine of pittie after cautious and assurances giuen of the reuolt of the Portugals if an Army should be brought to relieue him presently vouchafes him aide and sends away a Royall Army vnder the conduct of the second Hannibal of the World Sir Iohn Norris Knight and that much Sea-loued Gentleman Sir Frauncis Drake In this expedition Essex desires to bee imployed but his Soueraigne who held him either too pretious or the action too low or else had imployments for him of greater and higher nature refuseth to admit him which hee perceiuing and being all then on fire and such a fire as no imployment of Peace was able to quench secretly and vnknowne to any creature but his dearest obseruer Sir Roger Williams hee stole from the Court and the Ships beeing ready to dis-imboage put himselfe aboard and so went the whole voyage what there hee did the very Gates of Lysbone can testifie and the Suburbs at this day are ficke of his ruines and had the Citizens beene halfe as faithfull as he was Valiant Don Antonio and his seede had in probabilitie worne the Crowne till this houre The Groine will speake of him for she felt him nay generally all Portugale did admire him and to the whole Kingdome and people of Spaine his name was dreadfull Some few yeares after this expedition ended it pleased God by the hand of a paricide Villane a Popish Fryar one that the Deuill and the Iesuites had beene long in breeding to suffer the life of Henry the third of France to be taken away whose next Successour was Henry the fourth sirnamed the Great of the House of Burbone and then King of Nauarre but vp starts the Deuils ministers by the name of Leaguers or the League and they with-stood that inuincible Prince so powerfully though treacherously that the distressed King is compelled to complaine to the great Mistresse of comfort the renowned Elizabeth Shee presently vouchsafes him aide and vnder the conduct of this most excellent Earle Robert Earle of Essex whom she made her Generall she sent into France number for number the goodliest the richest and the most glorious Army that euer the Sunne shined on O! yet me thinkes I see the enter-view or first meeting betweene the King and this Earle where the Flowers of England and the Flowers of France mixing together gold so reflected vpon gold that the Ayre and the Earth seemed all to be one flame and the Sunne blushing shrunke to see his glory ecclipsed The Earle had not beene many daies in France but he reduced to the Kings obedience all the Country of Normandie the Citie of Roan only excepted against which the Earle laid a strong siege brought it to that low ebbe of safetie that hee offered to giue it the King when he pleased for he had made breaches so large and passages so easie that there was no difficultie in the conquest but the King said He desired to winne France not to conquer France so that the worke by sufferance grew longer yet in the ende hee made it become prostrate to the Kings obedience What shall I say to the actions of this great Earle but only thus that Fortune in these daies was so far from displeasing him that shee seemed to labour for nothing so much as for his exaltation After he had finished his great worke in France and was returned home with the admiration and applause of both Kingdomes and had receiued from his great Mistresse a condigne reward for the Queene made him the Master of the Ordnance After some few yeares spent in Peace occasion being offered by the iniuries of the King of Spaine then liuing who like a Lyon lay euer sleeping with his eyes open to catch all aduantages which might any waies molest vs The Queene with a Royall Armie vnder the conduct of this thrice Noble Earle sent him into the very heart and bowels of Spaine I mean to the most feeling members and fruitfullest parts of all that Kingdome here in this Iourney he tooke the Towne of Cales sacked it and burnt it and brought away not onely all the wealth of the place but of all the Country round about it After his departure thence hee came into Portugale and there tooke the Towne of Pharo and sackt it had his Commission giuen his great heart libertie I thinke his Lordship found easinesse enough to haue sackt also both Siuil and Lisbone but laden with these spoiles he returned home and brought into England an infinite masse of wealth The next yeare following this expedition hee by the Queenes appointment raised vp an other Army and went with it to the Ilands of the Azores belonging to the King of Spaine being nine in number to wit Saint Michaels Saint Maries Tercera Gratiosa Fiall Pike Saint Georges Flores and Coru● and most of these well fortified strongly guarded and of great consequence for they are the very Store-houses or garners which giue reliefe to all the King of Spaines shipping in their returne from the West Indies All these Ilands this Noble Earle tooke some hee sackt some he ransomed the entier wealth he brought home into England for which braue exploit and many others the Queene created him Earle Marshall of England After he had reposed himselfe a little at home for I cannot call it rest the Irish Rebels vnder the Generall conduct of the Earle of Tiron but especially in Vlster vnder the conduct of the bastard sonne of Desmount Oni-mac Sori and others in Munster vnder the conduct of Filo-macesufe and Redmeale his broin Lemster and vnder the conduct of Captaine Terrol in both East-meathe and West-meathe had set all Ireland on fire by their treacherous and base combustions To suppresse this the Noble Essex is called for and made Lieutenant of Ireland a Royall Armie is raised and with it hee came into that much ruined Kingdome where betwixt May day and Michaelmas he brought Munster into obedience draue all the Rebels out of Lenster made East-meathe and Westmeathe as peaceable as any part of England setled in quietnesse the greatest part of Conagh euen from Athlone to the foot of the vnfortunate Curlewes and brought the Earle of Tiron himselfe to a fearefull Capitulation But then other Planets rising and this Noble Earles fortunes beeing to be gouerned by new constellations he is compelled to

King of Denmarke stood oppressed with Iniurious Neighbours it pleased him for his Vertues sake to elect this Noble man and made him Generall of an Army which he sent to his succour There this Lord acted all the parts of a most glorious Souldier for he gaue to the King of Denmarke all satisfaction made the enemie feele his courage and his friends taste his loue he cloathed euery great desert with Honour and euery lesse with his Bounty so that after his worke finished he returned home with praise and found fauour in the eies both of his great Master and Royall Mistresse After this expedition the peacefulnesse of the times kept both his body and minde a prisoner till now at last our Neighbours harmes teaching vs how to husband safetie hath giuen libertie to this new Armie in which this Lord is a principall Commander Goe on then braue Lord in this braue designe and make euery obstacle the Enemie would finde to deterre or hinder thee a new spurre to quicken thy resolution a new flame to kindle thine anger thou hast a plentifull Catalogue of presidents in thine owne Bloud reade them ouer and ouer and when this great Substance of Martaill resolutions shall bee brought to a comely and inuincible Body be thou the prosperous and successefull Foote which in despite of all oppositions shall march forward and bring the rest to the long wisht for Palatinate Doe this prosperously doe this bouldly for I presage it is a worke to which God hath called thee and Angels will clap their wings when they see it effected When O Britaine thou hast read these foure Chronicles to thy younger Schollers if thou findest any heauie or vnapt for Noble Action especially where youth and abilitie of body hath giuen incouragement of better hopes then point them out these three young Coesars the Lord Wriothesley the Lord La-Ware and the Lord Montioy let them looke vpon them with admiration and when they haue perfitly viewed them let them sigh and blush for shame that they are not equall partners of their vndertakings let them behold the obiect whereat they looke and they shall finde it is sacred and not profane a marke of holinesse not a blazing meteor of greatnesse looke on the chaine which drawes them and they shall finde it iustice not the quarrel of earthly passion and let them looke at the end whereat they would aime and they shall finde it is Heauen and the Communitie with Saints not the Court which is the Theater of worldly praise nor the Princes fauour But if all this preuaile not but still this secure Slumber of Peace will lye heauy vpon them then stirre vp thy warme bloud and modestly thus chide them Tell them that as the King is the great maine Ocean or Sea of all Honour and may bestow his waters freely at his pleasure so he expects from those which are his pettie Riuers that hourely to him they pay backe their Tributes That hand which giues Honor euer lookes from the honour'd hand to receiue some seruice Then you O you yong men you ablemen you that haue receiued honors beyond expectations fauours past hope and wealth past merit Looke whether your Riuers be not conuerted to standing lakes and no Tribute returned and whether your seruices be not concealed whilest poore barren wishes only make good the place of a dead duty if you finde these falts amend them if you finde these falts forsake them Againe tell these great ones whom hardly Thunder can awaken that when they neglect Honour they neglect and are rebellious against God and it is a meere folly for them to hope to rule men when they will not be ruled by him that made them But they will answere thee that greatnesse of place giues them priuiledge from Censure and so they can cary a faire shew no matter for sufficiencie Reply thou that it is folly to thinke so for assure them that a superficiall shew of sufficiencie is but like small Wines which will not keepe and being once tainted no poison like that of Contempt Say vnto those which are dull and want good matter whereon to build great thoughts that as small springs are soone emptied if they be often drawne so spirits that haue weake foundations silence is good to make them seeme wise but when Wisedome comes to proue them euery imagined good thing in them fals asunder like so many disioyned peices Tell the phantasticke Mimmickes of honour those which are caried away with euery shadow of fauour or fashion that neuer fixe vpon any thing that is constant or serious that alwaies hunt after vanities and thinke no exercise in Armes so meritorious as tossing a Shyttelwike tell them the study of vaine things is a toilesome Idlenesse and a painefull Folly the spirit which is strucke with this disease are very hardly cured neither can their curiositie in this kinde how carefull soeuer afford them any thing but Ignorance and belieue it there is nothing more dishonourable or daungerous either to Court or Common-wealth then an Ignorant great one Tell them that Henry the Great of France call'd Ignorant Noble-men Golden Calues and all that did Reuerence to them were worthy to perish for Idolatrie It was his opinion that Noblemen might bee borne good Generous and capable of Vertue but Instruction only makes them wise Wisedome cannot be gotten without paine she cannot be sold or if she could it is ten to one this sort of Nobilitie would neuer buy her there are so many follies to step betwixt her and them which are both cheape and euer ready to pull downe the market Lastly and for a Conclusion of this small Treatise say to him whatsoeuer hee be that shall taxe me of bitternesse or thinke I haue gone beyond the bounds of good manners in seeking to aduise them who are aboue the rule of my knowledge and that whatsoeuer is aboue me doth nothing belong vnto me tell them they are mistaken Bid them call to minde that the Tree which grew from Romulus Iaueling when he threw it into the ground was walled about by the Romans and kept so carefully that if any man of what degree soeuer saw the leaues begin to wither he presently gaue an allarum to the whole Citie and cryed for water as if all had beene on fire In like manner Subiects haue cause to grieue and call out when as those plants from whence the hope to gather the strength of Protection the fruits of Iustice and the shadow of their rest doe wither either through the negligence of those which should prune and preserue them or through the want of good Sap which might be infused into them by due watering and manuring FINIS The excellencie aed necessitie of a Souldier The antiquity of a Souldier What a Souldier is and his duties What Glories attend a Souldier Why the Souldier is glorified The Reward of a Souldier Fame Wealth Honour What Honour is The difference betwixt Honor and Laude The antiquitie of Honour Honour is eternall Honour vniuersall The priuiledges of Honour Inuocation on Great Britane The foure Vndertakers What they goe to doe 〈…〉 Britaine An Incouragement to her friends Who are her foes Gifts for her friends Difference of gifts The effects of good gifts How to helpe weake minde The Storie of the House of Oxford compared with Caesar. A memorabse note The Storie of Iohn Earle of Oxford the 15. Earle Edward the 4. his opinion of Oxford Oxford against Rchard the third Oxford comes to Earle Richmund Oxford brings Richmund into England Oxfords actions at Bosworth field Oxford leades the Vanguard Oxford wonne the field Oxfords happinesse A discourse of Iohn the 16. Earle of Oxford Oxford kils a Wild Boare The Frenchmens admiration Edward the 17 Erle of Oxford Sir Francis Vere and Sir Horace Vere Henry Earle of Oxford the 18. Earle Sir Horace Vere The Storie of the House of Southampton Thomas Earle of Southamton Henry Earle of Southampton Henry second of that name Earle of Southampton The Iourney to the 〈◊〉 The Earles education His going to the warres Robert Earle of Essex Fiall taken Robert Earle of Essex Spaines Indian Fleete beaten The Earle of Essex Villa Franca taken and a Carrackt split The Enemies assault and are beaten Southampton Knighted Southampton goes to Ireland He appeases Munster The Storie of the House of Essex Walter Deuereux Earle of Essex Robert Earle of Essex The Earles education His seruice in the Low-countries The Earle of Essex seruice in Portugal The Earle of Essex seruice in France The Earle of Essex seruice in France The meeting of the Earle and the King The Earles iourney to Cales The Earles iourney to the Azores The Earles seruice in Ireland Robert second of that name Earle of Essex Mr. Henry Alexander The Earle went a Captaine into the Palatinate The Storie of the House of Willoughby William Lord Willoughby Katherine Duchesse of Suffolke Peregrine Lord Willoughby The Lord Willoughby made gouernour of Berwicke Robert Lord Willoughby A remembrance of the Lord Wriothesley the Lord De-Ware and the Lord Montioy

they came galloping in vnto him and made the wonder in their distracted amazements some twelue times greater then Hercules twelue labours all ioyning in one that it was an act many degrees beyond possibilitie and that he was infinitely beholden to diuine aid for hee had done more then man could promise to himselfe or was likely for man euer to performe hereafter and some of the greater sort who had a stronger tie of his familiaritie began in the way of admiration to reprehend his too much ouer-daring saying O my Lord why would you ingage your person thus dangerously you haue done an act aboue courage and escapt your death beyond hope but the Earle seeing their distraction replyed my Lords what troubles you or what myrackle haue I done of which I haue no feeling is it the killing of this English Pyg why euery boy in my Nation would haue performed it they may be Bug-beares to the French to vs they are but seruants I tel you had an heard of Lyons beene in his place I would haue done as much and said vnto them with the Poet Dominum cognoscite vestrum I tell you man was created Master of all liuing Creatures at this the French were mute and only said amongst themselues that his valour and his Fortune had shakt hands and agreed to raise his name aboue comparison and so they returned to Paris with the slaine Beast where the wonder did neither decrease nor die but to this day liues in many of their old Annals Descend but to the noble Father of this princely Oxford now liuing and you shall finde that although the blessed armes of Peace in the blessed daies of the euer blessed Elizabeth did so foulde and imbrace our Kingdome about that euery valiant arme for want of imployment lay as it were manakled and fettered from the vse of weapon yet this Nobleman breakes off his Gyues and both in Italie France and other Nations did more Honour to this Kingdome then all that haue trauelled since he tooke his iourney to heauen It were infinite to speake of his infinite expence the infinite number of his attendants or the infinite house he kept to feede all people were his president now to be followed by all of his ranke the Pope might hang himselfe for an English Papist discontentment would not feede our enemies Armies nor would there be either a Gentleman or Scholler to make a Masse-Priest or a Iesuite that he was vpright and honest in all his dealings the few debts he left behinde him to clog his suruiuours were safe pledges and that hee was holy and Religious the Chapels and Churches he did frequent and from whence no occasion could draw him the almes he gaue which at this day would not only feede the poore but the great mans family also and the bountie which Religion and Learning daily tooke from him are Trumpets so loude that all eares know them so that I conclude and say of him as the euer memorable Queene Elizabeth said of Sir Charles Blount Lord Montioy and after Earle of Deuonshire that he was Honestus Pietas Magnanimus What shall I speake of the two famous wonders of our Land the euer memorable Sir Francis Vere deceased and Sir Horace Vere now liuing his noble brother to speake of one action were to draw thousands into my remembrance or to name one place were to lay the Map of almost all Europe before me and therefore I will referre you to the Chronicles of Spaine and Portugale where as long as there stands a Cales or abides an Iland of the Azores you shall see a Vere in a Souldiers Triumph Looke in many of the viewes of France and there you shall finde Vere armed see the Stories of the dissentions in Germanie and there you shall finde Vere strugling with Honour nay looke in all that hath beene written in the Neatherlands within the compasse of the longest memory now liuing and belieue it in euery page in euery action Vere cannot be omitted only in that Storie there is one pretty secret or mysterie which I cannot let passe vntouched because it brings many difficulties or doubts into the minde of an ignorant Reader and that is the mistaking of names for the Authour of that Worke bindes himselfe too strictly to the Scripture phrase which is to make one name to containe another as the name Adam to containe the name Eua also and the word man to containe the word woman also and so the Authour speaking of many notable and famous exploits fortunately performed deliuers you peraduenture but the name of Nassau or the Dutch and such like whereas in truth and true meaning the name of Vere should euer be included within them the sence so read the Story is perfect I speak not this to derogate any thing from the excellencies of that most excellent Prince to whose Vertues I could willingly fall down become a bond-flaue for the whole World must allow him a Souldier vnparaleld and a Prince of infinite merit but only to shew that the least spark of Vertue which is cannot chuse but repine when it finds a great Vertue iniur'd by a pen whose blaunching might make the whole World forgetfull Lastly thou shalt not neede to reade but with thy finger point at the life of the now Earle of Oxford of whom but to speake reasonable truthes such is the poison of Enuy euery good word would be accounted flattery and to speake any thing contrary to goodnesse Truth her selfe would swear it were meere Falshood Therefore I will forbeare his Chronicle and only say thus that his Cradle did point him out a Souldier for he brought that spirit with him into the World and that spirit he hath still nourisht for diuide his Age into three parts and I thinke two of them haue beene bestowed on Forraine Nations neither hath he let slip any occasion how great or low soeuer which might put him into action hee hath hung about the neck of his noble Kinsman like a rich Iewell and the one hath so adorned the other the one with Counsell the other with obedience the one shewing what to doe the other doing what was fit to be done that if there be a hope whereon mortalitie may build there is none more strong then that wee haue of this Nobleman Goe on then great Prince in this braue careire of Honour and fixe for thine obiect the designes of thy famous Auncestour and as he restored the lost House of Lancaster so I Prophesie if thou beest not the head yet thou wilt bee the right arme to the body which shall bring backe againe to the royall owner the now wasted Palatinate Now for a Conclusion to this Noble House Know thou whatsoeuer thou art which shalt reade this discourse that albe I nominate here but foure Earles and the first in the daies of Henry the sixt yet there haue beene of the name of Vere eighteene Earles of Oxford of which the first

returne for England and so shooke hands with the warres for euer After him succeeded in his dignities his sonne Robert Earle of Essex now liuing whom he left vnto the world young and tender yet a Souldier from his cradle for his whole delight was in Martial Exercises of this I dare iudge because I professe it that when he was a very child both in yeares and strength few horsemen in the Kingdome the Gentleman that taught him excepted did ride better valianter or with more discretion and iudgement In the Vniuersitie he spent his first time where he got both admiration loue and Learning and indeed being the sonne of that Father the very naming of his Name was enough to raise an army to gaze vpon him cry out That Heauen would protect him From the Vniuersitie he betook himself to trauell wherin he spent many yeares for the bettering of his knowledge and some in beholding the warres in the Neatherlands being an obiect to which his heart was fixed as soone as occasion was offered he entred himselfe into the lyst of Souldiers like a Soulder humbling himselfe to the lowest degree considering his greatnesse that thereby he might make his Scale more noble and persit In the Palatinate he did both Summer and Winter held out all extremities and in despite of Famine Sword and Sicknesse returned home with Honour Now last of all new matter being offered he hath put himselfe on this present action Proceede in it braue Earle and prosper thou that art the Image of thy Fathers body be the imitatour of his actions and I doubt not but Heauen will powre vpon thee a ten times treble measure of his blest and Glorious Rewards go on I say couragiously and be the Heart of this warlike preparation the large heart the vnyeelding heart that thou maist inflame burne all things before thee till the Enemie be glad that thy Masters Children will receiue their Inheritance for so my hopes Prophesie and so I hope God himselfe hath spoken Lastly reade O Britaine to thine vnkindled spirits the Storie of the House of Willoughby a Storie that whosoeuer will turne ouer that great Volume shall finde it full of Honour full of wonder full of Vertue full of great actions for mine owne part I can but touch at the names the matter and Substance lies at large inrolled by a much better pen-man And first as fittest for this short discourse and omitting many that went before him I will begin with William Lord Willoughby in the daies of King Henry the eight who was a man of infinite courage and vertue of high thoughts deepe wisdome and discreete caryage hee commanded whilest he liued in all the Kings Warres went on euer with renowne and came off euer with glory insomuch that Henry the eight that potent King held him as one of the richest Iuels which adorne his Kingdome and thought no fauour too deare or pretious for such great deseruings but the best things on earth are euer subiect to Mortalitie for it pleased God when this braue Lord was in his greatest prosperitie of Fortune and the highest fauour with his Soueraigne to take him to his mercy and he died without any Issue male of his body and only left behind him a Daughter and heire called Katherine which was maryed to that great heroyicall Lord Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke so that the King seeing the name of Willoughby which he loued so dearely and had so dearely deserued at his Royall hands likely to be lost in this sweete Lady began to take it to his consideration and to make as it were a monument to preserue this great Name and to giue it still a quickning life in his remembrance hee called for a well-loued Kinsman of this Lord Willoughbies and created him in memorie of the other Lord Willoughby of Param But see the effect working of Prouidence after the death of the Duke of Suffolke this Lady Katherine his Duchesse maryed with Bar●ue by whom shee had a sonne borne beyond the Seas which she called Peregrine and was in her right Lord Willoughby of Eresby To tell the Storie of this great Duchesse life how worthily Religiously and bountifully shee liued here in England how malitiously cruelly and treacherously shee was hunted and pursued for her life ouer all Christendome by an whole Kennell of the Popes worst deuouring Woolues to tell the dangers shee escaped the magnanimitie shee vsed the extremities shee was put to to tell the snares that were laid to intrap her and the pretty sleights her sweetnesse vsed to escape them to see how busie the Deuill was to vndermine her and how strong God was to protect her would raise vp amazement euen in stones and make the Earth cry out O Dea certe After her succeeded Peregrine Lord Willoughby the myrror and myrackle of his time This man must needes bee a Souldier for hee was borne in the Warres nurst in the Warres brought vp in the Warres his whole life nothing but a Storie of the Wars and the last act of his life was playd in a Town of Garison Of this mans actions all the Neatherlands can report and especially Bergenupzone for in them where was any fury of Warre out of which hee brought not Triumph and the Duke of Parma himselfe wheresoeuer his Chronickle is read of the Neatherlands must bee contented if Truth bee witnesse to haue this Lord Willoughby triumphant against him France thou must likewise bee a Trumpet of this Noblemans Glory and Paris thou must bee an euidence too strong to bee refelled thou knowest hee blew vp thy Ports and battered downe thy Walls and had not the Kings mercy throwne cold water on his anger t is well knowne hee had wrapt thee vp in a bloudy mantell for exceeding great were his designes and very good both his successe and Fortune so that lawfully without arrogance he might haue assumed Coesars inscription which was Veni vidi vici for althings proued easie to his vndertakings Lastly when hee had performed all his great Mistresses commandements and brought peace to her Neighbours he then returned into England where in recompence of his great seruices she made him Gouernour of her warlike Towne of Berwicke and in that Gouernment with peace of contience and the loue of all sorts of People he died and was exceedingly lamented After him succeeded in his dignitie Robert Lord Willoughby his sonne now liuing who hitherto hath followed his Fathesr step for step to Honor put on his Armour almost as soone and had imployments been as frequent and abundant as in the daies of his Father doubtlesse he had ariued at a great part of his glories notwithstanding he did neither neglect nor loose time but tooke hold vpon all occasions neither did Peace or Ease cast any such mist about him but that our Royall King Iames his great Master found him worthy of imployment so that when his deare Brother the