before his death and we wanted since A King in whom it is one of the least things that he hath been a King The glory and amazement of Mankind for an Innocence that was most prudent and a Prudence that was most innocent A King that when most conquered was more than Conquerour over himself A King deriving more honour to than he received from his Brittish and Norman Auncestours H. 7. whose Great Great-Grand-child he was his Saxon Predecessors Edgar Aethaling c. from whom he descended and other the most Royal Families of Europe by Iames 6. of Scotland and Anne of Denmark to whom he was born Nov. 19. 1600. at Dunfermeling so weak that he was Christened privately Providence saith the excellent Writer seeming to consecrate him to sufferings from the Womb and to accustome him to exchange the strictures of greatness for clouds of tears Though yet of such hopes that an old Scotchman taking his leave of King Iames upon his departure for England waving Prince Henry after some sage advice to the King hugg'd our Martyr than three years old telling King Iames who thought he mistook him for the Prince That it was this Child who should convey his memory to succeeding Ages A King that under the tuition of Sir Robert Caryes Lady the first Messenger of Q. Elizabeths death when the Scots thought the Q. would never dye as long as there was a majestick and well-habited old Woman left in England And under the Paedagogy of Mr. Thomas Murray and the Lectures of King Iames himself when Bishop Andrewes addressed himself to that King being sick and shewed him the danger of the young Princes being under Scotch Tutors was such a Proficient that being created D. of York 1606. that to make up the weakness of his body by the abilities of his mind and to adorn the rough greatness of his fortune with the politeness of learning he was so studious that P. Henry took Arch-bishop Abbot's Cap one day and clapp'd it on his head saying That if he followed his book well he would make him Arch-bishop of Canterbury And 〈◊〉 â—eft a world of good Books marked with his own hand through 〈◊〉 and in some places made more expressive than the Authors had done and his learned Father said at his going to Spain That he was able to manage an Argument with the best studied Divine of them all That besides many other accurate Discourses he had he disputed one whole day alone with fifteen Commissioners and four Divines to all their admiration convincing them out of their own mouths insomuch that some thought him inspired or much improved in his afflictions and others that know him better averred that he never was less though he appeared so To say nothing of his great skill in the Law as much as any Gentleman as he said once in England that was not a professed Lawyer his skill in men and things in Meddals Antiquities Rarities Pictures Fortifications Gunnery Shipping Clocks Watches and any Mystery that it became him to know For he said once that if necessitated he could get his Living by any Trade but making of Hangings Nor to mention his 28. excellent Meditations equally majestick learned prudent and pious 59. incomparable Speeches besides several Declarations and Letters writ with his hand and to be indited only by his spirit A King that being made Knight of the Garter 1611. and D. of Cornwall 1607. P. of Wales and E. of Chester 1616. managed his fortune upon his Brother and Mothers death at whose Funerals being chief Mourner he expressed a just measure of grief without any affected sorrow with so much gallantry at his Sisters Wedding and other great Solemnities especially at Justs and Turnaments being the best Marks-man and the most graceful manager of the great Horse in England as taught the World that his privacy and retirements were not his necessity but his choice and with so much wariness and temper that he waved all affairs of State not so much out of conscience of the narrowness of his own spirit or fear of the jealousie of his Father to which they said his Brother was subject as out of the peacefulness of his soul and the prudence of his design to learn to command by obedience and to come free and untainted as he did notwithstanding the curiosity of people to observe Princes faults and their conspicuousness to be observed to his Fathers Throne And so admirable his conduct in such affairs as were imposed upon him especially the journey to Spain where how did he discover their Intrigues How commanded he his passion and concealed his discontents How he managed the Contracts of Olivarez Buckingham and Bristow that might have amazed an ordinary prudence especially in a young Statesman How caressed he his Mistress the Court the Country the Pope not disobliging the most Jesuited Clergy How kept he his Faith and secured his Person How enthralled he the Infanta by his Meine and the whole Country by his Carriage How he honoured our Religion there by a Spanish Liturgy and how he escaped theirs by a Spanish Reservedness How he brought his affairs there notwithstanding difficulties and oppositions to a closure and yet reserved a power to revoke all in case he had not the Paelatinate restored being resolved with his Father Not to marry himself with a portion of his only Sisters tears How he the Heir apparent of the Crown considering the fatal examples of those Princes that ventured out of their own to travel their Neighbour Dominions got through France in spight of the Posts that followed him to Spain and from Spain in spight of the malice that might have kept him there How friendly he parted with the K. and Court of Spain notwithstanding that the first observation that he made when he was on Shipboard was that he discovered two Errours in those Masters of Policy the one That they should use him so ill there and the other That after such usage they should let him come home What an Instrument of love he was between the King his Father and the Parliament and what a Mediator of service between them and the King He in the Kings name disposed them to seasonable supplyes of his Majesty and he in the Parliaments name disposed him to a necessary War with Spain How tender were they of his honour and how careful he of their Privileges In a word when but young he understood the Intrigues Reserves and Maximes that make up what we call Reason of State and when King he tempered them with Justice and Piety none seeing further into the Intrigues of Enemies none grasping more surely the difficulties and expedients for his own design none apprehending more clearly the events of things none dispatching more effectually any business insomuch that when his Council and Secretaries had done he would take the Pen and give more lustre and advantage to VVritings saying Come I am
he was Author of the benefit of one of which upon the Thames is settled upon him by Act of Parliament 14 Car. 2. He Died 1666 7. The Lord Charles Herbert and the Lord Iohn Somerset the old Marquiss his Sons The glory of whose actions redounds to the Father according to that of Agricola Nec unquam in suam famam gestis exultavit ad aut horem ducem minister fortunam reserebat Tacit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 4â— 3. Sir Philip Iones of Treeowen Monmouth-shire who after eminent contributions to his Majesties service under the favour of the Ragland Articles wherein being in that Garrison he was comprised with his Son William paid for his Loyalty 1050 l. as Iohn Iones of Nam-cross Cardig Esq did 389 l. Gilbert Iones Chancellor of Bristol 43 l. Cad Iones Exon. Esq 483 l. Tho. Iones of Osswell Devon Clerk 80 l. Edmund Iones of Landson-Mannor 70 l. Io. Iones of Halkin Flint 156 l. 4. Commissary Guillims and Dr. Bayley a Gentleman of great Alliance a good Temporal Estate and considerable Spiritual Preferments who being undone for his Loyaly by the Faction who for divers years imprisoned him in New-gate where he writ the book called The Wall-flower and by the way he was indeared to my Lord of Warwick for being an excellent Florist and Chymist and disregarded for setting out the Conference between the Marquiss of Worcester and his Majesty by the Kings party became of a solid Protestant such a scandal did the late war give the soundest men of our profession a zealous Papist seeing our Church afflicted he thought her forsaken dying at 〈…〉 heart-broken with the report of the Guns shot off a◠〈◊〉 a man to whose name we owe much for Bishop â—â—yly'sâ—ake â—ake the Author of that Book that hath done so much good in England and Wales I mean The Practice of Piety 5. Edward Vaughan of Old-castle Monmouth-shire Io. Vaughan of LLanely Caerm who paid for composition 540 l. Sir George â—aâ—ghan Penbrey Caâ—rm a Colonel in the Kings Army 2609 l. Sir Henry Vaughan of Wit-well York 659 l. 6. Sir William Vaughan a person of excellent conduct and service in South-wales and Cheshire both for the Sallies he made out of Shrawarding-castle whence he was called the Devil of Shrawarding Commanding Shropshire Cheshire and the borders of North-wales for his Majesty and the defeat he gave one day at Rowtâ—n heath September 24. 1645. three miles off Chester to Pointz who being re-inforced next day and Sir Williams Command being bestowed elsewhere totally overthrew his Majesties forces Sir William hardly escaping to Ragland and thence to Ireland where having formed a considerable Army and incamped them under my Lord of Ormond before Dublin all Ireland besides being reduced by the neglect of the Ingeneer who had the charge of the Guards he was surprized and fighting desperately to gain the whole Army time to Rally was killed August 22. 1649. when as Commissary General of the Horse he had not long before drawn up most part of his Troops with a considerable body of Foot to cast up a Work at Baggot Rath which would have shut up Dublin so effectually aâ— with a few days to force it to a surrender had not some persons envied him that enterprize because as the Romans said of Christ refusing a share in the Pantheon of Rome he would have no partner of his honor A man owing his Success to his Reputation and his Reputation to his Vigilance Industry Civility Justice and Sobriety 7. Io. Williams of Parke Breton 50l Roger Williams 〈◊〉 206 l. Willam Williams Mothry 102 l. Thomas VVhâ—tely of Aston Flâ—nt 125 l. Sir Io. VVeld senior VVilly Sal. 1121 l. 18s 4d Maurice Williams of Swarbe Line 460 l. Sir Trevor Williams a Colonel of eminent service in the Kings Army Io. LLoyd Crinvin Carâ— 140 l. Sir 〈◊〉 LLoyd Cacrm 1033 l. Hugh LLoyd Guâ—rdvâ—â—y Râ—â— 76 l. Sir R. Lee of Lingley Sal. with 169 l. 9â— 0d settled paid 371â— l. 〈◊〉 LLoyd LLanvardo Sal. Esq 300 l. R. LLoyd of LLoyd 〈◊〉 Sal. Esq 480 l. Walter LLoyd LLanvair Cardig Esq 1003 l. Anne Lady Somerset 2000 l. Tho. Stradling of St. Brides Glam 777 l. The Right Honorable the Marquiss of Winchester who in his house at Basing commonly called Basing-house in 〈◊〉 the greatest of any Subjects house in England yea larger than most Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds of the King Pallaces Hugh Peters in the relation of the taking of it he made to the House of Common saying an Emperor might have lived in it made good the Motto written in every Window of it viz. Aimez Loyali Love Loyalty In a two years siege from August 1643. to October 1645. he held out against all the Parliament forces the good Marquiss being heard to to say That if the King had no more ground in England but Basing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to the utmost as he did not yielding till it was taken by storm with the richest plunder in money plate jewels houshold stuffe amounting to 200000 l. Sterling among which a Bed worth 14â—â— l. with the assistance 1. Of Sir Robert Pâ—ake who had been an Artillery-man forty two years commanded thither from Oxford 1643. with but 100. men with whom before October 1645. by vigilant and dexterous Sallies he did execution upon thousands with two brave Majors Cuâ—â—and and Lingley of whom see more in the Journals of this Siege Printed Oxford by L. L. 1645. He died a good Benefactor to the City of London particularly to St. Sepulchres where he was buried with great military pomp Iuly 1667. 2. Inigo Iones the great Architect brought up by William Earl of Pembroke at whose charge he travelled much abroad and studied at home in King Iames and King Charles I. time for Representations Masks and more solid Buildings his skill both in the Theory and History of Architecture in the most excellent discourse writ by him upon King Iames his motion called Stone-henge Restored appears singular wherein he modestly propoundeth and more substantially proveth that Posing Quarry to be a Roman Work or Temple dedicated to Caelus or Coelum son to Aether and Dies the Senior of the Heathen gods 3. Dr. Thomas Iohnson born in York-shire not far from Hâ—ll bred an Apothecary in London where he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England making Additions to the Edition of Gerard A man of such modesty that knowing so muchâ— he owned the knowledge of nothing The University of Oxford bestowed on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor in Physick and his Loyalty engaged him on the Kings side in our civil wars When in Basing-house a dangerous piece of service was to be done this Doctor who publickly pretended not to valor understood and performed it yet afterwards he lost his life at a Salley in the same siege 1644. generally lamented even of those that murdered him Dr.
that they said wore Tinn in his Buttons and Silver in his Pocket who would say to those that frequented his hospitable Table that he took care his meat should be good in its self and better by the wellcome to it who would not contribute to the Rebellion saying His Purse should not bleed by every Mountebanks hand And adding that he saw the King twice prayed for him always and did not see any reason to fight against him caring not whom he displeased so he pleased his own Conscience he went far and his credit in taking up necessaries for the Kings occasions farther in so much that those whose eyes were evil on him because his heart was good towards his Soveraign besides the trouble they put him to raised from him first or last eleven hundred and odd pounds as an atonement for his Duty and maintenance of their Treason When they would needs raise the Country about him to take arms and so neglect their husbandry and business he put them in mind of the story in Plutarch l. de virtutibus mulier A King having discovered rich Mines in his Kingdom employed all his people in digging of them whence tilling was wholly neglected insomuch that a great famine insued His Queen sensible of the calamities of the Country invited the King her husband to dinner as he came home hungry from overseeing his Workmen in the Mine She so contrived it that the bread and meat were most artificially made of gold and the King was much delighted with the conceit thereof till at last he called for real meat to satisfie his more than imaginary hunger Nay said the Queen if you employ all your Subjects in your Mines you must expect to feed upon gold for nothing else can your kingdom afford Nor Francis Berkley Gentleman the Roscius of his time for imitation being able to personate any man to the life as to make any part become him whereby he had a great advantage to disguise himself to serve his Majesty as effectually as others did themselves to fight against him he being as King Iames said to Sir Henry Wotton who had adventured to him to Scotland from the Duke of Tuscany disguised with a Message about some Councils at Rome that concerned his life upon his address to him when he came to the Crown of England The honestest hypocrite and dissembling actor in the world He could out-act others at any time but in one instance he out-acted himself for putting on the vizard of an ingenuous poor man he insinuated himself into the service of a Nothern Post-master as dexterously as he had done himself to a Southern Committee in which capacity he had a peculiar faculty of opening and sealing letters and imitating any hand without being discovered An honest sleight of hand that got the Kings party at times as he reckoned four thousand pounds and twenty considerable advantages against the enemy in those parts who thought that was conjuring which was only dexterity crying out that they were bewitched when they were only out-witted For these services he had the applause of his friends and for others of less consequence but more notoriety he lost a third part of his estate amounting to 900 l. to those people to whom his Master lost three kingdoms giving the rest to pious uses upon a sad accident that befel him or not so much him as his Pistol which being laid on a Table by chance went off and killed a Gentlewoman whereupon O the difference of divers men in the tenderness of their consciences some are scarce touched with a wound whil'st others are wounded with a touch therein he was so troubled though it was done so much against his will that it was without his knowledge that as his estate came in as long as he lived he posted in his blew Wast-coat with a round sum to his Ghostly Father being in pain till it was piously disposed and taking the good course to make his own Eyes his Overseers and his own Hands Executors that as he had been by accident the occasion of the death of one person he might be by choice an instrument of giving a comfortable living to many I say not to mention these and many more inferior persons of this Loyal name that with young David were ambitious of engaging in that cause with integrity wherein the elder branches were involved with honor the meanest of them carrying the Spaniards Motto That they would be Slaves to None and Subject only to their own Prince being of an innocent temper and an independent condition the two felicities that concurr in the making of a brave spirit that need not ask leave to be honest Sir George Berkley than whom few that lived so many pious lived withal so many sad days having his life equally divided between his own and the Nations calamities in which being too serious and thoughtful a man to preserve his safety with the price of his conscience and being better able to suffer than to fear he was ingaged first in his Vote and Suffrage as one that dared to stand to his reason against his interest more tender of the least trouble in his breast and conscience than concerned in the greatest Tumults in the Street and City Next in his Withdrawing leaving the House when the House forgot and left that for which they were called together designing to discountenance those practices with his absence that he could not restrain by his presence and after that in his contributions supporting that Cause in the Field with his estate that he had in vain indeavoured to have kept up in the Councils by his argument He was able to maintain it with his purse when he could not with his advice and when he had opportunity with his personal service both in raising men to serve his Majesty by reputation and in disposing them advantageously by his prudence He commanded but a little of the Army he was in but all the Country he was of having been a good Patriot though not pretending to be a good Souldier the greatest service he could do the King was by the exemplariness of his conversation which those of his own side might imitate as they of the other side did envy looking upon a godly Cavalier as a dangerous person who confuted their slanders and out-did in reality as much as they could pretend to having the best way of honoring the King by fearing God and being of opinion that they could not be faithful Subjects to the one that were not conscientious Servants to the other being so serious that he was seldom seen to laugh an observation made of his Saviour and so solid that he did as seldom dream a remarkable note in the character of Bishop Lake There is Village called Charleton in Leicester-shire where the Inhabitants could not pronounce there was a great Scholar in Cambridge Master Mede by name whose great abilities durst not adventure on and another in the same University who in a long
and bodily pain that the Soul may have time to call its self to a just account of all things past by means whereof repentance is perfected patience is exercised the Joys of Heaven are leisurely represented the pleasures of sin and the vanities of the world are with sound judgement censured Charity hath time to look out fit objects and Prudence to dispose of a mans Estate besides that the nearer we draw to God the more we are oftentimes enlightned with the shining beams of his glorious Presence as being then even almost in sight a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of them that are present that which will cause them for ever after from the bottom of their hearts to pray Oh let us die the death of the Righteous and let our last end be like theirs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. that is We must all the days of our appointed time wait until our change shall come according to Tertullians Character of the Christians in his time who saith they were expeditum morti genus It was a good resolution of the holy man that was resolved to repent a day before he died and because he was uncertain when he should die repented every day It is reported of Archias by Plutarch that having by fraudulent and unjust courses at length compassed the Government of Thebes he with his Complices kept a riotous Feast when in the midst of his Intemperance a Messenger cometh to him with a Letter from a Friend importuning him speedily to peruse it and he slighting the Admonition and putting it under his Pillow said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serious things to morrow when as the thing which the Letter concerned was effected that night viz. he died in the midst of his cups It was the policy of Iulius Caesar never to acquaint his Army before-hand with the time of their march ut paratum exercitum momenti omnibus quo vellet educeret We suppose this Gentleman who hath given occasion for this meditation is the Arthur Trevor of the Inner-Temple Esq that Compounded for 05461. 09s 08d They are golden words of a precious man Mentis aureae verba Bracteato I have often prayed that on my side might joyn true Piety with the sense of their Loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the effects of one might not blast the endeavor of the other Sir RICHARD WESTON TO Baron Trevor we might add Baron Weston who was inseparable from him in opinion and would have been so in suffering but that he was called to give an account of himself to God when others were so haled to give an account of themselves to men When we read that Sir Richard Weston died in Trinity Term the fourteenth year of King Charls the First 's Reign 1638 9. with the Character in a grave Reporter of a very Learned Judicious Couragious and Patient man in all his Proceedings and afterward read in the Chronicle of Articles and Impeachment against Sir Iohn Brampston Sir Humphrey Davenport Sir Thomas Trevor Sir Francis Crawley and Sir Richard Weston in Easter Term 17 Carol. I. 1641. We are put in minde of one Archbishop six Bishops and eight Doctors going solemnly to Cambridge to excommunicate the bones of an Heretick that dyed some years before malice would not end where life doth but extend its self to the grave and reach to the other world There were three famous Men of this Name whereof one read as much as the other two remembred practised Sir Francis Weston who preceded him in qualification as well as in place and he had a good Rule viz. That private men should take care to do no wrong themselves but publick men that others under them should do none We have done with our Judges save one we mean Sir Francis Crawley who is reserved for his proper place where we hope the Reader shall finde an exact account of him from his reverend Son Dr. Crawley the learned meek charitable bountiful and religious Rector of Agmondsham in Buckingham-shire who quitted his Fellowship at Trinity for his Allegiance as his Father quitted his Office onely be it remembred that what these Confessors for Law lost by refusing to continue under an usurped Power on the Bench they gained by private Practise in their Chambers the people willingly trusting their Estates in those Worthy Persons hands with whom the King had instrusted the Law being confident of their faithfulness to them who had approved themselves so faithful to their Soveraign And that they would not wrest the Law who suffered so much rather than betray it It is observed that when Sir Iohn Cary Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Richard the Seconds time lost his estate for being that unfortunate Kings Champion at Law his Son Sir Robert Cary had it intirely restored to him for being King Henry the Fifths Champion at Armes For a Knight Errant of Arragon coming into England challenging any to Tilt with him was undertaken by this Sir Robert and overcome for which Sir Robert had that Estate from Henry the Fifth which his Father was adjudged to have forfeited to Henry the Fourth And its observable that whatever any of these Judges lost to the Parliament their Sons and Relations repaired again with the King the Sword making amends for the damages of the Gown the Young Set of Loyalists fighting against that phrenzy which the Elder in vain pleaded against But we had almost forgot Sir Humphrey Davenport that man of memory who to his dying day had the old Year-books and Reports ad ungues but remembred no new ones as Beza when above fourscore could perfectly say by heart any Greek Chapter in St. Pauls Epistles or any thing which he had learned long before but forgot whatsoever was newly told him His memory like an Inn retaining Old Guests but affording no room to entertain New It is pity that he that kept the exact date of every eminent Lawyer in his own time should want an exact account of his own He was Born in Cheshire where are 1. The Most 2. The most Ancient 3. The most Loyal 4. The most Hospitable Gentry in England Iuly 7. 1584. the same day that his Father and Mother died both together within a quarter of one another When my Father and my Mother forsake me for want of natural affection to pity me for want of wisdom not knowing what to do with me for want of power not able to help me or by death being forced to leave me The gracious God that when a Father forgets his bowels cannot forget his love which is his own nature The All-wise God that when we are at a loss ordereth all things by the eternal Counsel of his Will The Almighty God that when we are weak doth whatsoever he pleaseth in Heaven and Earth The Immortal God that Inhabiteth Eternity that when Friends are gone will never leave us never forsake us This Lord will take
midst of horror and tumults his soul was sereâ—e and calm As humble he was as patient Honor and Nobility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to increase than when secured of its own greatness it humbleth it self and at once obligeth love and avoideth envy His carriage was a condescending as Heroick and his speech as weighty as free he was too great to envy any mans parts and virtues and too good to encourage them many times would he stoop with his own spirit to raise other mens He neglected the minutes and little circumstances of compliance with vulgar humors aiming at what was more solid and more weighty Moderate men are applauded but the Heroick are never understood Constant he was in all that was good This was his Heroick expression when sollicited by his Wives Father to desist from his engagement with the King Leave me to my Honor and Allegiance No security to him worth a breach of trust no interest worth being unworthy His conduct was as eminent in war as his carriage in peace many did he oblige by the generosity of his minde more did he awe with the hardiness of his body which was no more softned to sloath the dalliances of a Court than the other was debauched to carelessness by the greatness of his fortunes His prudence was equal to his valor and could entertain dangers as well as despise them for he not only undeceived his enemies surmises but exceeded his own friends opinion in the conduct of his Souldiers of whom he had two cares the one to his discipline the other to preserve them therefore they were as compleatly armed without as they were well appointed within that surviving their first dangers they might attain that experience and resolution which is in vain expected from young and raw Souldiers To this conduct of a General he added the industry of a Souldier doing much by his performances more by his example that went as an active soul to enliven each part and the whole of his brave Squadron But there is no doubt but personal and private sins may oft times overballance the justice of publick engagements Nor doth God account every Gallant a fit instrument to assert in the way of war a righteous Cause the event can never state the justice of any Cause nor the peace of men consciences nor the eternal fate of their souls They were no doubt Martyrs who neglected their lives and all that was dear to them in this world having no advantageous design by any innovation but were religiously sensible of those â—ies to God the Church their Country which lay upon their souls both for obedience and just assistance God could and I doubt not but he did through his mercy crown many of them with eternal life whose lives were lost in so good a Cause the destruction of their bodies being sanctified a means to save their souls Such who object that he was extreamly wild in his youth put me in minde of the return which one made to an ill natured man in a Company who with much bitterness had aggravated the loose youth of an aged and godly Divine You have proved said he what all knew before with much pains that Paul was a great Persecutar before he was Converted Besides that as many then spake more demurely than they lived he lived more strictly than he spake taking that liberty in his discourse he did not in his actions Hem Fides inconcussa invictus animus qui occidi potuit non potuit vinci animam efflans precando pro rege pro quo non licuit amplius pugnare Huic loco ossa Legavit pro oraculâ— ubi post obitum Peregrinatus tandem quievis semel mortus Bis tumulatus ter fletus quater Faelix Quem puduit animam a tergo exire THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord HERBERT Of Cherbury EDward Herbert Son of Richard Herbert Esquire and Susan Newport his Wife was born at Mountgomery-Castle and brought to Court by the Earl of Pembrooke where he was Knighted by King Iames who sent him over Embassador into France Afterwards King Charles the First Created him Baron of Castle-Island in Ireland and some years after Baron of Cherbury in Mountgomery-shire He was a most excellent Artist and rare Linguist studied both in Books and Men and himself the Author of two Works most remarkable viz. A. Treatise of Truth written in French so highly prized beyond the Seas and they say it is extant at this day with great honor in the Popes Vatican And an History of King Henry the Eighth wherein his Collections are full and authentick his Observation judicious his Connexion strong and coherent and the whole exact He Married the Daughter and sole Heir of Sir William Herbert of St. Iulians in Monmouth-shire with whom he had a large inheritance in England and Ireland and died in August Anno Domini 1648. having designed a fair Monument of his own invention to be set up for him in the Church of Mountgomery according to the Model following Vpon the ground a Hath-pace of fourteen Foot square on the middest of which is placed a Dorick Column with its right of Pedestal Basis and Capitols fifteen Foot in height on the Capitol of the Column is mounted a Vrn with a heart flamboul supported by two Angels The foot of this Column is attended with four Angels placed on Pedestals at each corner of the said Hath-pace two having Torches reverst Extinguishing the Motto of Mortality the other two holding up Palms the Emblems of Victory When this Noble Person was in France he had private Instructions from England to mediate a Peace for them of the Religion and in case of refusal to use certain menaces Accordingly being referred to Luynes the Constable and Favourite of France he delivereth him the Message reserving his threatnings till he saw how the matter was relished Luynes had hid behind the Curtains a Gentleman of the Religion who being an ear-witness of what passed might relate to his friends what little expectations they ought to entertain from the King of Englands intercession Luynes was very haughty and would needs know what our King had to do with their affairs Sir Edward replyed It is not to you to whom the King my Master oweth an account of his actions and for me it is enough that I obey him In the mean time I must maintain That my Master hath more reason to do what he doth than you to ask why he doth it Nevertheless if you desire me in a gentle fashion I shall acquaint you further Whereupon Luynes bowing a little said very well The Embassador answered That it was not on this occasion only that the King of Great Britain had desired the Peace and Prosperity of France but upon all other occasions when ever any War was raised in that Country and this he said was his first reason The second was That when a Peace was setled there his Majesty of France might be better
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
would likewise in this Nation over-rule all Power Authority Order and Laws that keep them within compass from without when those unruly Lusts Pride Ambition Animosity Discontent Popularity Revenge c. would over-run all those Banks that were raised against them have been 1. The Dubiousness of the Royal Title the ground of thirty six Rebellions one hundred forty six Battle since the Conquest In all which though the Rebels were usually the most the Loyallists were always the best and when the many followed sometimes a prosperous Villany the most noble and excellent stood to or fell with an afflicted right and bore down all umbrages with this real truth That the Crown took off all defects and that any man may pretend arguments to begin a War when but few can make arguments when it is begun to make an end of it 2. The Liberty of the Subject forsooth the old Quarrel for which the Throng and Rabble would venture much when wiser men maintained that there was no greater oppression in the world than a Liberty for men to do what they pleased and that Government is the great security of freedome 3. Religion for whose sake so many resisted Authority when one of the Maximes of this Religion is that none should resist upon pain of damnation and albeit the Factious in all Ages have been many that have taught men for Religions sake to disobey Authority yet the sober in those Ages have been as many that taught them that for Religion-sake they should obey them that have the rule over them But when towards the last that is the worst Ages of the world wickedness grows wiser upon the experiences and observations of former times and twists all these pretensions into one there have been excellent persons that with their lives and fortunes asserted Government and have been Confessors and Martyrs to this great truth That it is upon no pretence lawâ—â—l to resist the Supream Authority of a Nation a truth that keeps up the world without which it had been long ere this a desolation Upon the Reformation in Henry the eighth's time it fell out in England as Luther observes it did in most other reformed Churches that the Papists finding that their way was so odious that it was to no purpose for it to appear here with open face to settle it self therefore did they under several covert pretexts and cunning scruples endeavour to unsettle all other ways and when it could not establish it self to hinder all other Professions from being established that at least they might watch some opportunities whereof there are many offered in distracted times For no sooner was our Church setled on the Primitive principles of Religion and Government than some of those that fled into the free States and the places of popular reformation in Germany returning when most preferments were gone and living upon the Liberality of well-disposed People set up some popular scruples against the established Government and among the rest Iohn Hooper having been long in Switzerland upon his election to be Bishop of Gloucester scrupled several Ornaments and Rights of our Church the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland having a design to oblige all Parties in order to a project he had set up to convey the Crown to his own family to preserve the Reformation though he died a Papist writes to Arch-Bishop Cranmer to dispence with the publick Laws to satisfie a private mans humor and when his Letter would not do makes the young King write another and now Cranmer and Ridley stand up for these great Principles of Government Let private Spirits yeild to publick establishments there is no end of yeilding to scruples one scruple indulged begetting another so long till there be no more Law than pleaseth the humoursome be well advised in making Laws and resolute in keeping them Notwithstanding that the learned and wise Ridley suffered almost as much for his asserting the Government of our Church at that rate from the Puritans as he did afterwards for asserting the Doctrine of it from the Papists he was Martyr to the Protestant Church and a Confessor to the Church of England Hooper not being reconciled to him until the Sun of their lives was going down and their heart-burning upon this occasion was not quenched till the Fire was kindled that burned both their bodies The Lord Admiral Seymour was a back-Friend to Common-Prayer and old Latimer takes him and others up for it I have heard say when that the good Queen that is gone had ordained in her house daily Prayers both before noon and afternoon the Admiral getteth him out of the way like a mole digging in the earth he shall be Lots wife to me as long as I live He was I heard say a covetous man a covetous man indeed I would there were no more in England He was I heard say a seditious man a contemner of Common-Prayer I would there were no more in England Well! he is gone I would he had left none behind him Yea when the death of King Edward the sixth put an end to these differences among Protestants but putting an end to the publick profession of the Protestant Religion it self in this Nation the forementioned scruples accompanied some hot-Spirited men to their exiles under Queen Mary When Master Calvins Authority who forsooth observed some Tolerabiles Ineptiâ in our establishment and Master Knox Master Whittingam Goodman and Foxes zeal cried down the whole Platform of our English Reformation the judgement and gravity of Master Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester the learning of Bishop Poynet and Iuel the piety and prudence of Doctor Sands and Doctor Coxe the moderation and calmness of Master afterwards Archbishop Grindall and Chambers the Reputation of Sir Iohn Cheeke Sir Anthony Cooke Francis afterwards Sir Francis Knolles bore it up until it pleased God that with Queen Elizabeth it was again established and restored by the Law of the Realm In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign all persons were so intent upon obviating the Publick Dangers that they had no leasure to minde particular Animosities though as the Danow and the Savus in Hungary run with party-colour'd Waters in the same Channel so the several sorts of Protestants upon that alteration with several Opinions maintained the same Religion until the year 1563. when the Canons and Articles of the Church being confirmed the Governours of the Church began as it was their duty to press Conformity and they whom it concerned to oppose that Establishment refused subscription Father Foxe as Queen Elizabeth used to call him pulling out his Greek Testament and saying He would subscribe to that and that he had nothing in the Church save a Prebend of Salisbury and if they would take that away much good may it do them Laurence Humphred determining something de Adiaphoris non juxtà cum Ecclesia Anglicanâ They are Camdens own words Nay Anthony Gibby of Lincolnshire declaring in Print That the
in Chief of the West where in half an year he got 40. Garrisons well maintained 12000. men well disciplined 1000 l. a month Contribution regularly setled above 400 old Officers Souldiers and Engineers out of the Palatinate the Low Countries and Ireland usefully employed A Press to Print Orders Declarations Messages and other Books to instruct and undeceive the people Prudently managed the Pen upon all occasions being wonderfully quick in clearing this great truth That his Majesty and his Fellowers had no other intention in this war that they were necessitated to than the defence of the Protestant Religion the Laws the Liberty and property of the Subject together with the Priviledge of Parliament And by these ways prospered so well but especially 1. By the choice of his Deputies and Officers as curiously observing other mens worth as he carelesly undervalued his own being choice in his instruments because he was so in his designs well knowing that great actions must be left to the management of great souls 2. By his Discipline of the Army without which Commanders lead thronged Multitudes and not Armies and listed Routs rather than Regiments keeping his Souldiers men that they might not be conquered by their debaucheries first and then by their enemies by moral instructions enduring no Achan to trouble his Camp as well as making them Souldiers that they might not be to learn when they were to perform their duty Turpe est in arte militari dicere non putaram by military direction 3. By his Pay to his followers pinching himself to gratifie them knowing well what gelt could do and what it was to keep back from men the price of their bloud making them hazard their lives by Fight to earn their pay and by Famine before they got it His three words were Pay well Command well and Hang well 4. By his care to keep open the Trade of the Countries under his Command by Sea and Land 5. By his solemn familiarity neither the Mother of Contempt nor the Daughter of Art and design his language with Caesar to his Country-men was not Milites but Comilitones and with the Husbandman it was not Go ye but Gawee seldom putting them upon any service the most difficult part whereof he undertook not himself in so much that the Country stood as well out of love to his Person as conscience towards his Cause 6. By sharing with them in their wants observing their deserts and rewarding them he never made scales of his Souldiers when they were dead in taking Cities nor Bridges of them when living in bestowing preferments knowing that deserving persons are more deeply wounded by their Commanders neglect than by their Enemies the one may reach to kill the body the other deadneth the spirit 7. By preserving his Souldiers being loath to loose them in a day which he could not breed in a year and understanding the perience and resolution of a veterane Army he had the happy way of securing and entrenching himself for which â—ustavus Adolphus is so famous so as in spight of his enemies to fight for no mans pleasure but his own not cozened by any appearances nor forced by any violence to fight till he thought fitting himself counting it good manners in war to take all advantages and give none especially when the small beginnings of his affairs confined his care more how to save himself handsomelyâ— than set on the enemy giving his enemies occasion to complain that he would not patiently lye open to their full stroke as that Roman brought an action against a man because he would not receivâ— into his â—oâ—y his whole dart A prudent reservation is as useful as a â—esolute onset it being a greater skill to ward off blows than to give them he was as wise as that Lewis of France in preventing danger who had foresight to prevent mischiefs when they were coming but not a present prudence to engage them when come though yet he was as ready in incountring dangers as that Henry of England who could as the Lord Bacon observes who drew his life with a Pencil as majestick as his Scepter with ready advice command present thoughts to encounter that danger with success which he could not with foresight prevent 8. By understanding his Enemies way and the Countreys scituation as to take many advantages by his incredible diligence all his army doing service once every sixth day and prevent all disadvantages by his equally incredible watchfulness 9. By his Piety keeping strict communion with God all the while he was engaged in a war with men He was reckoned a Puritan before the wars for his strict life and a Papist in the wars for exemplary devotion entertaining sober and serious Non-conformists in his House while he fought against the Rebellioâ—s and Factious in the Field And we find him subscribing a Petition to his Majesty 1630. with other Gentlemen of Sommerset shire to prevent unlawful and scandalous Revellings on the Lords day As we observe him publishing Orders for the strict observation of the Lords day the incouragement of good Ministers and People throughout his quarters being very severe in these two Cases 1. Rapines committed among the people And 2. Prophaneness against God saying That the scandal of his Souldiers should neither draw the wrath of God upon his undertaking nor enrage the Country against his Cause By these courses I say he prospered so being so well placed to use Paterculus his words of Sejanus in eo cum judicio Principis certahant studia populi that the enemies Historian May writes this undoubted because an adversaries testimony of him Of all commanders there that sided with the King against the Parliament Sir Ralph Hopton by his unwearied industry and great reputation among the people had raised himself to the most considerable heighth until the Earl of Stamford coming to the West raised Sir Ralph from the Siege of Plymouth with some disadvantage which yet the old Souldier made up again by a Parthian stratagem of a feigned flight entrapping most of the Earls men and to overthrowing the Parliament Forces in so much that the Earl of Stamford desired a truce for twenty days which Sir Ralph condescended to with a design during the truce to bring off Sir Iohn Chadley as he did so happily that the Earl was forced to betake himself to Exeter the whole West consisting of so many rich and flourishing Shires being wholly at his Majesties devotion And when Sir William Waller with the posse of twenty one Counties came upon him he managed Skirmishes and Retreats with so much dexterity that his very Flights conquered for drawing Sir William to the Devizes to Besiege it and making as if he would Treat about the yielding of that place he contrived that he should be surprized with an unexpected Party of Horse on the one side while he drew out upon him on the other with such success that he defeated scattered and ruined him beyond relief the Earl of
gloriam fortitudinem quae pati tantum potuit THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable SPENCER Earl of NORTHAMPTON SPencer Compton Earl of Northampton Son to William the first Earl of the Family Created 1618. 16. Iac. by Sir Francis Beaumont the Duke of Buckinghams Uncles Daughter had as many remarkables as he said in his life as there were years to his death He was born at Compton in Warwickshire the very same day and hour that the Powder Traytors were defeated at Dun-church in that County an Omen that that life like Caesars who was born at the defeat of a Tumult should be hazarded for the suppressing of Rebellion that was begun with the suppression of Treason The first step he went by himself was to reach the Kings Picture and the first word he ever spoke was the King an argument he used upon his retirement 1641. to those of the party that had so much as to understand worth and making advantage of his solitude for a tempâ—ation pressed him to a neâ—trality why besides the impossibility of being a Neuter he was resolved to stand by the Soveraignty and Government of his Native Country while he could either speak or stand his parts were so great and his appetite to knowledge so large that it was as much as four several Tutors at Home at Cambridge and in France and Italy each taking his respective hour for the Art and Science he professed to keep pace with his great proficiency the vigor of his soul advantaged by the strong constitution of his body as that was by the temperance of his dyer I am informed that in all his life time he took but one Antidote and never purged but once and then the Physick found no obnoxious humor to work upon so healthful was his temper The symbolizing of their sober and grave temperr rendred him as great a Favorite to Prince Charles as his Cousin the Duke of Buckingham was of King Iames being his Companion at home and an Attendant on him abroad particularly in Spain where I am told he waited upon him in the quality of Master of his Robes and Wardrobe and had the honor to deliver all the Presents made by the Prince there amounting to 64000 l. As he held the Kings Train at the Coronation 1525. as Master of the Robes to his Majesty with the Earl of Denbigh who was Master of the Wardrobe Two things he would have nothing to do with 1. Church-lands because his direct Ancestor being not only Chief Gentleman of King Henry the Eighths Bed-chamber but the third man in his favor had not a Shooe-latchet of Abbey-land as there was none in all his ancient paternal estate though saith my Author nothing debarred him save his own abstineâ—ce 2. Inclosures since Captain Powch a poor fellow with a powch wherein he said there was that which would secure his followers though there was nothing in it but a piece of mouldy Cheese with so many thousand people did so much mischief because of Inclosures in Warwick-shire Northampton-shire and Leicester-shire He could not endure jesting with Religion there being no people of what Religion soever but had serious and great thoughts of their Numen nor an oath on any except Judicial and Solemn occasions often repeating that of Prince Henry That he knew no game or Value to be won or lost that was worth an Oath Having been so many years a witness of the Kings Majesties gracious disposition for solong a time had experience of the benefit of his Majesties Government the comfort of the Religion established upon the Faction breaking out of their shell upon the warmth of the present peace and plenty and peeping out of their privacy wherein like the Hedge-hogg they rounded themselves in their prikcles without motion took aim at the government seeing the contracts of the Nobility and tumults of the commonalty walking formerly so ugly they are in themselves with the borrowed face of Religion but now in the heat of their success casting off that cloak break out daily into outrages as much against Policy as Piety as simple as scandalous the licentious having given reins to their loosness are not able to stop themselves he not only dissented from their proceedings in all publick counsels but prepared to second that dissent with Arms wherewith he was the best furnished when there was occasion to make use of them of any Nobleman in England having settled his estate and advanced several thousands towards the publick service making the noblest appearance 1639. against the Scots and the most effectual provision 1642. against the English waiting upon his Majesty to York to advise in the Ardua Regni attest the clearness of his Majesties procedures and vow his assistance as appears by his hand to several publick Declarations from that place from whence summoning as many good Souldiers and honest Gentlemen as were of his acquaintance the one to raise the Country and the other to lead and command by the untained reputation of his name the moderation and sobriety of his principles the exemplary regularity of his person and family the justice and generosity of his dealing with his neighbors and dependants the hospitality and almes of his house the sweetness of his spirit amazed such a Body in Warwick-shire as having seized on the Ordnance at Banbury and marching resolutely against the Lord Brooks checked his Career awed the Country to Allegiance consining that Lord to two or three Garrisons he had suddainly made for his retreat and this notwithstanding a Letter from the Parliament May 30. 1642. to him and such other Lords as they thought most serviceable to his Majesty naming him in the first place and after his generous answer Iune 8. a Charge and Impeachment against him of very great Crimes and Misdemeanors proceeding so vigorously that he in twelve Skirmishes put a great stop to Essex his grand Rendezâ—â—vous at Northampton insomuch as that Essex should say The going away of these sober Lords from us is a great blow not only in regard of thâ—ir interest and reputation but of their vigilance and activity Upon which score hoping to gain them by their worst way of cruelty their kindness they forbear to proclaim my Lord Traytor to render him desperate though in vain as he observed since they had charged him with Misdemeanors that made him irreconcileable Therefore he proceeds securing most of the Armes Ammunition and Garrisons in Warwick-shire Stafford shire and Northampton-shire and settling the Association so as to be able to surnish his Majesty with two thousand of the best disciplined men in all the Kings Army to Keinton-fight and to Besiege Lichâ—ield having made the Country from Garrison to Garrison one Line of Communication when receiving intelligence of â—râ—râ—ton and Gells coming to the Relief of the Place with near four thousand horse and foot he drew out a eleven hundred horse and dragoonsâ— so dextrously that he surprized and routed their house at Hopton heath
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
Bishop of Exceter and Mr. Ashwell and when restored chosen by the Fellows for President of that Colledge wherâ— he had been so usefully a Fellow and a Tutor but superior power guiding that choice as it happened very well another way he was entertained Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England by whom he was preferred Rector of the great Parish of St. Andrews Holborn where he was buried 1665. 12. Dr. Meredith Fellow of All-Souls Chaplain to the Earl of Newburgh Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster who bestowed on him an Hospital in Leicester-shire belonging to that Dutchy out of which and his Fellowship he was turned 1647. and restored to both 1660. when he succeeded Dr. Sheldon now Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the Wardenship of the Colledge as he did Dr. Monke in the Provostship of Eaton an excellent Companion where-ever he was entertained in the time of the Troubles when he was every where welcome so good his nature and where ever he entertained since for then he made excellent persons as welcome as they had done him of a noble spirit in his Magnificent Treatments to the Rich and Liberal Erogations to the Poor weekly while he lived and yearly when he died 1665. 13. Dr. Peter Turner of Mâ—rton Colledge active in composing the new Statutes of the University of Oxford and most elegant in expressing them and the excellent Preface to them 14. Iohn Graves the excellent Mathematician Linguist and Traveller of the same House as famous for his discourse of Pyramids as the Kings of Aegypt thought to make themselves by building them Brother to the reverend Dr. Graves a very sober person a general Scholar and an exact Linguist sometimes Scholar of the Charterâ—house and Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford and now Prebend of Peterburgh whom I will wrap up in the same character wherein I finde another very learned Linguist and Critick Mr. H. Iacob of Merton Colledge express his great friend Mr. H. Brigges in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Translated by Mr. H. Briched of All-Souls Circuitor terrae stellisque Coambulo cujus Ad sphaeram Cerebri movit uterque Polus Vixisti mathesin quadrans ad pectora voces Normatus factis sidereusque â—ide Nec moritur studium vel in ipsa morte sepultus Commetire solum corpore mente polum 15. Master Francis Newman Fellow of All-Souls a Person of great parts and a good carriage who coming by White-hall when the King was put to death he laid the horrid fact so to heart that coming home to Master Heywoids house at Westminster whose Sister he had married he fell into such an agony that going up immediately into his Chamber he told his friends about him though he was then as well as ever he was in his life that he should never stir out of that Chamber alive as his heart breaking under the great weight of his grief for the horror of the act its self and his thoughts for he was a fore-seeing man of the sadness of the consequence of it he did not dying 1649. All hopeful persons that had the happiness to know what was excellent and best abilities to attain it lighting each others Torch and warming one another as embers by converse Of whom one of their acquaintance leaves this Memorial to Posterity Si nostri memor Gens posterorum haud ulla magis virtute gloriaque censeri volo quam quod altum Masterum suavissime strenuum Diggesium mellifluum Waringum cui communium locorum methodus Index rerum pariter verbo rum optima ubique eruditum Stotevill Chidmea Mede Powellos utrosque fratres stupendum Gregorium modestum Sparke Rouse Bogan Wats Taylerum Acutissimum Sugge magnificum Meredith maximum Turnerum Gravium Newman Sanderum prudentissime Doctum saeculi sui gloriam pudorem amore pro secutus sum sumo in illustri Oxon. Ingeniorum Olim minimus amore sancto nulla quem sequens dies expunget aevo dum decus suum Piis constabit literis honos aetas virtutum ferox Aurei propago secli Orta coelo pectora O dulce mentium contubernium Illi enim non erant fluxa quos tuentibus figura monstrat quosque contrectat manus erant illi animarum Igneus vigor Quae quasi separatae corporise contagione nil traxere O quibus nomen obtigit Livore majus senecta temporum exorsque Lethi O cultos mihi semper colendos antiqua fide sublime Coelo laetus efferam caput si me benignus Eruditorum Chorus Consentiensque post-humae gentis favor tali coronae accensere ultimum velit H.G.D.H.A. THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable HENRY SPENCER Earl of Sunderland THis Noble Person whose Ancestor when created Baron of Wormeleighton in Warwick-shire primo Iacobi as he said for the report of his being the greatest Moneyed man in England was the fifth Knight of his Family in an immediate succession descended from the Spencers Earls of Gloucester and Winchester was himself when made Earl for his great merit in Court and Camp 19 Car. 1. 1643. the thirty ninth Gentleman bearing arms successively in his house being allied as it appeared then to all the Nobility that time at Court but Duke Hamilton A taunt a Boy gave him when a Child proved a sober Precept to him when a Man and the bare being upbraided that he would be a wicked and an useless Nobleman obliged him ever after to approve himself otherwise When Monicaes St. Augustines Mothers Companion called her Toss-pot in her anger it gave her occasion to be sober and temperate all her life Bitter Jeers sometimes makes wholsom Physick when God sanctifieth malice to do the office of good will Mr. Perkins having taken so much liberty in his younger years as cost him many a sigh in his reduced age heard a Tutor in the next Chamber to him chiding a Pupil thus What will you be such a Bake-hell as Perkins and immediately upon it was reclaimed and the Quick-silver of his extravagant studies and courses fixed to a very great improvement Three dayes were very lucky to him May 6. Iuly 11. and September 19. and two unlucky Sept. 20. and Ian. 6. Great men have their great days it was the sixth of April whereon Alexander was born the sixth of April that he conquered Darius the sixth of April that he won a battel at Sea and a sixth of April that he dyed on On the thirtieth of September Pompey the Great was born on the thirtieth of September he triumphed for his Asian Conquest and on the thirtieth of September he dyed on On the nineteenth of August Augustus was adopted on the nineteenth of August he began his Consulship on the nineteenth of August he Conquered the triumviri and on the nineteenth of August he dyed The sixth
his personal valor in six several desperate Engagementâ— especially in the latter end of the Worcester Fight to gain his 〈◊〉 time to retreat with whom he went by the conduct of a Scout he had made use of formerly to Boscobell where parting 〈◊〉 without 〈◊〉 unusual to so valiant a person my Lord 〈◊〉 to go towards London to meet his Majesty according to appointmentâ— at the Green-dragon at the â—intry in Thames-street but finding the ways strictly guarded retired to Mr. Whitegreaves Mr. Huâ—â—â—â—â— and Col. Lanes where after several consultations had for his Majeâ—ties safe transportation my Lord bethought himself of one Mr. Elden formerly Captain in the Kings Army and now a Merchant in lynn that had befriended the Lord â—erkley in the like care with whom he had contrived the Voyage but that the Ship-master they agreed with tailed them and then supporting and directing his Majesty in all emergencies with an invincible courage his Lord hâ—pâ—â— him up and down through inâ—inite windings and turniâ—gs till happening upon a Vessel in brighthelmâ—sted in Sussex the Master whereof was charmed by his Lordship under pretence of selling his Coals at the isle of wight to carry them that way and then my Lord pretending that his mind altered after a well acted quarrel with the honest Master of the Vessel to the Coast of France where he stayed not long with his Majesty but being Created Earl of Rochester undertook a successful 〈◊〉 to the Imperial Diet at the Ratisbone where he procured a considerable sum of money for the present and a very fair promise of the Emperors and the Princes assistance for the future and in his return settled a correspondency for the like purpose in England whither he ventured several times in person particularly 1655. at Hâ—ssamMoor near York where the appearance of Cavaleers at the day appointed not answering expectation my Lord and Sir Nicholas Armorer escaped from the midst of three thousand men that had as it were inclosed them to Ailesbury and from the very hands of the Usurpers Instruments thence into Flanders where he served the King of Spain very happily that he might be able to serve his Master till he died not long before his Majesties Restitution like Moses having after several years traversing a Wilderness only a Prospect of Caanan and the land of rest and settlement P. M. Baronis Willmot Caroli Secundi fidus Achates Vt imi servus Philanax Philo Cawlos Comes Regis Pariter Regni Adeo officii tenax ut ab Afflcta Sed justa regis causa eum dimoveant Nec amicorum injuriae nec inimicorum Prosperum scelus ultimi saeculi Aristides THE Life and Death OF Sir BEVILE GREENVILE Father of the Right Honorable the Earl of Bathe THere are two ancient Families in this Gentlemans name the Beviles that have flourished six hundred years in Cornwall at Gwarnack in his Christian Name and the Greenviles that have continued in great honor at Bediford in Devonshire above five hundred years in his Surname And there were the two eminent Virtues of those Families in his nature his names being to him not only significations of Honor but intimations of Virtue according to that admonition given by Alexander to one of his Followers Either quit your good name or leave your bad manners meekness wariness good nature and ingenuity the character of the one valor and prowess the known honor of the other His Ancestor Sir R. Greenvile assisted King William Rufus 1113. against the Welch Rebells successfully dedicating the Spoils of the war to the honor of Almighty God in maintaining a Religious House Sir Bevile Greenvile attended King Charles the First against the English 1641. consecrating his services to the Glory of God and the settlement of the Church usually saying That he counted it the greatest honor of his Family that one of it meaning Will. de Greenvile above three hundred years before under Edw. the First was Archbishop of York and in the Councel of Vienna next the Archbishop of Triers being for his publick spirit and activity especially in improving the Trade maintaining the Priviledges and keeping up the Discipline of his Country called to advise with his Majesty in Parliament about the great affairs of the kingdom he would not continue there without him But when he saw that he was more likely to be suppressed by his Majesties adversaries than his Majesty was to be supported by his friendship at Westminster he withdrew with many more Devonshire and Cornish Gentlemen that deserved Queen Elizabeths Character of these Countrymen That they were all born Courtiers with a becoming confidence to give their Country by rational Declarations the same satisfaction about the state of affairs that they had already in their own breast forcing not the Country till they had convinced and perswaded it asserting Authority the ligament of civil society against violence the publick interest against private designs liberty against licentiousness and oppression and this upon such moderate principles to widen rather than narrow their interest and in so civil terms as won those generous people that were not to be forced like compleat Orators making happy applications to the several humors and Genius of all persons with Alcibiades shifting disposition as they altered place yea so prudentially did they manage their expressions that the men at Westminster should not despair of their compliance with them until they were in a capacity to appear against them when they had secured the Port-towns the Fishing-trade for Herring and Pilchards the Mines the Markets for the Manufactures of that Country Kersies Bonelace c. and setled as good a correspondence between Devonshire and Cornwall by Sir Bevile Greenviles advice as was before by Sir Theo. Greenvile's device who built Baddiford-bridge as Sir Bevile secured it They appear in a great body near Pendennis whereof Sir Nicholas Slaning another excellent Patriot of Cornwall was Governor and Launston the County-town of Cornwall which Sir Bevile Greenvile possessed himself of The Body he trained to war he disciplined to piety piety not like the Cornish Diamond counterfeit and strictness least as Pilchards in this Country being persecuted by their fellow-fish the Tunny and Hake fall into the Fisher-mens Nets so the Country-people abused by the incivilities of their friends the Cavaleers might be taken in the Snares of their enemies the Faction As the Ambergreese found sometimes in this Country hath a more fragrant scent compounded with other things than when singly its self so this noble Gentleman gained a greater repute when joyning counsels and endeavors with others than when he acted alone The neighbor Counties were on fire these Counties look to themselves Sir Bevile wished that his Army were all of them as good as his Cause but it is not to be expected that all should be Fish that are caught in a Drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
traâ—elâ—ing with him in â—â—ayers as well as birth See her exemplary life Printed by honest Mr. Royston a He was Knight of the Garter b He was vâ—ry well skâ—lled in all the points of the Religion of the Church of England c Though yet he was once excepted from Pardon to try whether he might be fâ—ghted out of his Allegiance upon his first going after his Majesty to York and bearing witness of his integrity for peace and subscribed a Petition that he would live and dye by him if he was fâ—rced to a wâ—r d Allowing 〈◊〉 a year for that purpose besides that he inâ—â—â—ed Mr. Thrâ—scrâ—sse c. to accept of an honorable laâ—ary to take the freedom of his hâ—use and the advantage of his Protection a He with the Earls of Lindsey and Southamptyn offering themselves to dye for his Majesty having been the instruments of his commands and it being a Maxime that the King can do no wrong he doing all things by his Ministers a VII Tarnov â—xrecitat Bilâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—2â— Ed heador Vâ—â— 4â—2 â—â—â—ascenâ—de 〈◊〉 Fide 〈…〉 vid. Casaâ—b 〈◊〉 Sueâ—â—â— Aug. 31. a Pangyâ—in Consâ—ant a Senec. de benef l. 3. c. 36. b At Sommerset house c Joseph Antiq. l. 4. c. 4. Philo Jud. de mon. arch l. 2. Domino Dr. Flâ—etword Coll. Reg. Cant. Qui Pâ—aep I tinery studiorum duce C. W. b In Moun. â—â—â—â—hshire a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b He carried the Queen of Bohemia he hiâ—â—â—â—umâ— afterâ—â—â— saâ—l bâ—ttel 〈◊〉 Prâ—gaâ— 40 mâ—lâ—s a Credanâ— haud gratâ—iâ—am in â—anâ—a majestate comitatem Leo. a Riâ—tous â—iplings quarrels murders uncleaness disorderly asesembly a Iove â—atore Vid Liv Flor â— 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fugâ— Pâ—aeses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schol Aâ—ollâ—n Aâ—gon l. 2. v 1151. c. 4. v. 699. a An action 〈◊〉 to one so nâ—arly 〈◊〉 to Sâ—â— R. Vâ—â—â—â—â— â—â—o when Sheriff of Warwickshire pursued 〈◊〉 Powder Tâ—aytoâ—s â—ut of Warwickshire into Worcestershire b Ultimus Aâ—gliae Bannereâ—tus â— a Whâ—â—â— Mother â—â—d married his Vnâ—le Sir 〈◊〉 Compton a As it was called a Gul. Câ— miti Northamptoniae qui toâ—e Bâ—lli civilis tempore patesâ—ae haeres erat viâ—utis vindâ—â— caâ—iâ—â— a Especiallâ— in mâ—king and dâ—stâ—â—â—uâ—â—ng Provisions a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer a Exhâ—â—tiâ—g some to sicquent prayers â—thers to temperance others to seriousness a Vel presentâ—â— dâ—sideramuâ— b Being Leiutenant of the Tower when a Warrant was brought to Execute Queen Eliz. he shewed it Queen Mary who â—rofessed that she knew nothing of it and so saved hâ—r a Here 's the sundry Oaks in the Woodâ— which the Spaniard in Queen Eliz time dâ— contrive by secret practises to have cut down and embezled and therefore they say he was the first that proposed the setting up of Iron mills thereabout b Vid. Hotcomm Spelm in verbo Ordeal c This is remarkalâ— in this story that Mr. Gâ—seâ—led his Estate upon the aforesaid Lady and that she the next day after his death made it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his relations a In the fourth Article of Essex his commission b Septemb. 20. 1643. a Wing in Buckingham-shire a Sir Edward Cook hath somewhere a saying that Divines meddle with Law but they commit great Errors b 〈…〉 c With whom he was very familiar calling him to an account about his fludy every night and conserâ—ing with him about Affairs and Histoâ—ies a He left 1000l per annum to his Heir who is a Knight and Beronet dying March 25. 1 4 when it was a question whether his Râ—â—t belonged to his â—â—â—â—cuto or his Heir b Sir Jâ—hn Cook was sent to command him into the Country out of his Deanery of Westminster He asked 〈◊〉 John how dâ—â—st he command a man out of his Free-hold which wrought upon the old Gentleman so far that he never rested until he had his pardon sâ—aled for it c At the Meeting in Jerusalem-chamber March 1641. with 20. moderate Conformists and Non-conformists appointed upon his motion to consider of the reformation of discipline and government worship and doctrine with the innovaâ—ious lately crept into all of them a Seâ— his Sermâ—ns on King James his buncial of Appâ—â—el of â—â—â—â—ag b Aâ— he plainly told the Duke of B. at Oxford a Dr. Gâ—yn b Ebocacâ—â— 1641. §. His Birth a Where it is thought Caesar first passed his Army over the Thames b By his Mothers side c Whose Physician his Father was Sâ—ct His Education d A good Grecian who had a hand in the publication of Sir H. Savileâ— Magnificent Saint Chrysostome Sect Hâ—â— Course of study e As may be seen in his Library Sect His Preserment Sect. His Carriage in all his places 1. at a Minister 1 Sermons 2 Prayers 3 The Sacrament a The 〈◊〉 use 〈◊〉 of you may sie in his Sermon of the Pâ—o â—hans Tyâ—bings 4 Catech â—sing 5 His Hospitality to 〈◊〉 râ—â—h his 〈…〉 to the Pâ—or his â—isâ—s to all and his 〈◊〉 with them 2 As Arch-Deacon 3 Dr. of vinity Sect His 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 a Vid. Ciâ— de Divin Pâ—ucerum Wier de prest dâ—mo num 〈◊〉 Zomâ—n de â—piritibus c. Câ—saâ—b 〈◊〉 c 5. Bâ—ld Câ—f Câ—nse de Div. Goâ—dw de somâ—is Filliâ—cum quaest Moral â—ract 24. c. 5 n. 123. 12â— Hippocraâ—em de inâ—omnâ—is Galen de praescagio ex insomniis Sandeâ—sonum in Gen. 20. 6. Sect. What he did during the Wat. D. 〈…〉 Sect. How he was 〈…〉 at the end of the 〈◊〉 a Mr. C. of M. C 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 and to that 〈…〉 Sect. How be disâ—ose of himself after the Kings death 1. To write his tâ—â—ct of Christian Religion 2 The occasion and method of composing the Annotationâ— on the New Testament 3 The occasion and method of his dissertations Sect. His remove to Worcester-shire and his reflectâ—â—â— on what pâ—ssed â—here 1651. 〈…〉 of the times Sâ—ct◠〈…〉 in the Ministry Sect. 〈…〉 to thse that we 〈◊〉 nished abroâ—d which was â—â—â—covered 〈◊〉 Cromwell who 〈…〉 of it Sect. 〈◊〉 action 〈…〉 to his Death 1. The fâ—ame of his Body 2 The â—acultiâ—s of his Soul Sect. His Iâ—tellectual and acquired abilities Sect. His Moralls a 1 Cor. 7. 26. b Epist ad Ageâ—â—uchiam Sect. His disposal of his time His Devotion Sect. His Friendship Sect. His Charity Sect. His alms of Lending Sect. His generosity Sect. His estate and the managing of it Provost of Q. C. Oxon. and Dean of Worcester Sect. His 〈…〉 Sect. His humility and condescenâ—ion 1. In reference to himself 2 In reference to others Instances of his Condescension Sect His â—alâ—e of souls Sect. His instructions to his Conveâ—ts His Advises Sect. His Patience Sect. The Principles whereupon he composed and setled his minde ☞ What Rules be recommended at his death Sect. His 〈◊〉 Monuments 1 His resolution a Being not cast away like the first 〈◊〉 of a Vessel hardly 〈◊〉 if once neglâ—cted b Aâ—