Case of Pistols before her which might have served to suppress it 5. For doing nothing with the Kings Ships when at Sea the Scots saying that the son of such a Mother could do them no harm and not protesting the Kings gracious Declaration the justice and clemency whereof would have allayed the Tumults when at Land but letting the Covenanteers protest against it before it was published insomuch that the Bishops of Ross and Brechen Sir Iohn Hay and the Earl of Sterling came to England to warn the King of him 6. For refusing to contribute towards the Scottish Wars for withdrawing privately to raise jealousies in Scotland for interceding for London and hindring Montross so as to make the King believe that the Scots would not invade England till he himself writes that they were on the Borders yet by a Providence which one calls Digit us Dei beheaded at Westminster 1649. after great overtures of money and discoveries to save his life by that Party for the King whom he was thought to serve against the King who said when he heard he led the Scots Army for which he suffered Nay if he leads them there is no good to be done for me having displaced and imprisoned him at Oxford because he said he should not have an opportunity to re-couzen him Duke William died honourably of his wounds in his Majesties Service at Worcester 1651. The eminent Divines of Aberdeen for strong reasons and invincible patience in opposing the Covent particularly Dr. Baron and Dr. Forbs eminent Philosophers and Divines will never be forgotten in Scotland while there is either a Church or an University left there Nil quod Foâ—besio Christi dum pascit Ovile Nil quod Baronio comparet orbis habet Eloquio sunt ambo pares in discrimen in uno est Quo lubet hic mentes pellicit ille rapit A. Johnston To whom I may add the learned Dr. Iohn Maxwel sometimes Bishop of Ross and since Archbishop I think of St. Andrews THE Life and Death OF Sir WILLIAM PENNIMAN SIR William Penniman a Gentleman of good fortunes in Yorkshire where part of the Allum Mine rented by Sir Paul Pindar belonged to him before the Wars and one of the first that engaged with the King in the Wars whose Epitaph at Christ Church is his just Chronicle M. S. H. S. E. Gulielmus Penniman Baronettus Equestri dignitate parique animo decorus obsequio fide adversus optimum eundemque afflictissimum Principem Carolum Regem spectabilis qui serinissimum Regem cum caetera Inermis classe Armamentariis arcibus omnibus belli praesidiis orbatus nudo majestatis titulo armatus staret duabus cohortibus Equitum una Peditum altera a se conscriptis primus instruxit quibus ipse praefuit tribunus ac brevi Vrbis Oxon. praefectura donatus est in qua it a se gessit ut nec discessor Ashlaeus nec successor Astonus magna bello nomina luminibus ipsius obstruerat Demum Febre Epidemica correptus in medio aetatis honorumque decursu premature extinctus triste sui desiderium apud omnes reliquit quibus morum suavitate ac comitate fuerat merito charissimus Obiit Aug. 22. A. D. 1643. tumulo potitus in eadem domo in qua ingenii cultum capessaverat Iacob Lord Ashley born of a well know Family in Norfolk bred under Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere a Captain in the Low-Countries and preferred for his good Conduct-Colonel whence after thirty years service returning to his Native Country he had the Command of New-Castle in the Scottish Wars 1639. 1640. and after of Oxford in the English out of which by reason of the experience his Majesty had of his good wary carriage in keeping the Northern Army in order when they wanted money and engaging them to serve the King if he had thought fit to have made use of their assistance when he wanted strength 1641. to keep the City in order and the Parliament free he was drawn into the Field and particularly to assist in forming the siege of Glocester wherein the Low-Country Wars being in effect nothing but sieges he had a great judgment and where he was shot in the arm as afterwaads to draw the line of Communication between his Majesties Forces round about the Earl of Essex at Lestithiel his own Post being at Hawl where he commanded the Haven of Foy. Having likewise the disposal of the most difficult part of the second Newberry Fight after which he setled the Affairs of Worcester-shire and Glocester-shire so well by continual surprizes of the Enemy that he commanded Contribution to the Gates of Glocester after that much against his will was he commanded to form the fatal battel of Nazeby and which was worse to quit the advantageous piece of ground and model he had first designed to the loss of that battel after which by diligent Correspondence with Ireland and Wales he got a considerable Army which for want of the Horse promised him from Oxford a streight wherein he could not avoid fighting he lost at Stow in the Old March 21. 1645 6. where when he was taken he said That the Game was up and after a tedious Imprisonment dyed I think in that Foreign Country where he had so Honorably lived 165. His Son Sir Bernard Ashley an eminent and stout Commander in his Majesties Army after admirable service done in fix Fights and eight Sieges dyed of wounds received in a brave sally out of Bristol Sept. 4. 1645. Sir Arthur Aston a Lancashire Gentleman where the Papists are most zealous by Antiparistasis because of the extream zeal of the Protestants there as good of his Hands as a Souldier as Sir Walter Aston the known Ambassador in Spain and Germany was of his Head many Souldiers did he by his great services in Foreign Wars bring to his Majesty from abroad more by his excellent Discipline did he make at home where he commanded the Dragoons in Edgehill doing exquisite execution and giving my Lord Stuart and other young Gentlemen direction how to do so Thence being made Governor of Reading he beat Essex thrice from the Town till having a dangerous wound he was forced to devolve his Command upon Col. Fielding returning himself to Oxford where he was Governor till it appeared that the severity of his Discipline would do more service in ordering a loose Army in the Field than in awing a regular Garrison in a Town whence his Fortune being answerable neither to his skill nor to his courage he went over with the flower of the English Veterans to Ireland he was made Governour of Drogheda about which Town he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army but that being over-powered he lost his life first being hewed in pieces and not till then the Town being deserted by Coll. Walls Regiment after the Colonels death which betrayed both the Garrison and themselves with him fell 1 Sir Edmund Varney
his Victories He using this success to no other end than as earnestly to intreat them himself and all the Noblemen and Gentlemen in his Army as earnestly to accept of peace as if he had been conquered he should have begged it Willing he was to settle peace at home and yet scorned to accept of unhandsom terms from abroad All the world saw his Majesties inclination to a peace and the Rebels implacable resolution to go on with the war The Conspirators had need of their Brethren the Scots and the Scots upon the refusal of his Majesties Propositions were ashamed of them whence when they were not likely to be assisted from abroad they beg but upon hard conditions a peace at home Conditions that his Majesty would not yield to in his lowest condition though he would have done any thing but sin to obtain peace at the highest A peace that they must have yielded to had not they new-modelled their design and their army by a self-denying Ordinance cashiering all Officers that retained any degree of sobriety and a new model taking in all Sectaries to enlarge and make desperate their party Sad is the news the Rebels hear from all parts of England but very good that which his Majesty heard from Scotland where his friends increased as much as theirs decreased here such moderate men as Essex the Earl of Manchester and Denbigh laying down their Commissions when they saw such taking Commission as had laid down all thoughts of peace They were first entertained because a war could not be begun without the countenance of sober men but afterwards they were laid aside by the politick self-denial Ordinance because the war would be no longer continued by such In a word to such success had the conduct and magnanimity of his Majesty arrived that 1645. he writes to the Queen That he might without being too sanguine affirm that since the Rebellion his affairs were never in so hopeful a way Not to mention his great personal valour at Naseby a valour and conduct that deserved success though at last it wanted it the King having other virtues that were to be rendred glorious by sufferings as this had been by actions and therefore he was Betrayed not Overcome Sold and not Conquered And yet as his great Spirit at his best fortune endeavoured an honourable Peace so at his worse he would not admit of a dishonourable one for measuring his Propositions not by the event of affairs but by his own Conscience he stands to the same terms when Defeated as he did when Conqueror never betraying his Peoples Liberties to those Usurpers in hope of a Peace in the defence of which he thought fit to undertake a war I know not which is most magnanimous that he should with so much hazard venture his Person so resolutely and manage his cause against their Politicians and Divines so bravely or that he should with so much honour correspond with the Parliament in his own single Person answering the arguments of the one and the proud messages of the other and gaining that Conquest by his Pen that he could not by his Sword He is contented to discharge all his Garrisons and Armies and that excellent Association in the VVest formed by the Prince with the assistance of Sir Edward Hide c. being upon a design of overcoming his Enemies as he did Henderson c. and all that had the happiness to know him by his own Person and being likely to do more by a Peace than either others or indeed he himself could do by a war cutting those more than Gordian knots with the sharpness of his own single reason that could not be by the edge of all Englands Sword when the Scots after many debates with the English had not the courage to stand to their Promise Oath and Honour in keeping the Kings Person he owned a magnanimity whereby he kept Free even when delivered his own Conscience they could not be true to duty when tempted with 800000 â— nor he unworthy to his trust though tempted with three Kingdoms And now that King that with his bare presence had raised an Army in the beginning of the war that gave a Cheque to Rebellion four years now by his own Conduct when he had not one as they phrased it Evill Counsellor about him and gallant Sufferings he raised the City and all the Kingdom to reduce the Rebels to reason there being in his lowest condition 54000 Men and most of them such as had Engaged against him up in his defence in Scotland Wales Ireland and England and things were brought to that pass by his excellent managery that the very Army that overcamâ— him did not think themselves safe but under his Protection and therefore they ventured their Masters displeasure to gain the Kings Person each Party thinking its self more or less considerable as they wanted or injoyed him The Parliament as they call it Voting his Concessions Satisfactory on the one hand and the Army declaring their Propositions to the King unreasonable They that durst fight his Armies yet so farr Reverenced his Person that they did that to him in his lowest condition that is usually done to Princes in their highest and that is Flatter him the one saying that he had done enough and the other that he had done too much What a brave sight it was to see him able to manage his greatest misfortunes with Honour and his Enemies their greatest Victories with Confusions the Army against the Houses the Commons against the Lords yea one part against another the City for and against both the Common Souldiers by a new way of Agitation whereby they could spread and manage any treason sedition intelligence plot and design throughout the Army in a moment by two or three of the most active or desperate in a Company or Regiment And he all the while above all these enjoying the calm that sits in the Upper Region neither yielding to his Enemies nor his misfortues insomuch that when they were so barbarous as to let him want Linnen he said They had done so for two months but he would not afford them the pleasure of knowing that he wanted Yea and when some of them were too sawcy with him in private he could though their Prisoner civillize them with his look and Cane In a word the Kings fortitude appeared as eminent as his other vertures though ecclypsed as the Divine power is to some mens apprehensions by his mercy in that he could say to the last that he should never think himself weakned while he enjoyed the use of his reason and while God supplied with inward resolutions what he denied him in outward strength by which resolution he meant not a morosity to deny what is fit to be granted but a spirit not to grant what Religion and Justice denied I shall never think my self they are his own Royal expressions less than my self while I am able thus to preserve the integrity of my
take from his Clergy but what God gave them Concluding That he desired them to be subject to him no further than that he and they might be subject to God That a King that was and did so as he was and did should be first suspected and then opposed should be rendred ridiculous abroad and odious at home should easier perswade his foreign enemies to a Peace than his own subjects to contribute to a War and that of their own advising and perswading That such a King should first suffer in his prime Favourites and Ministers of State and then in his own Person That such a King should be forced to sell his Crown Lands to defend and serve them who would by no means yield any thing to maintain him yea questioned Sr. Iohn Wolstenhome Mr. Dawes and Mr. Caermarthen Farmers of the Custome-house for levying his ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage unless he acknowledged that as their favour which to maintain Convoy and Trade he enjoyed as an haereditary Right That under such a King any should say as Cooke and Turner did That the People had better perish by a foreign War than by a domestique Oppresssion and it should be a capital offence to enjoy his favour That one sort of subjects should invade and other abbet and libel him That his ancient Kingdom of Scotland should throw themselves upon the French King and the Kingdom of England upon French Counsels and Designs That so good a Master should be betrayed by his Servants have his Pocket pick'd his Letters discovered as Hamilton did Montross's and the E. of H. did the design against the five Members That malapert Burgesses should bawl out Remonstrances and Citizens affronts against so great and so excellent a Majesty It was introllerable to frame Conventicles Associations and Conspiracies against his proceedings in Church and State but horrid to do so against his Person That when they had stood out many years against allowing him any Taxes without their consent they shall seize his Crown and Dignity without his that those whom he had raised from the people should adhere to the people against him and when they had corresponded with armies that are but tumults mustered in the North they should incourage tumults which are but indisciplined armies in the South that the one might drive him out of his Kingdom for fear and the other out of the Royal City for shame that the Scots should sight and he not dare to call them Rebels and his faithful Counsellors should assist him and he not dare to own them as friends That such a King should be abused to Parliaments by his servants and to his people by Parliaments should be first intreated out of his Magazines Castles and whole Militia and then fought against with them should be forced out of one Town and shut out of another should see his Queen threatned with Articles at one time and though she would not believe that being loath to think the English should do her any ill offices to whom she had done none but good afterwards impeached without any regard to Sex Virtues Birth Allies and Majesty circumstances that would have guarded her from the Barbarous for no other fault but for owning that obedience to her Lord and Husband which they had renounced to their Soveraign That such a Prince should see his whole Court Voted and dealt with as Traitors his Estate Sequestred for Delinquency his Clergy and Church which he was by oath obliged to defend and maintain in its due rights ruined for keeping the Fifth Commandement and Rom. 13. his Churches turned to Stables his Loyal Subjects Murthered Plundered Banished and he not able to help them his Laws and Edicts over-ruled by I know not what Orders and Ordinances his Seals and great Offices of State counterfeited all the costly ornaments of Religion ruined and defaced Learning that was his honor and his care trampled on by its and his old enemies the Ignorant These are things that the world could never believe till it felt them and will not believe when the impressions of them are worn off This wise and good King the same in all fortunes was he that must pardon his enemies but must except his friends out of pardon he that when all his Subjects had sworn Oaths of Allegiance to him must swear an oath devised by his Subjects called Covenant against himself He without whom no oath could he imposed upon the Subjects hath an oath imposed upon him by his Subjects and in that oath must swear that government in the Church Anti-christian which was the only Christian government for 1500 years And when Divines dispute that and other points probably the poor King and his people must swear them peremptorily He that saw an army raised for the King that is himself and Parliament against himself and the instruments of death levelled against his person in his name And heard the very people promise to make him a glorious King who murthered him He that a people complained to of grievances that would not indure the remedies that complained that he made and continued a war when they would not endure a peace and when they had voted his Concessions sufficient grounds to proceed on to the settlement of the kingdom and yet ruined it He that they declared against for raising a Guard at York Nottingham to secure himself c. when they raised at Army at London to Take Imprison and Murther him That must be author of all the bloud shed in the three Nations after all his Concessions Messages Declarations Treaties and Overtures a sea and mercy to 20000 Rebels to stanch it And when all the bloud that was spilt before his death was to rob him of his life and government as appears by the five times more bloud that was spilt after his death to make good that robbery and murther He that saw a war begun to remove his evil Council and ended in the taking off his Head and that was said to begin a war when his first was dated the very day his enemies army was mustered the Faction having ordered an army to take him before he thought of one to save himself This is that Prince that saw a people in the Name of God lay hands on his anointed Preachers of the Gospel of peace trumpet it for war Religion made an argument against obedience and the Holy Spirit urged against peace and love and the Text He that resisteth the King the Ordinance of God resisteth to his own damnation understood thus He that resisteth not shall be Sequestred and that Curse ye Meroz that came not to help the Lord against the Mighty thus Curse ye all English-men that help not the Rebellious against Gods Anointed And Fear God Honor the King into fear the Lord and kill the King and that where the word of a King there is power understood thus The King shall not have a Negative Voice A King that saw himself Engaged
Allegiance or their little God Argyles power being now disparaged by two defeats to Peace dispersing several parties taking in several Garrisons challenging Bayly and the Covenanters whole Army maugre the treacherous revolts of his men and eminent friends every day and making a noble Retreat notwithstanding that all passes were stopped by wheeling dextrously up and down without any rest three days and nights with the most undaunted resolution in the world till being recruited he trepanned their whole Army at Alderne May 4. 1645 by some Umbrays under which he hid his men and the cunning misplacing of the Kings Standard made a defeat where he killed and took though Vrry an excellent Souldier was Commander in chief three times more men than he had himself seasonably succouring his men concealing disasters from them and keeping them from too far and rash pursuit as he did the like number under Bayly at Alsord Iuly 2. 1645. after he had tyred them with continual Alarms and possessed himself of advantagious grounds and passes making as he did always the best shew of his few men And afterwards the greatest Army he ever saw of the Covenanters together at Kilsith Septemb. 15. 1645. killing and taking above 5000 Foot and 400 Horse Coll. Iohn Ogleby an old Swedish Commander and Alexander the son of Sir Iohn Ogleby of Innar-Wharake The consequence whereof was the scattering of the Rebellion the chief flying to England and Ireland and the submission of the Kingdom which he with great courtesie and civility took after the overtures made to him of provisions for War into his protection setling all the Cities and Towns even Edenburgh it self in peace and safety without the least injury offered releasing such Prisoners as the expert old Souldiers the Earl of Crawford and Iames Lord Ogleby c. and inviting the Nobility viz. Trequair Roxborough Hume to joyn with him in the settlement of the Kingdom but the Kings friends in Scotland betraying him and the succour out of England under my Lord Digby failing him and which was worse the King being forced to throw himself upon the Scots commanding him without any security to his faithful friends to depart the Kingdom and in France wait his Majesties further pleasure that opportunity as many more of the like nature for re-establishing his Majesty was lost as he did discreetly avoiding the snares laid for him in his transportation being fair in France for the chief command of Strangers there assisting the Prince at the Hague in the debates about the expedition into England under Hamilton 1648. Thence travelling to Germany was offered by the Emperour the Command of 10000 men immediately under his Majesty against the Swedes after that procuring of the Dukes of Brandenburg and Holstein forty Vessels with men and Ammunition and 1500 compleat Horse-arms from the Queen of Sweden besides other assistances from several States and Princes which were imbezzeled before they came to his hands He threw himself away at last upon some persidious men pretending to his Majesties service in the North of Scotland where he was taken in disguise and so barbarously murthered by the Rebels of Scotland that the Rebels of England coming thither next year were ashamed of it Since very honourable buried in the Grave of his Fathers and renownedly famous both abroad and at home in the Chronicles of his Age the glory of Scotland and the grief of Europe the farthest Nations in the World admiring his worth and the greatest Kings bewailing Which happened May 21. 1650. Brave Soul whose learned Swords point could strain Rare lines upon thy murdered Soveraign Thy self hast grav'd thine Epitaph beyond The Impressions of a pointed Diamond Thy Prowess and thy Loyalty shall burn In pure bright Flames from thy renowned Vru Clear as the beams of Heaven thy cruel fate Scaffold and Gibbet shall thy fame dilate That when in after Ages Death shall bid A man go home and die upon his Bed He shall reply to Death I scorn 't be gone Meet me at the place of Execution There 's glory in the scandal of the Cross Let me be hang'd for so fell brave Montross It is fit to mention with him the two sons of Dr. Iohn Spotswood Chaplain to the Duke of Lenox in his Ambassies to France and England Minister of Calder Archbishop of Glascow Privy Counsellor of Scotland Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate and Metropolitan of all Scotland President in the several Assemblies at Aberdeen and Perth 1616. and 1618. where he was a great instrument in restoring the Liturgy and Uniformity in the Church of Scotland and at last having Crowned the King 1633. made 1635. Lord Chancellor according to a Prophetick word of one of the Gossips at his Birth That he would become the Prop and Pillar of his Church dying banished from his Country Nov. 18. Anno Dom. 1639. Aetat 74. Well known by his most faithful and impartial History of the Church of Scotland written by him upon the Command of King Iames to whom when he objected that he knew not how to behave himself when he came to speak of his Royal Mother who was sadly represented by the Historians of her times the King replied Speak the truth man and spare not 1. Sir Iohn Spotswood well satisfied that in the ruine of three Kingdoms he had lost his Estate and preserved his Conscience 2. Sir Robert Spotswood a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and in the study of the Law by his 9 years study and experience abroad and his many years good education and practice at home Lord of the Sessions extraordinary in King Iames his time and constant President and Secretary of State in King Charles his time between whom and his friends in Scotland particularly the Marquess of Montross he kept in the most difficult times a constant correspondence for which he was beheaded at St. Andrews exhorting the people to his last to keep to their duty towards God and the King and to beware of a lying Spirit sent by the Lord in Judgment among their Ministry Res in exitu ae stimantur cum abeunt Ex oculis hinc videntur The Dukes Hamilton the former Iames after a suspition of disloyalty to the King his gracious Master that gave him very profitable Offices and conferred on him many great honours and trust 1. For posting in such haste privately into Scotland when the Parliament was discontented and the Duke of B. murthered in England 2. For employing several Scots into Germany and other parts to insinuate the grievances of the Kings Government and promote his own Interest by publishing up and down his Royal Pedigree and keeping in dependance upon him Officers enough to command a Royal Army 3. For taking the Kings Letters out of his pockets and discovering his secrets to his Enemies 4. For spending time to and fro in Messages about the Rebellion in the head of which his Mother rid with her
Gods Holy Word might keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace It being a sad thing in his opinion that three Christian and Protestant Kingdomes under one Christian and Protestant King should have three several Confessions of Faith 4. Abolished several idle and barbarous Customs putting the Natives upon ingenious ways of Improving that rich Land by Flax Hemp c. infinitely to the Advantage of the King and Kingdom 5. Recovering near upon 40000 l. per year to the Church which by ungodly Alienations was made saith a Bishop of their own as low as Poverty it self bringing over with him as great Affections for the Church and all Publike Interests as he had Abilities to serve them 6. Put Ireland Anno 1639. in three moneths by a Parliament he got together in that short time into such a posture for Men and Money as was a Pattern to the following Parliament of England which resented that Service so much that the House of Commons gave him the Thankes of the Kingdome in their own House and waited upon him two of their most eminent Members supporting him to his place in the House of Lords In fine he wrought that wilde and loose people to such a degree of Peace Plenty and Security as it had never been since it was annexed to this Crown and made it pay for the Charges of its own Government which before was deducted out of the English Treasury Their Peace and Lawes now opening accesses to Plenty and Trade he remitted indeed nothing of that Authority Strictness Discipline or Grandieur that might advance the Interest or Honor of his Master yet he admitted so much moderation into his Counsels and Proceedings as that Despair added to former Discontents and the Fears of utter Extirpation to their wonted Pressures should not provoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to break out to all exorbitant Violence both by some principles of their Religion and the natural desires of Liberty both to exempt themselves from their present restraints and prevent after-rigors And when the Tumults of Scotland and the Discontents of England called for the same Counsel here that he had with success applyed to the distempers of Ireland how clearly did he see thorow the Mutinies and Pretences of the Multitude into the long-contrived Conspiracies and Designs of several orders of more dangerous men whose Covetousness and Ambition would digest as he fore-saw the rash Tumults into a more sober and solemn Rebellion How happily did he divine that the Affronts offered the Kings Authority on the score of Superstition Tyranny Idolatry Male-administration Liberty words as little understood by the Vulgar as the Design that lay under them were no other than Essays made by certain sacrilegious and needy men to confirm the Rapines upon Church and State they had made in Scotland and to open a door to the same practises in England to try how the King who had already ordered a Revocation of all such Vsurpations in Scotland and had a great minde to do the like in England would bear their rude and insolent Attempts whether he would consult his Power or his Goodness assert his Majesty or yield to their importunity How nimbly did he meet with the Faction by a Protestation he gained from all the Scots in England and Ireland against the Covenant of their Brethren in Scotland at the same time in several Books he caused to be printed discovering that the Scottish Faction that so much abhorred Popery proceeded in this Sedition upon the worst of Popish principles and practises And that this Godly League which was so much applauded by the people was a Combination of men acting over those Trayterous Bloody and Jesuitical Maximes of Mariana Suarez Sa Bellarmine which all good people abhorred Adding that those very persons that instructed the poor populary to quarrel with their Sovereign about Liberty should as it followed afterwards lay a more unsupportable slavery upon them than their most impious slanders could form in the imagination of the Credulous that they might fear from the King The power God had invested him with he intreated the King to own and the ways the Laws of God and the Land allowed him to maintain that power to make use of employing all the able men that pretended to skill either in Law or Government to see if Prerogative had any way yet left to save an unwilling People for knowing how prevailing the Seditious were always to disturb the Counsels of the Parliament he feared that from their proceedings the common Enemies would be encouraged as formerly to higher Insolencies and the envious Demagogues would contemn their own safety to ruine the Kings Honor therefore giving vigorous Orders for raising the Ship-money and a great Example towards Advancing a Benevolence subscribing himself 20000 l. and procuring the Subscription of 500000 l. from the Church the Court the City and Countrey besides some thousands by Compositions with Papists especially in Stafford-shire Lancashire York-shire c. and by Forfeitures observed by him in London Derry and other places held by Patent from His Majesty When he saw a Faction by the diligence of the Kings enemies and the Security and Treason of his pretended Friends who made it their business to perswade His Majesty that there was no danger so long until there was no safety formed into Councels and drawn up into Armies when he saw one Kingdom acting in open Rebellion and another countenancing and inclining to it when he discovered a Correspondence between the Conclave of Rome and the Cardinal of France between the King of France and the Rebels of Scotland between the Leaders of the Scottish Sedition and the Agents of the English Faction one Pickering Laurence Hampden Fines c. being observed then to pass to and fro between the English and the Scottish Brethren and saw Letters signed with the Names though as some of them alledged since without the consent of the Five Members c. when the Government in Church and State was altered the Kings Ships Magazines Revenue Forts and faithful Servants were seized on the Orders of State and Worship of God were affronted by a barbarous multitude that with sticks stools and such other instruments of Fury as were present disturbed all religious and civil Conventions and the Kings Agents Hamilton Traquair and Roxborough pleased no doubt with the Commotions they at first raised and by new though secret seed of Discontents improved increased the Tumults by a faint Opposition which they might have allayed by vigorous punishments all the Declarations that were drawn in the Kings Name being contrived so as to overthrow his Affairs In a word when he saw that the Traytors were got into the Kings Bed-chamber Cabinets Pockets and Bosom and by false representation of things had got time to consolidate their Conspiracy and that the Kings Concessions to their bold Petition about the Liturgy the High-Commission the Book of Canons and the â—ive
Articles of Perth were but Encouragements to put up bolder finding that Force could obtain that which Modesty and Submission had never compassed and imputing all kindness to the Kings Weakness rather than Goodness His apprehensions in that affairs were as they were taken at Councel-Table-Debates about that business to this purpose In general after the Delivery of a Paper consisting of twenty seven Heads at Councel Board Dec. 5. 1639. against the Kings Indulgence to them he voted that they were to be Reduced by force being a people as his Majesty observed of them lost by favors and won by punishments in an Offensive War that would he would pawn his head on it put a period to all the Troubles in five moneths whereas a Defensive War will linger many years In particular Advising the setting up of the Commission of Array and Amassing a gallant Army for Honor and Service consisting of 24000 Foot 12000 Horse and 2000 Volunteers Lords and Gentlemen that brought the Scots to a Submission and Pacification such as it was which the Scots falsifying and breaking obtruding false Articles and observing none of the true ones he considering that they who had broken the Peace out of a desire of War would never leave the War out of a desire of Peace but would have if not rendred unable as well as unwilling as constant fits of Rebellion as they had of lusts or want advised the calling of a Parliament the most Authentick way of managing the Government Freeely saying in Councel That he knew a Parliament if but rightly tempered was so able to settle these Distractions that if he were sure to be the first man that should be ruined by it he would advice the Calling of it Altered the Model of the Army discharging the Hunting Lords as they were then called and recommending the Right Honorable and Well-beloved Earl of Northumberland General himself undertaking the place of Lieutenant General not doubting to chase the Rebels to use his own words in two moneths had not the Lord Conway whether out of design or weakness not yet decided disheartned the Army by the unsuccessfulness and indiscretion of his first Encounter and the English Lords prevented the Victory by a Petition for Peace and a Parliament to the King whose tenderness of his Subjects blood and prudence not to sully his glory with an unequal Combate would not permit him to fight when the gains of a Victory could not ballance the hazard of attempting it His Advices against the Faction were prudent and the Remedies seasonable 1. The exploding of their Doctrine when urged by some men whose compliance with the factious way was called Moderation in their own and the discovering of their practices in the Examen Conjurationis Scoticae Or The ungirding of the Scots Armor the Authour his servant and the thing his design to let the world see what it afterwards felt 2. Bringing all the Scots in Ireland to declare against the dangerous Covenant of Scotland 3. Making the loyal and ready Assistance of the Parliament of Ireland in 39. a president for that of England in 40. 4. And returning as seasonably to lay open their pretences and obviate their reaches in Treaties as he had done their Plot in Parliaments willing enough to hear of a present Peace but more willing to provide a future Security saying He could pardon but not trust a Scot. He managed his Army as Lieutenant General as if he had been ready to fight them and yet he ordered his Advices as if he were willing to close with them As they judged it their best way to ask with their Sword in their hands so thought he it the most expedient method to answer them so Since though God never intrusted Subjects with the Sword to obtain their priviledges yet he did Kings with it to awe to duty He knew what he did when he commanded the Governors of Barwick and Carlile to watch the Invaders on the Borders at the same time that he looked to them in Councels where he was resolved they should not obtain that by a Pacification that they could not hope for by a Battel perswading His Majesty to examine the Conspiracy to the bottom before he composed it lest the skinned Sore might rankle To which purpose he would deal with the Tumult not joyntly and all together where they were bold and reserved but singly and one by one for in that capacity Rebels are fearful and open though it was not then possibly so advised a saying yet it hath appeared since to be a very faithful and useful one that he hasting into England out of Ireland as they did out of Scotland should say upon the Delivery of his Sword If ever I return to this Honorable Sword I shall not leave of the Scots Faction neither Root nor Branch As Sylla said of Caesar there are many Marius'es in that Boy so he would say of this Conspiracy when low there are many Villanies in this Plot. He could endure as little the petulancy of the Scots as they could his prudence and Government When they having leavied Men and Mony seized the Kings Magazines and strong Holds raised Forts begirt his Castles affronted his Proclamations summoned Assemblies proclaimed Fasts deprived and excommunicated Bishops abolished Episcopacy issued out Warrants to choose Parliament Commissioners appealed from the King to the people trampled on Acts of Parliament discharged Counsellors and Judges of their Allegiance confirmed all this by a League and Covenant swearing to do what otherwise they would not have done that their consciences might oblige them to do that because they had sworn which because not lawful to be done was not lawful to be sworn He leavied Men and Money disarmed the Irish and Scots secured his Garrisons and Ports had an Army ready to serve His Majesty and five Subsidies to maintain it and confirmed all with an Oath imposed to abjure that Covenant He returns in 39. after five moneths absence having done as much as had been done in five score years before towards the reducing of the Natives of Ireland to the civility trade and plenty of England and disposing their Revenue so as to repay England the charge it had been at with Ireland when Walsingham wished it one great Bogge Neither was he less careful of the Churches Doctrine than Discipline forbidding the Primate's obtruding the Calvinists School points for Articles of Faith and in stead of the Polemick Articles of the Church of Ireland to recieve the positive plain and orthodox Articles of the Church of England neither admitting high Questions nor countenancing the men that promoted them aiming at a Religion that should make men serious rather than curious honest rather than subtile and men lived high but did not talk so equally disliking the Trent Faith consisting of Canons Councels Fathers c. that would become a Library rather than a Catechism and the Scots Confessions consisting of such School Niceties as would fill a mans large
Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
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
there before they were aware of him and so couragiously that he came back disputing nine Passes and after twelve Skirmishes maâ—gre all the opposition made against him routing first and last in that famous Expedition 9000. men A little before Naseby fight my Lord declared for breaking into the Associated Counties and so through them to the North to chase away the Scots when that battel was resolved on where he said when he was desired to Lead the Left Wing of Horse in that sight that by reason of the Leicester Plunder the averseness of his men from fighting save in their own Country and the tired condition of the whole Army would ruin his Majesty as it did he being never able to make head for him but once afterwards 1648. when with Sir Phillip Musgrave having surprized Carlisle and Berwick he joyned 3000. brave English to Hamilton's Scots beating Lambert back to Appleby and taking several strong holds by the way as he had done the kingdom had his advise been hearkened to in marching directly to York and so to London whereas they wandered in Cumberland and Westmerland as Colonel Stuart when afterwards upon the Stool of Repentance for that Expedition being asked gravely by the Ministers whether by his Malignancy he went not out of the way answered that he went wrong to Westmerland when he should have gone to York that Scots Army being beaten as soon as seen there being no more effectual resistance made by the 16000. horse and foot under Hamilton of whom the King said when he heard that he was Commander in Chief that he expected no good from that Army than was made by Sir Marmaduke with the 2000. English that he had raised and commanded Sir Marmaduke Langdale was taken Prisoner and by caressing his Guards made an ingenious and bold escape to his Majesty beyond Sea where he carried that seriousness in his countenance he was a very lean and much mortified man the enemy here called him Ghost and deservedly they were so haunted by him that gravity in his converse that integrity and generosity in his dealing that strictness in his devotion that experience moderation and wariness in his Counsel that weight in his discourse as much endeared to strangers his Royal Masters Cause and his own person in all the Countries he travelled as he did many and all the Armies he engaged in as he did in most then afoot in Europe till he was restored with his Majesty 1660. when appearing in Parliament as Baron Langdale of Holmes till his Majesty by the Act of Indemnity and disbanding the Army was fully setled he returned to his considerable Estate in York-shire satisfied for 160000. l. loss in his Majesties service with the conscience of having suffered it in a good cause and acquitted himself bravely and played the man if thou do ill the joy fades and not the pains if well the pain doth fade the joy remains His Discipline was strict and exact It was present death to wrong the meanest person in the least thing where he had any Command saying that he must make the people believe that his Army was raised to protect them and therefore it was not fit in an Army of his wherein every Souldier was a Gentleman He died 1661. Deterrimi saeculi optimi heroes G. Dux Somersetensis H. Comes Cumberlandiae Marmaduke Baro Langdale Pulverem Sparge Lector abi â—egi vult modesta virtus non legi cujus hoc dogma ama nesciri Sir Thomas Glemham having most of the noble blood of England in his Veins had most of the virtues that belonged to such blood in his Soul having had experience of the German Wars then the great Nursery of our English Gentlemen he was the fitter for service in our wars being an admirable Commander of Horse and a discreet and watchful Governor of a Garrison forcing York he was made Governor of it and Commander in chief of his Majesties Forces upon the borders whence he writ to Argyle as smart a discourse as was written during the wars about the Scots Invading England against their Allegiance the late Pacification and the many obligations of his Majesty upon them upon the invitations of a few inconsiderable men that carried on designs of Innovation contrary to the known Laws Government Liberties and Priviledges of the Kingdome disabusing those parts and people as to the â—alse rumors and aspersions spread by the Scots among them Against whom and all the Northern Forces whom he made to shrink like Northern Cloath He kept the City of York 18 weeks till after he had gallantly withstood 22 Storms Counter-mines 4 slain 4 or 5000 of the enemies he was forced after the fatal Battel all Marston-moor which he would not have had fought to surrender up the City upon very honorable conditions for themselves and good for the City and Country whose Trade Freedom Estates and Government were secured in the Articles as their Persons were at the surrender Iuly 16. 1644. As he did the Garrison of Carlisle after 9 moneths seige in which time he kept it to astonishment against Pestilence Famine and all the power of Scotland upon the same terms to the Scots and the head Garrisons of Oxford upon the Kings order the noblest terms that ever Garrison was delivered on to Sir Tho. F. his Army over which his Majesty placed him because of his moderation sobriety popularity good temper reputation and his skill in fortification many additions to the works of that Garrison being made by him whereof one was of most dangerous consequence to the enemy viz. the breaking of the ground before the Trenches into pits full of stakes that nei-Horse nor Foot could attempt the Works nor a close seige especially in the Winter-floods be laid to them After an Arrest in London contrary to the Oxford Articles and sometimes Imprisonment in the Fleet thereupon he passed to Holland and there falling sick Sir M.L. and he for some reasons little frequenting the Court died some twelve years agoe by the same token that a Horse-farrier that belonged to him formerly in the North being commended to him for a great Doctor in Holland the honest man when he saw him desired to be excused calling for a more expert Physitian and telling him privately entreating his privacy that the doses he used to administer to the Northern Horse did agree infinitely well with Dutch bodies His Brother the Reverend Dr. Glemham is now Dean of Bristol and Bishop Elect of St. Asaph Tho. Glemham Cuj castra Carleolente Eboracense Monumentum sunt Oxonium Epitaphium Sir Henry Slingsby the Head of an ancient and numerous family of which Sir Arthur Slingsby Col. Tho Slingsby Col. Slingsby in York-shire whre he was High-Sheriff 9 Iacobi and always a good Justicer a noble Landlord a serious man much conversant with Holy men and our best Divines a generous Master a Gentleman of a large Estate spent most of it in the Kings service and the rest
attended all those even the meanest that went to it for their Conscience When 1660. that year of his faith and prayers came no doubt he had his choice whether he would accept that Bishoprick he had in Ireland or an equal dignity in England that which would have been the argument of anothers refusal was the very reason of his choice even the difficulty of the service and the sad state of that Church and so he underwent that rudeness there to the danger of his life from those under him that he had here from those above him notwithstanding which he went on with continual Sermons to feed the peoples souls and not their humors a wholesom Discipline that struck at their pertinacy not their persons and even course of Holiness and Devotion made up of Fasting and Prayer whereby he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teach by the pattern of his Life as well as the rules of his Doctrine a generous and magnificent hospitality entertaining all his Diocess civilly that so unworthily not knowing him till they had lost him entertained him a diffusive charity demonstrating that he sought them not theirs to poor Widows young Catechists hopeful Scholars needy Gentlemen and others his Pensioners at Derry Dublin and Faughen in Ireland Glascow in Scotland London Oxford and Cambridge in England by which and other parts of his Pastoral cares his body and spirits were so wasted with pains and study in five years that repairing as a Peer to a Parliament in Dublin 1665. he brought death in his face thither and preparing himself very late on Christmas Eve that year for a Sermon on Hag. 2. 7. and Sacrament the following day at St Brides in the same City he felt it by a Paroxism seizing his heart whereof he died the Friday after having received the holy Eucharist so chearfully as one assured of Life having lived as one assured of Death saying Thy will be done in earth in terra mea with a Pathetick emphasis in my Body being a pure Virgin espoused only to Christ and besides that he laid out 5000 l. per annum since he was Bishop in charitable uses and 200 l. per annum in Buildings he bequeathed his whole Estate save some of his best Folio Books given to St. Iohns Coll. Oxon. to furnish their Library and an 100l towards the building of their Founders Tomb. To the poor to whom he never gave any out of his purse in a Contribution of Charity but such his huge ingenuity as well as his goodness he gave something of himself also in a compassionate pity yea and something of his Office too in a Benediction and Prayer Dr. Warmestry a Scholar of Westminster Student of Christ-church and at last Dean of Worcester for which Diocess he was Clerk in the two Convocations 1640. In the first warily avoiding what might be offensive to the people at that time as the sitting of the Convocation after the Parliament and the making of new Canons when the people could not be brought to observe the old ones And in the second offering expedients to remove what had been so according to the Levitical Law covering the pit which they had opened yet he that was so fearful to offend the multitude while there was any hope of them in things that her judged circumstantial and prudential was not affraid to be undone by them when they grew desperate for those things that he understood were essential He was the Almoner-general of the noble Loyalists the Confessor-general of Loyal Martyrs and the Penitentiarygeneral for visiting the sick very zealous in converting Infidels very industrious in reclaiming the loose very careful in comforting the sad satisfying the doubtful and establishing the wavering very careful in preparing his flock for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death and very cautious against giving any offence He died at Worcester 1665. out-doing the Faction at their own Bow Preaching Mr. Humphrey Sydenham born a good Gentleman at Dalverton in Somersetshire bred Fâ—llow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford so eloquent a Preacher as it seems by his The Athenian Babler and other admirable Sermons since published that he was commonly called The Silver-tongued Sydenham but withal so honest a man that he was in danger of being turned out in these times as not fit its the phrase of the times to Preach the Gospel As if wit could be better imployed any way than to please men to heaven and it were not as lawful to rescue that Divine thing as well as Temples Altars Sacrifices from Satans service who hath usurped it so many ages to serve lusts to gods who gave it to save souls He died about 1651. happy in having the Tongue of Men and Angels and Charity too so that now he speaks Mysteries and Revelations Dr. Michael Hudson a Gentleman of great parts and greater courage hazarding himself to discover the strength of most of the Parliament Garrisons attempting many of them and taking some being best acquainted with the ways and passes of England of any person in his Majesties Army The reason why he conducted him so safely having made many journeys before between Newcastle and Oxford about the terms of his security there through his enemies quarters to the Scots at Newcastle and his Letters so securely to the Queen in France till he was betrayed by a Cavaleer Captain into his Enemies hands who imprisoned him three quarters of a year in London House and after an escape thence a year in the Tower whence being permitted to take Physick in London he got out after a shrewd design to have taken the Tower with a Basket of Apples on his Head in a disguise to the King at Hampton-Court and from thence to Lincolnshires where he raised a party for his Majesty having engaged the Gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design 1648. In the head of which after quarter given he was killed barbarously Iune 6. at Wood-craft-house near Peterborough in Northamptonshire being thrown down when his Head was cloven asunder into a Mote and when he caught hold of a Spout to save himself as he was falling a Halbertier cuts off his Fingers as others now he was fallen into the Water Swimming with one half of his Head over his Eyes and begging to dye at Land knocked him on the Head cutting off his Tongue and Teeth and carrying them about the Country the Trophies of their shame but his immortal honor who besides his life lost 2000 l. in a personal estate and 900 l. a year leaving his Wife and Children to the charity of noble persons himself being not vouchsafed a grave till an Enemy of more wit and charity than his fellows said Since he is dead let him be buried THE Life and Death OF Sir RICHARD GURNEY Sometime Lord Mayor of London SIR Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet born April 17. 1577. at Croydon in Surrey was by his Majesty King Charles I. honored with this Title that he might be a pattern
till he died Ianuary 28. 1653. Vir pius Doct us integer frugi de republica Ecclesâ—a optime meritus Vtpote quam utram instruxit affatim numerosa pube literaria Mr. Harrison of Leedes of whom I may say in reference to the Doctrine and Devotion of our Church as it is said of Aquinas in reference unto Aristotle That the Genius and Spirit of them was transplanted into him so naturally did he express them in his life and so bountifully relieve the assertors of them out of his estate giving many a pound privately to maintain Temples of the Holy-Ghost distressed throughout the kingdom and some hundreds to enlarge and repair the Church of God at Leeds notwithstanding the Sequestration of his Estate and the many troubles of his person for which build him a house make him fruitful and fortunate in his posterity Mr. George Sandys youngest Son of Arch-bishop Sandys a most accomplished Gentleman and observant Travailer who having seen many Countries after the Vote for the Militia liked worst of any his own and having translated many good Authors was translated himself to heaven 1643. having a Soul as Vigorous Spriteful and Masculine as his Poems dextrous at Inventing as well as Translating and in being an Author himself as setting out others till drooping to see in England more barbarous things than he had seen in Turkey It was for grief forc'd to make another and its last Voyage to the most Holy-land THE Life and Death OF The most Illustrious and Heroick JAMES GRAHAM Marquess of Montross A Man born to make his Family the most Noble as it was the most Antient in Scotland where his Grandfather was Lord Chancellor in King Iames his Reign and his Father Ambassador to several Princes and Lord President of the Sessions in King Charles his Reign He being bred a Souldier and Captain of the Guard in France was by Hamilton invited over into England to address himself to his Majesty while his Majesty was on design to disoblige him possessed with prejudice against him Upon this affront he thought from the King he goeth to the Covenanters whose interest he promoted much by the respect he had in that Country and the abilities he was Master of himself till hearing a muttering amongst them upon the Borders of deposing his Majesty he waiting a just opportunity sent Letters of his submission to him which were stollen out of the Kings pocket and sent to the Scots and resolutions for him in pursuit whereof after his return upon the Pacification he formed a League among the Loyal Nobility and Gentry to prevent the storm arising from the Covenant entred into by the people and after a tedious Imprisonment at Edenburgh all transactions between him and his Majesty being discovered by some of the Bed-chamber 1643. came Post with the Lord Ogleby to the Queen then newly landed at Bridlington to open to her the danger Scotland was in if his Majesty armed not his loyal Subjects in time before the Rebels raised themselves wherein he was overborn by Hamiltons Counsel as his was afterwards by the Rebels and afterwards having dived more into the Covenanters design by being thought for the affronts put upon him at Court and his retirement thereupon inclined toward them to the King at Gloucester to discover to him the Scots resolution to assist the English discovered by Henderson to him with a design to satisfie him which the King abused by Hamilton believed not till Hamilton himself writes that they were upon the Borders When my Lord advising his Majesty to send some Souldiers out of Ireland into the West of Scotland to set him with some York-shire Horse into the heart of that Kingdom to deal with the King of Denmark for some German Horse to furnish him with Arms from Foreign parts and to put a Touchstâ—ne Protestation to all the Scots about his Majesty entred Scotland with some 1400 poor Horse and Foot relieving several Garrisons and taking in some in his way though all assistance failed him but that of his own great spirit commending a design from which all men disswaded him to its own Justice and Gods blessing upon it knowing he must perish resolved to die honourably and seeing his men fickle returned them to the King keeping only two with him able and honest Sir William Rollock and Mr. Chibbalds wiâ—h whom he traversed Scotland to understand the state of it and at last formed a few Irish sent over and the Athol men who loved him well into a Body both to encourage his Friends and amaze his Enemies who were astonished to see him whom they thought to be penned up with a few ragged men on the Borders of England marching so formidably in the heart of Scotland as to â—ight 600â— Foot and 700 Horse who were so confident of beating him that one Frederick Carmichael a cried up Scots Minister said in his Sermon Sept. 1. when they fought that if ever God spake word of truth out of his mouth he promised them in his name assured victory that day by Perth without one Horse and but Powder for two Charges which he ordered to be made in the Enemies teeth with a shout all the Ranks one over the head of the other discharged at once and to be followed by the Irish whom he placed in the main Body of his men to secure them from the Scottish Horse against whom lest they should fall on him in the Front Rear and Flank he drew his men in the most open Order after a gracious invitation to them to lay down their Arms and joyn with him in setling the Peace of their Country he routed them to the loss of 4000 taken and slain and 7 miles pursuit and the taking of Perth without the least harm to the obstinate Citizens and after that with 1500 Foot and 44 Horse overthrew the Commissioners of the Covenanters with their Army of 4000 Foot and 600 Horse Sept. 12. 1644. falling in amongst them having â—lanked his Foot with his few but brave Horse with great execution to Aberdeen whence recovering the North he sent to bring in his Friends and force his Enemies to his assistance holding a great Army of Argyles of 11000 Foot and 2000 Horse in play with such success that they supplied him with Ammunition and lost in two Skirmishes 2000 men notwithstanding that Argyle by his subtlety had corrupted most of his prime men from him and at last by a surprising march over untrodden places frighted all Argyles Foot into a dispersion the Traitor himself hardly escaping to Perthâ— leaving his own Country to my Lords mercy who blessed God that ever he got safe out of it as he did 5000 more which Argyleâ— had got together in the Low-Lands to rescue his Country coming by strange passages known only to Cow-herds and Huntsmen upon them unawares and overcoming them first by his power and afterwards by his kindness whereby he subdued all those parts either to their