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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52673	Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorits written by Sir Robert Naunton ...	Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635.	1641 (1641)	Wing N250; ESTC R12246	37,238	44

purpose of whom to make an example o● to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could do for she tost him up of nothing and to and fro to greatnesse and from thence down to little more then to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman not that he was lesse for he was well descended and of good allyance but poore in his beginnings and for my Lord of Oxfords jest of him the Iack and an upstart we all know it savours more of emulation and his humor then of truth and it is a certain note of the times that the Queen in her choice never took into her favour a meer new man or a Mechanick as Commes observes of Lewis the eleventh of 〈◊〉 who did serve himself with persons of unknown Parents such as was Oliv●r the Barber whom he created Earl of D●●●yes and made him ●x secretis consilus and alone in his favour familiarity his approaches to the Vniversity and Innes of Court were the grounds of his improvement but they were rather excursions then sieges or settings down for he stayed not long in a place and being the youngest brother and the house diminished in Patrimony he foresaw his own destiny that he was first to roule through want and disabil●ty to subsist otherwayes before he could come to a repose and as the stone doth by long lying gather mosse he first exposed himself to the Land service of Ireland a 〈◊〉 which then did not yeild him food and rayment for it was ever very poore nor had he patience to stay there though shortly after he came thither again under the command of my Lord Grey but with his own Colours flying in the field having in the interim cast a new chance both in the Low-Countries and in a voyage to Sea and if ever man drew vertue out of necessity it was he therewith was he the great example of industry and though he might then have taken that of the Merchant to himself 〈◊〉 mar● p●r terras curr●t me●c●tor ad Indos He might also have said and truely with the Phylosopher Omnia mea mecum porto For it was a long time before he could brag of more then he carried at his back and when he got on the winning side it was his commendation that he took pains for it and underwent many various adventures for his after perfection and before he came into the publike note of the world and it may appear how he came up per ardua Per varios casus per t●● 〈◊〉 re●unt not pulled up by chance or by any gentle admittance of Fortune I will briefly describe his native parts and those of his own acquiring which were the hopes of his rising He had in the outward man a good presence in a handsome and well compacted person a strong naturall wit and a better judgement with a bold and plausable tongue whereby he could set out his parts to the best advantage and to these he had the a●juncts of some generall learning which by diligence he enforced to a great augmentation and perfection for he was an indefatigable Reader whether by Sea or Land and none of the least observers both of men and the times and I am confident that among the second causes of his grouth that variance between him and my Lord Grey in his descent into ●●lan● was a principall for it drew them both over to the Councell Table there to plead their cause where what advantage he had in the cause I know not but he had much the better in the telling of his tale and so much that the Queen and the Lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts for from thence he came to be known and to have a cesse to the Queen and the Lords and then we are not to doubt how such a man would comply and learn the way of progression and whether or no my Lord of Leicester had then cast in a good for him to the Queen which would have done no harme I do not determine but true it is he had gotten the Queens ear at a trice and she began to be taken with his elocution and loved to hear his reasons to her demands and the truth is she took him for a kinde of Oracle which nettled them all yea those that he relyed on began to take this his suddain favour for an Allarum and to be sensible of their own supplantation and to project his which made him shortly after sing Fortune my soe c. So that finding his favour declining and falling into a recesse he undertook a new perigrination to leave that Ter●a i●firma of the Court for that of the Warres and by declining himself and by absence to expell his and the passion of his enemies which in Court was a strange device of recovery but that he knew there was some ill office done him that he durst not attempt to minde any other wayes then by going aside thereby to teach envy a new way of forgetfulnesse and not so much as to think of him howsoever he had it alwayes in minde never to forget himself and his device took so well that at his return he came in as Rammes do by going backward with the greater strength and so continued to her last great in her grace and Captain of the Guard where I must leave him but with this observation that though he gained much at the Court yet he took it not out of the Exchequer or meerly out of the Queens purse but by his wit and the help of the Prerogative for the Queen was never profuse in the delivering out of her treasure but payed many and most of her servants part in money and the rest with grace which as the case stood was taken for good payment leaving the arreare of recompence due to their merit to her great Successor who payed them all with advantage Grevill SIR Faulk Grevill since Lord Brook had no mean place in her favour neither did he hold it for any short tearm for if I be not deceived he had the longest lease and the smoothest time without rub of any of her Favorits he came to the Court in his youth and prime or that is the time or never he vvas a brave Gentleman and honourably descended from Willoughby Lord Brook and Admirall to Henry the 7. neither illiterate for he vvas as he vvould often professe a friend to Sir Philip Syd●ey and there are of his now extant some fragments of his poem and of those times which do interest him in the Muses and which shews the Queens election had ever a noble conduct and it motions more of vertue and judgement then of fancy I finde that he neither sought for or obtained any great place or preferment in Court during all the time of his attendance neither did he need it for he came thither backt with a plentifull Fortune which as himself was wont to say was the better held together by a single life wherein he lived

Souldiery vvhich all flockt unto him as foretelling a mortality and are commonly of blunt and too rough Counsells and many times dissonant from the time of the Court and the State the other sort vvere of his family his servants and his ovvn creatures such as vvere bound by the rules of safety and obligations of fidelity to have looked better to the steering of that Boat wherein they themselves were carried and not have suffered it to float and runne on ground with those empty Sailes of Fame and Tumor of popular applause me thinks one honest man or other that had but the office of brushing his cloaths might have whispered in his ear my Lord look to it this multitude that followes you will either devoure you or undo you strive not to rule and over rule all for it will cost hot water and it will procure envy and if needs your genius must have it so let the Court and the Queens presence be your station but as I have said they had suckt too much of their Lords milk and insteed of withdrawing they blew the Coals of his ambition and infused into him too much of the Spirit of glory yea and mixed the goodnesse of his nature with a touch of revenge which is ever accompanied with a destiny of the same fate and of this number there were some of insufferable natures about him that towar is his last gave desperate advice such as his integrity abhorred and his fidelity forbad amongst whom Sir Henry ●ott●n notes without injury his Secretary Cuffe a vileman and of a perverse nature I could also name others that when he was in the right course of recovery and settling to moderation would not suffer a recesse in him but stirred up the dregs of those rude humors which by time and his affliction out of his own judgement he sought to repose or to give them all a vomit and thus I conclude this noble Lord as a mixture between prosperity and adversity once the childe of his great Mistris favour but the sonne of Bellona Buckhurst MY Lord of Buckhurst was of the noble House of the Sackvills and of the Queens consanguinity his Father was Sir Richard Sackvill or as the people then called him Fill-sack by reason of his great wealth and the vast Patrimony which he left to this his sonne whereof he spent in his youth the best part untill the Queen by her frequent admonitions diverted the torrent of his profusion he was a very fine Gentleman of person and indowments both of art and nature both without measure magnificient till on the turn of his humour and the allay that his yeers and good Councells had wrought upon those immoderate courses of his youth and that height of spirit inherent to his House and then did the Queen as a most juditious and indulgent Prince when she saw the man grow stayed and settled give him her assistance and advanced him to the Treasureship where he made amends to his house for his mispent time both in the increasment of estate and honour which the Queen conferred on him together with the opportunity to remake himself and thereby to shew that this was a childe that should have a share in her grace and a taste of her bounty They much commend his elocution but more the excellency of his pen for he was a Scholler and a person of a quick dispatch faculties that yet runne in the bloud and they say of him that his Secretaries did little for him by the way of inditement wherein they could seldome please him he was so facet and choice in his phrase and style and for his dispatches and the content he gave to Suitors he had a decorum seldome since put in practise for he had of his attendants that took into rowl the names of all Suitors with the date of their first adresses and these in their order had hearing so that a fresh man could not leap over his head that was of a more ancient edition except in the urgent affaires of State I finde not that he was any wayes insnared in the factions of the Court which were all his times strong and in every mans note the Howards and the ●●cills of the one part my Lord of Essex c on the other part for he held the Staff of the Treasury fast in his hand which once in the yeer made then all beholding to him and the truth is as he was a wise man and a stout he had no reason to be a partaker for he stood sure in bloud and in grace and was wholly intentive to the Queens service and such were his abilities that she received assiduous proofes of his sufficiency and it hath been thought that she might have more cunning instruments but none of a more strong judgement and confidence in his wayes which are symptomes of magnanimity and fidelity whereunto methinks this Motto hath some kinde of reference aut nunq iam tentes aut perfice As though he would have charactered in a word the Genius of his House or exprest somewhat of an higher inclination then lay within his compasse That he was a Courtier is apparent for he stood alwayes in her eye and favour Lord Mountjoy MY Lord Mountioy was of the ancient Nobility but utterly deceived in the support thereof Patrimony through his Grandfathers excesse in the action of Bullen his Fathers vanity in the search of the Philosophers stone and his Brothers untimely prodigalities all which seemed by a joynt conspiracy to ruine the house and altogether to annihilate it as he came from Oxford he took tho Inner-Temple in his way to Court whither no sooner came but without asking he had a pretty strange kinde of admission which I have heard from a discreet man of his own and much more of the secrets of those times he was then much about twenty yeers of age of a Brown-hair a sweet face a most neat Composure and tall in his person the Queen was then at White-hall and at dinner whither he came to see the fashion of the Court the Queen had soon found him out and with a kinde of an affected frown asked the Lady Car●er what he was she answered she knew him not insomuch as an inquiry was made from one to another who he might be till at length it was told the Queen he was Brother to the Lord William Mountioy this inquisition with the eye of Majesty fixed upon him as she was wont to do and to dant men she knew not stirred the bloud of this young Gentleman insomuch as his colour came and went which the Queen observing called him unto her and gave him her hand to kisse incouraging him with gratious words and new looks and so diverting her speech to the Lords and Ladies She said that she no sooner observed him but that she knew there was in him some noble Bloud with some other expressions of pitty towards his House and then again demanding his name She said fail you not