to be re-examin'd after Issue joyn'd in case they recover'd A particular Charge being laid before you when the House of Commons is a Party and the Charge of so high a nature as Treason I shall not advise this Honourable House to use any Chiquancery or Pettisoggery with this great Representation of the Kingdom but admit them forthwith to examine their own Members yet with this Caution To hew the Names two days before they be produced to the Sollicitor of the Defendant that he may have notice of the persons But the House press for Secrecy in the Examination Well they are safe enough while they are in the Lord's hands who have Urim and Thummim perfect Knowledge and perfect Integrity and therefore nothing can be suspected Are not they surer than other Officers In ordinary Commissions out of Star-Chamber my Lord Ellsmore would not allow that any Clerks should be used to prevent Futility and Evaporation saying That the best Commissioner in England was not too good to be the King's Clerk Secondly I am as'kt about the Examination of the Peers and the Assistants of this House upon Oath There is no question to be made about the Assistants they are no Peers of this Kingdom but whether Peers may be produced as Witnesses and testifie upon Oath A question not sit to be now handled and impossible to be resolved out of the Rolls of the Parliament because the Peers give their Testimony both in this Court and others either way And I am confident a Peers Averment against his Fellow Peer cannot be refused either way especially in case of Treason For a Peer judgeth his Peer worthy of Death upon his Honour and therefore may witness against him upon his Honour In this Court and almost in this Case in Alze Pierce her Case 1 Rich. 2. Num. 21. Lord Roger Beauchamp swears upon the Holy Evangelists The Lord of Lancaster King of Castile and Leon is examin'd but not sworn Nay both ways have been declar'd in this House to be all one Your Lordships declaring that you did not bound limit or terminate your Assertion with your Honour but mount it and relate it up unto God that gave you your Honour and yielded your selves perjur'd if you falsisied in swearing upon Honour which is just the very same as if you sware upon the Holy Evangelists To swear upon Honour and rest there were Idolatry But to swear upon Honour with a Report and Relation to God who bestowed it upon your Lordships as a special Favour and Grace is as Christian an Oath as any in the World For new Scruples in the manner as to touch the Book to look on the Book to hold up a Finger or Hand to Heaven are Ceremonies which the House of Commons little regards but leaves them to us And the Lord of Strafford is so wise that he will never question the Honour of his Peers And why should we trouble our selves about the circumstance but leave each Lord called to testisie to call God as a Witness to his Assertion in which of these two manners it shall please his Lordship Not the Book not the Honour but the Invocation of God to bear witness to the Assertion makes the Oath 144. I am put to it by your Lordships to speak in the third place about the examination of Privy Councillors Here needs no distinction between Peers and Assistants This is part of a Privy Councillor's Oath That he shall keep secret all matters committed and revealed to him or that shall be treated of in Council 2. If any Treaty touch his fellow-Councillor he shall not reveal it unto him till the King or Council shall require it I collect now that matters of Fact he may reveal without violation of his Oath and that he may be examin'd of matters revealed unto him that were treated of in Council if they were not treated of in Council when he was present That a Privy-Councillor for all his Oath may be examin'd concerning Words Advices or Opinions of another Privy-Councillor otherwise given than in Council That Bed-chamber and Gallery Discourse is nothing to the Council-Table Private Entertainers of the King when the Counsellors attend at the Door are not to pass for Counsellors Ear-wiggs and Whisperers are no Counsellors but detracters from Counsellors If they advise the Destruction of the King the State or the Laws of the Realm there is nothing in the Oath to protect such an Ear-worm but he may be appeached For matters which touch another fellow-Councillor or matters committed otherwise to him or which shall be treated of in Council these are not to be concealed from all forts of men but from private men only not from the King not from the Council both those are in the Oath nor from the Parliament That Privy-Councillots may be examin'd by Command of the Parliament for things treated in Council 2. for things revealed unto them secretly from the King in his Bed-chamber 3. and especially for ear-wigging and treating with the King in private after things already settled in Council The Case of Alze Pierce 1 Rich. II. num 41. clears all these Doubts And it is the Case also of a Deputy of Ireland William of Windsor Lord-Deputy misbehaved himself in Ireland the Council directs Sir Nicholas Dagworth to go thither and to enquire into his Actions Windsor makes means to Alze Pierce to keep off this man under pretence of Enmity betwixt them This Shunamite that lay in David's Bosom prevails with the King to stay Sir N. Dagworth the Council-Order notwithstanding The Lords in Parliament question her for this act as having drawn with it the Ruin of the State in Ireland She pleads not guilty Issue is joyned The Lords produce inter alios John Duke of Lancaster upon his Honor and Roger Beauchamp Lord Chamberlain upon the Evangelists Alze produceth of her part the Steward and Comptroller of the Houshold All these four were Privy-Counsellors they depose all of them nothing else but matters treated of in Council and opposed by Alze Pierce treating with the King out of Council So that if this Record be true this Case is cleared Privy-Councillors may not be forced by ordinary Courts of Justice to reveal things treated of in Council but may be produced upon Oath and Honour to reveal such Secrets by the King the Council or the Parliament especially in detestation of Statewhisperers and Ear-wiggs yea though they had taken no Oath at all Yet God forbid a Privy-Counsellor should witness against his Fellow for publickly venting the freedom of his Judgment at the Board who is bound to advise faithfully not wisely as I do here this day Should any man be accused for an Error of Judgment O God defend peradventure my Error hath set all the rest of the Council straight Errores antiquorum venerari oportet si illi non errassent minùs ipse providissem otherwise you would take away all Freedom of Debates nay almost of very Thoughts If I knew any man
the body v. 20. but now are they many Members yet but one Body v. 21. And the eye cannot say unto the hand I have no need of thee nor again the head unto the feet I have no need of you So far our brave Speaker and all this is exscribed faithfully out of his own Copy Let another take his room and let him that is wisest perform it better The Success was that he laid the Bill asleep for five months for I confess that by over-sight I have not kept the just order of time for it should have been referred to the middle of May before the King went into Scotland and was in a trance by the charm of this Eloquence till November after which shews how like he was to Athanasius Nazian in Orat. pro codem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athanasius was an Adamant not to be broken with violent blows and a Load-stone to draw them to him that were of a contrary Opinion Now mark the Partiality upon which the Speaker much insisted That the Lords would grant Interest to noble Persons in Holy Orders to act in Secular Affairs but to none beside As Grotius fits it with a passage Annal. p. 5. Castellani quantumcunque usurpent ipsi libertatem in aliis non serunt The Castilians are great encroachers upon liberty for themselves but will not tollerate it in any beside To the main Cause I yield that that was easie to be defended on the Clergies part as learned Saravia shews de Christian Obed. p. 169. not only from Moses's Law but from the Custom general of the most orderly among the Heathen Gaulish Druids Persian Magi Egyptian Heirophants and so forth by induction from all places to make it amount even to a natural Law that Priests were no where excluded from honourable Imployments in Secular Affairs I will appose two Quotations for it and very remarkable The first from the Judgment of the Scottish Presbytery R. Spotswood Hist p. 299. 449. That they contended for that Priviledge that some Ministers should give Voice in Parliament in the behalf of the Church And some to assist the King in Parliament in Council and out of Council Doth the Wind blow so from the North The other taken from Ludo. Molin Paraen c 4. And he no well-willer to our Hierarchy in that Book least of all to their Consistories Deus Pastori Evangelico non detrahit jus potestatem Magistraturae nec magistratum prohibet ministerio si ad utrumque factus comparatus est But this Bill that went no further when it was first set on foot in May began to enlarge its strides and mend its Pace in the end of Autumn Either because this fiery Parliament saw that Confusion begun must be carried on with acting greater or because the King was suspected that he tamper'd with the Scots and they framed an Injury from his Neglect to leave them so long or how it was that their thoughts were whiâ—'d about with the Wheel of swift Perswasions themselves knew best but their Spleen began to shew it self with stronger fits than ever against the Clergy who were never safe so long as the Bill we have heard of was not cancell'd For the Spanish Proverb tells us That Apple is in great danger that sticks upon the prickles of an Hedge-hogg But if the Sum of the Bill had been right cast the now most noble Marquess of Dorchester and more noble because most learned told his Peers May 21. Which of your Lordships can say he shall continue a Member of this House when at one blow six and twenty are cut off This was sooth nay Sooth-saying and Prophesying but it was not attended 167. When all ways had been tried to pass this Bill of Dishonour upon the Clergy chiefly the Bishops and it hung in the House of the Lords the event methinks is like that which we read I Kings 22. v. 21. There came forth a Spirit and stood before the Lord and said I will perswade them And the Lord said Wherewith And he said I will go forth and I will be a Spirit of clamour and tumult in the mouth of all the People And the Lord said Thou shalt perswade them and prevail also Go forth and do so There had been an unruly and obsteperous concourse of the People in the Earl of Strafford's Case But a Sedition broke forth about Christmas that was ten times more mad Ludum jocumque dices fuisse illum alterum prout hujus rabies quae dabit Terent. Eunuch which took heat upon this occasion The King came to the House of Commons to demand five of their Members to Justice upon impeachment of Treason His Majesty it seems was too forward to threaten such persons with the Sword of Justice when he wanted the Buckler of Safety How far those five were guilty I have nothing to say because plain Force would not let them come to a Tryal But if they were innocent why did they not suffer their Practices to see the Light It had been more to their Honour to be cleared by the Law than to be protected against the Law And that Cause must needs be suspected which could not put on a good outside I am sure the King suffer'd extreamly for their sakes All Sectaries and desperate Varlets in City and Suburbs flock'd by thousands to the Parliament Diogenes was ask'd What was to be seen at the Olympick Sports where he had been Says he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laert. in Vit. Much People but few Men. But here were no Men but all Beasts who promised one another Impunity by their full body of Rebels and where there is no fear of Revenge there is little Conscience of Offence Quicquid multis peccatur inultum est Lucan The Rake-hells were chaffed to so high a degree of Acrimony that they pressed through the Court-gates and their Tongues were so lavish that they talk'd Treason so loud that the King and Queen did hear them Let the five Members be as honest as they would make them I am certain these were Traytors that begirt the King's House where his Person was with Hostility by Land and Water He that speaks of them without detestation allows them and makes way for the like Sometimes they called out for Religion sometimes for Justice Ex isto ore religionis verbum excidere aut clabi potest as Tully of Clodius pro Dom. Was the sacred term of Religion sit to come out of their Mouths Did it become them to speak of Justice Sarah cried out to Abraham The Lord judge between me and thee when her self was in the fault Gen. 16.5 Every Tinker and Tapster call'd for Justice and would let the King have none who is the Fountain of it What did the great Parliament in the mean while Give Freedom to their Rage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Friends in their ragged rows were too many to be childden they were more afraid of them than of the
done out of a narrow Revenue Salmasius O what a Miracle of Judgment and Learning wrote bountifully and liv'd bountifully as I have heard These are his words Lib. de Usur p. 392. Quomodo liberalis esse potest qui nihil plus acquireret quà m quod sibi ad victum necessarium sufficere queat They that talk of possessing no more then to content Nature must live with such as know no other People but themselves else it is impossible but they will depart from that Primitive Simplicity And truly I have known but few perhaps none that would not be content to have had all the Chaplain's Portion or more if they had liv'd in as good a way of getting I do not excuse him therefore it need not that he got sufficient Wealth and bestow'd it Charitably and Honourably as will be manifested Whither it be Tully or Panaetius that says it or both it is well said as I learnt it in my Lessons of Puerility Lib. 1. de Off. Neque rei familiaris amplificatio vituperanda est nemine nocens sed fugienda semper injuria Riches that are augmented out of Niggardice or by Cheating Extortion or doing unworthy Offices carry their Curse along with them those that are well gotten are the Blessing of God The Adjection of Wealth then was not to be refus'd by one that serv'd not such an Idol but made it serve him for worthy Purposes Neither did his franc and generous Nature esteem such Things to be the Recompence of five years Service but this rather to be brought up at the Feet of the most prudent Counsellor that lived in the King's Service and that he got his Favour so early and held it so strongly till Death which came on apace An. 1616. in October this aged Patriarch began to languish and droop Therefore to recreate him and to put an after-spring into his decaying Spirits the Prince with due Solemnity being created Prince of Wales Nov 4. the Lord Chancellor was created Viscount Brackley on the 7th of the same This Honour was a Token that the King held him Precious yet it work'd not inward Who did ever see that the Sand in an Hour-Glass did run the flower because the Case in which it was put was guilded For all this Viscountship his Feebleness was more and more sensible the Eyes that look'd out of the Windows were darkned and he grew thick of Hearing From thence that is about January he delighted not in any Talk unless his Chaplain spoke to him All his Business with his Great and Royal Master the King he sent by him to be deliver'd with Trust and Prudence Upon which Messages the King took great notice that the Chaplain was Principled by his Master to be a Statesman and a Pillar of the Kingdom And even hard upon the day of his Death which was Mart. 15. the Chancellor call'd him to him and told him If he wanted Money he would leave him such a Legacy in his Will as should furnish him to begin the World like a Gentleman Sir says the Chaplain I kiss your hands you have fill'd my Cup full I am far from Want unless it be of your Lordships Directions how to live in the World if I survive you Well says the Chancellor I know you are an expert Workman take these Tools to work with they are the best I have And he gave him some Books and Papers written all with his own hand These were as Valuable as the Sibylline Prophesies They were that old Sage's Collections for the well ordering the High Court of Parliament the Court of Chancery the Star-Chamber and the Council-Board An inestimable Gift being made over to the true Heir Apparent of his Wisdom Let every one wear the Garland he deserves For my part I attribute so much to the Lord Egerton that I believe the Master's Papers were the Marrow of Mr. Williams his Prudence and subtle Judgment in all his Negotiations These Notes I have seen but are lost as it is to be feared in unlucky and devouring Times So died that Peerless Senator the Mirror of a Lord Chancellor having left that Blessing to his Chaplain and dear Servant that bewailed him long after with the mourning of a Dove and attended his Body to Cheshire and said the Office of Burial over him in a Chapel where he was entomb'd with his Ancestors Whose surviving Name a Grave cannot cover and a Tomb is too little to preserve it You may measure him in much by these two Spans Queen Elizabeth says Mr. Cambden was a Lady that never Chose amiss in the Preferment of an Officer when she was left to her own Judgment She made him her Solicitor Attorney-General Master of the Rolls and Lord-Keeper She tried him in every Place of Trust the former meriting the latter till he possess'd the highest King James did more not because he gave him the splendid Name of Lord-Chancellor or enobled him with the Titles of a Baron and a Viscount but because in the open Court of Star-Chamber he bless'd him with his Prayers and the Speech wherein he made the Prayer is Printed with his Works That as he had long held that Place so God would continue him longer in it To know him altogether I will borrow the Character of Aemilianus and engrave it into the green Saphir of his Memory which will ever keep green Qui nihil in vitâ nisi laudandum aut fecit aut dixit aut sensit 38. While the Obsequies for the Entertainment of this deceased Lord were preparing at London the Successor unto the Office of the great Seal was Sir Francis Bacon very Learned in the judgment of all European Scholars especially best known at home that his Soul was a Cabinet replenish'd with the greatest Jewels of Wit and in all our Kingdom none did ever set them forth with purer Language He hearing that Mr. Williams had chested up his Books and had furnish'd himself every way for an House-keeper to remove to his Cure of Walgrave he made him an offer of great Civility to continue with him in that place wherein he had serv'd the Lord Egerton which he declined but with so graceful a compliment that they parted great Friends and Sir Francis willing to mark him with some cognizance of his Love of his own accord made him Justice of Peace and of the Quorum in the County of Northampton an Office fitter for none than a Scholar and a Gentleman Yet he could hot leave London so God had provided without a calling into a new Service but it was in Caesars houshold His faithful and fast Friend Dr. James Montagu now Bishop of Winton sent for him and brought him to the King who received him with consolatory Words and extraordinary Grace and commanded he should be Sworn his Chaplain forthwith whereupon he Attended at the Court yearly in the Month of February appointed him also to wait on him in his great Northern progress into Scotland now hard at hand to begin in
Vows on them and their Posterity These were the Deans Instructions which the Lord Marquess received with as much Thankfulness as he could express and requited his Adviser with this Complement that he would use no other Counsellor hereafter to pluck him out of his plunges for he had delivered him from Fear and Folly and had Restor'd him both to a light Heart and a safe Conscience To the King they go together forthwith with these Notes of honest Settlement whom they found accompanied in his Chamber with the Prince and in serious Discourse together upon the same perplexities Buckingham craves leave That the Dean might be heard upon those particulars which he had brought in Writing which the King Mark'd with Patience and Pleasure And whatsoever seem'd contentious or doubtful to the King 's piercing Wit the Dean improved it to the greater liking by the Solidity of his Answers Whereupon the King resolv'd to keep close to every Syllable of those Directions Sir Edward Villiars was sent abroad and return'd not till September following Michel and Mompesson received their censure with a Salvo that Mompesson's Lady not guilty of his Crimes should be preserv'd in her Honour And before the Month of March expir'd Thirty seven Monopolies with other sharking Prouleries were decry'd in one Proclamation which return'd a Thousand praises and Ten Thousand good prayers upon the Sovereign Out of this Bud the Deans Advancement very shortly spread out into a blown Flower For the King upon this Tryal of his Wisdom either call'd him to him or call'd for his Judgment in Writing in all that he deliberated to Act or permit in this Session of Parliament in his most private and closest consultations The more he founded his Judgment the deeper it appear'd so that his Worth was Valued at no less than to be taken nearer to be a Counsellor upon all Occasions The Parliament wearied with long sittings and great pains was content against the Feast of Easter to take Relaxation and was Prorogued from the 27 of March to the 18 of April The Marquess had an Eye in it upon the Lord Chancellor to try if time would mitigate the displeasure which in both Houses was strong against him But the leisure of three Weeks multiplied a pile of New Suggestions against him and nothing was presaged more certain than his downfal which came to Ripeness on the third of May. On that day the Patent of his Office with the Great Seal was taken from him which Seal was deliver'd to Four Commissioners the Lord Treasurer Mountagu Duke of Lenox Lord Steward of the King's Houshold William Earl of Pembroke Lord Chamberlain to the King and Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surry with whom it rested till the 10th of July following In the mean time Sir James Leigh Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench was Commissioned to be Speaker in the Upper House and Sir Julius Caesar Master of the Rolls was Authorized with certain Judges in equal power with him to hear dispatch and decree all Causes in the Court of Chancery 62 The Competitors for the Office of the Great Seal were many Sir James Leigh before mention'd a Widower and upon Marriage with a Lady of the Buckingham Family Sir Henry Hobart Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Chancellor to the Prince a Step to the Higher Chancellorship and as fit as any man for his Learning and Integrity which of these it was uncertain but one of these was expected And verily a fitter Choice could not be made than out of the pre-eminent Professors of the Common Laws but that all Kings affect to do somewhat which is extraordinary to shew the liberty of their power The Earl of Arundel was thought upon a Master of Reason and of a great Fortune For it was remembred upon the Death of Lord Chancellor Bromly anno 1587 That Queen Elizabeth designed a Peer of the Realm for his Successor Edward Earl of Rutland whose Merit for such a place is favour'd by Mr. Cambden because he was Juris scientiâ omni politiori literaturâ ornatissimus and if his Death much bewailed had not prevented the Great Seal had been born before him But the likeliest to get up and I may say he had his Foot in the Stirrup was Sir Lionel Cranfield Married in the kindred that brought Dignity to their Husbands a man of no vulgar head-piece yet scarce sprinkled with the Latin Tongue He was then Master of the Court of Wards and did speak to the Causes that were brought before him quaintly and evenly There seemed to be no Let to put him in Possession of the great vacant Office but that the Lord Marquess set on by the King was upon enquiry how profitable in a just way it might be to the Dignitary and whether certain Branches of Emolument were natural to it which by the endeavour of no small ones were near to Lopping Sir Lionel besought the Marquess to be sudden and to Advise upon those things with the Dean of Westminster a found man and a ready who did not wont to clap the Shackles of delay upon a business He being spoken to to draw up in Writing what he thought of those Cases return'd an Answer speedily on the Tenth of May with the best advantage he could foresee to the promotion of the Master of the Wards Yet it fell out cross unto him that the Dean woing for another utterly beyond expectation sped for himself The Paper which he sent to the Marquess hath his own Words as they follow My most Noble Lord ALthó the more I Examine my self the more unable I am made to my own Judgment to wade through any part of that great Employment which your Honour vouchsafed to confer with me about yet because I was bred under the place and that I am credibly inform'd my True and Noble Friend the Master of the Wards is willing to accept it and if it be so I hope your Lordship will incline that way I do crave leave to acquaint your Honour by way of prevention with secret underminings which will utterly overthrow all that Office and make it beggerly and contemptible The lawful Revenue of that Office stands thus or not much above at any time In Fines certain 1300 l. per annum or thereabout In Fines Casual 1250 l. or thereabout In greater Writs 140 l. for impost of Wine 100 l. in all 2790. and these are all the true means of that great Office Now I am credibly inform'd that the Lord Treasurer begins to Entitle the King to to the casual Fines and the greater Writs which is a full Moiety of the profits of the place not so much to Enrich the King as to draw Grist to his own Mill and to wind from the Chancellor the donation of the Cursitors places The preventing the Lord Treasurers in these Cases made Queen Elizabeth ever Resolve suddenly upon the disposing of the Great Seal Likewise they are very busie in the House of Commons and I saw a Bill which
their Generation Sir J. Davies Sir Ron. Crâ—w Sir T. Coventry Sir R. Hâ—ath Sir J. Walter Serjeant Fâ—nch Serjeant Richardson Serjeant Astly Sir Hâ—n Finch Mr. T. Crew Mr. W. Nâ—â— Mr. A. Pâ—nâ— Mr. J. Glanvil Mr. J. Finch Mr. E. Littleton Mr. D. Jenkyn Mr. J. Baâ—kes Mr. E. Hâ—rbâ—rt Mr. T. Gardner Mr. T. Hâ—dly Mr. Egr. Thin Mr. R. Mason The Chief among them that did deserve to Fight next the Standard my Memory perhaps is not Trusty enough after the space of 30 years to remember all those Worthies are fill'd in the Margent like a Row of Cedars and are set down in those Titles which they carried then which most of them by their Deserts did far out-grow But these contributed all they could to his Credit with as much Observance with as great Reverence with as full Applause and Praise as could be required from ingenious Gentlemen towards one that was a Stranger to their Studies whose acceptance no doubt was a Whetstone to his Industry In the first Term that he came abroad into Westminster-Hall a Parliament sate in it's second Session wherein by Command from the King he spake to both Houses Of which Speech thus my Lord of Buckingham in a Letter to him dated Novemb. 24. I know not how the Upper House of Parliament approve your Lordships Speech But I am sure he that call d them together and as I think can best judge of it is so taken with it that he saith it is the best that ever he heard in Parliament and the nearest to his Majesties meaning which beside the contentment it hath given to his Majesty hath much comforted me in his choice of your Lordship who in all things doth so well Answer his expectation This is laid aside by some negligence the more is the pity that it cannot he found But here are two credible Witnesses how well he could open the great Affairs of the Kingdom for the best of Orators gave this Rule to Brutus Nâ—m disertus esse potest in eo quod nesciat no man can speak well to that which he doth not understand At this time I find in safe Records how advisedly he carried himself in the House of Peers upon the starting of two particulars The Priviledg of the Nobility was discuss'd and ready to be determin'd finally by the more Active part that they should take no Oath save only by their Honour which through his Intercession was laid aside for these Reasons That the Word of God allows of no Swearing for the finding out of Truths and deciding of Controversies but by an Invocation of the Name of God Quod confirmatur per cortius confirmatur and it is God's Glory that his Name and no other should be accounted more certain then any thing in the World In all Controversies the last Appeal is to him and to none beside because there is none above him The last Appeal is ever to the highest therefore we make no further Inquisition for Truth after our furthest provocation to the Lord in Heaven In Assertory Oaths we Swear That thereby we may put an End to contentious Causes And it is not Man's but God's Honour to end them who is the God of Peace and that maketh men to be of one mind Moreover our best consulting Divines collect that the Ground of an Oath builds upon his holy Name because He is most True and cannot Deceive likewise because he is Omniscient and cannot be ignorant and therefore to be the only due Witness for all contentious matters where there is no other Witness The Honour of the Peerage is a very Estimable Prerogative but a Creature to Swear is to put our Soul upon a Religious Action And shall a Creature be the Object of Religious Worship God forbid shall a Creature be brought in as the Witness of all Truth Or shall it be Raised up as the Judge which avengeth all falsehood There is none but God that is privy to all Truth And Vengeance belongs to none but him that can cast both Body and Soul into Everlasting Fire He added that singularities are ever to be suspected and challeng'd any man to shew the contrary that no other Oath but In the Name of God was used in Solemn Tryals at that day in any part of Christendom And he bad them look to themselves at home how prejudicial it would prove to all Courts of Justice and how unwillingly the Gentry and lower condition'd people of the Land would be brought unto it How loth they would be to refer their Free-hold their Meum and Tuum to the protestation of Honour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If it be stood upon that in the highest Criminal Causes of Life and Death their Lordships vouched their Honour only to Guilty or not Guilty it might receive this Satisfaction If a Peer be produced as a Witness against another Peer before the Lord High Steward he lays his hand upon the Book and takes his Oath No man can be cast by the deposition of a Witness that is not Sworn But when the Peers bring their Verdict into the same Court against a Peer they lay not their Hand upon the Book but upon their Breast which is a Sign that their vouchment by their Honour in that Tryal is not an Oath Indeed it is not For their Lordships utter it not Via juramenti but Via Comparationis That is they do not Swear by their Honour but pronounce comparatively that as sure as they are Honourable they find the Prisoner Guilty or not Guilty Like to that frequent expression in Scripture As thy Soul Liveth it is thus and thus The living Soul comes not in as an Oath but as a Comparison As who should say As sure as your Soul lives or as sure as Pharaoh lives I affirm the Truth Thus far he contended and to general Satisfaction It was much that in his Novitiatship in that house he durst contradict such mighty ones in so tender a Cause But a Wise man commends the Wisest of Heathen men Socrates for that Gallant Freedom 1 Tusâ—ul adhibuit liberam contumaciam à magnitudine animi inductam non à Superbiâ 'T is Pride that makes men obstinate in their Errors But magnanimity makes them confident in the Truth 91. In the same morning while this Debate continued very long he had another Pass with a Master-Fencer For the question being canvas'd throughly concerning Oaths an Aged Bishop very infirm in health excus'd himself if he could not stay so long whereupon some Lords who bore a grudge to that Apostolical Order cried out they might all go home if they would and not contented with that Vilipendency grew higher in their demand and would have this contempt against the Prelates inserted in their Journal Book The Earl of Essex press'd it more passionately then the rest who wanted Theological Advice about the strict Obligation of Oaths as much as any Christian which appear'd by his Attempts and Practice about twenty years after But nothing
Memory of our Saviours Birth I conceive the like for Geneva For when Calvin had retir'd to Basil some mutation about Holy Feasts was made in Geneva Upon his Return thither again Hallerius both in his own and in Musculus his Name complains that the Celebration of that Memorable Feast was Neglected Calvin Returns him Answer the Epistle is extant dat anno 1551. Jan. Sancte testari possum me inscio ac ne optante quidem hanc rem â—uisse transactam Ex quo sum revocatus hoc temperamentum quaesivi ut Christi Natalis celebraretur vestro more But will you have the Judgment of Protest out Divines when they were in a Globe and Collection together from all Quarters At the Synod of Dort convened about six years past all the Divines with the Assessors from the States intermitted their Sessions against the Feast of Christ's Nativity with 〈◊〉 Suffrages and the Reason is given in plain Words Sessio 36. Decem. 1â— Quia to tempore Festum Natalis D. N. Jesu Christi instabat propter cujus celebrationem c. It will be the harder for those of the Religion in France to Answer for this Omission Yet Judg more Charitably then to think they do it only out of Crossness to disconform to your Practise He that runs backward further then he need from his Adversary plays his Prize like a Coward And I use to say it often that there ought to be no secret Antipathies in Divinity or in Churches for which no Reason can be given But let every House sweep the Dust from their own Door We have done our endeavour God be Praised in England to Model a Churchway which is not afraid to be search'd into by the sharpest Criticks for Purity and Antiquity But as Pacat. said in his Paneg in another Case Parum est quando caeperit terminum non habebit Yet I am confident it began when Christ taught upon Earth and I hope it shall last till he comes again I will put my Attestation thus far to your Confidence says the Abbat that I think you are not far from the Kingdom of Heaven So with mutual Smiles and Embraces they parted 219. Paulo Majora The next was the greater grapple upon Terms Political and Scholastical between the Lord Keeper and Mounsieur Villoclare who is mention'd before The King was now at White-Hall and the French Agents plied it to concord Conditions for the Royal Marriage And who so busie to trouble the Scene with a new part not concern'd in the Plot of the Comedy as our Nimble-headed Recusants The Secretary Villoclare was accounted and not mistaken to be a servent Zealot in his own Religion which our English had learnt by resorting daily to Mass in the Embassadors House These found Access unto him and sighed out their Grievances before him that their Priests who adventur'd to come to them for their Souls Health were Executed for Traytors and themselves were set such Fines for their Conscience that they were utterly impoverish'd How happy should that Honourable Person be that would skreen them from the scorching of this Persecution That his Lordship had Opportunity for his Power and his Piety could not want will to enter into a Motion for a relaxation of their Miseries among such Articles as were to be Granted for the Honour and Happiness of the approaching Nuptials The Secretary heard them and condoled with them promis'd his Pains and to be an earnest Proctor in their Cause holding it most meritorious to go or run on such an Errand And he sell to his work in good earnest and ask'd such large concessions for his Clients or rather challeng'd such Grace with horrid Liberty then Petition'd for it that the King was observ'd to begin to be cooler in the Treaty for the Marriage then he had been The Lords that plied it beyond the Seas at the Lâ—â—r had not discouraged the Embassadors before they set forward but rather pleased them with hopes of English Courtesies and condescentions And I fear they were perswaded into too much confidence for I have heard it often from the Followers of the Earl of Carlile that after Articles had been drawn and Engross'd some things were Erazed some things Interlaced which never had his Lordships Approbation Our Courtiers at White-Hall through whose Counsels and Resolves the Grants of Monsieur Villoclare were to pass though directly they did dot yield to him yet his driving was so furious that they declin'd to deny him and shift for themselves that the first Storm of his Passion might not fall upon them Therefore they told him they could not assure him he had prevail'd till he had spoke with the Lord Keeper whose Duty it was to Examine such things upon his Peril what were sit or not sit for the King's Conscience Honour and Safety before the Great Seal were put to The Keeper heard of all this and sent to the Duke as he had wrote to him before Cab. p. 95. I shall be in a pitiful perplexity if his Majesty shall turn the Embassadors upon me altogether unprovided how to Answer But he cast it up into this short Sum that the disappointment of this Vexatious Solicitor so far engag'd must light upon himself and the displeasure of all the French that wish'd it good speed He was not to learn that a Magistrate in his Place must have a strong back to bear the Burthen of Envy So he Collected his thoughts into rational preparations and was provided for a Bickering which began on the Eighth of January and held long And it must be warned that the Report of it which follows extends the length above that which past between them on that occasion The Secretary Villâ—are after he had parted from the Lord Keeper and brought his business to a justifiable Maturity through the direction of some of our best Lawyers as the way was chalked to to him had Audience with the King and Entreated with his Majesty upon Terms of greater moderation then formerly he had done which he confest was brought about from a Conference with the Lord Keeper And told his Majesty That Counsellor had given him small content in a long Argument vext between them for he had Preach'd to him till he was weary to hear his Divinity tho' it was Learned and of more Acuteness then he expected in that Cause but unsatisfactory to Catholicks as could be fram'd Yet he made him amends with such Counsel in the end that now he knew upon what Ground he stood what Laws and Statutes were in force against that model of Mercy which he had urg'd and how the Clemency and Power of his Majesty was retrench'd by them Therefore as he hoped to find his Majesty Sweet and Gracious so his Majesty should find him tractable that the Thrice Noble and Primary design about which he came might not hover any longer in suspence Blessed be the Reduction of things to this good pass said the King And that Aequanimity might not slip the Knot his
Carriage of my Petitions and speedy return of an Answer and assur'd his Lordship it was as much Favour from him as I could expect or desire Then I took occasion to kneel afterward and thank'd his Majesty for his gracious Message sent by my Lord who presently told my Lord Conway of it and my Lord told me of it again And that the King left it to me when between this and Allhallowtide to deliver the Seal which he desir'd for the manner to be done most to my Content and Reputation and to have some time to send for him that was to succeed I answer'd I was ready whenever his Majesty would send his Warrant Which my Lord desir'd I would draw up and so we parted 26. I sent upon Tuesday the 18th of October to desire leave to speak with the King and Mr. Tho. Cary sent me word his Majesty would speak with me the next Morning But after Sermon the King told my Lord Conway what I had done and was in a long and serious Discourse with him Then my Lord Conway the King being gone to dinner followed me into the Cloyster and told me what the King had told him And that he conceiv'd his Majesty was afraid that I would press him to yield Reasons of those two Acts of his the removing me from the Seal and my abstaining from the Board That his Lordship found the King much troubled thereat and as a Friend nay as a Christian man he advised me by way of Counsel not to do so because it would much perplex the King and do me no good I answer'd That I should falsifie my Word to his Lordship if I should speak unto his Majesty upon any other Points than those of my Reputation and Means And should not come near those forbidden Rocks unless it were in one Point which I did intend to move but with his Lordship's Approbation and that was to preserve as much the Honoar of the King as mine own that for the manner of wishing my forbearance for a time from the Council-Board his Majesty laying nothing to my Charge would not be pleas'd to lay it as a Command by his Secretary but leave it to my Discretion who would be sure to use the matter as to give his Majesty no Offence That the rest of the Points were matters of means which I repeated to my Lord Conway one by one And his Lordship said He thought verily the King would grant them every one And his Lordship telling me again of his fear of the King's Offence if I should endeavour to unsettle his Resolution and that the King might fall sharp upon me I answer'd That his Lordship knew I had neglected the time to wrangle with the King which should have been done upon the first message Against which I had two unanswerable Objections The first that the King that dead is released me of the Restraint to three Years in my Office and continued me in the Place four Years The second that the King my Master delivered me the Seal as absolutely as his Predecessors did to other Keepers and Chancellors without reviving or mentioning any such Condition But that I had waved of all Objections and submitted at the first word to relinquish my Place And for sharpness or the like word which passed from his Lordship on Sunday last or that the King wisht my absence from the Board lest Matters might be further question'd his Lordship said he remembred it not I said Nec timeo nec opto it was a thing I did neither fear like a guilty Man nor rashly desire like a vain-glorious Man But my wishes were to retire to the Country as without a Charge by the King 's own Confession so as near as may be without any punishment which concern'd the King in Honour I thought as much as it did me For God never destroys his Creature but for some Sin And if his Majesty did think the losing of my Place did disquiet me to give him satisfaction I vowed and protested it did not which my Lord-Duke also had under my hand And that with his Majesty's leave and favour and some consideration had of my Fortunes I was willing to leave the Seal Only I expected I should remain a Councellor tho' lest to my discretion when to attend and be respected by the Lords from time time as a Member of the Board My Lord said He conceiv'd it no otherwise and that I might promise my self all respect from that Table and his Majesty in that kind Then said I my Lord There remains no more but that I shew a Letter to your Lordship written to his Majesty if you like it which shall speak all my mind because I will be utterly silent when I come at Evening before his Majesty save in preferring my Petitions in which your Lordship did encourage me Which Letter in the Copy his Lordship read over and carried the Authentick with him And so we parted 27. After Dinner his Majesty took the Letter and read that which followeth Most gracious Sovereign HAving done your blessed Father the best Service I was able while he lived I am sure such as was acceptable to him and some good Service at his Death and being now fitted with a great deal of Industry to do some Service to your Majesty in your great Affairs yet it is your Royal Pleasure to displace me not for any Crime or Unserviceableness but to satisfie the Importunity of a great Lord. But I am ready with all Submission to bow myself to the Pleasure of God and my King It is in your Majesty's Power to say to me your Vassal as a Greek Emperor did to an Arch-bishop Ego te Furne condidi ego te destruam I cast my self down at your Majesty's Feet and do render your Majesty my unexpressible Thanks that it hath pleased your Majesty to discharge me of this great Place without giving me any cause at all to use an Apology Yet being still haunted with the old Aspersions in Court the which were they true in any part would fret and tear my Soul in pieces give me leave dread Sovereign to make this last protestation in the sight of that God who must judge you and my Accusers if any such there be another day that in all my Carriage in the last Parliament I am not guilty in Thought Word or Deed of any one Act Advice Speech or Counsel disserviceable to your Majesty or any way diverting that end which your Majesty proposed unto us concerning that Assembly Upon the same protestation I likewise avow before God and your Majesty that I am not conscious of the least Unfaithfulness against my Lord-Duke by way of insinuating encouraging or abetting any one Clamour or Aspersion against his Grace or by omitting any one friendly Word or Action upon any opportunity I found to do him Service Your Majesty can tell how I put my Life into his Hand and Power above a Year since in the Business of the Spanish Embassadors
hold the quarrel broke out into a collateral Point the weighing of the Credit of Jo. Pregion a man that had enjoyed two Oâ—lices of great account for divers years and was never questioned before this time in his Reputation So the Siege of Troy was forgot and the Battel was drawn out on both sides to get or to recover the Body of Patroclus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Il. Ï. The Bishop could not defend his first Cause without the Testimony of Pregion which made him diligent to keep his good Name from being stained and the Adversaries were as resolute to Impeach him looking to spring up a new Information from the Defence of the old Matter This tugg held eighteen Months to the Bishop's Vexation and Cost having spent as much upon it as would have founded an Hospital to keep twenty poor People The Archbishop took occasion upon the spinning out of so much time to blame the Defendant for Traverses and Delays a Course which the wisdom of Treasurer Weston had put into him and if it were bad to fly with his Grace's leave was it not worse to Persecute Baronius justifies the Christians that made escape from Heathen Tyrants with a good reason An. 205. p. 12. Qui non fugit cum potest adjuvat ejus iniquitatem qui persequitur The Exceptions against Pregion were referred to the Lord Chief Justice Richardson and Lord Chief Baron Damport which charged Pregion that he endeavour'd to lay a Bastard-Child of his own begetting upon another The two Judge having heard all that could be alledged pro and con disallowed the Exception and an order being drawn up for it when the Lord Richardson was about to sign it Kilvert most imperiously charg'd him not to do it till he had heard from the King The Judge whose Coat had been sing'd at the Court before stopt his Hand but delivered a Copy of the Certificate to the Bishop's Sollicitor and avowing he would maintain it that is to say if he durst but fear shook his Conscience out of him The Lord Damport would not vary from himself and charg'd his Brother Richardson freely with Inconstancy Of which Disagreement the Star-Chamber having notice added to these three more the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Judge Jones and Judge Vernon These sitting together in the Lord Richardson's Lodgings Kilvert brought in Secretary Windebank among them though neither Referree nor Witness nor Party in the Cause who argued the Business an hour and half against the Bishop's Witness and perform'd it weakly for all men are not call'd to knowledge with their places as Isâ—crates would have us believe in his Areopag Oration that the Office of an Areopagite transform'd a man Ut tanquam loci genio afflatus ex ingenio suo migraret Budaeus in 1. lib. Pand. p. 283. The Secretary having done his part and shewn what was expected from White-hall departed The five Judges drew up a Certificate signed it and assured the Bishop all in general and one by one it should not be changed So said the L. F. among the rest but he sup't a Promise into his mouth and spit it out again This predominant Judge like a Falcon upon her stretches took home the Certificate with him and the Bishop with him who staid at his House till almost midnight because the Lord F. would not give him the Order till Kilvert had carried it to the Court to shew it to some body This was not fair for to be just and honest is so forcible that it should be done extempore not an hour should be borrowed to advise upon it Yet the Judge solemnly protested That he would dye rather than recede from it it being the sense and under the Hand of all his Brethren The Bishop being in a withdrawing Chamber read over the Order so often that by the benefit of a good memory he got it by heart verbatim and so departed to Bugden against Christmas-day About the midst of the Holy-days he heard by a good Hand that the Certificate was alter'd and all that Matter inserted which had been rejected by the Judges He came up in all haste to London and finding Judge Jones ask't him if these things were so Yes says he 't is true all is chang'd from white to black and your Friend the L. F. hath done all this A Friend he might call him if merit might have purchast him for whom the Bishop had done more than for any pleader in England when he was in great place Quae potest esse jucunditas sublatis amicitiis quae porrò amicitia potest esse inter ingratos The Bishop charging this Alteration upon the Judge to his Face he replyed Quod scripsi scripsi and would not hear Mr. Herbert the Defendant's Counsel who told the Judge with some passion That there was more matter for Examination of Witnesses couched in the new Certificate than was in all the Cause But the Bishop demanded calmly of that Lord that had alter'd all What he meant to use an old Acquaintance in that unheard of manner He answer'd and said the same to others He had been soundly chidden by his Majesty and would not destroy himself for any man's sake This Judge was worthy of greater Honours and did affect them Haud sanè aequo animo in secundo se sustinens gradu Curt. lib. 4. and not long after he got the Garland by being the most active of all his Rank to bring about the King's Undertakings chiefly against this forlorn Defendant but held not the place one full year From whence a Scholar may Contemplate upon those two Verses of Homer Il. Ï. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whom God doth honour if with him you war The quarrel 's Gods your ruin is not far 115. By this time Kilvert put in Courage with these Stratagems is ready to proceed to examination of Witnesses Let me shew how he is armed like Pliny's Ichneumon lib. 8. Nat. Hist Mergit se limo saepiùs siccatque sole mox ubi plurimis eodem modo se coriis loricavit in dimicationem pergit He dips himself often in Mudd and every time crusts it hard in the Sun and being covered with this dirty Harnass he falls to fight with his Enemy All will run even in the application The Bishop is forced at an intolerable expence to tumble in person with his Lawyers and Sollicitors from place to place over six or seven Counties of the Kingdom The first Abuse done unto him in this course was to deny him several Commissions to dispatch his Troubles about the Witnesses which was never denied to any Subject before and to force him to take an Examiner of the Court whether he would or no. 2ly Every Defendant being allow'd to chuse which Examiner he likes best by the practice of that Court the Bishop pitch'd upon an ancient and experienc'd Clerk yet could not enjoy him for in conference with Kilvert he had said That in this Service he must be an indifferent
Parliament and in that Parliament to which he appealed he sits a Member and Peer and sees all Papers of Record against him torn and burnt to Ashes Ut advertas feliciter faclum reum quem sic videas absolutum Sym. Ep. 87. Be the Conclusion those words of Ezek. c. 17. v. 24. All the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree have exalted the low true have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish Which the great Poet had rather ascribe to a blind Goddess in his Poetical License Aen. 12. Multos alterna revisens Lusit in solidum rursus fortuna locavit 131. A Prisoner whose Liberty I much long'd for is released but out of Limbo into Hell Can the worst word be had enough for those fatal days Now being come with him as far as the Door of the Parliament into which he entred upon the Call of the Lords I turned away for no little time and interrupted my self for above two years from writing any more not out of Sloth but Disdain To part with him till his last day was against my purpose and to keep him company in those boisterous times wherein a Senate of rigid men was dangerous I was at such a stay as Alexander in the dry Country of the Susitans Pigebat consistere progredi Curt. lib. 7. It was contrary to the Project of my Work to stop and as contrary to my Mind to go forward in the Hurricane of an intemperate Rebellion But it is resolved to look over somewhat of one of the most bloody Tragedies that ever was performed on the Earth rather than omit his part who was so loyal in his Actings and so magnanimous in his Sufferings And this may be done with the less unwillingness from one Passage that will recreate the Writer and the Reader that the chief Engineers that wrought the Thunderbolts at the Forge and laid the foundation of all ensuing Mischief lived to see themselves thrust out of their Den by a Brewers Drayman with his tatter'd Regiment a Passage to be kept for ever upon the Engravings of Memory and would not be pleasant but burdensome to know it and not to publish it As Archytas of Tarentum said If a man were lifted up among the Stars to know their order and motion the knowledge of it so admirable would be ingrate unto him unless he met with some to whom he might relate it So I am full of this to tell it to Posterity That the pittiful handful of Lords Temporal and now Temporary that adhered not to the King and cashiered the Lords Spiritual out of their Society for their immovable Fidelity were dismounted for ever from their own Privilege and Honour and might pawn their Parliament-Robes if they pleased And the remainder of the Commons after Pride's Purge was so despicable that every Tongue was so audacious to give them the nick-name of the Posteriors of a Beast and they put it up lest angry Wits should paste a greater Scorn upon them As Cas Severus satisfied himself with the Downfal of his Adversary Vivo quo vivere libeat Asprenatem reum video Quintil. lib. II. So this one Scene hath a good Catastrophe in the cruel Interlude That the small but most spightful part of this continuing Parliament held up their Tail though not their Hand at the Bar and went out it self in such a stink in the Snuff that all cry sie at it that have their Nostrils opened So my Mind is collected again and my Heart at some Peace in it self to see the Honour of Heavenly Justice settled so far 132. And to Preface no more and no less could be said A Parliament was sitting when our Bishop had his Liberty which held in its Fragments twelve years and six months Nay when the stub of the Members were baffled and spurn'd out of the House by the Russian Cromwell these Bankrupts opened their Shop once again and by a post limintum recover'd their places so that we reckon nineteen years from their first Call to their last Suppression Umbra serotina A shadow is longest at Evening when the Sun is ready to set And our Sun went down quickly when this shadow was so far extended But there is a better similitude for it in Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 2. cap. 14. A Serpent was taken at the River Bagrada of 120 foot long and the skin says he was hung up in the Capitol as long as such stuff could endure Mark this a Serpent the longest that ever was heard of the skin kept when it was mortified and preserved in the Senate-house Who can miss to apply it A Serpentine brood of Men none ever lasting so long in that High Court withered away to a skin or Skeleton all were right if they had been hung up in the Capitol This Serpent was young and the worst it could do was to hiss when Lincoln was brought in to sit with his fellow Bishops He had not been many hours there when he was amazed to see divers composed of new and strong Passions instigated to boldness by Scotch Confederacy heightned up by the Petitions and Mutinies of City and Country and preach't into disorder by Presbyterian Divines For a muffled Zeal for Religion hath a finger in all Combustions And as one says Multitudo vana superstitione capta meliùs vatibus quà m ducibus suis paret Curt. lib. 3. Church-men are the most dangerous Instruments to turn Male-contents into Sword-men who being prepossest with an ill opinion of the Times will quickly humble their Judgment under the Conscience of their Ministers But what Credit can it be to our Bishop for such Peers to take him into their number by their peremptory Vote None if he had answer'd their expectation Yet his chief Friends were as faithful and noble-hearted as ever sate upon the Benches of the House And it is no good thrist to cast out Gold-filings with the dust as if all were dust These must be sever'd from the rest to their immortal praise It is as true that he was sought for by some of the rest who had only an eye to the North-Star of their own Anti-monarchical Interest For he that was ordinarily read in man might know this able Prelate was to be left out that had so general an insight into all Affairs and Motions of State As Zeno prais'd Ismenias his Musick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he could play well upon all Instruments But when the disloyal Part hoped that a Man of a great Spirit and so much injur'd would revenge himself upon the Causes of his Troubles and Pipe after their Tune they were overshot to imagine it Though he is bound to be most true that is most trusted yet no man was bound to be true to them whom his Majesty as appears by his Writ trusted with his most concerning and weighty Counsels and were false to him that gave them Capacity to treat upon them
desensible whither he carried the Prayer of Synesius with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I would presently lay down my life and very contentedly if I might see my Country the beautiful Shape of former Peace and Happiness 194. Physicians use to prescribe to their Patients when a tedious Languor hangs upon them to remove their dwelling and change the Air. But Pliny says Longissima locorum mutatio est utilissima the further removing from the Soil where they did not mend the more wholesom and healing I would it proved so to this Archbishop who lest Cawood-Castle in the North to come to Aber-Conway in Wales It was the magnetick attraction of the Town wherein he was born that drew him thither Summas in affectu partes jure sibi usurpat terra quae genuit Sidon lib. 3. ep 8. And a greater than he King James called it a Salmon-like instinct to see the place of his Breeding Spotsw Hist p. 257. He had been near fifty years from the County of Carnarvan and the Town of Conway unless by incidentary Visits where his Mother brought him forth Now by the circulation of a strange Destiny he is carried thither in a Rapture or a Whirlwind to spend a few years and to end his last days An ulla est patria tam digna quae hanc reciperet virtutem quam quae peperit as Tully pleads for An. Milo Even now it was that every Hundred almost every Tything of this Kingdom did need some wise and couragious Man to defend it And who could better settle the distracted People of Wales than this person and who did better deserve his help than his own Flesh and Blood He came not so much for Refuge as to be a Refuge to those true-hearted Mountaineers his Kindred and Allies He is well who is the better for others but he is happy for whom others are the better And they might give God thanks that their Chief was come among them Their Fault is that there are many emulations another would call them Factions between the tops of their Families who would never have been brought into one Body to do the King Service unless such a Man had interposed who could wind in some with Patience and Bounty and scatter others with Authority Nothing liker to him than Pompo Atticus in AEmilius Probus Ita Athenis se gerebat ut communis insimis par principibus haberetur Though indeed it was not common Love but common Fear that drew those Counties into Confederation so true it is what Philostratus hath in Protesilao The communion of good things as Plenty and Peace often breed heart-burnings and envy but when men share in Miseries they begin to love one another recompensing Compassion for Compassion It behoved him that was a wise Man and potent in those remote places to watch two Evils among them that cried up the King's Cause Treachery among false Friends and Disagreement among true ones but such as had rather perish than be ruled The Archbishop had as good a scent as any Vulture to smell them out who held Intelligence with the Enemy of whom he secured a few and the rest fled far enough out of guiltiness To stop the other Inconvenience besides the general Love born to him and his great Alliances he found it best to appear in the strength of a strong hold with such Men and Arms as might incline the whole Body to obey his Counsels For they that are beset with danger had better go one way in concord then ran many ways though they were better with crossness and discord Which they might learn from those that were disciplin'd by the Parliament nay from the Devils Est quaedam concordia inter daemones non ex amicitiá sed ex nequitiâ proveniens as the School-men distinguish it Moreover this Prelate well seen in all good things inured all North-Wales round about to Piety to brotherly Love to Temperance as well as to be fit to use their Arms. He bid that frequent Prayers should be had in all Churches with Fasting Put the Ministers to preach weekly and none more often in the Pulpit than himself invited well-prepared Christians many times to partake of the Lord's Supper the best Ordinance of the Gospel and little used there by most culpable negligence This was the course he rook 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aeschyl in Persis Wisdom did turn the Rudder of his Projects And this was the way to bring down God among them Si vis tuto vivere benè vive nihil virtute securius it is in a Dialogue of Petrarchs And none could be more active in any place that owned the King's Authority than he was there in providing Powder and Ammunition in sorting good Commanders in fortifying Conway Castle and such like to his Majesty's high content and his deserved praise as will come on in the sequel So much did Wales gain by that which Yorkshire lost As Tully solaced himself in his banishment Lib. 3. Ep. Duas res quibus me sustineam habeo optimarum rerum scientiam maximarum rerum gloriam so he that was driven by the evil Spirit of the Hothams into this Wilderness had these Companions to travel with him great Piety great Learning and great Glory 195. Being entred into the care of so great a Province he wearied himself and all that assisted in the Service with indefatigable diligence His own share in collecting Moneys gathering Forces repairing the Castle casting up Works writing sending consulting woing and entreating was his as much as the burden of all the Agitants besides In which assiduity of watching and an hundred vexations his strength and healthful vigour well maintained to that time began to fail and from that year came forward no more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost lib. 2. de Sacerd. Continual cares says he will pull down the spirit the body much more The male-contents at London heard of it quickly how busie he was in arraying the Welch Militia although no Bishop belide would run such hazard but all fell quietly to their Prayers Hereupon they that acted for the Parliament did him the worst despight they could libelling be riming him setting him in out in Picture covered with a Helmet Musquet on his Shoulder Sword and Bandaliers about him A trick which they had learnt of their Gossips the Low-Dutch who traduce the greatest Kings in Europe in such paltry Tables with their Mechanick Scurrility 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Baubles to be laught at for the folly and to be lamented for the bitterness The worst was that there were many clashes at Conway and in the contines of it among themselves The raw Soldiers now come into muster and pay were malapart and crowed over their own Friends that had not the honour as they call'd it to serve on Horse or to trail a Pike They had not gotten John Baptist's Lesson by heart Luke 3.14 To do no violence to put no man in fear to be content with their allowance In some things