would one Stratagem twice being it is Hannibal's character inverted excellent at using keeping and improving Advantages as the foregoing Gentleman was at gaining them And never coming on the Stage to act any Part but what he was so much Master of as to come off with applause as one that understood as well his own defects as abilities Upon all occasions of the Kings Armies withdrawing from those parts he kept all places in such subjection to his Majesty that at their return they found all things so well that they wondred to see themselves there when elsewhere a constant awe and love keeping those coasts loyal But it was so As clocks once set in motion do yet go The hand being absent or as when the quill Ceaseth to strike the string yet trembleth still So grave and reserved a man might have escaped but that the serious combination measuring other people by themselves looked on those men as most dangerous that were most sober His Estate indeed being so great that it was malignant too and as once a merry servant of his said and by the way his Service was such Preferment and a Relation to him so much more than Wages from others that he had as many ingenious Gentlemen to wait upon him for his divertisement as others of his quality had meaner people for their service If they could finde nothing else against him surely they would sequester him for Original sin At which and his other vexations being but a prisoner at large all the while he was resolved not to be at leisure to seem sorrowful that he might be the more serviceable for though as the Tortoise keeps in his shell all the winter so he retired in the sharpness of the late times yet he had all occurrences waiting upon him when he seemed not to take any notice of them One asked a grave Matron how her Maids came by so good Husbands when they seldome went abroad O said she good Husbands come home to them That Text of Solomon Fear God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change cost him they said three thousand four hundred sixty odd pounds blessing God for the benefits he hoped the Kings good Subjects should receive from their bitter usage which might prove wholsome Physick God sanctifying the malice of enemies the Serpents poyson may be used as an Antidote to do the office of a friend And supplying loyalty as freely as he had paid for it usually concluding his honest Discourses among friends with these two sayings Nothing undoeth us but security and We may well spare our superfluities to serve the Kings necessities To conclude a man this so happy in his Invention that in all his Loyal and Worthy Designs he was never at a loss but so projected all his courses that a second began commonly where the first failed and he would fetch strength from that which succeeded not A great observer of common occurrences the result of which enabled him to Advise and a religious one of extraordinary especially wonderfull emergencies for he thought that the ordinary course of things declared the glory of God The artificial mixture of them was an instance of the art of God and Men managing the subtile engine of the Universe The alteration of them as in a miracle did discover the will of God but the disturbance of nature as in Prodigies proclaimed approaching judgements which made him serious though not ensnared to those two credulous and superstitious Principles Fear and Ignorance which usually manage and deprave mens conclusions and affections Sir GEORGE BERKLEY IT is reported that in the last battel against the Turks for the defence of Christendom there was such a slaughter of the French Gentry engaged in that war upon the French Kings motion to them one day in his Palace that it was fitter they should appear in Arms against the enemies of Christendom than in their Silks and Feathers among their Ladies that there was hardly throughout all France a Family of quality that was not in Mourning It s certain that in the late and we hope the last controversie between the Government and the Faction there fell such a share of the publick calamities upon this Name involved therein by their own Consciences that permitted them not to sit down and injoy their own Estates at home while the State and Church were in so much danger abroad that I find but one person of any eminency and that is Alderman Berkley of London of the name that suffered not sooner or later on the Kings side For not to mention Francis Berkley of London Gentleman who no doubt might answer as the mannerly Gentleman did King Iames when he asked him what Kin he was to such a Lord of his Name Said Please your Majesty my elder Brother is his Cousien Germane And might be owned as once a Howard was by an honorable person of the name under whom he was impressed his Father interceding for his release the Lord asked for his name and when he replied that his name was Howard Said That his Cousien Howards Son should not be a Foot-souldier adding we are not all born to be rich though we are born to be great This Gentleman for his great happiness in conveighing Intelligence from London to Oxford travelling under the notions of a Pedlar and Chirurgeon for forming Combination here for his Majesty under the colour of Trade for securing and relieving his Majesties friends for being one of them that with Master Iohn Fountain and others at London who when they were demanded what they would be pleased to lend for the carrying on of the war Answered That it was against the Petition of Right to answer Yea or Nay whereupon Master Fountain was by the House committed to the Gate-house declaring forsooth against his judgment lest it should draw on others to the like honest error for indeavouring to publish every where the Kings Papers and Declarations to disabuse his Majesties good Subjects He was sixteen times Imprisoned thrice Plundered twice Banished and glad to Compound for the poor remainder of his Estate five hundred sixty two pounds four shillings and two pence Nor Thomas Berkley of Worcester Gentleman one of those happy men that are only to be found in England living in the temperate Zone between Greatness and Want France and Italy being in this case like a False Dye which hath no points between Sink and Ace Nobility and Peasantry who deserved so well of his Majesty in his Person in his Relation and in his Estate that he was forced besides several irregular sums extorted from him to lay down for his Loyalty in the Corban of the conspiracy Goldsmiths-hall four hundred twenty six pounds fifteen shillings and six pence A sum that deserves a mention for we are resolved none shall be denied admittance to the Temple of Honor who hath been at so great a charge to go through the Temple of Virtue Nor Edmund Berkley of Hereford shire the man
ruined themselves as well as his Majesty and made way for that settlement which they had overthrown wherein this Noble Person had as large a share of his Majesties favours in England and Ireland when restored as he had of his afflictions when banishâ—ed as had his elder Brother Sir Charles Berkley Lord Fitz-harding not short of him in Integrity and Loyalty though not so much engaged in Action They say that though busling times are best for the Writer yet quiet times are best for the Liver so though stirring men afford more matter of discourse to Authors yet calm spirits and peaceable men yield most matter of peace and satisfaction to themselves the deep waters are still too lighter passions have a loud voice but the greatest are usually silent and actions of a lesser dimension have a great mention while noble and great actions exceeding Historians expressions exercise their modesty The inward Wheels that set the Engine on work are less observed though of more consequence than those parts that move most visible He that made Interests kept Correspondence engaged Parties sent and procured Supplies disposed of Commissions managed the Designs for the Restauration of his Majesty though the most secret yet was the most effectual Instrument of the great mercy vouchsafed to this Nation Such as this honourable person was who when more than 50000 English-men were corrupted by the arts and success of the Faction and their own covetousness weakness and ambition to a partnership in their guilt in the middest of the cruelties and victories of the Conspiracy that amazed most part of Mankind taught the unskillful the method of Confederacy and Design and in spight of the vigilant because fearful Parricides opened opportunities both of Correspondence with his Majesty and with all true-hearted English-men who communicated Counsels gave mutual Incouragements raised Supplies and kindled Flames that might have devoured the Juncto had it not pleased God that he and Sir Henry Slingsby should be taken and so forced to exchange his Services for Sufferings from Prison to Sequestration from Sequestration to Prison from thence to Decimation For as in the Primitive times when any Calamity happened the Heathens cried Christiani ad Leones so when the least toy took the Christians frighted out of their sences in the head they cried Secure the Cavaliers Secure the Cavaliers and that so long until as the sufferings of the Martyrs converted the world so the generously born afflictions of Loyalty reduced the kingdom it became necessary for them to secure the whole Nation who as one man as acted by one common Genius like the spirits of the world wrought its way into that settlement by a general consent which could not be attained to by any particular combination in which settlement this excellent Person not only enjoyed a freedom from his pressures but a reward for them being made upon the King's Return Comptroller of the Houshold one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Treasurer of the Houshold Governor of in Ireland and of great trust about his Highness the Duke of York in which capacities he looks not to what he might do but what he should measuring his actions by justice and expedience If any person would know more of him let him make his Address to him and he shall find him Courteous let him Petition him and he shall find him extraordinarily Charitable let him go to his Table and he shall find him Hospitable let him Converse with him and he shall find him Exact and Punctual In a word a perfect Country Gentleman at Court one whose very nature is in pay and service to his Majesty gaining him by his Civilities more Hearts than either Laws or Armies can gain Subjects Every time my Lord Fitz-harding smiles the King of England gains one The Roman Lady when asked where her Jewels were brought out her Children and answered These are my Treasures This honourable Person if demanded where are his Services besides those in his own person formerly in times of war and now in times of peace particularly his good husbandry for his Majesty his faithfulness his place and the obligingness of his behaviour he can shew his Sons and say These are my Services of whom besides Sir Maurice Berkley Vice-President of the foresaid Province in Ireland two lately lost their lives with as much honor as they injoyed them viz. FIRST THE EARL OF FALMOUTH AS Treason taints the bloud so Loyalty ennobleth it the one deriving honour as effectually as the other doth guilt This personage inherited his Fathers Services as well as his Spirit being an early confessor of Allegiance and taught to suffer with Majesty as soon as to live he had the advantage of most other Gentlemen that he begun and spent some years of discretion in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience wherein all virtues moral and political are commonly better planted to a thriving as Trees set in Winter than in the warmth and serenity of times or amidst those delights which usually attend Princes Courts in the midst of peace and plenty which are prone either to root up all plants of true virtue and honor or to be contented only with some leaves and withering formalities of them without any real fruits such as tend to the publick good for which Gentlemen should always remember they are born and by providence designed Besides the intimacy of converse between his Sacred Majesty the most condescending Prince in the world and him in their tender years for which King Edward 6. loved Fitz-patriche so well as to have some thoughts of marrying him to his Sister and advancing him to the kingdom besides the sympathy of their spirits visible in the exact symmetry of their persons which indeared Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk so much to Hen. 8. that he was the only person that lived and dyed in the full Favour of that Prince Of whom it is observed That they who were highest in his Favour had their Heads nearest danger There were these remarkable things that recommended this young Gentleman to his Majesties Favour 1. His Happiness of Address much advantaged by the Eminency of his Person the Smoothness of his Voice the Sweetness of his Temper and the Neatness of his Fancy True is that observation of a great States-man if a man mark it well it is in praise and commendation of men as it is in gettings and gains For the Proverb is true That light gains makes heavy purses for light gains come thick whereas great come now and then So it is true that small matters win great commendation because they are continually in use and in note whereas the occasion of any great virtue cometh but on Festivals therefore it doth much adde to a mans Reputation and is as Queen Isabella said like perpetual Letters Commendatory to have good forms And therefore besides several other Messages of Consequence he had the Management of a Complement of very great consequence to the French King for
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
Bed was born at London Iuly 7. 1572. bred when his Father was under a Cloud at Westminster near London and Trinity Colledge in Cambridge when he had so much moderation as to appear constantly at our Prayers and Sermons and so much insight into the Protestant Principles as to judge that the distance between the Catholick and Reformed Churches grew not from their Controversies but their Interests not from the Opinions themselves which might be compounded but from the passions of those that managed them which could not be reconciled Neither was he satisfied only to read what men thought but he travelled to see what they did either in Courts as at France and Rome or in Camps as in the Low Countries or in Universities as in St. Omers c. from whence he returned a very accomplished Gentleman fit 1. For a Kings Privy Council to which honor King Iames admitted him 1607. 2. For a Companion of the most honorable Order in the world such he was created by King Iames with Prince Charles and the Earl of Sommerset 1611. that King saying He was a very fit man for the first of those Honors because he could not flatter and for the second because he could not but obey 3. For the Judge of the Court of Honor being a great Master of it 4. For an Ambassador to the Emperor about the Restauration of the Palatinate as he was by King Charles the first 1636. where having proposed reason to the Emperor and disposed most of the Princes to hearken to that reason so far that the Lower Palatinate was granted when Bavaria who got the upper Palatinate into his possession answered at last like a Souldier what he had concealed all the time of the fruitless Treaty That what he had with so much hazzard of his Person and expence of Treasure won by the Sword in defence of the Empire against the Empire he would now maintain with the same Power in the possession The stout Earl to express his disdain of the insignificant answer returned home notwithstanding the interpositions of the Polish and Spanish Ambassadors sent after him to moderate his anger and promise better effects after some weeks patience without so much as taking his leave procuring the like flur for the Imperial Agent that came over hither to excuse their past carriage and to offer new conditions upon strong presumption of Marriage which he had driven very far between the Electors Sister Elizabeth and the King of Poland 5. For a Judge in several extraordinary Courts of Justice an employment befitting the dignity of his Person and the firmness impartiality and resolution of his Spirit 6. For General of the gallant Army that went against Scotland a place suitable to his skill experience and conduct 7. For a Commissioner to examine the Spanish Navy under D'Oquendo 1639. and the design of it upon our Coast which he did discreetly and narrowly discovering more than we could suspect And 8. For a Companion to the Queen Mother of France when she departed from England in which capacity he was to his dying day very serviceable to her and to his Majesty contributing towards his service abroad for Armes Ammunition Intelligence and a good Correspondence near upon 20000 l. and towards his relief at home above 14000 l. Insomuch that the honorable Henry Howard hath paid for debts since his death near upon an 100000 l. He subscribed with the rest of the Nobility 12000 l. and sent more over privately 8000. several ways which had cost him his whole estate or at least a very severe Composition had he not discreetly setled it in Sir Richard Onslow and other Trustees who had done as signal Services for that which they called a Parliament as he had done for his Majesty A Noble man this made up rather of that honesty that desires rather to be than to seem good than of that hypocrisie that desires rather to be than to seem good one that made his business more to deserve opinion than have it as more concerned what thoughts he himself than what others had of him He understood the Religion he professed and professed the Religion he understood he never thought himself so good as he should be unless he strived to be better than he was equal in all conditions under the worst patient because he deserved it and despaired not as long as he could pray under the best sober and thankful because he feared it and presumed not as long as he might offend Supporting himself and friends with this consideration that if things are not so good as he would they should have been yet they were not so bad as he knew they might have been what if I am not so happy as I desire its well I am not so wretched as I deserve They say Favourites are Court-dyals whereon all look when Majesty shines on them and none when it is night with them Our Nobleman was most conspicious in his Eclipses and like the Images of Brutus and Cassius Quod abesset co magius persulgebat Though always in favour because entertained for use not affection not only relying so much on his Masters favour as his Master did on his abilities Goodness consecrated his greatness and his greatness honored his goodness he managed his estate so as to support his honor and employed his honor so as both to support and credit his estate good husbandry may stand with great hâ—nor as well as breadth with heighth he saved his estate by ways thrifty and noble with no loss to his honor travelling to gain experience abroad and save expences at home He might with Francis Russel second Earl of Bedford of that Surname as Queen â—lizabeth merrily complained of him make many Beggars by his Liberality he made none by his Oppression or Injustice being as punctual as his Ancestor Thomas Duke of Norfolk who when he was carried to be buried in the Abbey of Thetford Anno 1524. had made so even with the world that no person could demand a groat of him for debt or restitution of any injury done by him As he was a compleat Gentleman himself so he took a particular care his Posterity should not be defective often with pleasure telling the Ran-counter between a Nobleman of Henry the eighths time and Mr. Pace one of his Secretaries The Nobleman expressing himself in contempt of Learning that it was enough for Noblemens Sons to Wind their Horn and carry their Hawk fair and to leave Study and Learning to the Children of mean Men. Mr. Pace replied That then you and other Noblemen must be content that your Children may Wind their Horns and keep their Hawks while the Children of mean Mâ—n do manage maâ—ter of State But we will make bold with the rest of his Character as we find it in a Book called Observations upon the Statesâ—men and Favourites of England p. 725. only correcting the misnomer there of Philip in stead of Thomas Earl of Arundel and adding that he married
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
that speaks from his belly called Ventri loquus seems to be another at further distance which whispers and when a man speaketh from the heart the speech seems to come from one at distance and that is God He kept up all Ordinances Prayers Sermons and Sacraments in equal esteem as Scipio in a Controversie between two who should have the sâ—aling Crown due to him that first climbed the walls gives it to them both knowing that they both got up the wall together Especially taking care of Catechizing priding him self as much as Luther did in this Character Discipulus Catechismi that men studying the dark corners of Divinity might not lose themselves in the beaten Road of it looking upon Catechizing as the way of settling Religion at first and maintaining it still Our Saviour is observed not to preach against Idolatry Usury Sabbathâ— breaking among the Jews because not so dangerous in an age wherein saith one Iniquity was spun with a finer thred but against spiritual pride and hypocrisie this his Servant connived not at Debauchery the confessed bewailed and lamented sins of one part of the Nation but was very severe against Sacriledge Disobedience Curiosity and Hypocrisie the maintained sins of the other Mens Consciences he said flew in their faces for the one and would reform them but their Consciences were made parties for the other and would harden them Those sins he said were to be preached against that were grown into so much reputation as to be preached for He looked upon it as equally impertinent to confute an old Heresie which time had confuted and to spend time in reproving those sins which every ones heart reproved him for He read much but orderly drawing up his notions as the King of Sweden used to do his men not above six deep because he would not have them lie in useless Clusters but so that every particular might be drawn into Service but meditated more dispiriting his Books into himself He was glad to go from London to Bristol to avoid the tumults but he was gladder to be translated from Bristol to Heaven quite heart-broken with the Rebellion He never though almost fifty years a Preacher went up a Pulpit but as Luther said he trembled such an aw and reverence of God was upon his heart he preached but once before the King at Oxford and he fainted so great his modesty before men that gracious Prince under whom it was incouragement enough to be a good Divine speaking to the people to pray for him for he said It might be any mans Case and wishing him to retire saying he was a good man and he would with patience wait for him as he did untill the good Bishop being a little refreshed came up again and preached the best Sermon and the last that ever he made What good opinion the Parliament as it was called had of him though not over-fond of Bishops appears by the insuing Order which with the following particulars are transcribed from his Daughter Elizabeths Mouth and Papers The Thirteenth of May 1643. from the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon Information in behalf of the Bishop of Bristol that his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents It is ordered by the Committee that all Profits of his Bishoprick be restored to him and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great age and a person of great Learning and Merit Io. Wylde About the midst of his Life he had a terrible Sickness so that he thought to use his own expression in his Diary that God would put out the Candle of his life though he was pleased only to snuff it By his Will the true Copy whereof I have he desired to be buryed in his Cathedral Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof and as for my worldly Goods Reader they are his own words in his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give and bequeath them all to my dear Wife Elizabeth c. he protested himself on his death-bed a true Protestant of the Church of England and dying Iunii 28. 1644. lyeth buryed according to his own desire above-mentioned with this Inscription Hic jacet Thomas Westfield S. T. D. Episcoporum Infimus peccatorum primus Obiit 25 Junii Anno M D C X L I I. Senio maerore confectus Tu Lector Quisquis es Vale Resipisee Epitaphium ipse sibi dictavit vivus Monumentum Vxor Maestissima Elizabeth Westfield Marito Desideratissimo posuit superstes Thus leaving such as survived him to see more sorrow and feel more misery he was seasonably taken away from the evil to come and according to the Anagram made on him by his Daughter Thomas Westfield I Dwell the most safe Enjoying all happiness and possessing the reward of his pains who converted many and confirmed more by his constancy in his Calling THE Life and Death OF The Right Honourable ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY I Find in the Observations upon the States-men and Favorites of England this honorable person thus consecrated to Immortality He and his whole Family I know not whether more pious or more valiant whether more renowned abroad as Confessors for their Religion or at home as Champions for their Country have been in this last Age an Ornament or Defence to the Crown equally reverenced by the Subjects of it and honored by the Soveraigns This honorable Lords Ancestors were Richard â—irâ—ue and Katherine Ducthess of Suffolk so eminently known for their patience and constancy in suffering for Religion in Q. Maries days in the Palatinate His Father was Peregrine Bertuâ— in his Mothers right Lord Willoughâ—y of Fresâ—y so famous for his valour success and conduct in acting for Religion in Queen Elizabeths time when Commander in Chief 1. Of the second Army of five that the Queen sent to aid the French King 2. Of the third fourth and fifth Brigade she bestowed on the assistance of the Dutch and of the Garrison she intrusted with the keeping of Berwick and the Borders The stout Souldier that brooking not the assiduity and obsâ—quiousness of the Court was wont to say That he was none of the Reptilia which could creep on the ground and that a Court became a Souldier of good skill and a great spirit as a Bed of Doun would one of the Tower â—yons That undaunted man who when an insulting challenge surprized him a Bed of the Gout returned this answer That although he was lame of his Hands and Feet yet he would meet him with a piece of a Rapier in his Teeth That Hero who taking a choice Gennet managed for the war and intended a Present to the King of Spain and being importuned by the Spanish General to return it with an overture of his own choice whether a 1000 l. down or 100 l. a year during his life for it made this magnanimous
Sun it could not reach him but the Bishop of Derry turned it also and made it fall upon the Shooters head for he made so Ingenious so Learned and so Acute Reply to that Book he so discovered the Errors of the Roman Church retorted the Arguments stated the Questions demonstrated the Truth and shamed their Procedures that nothing could be a greater Argument of the Bishops Learning great Parts deep Judgment quickness of Apprehension and sincerity in the Catholick and Apostolick Faith or of the Follies and prevarications of the Church of Rome He wrote no Apologies for himself though it were much to be wished that as Iunius wrote his own Life or Moses his own Story so we might have understood from himself how great things God had done for him and by him but all that he permitted to God and was silent in his own defences Gloriosus enim est injuriam tacendo fugere quam respondendo superare ut when the Honor and Conscience of his King and the Interest of True Religion was at Stake the Fire burned within him and at last he spake with his Tongue he cryed out like the Son of Craesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed and meddle not with the King his Person is too sacred and Religion too dear to him to be assaulted by vulgar hâ—â—ds In short he acquitted himself in this affair with so much Truth and Piety Learning and Judgment that in these Papers his memory will last unto very late succeeding Generations But this Reverend Prelate found a Nobler Adversary and a Braver Scene for his Contention he found that the Roman Priests being wearied and baffled by the wise Discourses and pungent Arguments of the English Divines had studiously declined to Dispute any more the particular Questions against us but fell at last upon a General Charge imputing to the Church of England the great Crime of Schism and by this they thought they might with most probability deceive unwary and unskillful Readers for they saw the Schism and they saw that we had left them and because they considered not the Causes they resolved to out-face us in the Charge But now it was that dignum nactus Argumentum having an Argument fit to imploy his great abilities Consecrat hic praeful calamum calamique labores Ante aras Domino laeta trophaea suo The Bishop now dedicates his labours to the service of God and and of his Church undertook the Question and in a full Discourse proves the Church of Rome not only to be guilty of the Schism by making it necessary to depart from them but they did actuate the Schisms and themselves made the first separation in the great point of the Popes Supremacy which was the Palladium for which they principally contended He made it appear that the Popes of Rome were Usurpers of the Rights of Kings and Bishops that they brought in new Doctrines in every Age that they imposed their own devices upon all Christendom as Articles of Faith that they prevaricated the Doctrine of the Apostles that the Church of England returned to her Primitive Purity that She joyned with Christ and his Apostles that She agreed in all the sentiments of the Primitive Church He stated the Questions so Wisely and conducted them so Prudently and handled them so Learnedly that I may truly say they were never more materially confuted by any man since the Questions so unhappily have disturbed Christendom Verum hoc eos male ussit And they finding themselves smitten under the fifth Rib set up an old Champion of their own a Goliah to fight against the Armies of Israel The old bishop of Chalcedon known to many of us replied to this excellent Book but was so answered by a Rejoynder made by the Lord Bishop of Derry in which he so pressed the former Arguments refuted the Cavils brought in so many impregnable Authorities and Probations and added so many moments and weights to his discourse the pleasure of the Reading of the Book would be greatest if the profit to the Church of God were not greater Flumina tum lactis tum flumina nectaris ibant Flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mellâ— For so Sampsons Riddle was again expounded Out of the Strong came Meat and out of the Eater came Sweetness His Arguments were strong and the Eloquence was sweet and delectable and though there start up another Combatant against him yet he had only the honor to fall by the hands of Hector Still haeret lateri lethalis arundo the Headed Arrow went in so far that it could not be drawen out but the Barbed Steel stuck behind And when ever men will desire to be satisfied in those great Questions the Bishop of Derry's Book shall be his Oracle I will not insist upon his excellent Writings but it is known every where with what Piety and Acumen he wrote against the Manichean Doctrine of Fatal Necessity which a late witty Man had pretended to adorn with a new Vizor but this excellent person washed off the Cerusse and the Meretricious Paintings rarely well asserted the Aeconomy of the Divine Providence and having once more triumphed over his Adversary Plenus victoriarum trophaeorum betook himself to the more agreeable attendance upon the Sacred Offices and usually and wisely discoursed of the Sacred Rite of Confirmation Imposed Hands upon the most Illustrious the Dukes of York and Slocester and the Princess Royal and Ministred to them the promise of the Holy Spirit Ministerially established them in the Religion and Service of the Holy Jesus And one thing more I shall remark that at his leaving those parts upon the Kings Return some of the Remonstrant Ministers of the Low-Countries coming to take their leave of this great Man and desiring that by his means the Church of England would be kind to them he had reason to grant it because they were learned men and in many things of a most excellent belief yet he reproved them and gave them Caution against it that they approached too near and gave too much countenance to the great and dangerous errors of the Socinians He thus having served God and the King abroad God was pleased to return to the King and to us all as in the days of old we sung the song of David In convertendo captivitatem 〈◊〉 when King David and all his servants returned to Ierusalem This great person having trod in the Wine-press was called to drink and as an honorary Reward of his great services and abilities was chosen Primate of this National Church in which we are to look upon him as the King and the Kings great 〈◊〉 gerent did as a person concerning whose abilities the world had too great Testimony ever to make a doubt It is true he wâ—â— in the declension of his age and health but his very ruiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 goodly and they who saw the broken heaps of Pompey's Theâ—â—â— and the crushed Obelisks and the old face of beauteous Philaenium could not but
and all his Estate in Ireland both men of miraculous deliverances the one at Sea when forced to serve the Levant or the Indian Merchants where he was twice shipwracked living for four days without any sustenance and at last relieved only by that money which was stollen from him and the Company by one that was to die with them a strange itch to stealing when one takes that which neither they that lost nor he that took it could keep for ought they knew two hours to an end The other saved at the taking of Drogedah when all others were put to the sword because the Souldiers breaking into his Chamber found him at Prayers both persons of great fidelity intrusted with the Legacies and Charities of more private Benefactors than any two men in England and both called to manage publick Largesses the one being Sub-almoner to King Charles II. and the other Almoner to an Office though imposed upon him possibly with design he managed certainly with integrity The first died Archdeacon of Huntington 1666. and is buried at Westminster having great apprehensions of the sad state of things amongst us by the same token-that the last time I saw him he was very inquisitive what particular History there was besides Mr. Fox and the troubles of Frank ford of the Confessors Exile and Sufferings in Queen Maries dayes ' and the other died Rector of Whitchurch in Shropshire where he is buried fearing and suspecting the settlement of Ireland because he chose rather to take a Parsonage here than to return to his Dignities thither They were both Inns of Court-preachers the one Master of the Temple where he was as in all places he came to indefatigable in the extraordinary pains he took in Expounding Praying and Preaching the other Preacher of Grays-Inn 19. Dr. Ieremy Taylor born in Cambridge Town and bred in Cajus Colledge in that University his Parts being above his Birth and Fortunes for his Father was a Barber supplied his Chamber-fellow Mr. Risdens turn in the Pauls Lecture three or four times with such applause above his years that Archbishop Laud that great Judge and Patron of able men observing the tartness of his discourses the quickness of his Parts the modesty and sweetness of his temper and the becomingness of his personage and carriage preferred him Fellow of All Souls Oxford where he might have Time Books and company to compleat himself in those several parts of Learning whereinto he had made so fair an entrance An admirable Specimen of his progress wherein he gave in his full Sermon against the Papists November 5. 1638. preached to the University at St. Maries Oxford and Dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and being a compleat Artist especially an accurate Logician whereby he reduced all his Learning to such a method that he was the readiest in it of any man in his time notwithstanding the loss of his Church-preferments and which was more to him his time by his necessary attendance on his Majesties Army to which he was Chaplain he writ most accurate Defences of our Episcopacy Liturgy Ministry and Church which were never answered and some of the other side confessed could not be answered so exquisitely quick and exact were his Reasonings so fluent his Language and so prodigiously ready and various his Learning as being a very strict and pious man he writ several taking books of Devotion as Holy Living and Dying his Life of Christ his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Course of Sermons throughout the year the Doctrine and practice of Repentance his Golden Grove or a Manual of daily Prayers the Worthy Communicant A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer fitted to the needs of all Christians the Nature Offices and Measures of Friendship and his Cases of Conscience by which doing the Church in the time of her sufferings great services the latter adorning and assisting the forme◠and his indeavor to make men holy and serious preparing to his pains to make or keep them good Subjects and Church-men His great Wit and vast Learning being to be excused for some unwary Sentiments about Original sin and Liberty of Conscience the first in his Book of Repentance and the second in his Liberty of Prophecying which he writ to weaken Presbytery by pleading for Liberty to all other Sects as well as to undermine it as it had undermined Episcopacy he having published them with submission and explained them with moderation and Ingenuity erring possibly as a man but not persisting in his error as an obstinate man The reason why he was suffered under the Right Honorable the Earl of Carbery to officiate and keep School as he did very dexterously so long in South-wales to preach and keep a Congregation so long in London and to have a settlement in Ireland in those times where he had done so much good that his Majesty preferred him Bishop of Down and Connor there 1660. In which place what advices and comforts did he treasure up for all sorts of people and direct his Clergy to what Liberal Collections did he make what Directions to teach inferior Ministers to say and do well by reading good and approved Books especially Casuists and being skiled in the Rubricks Canons Articles and Homilies of the Church did he give what care of constant Prayers and Communions what strict Injunctions on his Clergy to visit their Parishioners and to deal faithfully with them especially in their sicknesses about their final state what exact Rules about the observation of the Lords day the Church Fasts and Festivals Catechisms Confirmation Confession of sin Declaration of the state of their Souls and conversation with their Ministers about Spiritual things what helps and Rules about the practice methods and benefits of Meditations what caution against popular compliances and making the peoples humors the measure of Doctrines which should be the measure of their humors indiscreet clashings between Prayers Sermons and other Ordinances unbecoming the discourses of God or light expression in the things of God emulation about Audiences of which he would say that he that envied his followed Brother is but a Dwarf that endeavoureth to pull down a higher man but is a Dwarf still advising those who could not have the fame of a good Preacher to take care that they had the Rewards of good men it being very hard to miss both what severity against disputing Articles of Faith or reviving old Heresies and their Arguments or novel and not allowed Interpretations of Scripture what diligence he wished popular errors and evil principles should be suppressed and the four last things should be inculcated what discretion he required in the use of Prmititive known and accustomed words in Religious Discourses in teaching all men the duties of their Calling in avoiding the heights of Gods Mysteries and inculcating the lowliness of Christs life in reproving the faults of men that Laws cannot or do not take cognizance of especially slandering and backbiting those poysons of Charity
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in