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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

some noise or other accident of suspicion might discover them wherefore between the Cieling and the Roof the Three Senators in a place no less Unseemly than the Treachery was detestable hid themselves laying their ears close to the Holes and Chinks to Listen what was said In the mean time Latiani having found Sabinus in the Market-place as if he had some New Matter to tell him inticeth him home into his Chamber beginning there to rip up things past and present in a great abundance and to load him with new Fears Sabinus was not behind hand with him the nature of griefs being such that when once we enter into them we can hardly make an end This done they began immediately their accusation and writ unto Caesar the whole contrivance of their own Lewd and Shameful Act. The City was never in Greater Perplexity and fear than at that time Every man estranging himself from his nearest Kindred and acquaintance avoiding all Meetings and Conferences as well with their Friends as Strangers yea they grew jealous of mute and sense less things Prying into the Roofs and Walls of their houses But Tiberius Requesting in his Letters that the Solemnities of the new year might be Celebrated on the Calends of January falls at last upon Sabinus Charging him that he had corrupted some of his Freed-men to Attempt something against his Person and therefore boldly demandeth a Revenge which without delay was granted Sabinus being Condemned was drawn and haled away with his Garments over his head so that he being almost Throtled was heard to cry out Is this the beginnings of the new year be these the sacrifices slain in Sejanus his honor Which way soever he did cast his Eyes they all fled that he directed his speech unto the places of Assembly and the Streets were Empty some came running back and showed themselves again Afraid for that they were seen to be Afraid And what days think you now were Exempt from Executions if amongst the sacrifices and the vows when the custom was to abstain from profane speeches Fetters and Manacles were mentioned It is believed Tiberius could not be ignorant of the Envy he should incur for doing so but that he did it on purpose to the end the new Magistrates might open the prisons when they set open their Temples and their Altars For after that he sent Letters of thanks for that they had punished an Enemy to the State CHAP. XXIX Examples of other Treacheries in Suborned Witnesses and Forged Letters I Cannot avoid bringing here another Example out of the same Historian Firmius Cato a Senator and one of Libo 's inward friends induced this fimple young man easily led to vanities to give credit to the Chaldeans Promises the Magicians Ceremony and the Interpretation of Dreams vainly putting him in mind that Pompey was his Great Grandfather Scribonia who had been Augustus his Wife his Aunt The Caesars his Cousin Germains and that his house was full of the Statues and Monuments of his Ancestors He inticed him to Licentiousness to Borrow Money making himself a Companion of his Lusts and Familiarities the better to Intangle him and Convince with many evidences That there might be witnesses enough he also Debauched such of his Servants as knew any thing of the Matter Then he desires Access to the Prince and by means of Flaccus Vescularius a Gentleman of Rome one of Tiberius his Familiars he Discovered both the Matter and the Man How after this Libo was treated by Tiberius and made much of until Accusations were brought against him in such abundance that he was forced to Kill Himself Tacitus Annal. 2. will tell you at large to whom I had rather Refer you than Exceed the bounds I had proposed to my self in this Treatise Styppiota whose Deceipt in supplanting Hagiotheodorita I told you of before could not avoid being Circumvented Himself as Sabinus the Roman was the Contriver of that Plot was Camaterus Logotheta who being an Enemy to Styppiota Accused him before the Emperor as an Impostor and one that intended to Betray Sicily And to the end he might give some face of Truth to his Calumny he hides the Emperour in his Chamber and in his hearing begins on purpose to discourse of the Affairs of Sicily At which time many things fell from the heedless Styppiota that were very displeasing unto Caesar not content with this Camaterus causes Counterfeit Letters to be mingled amongst Styppiota's Papers which being searcht by the Emperor's Order were the cause of Styppiota's Condemnation and the Loss of his Eyes This Story leads me to speak of another means of Rendring Slanders probable to wit by Counterfeiting Letters A Deceit indeed that for the most part breaks out at last to the prejudice of him that uses it but nevertheless is of great Power to make deep impressions of suspicion in the Prince's Mind and to Alienate his Favour Which being once observed by the Accused will either induce him to Withdraw himself willingly from Business and the Court least something worse should follow or else cast him upon such Attempts and Practices as will Confirm the Slander Which appears by that example of Sylvanus I mentioned before The perfidy of False Witnesses is no slender confirmation of Slanders and this is cheifly necessary against such as are Accused of Treason and Capital Crimes And truly Domestick Servants as most proper so oftnest are made use of in this nature In the Reign of Arcadius Eutropius seeking the destruction of Timasius a great Captain and a man of much Authority Corrupts his Friend or rather his Inseparable Companion Bargus to Accuse him of Affecting the Empire The Friendship between Bargus and Timasius gave Credit to the Accuser all men believing that he would not unless the Crim was most Certain Accuse him To this Counterfeit Letters were added to prove the Treason by which means the Innocent Man and his Son were sent into Banishment to the Isle of Oasis from whence neither of them ever Returned Caius Petronius was for his skill in Pleasures preferr'd before Tigellinus by Nero whereupon the other out of Envy Accused his Rival of Scaevinus his friendship who was convicted of a Conspiracy against Nero and brought to witness it a Servant of Petronius Corrupted by him CHAP. XXX Confirmation of Slanders under the Colour of a Feigned Friendship and the Inclinations of the Prince the Accuser I Said before that to Confirm Calumnies the Affection of the Prince to the Slanderer did much Conduce and for this Reason did Sejanus endeavouring to make the Empress Livia jealous of Agrippina Germanicus his Widow choose Julius Posthumus to do it who as Tacitus affirms by Reason of his Adulteries with Mutilia Prisca the Empresses favourite was very Gracious with Livia But Calumnies never succeed so easily as when they are used against One already Suspected by the Prince For it is very Probable That then the Accuser shall not onely Ruine the other but also Exalt Himself The Familiars of

and Indignation All men that are in Authority ought to flie the very Shadow of this Crime and to the end of taking all ground of Suspicion from the Prince to decline those Honors and Places that are opportune for such Attempts Paterculus esteems Sejanus to have been one of the wisest Courtiers that ever was and truly it is likely That He that flourished so long in the Favour of a Prince so Subtil and Diffident as Tiberius was did Comport himself with great Modesty and Wariness He was saith our Author in appearance given to ease assuming nothing to himself and by that means obtaining all things Crouching still willingly beneath the opinion of other men and striving to come behind them in repute His countenance and his life was Calm and Quiet although his Mind was Restless and ever awake yet Ambition at last transported this Provident and Wary man so far as to aspire to the Empire To which end Drusus being dead he married Livia his Widow that so being linked into the House of the Caesars he might more easily compass his Desire And although he perceived out of Tiberius his Tergiversations when he demanded his consent in the case that it had drawn a Suspicion upon him yet did he not change his mind but what he had failed of this way he sought to compass another He knew that Tiberius was grown weary of the City whereupon he presently Spurs him on and perswades him to Retire to Caprea read Tacitus Annal. 4. who says That lest he should either infringe his Power or weaken his Authority by debarring the Multitude from the Court or minister matter of Slander and suspicion by Entertaining them he took this Course He perswaded Tiberius to go live in some Pleasant place far from Rome foreseeing many conveniences in it First There could be no access to the Prince but through him then That the Disposal of all Letters would be in his hands since the Soldiers by whom they were to be Conveyed would be at his Devotion and lastly That Caesar now growing old and waxing Effeminate with the privacy of the place would easily transfer the burthen of Affairs and Government upon him and truly his hopes deceived him not for in a short time under Pretence of easing Tiberius his age he drew all the power of the Empire into his own hands Yet at last the event showed That this way of Sejanus was both Perilous and Tedious to mention which more accurately seems worth my labor here to the end That both Courtiers may be more Wary in governing their Fortune and Princes more Cautious in exal●ing their Minions Tiberius did either love or suffer patiently Sejanus as long as he found his help useful to the Oppression of Agrippina and her Children Nero and Drusus to which kind of Imployments Sejanus shewed himself very Ready knowing That thereby he should not onely win the Favor of the Prince but also establish his own Power and Hopes there being none left of Caesar's House now but two youths whose tender Age if they should come to the Government must needs leave the Authority and ordering of Affairs to him until he saw his opportunity of Usurping the Empire it self But mark how Rash and Blind Ambition makes us He did not see that the nearer he came to the Top the more he became Suspected of this jealous Prince who now sought all means of Lessening rather than Advancing him that strove as much on the other side to Climb still on For though he wanted nothing but the Name of Emperor which some did not stick to give him and the Tribunes power which the Emperors never intrusted to any yet was he not Content but daily Endeavoured to Augment his Authority By which course as he rendred himself Venerable to all others so he made himself Formidable to Tiberius For when he saw that Sejanus had not onely Won the Praetorian Guards but also very many of the Senators and principal Families of Rome by either Benefits or Hopes or Fears unto himself and likewise That his Secrecies were by his own Servants told unto Sejanus and not Sejanus his to him again he determined his Destruction as one that was become his Rival But before he went about it he thought fit to Sound the Inclinations of those about him to the end That he might know how to Chuse out some that would like of his Design Lest that Sejanus should smell out any change in Caesar's affection towards him he makes him Consul and calls him both Present and Absent in his Letters to the Senate and the People his Friend and Companion of his Labors Lastly he feigns himself Sick to discover thereby the affections both of Sejanus and several others Sometimes he Writes to the Senate of his Recovering condition and that he would shortly come to Town sometimes Praising sometimes Blaming Sejanus sometimes Receiving those that came Recommended by him and at other times Refusing others that thus he might keep him suspended between Hope and Fear who whether trusting to his Favor with the Prince or for Fear of losing of his Hopes Resolved to attempt nothing by Force hoping that the Disgusts of the Prince if there were any would wear out with time In this interim Others who had hitherto Fawned upon Sejanus his Fortune not upon Himself seeing Tiberius stagger began to carry themselves more Warily and the Devotion of many towards Sejanus grew Cold. Tiberius having discovered long ago the Pride and Insolency of Sejanus and fearing withal lest provoked by Contempt he should Run some Desperate Course Caused it to be given out That he intended to Confer the Tribunical Power upon Sejanus and presently after Commands him to be laid in Prison writing Letters to that end to the Senate which were carried by Macro Captain of the Guards Who coming to Rome first communicated the Prince's pleasure to Memmius-Regulus then Consul for the other Consul was more addicted to Sejanus and then to Graecinus Laco Captain of the Watch it being not yet break of day Thence going to the Senate-house he met Sejanus who startled to see him demanded if he had brought him any Letters from Tiberius he whispered in his ear That he should anon be saluted Tribune whereupon he entring the Senate-house not without an inward joy Macro commanded the Pretorian Guards to go home showing them to that end a Warrant from the Emperor in which also he promised them a Largess The Pretorian Soldiers being departed and Laco's Company placed there in their Room Macro enters the Senate and delivers his Letters Immediately going forth without expecting the Reading of them to bid Laco stand well upon his Guard lest Sejanus raising a Tumult in the Senate should break away and went thence himself to the Pretorian Gua●ds to hinder them lest they should attempt any thing The Letters that were then a Reading were spun out into a Great length to the end That Macro might have Time enough to order his business and