he was taught his first Rudiments of the Latin and Greek Tongues I have heard some of his Contemporaries say that his Master knew not for a while how to manage him he was of so strange a mixture for at sometimes he was addicted to loiter and play and to much exercise of Body Again by fits he would ply his Book so industriously that his Praeceptor thought it a great deal too much for a Child to undergo it But like a prudent Man he quickly consented to leave his Scholar to his own pace wherein he got ground so fast of all his Fellows He that raised himself up to that height of Knowledge in his adult Age had need to lay some part of the Foundation so early For as Comines observes it Lib. 1. Hist Indubitatum est ees qui in ullâ re unquam excelluerunt maturi puerilibus annis ad cam accessisse 6. All things fell out happily by Divine Disposition to bring him up from a towardly Youth to a worthy Man For by that time this Bud began to blow it fortun'd that Dr. Vaughan afterward the Reverend Lord Bishop of London came into Wales and took the School of Reuthen in his way where he found his young Kinsman John Williams to be the Bell-weather of the little Flock Dr. Vaughan was exceeding glad to find him in that forwardness and being not only as Learned as most Men to try a Scholar but Judicious above most Men to conjecture at a rich Harvest by the green Blade in the Spring took speedy care to remove his Kinsman to Cambridge and commended him to the Tuition of Mr. Owen Gum of St. John's College well qualified by his Country and Alliance for a Friend and no indiligent Tutor The young Youth was now entring into the 16th Year of his Age an 1598. much welcom'd to Cambridge by the Old Britains of North-Wales who praised him mightily in all places of the University â—for they are good at that to them of their own Lineage and made more Eyes be cast upon him than are usual upon such a Punie Which took the rather because of his great Comeliness I might say Beauty And it is a great Attractive of common Favour when virtue takes up a fair Lodging One thing put him to the blush and a little Shame that such as had gigling Spleens would laugh at him for his Welsh Tone For those who knew him at his Admission into St. John's Society would often say that he brought more Latin and Greek than good English with him This also pluck'd Advantage after it for it made him a very retired Student by shunning Company and Conference as far as he could till he had lost the Rudeness of his Native Dialect Which he labour'd and affected because he gave his Mind to be an Orator which requires Decus linguae regnumque loquendi as Manlius lays it out Lib. 4. And all that heard him will subscribe that when he was put to it to speak publickly his Gesture and Pronunciation did add much Grace to his Matter and Invention 7. He was the Pattern of a most diligent Student to all that did emulate him then or would imitate him hereafter He had read over so many Authors in several Sciences so many Volumes so many Historians and Poets Greek and Latin in four Years the Evidence of it was in his Note-Books that I may say Aetatem ultra putes who would have thought it had been the dispatch of an Under-Graduate He had ransack'd not only the bare Courts and spacious Lodgings but the very Closets and Corners of the best Arts and Authors Nothing so great that exceeded him nothing so little that escap'd him I will make this Credible to all that are not utter Drones He plied his Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As much in the Night as in the Day Nature contributed to this a strange Assistance that from his Youth to his old Age he ask'd but 3 hours Sleep in 24 to keep him in good plight of Health This we all knew who lived in his Family It would not quickly be believed but that a cloud of Witnesses will avouch it that it was ordinary with him to begin his Studies at six of the clock and continue them till three in the morning and be ready again by seven to walk in the Circle of his indefatigable Labours Aristo complains thus in Pliny l. 7. c. 50. Vivendi breve tempus homini datum quoniam somnus veluti publicanus dimidium aufert That which makes the Life of Man short is That Sleep like an exacting Publican takes half of it away for Toll and Tribute But here was one that paid very little Custom to that common Publican of Nature and kept so much Time continually going in his Stock that he lived almost twice as much as any Man that lived no longer Who will not say now but so much Toil was plain Drudgery And I marvel it the more that so great a Wit could endure to task him to such constant and vexatious Pains No doubt he look'd far afore him upon the hope of a great Recompence in Church or Commonwealth that contented him and confirmed him Marius speaks gailantly in Salust Nae illi falsi sunt qui res diversissimas pariter expectant ignaviae voluptatem praemia virtutis They are much mistaken that think to piece together two Things so different the Pleasure of Ease and the Guerdon of Virtue Therefore all these concurr'd together in him to make up the Master-piece of a Scholar a rare Wit a most tenacious and even stupendious Memory a clear Judgment a most distinguishing common Sense called Natural Logick which is the best and most vital part of Judgment and that which hatch'd all these that they might not addle uncessant Industry Truly he that will build many Stories high had need of all these Materials And let those that are happy in great Natural Endowments take Example by him to joyn the Felicity of Nature with such a Mate as Diligence Gardners give the most attendance to the best Stocks in their Nursery and the Fruit will quit the Cost after due time hath matur'd it It was God above therefore that gave his young Servant so wise a Mind to fill up the choice Vessels of Nature with Liquors distill'd from his own Studies And herein I may compare him to Messala Corvinus in Tully as he writes of him to Brutus Ep. 15. Tanta industria est tantúmque evigilat in studio ut non maximo ingenio quod in eâ— summum est gratia habenda videatur He was so laborious and vigilant about his Studies that though his Wit were of the best kind yet he was not most beholding to it 8. I have not added a Grain to the just weight of Truth that his Sails were filled with prosperous Winds which blew from the Cape of Nature yet that he plied the Oar with main might to make a gaining Voyage Especially the good God was pleased to give
Letter had followed the News of the Sermon if it had been a Chicken of the same Brood Finally There was nothing done that needed a Recantation Yet Opinions were so various that some spread it for a Fame That the Prince himself gave the Lord Keeper no Thanks for his Labour But that which follows will encounter it to break the Chaw-bone of the Lye as it is to be found in a Postscript of his to the Duke Cab. p. 85. May it please your Grace I Troubled his Highness with a long Relation of the Consulto we had about his Majesties taking the Oaths About which I was affrighted by Great Men that I had done his Highness a Displeasure to press his Majesty to assent to the same And I protest I was so poorly accompanied in my Opinion that I was truly afraid I had not done well And therefore I took occasion to write my Reasons at large to the Prince which I heard by Sir John Hipsley from your Grace was well taken I humbly thank your Grace who I know forwarded the same And so I perceive by a Letter from his Highness so full of sweetness as I am overwhelmed That sweet Letter is preserved written every Syllable with his Highness's own Hand which will shew the sufficiency of his Pen at those young Years but much more the Pleasure he took in those that did him faithful Service My Lord THere are three Circumstances which double any Good Turn that one Friend does to another To be done in absence being undesired and in time of Necessity You have not only done me a Friendly Office but in a time when my Reputation lay at the Stake I being absent upon an Occasion that few are fully satisfied with and in a thing that I did not particularly ask your help in And lastly With that which Crowns every Action Good Success I will not say how much I am bound to you for this For it were too much a Complementary way which I neither love nor am good at but only that I desire to have an Occasion to requite though not to put me out of this Debt How things stand here you have known before this time And I have nothing as yet to desire you to facilitate with you If you desire to know how soon I shall begin my Journey homeward I think certainly that it will be about the 27th of the next Month. But I fear that the Infanta shall not go with me So I end Your loving and constant Friend Charles P. Madrid July 30. 1623. This was sent away in 17 Days after the Agreement was struck up at Wansted Happy are they who being put to drudge at the Plough of State-Affairs do reap the Harvest of such Gracious Acceptance And a Prince will find it true that he gets as many Hearts when he receives the Devoirs of his Subjects comfortably and smilingly as when he rewards them bountifully So Pliny in the Paneg. to Trajan Non minùs regium summaeque humanitatis parva lubenti facilique suscipere animo quà m magna largiri A King cannot always reward but he may always commend the well-deserving of his Vassals Which is good Interest though it be not the Principal For an Ingenuous Servant that is not yet gratified is solaced with Hope But he that is not stroak'd with good Words is discourag'd for ever 153. Enough is contein'd in this little touch that his Highness in his Letter of surpassing Love was just to himself as well as gracious to his trusty Minister One Man's Wit wrought Miracles here to soder up all the broken pieces of the business Though the Prince had skilful Men about him yet there wanted such another Head-piece at his Elbow in Spain I cannot but think of him when I remember what Cuiacius said of his great Master in the Caesarean Law Nemo unus erit unquam Papinianus Neither let his Praise fall lower because he was not a Nestor in Years For he was elder at this time than Papinian was when he died He followed the Cares of the Prince in Madrid when his Imployment was call'd for but being far off not altogether with the like success It was hot Weather now in that Torrid Climate the Bocca Difurno as they call it and the Treaty of the Match was not a little scorch'd The Duke wrote to the Lord Keeper July 8. That he did not altogether distrust a good End His Highness in his July 30. seems to presage That he hop'd for a desired End The Words are sufficiently chearful but some Art was in them For perusing the very Reports of those gallant Persons when they came into England I find all things about this time look very sickly and with a Face of Consumption The Earl of Bristol an understanding Author in these Affairs writes That the Match was so really intended that it was past all danger of miscarrying if the fault were not on our side yet together he confesseth That the Spaniards have committed many Errours in their proceeding with the Prince Cab. P. 23. Right For 't is easie to tumble forth an huddle of them at this time The Ratification of the Articles was ready to be publish'd by the Nuncio after much ado But the Pope dies July 8. Benè fecit Regulus quod mortuus est melius si ante says Pliny Lib. 6. Ep. ad Arn. But well had it been if old Gregory had lived longer or died sooner The Life of his Dispensation and Confirmations expired with him All the Ground we had trod must be trod over again and we are carried back to the beginning of the Race from whence we started And no coming forward no not a foot till St. Peter's Chair was fill'd again Whose Successor was not chosen till August the 6th Nor he at leisure to mind this Matter in his new Pontificality till September Nor a second Impression of a Dispensation to be gotten till November even spent Who would not have consider'd the Disdain that a generous Love and a more generous Mind must conceive to have the Cherry bob at his Lip and to be snatcht from him Quo propiùs accesseris ad spem fruendi hòc impatientius careas says the same Pliny Lib. 6. Ep. 1. But let a free born Spirit see what it is to wait upon the Papal Pleasure so lingring so imperious I know not which is worst Christianity bids us submit to them which watch over our Souls Heb. 13. but it doth not make us Religious Slaves Therefore the Prince declar'd it for his resolute Mind That he would not abide the delay of the next Missive from Rome nor stay for the Birth of another Elephant Neither should all the Syrens in Spain stop his departure Which made them whisper That his Highness would rob them of his Company and take no leave and set some though not openly to keep Centinel to prevent him Which surmise he confronted with a Message equal to the best of the ancient Apophthegms That though he
a good Rudder to the Vessel to stear it right both in the Channel of true Religion and virtuous Practice For in those Lubric and often failing years he neither fell upon the Rocks of dangerous Errors in Opinion nor stuck in the quick Sands of Vice He was duly present at the Service of Common-Prayer in the College-Chappel And in his private Prayers as he began so he did ever continue to commend himself to God's Mercy and Protection morning and evening rather with a due Constancy and as it were Canonical never to be dispens'd with then a long winded Prolixity it grew up with him by a Catechetical Principle rather to be then after a contrivance and fashion to profess to be a good Christian I expound him thus A Face set smooth by the Glass of Hypocrisie an affected shew of holy Simplicity a dreaming simpering of Words to shuffle into the good Opinion of the World by mere Histrionical Devices he declined in himself and dislik'd in others Though he did not strive to cry up himself for a great-gifted Saint yet no wholsom Morals which are commendable in such green and sappy Years were wanting in him He was obedient to Superiors strictly just in his Word and in all Commerce and Dealing a Faithful Friend and as will appear more in the Sequel no Vindicative Enemy He was no Loiterer no Companion for Ruffians and loose Persons no Tippler no Wine-bibber And though the University Discipline began to be more remiss in those days then in by-gone Ages yet he consin'd himself most inculpably to Modesty and Sobriety not so much as leaning towards Youthful Exorbitancies So far he was a Stranger to wanton Lusts that his Acquaintance marvelled that the more the Sin came near to him so comely a Feature wanting not Enticement the further he ran from it Arthur Wilson in his History of King James by some secret Whisper came nigh to the Discovery of the Reason Not that he was an Eunuch ab utero as he bluntly delivers it but he had suffer'd an adventitious Mischance being about 7 Years old which compell'd him to actual Chastity He took a leap being then in long Coats from the Walls of Conway Town to the Sea-shore looking that the Wind which was then very strong would fill his Coats like a Sail and bear him up as it did with his Play-fellows But he found it otherwise for he did light with his Belly upon a big ragged Stone which caused a secret Infirmity fitter to be understood then further describ'd and want of timely Remedy the Skill of good Chirurgery being little known in that Climate continued it to his dying day They that traduc'd him when he came to be Lord-Keeper not only to be Amorous but to be Incontinent with a great Lady and taught common Fidlers to sing it may blush at this Discovery if they be alive but if they died without Repentance it may be they want the tip of his Finger dipp'd in Water to cool their Tongues 9. Though I have not concealed that he was Chast perforce yet I must witness for him that in the use of Meats and Drinks he was one of the most temperate Men in the Kingdom of free Election I think he suck'd it in with his Milk it was so fix'd in him To let pass how well he was satisfied with his short Academical Fare I will go further and come to him when he came to be a great House-keeper He kept a full Table elegantly set forth none of his Rank beyond him Yet I scarce ever saw him eat a plentiful Meal He supplied the convival time at his Board with Carving and Discourse which made his Abstinence less observ'd by his Guests but it was most beneficial to him He that eats sparingly sacrificeth to Health and is fit for Labour and Watchfulness upon all Occasions What Repugnancy there was in his Concoction to Flesh I know not but he fed the least upon it that ever I saw His Diet upon his own Trencher consisting chiefly out of a Dairy a Garden and an Orchard No Capuchin kept Lent and Fish-days as we term them more strictly As his Appetite was easily under his Will so his Will was as much under the Laws of the Realm It were a rash Censure to count him Superstitious in this Observation of Abstinence because he would not be a Libertine Obedience is accountable to the smallest Commandments and which are customarily broken I cannot but call to mind upon what is rehearsed before that what Pythagoras ask'd of his Disciple was comprized in this Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be unaddicted to Belly-pampering Sleep and Carnal Wantonness Which threefold Rule this might Moral Man made up into one Practise 10. Many are happy that they have not Means to be Riotous though they would but he was happy that he had Means of large Supply for his Breeding and would not His Father was a Gentleman of a bountiful and kind Heart and spent more upon himself and upon his Neighbours then upon his Children But the numerous Stock of rich Gentry to which he was Allied his dear Grandmother especially made him a great Allowance But to say the truth all of them could never fill his Purse From a Youth and so upward he had not a Fist to hold Money for he did not only lay out but scatter spending all that he had and somewhat for which he could be trusted By one Instance which I have heard much quoted in Cambridge he did discover a most charitable and franc Affection That unparallell'd worthy Man Mr. Edward Liveley Publick-Professor of the Hebrew Tongue was so unprovided to sustain himself and his Family that he was put to a sad shift to sell a part of his Library which being made known to some by pitiful Rumour and to young Williams among others in Cambridge he got the Sum of three Pounds together and carried it home to Mr. Liveley which the Learned Man's Necessity made him accept and his Thankfulness told it abroad to bring his pretty benefactor into Estimation which was much noised that so little a Hand did open it self when large ones were shut Many things concur'd to make him talk'd of and to be noted out for future Eminency yet Envy that loves to crop the Bud of Virtue had two Things to object against him First That he gave Distast to some by his Vehemency of Anger not seldom flying out 'T is true he was obnoxious to Arles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sudden eruption of Choler sometimes upon a little stirring an Infirmity which only bred him Enemies for his fair Candor could give no other Offence But as Hippocrates the chiefest of the Aesculapians writes Where Fire abounds in the Mixture and exceeds the Moisture such Flashes cannot always be suppress'd And sublime Wits are seldom without the Frailty to bring them to Humility So Pliny said of them in the Character of Julius Cesar Acutissimi evadunt igneâ celeritate volucres
and out of those their Treatises wherein especially they handled the Cause for which he Appealed unto them And Thirdly When he had fixed what was prime and principal Truth in any Debate with great Meekness and Sweetness he gave copious Latitude to his Auditors how far they might dissent keeping the Foundation sure without breach of Charity These were the Constellations whose fortunate Aspect did shine upon this Neophytus in the Orb of Cambridge and being under the Influence of such Luminaries a judicious Academian might Prognostic how much he would prosper without a judicious Astrologer But for all that he posted so speedily through the broad Way of the best Tracts of Knowledge yet he found a little leisure to call in as he went at the attaining of some Skill in Musick Instrumental and Vocal not as a Siren to catch him but as a Delight to solace him Nay though he set his Face to the end of a great Journey yet in transiâ—â— he took Acquaintance of the French Tongue to make himself able to read the choice Pieces of that acute Nation which flow'd in easily and apace into him having the Pipes of the Latin Tongue ready cast to convey it What shall we say to him that took in hand such a long Sorites of Sciences and Tongues together But that such Blood and Spirits did boil in his Veins as Tully felt when he spake so high Mihi satis est si omnia consequi possim Nothing was enough till he got all 14. The Gamester was the freer to throw at all because he was like to draw a good Stake Preferment already holding its Hand half open For â—fâ—câ—bi 2º his Patron and tenderly-loving Kinsman Dr. Vaughan was Removed from the Bishoprick of Chester to the See of London The young Eaglets are quickly taken up upon the Wings of the old one But the good Bishop within three Years after he had ascended to that Dignity ended his days greatly lamented of all and lived not till his young Cousin was adult for Promotion This only was much to his Benefit that every Year the Bishop sent for him to spend a few Weeks in his Palace of London a great help to his Breeding to let him see the course of Church-Government managed by the Piety and Wisdom of so grave a Prelate who had much of a Gentleman much of a Scholar and most of a Christian During his abode in the Reverend Bishop's Palace he had the opportunity to tender his Duty to that noble-minded and ancient Baron John Lord Lumley who received him with equal Courtesie and Bounty as his Kinsman That Lord having given his Sister in Marriage to Mr. Humfry Llyd of Nor. h. Wales a most industrious Antiquary as appears in Ortelius and Adjutant to Mr. Cambden in his great Work This Lord Lumley did pursue Recondite Learning as much as any of his Honourable Rank in those Times and was owner of a most precious Library the Search and Collection of Mr. Humsry Llyd Out of this Magazine that great Peer bestowed many excellent Pieces printed and Manuscript upon Mr. Williams for Alliance sake a Treasure above all Presents most welcom to him Yet the noble-hearted Lord a free Mccaenas gave with both hands and never sent his young Kinsman away from him without a Donative of ten Pieces The first Gift of Books he kept better then Gold for the Gold went from him again as magnificently as if he had been no less then the Lord Lumley himself But that he had received those noble Favours I heard him remember with great and grateful Expressions in the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Cheam near to Nâ—nâ—â—câ— in Surrey whereof my self have been Rector now above 30 Years coming on a day to view the Burial-place of the Lord Lumley where his Body lies under a comely Monument 15. It fell out luckily to Mr. Williams to keep him from incurring great Debts that he had such an Ophir or Golden Trade to drive with the Lord Lumley's Puâ—se who supplied him with a Bounty that grudg'd him nothing till the Year 1â—â—9 for then that aged Baron died Four Years before the loss of that dear Friend An. 1605 he took his Degree of Master of Arts and he Feasted his Friends at the Commencement as if it had been his Wedding having more in Cash at command by the full Presents of many Benefactors then is usual with such young Graduates His Merits being known brought him in a great Revenue long before he had a certain Livelihood A Master of Arts is a Title of honest Provocation rightly considered Nomina insignia onerosa sunt says the Emperor Alexander Mammaens But they are scarce so many as a few that are warm'd with the remembrance of that Honour which the Regent-House conferr'd upon them worthy to be taxed in parodie with that Increpation Heb. 5.12 Cum deberetis Magistri esse propter tempus rursum indigetis ut vos doceamini When for the time ye eught to be Masters you have need one teach you again Whose Reproach hath this and no other use that they are a pitiful Foil to their Betters I am sure I explain a Man who added as much Grace to the Name as any his Ancestors of those that came after he that was the best was but second in the Order Every day borrowing much of the Night advanced his Knowledge He hired himself to labour under all Arts and sorts of Learning The more he toil'd the more he perceiv'd that nothing in this Earth had such Amplitude as the extent of Sciences He saw it was a Prospect which had no Horizon a Man can never say he sees the utmost bound of the Coast Therefore he was continually drawing his Bow because he was sure he could never shoot home No Man fishes to get all the Fish in the Sea yet since the Sea contains so much he is slothful that labours but for a little Our Student began now to fall close to the deep and spacious Studies of Divinity I deliver from his own mouth what he would relate sometimes in his riper Years That he began to read all the Scriptures with the choicest and most literal and as he found it fit with the briefest Commentators so that all his Superstructure might knit close to that Foundation He compared the common places of P. Martyr Chemnitius and Musculus Calvin and Zanchie being in at all with the Sacred Text and found that Harmony in them all with the Oracles of God's Word that he perceived he might with a good Conscience as he would answer it to Christ Jesus defend the Integrity of the Reformed Religion taking it not upon Trust but upon Judgment and Examination But an Artist knoweth not what he hath got by all his Diligence till he useth it neither can a Scholar understand what Tast is in the Waters of his own 〈◊〉 till he draws some quantity out Therefore he disclosed himself both in his own Terms and for his Friends in common Places and
the opening of that Session it was much Noted that the King had said before all the Members Spare none where you find just Cause to punish And if the two Houses should sit a year what good could be expected from them but two or three Subsidies That it were less danger for the King to gather such a Sum or greater by his Prerogative though it be out of the way than to wait for the exhibition of a little Mony which will cost Dishonour and the Ruin of his most Loyal and Faithful Servants 60. O what a Tempting Fiend is self-preservation These Mormo's and ill shap'd Jealousies hatch'd in Hell and prompted by the Father of mischief disquieted the King but Rob'd my Lord of Buckingham of all peace of Mind till the Dean of Westminster his good Genius conjur'd them down whose Wisdom luckily consulted gave him this Advice as I find it in a Breviate of his own hand Writing That the Parliament in all that it had hitherto undertaken had deserv'd praise as well for their dutiful demeanor to the King as for their Justice to his people His Majesties just and gracious Prerogative was untouch'd The Grievances of all that were Wronged with indifferency were Received which they must sift or betray the Trust of their Country which sent them The former Parliament was very Tart if not undutiful what then Shall we be fearful to put our hands into cold Water because we have been Scalded with hot There 's no Colour to quarrel at this general Assembly of the Kingdom for Tracing delinquents to their Form For it is their proper Work And the King hath very Nobly encourag'd them to it in his Speech that in the first day he made before them nay even proffering to have the blemishes of his Government Reformed by them for his own Words must literally bear that meaning as you well remember them if I may know my Errors I will Reform them But your Lordship is Jealous if the Parliament continue Embodied in this Vigour of your own safety or at least of your Reputation least your Name should be used and he brought to the Bandy Follow this Parliament in their undertakings and you may prevent it Swim with the Tide and you cannot be Drown'd They will seek your favour if you do not start from them to help them to settle the public Frame as they are contriving it Trust me and your other Servants that have some Credit with the most Active Members to keep you clear from the strife of Tongues But if you assist to break up this Parliament being now in pursuit of Justice only to save some Cormorants who have devoured that which must be regorged you will pluck up a Sluce which will over-whelm your self The King will find it a great disservice before one year expire The Storm will gather and burst out into a greater Tempest in all insequent Meetings For succeeding Parliaments will never be Friends with those with whom the former fell out This is Negative Counsel I will now spread Affirmative Proposals before your Honour which I have studied and consider'd Delay not one day before you give your Brother Sir Edward a Commission for an Embassage to some of the Princes of Germany or the North-Lands and dispatch him over the Seas before he be mist Those empty Fellows Sir G. Mompesson and Sir Fr. Michel let them be made Victims to the publick Wrath. It strikes even with that Advice which was given to Caesar in Salust when the people expected that some should be Examples of impartial Justice Lucius Posthumins Marcus Fauonius mihi videntur quâ—si magnae navis supervacua onera esse Si quid adversi coortâ—m est de illis pstissumon sactura sit quia pretii minimi sunt Let Lord Posthumius and M. Fauonius be thrown over board in the Storm for there are no Wares in the Ship that may better be spared Nay my Sentence is cast all Monopolies and Patents of griping projections into the Dead Sea after them I have search'd the Signet Office and have Collected almost forty which I have hung in one Bracelet and are fit for Revocation Damn all these by one Proclamation that the World may see that the King who is the Pilot that sits at the Helm is ready to play the pump to eject such Filth as grew Noysom in the Nostrils of his people And your Lordship must needs partake in the Applause for though it is known that these Vermin haunted your Chamber and is much Whisper'd that they set up Trade with some little Licence from your Honour yet when none shall appear more forward than your self to crush them the Discourse will come about that these Devices which take ill were stoln from you by Mis-representation when you were but New blossom'd in Court whose Deformities being Discover'd you love not your own Mistakings but are the most forward to re-call them 61. Before I proceed though Anger be an Enemy to Counsel I confess I cannot refrain to be angry O hearken not to Rhehoboams Ear-Wigs drive them away to the Gibbet which they deserve that would incite the King to Collections of Aid without concurrence of his Parliament God bless us from those Scorpions which certainly would beget a popular Rage An English mans Tribute comes not from the King's Exaction but by the peoples free Oblation out of the Mouth of their Representatives Indeed our Ancient Kings from the beginning did not receive but impose Subsidies When the Saxon Monarchs wanted Relief for repairing Castles Bridges or Military Expeditions they Levied it at their will upon the Shires as we may learn by some Names the only Remainder of those Old times Burg-boot Brig-boot Hen-fan Here-geld Horn-geld Danegeld Terms that meet us every where in our Ancient Chronicles The Normans you may Swear lost nothing that came in by wonted Signory but exacted as they saw Cause as William the Conqueror de Unaquâque hidâ sex solidos cepit imposed Six Shillings on every plowed Land saith Mathew Paris And William Rusus had his Auxilium non lege statutum an Aid without an Act of Parliament as Hoveden in the Life of Henry the Second And in this manner the Norman Race supplied themselves as they needed until King John's Reign who in his great Charter bound himself and his Successors to Collect no Aid nisi per commune concilium regni as it is in Matthew Paris With this agrees the Old Statute of 51 Henry the Third de tallagio non concedendo that Subsidies should not be Levied without the consent of Parliament Which being confirmed also in the 25 of Edward the First hath been inviolably observ'd by all the good and peaceable Kings of England to this very day And God forbid that any other Course should be Attempted For this Liberty was settled on the Subject with such Imprecations upon the Infringers that if they should remove these great Land-Marks they must look for Vengeance as if Entail'd by publick
profitable to the Church and that there should be no Violation of Justice in the Grant for which he cast his Eye religiously upon that Warrantable Rule Levit. 26.19 He that will Redeem that which is Sanctified must add a fifth Part to the Estimation So this Godly King was superabundant in his Care that the See of York should be Richer by parting with this House as is manifest by the Lord Keeper's Letter sent to that Worthy Patriarch of the North whose Age would not suffer him to come to London May it please your Grace I Have been as Careful as lay in my Power to further your Wise and Religious intent which your Grace so really expresseth in making an advantageous Exchange for your Successors between York-House with Warders tenement and the Mannor of Brighton in the County of Ebor together with the Woods which Woods I am assured are out of Lease And I conceive that part of the Exchange so well settled if the particulars be true as I probably presume and your Grace may better find then I that your Successors shall have good Cause to bless God for the same Now His Majesty and the Duke are very willing to fetch in the rest of the Tenements unto the House and to deal with you and your See Graciously and bountifully in the Exchange For when I kneeled before His Majesty in the presence of the Prince and others to crave Pardon that I stood so strictly upon Terms of Benefit and Good Accommodation to your Grace who had Trusted me in this Exchange the King gave me hearty Thanks for doing so and desired me that for His sake and Buckingham's to see that your Grace should convey nothing at all to his Majesty but that your See should receive back again for the same double Recompensation Your Grace therefore shall receive by your Son Sir Tobie whom His Majesty and the Duke would needs employ personally for the expediting of this Business with your Grace two particulars more proposed for an Exchange with the Tenements belonging to York-House The which particulars if they hold out in Value and Estates as they be presented which your Grace by the Industry of one of your Servants may in two days perceive by Reason of their vicinity to the City of York be of far more profit to your Grace and Successors then these Tenements can possibly be their States and Demises consider'd If those two particulars should dislike your Grace instance upon any other thing lying in Charge to the King and in more conveniency to your Grace and I find his Majesty so over good in this kind that I presume he will deny nothing that can be demânded without blushing Your Son my very good and much respected Friend hath been so industrious for the good of your See as though he were the Son of that Church as well as your Grace's as I would he were and I hope he may be I rest ever May 4. 1624. 194. All things being agreed upon this Bargain on this side Trent and beyond it an Act is drawn up and brought into the House of Commons The Provision for the Exchange is apparent without Fallacy or Fear of Wrong and better than the Redemption of a thing sanctify'd under the Levitical Prescriptions yet it stuck in the House of Commons and struggled with great Opposition The King's Counsel pleaded well that his Majesty's Lands were more profitable by a good Size than that which the Arch-Bishop contributed in lieu but it was answered by a worthy Knight Let Caesar keep that which is Caesar's and let God keep that which is God's And that Scruple was held in dispute for many days although the Duke did then appear to be a Person that deserved to be gratify'd till evident Reason like a Condensation of Light did shine more and more before them that Love and Conscience tender to preserve the Church her Rights ought not to hinder her Augmentation Or had it been no more than barely one for another it would be no worse than with the Man in Famianus Strada that sneezed once and blew out his Candle and sneezed a second time and blew it in again Therefore when the Commons had shewn their Good will not to violate Sacred things as if the Spirit of thrice honoured Sir Harry Spelman had possest them when they had said much upon it and received handsome Satisfaction when they were at a wit-stand and could reach no further the Bill was carried by some Votes and the Permutation concluded A noble Affection to the Bishops and to that Portion which our virtuous Progenitors had given them and little followed within twenty years after by such as the Prophet describes Isa 50.11 That walk in the Light of their own Fire and in the sparks which themselves have kindled Those Prelates that not long ago had so many Friends to support their Demesns are now like Abraham when God sent him into a strange Land where he had no Inheritance no not so much as to set his Foot upon Act. 7.5 Now those Mannors and Houses which were kept entirely for them are sold to make Payment 't is well known to whom But such Work such Wages Publick and Private Civil and Sacred Lands Civil Wars can gulp down all And yet the Grecians that knew not the true God invited all to take Arms against the Phocenses in the Quarrel of Sacriledge and called it the Sacred War When the whole Estate of Pompey the Great was Confiscate after Caesar had prevailed in the Pharsalian Battle says Tully Philip 2. Qui ad illud scelus sectionis auderet accedere inventus est nomo praeter Antonium None could be found so impudent to buy his Lands but Antony But enow are found in these Dominions that are ready to buy Gods Lands Their Peny-worths are cheap if there were no Account to be made to the Lord of the Vineyard hereafter These Huxters cannot chuse but think of it and if any of them should say he did not drive this Trade at least with a doubting Conscience in good Faith I would not believe him 'T is the Envy of the Devil when he cannot hinder Reformation to discredit it with Sacriledge And he is cunning at that horrid Sin ever since he mixt it in his first Temptation For the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which was not to be eaten had a Sacramental Signification in it and stood in Paradice for an Holy Purpose and was an holy Possession in regard whereof to eat of the forbidden Fruit was Theft in the Act and Sacriledge in the Circumstance But suppose a Church be unsound surfeited and fit to be purged of Offences What Physician that undertook to cure a sick Man did ever plunder him of all that he had for his Fee Who will think else that his Heart was set upon the Good of his Patient and not upon filthy Lucre He that reaps down Errors and fills his Barns with golden Sheaves he works for Mammon and
Curses That Generation of male-contents to whose Love an Evil Counsellor woed him was ever false and untrusty not suspected but known ever since the Faction was first rock'd in the Cradle to be tied by no Benefits Importunate Suitors and ever craving And having sped think their Cause and their Deservings have paid Thanks sufficient to their Patron And look what Colours the King our Master hath laid upon them and they are in Oyl which will not be got out in his Instructions to his Prince Henry where upon bitter Experience he tells him That he was more faithfully served by the Highlanders Then what a Merchant have you got of this spiteful Minister who would have you to commit your Stock to their Managing who would bring you Hatred for Love and Infamy for Honour But if your Grace conceive that I am hitherto rather upon the Invective than the Proof I will step into another Point and clear it against all Contradiction That if your Grace appear in distracting the Church-Lands from their holy and rightful use your Endeavours shall be cried down in Parliament not to terrifie you that your Adversaries will increase and batter you with this great Shot that you attempted to dissolve the Settlement of Church and Laws You lose your self says the Duke in Generalities Make it out to me in particular if you can with all your Cunning what should lead you to say That the Motion you pick at should find repulse and baffle in the House of Commons I know not how you Bishops may struggle but I am much deluded if a great part of the Knights and Burgesses would not be glad to see this Alteration The Lord Keeper had a List of their Names in readiness a Scrowle which he always carried about with him which he pluck'd out and pray'd his Grace he might give him a Cypher of the Inclinations either of the most or of the Bell-weathers And having entred a little into that tedious Work the Duke snatch'd the Scrowle out of his Hand and running it over with his Eye said no more but I find abundance of Lawyers among them Yes Sir says the Keeper most of them Men of Learning and Renown in their Profession I think by my continual Negotiating with them I know their Addictions in Religion whether they stand right or which way they bend I will not prejudge the Speaker and one or two more God knows their Hearts But for the rest I know they will be strong for the supportance of the Cathedral Chapters Is it so said his Grace And what do you think of Sir Edward Coke Marry says the Keeper no Friend to an old Friend In the 39 of Queen Elizabeth when he was Atturney-General he Damm'd a Patent surreptitiously gotten before his time by those Lime-Hounds employ'd for Concealments by which they went far to swallow up the greatest part of the Demeasns of the Bishop of Norwich revived the Right of those Religious Possessions by his own Industry and Prosecution and for the most part at his own Charge and rested not till for more Security after the Patent was overthrown he had confirm'd those Lands to the Bishop by an Act of Parliament Therefore I would we had no worse Strings to our Bow than Sir Edward Coke But whom doth your Grace name next Nay says the Duke you are come to me my Lord in a lucky Hour I was never further than in an Equipoise about this Project Now I have done with it 'T is still-born and let it be interr'd without Christian Burial My Good Lord says the Lord Keeper I thank God for it And I would all the Kingdom knew as well as I do how soon your good Nature is brought to a right Understanding 212. Both did well The one prest his Doctrine home the other caught it up quickly like a good Disciple The best refuge to come out of an Errour is undelaying Repentance And as Curtius speaks for Alexander Lib. 10. Bona ejus Naturae sunt vitia temporum So I am sure the times put the Duke upon these Shifts and not his own Inclination If he had not been cleansed from those pernicious Infusions what a Sin had he drawn upon himself What Folly Worse then Ahab's that would cut down a poor Neighbors Vineyard to set Pot-Herbs But this were to root up God's Vineyard to succour a War that is to set Thorns and Thistles in the Room They that care not to be good will think how to be wife Yet did they ever think of that that make away the Inheritance of God's Holy Tribe in an Out-sale 'T is an unthrifty Sin And in Twenty Years or in half the time the Sacrilegious themselves will find that the common Purse of the State is the poorer by the Bargain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says an Heathen and to the purpose Athenae Lib. 6. Cap. 20. Prudent Men will continue the Oblations of their Forefathers Piety They were ever readier to supply the publick need in the Custody of the Church than in the Maws of Cormorants But where was he that taught the Duke so well VVhere was he you will say in the hour of darkness when the Thief came in and the Troop of Robbers spoiled without Hos Chap. 7. Vers 8. VVhen all that had been given to God in a Thousand Years by them that had the Godliest and the largest Hearts melted like Wax before the Fire of Hell To the Friends of Sion and to them that lament her waste places I return thus to them and to their Question Every one that wore a Mitre and a Linnen Ephod before the Lord was driven out of that place where Wickedness was Enacted as a Law He that was Couragious among the the Mighty did flee away naked in that Day Amos 2.16 But what if he had been in the Throng He might as well have commended a Beauty to a Blind Man or the smell of Nard to him that hath no Nostril as to have contested with them not to divide the Prey whose Ears God had not opened Multum refert in quae cujusque tempora Virtus inciderit Plin. N.H. Lib. 7. Cap. 28. Virtue is beholding to Good Times to act its part in as well as Good Times are beholding to Virtue Our most Laureat Poet Spenser Lib. 1. Cant. 3. tells of a sturdy Thief Kirkrapine Who all he got he did bestow To the Daughter of Corcea blind and slow And fed her fat with Feasts of Off'rings And Plenty which in all the Land did grow To meet with him and give him his hire Una had a fierce Servant for her Guard that attended her a Lyon who tore the Church-robber to pieces And what is meant by Una's Lyon That 's not hard to guess at But rather what 's become of Una's Lyon The Poet says afterward that Sans-Loy a Paynim-Knight had slain him Belike none is left now to defie Kirkrapine 213. Also some Care is to be taken against them that are unworthily promoted in the Church
An Error like to that of Adrians in Spartianus Non admisit Terentium Gentianum est eò vehementiùs quod à Senatu diligi eum videret But the Commons while they were in heat ask'd a Conference with the Lords Afternoon in Christ's-Church-Hall where Sir Edward Coke opened the Complaint sharply against Secretary Conway and like an Orator did slide away with a short Animadversion upon the Duke It was not so well for his Grace that the noise of the Grievance had entred into both Houses Arcus cum sunt duplices pluviam nuntiant says Pliny Lib. 2. N. H. c. 59. If our Rain-bow multiply another by its Reflection it prognosticks a Shower And the Storm burst out in the lower Region when he was rather declam'd against as I would call it than accus'd because the Gentlemen that did prosecute contain'd themselves in generals The most upon which insistance was made was that he held the most and the most important Offices of Trust and Honour by Sea and Land Though it was foolish and superstitious in the Heathen Romans to think it was not for the Majesty of their Common-wealth to serve but one God Majestatem imperii non decuisse ut unus tantùm Deus colatur Tull. Orat. pro Flacco Yet it were to be desir'd if it might be dutifully obtain'd that one Subject should not possess all those Places which require the Sufficiency of many to discharge them Much to this purpose is that of the Lord Herbert Harry 8. p. 318. That it was a great Error that such a multitude of Offices was invested in Woolsey as it drew Envy upon the Cardinal so it derogated not a little from the Regal Authority while one Man alone seems to comprehend all The King may be satisfied to settle the Choice of his high Promotions in one Minion so will never the People And the Advanced is sure to be shaken for his height and to be malign'd for over-dropping He that sees a Stone-wall swelling looks every day when it will fall And one Stalk is not strong enough to hold a cluster of Titles hanging at it Salmasius hath a Note upon the first Book of Solinus That if a Man grow so fast that it exceeds the usual way of Nature he will fall into sickness His Instance is in the Son of Euthymenes that grew three Cubits in three Years Et immoderatis aegritudinum suppliciis compensasse praecipitem incrementi celeritatem But what Grandee will believe this Because there is more in our corrupt Nature that will obey Ambition than Wisdom 16. Yet to speak to the other side Might not this have been forborn to be objected by the Parliament to this great Lord at this time When his Head and his Hands were wholly taken up to prepare that War which was their own Creature He was at their Plough he was under their Yoke if it were well remembred Now Grotius marks well from the old Law Deut. 21.3 That Beasts that had been put to labour might not be sacrificed Elisha's Act was hasty and singular 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he quotes it out of Chaeremon They were priviledged by the Work in which they had been profitable Nay could it be objected as a Fault at any time I say as a Fault for I plead not for the Convenience What Pharisee would be so corrupt to ask Master who sinned This Man or his Parent that he was made a Duke as Lord Admiral a Master of the Horse c. No Inch of Sin is in ten Cubits of Honour that are lawfully conferr'd But there is a Fault for which Budaeus knew no direct Name Lib. 2. Pandec fol. 10. Cum milites Imperatori infensi vincere nolunt Let it be termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says he when Souldiers will lose a Victory wilfully because they are discontented at their General All was tending much this way at Oxford The great Expedition in hand and the Fleet ready at Plimouth lost its season the Souldiers and Sailors dishearten'd for want of Pay yet not the Supply of a Subsidy could be drawn to give courage to the Onset because the Generalissimo that manag'd the Voyage had lost their Favour Numbers there were some Friends some Flatterers that brought Fuel to the Fire to enflame the Duke against these Dealings The Lord-Keeper was not sought to Yet came and offer'd himself to confer about it And certainly all that knew him would say no Man could pluck the Grass better to know where the Wind sat no Man could spie sooner from whence a Mischief did rise I 'll begin thus My Lord I come to you unsent for and I fear to displease you Yet because your Grace made me I must and will serve you though you are one that will destroy that which you made Let me perish Yet I deserv'd to perish ten times if I were not as earnest as any Friend your Grace hath to save you from perishing The Sword is the Cause of a Wound but the Buckler is in fault if it do not defend the Body You have brought the Two Houses hither my Lord against my Counsel My Suspicion is confirm'd that your Grace would suffer for it What 's now to be done but wind up a Session quickly The occasion is for you because two Colledges in the University and eight Houses in the City are visited with the Plague Let the Members be promis'd fairly and friendly that they shall meet again after Christmas Requite their Injuries done unto you with benefits and not revenge For no Man that is wise will shew himself angry with the People of England I have more to say but no more than I have said to your Grace above a Year past at White-hall Confer one or two of your great Places upon your fastest Friends so shall you go less in Envy and not less in Power Great Necessities will excuse hard Proposals and horrid Counsels St. Austin says it was a Punick Proverb in his Country Ut habeas quietum tempus perde aliquid At the Close of this Session declare your self to be the forwardst to serve the King and Common-wealth and to give the Parliament satisfaction Fear them not when they meet again in the same Body whose ill Affections I expect to mitigate but if they proceed trust me with your Cause when it is transmitted to the House of Lords and I will lay my Life upon it to preserve you from Sentence or the least Dishonour This is my Advice my Lord. If you like it not Truth in the end will find an Advocate to defend it The Duke replied no more but I will look whom I trust to and flung out of the Chamber with Minaces in his Countenance Yet the other did not think he had play'd the Game ill though he lost his Stake by it Dangerous Faithfulness is honester than cunning Silence And once more he was bold to wrestle with this Potentate in high Favour before he fell The Commons of this Parliament was censur'd at Woodstock
6. And therefore he says in his Sermon at the Fast p. 56. We have a knowing learned and right venerable Clergy the busie Meddling of some few in matters of no moment excepted for though it is not about so small a thing as a strife of Words yet it is so great a thing as no Words could ever determine Even Knot the Jesuite writes so to Dr. Potter upon those Questions eagerly contended in between the Dominicans and his Order Who hath assured you that the Point wherein these learned men differ is Revealed Truth and capable of a decision Or is it not rather by plain Scripture indeterminable Or by any Rule of Faith There came out an Order from the King and every one knew who suggested it to suppress all Preaching or Reading in the Universities upon the Questions decided at Dort which was straightway parallel'd with an History in Baronius A. 648. N. 12. That Paul Patriarch of Constantinople seeing his Opinion of a Monothelite decried every where he perswaded the Emperor to set out an Edict to silence the disputing on either side This Direction of His Majesty 's our Bishop obeyed but with a foresight that such a Restraint would make Zealots of each Opinion be more importunate to advance their Doctrin and that every Spark would kindle another and spread apace to a general Combustion We are told by Camerarius Mel. 6. p. 270. that Charles the First had Melancthon most in Jealousie for declining his Interim though he said nothing So my L. of Lincoln was most suspected for a Gain-sayer of the King's Order though none did keep it with stricter Duty Neither did it make him innocent to sit quiet since he did not appear to favour it He that did not tune his Mind as well as his outward Carriage to the present Harmony was censur'd to be out of Tune and not fit for the Quire So it was contriv'd that this Prelate no meddler that way must be knock'd down as the Supporter of the Adherents to the Dort Synod and others for fear would veil their Top-fails Like to Agelaeus's Speech in Homer to his Fellows the Suitors of Penelope Let us throw all our Darts together at Ulysses and kill him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odyss X. No matter for the rest if he were fallen Whereas the way to keep him from all opposition had been to grant him his Peace as a Top goes down of it self when it is no longer scourged Or as Charmides said in Plautus Nunquam aedipol temerò tinniit tintinnabulum nisi quos illud tractat aut movet mutum est tacet If you will not hear the sound of a Bell let it alone and do not pull the Rope These are the true Disclosures wherefore Bishop Laud took the other Bishop not to be a man after his own Heart and thrust him out of Favour out of Power out of House and Home and out of all he had I find more pag. 10. of Mr. Prinn's Breviate that the potent Bishop shew'd Reasons to the King for printing the Papers of Bishop Andrews Cujus memoriâ recreor concerning that Bishops are jure divino contrary to that which the Bishop of Lincoln miserably and to the great detriment of the Church signified to the King Which is a great mistake for Lincoln ever defended the divine Right of his Order that it was necessary in a Church rightly constituted that it was a main defect in them that had not that Presidency among them but the less if they did desire it and could not enjoy it Yet he would not unchurch those Christians but wisht them a better Mind that had set up another Discipline If Bishop Laud was more rigid he did worthily incur the Rebuke of Dr. Holland in Oxford anno 1604. for maintaining there could be no true Church vera non verax without Diocesan Bishops These being all the Incentives of his displeasure against this Brother and Advances what little Grains they be what small Occasions and the Evil he brought upon him being so great and prosecuted so many years how indefensible is such Anger His ablest and best Friends did wish it had never been If among many whom he preferred and obliged some will dress it with Extenuations and Excuses I do not condemn their Ingenuity for as Xenophon writes lib. 7. hist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Commonly men would have those appear to be good who were their Patrons and Benefactors But I conclude it as Seneca did upon the Praises of Alexander the Great when you have said all you can for him Calisthenem intersccit 86. After our Bishop was cut off from all Place in the State and wither'd away in a happy Retirement he that watch'd him aâ—l the harm he could assisted many and they were many to pelt him with slight and bald Complaints like the Clowns about Virgil's Ash-tree Crebrisque bipennibus instant certatim eruere agricolae With all their hewing they got not a Chip from the Defendant but had their Wages from him that was the Setter as Fulgentius says in the Life of Fryar Paul Many shewed Hatred against the innocent Father looking to get Favour for it from the Court of Rome It was hard and yet not strange for ours that being vext with many Suits he could not obtain Orders or not so full as his Causes did merit for Archbishop Abbot his Copartner in Sufferings cries out in his Manuscript That his own Suit for the Privileges of his Church against the Townsmen of Canterbury was slopt and wanted that Justice which was not to be denied to any Subject Had he good man such a Sentiment of one Wrong How then did Lincoln take so many The Heathens say That Constancy in Suffering wears out the Cruelty of the Gods I will not compare a polisht Statue that hath no life with a living Man yet the Heathen presum'd of better things from their Image-gods than he could find among the living gods that sit in the Congregation of Princes Psal 82. Is it worth it to take his Wrongs in a general sum Expect them He could not censure a Misdemeanour in his Ecclesiastical Courts but he was called in question for it by Reference Petition or Appeal and yet the Appellants very Rake-hells upon Fame and Proof But as we say of ill Cloaths they are good enough for the Dirt so these could not be too bad to be taken into the Service for which they were used And yet Xenophon did esteem it a Baseness in the Athenians lib. Abb. Resp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they would cherish those that were sit and helpful to them though they were Knaves He could not institute a Clerk to a Benefice of value but a Quarrel was raised by one Scholar or more that pretended to it knowing it would be well lookt upon by no little body What an Unease it was to be troubled with the humming of so many Gnatts Pliny relates it for a marvellous Story That Cato major answer'd against
the Fabricks into Coin Four hundred years will not restore their Woods and Timber-Trees so well preserv'd now not the Prelates but the Kingdoms damage What haste they made to rid these things out of the way and to purse up all and to barter presently with their Customers the Jews for fear was upon them lest what remained should return to the right Owners For no time not an Age can cross us in our just Claim hereafter Praescribere volentibus mala fides in aeternum obstat a Maxim of Law in Dr. Duck's Book p. 21. Long before him and in plainer words the Oratour in his best piece Phil. 2. speaking of and praising King Deiotarus Scivit homo sapiens jus semper hoc fuisse ut quae tyranni eripuissent tyrannis sublatis ii quibus ea erepta essent recuperarent God hath a Cyrus in store we hope to pluck away again that which was dedicated to him from prophane Belshazzars When the Phocians had spoiled the Temple of Delos the Grecks were so offended at that Sacriledge that they all resolved in their Pan-hellenium Quod totius orbis viribus expiari debet Lib. 8. Justin And when those Phocians were routed in a bloody Battel and ask't leave to bury their dead the Locrians answer'd them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diod. lib. 16. p. 427. That it was the Common Law of Greece to cast away the Carkasses of the Sacrilegious and not to allow them Burial Some of our Thieves who rob'd God are interr'd in Peace some of them among Princes and Nobles yet they and theirs cannot escape the Curse of an hundred Anathema's darted against them Now it is discernable that the Parliament and such as they raised to maintain their Cause got an East and West-Indies out of the Clergy and Laiety pulling a few Locks away at first at last the Fleece of all the Flock like Graecian Toss-pots that begin with small Cups and quaff off great ones when they are drunk Some little remains to be put to this nay no little but more than a thousand and a thousand drams of Gold to be cast into the Heap of their Gains wherein they suck't the Blood of the Rich and quite starved them who were poor already I mean they and their Horses lying upon the Charge of the Country Vetelliani per omnia Italiae municipia desides tantum hospitibus met uendi Tacit. lib. hist 3. like to like as the Devil to the Collier they were our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Casaubon puts it into one word upon Theophrastus we call it Free-quarter What a grief to be made servile to provide for such Guests when the Family knew it was Judas that dip't his hand with them in the Dish What an Expence it was to bring out all their Stores laid up for a year and to waste it in a week sometimes upon an hundred of their Orgoglioes It is an Arabian Proverb If thy Friend be Honey eat him not up all But these Horse-leaches seldom lest an House till they had thresht the Barn Empty and drunk the Cellar dry And had their mouth been a little widder They would have devoured bidder and shidder says Spencer in his Calendar There are greater wrongs to be complained of than this yet none more vexatious and he that is unlucky to be made an Host to lodge such Guests at Free-quarter let him set up a Cross for his Sign-post Now if the Reader carry in memory that Parliament Priviledges Religion Liberty the Peoples innate Power and the like were the Colour and Pretence to take up Arms against the King but the thing intended was Sacriledge goodly Lands Spoils of all forts a Mass of Riches will he not excuse an honest Vicar of Hampshire who changed one word in the last Verse of the Song Te Deum O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be a Round-head 193. The Condemnation of an impious disloyal and sacrilegious Rebellion hath filled up many Pages of this Book Loqui multum non est nimium si tamen est necessarium which is St. Austin's by-word As for the Dependance it is not unartificial which the Subject designed in these Papers for that barbarous War running on through many years of the Archbishop of York's life and it being the saddest and most remarkable Passage of the Age it could not be lest out from the remembrance of any Occurrences made and traversed upon those infamous Times The Hatred and Horror of it struck as deep into this Prelate's Heart as into any mans I do not believe that of Cicero to Torquatus lib. 6. ep Nihil praecipuè cuiquam est dolendum in eo quod accidit universis A wise man full of Observation apt to make likely Presages from present Actions upon future Miseries could not pass them by with Slights and Carelesness as some others did Of two things for certain he was disappointed Three years at the most never pass'd over his Head since he had a good Purse but he expended a valuable Sum upon some Monumental Work of Charity His Mind was still the same for all Ground is not barren that lies sallow But being stript of those Revenues which suppeditated Oyl to the Lamp the Light of his Spirit was eclipsed in this obscurity to be unprofitable Another and no less Calamity was that his Papers of long study and much commentation with his choice Books were either rifled or it may be burnt with Cawood Castle and being eager if not ambitious to restore his Notes again by diligence and a mighty memory yet in the noise of Wars beating up of Quarters and shifting of Lodging to sly from Danger it was impossible to contrive it Arts did never profit in the distractions of Wars Chirurgery may get experience by daily searching into wounds Geometry may enhaunce its skill by crecting Bulwarks and drawing Lines for new forts of Fortifications But all Sciences beside will wither in the midst of Arms and Barbarism will over-spread till Learning recover Maintenance Rest and Peace Aptly to this Isocra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the concord and good management of things in Greece the Philosophers and their Studies would fare much the better Yet a man need not say his Life is under great Adversity for want of such Accessions which are but Notes of good direction in the Margent of the Book but belong not to the Text which the Reader cannot span whose Contents are the Church of Christ in its Doctrine Piety Regulation of Order kept inviolate the King's Crown and Honour supported the Laws maintain'd to us as our Ancestors enjoy'd them Liberty and Property defended from wrong and violence these are the Contents of the great Charter so precious to the pious and political man And all these Pillars which held up our Subsistence were battered by the Sons of Anak and ready to fall In this disasterous season who would not pity a great and aged Prelate driven into the remotest corner of the Land and least
â—â—â—dem sed quascunque reip status inclinatio temporum ratio concordiae postulant esse deferendas And it is noted in as great a Christian as he was a Heathen That exactness of Honour Justice and Decorum cannot be kept even at all times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synes ep 67. So that the Counsels of the great Athanasius did give place to the variation of Times The Leaders of both sides have spoken but the negative did carry it Perhaps I may say with the old Proverb Chorus ejus major est meus meliùs eccinit yet I would rebuke him that should think the worse of those heroically resolved men from the fatal Accidents of succeeding Times Doubtless we had compounded for less blood less loss of Honour less confusion with the Presbyters then than with the Independent or Congregational Tyranny after The first pinnion'd our Arms the latter cut them off The first were like the Philistines which made the Children of Israel their Slaves the other were the Chaldaeans that murder'd our King pulled down every great Man's House and the House of the Lord. The one gave us Vinegar to drink and the other Gall. The one made us a miserable nation the other have made us execrable Parricides to God and Man 202. All being run over and disputed in this Argument the Archbishop controuled not the greater number and therein the better because the King was better satisfied to try his right by his Sword It is fit to serve Kings in things lawful with undiscoursed Obedience which Climachus calls Sepulchrum voluntatis For we deny When Kings do ask if we ask why says our Master Poet Johnson So the Archbishop took the Ball fairly not at the â—â—oly but at the first rebound It is a Motto of great sense and use which Mr. Gataker cites Lib. â— Anton. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good man is either right or rectified as some Plants grow straight some are help't by adminiculation to be straight and some are wise at the first sight some not until the second inspection into a Cause Now our Prelate leaves Oxford at the opening of the Spring with a Charge from his Majesty to look to North-Wales chiefly Conway-Castle with easie Journeys and the safe-guard of some Forces that march't the most of the way that he road he came to Conway and that was his last Journey in this World where some few years after like old Jacob Gen. 49.33 He gathered up his feet into his bed where he first set his feet upon the Ground Felix qui prepriis aevum transegit in arvis Ipsa domus pucrum quem videt ipsa senem Claudias One year and a tedious one run out in listning to things abroad how the King's Forces and his Garrisons did speed The bold Britains would believe them that reported the best and the best was that they were Cadmaean Wars Et semper praelia clade pari Propert. It molested them not alittle that they were jealous among themselves how to keep their own For we that live in the South slander them if their common men be not Filchers and Thieves And though it were piped by a Mouse It must needs come to Fame's House says noble Chaucer As many in those Counties as had Plate Coin Jewels Moveables that were precious besides their Writings and Evidences got favour of the Archbishop to slow them up in the Castle each Person having an Inventory of his own share And some suspected to be corrupt-hearted to the Royal Cause obtained that favour the ground of much ensuing mischief But it was the forecast of the wise Prelate to take Hostages as it were from such and to be secured against their Revolt being in possession of the best of their Substance A Twelve-month after Sir Jo. Owen a Colonel for the King that had gone out with a Regiment of Foot and returned after a year with a few of the shatter'd Remnant though he had been unfortunate against his Enemies would try his Valour upon his Friends and contrived how to recover his Debts and Damages with the Spoil of Conway-Castle slighting with the clack of his singers all sober Counsel That all North-Wales was concern'd to have their Wealth in the custody of so trusty a person as his Grace of York that their hearts were with their bag and baggage if he made a prey of it their whole Body would turn against him that nothing would prosper after it in the King's behalf that their Atlas in those parts the Archbishop had the custody under the Signet to remain quiet in it till his cost bestowed on it should be refunded to him which was not hitherto treated upon or offer'd that the Prince the General had corroborated his Majesty's pleasure therein and had commanded all Officers by Sea and Land to assist him in it What Conditions could be assured to any man by Royal Faith if these were broken A violent Man and a Furioso was deaf to all this and purchast the favour of Prince Rupert to be made under his Hand not equal to the King's Signet to be Commander of the Castle and by force he surprized it and entred it which in somewhat more than one year was taken from him by Colonel Milton who relieved the Archbishop and such as had Interest in it to carry away their Goods which remained All this fell into a hard Construction derogating much to the Archbishops credit and the infamy was not only hot when it was fresh but it cools not much to this time Though Love hath a soft hand to touch where it loves I will not so far defend the whole Process but I confess he was more earnest than advised in this unlucky action Camerarius penning the Life of Melanchthon casts in a few sweet words thus Out of my great opinion of him Quaedam fortè cariùs existimem quà m mereantur But I disdain to call bad good and darkness light Yet in justice I must patronize the noble Williams against Mr. Sanders Hist p. 889. in these Lines That he fortified his Garrison against the King and dissuaded the Country from contribution to the King Those were Times when he wrote to outface Truth and willing to listen to Slanders no wonder if many took the liberty and had the confidence to broach Fictions And it is a great advantage against the Truth when Lies and false Rumours have got the start to speak first chiefly when they have spread long Mensuraque ficti Crescit auditis semper novus addidit autor Ovid. Thus much I will undertake to inform all Readers with truth in the matter and satisfie the greatest part of many men with a clear Apology 203. He builds ill that lays not a sure Foundation therefore my Entrance shall be from the very words not a syllable varied wherein the Archbishop laid forth to his Majesty how he had suffered from Sir Jo. Owen which he sent to Oxford by Captain James Martin a faithful and undaunted Soldier and by his
his Heir Sir Griffith Williams had enough in Mannors and Moveables to pay it He loved to do things Praise-worthy Nulla est tanta humilitas quae dulcedine gloriae non capiatur Valer. lib. 8. cap. 13. Justice Charity Temperance tender Bowels of Compassion enchased all his Life and Carriage with wonderful gracefulness His Skill in the Tongues his Skill in the course of all Academical Arts in all History in all the parts of Divinity must needs be excellent for he had a piercing Wit a sound Judgment a strong Memory and with all these concurred indefatigable Industry Yet by the employment of a great Office but much more by the Iniquity of troublesome Suits Imprisonments fatal Wars and most of all by the embezelling of his Notes and Papers Posterity is little beholding to his Pen but it owes greatly to his good Works Et post mortem non opuscula sed opera pensanda Sidon lib. ep 8. ep 1. I will part with him now as Xenophon did with Socrates in his Apology for him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is to a word considering the Wisdom and Gallantry of the Man I cannot choose but remember him and when I remember him I cannot but praise him Se quisque ut vivit effert Manil. l. 2. But Praise be given to God for all his good Gists Amen FINIS THIS Manuscript was writ by the Reverend Author above Forty years since in a small white Letter it was printed in haste to prevent a surreptitious Copy and in the Absence of a Friend best acquainted with it whereby the Greek Quotations are often false accented besides other Mistakes in English which the Reader is desired to excuse and amend Praesul noster quidam laesae Ma t is insimulatus de quibusdam interrogatus noluit tamen scripto Commisis subscribere quia nescivit quomodo postea interpungerent Gatak Cinn Fol. Pag. 145. ERRATA In the First PART PAge 1. Line 34. read grudged p. 3. l. 1. r. Halicarnaseus l. 41. r. many p. 7. l. 33. r. Manilius p. 9. l. 15. r. mighty l. 38. for Arlis r. Aristotle p. 13. l. 24. r. History l. 62. r. Magdeburge p. 15. l. 18. r. in this Charity p. 16. l. 10. r. contrast p. 17. l. 30. r. Greek p. 18. l. 48. r. when p. 20. l. 54. r. do right p. 24. l. 5. r. Humecta l. 32. r. Experience l. 40. r. Palatinate p. 32. l. 38. r. Assassinates p. 34. l. 10. for sear r. seize p. 39. l. 56. r. Bugden p. 40. l. 60. r. to be rich p. 50. l. 26. r. ply p. 54. l. 10. dele come l. 57. r. Burr p. 56. l. 34. lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 58. l. 12. r. Landskip l. 62. r. Cato Utica p. 61. l. 41. r. actually p. 65. l. 45. r. Briars p. 72. l. 35. r. Marry p. 73. l. 21. r. those Lords p. 83. l. 4. for we r. ye l. 7. r. Septimius l. 33. r. Continementum p. 86. l. 25. for whom r. when p. 87. l. 45. r. Anastasius p. 94. l. 20. r. unnatural p. 97. l. 56. r. Patri p. 102. l. 26. r. ad Iter. p. 103. l. 18. for solus r. solius p. 111. l. 61. r. Placita p. 113. l. 43. r. Treaty p. 123. l. 56. r. from the Womb. p. 124. l. 56. r. Verdure p. 125. l. 26. r. in that order l. 44. r. Undertakers p. 126. l. 15. r. are not p. 128. l. r. design p. 132. l. 64. r. but an Eye p. 151. l. 13. r. onerated p. 153. l. 45. for World r. Work p. 159. l. 5. r. Majesty p. 160. l. 19. r. formosa l. 20. r. his Son l. 33. r. Deiposories p. 161. l. 55. r. thus much p. 167. l. 30. r. effected p. 168. l. 20. for ye r. yet p. 171. l. 60. for strong r. strange p. 175. l. 13. r. Herbert l. 47. r. not expected p. 177. l. 11. r. Petitio p. 186. l. 32. for him r. them p. 189. l. 7. r. every p. 191. l. 44. r. Want p 200. l. 11. for Gods r. Goods p. 210. l. 50. r. he had p. 211. l. 31. r. roosted p. 212. l. 22. r. Hassia p. 221. l. 20. r. auferri p. 224. l. 36. r. froward p. 226. l. 6. r. detested l. 31. r. 68. In the Second PART PAge 6. Line 10. réad the Stoick fate p. 13. l. 44. r. Fathers Heart p. 14. l. 41. r. could not p. 15. l. 53. r. a Admiral p. 22. l. 9. r. be long l. 55. r. Lordship p. 29. l. 50. lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 30. l. 24. r. Therefore I return p. 42. l. 17. r. he had left to be l. 62. r. thick a Wall p. 44. l. 34. r. Simler p. 46. l. ult r. Monstrare p. 47. l. 47. r. false in much bitter p. 61. l. 18. r. Stings of Wit p. 65. l. 24. r. appearing p. 68. l. 57. r. Saunderson p. 72. l. 7. r. to their p. 87. l. 25. r. Gharles V. l. 56. r. advancer p. 93. l. 20. r. Sub-Dean p. 107. l. 21. r. hebetantur l. 33. r. Deficilis p. 108. l. 17. dele not p. 112. l. 32. r. inexpiable p. 120. l. 52. r. Hatton p. 142. l. 35. r. pejor p. 161. l. 17. r. Longinus p. 162. l. 17. r. Pessimc p. 169. l. 24. for Sacred r. Civil p. 182. l. 10. dele not p. 187. l. 45. for est r. esse p. 193. l. 11. r. Paradox p. 203. l. 38. r. Saltus p. 216. l. 4. r. inchanted p. 219. r. Mitton p. 224. l. 37. r. by St. John and Dorislaus p. 227. l. ult r. Terras p. 228. l. 4. r. Tomos p. 229. l. 7. r. lautitiri