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-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
Ceremonies were the known Liveries of Antichrist accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse than lousie for they are Sibbe to the Sarke of Hercules that made him tear his own bowels asunder Doctor Samson Dean of Christ-Church being propter Puritanismum Exauctoratus Whittingam and Goodman backing their Schism with Treason in a Book they writ in defence of Wyat nay some of them growing so bold as being convented before Doctor Grindall then Bishop of London to answer this Question of his Have not we a godly Prince speak is she evil Thus White What a Question is that the fruit doth shew Thomas Rowlands No but the Servants of God are persecuted under her R. Hawkins Why the Psalmist answereth this Question How can they have understanding that work wickedness spoiling my people and that extol vanity Nay from single Affronts to Government they proceed to Conventicles in Fields Woods and Friends Houses and not onely so but Thomas Cartwright the Bell-weather of Non-Conformity presents the Parliament 1572. with a Book called Admonition a Title not well resented in Parliament since Admonition is but the lowest degree of Ecclesiastical Censure and a Preparative if neglected to Suspension and Excommunication wherein were several Grievances represented with this onely Redress prescribed viz. The admission of that Platform which the Presbyterians there exhibited And since one modest Admonition would not do another more severe followeth and a Reply to Doctor Whitgift's Answer to the Admonition with a world of Libels and Pamphlets which they called The new way to work following that Reply they judging it a good way to turn serious Books into Satyrical Pamphlets Finde they did so many Friends and Patrons within the Parliament and without that they erected a Presbytery in Wandsworth sleighted such sober men even of their own Scruples as Master Fox and Doctor Humphred set up Exercises called Prophesyings irregularly and dangerously carrying on Meetings of ill consequence at Cock field in Sufâ—olk at Cambridge and London draw up a Platform of Discipline at London petition the Privy-Council and engage several of them in the Quarrel particularly Leicester Burleigh Traverse his Patron and Walsingham as appears by their Letters to Archbishop Whitgift procure a Conference at Lambeth with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York before the Lords of the Council set up an Assembly of Ministers to sit Jigg by Joul with the Convocation in London engaged so many Lords and Commons under the pretence of the Liberty of the Subject the Grievances of Pluralities and Non-residences Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdictions to shake the Established Government as forced Archbishop Whitgift to repair with an humble Petition to the Queen to stand by her own Authority as Supream in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil in these her Majesties Realms and Dominions The Lord Burleigh himself was so importuned by them against our Liturgie that he desired them to draw up a better as they had done but that they could not agree Nay some persons private Interests making use of and closing with these Publick Disturbances the Commons come up with a sixteen-fold Petition against the Church to the Lords and many of the Lords were so high that nothing would satisfie my Lord Grey less than the turning out of all the Bishops by Premunire then as they had been in King Henry the Eighth's time and that the Queen should not confer with the Bishops but in the presence of the Temporal Lords A bold Proposal as an honourable Lord then observed that the Lords should appoint her Majesty whom she should confer withal And no wonder now that such Pamphlets as The Epitome The Demonstration of Discipline The Supplication Diotrephes The Minerals Have you any work for the Cooper Martin Marprelate Senior and Iunior Have you any more work for Coopers flew abroad so much that the Synod at Coventry acted so boldly as they did in their Thirteen Canons as a man may call them And that they began to write to one another in this Style We look for Bickering ere long and then a Battel which cannot long endure A boldness excusable when both the Kings of Scots and Denmark interposed in their behalf yea and some of them as Hacket and Arthington set up Designes to murder the Queen and the Privy-Council Traverse himself though otherwise reserved and wary breaking out in his Temple-Lectures to open opposition against Mr. Hooker the Master of it and the great Champion of the Church of England And because they began to be ashamed to make such a stir about Rites Ceremonies c. they added some Sabbatarian Speculations and bold Controversies of Gods Decrees to put weight into the Quarrel and brave that the World might take them not for light Scruplers about indifferent things but the strong Astertors of the Power of Godliness viz. in the keeping of the Sabbath c. the design of Dr. Bounds Book of the Sabbath To this heighth the Impugners of Government and Discipline arrived at in Queen Elizabeth's time in whose Reign these Champions withstood them viz. 1. The Queen true to her Motto Semper eadem would not either by their Greatness Number or Importunity that maintained the Faction be moved to the least diminution of her Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical yea and in her latter days when she observed how the Church and State was overborn by them she grew very severe towards them as Vdal Penry and Cartwright felt they at the Assizes and this in the Star-Chamber till he saved himself by an humble submission 2. The Privy-Council always in Church-Affairs however some Members of it had a kindness for the Faction went along with the Arch-bishop 3. The Arch-bishops Parker and Whitgift notwithstanding the many and great Difficulties they met with kept up the Authority of the Canons and required subscription 4. Fulke Hooker and Rogers kept up the Authority of the Church in Writing Although the Queen was often by them in danger of her life the Arch-bishops made weary of their Lives and Government Mr. Hooker was heart-broken with Calumnies and Oppositions all the Bishops and Ministers of the Church rendred as odious and ridiculous as the Wit and Malice of men could make them The stout Bishop of Exeter went with honourable Scars from the Factions malicious Tongues and Pens to his Grave Arch-bishop Whitgift not onely felt the Fury of this Sect when Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge at what time Carwright was also a Member of that House kept a Fast there in his absence and perswaded all the Scholars but two or three to throw off their Surplices as they did till the good Master returned home Nor did he onely complain of the continual opposition that he met with when Regius Professor from Mr. Cartwright at the same time Margaret Professor in the same University nor of the Indefatigable pains he took to answer Cartwrights Admonitions to the Parliament and to
in our hearts and so dispose us to a happy conclusion of these civil Wars that I may know better to obey God and Govern my People and they may learn better to obey both God and me nor do I desire any man should be further subject to me than all of us may be subject to God A Prince so merciful so loving to his people and so humble and patient that though severe sometimes to Offenders against the publick and to punish the bad is a mercy to the good yet to amazement tender towards Offenders against himself No Man dyed in his Reign that he could save being sparing of that very blood that others were prodigal of against him Always more ready to end the War by a harmless and rational treaty than by a bloody battle grieving when his pity or peaceableness could not save Offenders of whom he was as appeared by Warrants after several battles as careful as of his own friends alway remembring with tenderness that they were his Subjects even when he was forced to fight against them as Rebels of whom if he took them he took no other revenge than to engage them to be no more deluded and not to endeavour his murther as yet they did afterwards who saved their lives and if they must dye taking care by instructing them that they should goe thither where they should sin no more He reckoned himself never more in his Throne than when in the hearts of his people and when he heard the Parliament gave him Subsidies none dissenting he Wept for Ioy not for the Treasure he had but for the Mine he found his Peoples love He valued not three Kingdoms nor his own life when to be bought with Propositions that ruined his Kingdoms such as the Army brought him the day before he dyed At the reading of the first of which he threw them away and smelling their design to ruine his honour as well as his person said I will suffer a thousand deaths e're I will so prostitute my Honour or betray the Liberties of my People and no wonder if he would not redeem himself at the rate of a publick ruine when he would not do it with the injury of any single person for when the Noble Lady Newburgh proposed to him a way to escape when at her House he refused it saying If I should get away they would cut you in pieces a goodness extending to his very enemies of whom he said that the faction he thought could not forgive him and they are his own words not to make my self a better Christian than I am I think I should not so easily forgive them were they Kings but I tell thee Governour I can forgive them with as good an appetite as ever I eat my dinner after a hunting and that I 'll assure you was not a small one So humble he was Majesty being at the highest hath no other way to increase but to condescend that inviting persons to discourse with himself not with Majesty he would always begin a discourse with a By your favour Sir and when in the Isle of wight recommended a poor old man to Sir Philip Warwick who had much of his trust and affection and told him he was a very honest fellow and had been his best companion for two months together Not to mention his condescention to Dr. Hammond when he had lost his voice to teach him himself and his care of young Gentlemen that were to travel whom he would instruct among many other lessons with this Keep good company and be always doing being as much pleased with the accomplishments of his subjects as some poor spirited Tyrants are with the defects of theirs Besides these virtues that patience not usual to Kings whose power bears hardly the restraints of Equity much less those of Injuries that his Book and Meditations breath throughout which made him say when his Guard would have out a way to poor peoples detriment for him to avoid a showr that as God had given him affliction to exercise his patience so he had given him patience to bear his afflictions Patience that managed the cross humours of his friends and overcame the malice of his enemies breathing out with his Soul in Prayers for them and to make his mercy immortal in a charge to his Son to forgive them Virtues for which he was always admired even by Foreigners and at last applauded even by his enemies Mr. Vines saying that he was sorry he understood not the King sooner it being our unexpressible happiness that we have such a Prince and loss if we should part with him Foreigners apprehensions of him take in these words The King of Morocco's Letter to King Charles the First WHen these our Letters shall be so happy as to come to your Majesties sight I wish the spirit of the righteous God may so direct your mind that you may joyfully embrace the message I send presenting to you the means of exalting the Majesty of God and your own reward amongst men the legal power allotted to us make us common Servants to our Creator then of those people whom we govern So that observing the duties we owe to God we deliver blessings to the World in providing for the publick good of our States we magnifie the honour of God like the Celestial bodies which though they have much veneration yet serve only to the benefit of the World It is the excellency of our bodies to be instruments whereby happiness is delivered unto the Nations Pardon me Sir this is not to instruct for I know I speak to one of a more clear and quick sight than my self but I speak this because God hath been pleased to grant me a happy Victory over some of those rebellious Pyrates that have so long molested that peaceful Trade of Europe and have presented further occasion to root out the Generation of those who have been so pernicious to the good of our Nations I mean since it hath pleased God to be so auspicious to our beginnings in the conquest of Salla that we might joyn and proceed in hope of like success in the War against Tunis Algier and other places Dens and Receptacles for the humane Villanies of those who abhorr rule and government herein whilst we interrupt the corruption of maglinant spirits of the World we shall glorifie the great God and perform a duty that will shine as glorious as the Sun and Moon which all the Earth may see and reverence A work that shall ascend as sweet as the perfume of the most precious odours in the Nostrils of the Lord A work happy and gratefull to men A work whose memory shall be reverenced so long as there shall be any that delight to hear the actions of Heroick and magnanimous spirits that shall last as long as there be any remaining amongst men that love and honour the piety and vertue of noble minds This action I willingly present to you whose piety and vertues
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
on their miscarriages attended with suitable remedies hence his private Catechizing of the same Children in his Chamber on Sundays in the afternoon whereby he ensnared the Servants to receive those Lessons obliquely which their bashfulness would not have endured directly Hence his invitation yea importunity to all persons to the very Scullion to bestow their leisure-hours in his Chamber where he treated them with passing familiarity though amidst his infinite humility he knew well how to assert the dignity of his Place and Function from the approaches of contempt Yea so universal his design for vertue and piety that he had no sooner made Proselytes to his severe and strict way than he engaged all his Converts to restore their Brethren and in his own words Not to be ashamed of being reputed Innocent or to be thought to have a kindness for Religion but own the seducing men to God with as much confidence at least as others use when they are Factors for the Devil and instead of lying on the guard and the Defensive part he gave in charge to chuse the other of Assailant Adding That this was their security it being like the not expecting of a threatned war at home but carrying it abroad in the enemies Country and nothing in the Christian world he judged so dangerous as a truce and the cessation of hostility with all parties and holding intelligence with guilt in the most trivial things he pronounced as treason to our selves as well as unto God for while saith he we fight with sin in the fiercest shock of opposition we shall be safe for no attempts can hurt us till we treat with the Assailants temptations of all sorts having that good quality of the Devil to fly when they are resisted And because a pretence of humility and bashful modesty might defeat all these instructions assuring them that that was arrant Pride and nothing else Three Principles he Inculcated 1. Principiis obsta withstand the overtures of evil 2. Hoc age be intent and serious in good to which he adjoyned a third viz. Be furnished with a friend Accordingly at a solemn parture he discoursed to one of his disciples thus I have heard say of a man who upon his death-bed being to take his farewell of his Son and considering what course of life to recommend that he might secure his Innocence at last enjoyned him to spend his time in making Verses and in dressing a Garden the Old Man thinking no temptation could creep into either of these employments But I in stead of these expedients will recommend the other the doing all the good you can to every person and the having of a Friend whereby your life shall not only be rendred innocent but extreamly happy Yet this unimitable man was not more active for others good than patient under his own ills whether first of contempt being as little displeased with his scornful opposites for being of his minde in their little value of his person as he was much concerned that they were not so in their eager dissent against his person in so much that in ten years converse neither his sanguine temper nor his great temptations were observed to transport his passion to any indecency Or secondly of pain which though he would say he was of all things most a Coward to yet he endured with eminent constancy and perfect resignation his first consideration being what failing had provoked the present chastisement and his prayer that God would convince him of it nor only so but tear and rend away though by the greatest violence and sharpest discipline whatever was displeasing in his eye and grant not only patience but fruitfulness under the rod adding his repeated submission Gods holy will be done according to his beloved Doctrine of resigning our selves not to the will of God alone but to his wisdom both which he was used to say were perfectly one thing in that blest Agent whence his Motto in the most dismal appearances of Events 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even this for good His next observation was of the Circumstances of the allay as when it was the Gout that it was not the Stone or the Cramp and when it was the Stone it was not as sharp as others felt And in the intermission of his importunate maladies his third reflexion was a transport of Thanksgiving that he who had in his constitution the cause of so much pain should yet by Gods immediate interposing be rescued from the effect whereby you might discern what a pleasant thing it is to be thankful and how eternity may be well spent in Hallelujahs It s easily presumed that the serious Christian that readeth all this would gladly know the Rules and Principles whereon the good man raised his happy serenity and calmness to satisfie his useful curiosity then his first Rule was never to trouble himself with the fore-sight of future events suficient he resolved to the day is the evil thereof it being as he went on the greatest folly in the world to perplex ones self with that which perchance would never come to pass But if it should then God who sent it will dispose it to the best most certainly to his glory which should satisfie us in our respects to him and unless it be our fault as certainly to our good which if we be not strangely unreasonable must satisfie in reference to our selves and private Interests Besides all this in the very dispensation God will not fail to give such allays which like the cool gales under the Line will make the greatest heats of sufferance very supportable either the thing before us as he would subjoyn out of Epictetus is in our power or it is not if it be let us apply the remedy and there will be no motive for complaint if it be not the grief is utterly impertinent since it can do no good For this he annexed of the same Authors that every thing hath two handles if the one prove hot and not to be touched we may take the other that is temperate His second rule was to recollect his constant experiences of Gods dealing with him in precedent Dispensations His third was quod sis esse velis nihilque malis in his English to rather nothing and not only to acquiesce in the present state as most necessary but to be pleased with it as resolved the best adding his pretty question to the over-solicitous when they would begin to trust God or permit him to govern the world whereby the world and its Appendages hang loose about this unconcerned Christian that he never took notice when any part dropped off or sate uneasie His fourth was the great pleasure he took in a state of subjection which as he said rescued him from the sollicitous disquiet and discomposure of choice and left him nothing but the easie duty of obedience yet when he could not discern where his obligation lay he addressed himself to God by his own and
his friends Prayer and Fasting his certain Refuge in this as well as other Exigents A tremulous and doubtful propensity of minde to both and neither side being in such disgrace with him that he would call it the deliberation of Buridans Asse His fifth rule was to keep up a vigorous and lively Devotion so much his basiness that when an irremediable drowziness seized upon him at Prayers after a violent haemorrhage though he returned to every Response amidst his importunate infirmity he very sadly resented it saying Alas this is all the return I shall make to this meerly to sleep at Prayers His last Maxim was that suffering was a blessing and a priviledge whence these Divine Aphorisms in reference to the publick then in a dismal state for its sin and the consequences of it That prosperous iniquity would not be a deliverance but the most formidable judgment That the Nation during its pressures was under the Discipline of God given up to Satan by a kinde of Ecclesiastical censure and should the Almighty dismiss us from his hands and put us into our own giving us up to our selves with a why should you be smitten any more this were of all inflictions the most dreadful And these his Maxims with respect to the sad consequences of the Cheshire-defeat in answer to the desponding sorrows of a friend Sept. 2. Sir yet there is not wanting some gleam of light if we shall yet by Gods grace be qualified to make use of it It is the Supream priviledge of Christianity to convert the saddest evils into the most medicinal advantages the valley of Achor unto the door of hope the blackest tempest into the most perfect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All kinde of prosperity even that which we most think we can justifie the pursuance of the flourishing of a Church and Monarchy is treacherous and dangerous and might very probably tend to our great ills and nothing is so intirely safe and wholsom as to be continued under Gods Discipline therefore let us adore bless and resign our selves to Gods wisest choice And these his resentments of that blessed alteration he as passionately feared as wished suspecting his own hopes and weeping over his fruitions his Majesty will be now brought to that uneasie if not unsupportable task of Ruling and Reforming a licentious people to that most irksome sufferance of being worryed with the importunities of covetous and ambitious men the restless care of meeting the designs of mutinous and discontented spirits resolving his most wished return only a blessing to his people not so to himself but on the score of having opportunities through glorious self-denyals to do good I have considered what other men would be better for this change and I know not any as for the Church persecution was generally the happiest means of propagating that and she then grew fastest when pruned most then of the best complexion and most healthy when fainting through loss of bloud as to the Laity in all their several stations they had so much perverted the healthful dispensations of judgment that it was most improbable they should make any tolerable use of mercy and lastly in reference to himself he resolved affliction most conducible I must confess said he near the approaching change I never saw that time in all my life wherein I could so chearfully say my Nunc Dimittis as now Indeed I do dread prosperity I do really dread it for the little good I am now able to do I can do it with deliberation and advice But if it pleased God I should live and be called to any higher Office in the Church I must then do many things in a hurry and shall not have time to consult with others and I sufficiently apprehend the danger of relying on my own judgment And his only triumph upon the defeat of Lambert and that last effect of gasping treason was that of his Charity saying with tears in his eyes Poor souls I beseâ—â—h God forgive them His Charity I say which was the habit of his soul which Vertue he said commanded because he loved it and Vice enjoyed because it wanted them yet must all these Vertues dye and that last line that is drawn over all Perfections must be the Period of his Character Dr. Hammond departed this world April 25. 1660. commending that calm and tranquillity to his Attendants he had exercised being in his highest Agonies pleased with every thing that was done and brought him exhorting the young growing hopes of the family whose first innocence and bashful shame of doing ill he above all things laboured to have preserved to be just to the advantage of their Education and maintain inviolate their Baptismal Vow Enlarging to all about him the great advantages of mutual friendly admonition and bequeathing the excellent Lady upon her request of his direction for her whole life that most comprehensive Duty Vniform Obedience Yet is it pity this excellent Person should be Mortal who thought and designed nothing that was less than Immortal nor shall he dye having four Monuments as lasting as time and the world which at their own dissolution must resign him to a fair eternity This Apothegm commended to Postâ—rity as Dr. Hammonds resolution That the very condition of obeying the Lot of not being to chuse for ones self the being determined in all proposals by Humane or Divine Command and where those left at large by the guidance of Gods Providence or the assistance of a friend was the happiest state in the world 2. A fair Monument of White Marble erected at Hampton where by a Multitude of Gentry and Clergy the last of whom carryed him to his Grave he was buryed according to his desire without Pomp with the Rites of the Church of England in the Burying-place of the generous Family wherein he lived by the Generous Piety of the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey Lord Bishop of London bearing this Inscription Henricus Hammondus Ad cujus nomen assurgit Quicquid est gentis literatae dignum nomen Quod Auro non Atrame nto Nec in Marmore perituro sed Adamante potius exaretur Musagetes Celeberrimus vir plane summus Theologus omnium consummatissimus Eruditae pietatis Decus simul exemplar Sacri Codicis Interpres facile omnium oculatissimus Errorum Malleus Post homines natos faelicissimus veritatis Hyperaspistes supra quam Diei potest nervosus In cujus scriptis elucescunt Ingenii gravitas Acumen Iudicii sublimitas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sententiarum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dâ—cendi met hodus utilissima Nusquam dormitans diligentia Hammondus inquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in ipsa mortis vicinia positus Immortalitati quasi contiguus exuvias Mortis venerandas Praeter quas nihil Mortale habuit sub obscuro hoc marmore Latere voluit VII Cal. Majas An. Aetat LV. M. D. C. L. X. This is all the Marble could contain but not all either the Excellent Dr.
Master of Arts Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Exeter adorning as well as deserving his Advancements When King Iames that most learned Prince was pleased to honor the University of Cambridge by his Presence and to make Exercises of Scholars the best part of his Entertainment this person then a young man was one of those who were chosen by the University to adorn the reception of the King The part he performed was Iocoserious of Praevaricator a mixture of Philosophy with Wit and Oratory This he discharged to the admiration more than the mirth of the King and other learned Auditors who rejoyed to see such a luxuriance of wit was consistent with innocency that jesting was confined to conveniency and mirth married with that Modesty which became the Muses Among his learned and accurate performances in publick I cannot observe that when he took the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity the Text upon which he chose to Preach his Laine Sermon was Prophetick and preparatory to his after-sufferings Phil. 1. 29. Vobis autem datum c. To you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but to suffer for his sake Which eloquent and pious Sermon he afterwards was to fullfil indeed Quod docuit verbo confirmavit exemplo He made his Doctrine good by his practice taking up the Cross of Christ and following him He was preferred to be Prebend of the Collegiat Church of Eli by the favor and love of the then Bishop of that Seat Dr. Felton a very holy and good man he had also a good Living at Barlow not far from Cambridge a Country Village where he condescended bringing out new and old out of his treasure in his Preaching and Cathechising to ordinary capacities He oft deplored the disuse and want of Catechising After that this great Lamp was set and shined in a Sphere more proper and proportionate being chosen Master of Katherine-hall Here it was wonderful to see how the Buildings the Revenues the Students and the Studiousness of that place increased by the Care Counsel Prudence Diligence and Fame of Dr. Brownrig who had such an eye to all that he oversaw none frequenting the Studies and examining even younger Scholars that they might be incouraged in Learning and Piety He kept up very much as good Learning and good Manners so the honor of Orthodox Divinity and orderly Conformity He kept to the Doctrine Worship Devotion and Government in the Church of England which he would say he liked better and better as he grew older If any out of scruple or tenderness of Conscience was less satisfied with some things no man had a more tender heart or a gentler hand to heal them if worthy ingenious and honest He would convince though not convert Gainsayers and if he could not perswade them yet he would pity and pray for them drawing all with the silken cords of humanity the bands of a mans love He could endure differences among Learned and Godly men in Opinions especially sublime and obscure without distance in affection He thought that Scripture it self in some points was left unto us less clear and possitive that Christians might have wherewith to exercise both Humility in themselves and Charity towards others He very much venerated the first worthy Reformers of Religion at home and abroad yet was he not so addicted to any one Master as not freely to use his own great and mature judgement He hoped every good man had his Retractions either actual or intentional though all had no time to write them as St. Austin did He had the greatest Antipathy against those unquiet and pragmatick Spirits which affect endless Controversies Varieties and Novelties in Religion to carry on a Party and under that Skreen of Religion to advance their private Interests in publick Designs For the Liturgy though he needed a set Form as little as any yet he had a particular great esteem of it 1. For the Honor and Piety of his Martyrly Composers 2. For its excellent matter and prudent method 3. For the good he saw in it to all sober Christians the want of which he saw was not supplyed by any Ministers private Praying and Preaching Not that the Liturgy is unalterable but he judged all such alterations ought to be done by the publick Spirit As for Bishops he was too Learned a man to doubt and too honest to deny the Univerval Custom and Practice of the Church of Christ in all Ages and places for fifteen hundred years according to the pattern at least received from the Apostles who without doubt followed as they best knew the minde of Christ. He was by the favor of K. Charles and the great liking of all good men made Bishop of Exeter Anno 1641. Whereupon a certain man said he wondred Dr. Brownrig would be made a Bishop whom he had heard sometime declare his judgment against Episcopacy This being related to the Bishop he with some passion replyed I never thought much less said as that person hath falsly avâ—rred I thank God I took the Office of a Bishop with a good Conscience and so I hope by Gods mercy I shall both maintain and discharge it And howsoever this excellent Bishop enjoyned not the benefit of the Kings favour and munificence as to his Bishoprick or any other Preferment after the Troubles of the times yet he was ever most unmoveable royal respects of Fidelity Gratitude Love and Obedience Accordingly when O. P. with some shew of respect to him demanded his judgement in some publick Affairs The Bishop with his wonted Gravity and Freedom replyed My Lord the best counsel I can give is that of our Savior Render unto Caesar the things that be Caesars and unto God the things that be Gods With which free Answer O. P. was rather silenced then satisfied This grave Personage when forced to retire was useful to those that were worthy of him and knew how to value him either as a Bishop or a Divine or a Counsellor or a Comforter or a Friend Among those that gave him a Liberal and Noble entertainment Thomas Rich Esq of Shunning in Berk-shire desorveth with honor to be thus Registred that he was the especial Friend of Bishop Brownrig Indeed none could be hospitable to him gratis he always paid for his entertainments by his many excellent Discourses He was alwayes when in health as chearful as far as the Tragedies of the times gave leave as one that had the continual Feast of a good Conscience and as content as if he had a Lords Estate All diminutions and indignities which some men put upon so Worthy and so Venerable a Person he digested into patience and prayers Thus he was in some degree conformable to the Primitive Bishops which were poor and persecuted yea to the great Bishop of our Souls who for our sake made himself of no reputation About a year before he dyed he was invited with much respect and civility to the
aleam nunc positos Heu tandem pudibundi vobiscum recolite Aurea quae in ferrum mutastis secula quando Nec merita praemiis de erant nec premiameritis Quantum a bellis a mendicitate a miseriis A Rixis ab hodiernis vulgi ludibriis Tranquilla Beata ista distabant tempora Quae molles nimis nec ferre nec frui potuistis Icti afflicti prostrati phryges tandem sapite Deumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authorem Moribus Catholicis antiquis colite Vt quantum a Papae tyrannide plebis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differat Primaeva Paterna Episceâ—â—arum Praelatura Sine fuco sciant fruanturque posteri BRUNRICI memores Praesusis Angelici THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOSEPH HALL Bishop of Norwich THIS Reverend Person who hath written most passages of this his life being born at Ashby-de-la-zouch in Leicester-shire of honest and well-allowed Parents his Father being chief Officer of that place under Henry Earl of Huntington the Lord of it was so inured to seriousnesse and devotion by his religious Mother so improved in learning by his careful School-masters and so promising in parts to the more nice observers of him that in the fifteenth year of his age his Master and one Mr. Pelset eminent in those parts agreed together to perswade his Father charged with eleven Children besides to a nearer and an easier way of his education than Cambridge whereto he was destined being devoted from his infancy to that sacred Calling under the last of these Gentlemen who upon an essay of his fitnesse for the use of his Studies undertook he should in seven years be as compleat an Artist Linguist and Divine as any University man his Indentures being Prepared his Time being Set and his Suits Addressed for the pleasing but fatal project as it fell out to him that succeeded when it pleased God to whose providence the pious youth solemnly resigned himself in this affair that Mr. Nath. Silby Fellow of Emanuel Colledge conceiving a good opinion of his aptnesse and learning and hearing the late projected diversion set before his elder Brothers eyes then accidentally at Cambridge the excellency of an Academical life with so much advantage that falling on his Knees to his Father he rise not till promising the Sale of some of his own Inheritance towards the charge he brought the good man to a passionate resolution for the University Where with Mr. Henry Cholmely for many years Partners of one Lesson and for as many of one Bed he spent two years at his Fathers sole charge and four years with his Uncle Sleigh of Darbies assistance who would by no means suffer him so much against his own will at two years end to be Master of that School whereof he had been so lately Scholar when being Master of Arts and mentioned by his friend Cholmleys Father to the good Earl of H. who well esteemed the Fathers service and heard as well of the Sons hopefulnesse wherefore he demanded not without some concern why he was not preferred in that Colledge where he was so much applauded and being told his Tutor a person well known to his Lordship filled up the place of that County he perswaded him to a resignation of his Fellowship for an honorable Relation to his Family and the assurance of his favour to whose place notwithstand Mr. Halls deprecation of the choice to Dr. Chadderton upon the suddain news of the Earls death arrived the second day of their strict Election saying ingeniously that his youth was exposed to lesse needs and more opportunities of provision than his Tutors more reduced years he was admitted the twenty third year of his age into a society newly its self admitted to the University writes he which if it hath any equals I dare say hath no superiors for good Order studious Carriage strict Government austere Piety where he spent six or seven years more with such contentment as the rest of his life hath in vain striven to yield his exercises being plausible especially his Position for which he was first noted in the University that Mundus Senescit a Position saith my Author that was its own confutation the ingenuity thereof arguing rather an increase than a decay of parts in this latter age His Rhetorique Lecture thronged till sensible of his too long diversion from his destined Calling he entred not without fear the Sacred Orders wherein solemn his Performances in the University-Churches and useful his Instructions in the Neighbor-Villages when Judge Popham intrusted with the well endowed School of Tiverton in Devon upon Dr. Chaddertons motion whom he consulted offered him not so much the pains as the government of it for the acceptance whereof he with the Doctor attended the Judge at London when a Messenger in the Street delivered him the good Lady Druryes Letter with a tender of the Rectory of her Halsted in Suffolk which telling Dr. Chadderton that God pulled him by the Sleeve to the East directly to that Calling whereto he was destined and must go indirectly to by the West and satisfying the Judge with the recommendation of Mr. Cholmeley to that employment he accepted chearfully and an Atheist one Lilly that estranged him from his Patron and Neighbors being removed by the Pestilence at London whither he went to do ill offices between Mr. Hall and his Patron in answer as he observes to his Prayers to God to stop his proceedings enjoyed comfortably for two years when having repaired his House and being by his affairs inclined to a Married state as he walked from Church with a reverend Neighbor Minister he saw a comely and modest Gentlewoman at the Door of that House where they were invited to a Wedding-dinner and asking his worthy Friend whether he knew her was told by him he had bespoke her for his Wife as upon due prosecution of the unexpected providence she was for forty nine years after the first two years whereof upon his noble friend Sir Edmund Bacons importunity he attended him to the Spaw in Ardenna out of his Couriosity to make an ocular inspection into the State of the Romish Church with the allowance of his nearest friends under the protection of the Earl of Hertford then Ambassador to Arch-Duke Albert at Bruxels having provided for his charge Landing at Calais after some crosse winds at Sea and passing not without horror Graveling Dunkirk those late dreadful prisons of the English Winoxberge Ypre Gaunt and Courtray to Bruxels the first observable he met with was an English Inns of Court Gentleman run out of his Estate Religion and Country and turned Bigot and Physician Immediately at first meeting ravishing the learned Knight with Lipsius Apricollis his Relations of the Lady of Zichems Miracles till Mr. Hall appeared in a habit more suitable to his danger than his Calling and asked what difference there was between that Ladies Miracles and Vespasians Vestals
contributing very much by possessing my Lord Roberts house taking Lesterman Castle and stopping most of the Passes which he understood very well to the famous streight wherein the Earl of Essex was caught in in Cornwall and a while after very active in besieging Col. Weldens Brigade and the Town of Taunton both at one time As he was up-the fatal defeat at Naseby in getting together 4 or 5 thousand Reformades in the Counties of Devonshire and Cornwall where he pursued his Majesties quarrel as long as he had either a Garrison or a Regiment after the Treaty at Tresilian-bridge made between my Lord Hopton and Sir ◠F. for disbanding the Western Forces waiting on his Majesty that now is to Scilly Holland France c. where he was very instrumental in laying the model of the second or the Presbyterian War understanding by a long converse with the Faction their interest and humor of most of them by Sea and Land and that failing he followed his Majesties fortune abroad while he lived being accomplished as well with ingenious Arts that rendred him company for a Prince in time of peace as with those more severe that made him serviceable to him in War his youth and Sir Beviles being bred up in Exeter Colledge to all gentile habits of Learning Vertue and Complaisance yet in the midst of more soft pleasures as well as harder services his solid minde admits nothing scandalous either to his Religion or Cause both which a vertuous suffering pityed by mankind advancing as well as heroick attempts commended by them the first in the eyes of all men deserving that success which the last wanted to which circumspect converse he added frequent conferences to his Masters in the good opinion of those near him and an uninterrupted correspondence in the indefatigable way of Cyphers to keep them upright in their duty that were at distance salving all the strange Phaenomena of the Rebels success and his Majesties misfortunes in intire discourses which he kept of all transactions from first to last besides that he gained his Country much honor by his services to the Crowns of France and Spain evincing that the King of great Britain in his very Banishment had such Attendants his Court even then was the Scene of the most Heroick vertue in Europe as could serve any Prince and would one day restore their own the very sight of whom and some discourse with Sir R. Greenvile c. put many upon prophecying what we have lived to see particularly The Arch-bishop of Avignon sent a Scheme drawn up by one Oneal a great Mathematician demonstrating that his Majesty should return 1660. to London with as great triumph in peace as his blessed Father was 1641. driven out of it by tumults Neither did Sir Richard come over alone to the Kings service for the attractive of his example brought along another eminent Parliament-man that had been very active in the West by name Sir George Chudleigh who 1643. declared That Petitions of Right are commendable and Remonstrances may be lawful but Arms though defensive are ever doubtful my Lot saith he fell to be cast upon the Parliaments side by a strong opinion of the goodness of their Cause which to my judgment then appeared to be so Religion and the Subjects Liberty seemed to me to be in danger but the destruction of the Kingdom cannot be the way to save it nor can the loss of Christian Subjects nor the Subjects loss of their Estates by Plunder and Assessement consist with Piety nor yet with propriety As for Religion his Majesty whom God long preserve hath given us unquestionable security I have cast my self at my Soveraigns feet and implored his gracious pardon I will contend no more in words or deed And this my resolution with the indisputable grounds thereof I thought good to declare to my Friends and Country-men that they may understand my sitting he means at Oxford to proceed from no compulsion He and his Son men of great Reputation in the West redeeming their former miscarriage by very eminent services in Counsel and in Arms and by this time we see the reason why the men at VVestminster who understood nothing but English Proclaimed Sir Richard Greenvile Traytor in three Languages and they which hated Images hanged him in Effigie excepting him out of their pardon even for that very reason for which God took him to his even because he repented Euge virtus suis firmior erroribus uti confracta solidior a sunt ut plurimum ossa nisi errassent Heroes paenitentes fecerant minus To these I may adde Chammo Greenvile of Pughill Cornwall who is 657 l. deep in their Books at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and Thomas Chudley of Aishton Devonshire 430 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir CHARLES LUCAS HAD not his Ancestor Sir Giles Lucas appeared in the Roll of the Essex Gentry made 12 Hen. 6. 1433. nor his Kinsman Thomas Lucas Esq been Secretary and Counsellor to Iasper Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke 1385. had there not been a succession of Knights and Squires Sheriffs and Justices of that County for eleven Kings Reigns had he not been Brother to the most Illustrious Princess Margaret Dutchess of New-Castle a Lady admired in this Age and to be understood in the next which will be convinced by her that there is no Sex in the minde and that the delicate Piece of the Creation we call Woman having a Male-soul as well as we was not only made for dalliance And to the Right Honorable the Lord Lucas the great instance of a learned wise and sober Nobility who intending with Horse and Arms to wait on his Majesty in the North Aug. 22. 1642. was discovered surprized plundered to a great value carryed to London and imprisoned there till he gave 40000 l. Bail to appear upon summons and not to depart London without leave One of the first that suffered for his Loyalty in his Country and one of the forwardest when he arrived at Oxford where he was made Baron Lucas of Shenfield Ian. 3. 1644. 20 Car. I. in asserting it by sober Counsel and by a well-guided Arms in others Sir Charles Lucas had worth enough to raise a Family himself being the first that entred the breach at Breda the last Siege when Cornet of Horse to Sir Io. Coniers in the Low-Countries where the sweet generosity of his nature to all men his soul being universalized especially those of his own noble disposition there one might have seen running 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he would ever have emptied his soul into theirs The greatness of his spirit whose soul came into the world as the Chaldee Oracle phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cloathed with a great deal of minde more impregnated than others with rich notions which by way of Theory he comprehended exactly from books and by way of practice from experience and observation together with his prudent reach unwearied patience close
as she had always hearkned to his advice so she would then for his sake and for his dear Childrens sake especially to moderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him I beseech thee saith the excellent Person take care of thy health sorrow not unsoberly unusually but preserve thy self for the benefit of our dear Children to whom the occasion of my death will be as much honor as my death its self is now sadness He kept himself in a very chearful and well-composed temper of minde till his parting with his dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle writes a Reverend man that ever I beheld In which occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of humane frailty yet even then he did not forget both to Comfort and Counsel her and the rest of his friends particularly in blessing the young Lord whom he commanded not to revenge his death though it should be in his power intreating the like of his Lady adding to his Son a Legacy out of Davids Psalms viz. Lord lead me in a plain path for Boy said he I would have you a plain honest man and hate dissimulation This being over which he said was the hardest part of his life in this world he dealt seriously with a Reverend Minister about his heart and his sins reflecting much upon his Cowardly compliance with as he called it and fear of a prevailing party his 〈◊〉 my Lord of Straffords death and then addressed himself to the blessed Sacrament as he would call it emphatically after a private prayer of half an hour long in an excellent method very apt expressions and a most strong hearty and passionate affections for his Sins for his Relations for the King Church and State and for his Enemies with great Humility Zeal and Devotion confessing himself much better stronger and â—hearfuller for that heavenly repast and after that he desired the Reverend Person that administred to pray preparatively to his death that in the last action he might behave himself as might be most for Gods glory for the indearing of his dead Masters Memory and for the advancing of his present Masters Service and that he might avoid the saying or doing any thing which might savor either of vanity or sullenness Whence ascending the Scaffold in the Pallace-yard Westminster and forbidding all Effeminate tears about him he very Christianly forgave his Enemies and Executioner very resolutely declared his Faith dying in the blessed Profession as he called it of the Church of England and his hope professing that he loved good works well for which he had been suspected a Papist but his Anchor-hold which was Jesus loved him and gave himself for him He very couragiously owned his late Masters Cause and Person whom he declared there after a consideration he had being a very excellent Scholar of all the Images of Princes that ever were that he was the most vertuous and sufficient Prince known in the world very heartily prayed for the Restauration of his then Soveraign his people and the peoples Obedience Peace and Prosperity under him and very solemnly desiring the peoples earnest but secret prayer with holy Ejaculations that God Almighty would stench that issue of Blood adding This will not do the business God Almighty finde some way to do it And encouraging the Executioner to strike boldly with noble expressions and a generous reward having ordered his body to be delivered to his Servant unstripped he dyed with one blow the great Pattern of true Christian Nobility doing his Majesty much service in his exemplary life and like Sampson more in his Heroick death The blond of Holy Martyrs is the seed of their Cause Arthurus Baro Capell Cui non tam hominis quam virtutis nomini assurgat quicquid est uspiam nobilioris ordinis exemplar legat potius quam Epitaphium conscia simplicitas Recti Sanctae Inscia fraudis Religio cicur ac laxo loro Frenabile Ingenium secure â—ides amor acer amoris omina cor Integrum syncera lingua mentis purae Interpres vittata Pudici sensa exprimens animi Nova Gratiarum spes Capellus ortu vita obitu Intra sidem supra opinionem cui Priâ—us labor Anglorum Libertatem rogare sed a tyrannis frustra nimirum rogantur quibus aures in Oculis manu igitur quam lingua facundior ut aures audiant oculos terret ut Populo Imperaret Deo Paruit Alterno enim faedere Religionem Princeps Religio principem servat sacrae Militiae authoratus Primus in procinctu martem ' Lacessit non cessurus nisi victoria ' Receptui canat quae precepit Incepit ipse ' Male Imperat qui Imperat tantum praepostere pugnatur Cum dux ab Agmine ducitur non agmen a duce Pro religione Pugnavit religiosus Quam vel Amissam Generosos In pectore invenisses miles sine militum vitiis qui faediores ab intimis hostibus referunt plagas quam extimis Inferunt Libertatem asseruit Dominus Populo nec servitutis Patiente nec Libertatis Capaci utpote qui rerum Ignarus in Libertate servitium amavit in servitio Libertatem Instar Coeli motu firmissimus Peripateticus plane Heros multum sapuit errando Quanta virtute sola ferri sui acie aciem universam saepe tutatus primum in Adversos telum torsit emeritus consilio pugnavit utilius enim reguntur bella quam geruntur calamo confodiens hostes quibus gladio cessit in Pace pugnax in Pugna Pacates oceumbendo vicit vincendo occubit Primus post obitum triumphavit Fortia moribundus facile dixit vivus facilius fecit omnium deâ—ique laudum compendium esto quod fuerit omnium laudum compendium Richard Capel of Buck-fastley Devon Esq and Richard his Son with 30 l. per annum setled Compounded for 1497l 10s 00 THE Life and Death OF JOHN Lord BIRON With his four Brothers A True English-man of a French Extract that had all the spirit of the great Biron of France but none of his fury honest Sir Iohn Biron as Kings called him the Son of honest Sir Iohn Biron trusted with the peace of his Country Notingham-shire the 10 th of King Charles I. as Sheriff and of the Kingdom the 17 th as a Commander he brought a great appearance to his Majesties Standard at Nottingham and a round summe to his supply at Shrewsbery He went off upon the Vote about the Militia of the Kingdom from Parliament and indeared himself by bringing in the Arms and Ammunition of Nottingham-shire to the King The States committed to him the whole care of their Ordnance and Ammunition and therefore his Majesty commended to him the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London he had declared himself so freely against the Conspiracy that the Parliament would not be quiet till he had quitted his place to that old Low-Country Souldier Sir Iohn Coniers being dismissed by his Majesty with this Character That he was a person against whom there could
dying 1660. a great enemy of Tobacco because of Sir Water Rawleighs testimony of it that he saw the Spanish Negroes throwing the running of their sores and boils in the leaves as they lay in a swet say Yâ— Pauperos Lutheranos good enough for the Dogs the Lutherans Sir Iohn Banks born at Keswicke and bred at Grays-Inn attaining to great experience by solliciting Suits for others and a great Estate by managing those of his own laughing at many at last that smiled at him at first leaving many behind him in Learning that he found before him in time He was one whom the Chollor of S S S worn by Judges and other Magistrates became very well if it had its name from Sanctus Simon Simplicius no man being more seriously pious none more singly honest When Sir Henry Savile came to Sir Edward Cooke then at Bowls in Arch-bishop Abbots behalf and told him he had a Case to propose to him Sir Edward answered if it be a Case in Common-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I cannot presently satisfie you but if it be a point of Statute-Law I am unworthy to be a Judge if I should undertake to satisfie you without consulting my Books Sir Iohn Banks though ready without his Books on the Bench yet alwayes resolved Cases out of them in his Chamber answerable to his saying to Dr. Sibbs A good Textuary is a good Lawyer as well as a good Divine A Gentleman he was of singular modesty of the Ancient freedom plain heartedness and integrity of minde very grave and severe in his deportment yet very affable in such sort that as Tacitus saith of Agrippa Illi quod est Rarissimum 〈◊〉 facilitâ—s authoritatem nec sâ—veritas amorem diminuit his knowledge in the Law and inward reason of it was very profound his experience in Affairs of State universal and well laid patient he was in hearing sparing but pertinent in speaking very glad always to have things represented truly and clearly and when it was otherwise able to discern through all pretences the real merit of a Cause Being a Religious and moderate man he became of good repute with the people and being an able man he was taken notice of by the King who Knighting him in August 10. Car. I. when Reader of Grays-Inn and the Princes Sollicitor made him in Mr. Noys place Attorney General and in Hil. Term 16 Car. I. Chief Justice in Sir Edward Litletons place in which place he continued at London till his presence being made an Argument for Illegal proceedings he went himself and drew several others he had interest in to Oxford His prudent and valiant Lady with her numerous and noble Off-spring retiring to her House Corfe-Castle in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset-shire and when besieged there by Sir Will. Earl and Sir Tho. Trenchard who wanted this Castle only to make the Sea-Coast their own keeping it against three surprizes a Proclamation Interdicting her the common Markets the clamor of the common people thereabouts the intercepting of 200. weight of Powder strict Watches set about it a while with forty men yeâ— but five at first and then by the benefit of a Treaty wherein shâ— yeilded up the four small pieces to the Enemy on condition she might have her house and so making her adversaries more remiss gained an opportunity to re-inforce the Castle with Commanders Ammunition Provision and Souldiers who notwithstanding the endeavours to corrupt them with Bribes and the Plunder of the Castle notwithstanding the enemies taking the Town and Church the Oath to give no Quarter the Engines they made the Supplies of war sent in every day by the Earl of Warwick their encouraging the Souldiers first with mony twenty pound a man and afterwards with Drink and Opium to Scale the Walls in a desperate Assault kept it six weeks till August 4. 1643. when the Besiegers ran away leaving their Horse Armes Ammunition behind them the vallant Lady her self with her Daughters and Maidservants maintaining one Post in the Castle Captain Laurence Sir Edwards Son and Captain Bond keeping another Sir Iohn died December 28. 1644. and in the 55. year of his age having one Monument in Christ-Church P. M. S. Hoc loco in spem futuri saeculi depositum jacet Io. Bankes qui Reginalis Coll. in hac Acad. Alumnus eques Auratus ornatissimus Attornat Gener. de Com. Banco Cap. Justitiarius a Secretioribus Conciliis Regi Carolo Peritiam Integritaâ—em sidem Egregie praestitit ex aede Christi in Aedes Christi transiliit unicam hinc Monumento suo sub mortem vovens Periodum Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo sit gloria And another 30 l. per annum with other emoluments to be bestowed in pious uses and chiefly to set up a Manufacture of course Cottons in the Town of Kiswick which hath good and is in hopes of better success besides that it cost his Lady and her nine Children for their Fathers Loyalty 1400 l. and her Son-in-law that married her eldest Daughter the excellent Lady Burlace Sir Io. Burlace of Maidmenham Bucks who suffered several imprisonments and decimations from the Kings enemies and was very civil upon all occasions to his friends 3500 l. Sir Bankes Son and Heir to Sir Io. 1974 l. Sir Thomas Gardner born as I am informed near Oxford bred in the Inner-Temple London A Gentleman that won much upon all men by a natural grace that was upon his person and actions and upon his Clients by his Integrity Condescention and Watchfulness Other Lawyers are for the increase of their own number he spent a great deal of his time to consider how to reduce them especially the Atturneys and Solicitors the supernumeraries whereof he would say make no other use of Laws but to finde tricks to evade them or making them right Cobwebs to insnare the people and the Law too being more for promoting good Orders to execute old Laws than for preferring â—ills to make new ones The Faction had no other quarrel with him than the Clowns had with Sir Iohn Cavendish in Wat Tyler and King Richarâ— the Seconds time because he was learned and honest for being made Recorder of London Term. Hil. 11 mo Car. I. they charged him 1. For directing the Lord in setting up the Kings Standard and impressing men against the Scots 2. For promoting Ship-money the Loan and Tonnage and Poundage 3. For prosecuting seditious Libellers Petitioners and Rioters And 4. For procuring his Majesty that noble entertainment 1641. upon his return from Scotland from the City to amuse the Parliament 5. For drawing and carrying on some more sober Petitions than were usual in those times whereupon he retired to York and thence to Oxford where he Sate in the Parliament assisted in the Treaties offering always three things 1. A Committee to state the differences 2. A particular consideration of those things wherein the people are to be relieved and the King
lost his life having spared the lives of the worst of men who he knew had God for their Father though they had not the Church for their Mother Sir Christopher Mynnes an honest Shoemakers Son in London by his bold Adventures gaining a brave Estate beyond the Line and by his Heroick actions in all our Sea-fights shewing that he deserved it on this side a plain man and a good Spokes-man Qualities for which the King and Prince Rupert loved him made of an indefatigable Industry and a vast skill and abilities for which they much trusted him yet very familiar among his Souldiers whom he saw well used for Diet Pay and their share in Prizes getting more in buying again the Souldiers share than others did in cheating them of them the more absolute power he as all Sea-Commanders had the more careful he was how he used them he was shot in the mouth yet holding it in his hands continued in his Command all over in bloud as long as the Enemy continued the fight against whom he was so forward that if his advice had been taken in the Bergen Expedition the Dutch had come to London to beg that Peace which they would so hardly yield to at Breda Sir Rich. Stainer a man deserving well of his Majesty about Portugall and Tangier as good a Seaman as most in England as the Sea-men in England are as good as any in Europe either for Fighting or Trading for tame Merchants ships or wild ships Men of War having contributed as much as any for improving the Sea for what it was made neither only for Fish to play in nor only for the Sun to drink of but for Commerce in Traffick Learning and Religion all mankind being one Family Acts 17. that the world may know its self before it be dissolved A pious man at Land in safety as devout at Sea in danger not like those Sea-men whose hearts are like the Rocks they sail by so often in death that they think not of it seeing Gods wonders in the deep he were the greatest wonder of all that were not made more serious and pious by them Iames Ley Earl of Marleborough who not content to be penned in the narrow Island where he was born launched out to the wide world where he might live The Lord Treasurer Ley his Ancestor gained an Estate by his Court-Interest beyond Sea and he gained skill by improving that Estate wherewith he served his late Majesty very seasonably with two or three Ships supplying him with Arms Ammunition and whatever else he wanted from beyond Sea opening the Western Ports and maintaining the passage between England and Ireland and his present Majesty very effectually in advancing his Majesties Interest in Plantations abroad and hazzarding his own life for him at home loosing it in the first Sea-fight with the Dutch Iune 1665. aboard the old Iames whence a little before he died reflecting on the former course of his life he writ to this effect to Sir Hugh Pollard who deserveth a mention not only because he was his friend as Eusebius is known by the name of his friend Paâ—philus whence he is called Eusebius Pamphilus but because being a Gentleman of a good Family and interest in Devonshire descended from Sir Lewis Pollard of Nimet in that County and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in King Henry the eights time who had four Sons Knighted before his face Governor of Dartmouth a Port of great Importance well Garrisoned for his late Majesty and Comptroller of the Hushold for his present Majesty very active and venturing for his Majesty in the worst times and very hospitable and noble with his Majesty in the best Observing that rule in keeping up the English honor of a great Table occasionally entertaining rather than solemnly inviting his ghests lest he should over do his own Fortune for fear of under-doing the Inviteds expectation to whom his Feast might be his ordinary fare Which puts me in mind of a King of France who used to lose himself in a Park Lodge where his sauce hunger made the plainest fare a Feast and the Park-keepers taking heart to invite him came with all his Court to whom all his meat was but a morsel Well said the Park-keeper I will invite no more Kings The Letter which Iames Earl of Marlborough writ to Sir Hugh Pollard who dyed 1667. was to this effect 1665. I Am in health enough of body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in minde This I premise that what I write proceeds not from any phancying terror of minde but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my death than mine example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the vanity of this world your own Age and Experience will save that labor but there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the world called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its being the great good God hath not left it without a witness more or less sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding those inexitricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail reasons do perplex us withall God in his infinite mercy hath given us his holy words in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easie to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me the dreadful fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful vanity of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my heart the same your I hope happy issue Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we die as the beast that perish but with a Christian manly brave resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only great and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true friend Marleborough Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all mine acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cousin Glascock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my friends besides as you will or any else that desire it I pray grant this my Request Henry Earl of Huntington one of the first that appeared for his Majesty in Leicester-shire as his Son the honorable Lord Loughborough continued there with the last the constant service of the second during the first War in commanding the Garrisons of his Country
goodcome off serving his Majesty at Sea as he had done at Land and commanding the Ships fallen from the Parliament when there were no more to be commanded for the King to watch and supply the Coasts of Ireland and infest those of England He was in his way to the West-Indies divided from his Illustrious Brother Prince Rupert one of the most expert Sea-men as the most general Artist in Europe and from all the living by an Hurricano 1649. â—ad that our Calamities swallowed not only the Royal Branches growing in England but those in Germany too who escaping the Austrian malice perish by the Brittish but true grief for a Valiant man requireth not Womanish tears aâ—d great grief scorns it no tears being able to wash off the guilt of Royal bloud the shame of that Age shed in both parts of the world that beyond the Line and that on this side of it Peace had made him as excellent as his Brother the Prince Elector who for general but especially mechanick Learning and business is the happiest man in the world Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties younger Brother born 1640. died 1660. A Prince of as great hopes as studious great Parts and as great expectation as solid Vertue and promising great actions could make him that having known nothing but Imprisonment for the first years of his life at 8t Iames's Pensehurt and the Isle of Wight and Banishment in the later grew by his affliction so knowing that at eight years of Age he could tell his Majesty when he sending for him the day before he died he bid him not take the Crown before his Brothers Charles and Iames he would be first torn by wild Horses before he would do it so capable that Ascham who was deputed his Tutor by the Earl of Northumberland protesting that he could discourse nothing to him but what he could after once hearing with more advantage discourse to him again so serious that when Abbot Montague designed his Education in the Catholick way he could say at ten years of Age Hâ— would obey his Mother but he must his Soveraign So resolute that in the battel before Dunkirk 1657. Don Iohn protested he fought like an Englishman and so accomplished that at his return there was not an Artist whom he did not obligingly and satisfactorily converse with in his own way Fata ostendunt non dant Henricos Mr. Endymion Porter mentioned near these two Princes because dear to two Kings 1. To King Iames for his Wit 2. To King Charles I. for his general Learning which with his brave style sweet temper happy travels great experience modern languages and good address recommended him to the Duke of Buckingham who after the journey into Spain begun at first by the Prince the Duke my Lord Cottington and Mr. Endymion Porter introduced him to his Majesty who loved him for his own Ingenuity and for his being a Patron to all that were Ingenious our Endymion had the happiness to be loved by our Sun and Moon the King and Queen but not because he slept He pleased his Majesty not more in time of Peace than he served him in time of War by his Intelligence and Declarations at home and his Negotiations abroad both in France and Holland the reason sure why he was always excepted out of their Indemnities his friends paying for him 1500 l. composition and he dying with his Majesty abroad as his Son did for his Father at home being killed 1644. Loyal bloud like Harvies went round the Portâ—rs from the highest to the meanest 26 of the Name having eminently suffered for his Majesty Sir Nicholas Slanning The Cornish men in the Reign of King Arthur led the Van where is the Conduct of an Army and in King Canutus his time brought up the Rear which is the strength of an Army Sir Nicholas a Cornish Gentleman of an Ancient Family that deserveth the same Character that is bestowed by Mr. Carew upon another Employing themselves to a kind and uninterrupted entertainment of such as visited upon their invitations or their own occasion their frankness confirming their welcome by whatsoever means Provision the best fuel of Hospitality can in the best manner supply Of a Learned and a Martial Education able both to attend the Crusible and the Gun a very knowing Philosopher and a good Souldier led on his Country-men in his resolute Speeches at Westminster being a Gentleman of a stern spirit and brought up the Rear in his Command at Pendennis and other back Harbors of Cornwall over against France for supplies and in the Levant Spanish both Indian and Irish Road where most Merchants touch and whither many are driven being a man of an impregnable Integrity and unwearyed watchfulness and a severe Discipline lost by the Parliament when in Sermones tanquam vetita miscuissent specimen Arcâ—ae amicitiae facere and having with Sir Bevile Greenvile at Landsdown done wonders in advancing from hedge to hedge in the Head of his men in the mouth of Canons and Musquets so that his men thought him Immortal Iuly 5. 1643. lost to his Majesty in a brave assault upon Bristol Iuly 26. following when they saw him mortal In the Catalogue of Compounders I find this Note Sir Nicholas Slanning of Pendennis-Castle Cornwall 1197 l. 13 s. II d. and Col. Henry Lunsford Col. Buck and Col. Trevanian fell there the same time with whom it is fit to mention Sir Charles Trevanian of Caryhey Cornwall Sir Iohn Trelawny and his Son Col. Tho. Tregonnel Col. Ionathan Trelawney Col. Lewis Tremain I think of Nettlecomb Somerset who paid 1560 l. composition Col. George Trevillion Col. Ames Pollard Io. Pegonwell of Anderson Dorset Esq 1735 l. Col. Iames Chudleigh slain at Dartmouth in Devon Col. Bowls slain at Alvon Edmund Tremain Esq Colloecomb Devon 380 l. Men remarkable for their Conduct in keeping their Counsels in disguising their actions and fore-seeing the Designs and Courses of the Enemy being very well acquainted with the passes of the Country and strangely dexterous in gaining Intelligence scouring the Enemy before Bristol as well as the Gray-Sope of that place doth Cloaths men whose Persons generally are like their Houses narrow and little Entrances into spacious and stately Upper-Rooms Sir Richard Prideaux of Tregard compounded for 564 l. at Goldsmiths-hall and others whom I would more largely insist on but that I am 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Herald of another nature and having not taken Letters of Mart to seize on others Callings for their Invading mine do Loyally leave these Ancient Gentlemen to the justice of the King of Arms. Col. Richard Fielding Lord Fielding suffering something in Reputation about Reading which being Deputy-Governor he yielded as was thought too easily but recovering it at Newberry Nazeby and all other Engagements where he stirred not an inch keeping his ground too obstinately a generous shame adding to his Valour and choosing rather to lose his life by his Enemies than that it should be
for the highest An unwearied man night and day in armour about affairs either of the Field or Country After eminent services done against the Rebels in Ireland he came with Collonel Monk the Renowned Duke of Albemarl upon the Kings Majesties Orders against as bad in England and writ thus to those Parliament Commissioners that upon his Landing desired to treat with him Although we are sensible how unworthily the Parliament hath deserted us yet we are not returned without his Majesties special Commission If you have the like from the King for the Arms you carry we shall willingly treat with you otherwise we shall behave our selves like Souldiers and faithful Subjects Hawarden Nov. 10. 1643. M. E. He was slain at the surprizal of Shrewsbury the treachery and weakness whereof had gone to his heart if his Enemies sword had not Feb. 22. 1644. having drawn off by a peculiar art he had most of the Parliament old Souldiers to his Majesties side fixing his design generally where there were some Irish or Low-Country Souldiers The Right Honourable Iames Hay Earl of Carlisle son of Iames Hay the first Earl of that name Created Sept. 13. 1622. a Prodigal of his Estate to serve his Soveraign and his Friends in the time of War as his Father was to serve his in the arts of Peace as Feastings Masques c. Royal was King Iames his munificence towards his Father and noble his towards King Iames his son One of his Ancestors saved Scotland against an Army of Danes with a yoke in his hand his Father saved King Iames from the Gowries with a Knife in his hand and he would have defended King Charles I. with a sword in his hand first as a Voluntier at Newberry 1643. where he was wounded and afterwards as Col. till he yielded himself at the same time with his Soveraign paying 800 l. composition and giving what he could save from his Enemies in largesses to his friends especially the learned Clergy whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much upon as they did upon his charities which compleated his kindness with bounty as that adorned his bounty with courtesie courtesie not affected but naturally made up of humility that secured him from envy and a civility that kept him in esteem he being happy in an expression that was high and not formal and a Language that was Courtly and yet real Sir Walter Sir William Sir Char. Vavasor a Family equally divided between the North and Wales in their seats always and in their Commands in the War Sir William being employed by his Majesty with a strong Party to awe and caress the Welch side of Glocestershire and Herefordshire did his business very effectually by the good discipline of his men and the obliging way of his own carriage to which he added the skill of two or three good Pens to draw Letters and Declarations for which purpose it was at first that O. C. entertained Ireton He was as good at approaching a Garrison as at closing with the Country making the best Leaguer Sir I. Ashley ever saw with his Welch Forces on the North Gate of Glocester by a dextrous line of Communication drawn between him and the Worcester Guard And as good at checking a great Garrison by little actions and vigilant and active Guards on the several Passes as he did as Commander in chief of the Glocestershire Forces as at besieging it besides that having been an experienced Souldier he knew how to work upon Souldiers and Officers to trepan and betray Garrisons but being drawn off to Marston-moor and disgusted with the miscarriage of that great battel he went over with my Lord of Newcastle General King a Scotch man the Earl of Carnworth Col. Basil Col. Mozon to Hamborough and thence to the Swedish service wherein he died under the Walls of Coppenhagen 1658 9. Thomas Vavasor of Weston York paid 593 l. 19 s. 2 d. for his fidelity and William Vavasor of Weston York 469 l. for his The Right Honorable the Lord Grandison who received his Deaths wound at Bristol after he had laid a design prevented by a ridiculous mistake to entrap Fines 1643. with his gallant Brigade of Horse that never charged till they touched the Enemies Horses-head after he had charged through and through notwithstanding four wounded two Horses killed under him twelve men at once upon him upon Prince Rupert being in great danger to the dismaying of the Army having no room for grief or fear anger had so fully possessed his soul looking as if he would cut off the Enemy with his Eyes before he did it with his Arms at the raising of the siege at Newark the same year and after he had brought in his dexterous way of marching Horse several supplies through the thickest of his Enemies to Oxford where his Counsels and Advices were as pertinent as his Actions were noble King Charles I. saying at his death that he lost of him a good Counsellor and an honest resolved man free from spleen as if he had always lived by the Medicinal Waters of St. Vincents Rock near which he was wounded left the Garrison of Oxford and Bristol should have Lank after their Bank he was very forward in motions as well as sallies out for the furnishing of their Granaries for which the better sort had cause to commend him and the meaner sort to bless him who never have more than they needed and sometimes needed more than they have The Right Honorable H. Earl of Danby who received his Deaths wound at Burmingham son of Sir Iohn Danvers and Elizabeth Nevil the Lord Latimers Daughter and Co-heir born at Dantsey in Wiltshire 157. where he was buried 1643. first entred in the Low-Countrey Wars under Maurice Prince of Orange who made him a Captain of Foot at Eighteen then eminent in the Wars of France under H. 4. who Knighted him for a great Action he did before his face at twenty one After that he was I Captain of a great Ship in the Voyages of Cales and Portugall under the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral who professed he was the best Sea-Captain in England at twenty five 2 He was Lieutenant-General of the Horse and Serjeant Major of the whole Army in Ireland under the Earl of Essex and the Lord Mountjoy before thirty made Baron of Dantsey Lord President of Munster and Governor of Guernsey where as may be seen in a Survey of Iersey and Guernsey by Dr. Heylin who went his Chaplain thither 1628. he setled the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government to the great satisfaction of the Inhabitants and proposed a way to spoil the Trade between St. Maloes and Sein with eight ships to the undoing of the French By K. Charles the I. created Earl of Danby Privy-Counsellor and Knight of the Gaâ—ter whose Installation being the utmost England could do in honor of this Earl in Emulation of what Scotland did in honor of the Earl of Morton the Scottish Earl