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A06935	Honour in his perfection or, A treatise in commendations of the vertues and renowned vertuous vndertakings of the illustrious and heroycall princes Henry Earle of Oxenford. Henry Earle of Southampton, Robert Earle of Essex, and the euer praise-worthy and much honoured Lord, Robert Bartue, Lord Willoughby, of Eresby: with a briefe cronology of theirs, and their auncestours actions. And to the eternall memory of all that follow them now, or will imitate them hereafter, especially those three noble instances, the Lord Wriouthesley, the Lord Delaware, and the Lord Montioy.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 17361; ESTC S112100	25,787	50

returne for England and so shooke hands with the warres for euer After him succeeded in his dignities his sonne Robert Earle of Essex now liuing whom he left vnto the world young and tender yet a Souldier from his cradle for his whole delight was in Martial Exercises of this I dare iudge because I professe it that when he was a very child both in yeares and strength few horsemen in the Kingdome the Gentleman that taught him excepted did ride better valianter or with more discretion and iudgement In the Vniuersitie he spent his first time where he got both admiration loue and Learning and indeed being the sonne of that Father the very naming of his Name was enough to raise an army to gaze vpon him cry out That Heauen would protect him From the Vniuersitie he betook himself to trauell wherin he spent many yeares for the bettering of his knowledge and some in beholding the warres in the Neatherlands being an obiect to which his heart was fixed as soone as occasion was offered he entred himselfe into the lyst of Souldiers like a Soulder humbling himselfe to the lowest degree considering his greatnesse that thereby he might make his Scale more noble and persit In the Palatinate he did both Summer and Winter held out all extremities and in despite of Famine Sword and Sicknesse returned home with Honour Now last of all new matter being offered he hath put himselfe on this present action Proceede in it braue Earle and prosper thou that art the Image of thy Fathers body be the imitatour of his actions and I doubt not but Heauen will powre vpon thee a ten times treble measure of his blest and Glorious Rewards go on I say couragiously and be the Heart of this warlike preparation the large heart the vnyeelding heart that thou maist inflame burne all things before thee till the Enemie be glad that thy Masters Children will receiue their Inheritance for so my hopes Prophesie and so I hope God himselfe hath spoken Lastly reade O Britaine to thine vnkindled spirits the Storie of the House of Willoughby a Storie that whosoeuer will turne ouer that great Volume shall finde it full of Honour full of wonder full of Vertue full of great actions for mine owne part I can but touch at the names the matter and Substance lies at large inrolled by a much better pen-man And first as fittest for this short discourse and omitting many that went before him I will begin with William Lord Willoughby in the daies of King Henry the eight who was a man of infinite courage and vertue of high thoughts deepe wisdome and discreete caryage hee commanded whilest he liued in all the Kings Warres went on euer with renowne and came off euer with glory insomuch that Henry the eight that potent King held him as one of the richest Iuels which adorne his Kingdome and thought no fauour too deare or pretious for such great deseruings but the best things on earth are euer subiect to Mortalitie for it pleased God when this braue Lord was in his greatest prosperitie of Fortune and the highest fauour with his Soueraigne to take him to his mercy and he died without any Issue male of his body and only left behind him a Daughter and heire called Katherine which was maryed to that great heroyicall Lord Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke so that the King seeing the name of Willoughby which he loued so dearely and had so dearely deserued at his Royall hands likely to be lost in this sweete Lady began to take it to his consideration and to make as it were a monument to preserue this great Name and to giue it still a quickning life in his remembrance hee called for a well-loued Kinsman of this Lord Willoughbies and created him in memorie of the other Lord Willoughby of Param But see the effect working of Prouidence after the death of the Duke of Suffolke this Lady Katherine his Duchesse maryed with Bar●ue by whom shee had a sonne borne beyond the Seas which she called Peregrine and was in her right Lord Willoughby of Eresby To tell the Storie of this great Duchesse life how worthily Religiously and bountifully shee liued here in England how malitiously cruelly and treacherously shee was hunted and pursued for her life ouer all Christendome by an whole Kennell of the Popes worst deuouring Woolues to tell the dangers shee escaped the magnanimitie shee vsed the extremities shee was put to to tell the snares that were laid to intrap her and the pretty sleights her sweetnesse vsed to escape them to see how busie the Deuill was to vndermine her and how strong God was to protect her would raise vp amazement euen in stones and make the Earth cry out O Dea certe After her succeeded Peregrine Lord Willoughby the myrror and myrackle of his time This man must needes bee a Souldier for hee was borne in the Warres nurst in the Warres brought vp in the Warres his whole life nothing but a Storie of the Wars and the last act of his life was playd in a Town of Garison Of this mans actions all the Neatherlands can report and especially Bergenupzone for in them where was any fury of Warre out of which hee brought not Triumph and the Duke of Parma himselfe wheresoeuer his Chronickle is read of the Neatherlands must bee contented if Truth bee witnesse to haue this Lord Willoughby triumphant against him France thou must likewise bee a Trumpet of this Noblemans Glory and Paris thou must bee an euidence too strong to bee refelled thou knowest hee blew vp thy Ports and battered downe thy Walls and had not the Kings mercy throwne cold water on his anger t is well knowne hee had wrapt thee vp in a bloudy mantell for exceeding great were his designes and very good both his successe and Fortune so that lawfully without arrogance he might haue assumed Coesars inscription which was Veni vidi vici for althings proued easie to his vndertakings Lastly when hee had performed all his great Mistresses commandements and brought peace to her Neighbours he then returned into England where in recompence of his great seruices she made him Gouernour of her warlike Towne of Berwicke and in that Gouernment with peace of contience and the loue of all sorts of People he died and was exceedingly lamented After him succeeded in his dignitie Robert Lord Willoughby his sonne now liuing who hitherto hath followed his Fathesr step for step to Honor put on his Armour almost as soone and had imployments been as frequent and abundant as in the daies of his Father doubtlesse he had ariued at a great part of his glories notwithstanding he did neither neglect nor loose time but tooke hold vpon all occasions neither did Peace or Ease cast any such mist about him but that our Royall King Iames his great Master found him worthy of imployment so that when his deare Brother the

the Earle of Southampton buckles on his Armour and after the Generall was chosen which was Robert Earle of Essex he is the first tenders his seruice he is instantly made Lieutenant Generall of the Horse prepares for the expedition and with all possible speed came into Ireland there he was a principall instrument in calming all the turmoiles and ceasing the seditions in Munster reducing that fruitfull and well peopled Prouince to their auncient and true obedience and making those which fauour and grace could not reclaime by force of Armes to lye humbly prostrate before him witnesse Mongarret Donna-spaniah the Souggan Oni-mac-Rori and a world of others which being the wickednest of men came and threw themselues at the feete of the Generall and only cryed out for the Queenes and his mercy Thus he also reduced the Country of 〈◊〉 and diuers other places and then returned But is here an end of his progresse in the warres questionlesse the whole world would haue so imagined for his deare and dread Soueraigne the euer memorable Elizabeth dying the next that succeeds is the incomparable King Iames he enters not with an Oliue Branch in his hand but with an whole Forrest of Oliues round about him for he brought not Peace to this Kingdome alone but almost to all the Christian Kingdomes in Europe he closed vp both ours and our neighbours Ianus Temple and writing Beati pacifici found both the worke and the Reward in his admirable proceedings here our great Earle stops but retires not hee keepes his first ground and the King like the Sunne which suruaies althings found hat he was fit for either the one or the other seruice Peace and Warre were to him but a couple of hand-maids and he knew how to employ either according to their Vertue hence he makes him a Priuie Counsellour of the State and in that seruice he spent the marrow and strength of his age Now at last when Mischiefe and Policie went about by delicate and inchanting poisons not only to stifle our Peace but to murther and confound all our louing neighbours which guard vs and that Charitie her selfe complained how our almes were much to penurious he who is one of the first which rises vp to this labour of amendment but our Southampton he whom although the priuiledge of white haires the testimonie of his former actions and the necessitie of his imployments in the present state might haue pleaded many vnrefellable excuses yet he is the sonne of Honour and with her he will liue and die in all occasions hence he embarks himself into this present action Go on then braue Earle and as thou art by yeares experience and the greatnesse of thy former places and commandments in the warres the eldest sonne of Honour in this Army so giue vnto these thy Companions examples of thy goodnesse shew them the true paths of Honour and be thou the Eies and Conduct to leade to the restitution of the lost Palatinate for therein consists my Prophesie After this O Britaine reade to thy growing spirits the euer memorable Storie of the Noble House of Essex euery small tittle of that glory is able to make a very earthy soule glorious how much more then a soule of any reasonable good composition thou needest not reade it in any lowd key for the whole World is but a Theater of their Renowne the Tongues of all people make but vp the Trumpet which speakes them and it is Eternitie it selfe which shall keepe them to euerlasting memorie Speake then first of the Noble Walter Earle of Essex I do not meane that in this Treatise thou shouldst speake of all his Noble actions for great Volumes are to little to containe them But like an Index or Table vnto greatnesse point out where those glories may be better discerned Let it suffice me to say hee was a man compounded of the foure Vertues as of foure Elements Honour Valour Bountie and Humilitie for the first he had it from his Birth and made an augmentation of it in his life for from Vicount he became an Earle the second could neuer be seperated from his Bloud and he exprest it in his profession for he was a Souldier the third was the foundation of his disposition for he could not indure to see merit weeping and the fourth was the Issue of al the others goodnesses for he could neuer indure to imagine his owne shadow a haires breadth greater then those that did walke hand in hand with him This Earle was by Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie made Lord Marshall of Ireland It was he that brought the great O-neale into subiectiō made the first euil Desmund put on the yoake of true obedience and reduced that barbarous Nation to their first rules of noble ciuility which when he had performed to the admiration of all men he then returned to Dublin and there dyed and was buried at Caermarden in Wales where hee was borne and there his memorie will liue for euer After him succeeded in his dignitie his deare sonne Robert surnamed the Great Earle of Essex a man of whom it behoueth euery man to be carefull how to write because his excellent parts were so great and the enuy which attends such excellency is so boundlesse that grow the Rush neuer so smoothe yet there will be a knot and let the speech be neuer so modest yet there will be too much or too little spoken Therefore I will only flye to my Mistresse Truth and vnder her protection giue a glaunce at some part of his Story This Earle was by his father left young vnto the World and therefore by his mother trained vp to the knowledge both of Armes and Letters and that with such a carefull yet Noble seueritie that the Vniuersity wherein he liued will and must confesse that not the porest Pentioner or House-scholler whatsoeuer kept his acts or disputations more duly freely and out of his owne knowledge and readings then this Earle did nor had the Vniuersitie at that time any wit more pretious then other being of his time to which he was not an oponent so excellent ripe was his Vnderstanding so delicate his deliuery of those things which hee vnderstood As soone as he left the Vniuersitie he was call'd for to the Court where his Soueraigne the wisest of all Soueraignes threw vpon him all possible Fauours and although for his youth and beauty he might like Pirocles haue made Basilius doat on his sweetnesse yet such was his caryage that he was able to haue giuen Ornament to any Counsell Chamber In this first flourishing time of his youth Spaine tyranizing too hardly vpon our best Neighbours the Neatherlands the euer memorable and renouned Queene Elizabeth takes them to her protection and with a Royall Army vnder the conduct of Robert Earle of Leicester preuents those Tempests which else might fall vpon them In this Armie Robert Earle of Essex is made Lieutenant Generall of the Horse