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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15043	A remembraunce of the precious vertues of the right honourable and reuerend iudge, Sir Iames Dier, Knight, Lord cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas who disseased at great Stawghton, in Huntingdon shire, the 24. of Marche, anno. 1582. The reporte of George VVhetstons, gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1582 (1582)	STC 25345; ESTC S111683	7,053	21

¶ A remembraunce of the precious vertues of the right Honourable and reuerend Iudge Sir Iames Dier Knight Lord cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas Who disseased at great Stawghton in Huntingdon shire the 24. of Marche Anno. 1582. The reporte of George Whetstons Gent. Forme nulla fides ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewood The Right Hon ble Charles 〈◊〉 Bruce of Ampthill Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury and Baron Bruce of Whorleton 1712 ¶ To the right Honourable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chaunceler of England and of her Maiesties moste Honorable priuie Counsell George VVhetstones wisheth long continuaunce of honour health and happines ⸪ RIght Honourable so blessed hath beene the estate of this little Realme since the hower of her sacred Maiesties moste prosperous raigne as it hath beene a question whether the people of forraigne nations doo bemone their owne callamities or enuie our felicitie moste and as the godly wise inserte the miseries of other people to the vengeaunce of God executed vppon their owne bowels through the tyranie of their Kings together with the ambytion and enuie of their principall Maiestrates so doo they also acknowledge that our especiall happines proceedeth from the deuine blessing of the hiest who in the heate of percicution gratiouslie sent vs a moste gratious Princes led by a spirit onely composed of pietie bountie and pittie and further strengthened her highnesse with a Senate and other needefull maiestrates so graue and pollitique as establish wholesome lawes for the publique benefit of her Maiesties Subiects and withall with lynxes eyes so prie into forraine practises that by their wisdomes in the beginning they returne the weapons prouided for our mischeefes into the practisers owne entrailes so that more for feare then loue beeing through the world for our prosperitie enuied we haue free passage in forraigne nations and finde the seale of peace vppon the Gates of our owne Citties which duly considered that English subiect may iustlie be proclaimed enimie to grace humanitie that rendreth not hartie thankes vnto God dutifull obedience vnto her Maiestie and reuerent loue and affection vnto the Maiestrates for this peace plentie and protection and seeing forraigne writers that haue their Colledges enuironed with Armes finde meanes to present the world with the tirannies of their Maiestrates oppressions of the people and ruines of their Citties English Historiographers which haue quiet recorse vnto the Muses are bound to eternise the memories of the good maiestrates disseased who were the instruments of our blessings that the dead may haue their right and the liuing incouragement to vertue Right honorable bound by these considerations to discharge the office of a poore writer in monuments extant I haue regestred the liues of manie woorthie personages disceased and at this present mooued with the passion of a common sorrow to showe the reuerēt zeale I bare vnto Iustice I haue made a weake remembraunce of a fewe of the pretious vertues which gouerned the good Lord Dyer late cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas which I humblie laie before your Lordships searching iudgement no better garnished then Diamonds set in Brasse assuring my self that your honour will reade his full merrit if not in my woords in the woorking of your owne vertues who with the wings of this iust Iustiser are mounted into the soueraigne seate of Iustice Capitoll where poore iniured sutors zealouslie praie long to enioie your countenaūce whose conscience is the ease of their oppressions so that knowing that my indeuor shall finde grace in your gratious sight being the dew of this good Maiestrate and a testimonie of the seruice I vowe vnto your vertues I boldelie approche your presence with this simple present leauing the view thereof to your good Lordships moste conuenient leasure the 17. of Maie 1582. Your Honours bounden to doo you seruice George VVhetstones A remembraunce of the pretious vertues of the right Honorable and reuerend Iudge Sir Iames Dier Knight Lorde cheefe Iustice of the Common Pleas. LIdgate Bawldwin and many writers moe the heauie faules of naughty mē haue showne VVhen their good deedes to tell they all are slowe VVhose vertuous liues deserueth to be blowne with such shrill trūps as made Mausolus knowne The cause think I through ruthemēs harmes they raise And doo enuy to sound the worthies praise But so or no the wrong dooth much increase which my weake muse hath laboured lōg to right VVho liuing in a chosen place of peace where vertue raignes conquers Enuies might who not with laūce but lawrel bough doth fight Her Cheefetaines then of writers iustly claime That Death not time their memoties may maime Among the moe that worste may paye this debte vppon the good I haue bestow'd my zeale Not like their woorth but able wittes to whet For to expose their vertues euery deale Who stayes were of our happy common weale That their good rules such as succeede may guide And liue by Fame as they had neuer dy'de To bothe effects who liuing did no wronge The breathles course of good Iames Dier knight Of Common Pleas the Lord cheefe Iustice long In Scarlet Robes I laye in open sight To shewe that death ore honout hath no might Whose deeds doo shine as Diamonds in the darke And liues though dead if to his Fame you harke Like him that long against the sonne dooth gase To prie into his vertues dimme my eyes VVhose Monuments shine as a Pharoes blase In Iudgement iust in counsell graue and wise Clearer of doubts in law like clowds which rise A liue refuge of those whom wronge did paine A Dyer such as dy'de without a staine But to discribe this woorthy Iudge at large Let it suffice to showe from whence he came The purple Grape a Thorne dooth neuer charge Nor rascall rase oft breedes a Childe a fame His birth was good his acts doo blaze the same In woorship borne in honour he did ende Ray sde by desart and not by sate or freend In tender yeares he was to learning set And Vessels long their seasoned liquors taste As time grew on he did to Oxford get And so frō thence he was in Strand Inne p●aste But him with fame the middle Temple graste The deapth of lawe he searcht with painefull toyle Not cunning Quirks the simple man to spoyle His wi●te was quicke his Iudgement was as found His Clyents such as weare with wrong opprest His conscience good him first with credit cround who with much care his clyents wrongs tedrest By vertue thus he clymde abooue the rest And feard no fall sithe men it was his guide VVhen teaching heads o●te slip inel●cesest pride From roome to roome he stept by true degrees And mounts at length to soueraigne Iustice place VVhere long he sat cheefe Iudge of cōmon Pleas And to say truthe he sare with Iustice grace VVhose sacred will was written in his face Setled to heare but very slowe to speake