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A07625	The testament of William Bel. Gentleman Left written in his owne hand. Sett out above 33. yeares after his death. With annotations at the end, and sentences, out of the H. Scripture, fathers, &c. By his sonne Francis Bel, of the Order of Freers Minors, definitor of the province of England: guardian of S. Bonaventures colledge in Dovvay: and professor of the sacred Hebrevv tongue, in the same. Electo meo fœdus excidi	Bell, William, d. 1598.; Bell, James, d. 1643.	1632 (1632)	STC 1802; ESTC S113723	71,054	197

his spiritu●ll purpose tha h confide not in his owne possibilitie but in the miseration of our Lord to persever in the labour of his conflict vndertaken 1. Thess 5.24 He is faithfull that hath called you who also will doe it Esai 40.31 They that hope in our Lord shall change their strength they shall assume wings like Eagles they sh●ll runne and not labour they shall walke and not faint Pag. 24. lin 6. AFFECTION OF WIFE OR CHILDREN Luc. 14.26 If any one come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters and moreover his owne soule he can not be my disciple Idem Matth. 10.37 Pag. 25. § 11. By COVNTRIE FARRE DIVIDED Shee being of Acton by Long Melforde in the countie of Southfolke TRVE GENEROSITIE Seneca lib. de moribus The nobilitie of the mind is the generositie of the sense The nobilitie of bodie a generous minde NOT IGNOBLE Evill nobilitie it is that by pride maketh a man ignoble before God Aug. serm 127. de tempore Summa ingenuitas ista est in qua servitus Christi comprobatur Off. Agath 5. Feb. Pag. 25. § 12. lin 6. EDWARD THE FIRST This was the sonne of Henry the third King of England and beganne his raigne the 16. of November 1272. the same day that his father dyed Pag. 26. § 13. lin 8. lin 11. HENRIE THE 8. By the death of his father King Henrie the 7. began to raigne the 22. of Aprill 1509. Of one Arthur Plantagenet there is mention in Stovv at the fourth yeare of this King anno 1513. Pag. 27. § 14. FORCED TO GIVE OVER In suites of Law it is not enough to haue a iust cause or good title but a man must haue a good head vnderstanding and insight in the lawes abilitie and strength of body to follow the suite by ones selfe and aboue all other things a good purse that will never be drawne drie Quam praestat pro Deo renuntiasse mundo Matt. ● 40 Auferenti tunicam dimisisse pallium Pag. 28. § 15. GOD FORGIVE THEM Pater dimitte illis He prayeth for his enemies according to that Matth. 5.44 Loue your enemies wish well to those that curse you doe good to those that hate yee and pray for those that persecute and reproach yee Idem Luc. 6.28 ad Rom. 12.14 Blessed are they that suffer persecution for iustice because theirs is the Kingdome of heaven You are blessed when they shall curse you and shall persecute yee and speake all evill against yee for me lying against the truth Matth. 5.10 Idem Luc. 6.22 If sinning and beaten yee suffer what glorie is that but if doing well yee sustaine patiently this is grace with God 1. Pet. 2.20 3.14 4.14 Pag. 29. lin 20. I LEAVE IN MODESTIE TO SPEAKE OF If I presume to speake a little I hope I shall not sin against modestie ● Cor. 12.6 Veritatem enim dicam First for his Eloquence he was esteemed where he was knowne for an other Cicero and so much grace was in his speeche as therewith he was able presently to appease whatsoever tumult or commotion risen among the people In his yonger yeares when Queene Elizabeth came in progresse to Worcester he made there an oration before her at the request of the citie for which they gaue him 20. pounds The Queene commanded also to giue him a reward but Sir Robert Dudley making answere Madame he is a Papist he Lost that reward Alwaies going in circuit with the Iudges of Worcestershiere he employed the spare time he had in visiting the prisons speaking with every of the prisoners in particular exhorting them and giving them counsell how to answere in their owne causes the best way for their good and giving them encouragement Those that by their cause he saw would receiue sentence of death he would both before and after dispose to die in the most Christian māner and if he saw any good to be done and that a Priest were to be had without imminent danger they should not want him according to his abilitie he would also releeue them with his worldly goods For many yeares after his death if any thing were done in the commonwealth against iustice in commutation or distribution no other voice was heard among the people then this alone things were not thus when M. r Bel was living nor would not be if now he lived Briefly I may iustly returne vpon him all those commendations which he giveth Sir Iohn Throkmarton in the § 16. Pag. 29. For he had in himselfe whatsoever he required in his children or commended in his friends Pag. 31. § 17. lin 5. TOWARDS GOD SO RELIGIOVS Rightly doth he call her Religious that did not cōtent herselfe with exercise of ordinarie perfection but aspired to the proper exercises of religious professiō delighting in the abnegation of her selfe and corporall austerities and in the same instructing her children being so much given to prayer as besides the office of our B. Lady of the Dead the Graduall and Penitentiall Psalmes Hymnes Litanies Office of the holy Ghost and H. Crosse prayers of the Manuall which were her daily exercise in the time of lent she would never sleepe before shee had read over the whole Passion of our Saviour according to one of the 4. Evangelists in Latin which she vnderstood well Living many yeares a widow with all the care of a great familie Shee meditated notwitstanding continually the Law of God reading also with licence of her ghostly father the new Testament with the Rhemes notes Sir Thomas Mores workes and other bookes of Controversies verie much by which shee often defended the Catholike faith against the hereticall Ministers that would come to dissuade her from it but found her ever immoveable as a Rock Ecclesiastic 26. Everlasting foundations vpon a solid rocke the Commands of God in the heart of a holy woman Whose prayse in holy Scripture is manifold Prouerb 11.16 A gracious woman shall get glorie 12.4 A woman of vertue is a crowne to her housband 14.1 A wise woman buildeth vp her house and 31.30 The woman that feareth God shall be praysed 18.22 He that hath found a good wife hath found a great good and shall get good will of our Lord. Ecclesiastic 25.11 Blessed is he that dwelleth with a prudent woman 26.1 Blessed is the man of a good woman and double is the number of his dayes The gift of God is a woman silent and prudent and no change is to be given for a well instructed soule 16. Grace aboue Grace is a modest faithfull woman and no weight is worth her continent soule The Sunne rising in the highest of Our Lord and the beautie of a good woman in the ornament of her house 7.26 The woman that honoreth her owne man shal appeare wise before all Depart not from a wise good womā for her grace is aboue gold 25.1 Beautifull before God and before men The concord

THE TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM BEL. GENTLEMAN ●EFT WRITTEN IN HIS OWNE HAND SETT OVT ABOVE 33. YEARES AFTER HIS DEATH With annotations at the end and Sentences out of the H. Scripture Fathers c. By his sonne FRANCIS BEL of the Order of Freers Minors Definitor of the Province of England Guardian of S. BONAVENTVRES Colledge in Dovvay and Professor of the sacred Hebrevv tongue in the same Electo meo foedus excidi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vulgat Psalm 88. Disposui testamentum electis meis Permissu Superiorum AT DOWAY ● BALTH●●●● 〈…〉 TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MR. EDWARD SHELDON of Beoley c. SIR Anciently when after the rihgt of nature the earth was Cōmon and all the gooddes therof ●hat a man Could say to his neighbour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hast thou not all the earth before thee Genes 13.9 separate thy selfe from mee if thou go to the lef● hand I will keep the right i● thou go to the Right hand ● will howld the left Men gau● in theyr testaments to they● children only coelestiall doctrines that to whom they had given being they migh● also giue well-being Psalm 77 By thee● meanes wee haue heard an● knowne so manie things declared to vs by our fathers which in the next generatio● were not hid from they● children declaring the prayses of our Lord his virtues and mervailes done by him ●hat reised vp testimonie in ●acob and gaue a lawe to ●sraël how manie things did hee commande our fathers ●o make knowne to their ●onnes to the end that the ●ext generatiō might know ●hem that the children that ●hould arise and bee borne of ●hem might tell them againe ●o theyr children and all ●hat they might sett theyr ●ope in God not forget his ●orckes and search out his ●ommands Moyses Deut. 32. Re●ember the dayes of oulde thincke vpon everie severall generation aske thy father hee will declare thy elders and they will tell thee Men gaue I say from hand to hand the lawe of God his feare loue with benediction to the keepers malediction to the breakers of it Commending vertue condemning vice foretelling payne and glorie the reward● of both Epist Iud. ca. 1.14 Such testament the seaventh man from Adam Gen. 48 49. Enoch made Such wa● the Patriarch Iacobs testament disposed to his 12. sonnes such also those of thes● 12. Patriarches themselves A most ancient Hebrev booke called the testamēt of the 12. Patriarchs But of that new everlasting testament of IESVS-CHRIST the sonne of God what shall I say therin is all knowledge of the heavenly kingdome the aeternall beatitude and foelicitie of man After this incomparable Testament in which are all the treasures of the riches and wisedome of God I may bring in that godly testamēt of my holy Father S. Francis which after he was signed with the sacred stigmats of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST full with fervour and the holy ghost neer the end of his life he left to vs his children that more sincerely and catholickly we might keep his Evangelicall rule Divers pious testaments haue been by sundrie devout persons at severall times ordained And not among the last doe I accoumpt this testament of my father a man knowne and esteemed of your worship no less then of M. r Raphe your father of happie memorie It hath been kept in his owne manuscript thees 44. yeares and more By divine providence it hath at last come to my hands who hauing been aboue 18. yeares out of my countrie in forraine lands neither sought for nor thought of anie such thing although seing it now I remember that in my younger yeares I haue seen it before when a graue father of our seraphicall order venerable for his well spent yeares from his infancie till 67. so ●owld he is at this day and no ●ess for his profownde iudgement and eloquence both in ●peach and style lighting ●pon it sent it out of England to mee with no small commendations therof His censure animated me to put it in print And for a patrone to whom I might dedicate it I had not farre to seeke your Constant Christianitie and professing of the Catholike Religion who like the great Patriarch Abraham to follow God haue gone out of land and Countrie and fathers house and friends and kinred and familiars or like Saint Peeter out of all doth Chalenge so christianlike a testament especially from mee who as appeareth in the 34. § of it am severely charged to bee serviceable towards you and yours That service together with my selfe I offer here to your worship for vs all that haue the charge there layde vpon vs that we be not chalenged with the vile vice of ingratitude or breach of the dead mannes will my selfe haue had part of my education frō M. r Frācis Daniel my vncle of whom mention is made in the 32. § who now liveth not on earth Of the Throckmartōs of Coughton or Fekenhā mentioned in the 33. § I haue yet no knowledge nor of Sir Ihon Littletons house spoken of in the end of the 34. § I may liue to doe them service your selfe only remaines the man that most extended his godnes towards vs in accomplishing this wil in bringing vp my brother Edmund together with your owne sonnes to learning to musicke to the vniversitie of Oxforde as was required your sister also the Religious Ladie Russell gaue educatiō successiuely to two of my sisters Margarit Dorothe Receiue therfore from me this last will of my father as my first will to serue you which with my life shall last and bee my last so shall I fulfill that iterated precept of the holy ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proverb 1.8 hear o my sonne the instruction of thy father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proverb 6.20 keep o my sonne the precept of thy father God praeserue your worship long to his highest glorie the good of our familie and chiefly of our seraphicall order to which you haue alwaies shewed a charitable affectiō and finally chosen in our Convent at Namur Abrahams double caue for buriall to your happilie decessed wife and you From our celle● in S. Bonaventures Colledge in Doway this 7. of Ianuarie 1632. Your worships obliged Br. FRANCIS BEL● ●N THE NAME of God Amen THE twentith day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fowerscore and seaven and in the nine and twentith year of the reigne of our sove●igne Ladie Elizabeth I Williā Bell alias ●ellne of Temple-Broughton in the Countie of Wigorne Gentleman being 〈◊〉 good health of bodie of soūd perfe●● memorie our Lord be bless●d thank● therfore calling to my remembrance th●● all fleshe is grasse according to the sayi●● of the Prophet Esaia and borne to di● and that in this decaying age of the wo●● and triumphing time of sinne besides t●● course of nature manie new and dang●rouse diseases doe arise manie malitio●● complottes and practises of