scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord high-High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
His maintaining with all sober men that the Church of Rome is a true Church Veritate entis non moris not erring in fundamentalibus but Circa fundamentalia That we and the Catholicks differ onely in the same Religion and do not set up a different Religion That a man may be saved in the Church of Rome and that it was not safe to be too positive in condemning the Pope for Antichrist A few Popish books in his as there are in every Scholars Study Francis Sales calling the Pope Supream Head Great Titles bestowed upon him in Letters sent to him which he could not help Dr. â—ocklington and Bishop Mountague deriving his succession as Mr. Mason had done before and all wise men that would not give our adversaries the advantage to prove the interruption of the Lineal succession of our Ministry do still from Augustine Gregory and St. Peters Chair Bishop Mountagues Sons going to Rome and Secretary Windebankes Correspondency with entertainment by and favor for Catholicks His checking of Pursevants and Messengers for their cruelty to Papists inconsistent with the Laws of the Land and the Charity one Christian ought to have towards the other his indeavor after a reconciliation of all Christian Churches expressed in these words I have with a faithful and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of peace and truth in Christ Church which God I hope will in due time effect His Correspondence with Priests and Jesuits not half so much as Arch-bishop Bancroft and Abbot held with them to understand the bottom of their Intrigues and Designs not proved against him he being as shie of them and they of him as any man in England and onely watchful over them and others that were likely to disturb the Peace of the Realm in such a prudent and discreet way as the vulgar understand not and therefore suspected His not believing every idle rumor about Papists and others so far as to acquaint the King and Counsel with it especially when they tended to the disparagement of our gracious Queen or her Great Mother His answer writ by the Kings command to the Commons Remonstrance against him 1628. The Lord Wentworths Letter to him about Parliaments in Ireland His speaking a good word for an old Friend Sir F. W. to prefer him at Court His supervising of the Scottish Lyturgy by warrant from the King and the good Orders sent into Scotland by the Kings Command and under his Hand and Seal All the Letters he sent into Scotland about that Affair by his Majesties special Command in these words Canterbury I require you to hold a Correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Dean of our Chappel Royal in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive our directions by you for the ordering of such things as concern our Service in the said Chappel By virtue of which likewise he was enjoyned to peruse the new Common-prayer and Canons of Scotland sent by the Bishops there hither to England and send them with such emendations as his Majesty allowed back again into Scotland His being the occasion of the Tumults there who was against the Commission for recovering Tythes which was the real occasion of them and who writ thus to the Lord Traquair high-High-Treasurer of Scotland My Lord I Think you know my opinion how I would have Church-business carried were I as great a Master of men as I thank God I am of things the Church should proceed in a constant temper she must make the world see she had the wrong but offered none And since Law hath followed in that kingdom perhaps to make good that which was ill done yet since a Law it is such a Reformation or Restitution should be sought for as might stand with the Law and some expedient be found out how the Law may be by some just Exposition helped till the State shall see cause to Abolish it Yea and found great fault with the Bishops there for that they acted in these things without the privity and advice of the Lords and others his Majesties Councils Officers of State and Ministers of Government Some Jesuits writing pretended Letters discovering the method taken in England for reducing Scotland a Paper of Advice sent him about Scotland from a great man thither and Sir Iohn Burwughs observation out of Records concerning War with Scotland transcribed for his use among which these are considerable I. For Settling the Sea Coast. 1. Forts near the Sea Fortified and Furnished with Men and Munition 2. All Persons that had Possessions or Estates in Maritine Counties commanded by Proclamation to reside there with Families and Retinue 3. Beacons Erected in divers fitting places 4. Certain Light Horse about the Sea Coasts 5. Maritine Counties Armed and Trained under several Commanders led by one General under his Majesty II. Concerning the Peace of the Kingdom 1. All Conventicles and Secret Meetings severely forbidden 2. All Spreaders of Rumors and Tale-bearers Imprisoned 3. All able Men from sixteen to threescore throughout the Kingdom Armed and Trained and those that could not bear Arms themselves having Estates to maintain those that could An Order of the Councel-table under thirteen Privy-Counsellors hands to him and all the Bishops to stir up all the Clergy of ability in their respective Diocesses to contribute towards the defence of the Realm and a Warrant under his Majesties hand to the same purpose The suppression of the scandalous Paper about the Pacification disavowed by the English Commissioners the Earls of Arundel Pembroke and Salisbury c. The Kings Officers Contributions toward the same occasions The Sitting of the Convocation 1640. by his Majesties Order approved by all the Judges of the Land under their hands The Orders sent by the Councel to the Lord Conway then in Chief Command of the Forces raised to stop the Scottish Invasion The Recusants Contributions according to their Allegiance towards the defence of the Kingdom by the Queens Majesties directionsâ— The Prentices Complaint for want of Trade Monopolies c. The Discoveries the Catholicks pretended to make of one another These are his pretended Faults most part whereof are Faults that no man yet was thought guilty for being excellâ—nt Virtues and the rest of the miscarriages he was not guilty of being 1. Either the Acts of whole Courts where he was never but one and sometimes none 2. Or the actions of particular Persons in whom he was not concerned or acts of State by which he was obliged So that in reference to the first he might use St. Eucherius his Prayer God pardon me my sins and Men forgive me Gods grace and gifts And with respect to the second that good mans Orisons who used to pray O! forgive me my other mens sins And these the crimes for which his Sacred Bloud after so many Tumults Libels and Petitions in England Scotland and Ireland was shed without any respect to his Abilities his Services his Age his Function or Honor
understood he the interest of all his places and resolutely he maintained them What saith he shall the Liberties of Westminster he infringed when the chief Favorite is Steward and the Lord Keeper Dâ—an and I the Contemptible man that must be trampled on When he was in trouble what passion what insinuation what condescension hath he at command when Petitioned to how quickly he looked through men and business how exactly would he judge and how resolutely conclude without an immediate intimation from his Majesty or the Duke Many eyes were upon him and as many eyes were kept by him upon others being very watchful on all occasions to accommodate all emergencies and meet with all humors always keeping men in dependance on the Duke according to this intimation of his Cabal 287. Let him hold it but by your Lordships favor not his own power A good way had he been constant to it the neglect whereof undid him for designing the promotion of Dr. Price to the Bishoprick of Armagh he moved it to the Duke who told him it was disposed of to Dr. Vsher. Whereupon he went his own way to advance that man and overthrew himself for then his Lord let him feel what he had threatned my Lord Bacon when he advanced him That if he did not owe his Preferment always to his favor he should owe his fall to his frown The peremptoriness of his judgment rendred him odious his compliance with Bristol suspected and his Sermon at King Iames's Funeral his tryal rather than his Preferment obnoxious His spirit was great to act and too great to suffer It was prudence to execute his Decrees against all opposition while in power it was not so to bear up his miscarriages against all Authority while in disgrace A sanguine Complexion with its Resolutions do well in pursuit of success Flegm and its patience do better in a Retreat from micarriages This he wanted when it may be thinking fear was the passion of King Charles's Government as well as King Iames he seconded his easie fall with loud and open discontents and those discontents with a chargeable defence of his Servants that were to justifie them and all â—â—th that unsafe popularity invidious pomp and close irregularity that laid him open to too many active persons that watched him Whether his standing out against Authority to the perplexing of the Government in the Star Chamber in those troublesome times his entertainment and favor for the Discontented and Non-Conformists his motions for Reformation and Alteration in twelve things his hasty and unlucky Protestation in behalf of the Bishops and following actions in England and Wales where it s all mens wonders to hear of his Mâ—ruit su◠〈…〉 had those private grounds and reasons that if the Bishop could have spoken with the King but half an hour he said would have satisfied him the King of Kings only knoweth to whom he hath given I hope a better account than any Historian of his time hath given for him But I understand better his private inclinations than his publick actions the motions of his nature than those of his power the Conduct of the one being not more reserved and suspicious than the effects of the other manifest and noble for not to mention his Libraries erected and furnished at St. Iohns and Westminster his Chappel in Lincoln Colledge the Repairs of his Collegiate Church his Pensions to Scholars more numerous than all the Bishops and Noble-men besides his Rent Charges on all the Benefices in his gift as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln to maintain hopeful youth according to a Statute in that Case provided Take this remarkable instance of his Munificence that when Du Moulin came over he calleth his Chaplain now the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and telleth him he doubted the good man was low wishing him to repair to him with some Money and his respects with assurance that he would wait upon him himself at his first leisure The excellent Doctor rejoyceth that he could carry him no less than twenty pounds The Noble Bishop replyed he named not the summe to sound his Chaplains minde adding that twenty pounds was neither fit for him to give nor for the Reverend Forreigner to receive Carry said he an hundred pounds He is Libelled by common fame for unchaste though those that understood the privacies and casualties of his Infancy report him but one degree removed from a Misogonist Though to palliate his infirmities he was most compleat in Courtly addresses The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladies and Persons of honor wherein he did personate the compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a Woman was seldom seen in his house which therefore had alwayes more Magnificence than Neatness sometimes defective in the Punctilio's and Niceties of Daintiness lying lower than Masculine Cognizance and as level for a Womans eye to espy as easie for her hand to amend He suffereth for conniving at Puritans out of hatred to Bishop Loud and for favoring Papists out of love to them yet whatever he offered King Iames when the Match went on in Spain as a Counsellor or whatever he did himself as a Statesman such kindness he had for our Liturgy that he translated and Printed it at his own Cost into Spanish and used it in the Visitation of Melvin when sick to his own peril in the Tower and such resolution for Episcopacy that his late Majesty of blessed Memory said once to him My Lord I commend you that you are no whit daunted with all Disasters but are zealous in defending your Order Please it your Majesty replyed the Archbishop I am a true Welshman and they are observed never to run away till their Generall first forsakes them no fear of any flinching while your Majesty doth countenance our Cause His Extraction was Gentile and Antient as appeared from his Ancestors estate which was more than he could purchase without borrowing when at once Lord Keeper Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Westminster His minde great and resolute insomuch that he controuled all other advices to his last to his loss in Wales and daunted Sir Iohn Cook as you may see in his Character to his honor in England His Wariness hath these Arguments 1. That he would not send the Seal to the King but under Lock and Key 2. That being to depute one to attend his place at the Coronation of King Charles the First he would not name his Adversary Bishop Laud to gratifie him nor yet any other to displease the King but took a middle way and presented his Majesty a List of the Prebendaries to avoid any exception referring the Election to his Majesty himself 3. That he proposed a partial Reformation of our Church to the Parliament to prevent an utter extirpation by it 4. That he exposed others to the censure of the Parliament 1625.
said many years before the war that he would prove either the best or the worst instrument that ever this kingdome bred with a cast of his Military Office in Plundering him and Quartering himself in a spight mean as himself upon him He was with many children turned out of all likely to have been starved had not the honorable Sir Iohn Robinson and his good Parishioners at Milk-street entertained him charitably in those sad times when being about to write Mr. Hales his Life 1658. he ended his own leaving two Volumes of nervous and elegant Sermons behind him together with the memory of an holy honest rational sober modest and patient Confessor Dr. Iohn Oliver first of Magdalen Hall and afterwards of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford Tutor to several eminent Persons but to none more than the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Clarenden Lord High-Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford and fellow Pupil under Dr. Buckner to Dr. Hammond His moderate expedients did much in the Colledge while he was Fellow to reconcile differences and his even carriage at Lambethâ— where he was Chaplain 1640. to mitigate prejudices permitting none that came to him as a Licenser to go away unsatisfied either with a slurr put upon what they cannot endure a contempt of their pains though never so despicable or a disrespect upon their persons though never so mean 1643. he was forced to fly from his Livings and Dignities when it pleased God by the promotion of Dr. Frewen to the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichsield to open a way to him into his Presidentship which he held till 1646. when being ejected with his Brethren he had a very hard time of it his charity not foreseeing the future miseries though never exceeding yet making even with his Income youth may make even with the year though age if it will hit shoots a Bow short and lessens still his Stake as the day lessens and his life with it till the Secluded Members restored him being not turned out formally but forced prudently to retire 1659. his Majesty advancing him to the Deanery of Worcester 1660. and dying 1661. lâ—â—ving considerable Legacies to the Cathedral of Worcester Magdalâ—n Colledge in Oxford and St. Pauls in London And bequeathing this Memorial among the Scholars of the House that he let them know he was President so as that he remembred that they were his Fellows using to the younger sort that of Divine Herbert Fool not for all may have if they dare try a glorious life or grave The learned and honest Dr. Robert Pinke and Dr. Stringer Wardens of New Colledge Dr. Ratcliffe Principal of Brazen-Nose Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel Dr. Pit of Wadham most of them great Benefactors to their respective Colledges particularly Dr. Tolson having with the then Fellows contributed largely to the rebuilding and finishing of that neat Colledge which they were not suffered long to injoy Sic vos non vobis c. Dr. Laurence of Baliol Colledge Margaret Professor much troubled about a Sermon he preached at Whitehall 1637. wherein he moderately stated the real presence saying We must believe he is there though we must not know how that he was there the Church always said but con sub trans the Church said not c. and at last cast out by force to beg his Bread with the rest of his Brethren Dr. Christopher Potter native of Westmerland Scholar at the Pregnant School of Appleby Fellow and Provost of Queens Colledge Prebend of Windsor and Dean of Worcester a person of great learning devout life courteous carriage comely presence and a sweet nature It was conceived a daring part of Tho. Cecill to injoyn his Carpenters and Masons not to omit a days work at the building of Wimbledon-house in Surrey though the Spanish Armado 1588. all that while shot off their guns whereof some might be heard to the place It was a bold loyalty and charity in this Doctor to send all his plate to the King saying he would drink with Diogenes in the hollow of his hand before his Majesty should want when he did not know but all his estate should be seized by the enemy and to give so much to the poor when he had a Wife and many Children to provide for yet having heard in a Sermon at Saint Pauls that to give to the poor was an infallible way to be rich our selves he did as a good hearer should try it and found it true A strict Puritan he was when Preacher at Abingdon in his Doctrine and always one in his Life His excellent Book against the Papists called Charity Mistaken 1634. was not only learned but what is sometimes wanting in Books of that controversie in each phrase weighed and discreet submitting it to the censure of his friends before it came under the eye of the world as was his Consecration Sermon at the Instalment of his Uncle Bishop Potter of Carlisle 1629. The cavils against both which malice snarling where it could not bite he answered not partly because of his sickly body which was impatient of study and partly because of his peaceable temper not much inclined to controversies But chiefly because he would say a controversie would be ended by writing when a fire would be quenched with oyle New matter still riseth in the agitation and gives hint to a fore-resolved opposite of a fresh disquisition silence hath sometimes quieted misraised brabbles never interchange of words and indeed he was not worthy to be satisfied that would after such satisfactory discourses yet wrangle Robert Pinke a grave Governor often Vice-chancellor with great integrity managing the Elections at Winchester and the Revenues of New-colledge rich not in his estate but in his minde having made little his measure he reckoned all above a treasure He that needs five thousand pounds to live He is not so rich as he that needs but five Dr. Ratcliffe one firm to his purpose though the matter never so small not to be moved by advantages never so great constancy knits the soul who breaks his own bonds forfeiteth himself what nature makes a ship he makes a shelf Dr. Tolson a plain Northern-man that loved to do things by degrees and like his successor Dr. Io. Saunders to collect others opinion of affairs before he declared himself speaking to a business as Mr. Humpden used last being willing to leave little to hazard when he had time to bring an affair within the compass of skill Dr. Laurence did all things like a man hating the Lay hypocrisie of simpring Who fears to do ill sets himself to Task Who fears to do Well sure should wear a Mask Dr. Potter a person that lived by rule as all things do securing his temperance with two sconces viz. Carving and Discoursing a shop of rules a well trusted pack whose every parcel under writes a Law having his humors as God gave them him under Lock and Key Who keeps no Guard upon himself
abolishing Kingly Government so much as to drink in her house bidding him be gone to his Masters for his wages Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers who repented heartily that ever he had any thing to do with Fowks in opposing the Kings Customs for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal of the latter Oaths from former were then degraded in the City and forced to retire out of it Alderman Culham whom I think they used to call the Queens Knight and Alderman Gibs by attending their own Affairs in the Country escaped the snares laid for their Consciences in the City Sir George Whitmore was till his death 1658. as great a support to and sufferer for his Majesties Government in his habitation at Middlesex as Sir Thomas Whitmore at Auley in Shrop-shire his Conscience having cost him who being very aged would say that he could serve his Majesty only with his Purse 15000 l. as Sir Thomas his Allegiance besides Plunders Decimations and infinite troubles did 5000 l. many Orthodox Ministers and distressed Gentlemen were his Pensioners during his life more his Legates at his death when he bestowed as much money in Charitable uses on the City as he brought to it Having been a great instrument to promote the repair of Pauls begun in his Mayrolty 1631. a great Benefactor towards the repair of other Churches Men these for shew as the Mulberry-tree the most backward of any to put forth leaves and the most forward in bringing forth fruit of good works for sincerity Sir Iohn Gair Lord Mayor of London 1646. when he lost his liberty hazarded his Estate yea and his life in the defence of the City and in it of the Kingdom A Gentleman of very discerning judgment impartial intigrity pressing the Parliament to do what they fought for that is bring home the King and though of a tender disposition yet of a resolute severely just spirit being wont to say that a foolish pity is cruelty deserving the testimony given him at his death that his place did not so much honor him as he his place Zealous was he in his attendance in the Houses of prayer in that way of Worshipping the God of his Fathers which the Faction called Popery and the Papists Heresie all his life and very bountiful towards the repair of them when he dyed singular was his Reverence in hearing Gods word and affectionate his respect to the dispensers of it and that not in Complement but relief of those whom he thought Orthodox and found necessitous to whom besides many particular and liberal Supplies by his own hand he bequeathed an 100 l. by his Executors A faithful friend and a just dealer he must needs be in his publick commerce among men being so sincere in his private Communion and secret Devotion with God to which he often retyred professing to the Right Worshipful Sir Robert Abdy his Son-in-law O how glad he was of his frequent wakings in the night since thereby he had opportunity to praise his God and pray for the settlement of this miserably distracted Church and Kingdom He dyed at his house Iuly the 20 th 1649. and was buryed at St. Katharine Creechurch August 14. following having left 500 l. for the yearly Cloathing of the poor of Plymouth where he was born 200 l. to Creechurch Parish where he lived besides various other Gifts to several Hospitals Releasing of Prisoners and the like and 500l given Christs-Hospital when he was President of it Being of opinion that he must do in his life what should comfort him at his death for when his friends that stood by him on his death-bed minded him of making his peace with God he answered That old Age and Sickness were no fit times to make peace with Heaven blessing God that his peace was not then to make Sir George Stroud of Clarkenwell a Gentleman that performed good service to his Majesty in time of Peace whereof he was one of the Conservators in Middlesex and therefore much trusted by him in the time of War when he was one of the Commissioners of Array for London by the one much restraining the lewdness of the Suburbs for the filthiness of London as of Ierusalem is in its skirts by the other endeavouring to suppress the tumults Pity it was he should suffer many thousands loss for his Loyalty besides tedious Imprisonments who gave so many hundreds away in Charity in weekly Contributions to the Parishes of St. Sepulchres St. Iames Clerken-well c. while he lived there and in yearly allowance to those Parishes in the Suburbs and to the Hospitals and Prisons in London A devout man that made Conscience of preparing himself for the highest Comfort as well as Mystery of our Religion the holy Eucharist and therefore left 6 l. a year for a monethly Sermon on the Friday before the first Sunday in the moneth at Clerken-well where he is buryed to prepare others A very great Patron to Orthodox men in the late troubles as the Heir of his Estate and Vertues is of sober men since In a word he was Sir Iulius Caesars friend and second in Piety and Charity Sir Paul Pindar first a Factor then a Merchant next a Consul and at last an Ambassador in Turky whence returning he repaired the Entry Front and Porches of St. Pauls Cathedral to the Upper Church Quire and Chancel enriching them with Marble Structures and Figures of the Apostles and with Carvings and Gildings far exceeding their former beauty to the value of 2000 l. an action so Christian that King Iames would say It was the work of a good man for which and his great skill in Trade he made him one of his great Farmers of the Custom-house and he in gratitude laid out 17000. pound more upon the South Isle of that Church in the beginning of King Charles his Reign and lent his Majesty 3000 l. besides 9000 l. he gave him to keep up the Church of England in the latter end of his Reign A Projector such necessary evils then countenanced and he a Clergy-man too informed King Iames how to get himself full Coffers by raising first Fruits and Tenths under-rated forsooth in the Kings books to a full value The King demands the Lord Treasurer Branfields judgment thereof he said Sir you are esteemed a great lover of Learning you know Clergy-mens Education is Chargeable their â—referment slow and small let it not be said that you gain by grinding them other ways less obnoxious to just censure will be found out to furnish your occasions The King commended the Treasurer as having only tryed him adding moreover I should have accounted thee a very Knave if incouraging me herein But he sends for Sir P. Pindar and tells him he must either raise the Customs or take this course Sir Paul answered him nobly That he would lay 30000 l. at his feet the morrow rather than he should be put upon such poor projects as
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
last mentioned at Newbury aforesaid and upon or about the eight of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and five at the Town of Leicester and also upon the fourteenth day of the same month in the same year at Naseby-field in the County of Northampton At which several times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at several other times within the years afore-mentioned And in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and six He the said Charles Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the Free-people of the Nation to be slain and by Divisions Parties and Insurrections within this Land by Invasions from Forraign Parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evil ways and means He the said Charles Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said war both by Land and Sea during the years before-mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said war against the Parliament and good People of this Nation in this present year one thousand six hundred forty and eight in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and Places in England and Wales and also by Sea And particularly He the said Charles Stuart hath for that purpose given Commission to his Son the Prince and others whereby besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parliament intrusted and imployed for the safety of the Nation being by Him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their Trust and revolting from the Parliament have had Entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing War and Hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural wars by Him the said Charles Stuart Levyed Continued and Renewed as aforesaid much innocent bloud of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt Families undone the Publick Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for further prosecution of evil Designs He the said Charles Stuart doth still continue his Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forrainers and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked Designs Wars and evil Practises of Him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the Personal Interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and his Family against the Publick Interest common Right Liberty Justice and Peace of the People of this Nation by and for whom he was intrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that He the said Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnatural Cruel and Bloudy Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murders Rapines Burnings Spoils Desolations Dammage and Mischiefs to this Nation acted and committed in the said wars or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by protestation saving on the behalf of the People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said Charles Stuart and also of replying to the Answers which the said Charles Stuart shall make to the Premises or any of them or any other Charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on behalf of the said People of England Impeach the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick and Implacable Enemy to the Commonwealth of England And pray that the said Charles Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premises That such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgment may be hereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice A Charge ridiculous in the matter of it laying that war to the Kings charge for which they should have been hanged themselves accusing him for breaking the Priviledges of Parliaments when they had the other day dissolved the very Being of them and pretending the common good when two or three years discovered the whole Plot was nothing but private Interest these very Miscreants being turned to grass by one of their own self-deniers for a self-seeking Combination Contemptible in the framers of it the one a Runnagate Dutch-man Dorislaus who being preferred by the King History Professor at Cambridge read Treason in his first Lecture against his Patron and now commits it The other a poor and desperate Sollicitor Cook said to have two Wives to live with and twenty ways though none either honest or successful to live by And worse in the witnesses of it the scum of Mankind two or three raked out of Prisons and Goals not a man of reputation or worth two pence in the three kingdoms notwithstanding a Proclamation to invite all persons to witness against the King appearing to promote so horrid a fact and these hired men of Belial with the hope of a morsel of bread The King was always of an even temper but never more than in this case retaining a Majesty becoming himself in his misery and looking as if he were as he ought to be indeed the Judge and they as they were indeed the Malefactors Smiling as he might well as far as the publick calamities gave him leave at the horrid names Murderer Traytor c. of the worst Subjects given to the best King Upon the Picture of his Majesties sitting in his Chair before the High Court of Iustice. NOt so Majestick in thy Chair of State On that but Men here God and Angels wait Expecting whether hopes of Life or fear Of Death can move Thee from Thy Kingly Sphere Constant and Fixt whom no black storm can soyl Thy Colours Head and Soul are all in Oyl And the Lady Fairfax saying aloud in the face of the Pretended Court That where as they took upon them to Iudge his Majesty in the Name of the People of England that it was a Lye the tenth she might have said the thousandth part of the People being so far from allowing that horrid villany that they would dye willingly to prevent it The Charge being Read his most Excellent Majesty looking upon it as below him to interrupt the impudent Libel and vie Tongue with the Billings-gate Court with a Calmness Prudence and Resolution peculiar to his Royal breast asked the Assassinates By what authority they brought a King their most Rightful soveraign against the Publick Faith so lately given him at a Treaty between him and his two Houses By what lawful Authority said he again more Emphatially For I am not ignorant continued he that there are on foot every where very many unlawful Powers as of Thieves and Robbers on the High-way Adding That whatsoever
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
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
the First that firm Protestant who could not be moved from his Religion though he was in the heart of Spain and France was in his bosom either by power or love said of him when going under his Roof at Naseby fight that he found not so much faith as he did in him though a Papist bred at Saint Omers and travelled for many years in Spain and Italy no not in Israel For it was he whose frugality whereof his plain Freeze cloaths at Court were a great example enabled him and his Loyalty which he said whatever other Romanists practised was incorporated into his Religion often relating with pleasure that Gospel for the day when the Imperialists beat the Bohemians was Reddite Caesari quae sunt Casaris Deo qui sunt Dei urged him when his Majesties Protestant Subjects made him afraid and ashamed to stay in London to send men with ready money when the King wanted it and the Country-people would do no more without it to bear the charges of his Majesties and his Followers carriages and other accommodations to York besides that he was seen to give Sir Iohn Biron 5000 l. Sterling to raise the first horse that were raised for the King in England and his own Officers 40000 l. Sterling to raise two Armies 1642. and 1643. for his Majesty in Wales over and above 40000 l. Sterling in gold at three several times sent his Majesty in person and the unwearied pains the close imprisonments the many iminent dangers of his life and most of these hardships endured when he was eighty years of age and the great services he performed in South-wales where the greatness of his fortune and family improved by the sweetness and munificence of his person raised him an interest that kept those parts both a sanctuary to his Majesties person when he was in streights and the great relief of his Cause both with men and money when he was in want till that victorious Army that had reduced the whole kingdom besieged him who hearing of his Son the Lord Glamorgans landing with considerable Irish forces writes to them That if they would make him undelaid reparations for his Rents they had taken he would be their quiet Neighbor adding that he knew no reason he had to render his House the only House he had he being an infirm man and his goods to Sir Thomas Fairfax they being not the Kings to dispose of and that they might do well to consider his condition now eighty four years of age At last upon very honorable Articles three months time without being questioned for any action in relation to the war being allowed them to make their composition surrendring the very last Garrison in England or Wales that held out for his Majesty for whom the Marquiss lost his great estate being Plundered and Sequestred and in his old age Banished his Country being excepted out of all the Indemnities of his enemies and as I am told left out of the care of his friends among whom he died poor in Prison whither he was fetched in a cold Winter 1648. supported only by his chearful nature whereof his smart Apothegms and Testimonies as when his Majesty had pardoned some Gentlemen upon their good words that had prejudiced his service in South-Wales the Marquiss told him That was the way to gain the Kingdom of Heaven but not his Kingdom on Earth and used to reprove him out of some old Poet as Gower Chawcer c. often repeating that passage of Gower to him A King can kill a King can Save A King can make a Lord a Knave And of a Knave a Lord also And when he saw a ghastly old woman he would say How happy were it for a man going to Bed to his Grave to be first Wedded to this Woman When he was in Bala in Merionith-shire and the people were afraid to come at him for fear he was a Round-head Oh said he this misunderstanding undoeth the world And when the Major came and excused the Town to him Do you see now said he if the King and Parliament understood one another as you and I do they would agree as you and I do What when forbid Claret for the Gout said he shall I quit my old friend for my new enemy When a Mâ—â—quet-bullet at the siege of Ragland glancing on a Marble-pillar in the withdrawing Room where my Lord used to entertain his friends with pleasant discourses after meals hit his head and fell flat on the ground he said That he was flattered to have a good head-piece in his younger days but he thought he had one in his old age which was Musquet-proof Excusing a vain-glorious man as he would put a charitable construction upon most mens actions he said That vain-glory was like Chaff that kept a mans spirit warm as that did the Corn Adding if you set a man on his Horse let him have his Horse When a conceited Servant told him once that he should not have done so and so I would answered he give gold for a Servant that is but nothing for one that seems to be wiser than his Master Two men very like another the one a Papist the other a Protestant one of them set the other to take the Oath of Supremacy for him whereupon said the Marquiss If the Devil should mistake you one for the other as the Iustices did he would marr the coâ—â—â—it When it was told him he should be buried at Windsor Then said he I shall take a better Castle when dead than ever I lost when alive He desired Sir Thomas Fairfax to comprehend his two Pigeons within the Articles who wondering at his chearfulness was told That he suffered chearfully because he did before reckon upon it His goverment of his family was remarkable Dr. Bayley protesting that in three years he saw not a man drunk he heard not an oath sworn and though it was half Protestant half Papist he observed not a crosse word given the whole house being as the Master not only chearful but sober and indeed to keep them so he would wind up the merriest reparties with a grave and serious conclusion no Servants better disciplined or incouraged than his With him it is fit to mention 1. His Son the Earl of Glamorgan since Marquiss of Worcester who was as active in raising Irish forces for his Majesty having made the pacification there wherein it was thought he went beyond his Commission as his Father was in raising the Welch nay indeed Commanded the Welch to Glocester and other plaees with success in the years 1642 1643. as he would have done the Irish had he not been obstructed 1644. as he writes to the Lord Hopton c. to the Relief of Chester for which services he was Misunderstood by his friends Sequestred and Banished by his enemies continuing with his Majesty in that condition till his Restauration A great Mechanick eminent both at home and abroad for the Engines and Water-works
Hic jacet R.S. qui assidue oravit pro pace Ecclesiae Dr. Io. Nicholas a Wiltshire man I suppose in the late times Prebend of Salisbury where he excellently Preached Bishop Davenants Funeral Sermon and since Prebend of Westminster and Dean of Saint Pauls to whose piety and moderation the Church is as much beholding as the State to his Brother Sir Edward Nicholas who attended both his Majesty and his Father as a faithful Counsellor and Secretary in their best times and worst A man in no Art or Science shewed its self formally such his modesty but all were eminently such his ability He dying 1662. refufed thousands of pounds for a Lease he might then have disposed of saying he would not so wrong his successor his successor Dr. Barwick dying 1664. did the like whose History is legible in this his Epitaph Amori Aeternitati Quisquis es viator oculum animum hac adverte Lege Luge Iacent sub hoc marmore Tenues exuviae non tenuis animae Johannis Barwick SS T. D. Quem suum Natalibus gloriatur Wappenslacke Ager Westmoriensis Studiis Academia Cantabrigiensis Admissum socium in Sti. Johannis Collegium Indeque quod magis honori est Pulsum a Rebellibus Qui ne perduellium rabiem nec Haemopsin quamvis aeque cruentam certius tandem percussuram quicquam moratus Pro Rege Ecclesia summa Ardua molitus Diro Carcere perquam Inhumana passus Inconcussa semper virtute Renatum denuo vidit Diadema Infulam Etiam sua non parum obstetricante manu Qui deinde functus Decanatu Dunelmensi Paucis mensibus Paulino Vero Triennio Parum diu utroque sed fideliter Tandem post caelibatum cum primis caste cum primis sancte cultum Labe Pulmonum Curis publicis eonfectus heic requiescit in Domino Atque inter sacras Aedis Paulinae ruinas reponit suâ—s Viriusque Resurrectionis securus Anno Aetatis LIII Salutis M. DC LXII Caetera scire si velis disâ—ede Disce ex Illustri primaevae pietatis exemplo Quid sit esse veri nominis Christianum He was very active and prudent in coporating with those Loyal persons that attempted his Majesties Restauration and in assisting the Bishop of London in the Churches Reformation 1662. being fetched up to London for his quick and sweet way of managing Church-affairs wherein he was so well instructed by his Patron Bishop Morton in his many years attendance upon him and therefore no wonder that his Majesty valued him so much as to be willing to redeem his life they are his own words with the exchange of one that had endeavoured to deprive him of his own and sustain it otherwise likely to perish in prison when his enemies had robbed him even of bread for his own mouth Dr. Nicholas Monke Brother to his Grace the Duke of Albemarle born of an ancient Family in Potheridge Devonshire and bred under an excellent Tutor in Wadham-colledge in Oxford being a Private but well-beloved Minister in his own Country as his Brother was a private but much observed Souldier in the Low-countries he came to serve God in the capacity of a Bishop in the Church as his Grace did to serve the King in the highest capacity that ever Subject did in the State From Sir Hugh Pollard Sir Thomas Stukley and others he being always loyally affected himself he took a journey 1659. from Devonshire to Scotland conferring with Sir Iohn Greenvile now Earl of Bath in his way at London and engaging Sir Thomas Clerges who conveighed him safe on Ship-board so fully instructed how to manage his negotiation with caution that with Dr. Samuel Barrow Sir R. Knight Dr. Iohn Price and Dr. Gumbles assistance he was able to perswade his Brother to march into England upon Sir George Booths Declaration and when that failed to send to Sir Thomas Clerges to tell him That if the Parliament would assert their own authority against the Army he would come into England in their defence as he did under that colour to their ruin his Reverend Brother in the mean time transacting an exact correspondence between him and all the West of England particularly recommending to him Sir William Maurice as a faithful and prudent Counsellor For which services he was made Provost of Eaton and Bishop of Hereford where he died 1661. Dr. William Paul born a Citizen of London in East-cheap bred Fellow of All-souls in Oxford an accute Scholar I have heard Dr. Barlow say that he answered the Act when proceeding Doctor the most satisfactorily of any person he heard and he heard many in his time and his Sermon a little before the wars upon that Text Then Paul stood upon Mars-hill and said I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious at an Episcopal Visitation of Oxfordshire was extraordinary Minister of Brightwell in Oxfordshire for thirty years Prebend of Chichester Dean of Lichfeld and Bishop of Oxford 1663. dying there 1665. A shrewd man in business whether of Trade Husbandry Buying and Improving of Land Disposing of Money carrying a great command over the factious about him by his money which he could lend to advantages to the most considerable men of that party in those sad times when others of his Order submitted to them exceedingly well versed in the Laws of the Church and the Land and admirably well seen in the Intrigues and Interest of State Dr. Matthew Wren born near Cheap-side in London descended from a worshipful and ancient Family of his Name in Northumberland brought up in Pembroke-hall in Cambridge where the accuteness of his Philosophy Act before King Iames when he distinguished upon his Majesty that his Dogs might perform more than others by the Prerogative pleased his Majesty and with other learned performances known to the Bishop recommended him to be Chaplain to Bishop Andrews his Education under him furnished him with such experiences in the affairs of the Church and State that he was advanced Chaplain to Prince Henry and his painful but exact Preaching in that Court brought him to Prince Charles his service his prudent conduct of the religious part of their Journey into Spain made his way to King Iames his own service as afterwards to King Charles where in his he had 1. Two Parsonages to exercise his charity upon the poor his munificence upon the Churches Houses and House-keeping and his excellent arts of Government upon the people 2. One Prebendary to enter him into Church affairs 3. The Master-ship of Peter-house a Scene fit for his parts learning and discipline 4. The Deanery of Windsor 5. The Bishoprick of Hereford 1634. 6. The Bishoprick of Norwick 1635. 7. The Bishoprick of Ely 1638. 8. And the Deanery of the Chappel in which capacity he married the Prince of Aurange In all which places if he Preached he gave great instances of pregnant Intellectuals set off with notable Learning and accute Oratory If he visited
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
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
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
said he deserved to lose it from his Friends A kin to that Noble Family of the Villiers that had no fault but too good Natures carrying a Soul as fair as his Body and a carriage Honorable as his Extract being not carryed by the heat of the bloud he had to any thing that might be a stain to that he came from Posterity shall know him with Sir Iohn Smith the last Knight Banneret of England who relieved him being too far engaged at Edgehill as he had before rescued the Standard who being Nobly born Brother to the Lord Carrington strived to hide his Native honor suae fortunae Faber with acquired dignity desiring to be known rather to have died of his Wounds for his Soveraign at Alesford in Hampshire 1644. than that he was born of Noble Parentage in York-shire 1646. It may be said of this numerous Family after the defeat of the King as it was of the English after the Invasion of the Conqueror Some fought as the Kentish who capitulated for their Liberty some fled as those in the North of Scotland some hid themselves as many in the middle of England and Isle of Fly some as those of Norfolk traversed their Titles by Law bold Norfolk men that would go to Law with the Conqueror most betook themselves to patience which taught many a Noble hand to work foot to travel tongue to intreat even thanking them for theiâ— courtesie who were pleased to restore them a shiver of that whole Loaf which they violently took from them Which was the Case of the Honorable Family of the Caries whereof Col. Theodore Cary was the wiliest Col. Edward Cary the most experience Sir Henry Cary the steadiest and Sir Horatio Cary the wariest Commander in the Kings Army The first best read in History the second in Mathematicks and Tacticks the third Experimented Philosophy the fourth in the Chronicles of our Land Indeed the best study for a Gentleman is History and for an English Gentleman is the British History Ernestus Cary Shelford Camb. paid 229 l. at Goldsmiths-hall Iohn Cary of Milâ—on-Clevedon Som. 200 l. Iohn Cary of Marybone Park Middlesex Esq 1200 l. Charles Cary Gotsbrook North. Esq 183 l. The Right Honorable Iohn and Henry Mordant Earls of Peterborough the first of which having been a Papist was converted by a Disputation between Bishop Vsher and a Papist at his house where the Papist confessed himself silenced by the just hand of God upon him for presuming without leave from his Superiors to Dispute with so Learned a Person as Dr. Vsher the other wounded at Newberry and other places where he was a Volunteer for his late Majesty as he was often Imprisoned for his Loyal attempts 1647. 1655. 1657. 1658. 1659. in behalf of our present Soveraign the great Agent and Instrument for whose Restauration was Io. Lord Viscount Mordant of Aviland who was tryed for his life at Westminster and brought the first Letters from his Majesty to the City of London their Loyalty cost that Family 35000 l. whereof 5106 l. 15 s. composition Sir Edward Walgrave an Ancient Northern or Norfolk Gentleman never more than a Knight yet little less than a Prince in his own Country above 70 when he first buckled on his Armour for the English Wars a Brigadine in his Majesties Army one of the first and last in action and a Commander in the Isle of Ree Commanding the Post at Saltash at the Impounding of Essex where his men scattering were thrice rallied by himself though twice unhorsed and the whole Parliament Army stopped till his Majesty approached he lost two sons and 50000 l. in the Wars A Gentleman who deserved his neighbours Character of Strong Bow having brachia projestissima and Tullies commendation nihil egit levi brachio especially falling heavy upon all sacrilegious invaders of Churches who being angry with the King revenged themselves on God destructive Natures delighting to do mischief to others though they did no good to themselves 2. Sir â—ervase Scroop was not so near Sir Edward in his dwelling as in his character who being an aged man engaged with his Majesty at â—dgehill where he received 26 wounds and was left on the ground dead till his son Sir Adrian having some hint of the place where he fell lighted on the body with no higher design than to bring it off honourably and bury it decently still warm whose warmth within few minutes was improved into motion that motion within few hours into sense that sense within a day into speech that speech within certain weeks into a perfect recovery living above 10 years after with a pale look and a Scarff-tied arm a Monument of a Sons affection to a Father as of both to the Father of their Country for whose sake his purse bled there is a vein for silver as well as bloud as well as his body the War standing him and his Soh in 64000 l. whereof 120 l. per annum in Land and 3582 l. in money for Composition for which the Family there was Coll. Io. Scroopâ— is highly esteemed by his Majesty who is happy in that quod in principi rarum ac prope insolitum est ut se putet obligatum aut si putet amet Plin. Ep. ad Trajan 3. William Salisbury of Bochymbid Denb Governour of Denbigh Castle was such another plain and stout Cavalier in his True blew Stockings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who yielded not his Castle till all was lost nor then his loyalty keeping up the Festivals Ministry and prayers of the Church by his example and charity printing Orthodox Books in Welch and buying them in English at his own charge relieving the poor Cavaliers and encouraging the rich zealously but wisely and warily his loyalty cost him and his son Charles Salisbury 781l by way of composition and 100 l. per annum in a way of charity An old Gentleman of a great spirit that would would deal faithfully with any man and spoke so plainly to his Majesty for two hours in private that the good King said nevâ—r did Prince hear so much truth at once He was sure to have his Carolon Christmass day as St. Bernard his bymn See Mr. R. Vaughans Dedic of Bishop Usher and Bishop Prideaux his works to him translated at his charge R. Vaughan whose house Caergay was burned for his loyalty to the ground a great Critick in the Welch Language and Antiquities as was Mr. Rob. Vaughan of Hengour to whom his Country is much engaged for translating the Practice of Piety and other good Books into Welch 4. Sir Thomas Salisbury of Lleweney by Denbigh a Gentleman every way especially in Loyalty and Arms recovering the honour of that ancient and noble Family by his early and effectual adhering to K. Charles I. which was tainted by his Predecessors practices against Q. Elizabeth he hazzarding as much for the established Religion against the Novelties of his time as his Ancestor did for what he thought
like Xeuxes his Picture being adorned with all Arts and Costliness while the English Peer like the plain sheet of Apelles got the advantage of him by the Rich Plainness and Gravity of his Habit was the greatest solemnity ever known in the Memory of Man the composition for his large Estate is the greatest in the whole Catalogue being one and twenty thousand five hundred and ninety seven pound six shillings not abating the odde two pence The Right Honorable Ierome and Charles Weston Earls of Portland son and Grand-child of Richard Weston Earl of Portland 8 Car. I. Lord High Treasurer of England the first a Person of a very able and searching judgment the first discoverer of the so artificially masked Intentions of the Faction well furnished as well as polished with various Learning which enabled him to speak pertinently and fully to all propositions signified by the gravity and modesty of his Aspect made up of quick and solid apprehensions set off with the dignity and dependance of his Port and Train supported by magnificence and frugality sweetned with courtesie without complement obligingness without slattery he being a great observer of solid respects and an Enemy of empty formalities died 1663 4. a great Statesman well seen in Sea Affairs under King Charles II. and the other a very hopeful Gentleman was slain at Sea Iune 1665. in his Voluntary attendance upon his Highness the Duke of York when fell the Rear-Admirall Sansum a private man of a publick spirit that aimed not so much to return wealthier as wiser not always to enrich himself but sometimes to inform Posterity by very useful Discoveries of Bayes Rivers Creeks Sands Autens whereof some were occasional others intentional The Honorable the Lord Muskerry and Mr. Boyle second son to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington The Right Honorable the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham the comeliest man to see to and the most hopeful to converse with in England slain for refusing Quarter at Comb-Park Iuly 7. Anno Dom. 1648. Aet suoe 19. the sweetness of his temper the vastness of his Parts and Abilities the happiness of his Education and his admirable Beauty which had charmed the most barbarous to a Civility being the occasion of the Enemies Beastly usage of him not fit to be mentioned The Right Honorable William Lord Widdrington President of the Councel of War under my Lord of Newcastle in the North and Commander in chief of Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire under Prince Rupert of as great affections towards his Majesty as the Country was towards him whom they desired to live and die under for his four excellent Qualities 1 Skill 2 Vigilance 3 Sobriety 4 Integrity and Moderation When he went over with the Duke of Newcastle to Hamborough Holland and France after the defeat of Marstoâ—moor he told a friend of his that he lost 35000l by the War and when after he had waited on his Highness the Prince of Wales in his Councels at Paris and the Hague in his Treaties with the Scots and English in the command of the Fleet 1648. and in the Conduct of the Northern Army that same year he lost his life in marching to his assistance into England with the Earl of Derby at Wiggan in Lancashire Aug. 3. 1650. Col. Thomas Blague hath at the coming in at the North-door of Westminster Abbey on the left hand this Elegant History drawn up as I am informed by Dr. Earls then Dean of that Church Tho. Blague Armiger in Agro Suffolciensi nobili Antiqua familia oriundus vir Egregiis animi Corporis Dotibus quibus artes honestas conjunxerat clarus militia duobus Regibus Carolo I. II. sidus Imprimis ac gratus Quibus ad utriusque Interioris Cubiculi honorislca ministeria ad lectus utilem operam navaverat praecipue in bello Arci Wallingfordiensi Impositus quam Caeteris paene omnibus expugnatis diu fortiter tenuit nec nisi rege Iubante praesidio excessit Nec minora foras pertulit pro regis Causa diu in exilio jactatus saepe in patria Captivus Fidem Integram singulari exemplo approbavit Et tandem sub Regis Faelicissimo reditu Cohortis stipatorum Tribunatu praefectura Iarmuthiae Praesidii Langurensis donatus Potuit majora sperare sed Immatura morte Interceptus Principem plane suum Cui in adversis constantissime adhaeserat jam muneratorem suturum in secundis desoruit Obiit Christiane ac pic 14. die Nov. Anno Salutis 1660. Aetatis suae 47. An History that Caeteris paribus will suit with 1. Sir W. Campian as famous for his services at Borstall House whereof he was Governor as Col. Blague was at Wallingford both restless men The latter accomplishments puts me in mind of the Maid presented to King Iames for a Rarity because she could speak and write pure Latine Greek and Hebrew the King returned But can she spin meaning was she as useful as this Knight was Learned as none more stern if occasion required so none more gentle in so much that he deserved the Honor and Title Sigismund the Emperor being here in England with King H. the 5 ths leave bestowed on the greatest Souldier of his time viz. true Courage and Courtesie are Individual Companions the Father of Courtesie He said he went to the Wars to fight with his Loyal-Countrymen but to Colchester to perish with them as he did in a brave salley Iuly 1648. 2. Sir Thomas Armestrong who having done as much as a man could do in England and Ireland offered to do more than a man in the Isle of Man that is maintain it against all the Parliaments Forces by Sea and Land 3. Sir Iohn Bois Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick being likely to be cast away in his passage to France desired that he should be tied to the Mast with his Arms about him that he might if any either Noble or Charitable found his body be Honorably buried Sir Iohn Bois need desire no more than one plain stone of Dennington Castle where he did the King faithful service refusing to surrender it either to Essex or Manchester or Horton or the Scots Army who plied him for six weeks night and day bidding them spare bloud as they pleased for he would venture his denying a Treaty with his own Brother to make him an honorable Monument Ancient his Family in Kent and well-deserving of the Church especially since Dr. Iohn Bois his time the best Postiller of England and therefore since the Restauration of the Church he was near the most eminent Person in it being Steward to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and his saving the Kings Army and Artillery in their coming off from the second Newberry fight with a pace faster than a Retreat and slower than a flight His Epitaph There was another Sir John Bois a Col. a Gentleman of great Expedition in dispatching Affairs in the Kings Army
calm of Cowardize seized on the Enemies hearts as that their skirmishes were rather Executions than frights but our sins put a stop to their success 16. Sir Io. Monson of South-Carleton Lincoln a good Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any in Oxford assisting in all Counsels and one in all Treaties for which he paid 2642 l. being permitted a quiet retirement for the same reason King Iohn being urged to untomb the bones of an Enemy permitted him a quiet grave Oh no said he were all my Enemies as honorably buryed To whom I must annex Sir Steven Hawkings never separated from him either in his services or sufferings a Commander of his Majesties Army and an eminent man in his Counsel as were Sir Thomas Haggerston Sir Gilbert Houghton Sir William Hart Sir Richard Hastings and Col. Io. Hilton Persons cut out by nature for Superiority and Command being like Saul taller by the head and shoulders than their Brethren and deserving it every where but among our phanaticks who raised mean men to Authority as the Goths had a Law always to chuse a short thick man for their King most of them bred Scholars and when exchanging their Caps for Helmets not putting off their Learning with their Habit. For though bookishness may be unactive yet Scholarship doth accomplish a Souldier and make him wield his Sword the steadier as appeared in Sir Io. Heydon who was a great Scholar especially in the Mathematicks whereby he overthrew the Astrologers upon their own principles and a good Souldier as were Col. Gosnall and Mr. Iohn Dutton both active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxford the last of whom was an instance of that great truth that Riches may be wanted with Pride and injoyed with Humility he being one of the Richest one of the meekest men in England not so rich in the great Estate he had as in the good works he did Notwithstanding that I find this Note in Goldsmiths-hall viz. Io. Dutton of Sherburn Gloc. Esq 5216 l. William Dallison of Greetwell Linc. 600 l. Fr. Drew Holcomb-Regis Devon 500 l. R. Davies Gwysanney Flint Esq 645 l. Will. Dâ—venport of Broomhall Ches Esq 745 l. Sir Will. Darcy of Witton Castle Durham 2457 l. Sir Robert Dormer and Sir Io. Curson of Oxfordshire who were both taken at Watlington in the same County as they sate upon his Majesties Commission of Array for which besides long Imprisonment they paid 12000 l. and Sir Io. Curson losing of a son in the service as did Sir Alexander Denton Knight of the shire for Bucks and losing his own life with heart-breaking grief in Prison as his son Col. George Denton did his with thirty wounds in the field Sir Tho. Malleâ— Exon. 871l Sir F. Moreton Howd York 828l Major Metcalf whom a shot took out of the hands of a lingring disease quickly cutting off what had been long a fretting Capt. Charles Osburn Capt. Tho. Meynel at the relief of Pontfract Col. Gilbert Marhkam and messenger at Nazeby Capt. Haggerston eldest son of Sir Tho Haggerston slain in Lanc. Coll. Holyland Sir Jo. Mary Mr. Tho. Davison Black Dur. paid 1412l composition Tho. Earl Down 6000l Tho Dove Upton Norf. 930l Math. Davis Sherb Dors. 300 l. Sir Will. Dalston Sir G. Dalston Cumb 4000l Jo. Davis of Raxford Devon and Pangborn Berks. Esq 1400l P. Dayrill Lilling Bucks Esq 700l Sir Tho. Delves Dor. Chester 1484. Sir Fr. Dowse Wall south 570l Fr. Lord Denniscomb 6042l in land and money Sir Edw. De Leyn Hallaxton Linc. 1000l Edw. Dyer Sarkam Park Ed. Dymock of the Race of the Kings Champions Esq 8633l in land and money Sir Lodowick Dyer 1500l in land and money Sir Wolston Dixey of Normator Derby Esq 1835l G. Digby of Landon Staff 1440l Phil. Dracot of Pavisley Recus 816l Sir Ralph Dutton Coll. in the Kings Army 500l Sir Drue and Col. Edw. Druery 1100l Coniers Lord Darcy of Hornby Castle York a noble Gentleman worthy his ancient Family 5464 l. in land and money 17. Doctor William Harvey the Eldest Son of Master Thomas Harvey who had as good a faculty in improving his Sons money with which they all trusted him in Land as they had to get it born at Folkston in Kent bred ten years in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge five years at Padua whence he became so accomplished with such a mixture of Foreign and Domestick Learning as to be Physician in Ordinary to King Iames and King Charles I. to establish in the world against opposition in his life time that new but noble Opnion of the Circulation of the bloud received as generally at last as it was strangers are apt to be suspected distrusted at first all those Riolanus c. shaking hands with him that hand tilted Pens against him yet notwithstanding his great Worth and Obligations upon mankind he suffered 2000 l. deep for attending his Master King Charles I. in these Wars at Oxford he was turned out of the Wardenship of Merton Colledge Oxon. and which was of worse consequence than all the rest having made a good progress to lay down a Practice of Physick conformable to the Thesis of the Circulation of the bloud he was plundered of his Papers by those men who not contented to murther the people of their own time destroyed thereby those that were unborn He died Iune 3. 1657. and the 80 th year of his age a Bachelor leaving behind him three Monuments I His four Books De Circulatione Sanguinis de Generatione de Ovo exercitatio Anatomica de motu cordis sanguinis in Animalibus in quibus scientiam humani corporis Physicae partem utilissimam mirabili sagac detexit demonstravit Vid. Gassend vit Peâ—â—es l. 4. p. 323. 2 His Benefactions whereby he hath been a second Linacer to the Excellent Colledge of Physicians in London 3 His Statue in that Colledge with this Insription Industria Sagacitate Successu Nobilis Perpetuos Sanguinis Aestus Circulari Gyro Fugient is Primus Promulgavit Mundo Nec Passus ultra Mortales Sua Ignorare Primordia Aureum Edidit de ovo atque pullo librum sic novis inventis apollineam ampliavit artem meruitque esse stator perpetus 18. Dr. William Iohnson Fellow of Queens and Dr. Nicholas Bernard Fellow of Cambridge Parallels in most of their vertues and most of their sufferings The first at once the most witty and pious man living the other Master of the greatest Mirth and seriousness in the World Both happy in sanctified Fancies and Parts both bred with eminent men the one with B. B. the other with Bishop Vsher whose Instrument he was in making many and useful Observations and Collections and whose Trustee he was in reference to his Reputation and Remains the first of which he often vindicated and the latter he often published both suffering equally the one turned out of his Fellowship and all his Preferments in England and the other out of his Deanery
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in