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

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

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

yet my Brothers judgement concurring with it which was that the safest and surest defence for this Kingdome was our Navy and that we could never be hurt by Land by a Forreigne enemy unlesse we were first beaten at Sea I thought it not amisse to annex it to this of my Brothers and by that occasion reading the whole Discourse from which I had it I found in it besides what concernes this point which was Directions for the securing of this Kingdome some such worthy expressions which as they did much affect me in the reading so I conceive they might be of some use also for these times as some for imitation others for other purposes I thought it not amisse to revive and bring them againe to light some things were spoken by that brave Lord of himselfe some others are related by him of those Ancient and renowned Romans where we may see a bravenesse of spirit even in those that were but Heathen Now if there were such brave spirits in them that had nothing but the light of nature to direct them What should be then in Christians that have a Sunne to their Candle Shal they come short of them in love and affection to their Countrey Will it not one day rise up in judgement against us as our Saviour saith of Tirus and Sidon that haue such principles and such encouragements of rewards above them They had but honour and reputation I may say a vaine and windy motive We have the Command of God and a heavenly reward promised even a Kingdome and that everlasting and shall we come so short of them as not to venture anything for God his Gospel and our Religion Did a Roman say he cared not to leave to bury him so the Common-wealth might flourish What shall a Christian doe for his Countrey shall he not lay aside all private respects of his owne and only seeke Gods honour in his care of the Common good Now most noble Lords and Gentlemen God having called you unto it Let your Countrey see and all the World know that there is more power in Religion then in Heathenish Principles Ioyne all your forces together to promote his Gospell and your Countreyes good O that the reviving of these few sparks that I have by this occasion brought to light might adde fervour to your brave English Spirits What though there be some so degenerate as to raise their fortunes and keepe their honours cares not what becomes of the Common-wealth and Gospell of Christ Yet we have found there are many yea many that still retain that ancient vertue in them and doe even at this time practise it to such I will say goe one Noble Lords and Gentlemen doe worthily in Bethelem and you shall be famous in Ephrata set aside all private respects and as you have begun with unwearied paines and patience which in all due thankefulnesse we doe humbly acknowledge Goe on still to continue your care of us and our Countries good and for all others contrarily minded the Lord either convert them or suddenly confound them In this ensuing relation I shall onely use that Honourable Lords owne words I leave their application to all true-hearted English-men The heads are these First His advice for Sea Preparations which are not as I conceive un-usefull for this present time Secondly his Protestation of his affection to his Country worthy the imitation of men of his quality Thirdly his extraordinary affection to Souldiers and men of Warre the favouring and cherishing of whom will be no small security to this Kingdom Fourthly his Iudgement concerning Pluralities of Religion tollerated in a State A thing worthy of due consideration Fiftly the sweet harmony betwixt a loving Prince and loyall subjects a desireable and imitable thing Lastly a sweet reprehension of the superfluous expence of these times which if some course were taken therein to limit them I see not but it would make much to the generall good of this Common-wealth First for his advise for Sea-preparations it was this that if Her Majestie would be pleased but to raise up a summe of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds a yeare and put it into the hands of an honest and sufficient Treasurer for the warres and to bee issued by a Councell well chosen would fully and sufficiently maintaine the warre with Spaine yea such a force should be maintained thereby as Her Maiesty having a convenient number of her owne ships and repairing and furnishing them as yearely she doth the enemy should bring no Fleet into the Seas for England or Ireland or Low-countries but should be beaten nor seeke to gather one into Spain but the parts of it should be defeated before the whole could be assembled yea those services should bee done upon the enemy that the poorest Prince or State in Christendome should have little cause to feare his malice 2. For his Protestation of his affection to his Country it was that the reputation of a most faithful subject and zealous Patriot with the hazard of his life and decay of his estate he had sought to purchase and when he was offered by the King of Spaine what Tittle summe of money or pension he would desire so as hee might be won to take their part hee did professe that if God had not put him back and arrested him by contrary winds and tempests that summer he would have taught that proud King what effects his proffer had wrought in him and the longer the will of God and his Soveraigne did restraine him with the greater interest to hope to pay him in the end that had sought him out as a fit man to betray his Queene and Countrey Thirdly for his respect to Souldiers and men of warre hee profest he did intirely love them First for his owne sake for hee found sweetnesse in their conversations strong assistance in their imploiments with him and happinesse in their friend-ship that he loved them for their vertues sake and for their greatnesse of mind for little minds though never so full of vertue can be but little vertuous and for their great understanding for to understand little things or things not of use is little better then to understand nothing at all That he loved them for their affections for selfe-loving men love ease pleasure and profit but they that love paines danger and paine shew that they love publick profit more then themselves That he loved them for his countries sake for they are Englands best Armour of defence and weapons of offence if we have peace they have purchased it if we should have warre they must mannage it Yea while we are doubtfull and in treaties wee must value our selves by what may be done and the enemy will value us by that which hath beene done by our chiefe men of action Before action providence made him cherrish them for the service they can doe and after action expeperience and thankfulnesse made him love them for the service they had done Fourthly concerning