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A73138
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Robert Earle of Essex his ghost, sent from Elizian to the nobility, gentry, and communaltie of England.
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Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.
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1624
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ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX HIS GHOST Sent from ELIZIAN TO THE NOBILITY GENTRY AND COMMVNALTIE OF ENGLAND Virtutum Comes Jnvidia Printed in PARADISE 1624. TO THE NOBILITY GENTRY AND Communalty of England Nobles Gentlemen Commons ALthough in this most holy and glorious Assembly of Angels and Saints in the most High Starre Chamber Court of Heauen where Almighty God and his Sonne Christ Iesus are King and Prince wee the Saints do neither participate nor sympathize of the good or euill condition of yee Mortals on earth Yet seeing it is a part of that glory that God affoordeth vs in Heauen to haue a measure of knowledge of your condition on earth and I particularly taking knowledge of the miserable and distracted present estate of the whilome flourishing Realme of England in the dayes of my then dread Soueraigne now fellow Saint Queene Elizabeth of blessed and immortall memory on Earth and in Heauen could doe no lesse then giue you this my Sacred Declaration and Admonishment which I send you by this my Blessed Genius written with a pen made of an Angels Pinion and agreeing with my Apology which I left behind me on Earth in mine owne defence and for the good of my Country after my discease The lawfull succession of your now King when I was amongst you on earth I neuer questioned but maintayned and was euer ready to maintayne with dint of my Sword if neede had bin his Title against whomsoeuer offered to question the same as was and is well knowne to his Maiesty That he was a prudent learned and religious educated Prince I also neuer doubted But that such a prudent learned and religious Prince should bee so farre misled by some false hearted Counsellours at home and fawning Forraine Embassadors from the enemies of God and his Gospell prosessed in England to the detriment of the Kingdome That I say makes me not a little to maruaile and mourne I should for my Natiue Country but that here in Heauen we are not subiect to passion Vpon my certaine knowledge notwithstanding all the faire shewe of league and amity betwixt Iames King of Scots and Philip King of Spaine the Crowne of Scotland was no longer safe on King Iames his head then whiles my Soueraigne Lady and Mistresse Queene Elizabeth by her valiant men of Action curbed King Phillip and kept him in awe For had his ambitious wicked and deuilish designe of Englands inuasion in 88. taken effect Is there any so childish to thinke that his inuasion would haue had any Period at Barwick Sure I am King Iames had wisedome enough to know that his Crowne and Kingdome lay then at the Stake in the second place next vnto England For K. Iames then of Scotland made a sweete Sonet as a Monument and Commemoration of his and our deliuerance from that Forraine and godlesse Fleete as he then termed It Which Sonet as I then receiued it I here present vnto your view and consideration The Nations banded ' gainst the Lord of might Prepar'd a Force and set them to the way Mars drest himselfe in sicke and awfull plight The like whereof was neuer seene they say They forward came in monstrous aray Both Sea and Land be set vs euery where Brags threatned vs a ruinous decay What came of that the ishue did declare The Winds began to tosse them here and there The Seas began in foaming waues to swell The number that escap'd it fell them faire The rest were swallow'd vp in gulfes of Hell But how were all these things miraculous done God lookes at them out of his Heauenly Throne The same Sonet is extant in Latine by Metellanus L. Chancellor of Scotland Matters so standing the maruaile is That vpon the mature shutting in of the euening of your long Summers day of Queene Elizabeths Reigne King Iames lawfully and peaceably succeeding to the Crownes of England and Ireland he so suddainly concludes as it were an inviolable league with that ambitious King Philip of Spaine that neuer made league with any King Prince or State but for his owne end and aduantage If I were on earth I know some of you would answer me King Iames was a peaceable Prince and so loued to be at peace and in amity with other Christian Princes Yea and it seemes your King himselfe is much affected with the very name of PEACE alleadging that he hath beene a peaceable King from his Cradle That BEATI PACIFICI is his happy destined Motto and with such like selfe-pleasing songs hath a long time sung a Requiem to himselfe c. I must confesse it is a happy thing for Christian and Religious Kings Princes and States to be at peace in vnity and amity one with an other But on the other side it is as vnhappy and daungerous a thing to haue league or amity with Romane-Catholique Kings and Princes who are I say sworne and profest enemies to God and his Gospell as was and is this great Catholique King Philip and his Austrian-Castillian family When I was a seruant to my Prince and Country on earth my affection in nature was indifferent Tam Marti quam Mercurio and I was more enflamed with the loue of knowledge then the loue of Fame which some of your * Henry Earle of Southamton c. Men of State and great place yet liuing that knew my heart can beare me witnesse But my Noble and Religious * He died Earle Marshall of Ireland An. 1576. Father Walter Earle of Essex vpon his Death-bed he gaue me in precept three maine and weighty matters viz. First To serue God according to his Ordinances in his Word Secondly To obey my Prince Thirdly To loue and serue my Country vnto which he added To beware of and to hate all Popish superstition and Idolatry All which he religiously enlarged and pressed vnto me the more in regard of my tender youthfull and vnripe yeares Which Swan-like Song of my deare Parent tooke so deepe an impression in me that I being called by my Soueraigne the Queene and being but a youth she was pleased to call me her Boy to serue her Maiesty and my Country did the willinger yeeld and obey my Prince her Command and entred into Action First in the yeare of our Lord 1585 and xix of my Pupill-age I went with the Earle of Leicester my Father in law into the Netherlands where I had the Honorable charge of Generall of the Horse in a faire Army Where I aduentured my life and subiected my selfe to many kinds of wants disagreeing with my education and yeeres c. Which I did for the Honor of my Prince and Country Secondly in the yeare 1589. I enterprized my voyage into Portugall with a poore distrested and exiled King Don Antonio whom I many times with pitty heard repeate with teares the story of his oppressions by Phillip King of Spaine who by force and tyranny had vsurped his Crowne of Portugall Also considering the enemy against whom I went an insolent cruell