the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the high-High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
him though he either upon his friends intimation or his own observation of the danger he was in among those who are prone to insult most when they have objects and opportunities most capable of their rudeness and petulancy escaped in a disguise wearing a Vizard lawfully to save himself as others did then to destroy him and the kingdom that night or next morning betimes in a Skuller the Sea being less tempestuous than the Law to Holland where he safely heard himself charged with High-treason in four particulars 1. For not Reading as the Faction would have him the Libell Sir Iohn Clue drew up against the Lord Treasurer Weston in the Parliament 4. Caroli 2. For threatning the Judges in the matter of Ship-money 3. For his judgment in the Forrest business when he was Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-Pleas 4. For drawing the Declaration after the Dissolution of the last Parliament And staid so long until he saw 1. The whole Plot he indeavoured to obviate in the buds of it ripened to as horrid a Rebellion as ever the Sun saw 2. The Charges against Buckingham Weston Strafford himself c. ending in a Charge against the King himself whose Head he would always affirm was aimed at through their sides 3. The great grievance of an 120000l in the legal way of Ship-money redressed and eased by being commuted for a burden of 60. millions paid in the Usurped ways of Assessements Contribution Loans Venturing Publick Faith Weekly Meals the Pay of the three Armies Sequestrations Decimations those Bells and Dragons of the Wealth and plenty of England 4. The great fear that the King would make a great part of the kingdom Forrests turned into greater that the Conspirators would have the whole kingdom into a Wilderness 5. And the Declaration he drew about the evil Complexion of the last Parliament made good with advantage by the unheard of and horrid outrages of this In a word he lived to see the Seditious act far worse things against the King and kingdom than his very fear and foresight suspected of them though he gave shreud hints and guesses And to see God do more for the King and kingdom than his hope could expect for he saw the horrid Murder of Charles I. and the happy Restauration of Charles II. enduring eight years Banishment several months Confinement and Compositions amounting to 7000l THE Life and Death OF Sr FRANCIS VVINDEBANK WHEN neither sincerity in Religion which he observed severely in private and practised exemplarily in publick nor good affections to the Liberties of the Subject in whose behalf he would ever and anon take occasion to Address himself to his Majesty to this purpose Your poor Subjects in all humbleness assure your Majesty that their greatest confidence is and ever must be in your grace and goodness without which they well know nothing that they can frame or desire will be of safety or value to them Therefore are all humble Suiters to your Majesty that your Royal heart will graciously accept and believe the truth of theirs which they humbly pretend as full of truth and confidence in your Royal Word and Promise as ever People reposed in any of their best Kings Far from their intentions it is any way to incroach upon your Soveraignty or Prerogative nor have they the least thought of stretching or enlarging the former Laws in any sort by any new interpretations or additions The bounds of their desires extend no further than to some necessary explanation of that which is truly comprehended within the just sence and meaning of those Laws with some moderate provision for execution and performance as in times past upon like occasion hath been used They humbly assure Your Majesty they will neither loose time nor seek any thing of your Majesty but that they hope may be fit for dutyful and Loyal Subjects to ask and for a Gracious and Iust King to grant When neither the Services he performed in publick not the Intercessions he made in private in behalf of the People of England could save so well-affected religious able active publick-spirited charitable and munificent a Person as Sir Iohn Finch Baron Finch of Foreditch It s no wonder Sir Francis Windebank was loath to hazzard his life in a scuffle with an undisciplined Rabble which he freely offered to be examined by any free and impartial Courts of Justice where the multitude should receive Laws and not give them and reason should set bounds to passion truth to pretences Lawes duly executed to disorders and charity to fears and jealousies when the sacredness of some great Personages and the honour of others when the best Protestants and the best Subjects were equally obnoxious to the undistinguished Tumults which cried out against Popery and Ill-counsel but struck at all men in power and favour Sir Francis rather ashamed than afraid to see the lives and honours of the most eminent persons in the Nation exposed to those rude Assemblies where not reason was used as to men to perswade but force and terror as to beasts to drive and compel to whatsoever tumultuary Patrons shall project left the kingdom as unsafe where Factions were more powerful than Laws and persons chose rather to hear than to see the miseries and reproaches of their Country waiting for an Ebbe to follow that dreadful and swelling Tide upon this Maxime That the first indignation of a mutinous multitude is most fierce and a small delay breaks their consent and innocence would have a more candid censure if at all at distance Leave he did his place and preferment like those that scatter their Treasure and Jewels in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers troubled for nothing more than that the King was the while left naked of the faithful ministry of his dearest Servants and exposed to the infusions and informations of those who were either complices or mercenaries to the Faction to whom they discovered his most Private Counsels Those aspersions laid upon him by those that spoke rather what they wished than what they believed or knew he would say should like clouds vanish while his reputation like the Sun a little muffled at present recovered by degrees its former and usual luster Time his common saying sets all well again And time at last did make it evident to the world that though he and others might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable by second and better thoughts than those enorminous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State The event of things at last demonstrating that had the King followed the worst counsels that could have been offered him Church and State could not have been brought into that condition they were presently in upon the pretended Reformation Among the many ill consequences whereof this was not the least remarkable viz. that those very slanderers reputation and credit I mean that little
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
corner but as solemnly as ever they took their Solemn League and Covenant against it Spots not of Christianity only but of Nature Born to obey the Soveraign they judged erecting a Court of Justice against that Sacred Head whence flowed all the Jurisdiction in the Land These people that were fitter to keep Shops in Westminster-hall than sit in the Courts there Many of whom that now hoped for the Kings Land must otherwise have been contented with the Kings High-way the true scum of England the basest and then the highest part of it Trades-men still making a trade of war and bloud base people therefore the more cruel The most Savage Beasts are those that come out of Dens The good Kings calamity being enhansed by the vileness of the instruments The steam of a Dung-hill clouding the Sun and vermin the expression is proper to beggars tearing the Lion as Rats formerly ate the Thracians These resolved rather to take away the Kings life than beg their own for life is one of those benefits we have to receive and men are usually ashamed to confess they deserved death And when their own Judges had declared against them and the Peers abhorred them to help a wretched cause and keep up the spirits and concurrence of their party they salve those two affronts with two wretched artifices 1. They bring from Hertford-shire a Woman some say a Witch who said That God by a Revelation to her did approve of the Armies proceedings which message from heaven was well accepted of with thanks As being very seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit 2. A model of Democratical Principles discountenanced by Faction it self as soon as it had served their turn and against all the publick abhorrencies and detestations by all persons of honor and conscience proceeded first to blacken the King as one of them said they must and then to judge him contrary to those numerous and fearful obligations of their many Oaths to the publick and private Faith which was expressed in their Protestations and many Declarations to the Laws the commands of Scripture to the dishonor of Religion and the endangering of the publick good of the kingdom For levying that war against the disobedient to which they had necessitated him for appearing in arms in divers places proclaiming the war and executing it by killing divers of the good people Impeaching him for a Tyrant a Traytor a Murderer and an implacable Common Enemy Whom they fought for to bring home to his Throne they lead when they have him to a Tribunal where they had nothing against him but what generous Conquerors never reproached the conquered for deeming it its own punishment the unhappy issues of a war which leaves the conquered the only criminal while the names of justice and goodness are the spoils of the Conqueror and a pretence of Tyranny in that government whose only defect if it had any was Lenity and Mercy towards those whose lives Justice would not formerly have pardoned and they despaired lest mercy should not now These Conspirators forming themselves into the Pagantry of a Court with a President of an equal infamy with his new employment A Monster of Impudence and a most fierce prosecutor of evil purposes one of little knowledge in the Law but of so virulent a Tongue that he knew no measure of modesty in speaking and was therefore more often Bribed to be silent than Feed to maintain a Clients Cause His vices had made him penurious and those with his penury had seasoned him for any execrable undertaking And a Solicitor that having in vain by various arts and crimes sought for a subsistence durst not shew himself for fear of a Prison till vexed with a tedious poverty he entertained the horrid overtures of this vile ministry which at the first mention he did profess to abhorr As also an Advocate that being a German Bandito by the mercy and favour of the King escaped here a severer in charge in his own Country than he could invent against his Majesty With an impudent and mimical Buffoon Minister ignominious from his youth for then suffering the contumely of discipline being publickly whipped at Cambridge he was ever after an enemy to Government preaching the villany from Psal. 149. 8. and calling them Saint Judges with a profession that upon a strict scrutiny there were in the Army five thousand Saints no less holy than those that now are in Heaven conversing with God And begging in the name of the People of England as the Conspirators talked too when as the Lady Fairfax said like a Branch of the House of the Veres declared in Court a loud it was a Lye not the tenth part of the people were guilty of such a crime that they would not let Benhadad go They with such Officers as had not a name before they were of this black list invite all people to testifie against the King their calumnies and having with much ado published their Sitting they appear with all the shapes of vile terror and the Kings Majesty with a generous mind scorning the Pageant tribunal and pittying the people now sad with expectations of their own fates when Majesty was no security appeared demanding the Authority and Law they brought him there by contrary to the Publick Faith and they answering The Parliaments discovered the notoriousness of that assertion as false and the vanity of it if true Four days together keeping up his courage and speech from doing any thing unworthy of himself notwithstanding the reiterated reproach of several appearances before the most infamous among men And the hired indignities of the basest of the people saying no more when some Souldiers were forced by Axtel to cry Iustice Iustice Execution Execution than Poor souls for a piece of money they would do as much to their own Commanders And others hired to Spit and what was more odious to blow Tobacco in his Face than wiping it off with My Saviour suffered far more for my sake All the people with the hazard of their lives doing their reverence to him with God save the King God he merciful unto him Only he left this Speech upon Record against the infamous Usurpation containing the substance of the discourse that passed between him and his Traytors His Majesties Reasons against the pretended Iurisdiction of the High Court of Iustice which he intended to have delivered in writing on Munday Ian. 22. 1648 but was not permitted HAving already made my Protestations not only against the illegality of this pretended Court but also that no earthly Power can justly call me who am your King in question as a delinquent I would not any more open my mouth upon this occasion more than to referr my self to what I have spoken were I alone in this case concerned But the duty I owe to God in the preservation of the true Liberty of my People will not suffer me at this time to be silent For how can any free-born
Bed was born at London Iuly 7. 1572. bred when his Father was under a Cloud at Westminster near London and Trinity Colledge in Cambridge when he had so much moderation as to appear constantly at our Prayers and Sermons and so much insight into the Protestant Principles as to judge that the distance between the Catholick and Reformed Churches grew not from their Controversies but their Interests not from the Opinions themselves which might be compounded but from the passions of those that managed them which could not be reconciled Neither was he satisfied only to read what men thought but he travelled to see what they did either in Courts as at France and Rome or in Camps as in the Low Countries or in Universities as in St. Omers c. from whence he returned a very accomplished Gentleman fit 1. For a Kings Privy Council to which honor King Iames admitted him 1607. 2. For a Companion of the most honorable Order in the world such he was created by King Iames with Prince Charles and the Earl of Sommerset 1611. that King saying He was a very fit man for the first of those Honors because he could not flatter and for the second because he could not but obey 3. For the Judge of the Court of Honor being a great Master of it 4. For an Ambassador to the Emperor about the Restauration of the Palatinate as he was by King Charles the first 1636. where having proposed reason to the Emperor and disposed most of the Princes to hearken to that reason so far that the Lower Palatinate was granted when Bavaria who got the upper Palatinate into his possession answered at last like a Souldier what he had concealed all the time of the fruitless Treaty That what he had with so much hazzard of his Person and expence of Treasure won by the Sword in defence of the Empire against the Empire he would now maintain with the same Power in the possession The stout Earl to express his disdain of the insignificant answer returned home notwithstanding the interpositions of the Polish and Spanish Ambassadors sent after him to moderate his anger and promise better effects after some weeks patience without so much as taking his leave procuring the like flur for the Imperial Agent that came over hither to excuse their past carriage and to offer new conditions upon strong presumption of Marriage which he had driven very far between the Electors Sister Elizabeth and the King of Poland 5. For a Judge in several extraordinary Courts of Justice an employment befitting the dignity of his Person and the firmness impartiality and resolution of his Spirit 6. For General of the gallant Army that went against Scotland a place suitable to his skill experience and conduct 7. For a Commissioner to examine the Spanish Navy under D'Oquendo 1639. and the design of it upon our Coast which he did discreetly and narrowly discovering more than we could suspect And 8. For a Companion to the Queen Mother of France when she departed from England in which capacity he was to his dying day very serviceable to her and to his Majesty contributing towards his service abroad for Armes Ammunition Intelligence and a good Correspondence near upon 20000 l. and towards his relief at home above 14000 l. Insomuch that the honorable Henry Howard hath paid for debts since his death near upon an 100000 l. He subscribed with the rest of the Nobility 12000 l. and sent more over privately 8000. several ways which had cost him his whole estate or at least a very severe Composition had he not discreetly setled it in Sir Richard Onslow and other Trustees who had done as signal Services for that which they called a Parliament as he had done for his Majesty A Noble man this made up rather of that honesty that desires rather to be than to seem good than of that hypocrisie that desires rather to be than to seem good one that made his business more to deserve opinion than have it as more concerned what thoughts he himself than what others had of him He understood the Religion he professed and professed the Religion he understood he never thought himself so good as he should be unless he strived to be better than he was equal in all conditions under the worst patient because he deserved it and despaired not as long as he could pray under the best sober and thankful because he feared it and presumed not as long as he might offend Supporting himself and friends with this consideration that if things are not so good as he would they should have been yet they were not so bad as he knew they might have been what if I am not so happy as I desire its well I am not so wretched as I deserve They say Favourites are Court-dyals whereon all look when Majesty shines on them and none when it is night with them Our Nobleman was most conspicious in his Eclipses and like the Images of Brutus and Cassius Quod abesset co magius persulgebat Though always in favour because entertained for use not affection not only relying so much on his Masters favour as his Master did on his abilities Goodness consecrated his greatness and his greatness honored his goodness he managed his estate so as to support his honor and employed his honor so as both to support and credit his estate good husbandry may stand with great hâ—nor as well as breadth with heighth he saved his estate by ways thrifty and noble with no loss to his honor travelling to gain experience abroad and save expences at home He might with Francis Russel second Earl of Bedford of that Surname as Queen â—lizabeth merrily complained of him make many Beggars by his Liberality he made none by his Oppression or Injustice being as punctual as his Ancestor Thomas Duke of Norfolk who when he was carried to be buried in the Abbey of Thetford Anno 1524. had made so even with the world that no person could demand a groat of him for debt or restitution of any injury done by him As he was a compleat Gentleman himself so he took a particular care his Posterity should not be defective often with pleasure telling the Ran-counter between a Nobleman of Henry the eighths time and Mr. Pace one of his Secretaries The Nobleman expressing himself in contempt of Learning that it was enough for Noblemens Sons to Wind their Horn and carry their Hawk fair and to leave Study and Learning to the Children of mean Men. Mr. Pace replied That then you and other Noblemen must be content that your Children may Wind their Horns and keep their Hawks while the Children of mean Mâ—n do manage maâ—ter of State But we will make bold with the rest of his Character as we find it in a Book called Observations upon the Statesâ—men and Favourites of England p. 725. only correcting the misnomer there of Philip in stead of Thomas Earl of Arundel and adding that he married
Souldiers for his Majesties Sea Engagment and all this without any other design than the satisfaction of a great Spirit intent upon publick good ready since his Majesties return to beg for others scorning it for himself One motive urged to save his life 1649. was that he would be as quiet alive as dead if he once passed but his word Free above all in his Company never above himself or his Estate observing Mr. Herberts Rule Spend not on hopes set out so As all the day thou mayst hold out to go He dyed 1666. in the 63. year of his Age with whom it is sit to remember Mr. William Owen of Pontsbury Salop whose Loyalty cost him 150 l. Pontsbury Owen of Eâ—ton Mascal Salop Esq who paid 601 l. composition Roger Owen of Shrewsbery Esq who paid 700 l. Sir William Owen of Candore Salop who paid 314 l. Edward Owen of Candover Salop who paid 207 l. Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe 1000 l. Richard Owen of Shrewsbery 250 l. Sir Iohn Owens Eldest Son Mr. William Owen had all his Portion with Mrs. Anwill Sequestred and seized Sir Iohns Brother that wise and sober Gentleman Mr. William Owen of Porkington Salop the beloved Governor of Harlech in Merioneth-shire and the contriver of the General Insurrection 1648. in North-wales and South-wales at London besides several years banishment paid 414 l. 6 s. 8 d. composition And Dr. Iohn Owen Son of Mr. Iohn Owen the worthy and grave Minister of Burton Latimers in the County of Northampton where he was born bred Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge preferred beyond his expectation Chaplain to King Charles the I. whilst Prince and made without his knowledge Bishop of St. Asaph 1629. by him when much troubled with two Competitors as an expeâ—dient to end the Controversie when King well beloved by all because related to most of the Gentry of North-wales one whose Poetical studies sweetned his modest nature and that his Government besides Imprisonment in the Tower for the Protestation the loss of all his Spiritual preferments he patiently laid down 500 pound for his Temporal Estate To whom I may adde worthy Mr. Owen of Wrexham the Church whereof he had extraordinarily beautified a good Scholar and a holy man the Honour and Oracle of the Orthodox Clergy and the great disgrace and trouble of the Adversaries who could not in Interest suffer him to preach noâ— a great while till their guilts had hardened them beyond all regrets in Conscience silence him being so charitable a man to the poor so useful a man in that Country among the Rich and so well-beloved of all as a great example of his Doctrine the reason why with our Saviour who could say Who of you accuseth me of sin he preached with Authority giving strict measure to his people and yet making more strict and severe to all Clergy-men and himself having a great command over all his affections easie and bountiful moderate To avoid litigiousness which render so many Ministers useless in demanding his dues taking care not to make the name of the Church a pretence to covetousness never conditioning for before and seldom receiving wages after the Administration of any Ordinance very careful against the least appearance of Pride or any concernment in the Affairs of the world exact in the knowledge of himself that he might understand others more careful of duty than fame and therefore sweetly and temperately undergoing the Obloquies of those times which he would say could not speak worse of him than he thought of himself being a great Artist in patience Christian simplicity and ingenuity being none of those he said though he had a good one that trusted more to their Memory than to Truth Thomas Wentworth Earl of Cleveland and Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 1 Car. 1. 1625. much in favor with King Iames because a young Noble man of a plain and practical temper more with the Duke of Buckingham who would never be without him he being the next man to him at his death at Portsmouth for his pleasant and frank way of debating things and most of all to King Charles I. and II. for his many Services and Sufferings having a special faculty of obliging the Souldiery which he learned from Prince Maurice in the Low-Countries and Count Mansfield in Germany 1. Leading the Kings Rear at Cropredy 1644. where he faced about against Waller charging him through and through so effectually the King of Swedens way that he was utterly routed 2. Drawing up with General Goring his Brigade at the East-side of Spiene in the second Newbery fight to secure the Kings Guards in much danger with such old English Valor telling his men they must now charge home that he scattered the enemy till too far engaged and over-powered he was taken Prisoner as the King himself was like to be 3. Assisting beyond his years in the rising in Kent and Essex and induring all the hardships at Colchester 4. After a tedious Imprisonment and a strange escape from the High Court of Justice of which he was as glad as Vlysses was of that out of Polyphemus Den by one mans absence who went out to make water for the Stone which Stone gave him as it did the Lord Mordant the casting Vote with the great Intercession of the Lady Lovelace his Daughter with banishment to his dear Soveraign hazading his life with him in his troublesome Voyage both into Scotland and England where at Worcester September 1651. he was taken and banished living with his Majesty all the Usurpation beyond Sea his brave Estate at Stepney and other places being all either spent in the Kings Service or Sequestred for it and returning upon the Restauration home where upon the 29 th of May 1660. he led 300. Noble-men and Gentlemen in his plain Gray-Suit before his Majesty to London with whom he continued being after the Earl of Norwich Captain of the Guard of Pensioners and dying 1666. in a good old Age to which much contributed the great habit he had got of taking much Tobacco His Son the Lord Wentworth a Gentleman of a very strong Constitution and admirable Parts for contrivance and especially for dispatch much addicted to the foresaid herb being though he took little notice of it sleeping very little and studying when others were a-bed very ready in our Neighbours and our own Affairs Interests Intrigues Strengths Weaknesses Ports Garrisons Trade c. continuing in his Majesties Service from the time he went when Prince to raise the West where he gave by his Addresses to the Country and Carriage in it great instances of his Abilities to his dying day for disbanding with my Lord Hopton those Forces left under his Command in the absence of the Earl of Norwich gone into France after a shrewd Plot like that at Lestithiel to have gained the King and Parliament Armies to joyn for an accommodation upon honourable terms being allowed himself twenty five
melius Gladiate Nomarcha Iust â— oculo tueris Iusta tuere manuâ— Arma stylo socias haeres utriusque minervae Iuridicum bellum bellica Iura facis Nata sit Astraeo Diva Astraea Gigante Hermarium fas est hanc habuisse Ducem Quis dubitare potest sub Duplo Alcide Trophaea Qui calamo cicures Qui Domat ense seras His Brother Dr. Litleton Master of the Temple a man indued with Prudence the Mistress of Graces without which they are useless to others and Humility the preserver of them without which they perish to a mans self who used to say that Ambition being the great principle that acts more or less in all men that Government was more or less happy that did more or less intend the imploying of Able-men to keep them from running out suitably to their ambition who being Sequestred of all paid yet out of his nothing for his Loyalty 100 l. as Sir Edward Litleton by Fisher Litleton and Francis Nevill Esq 1347 l. and Sir Thomas Litleton of Stake St. Mildbourgh Sal. with 180 l. per annum setled 307 l. besides a severe Imprisonment when he was taken at the surprize of Bewdley Sir Robert Heath of Cutsmore as I take it in Rutland a man of so great integrity giving for his Motto in his Rings when made Serjeant Term Mic. 7. Septimo Car. I. Lex regis vis regis that when it appeared to him that the people encroached too much upon their Soveraign he prosecuted them severely witness Sir Io. Eliot c. and others for their extravagancies in the Parliament 1628. as Sollicitor and Attorney General to King Iames and King Charles the I. when he doubted his Majesty was advised to press too much upon the subject he rather than go against his Conscience quitted his place of chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sept. 14. 10 Caroli pleading at the Bar in that Court where he had sate on the Bench until again the rare example of one playing an after-game of favour His Majesty made him one of the Justices of the Kings Bench 9 Dec. 16 Car. I. where he behaved himself with so much plain honesty that 1. A Lady commencing an unlikely Suit against her Husbands opinion and living in the Shire-Town invited Judge Heath to a great entertainment the very day her Cause was to be tryed after which immediately going to the Hall he gave sentence according to evidence and right against her whereupon she saying to her Husband that she would never invite Judge again was answered by him Never invite honest Iudge again 2. And Iohn Lilburne being tryed before him for his Rebellion when he had been taken at Brentford at Oxford made frequent use of his words at another tryal before them he had fought at London viz. God â—orbid Mr. Lilburne but you should have all the benefit the Law the Birth right of the Free-born Subjects of England can afford you Yet against both that Law and the Priviledges of an English subject which he so honestly maintained at home was he exempted out of pardon and forced to dye abroad Quo jure Criminoso Philopatris exularet Credendus ergo non est quia neminem Fefellit justitia ne putetur quae punit ipsa justum non ostracismus iste lex sed ruina legum Sir Robert Holborne a Gentleman of those good inclinations which flowing with good bloud rendred him in his first Addresses acceptable to the world wherein having before him the good example of his Learned Ancestors he attained to that exactness in Law as with the amiable accomplishments of his nature made it very easie for him to do well which is a mans main business to gain upon mens affections becoming with little labour and without thinking excellent by good precept and continual care correct his defects so as to gain a general esteem and a good opinion being sensible of Mr. Herberts Rule Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In love or honour take account 〈◊〉 Shine like the Sun in every Cornâ—r See Whether thy Stock or Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And to instruct them it will not quit the cost Being of the Long-Parliament he was unwilling to joyn with them in their Debates for War and retired to Oxford in the Treaty there at Vxbridge and the Isle of Wight to consult and offer those things that make for Peace for which he paid 300 l. when living at Covent-Garden being not admitted as were not any of the King followers to study at any the Inns of Courts upon their return home after the Wars Serjeant W. Glanvile born at Tavistoche in Devon shire a County happy that it beeds so many Lawyers but more happy that it hath little need of them having the fewest Suits and most Counsellors of any County in England a Gentleman that had so much deliberation and weight in every thing he spoke that he was heard with much respect in all the Parliaments whereof he was either Member or Speaker â—â—cering prudently and watchfully in all their weighty Consultations and Debates Collecting judiciously and readily the sense of that numerous Assembly propounding the same seasonably and in apt Questions for their final Resolutions and presenting their Conclusions and Declarations with Truth and Life Light and Lustre and full advantage upon all occasions as a man of an excellent Judgment Temper Spirit and Elocution till the last and long one when those men for whose Liberties of Voting he had argued formerly allowed him not the Liberty of his Vote when he urged that Law against them which he had when they were more moderate in their courses urged for them wherefore he retired with above half the sober Members of Parliament to Oxford where having discharged his Conscience he returned to London to suffer for 〈◊〉 He that suffered patiently Imprisonment on Ship-board for speaking his minde freely in some State-points against a boundless Prerogative 1626. suffered as quietly six several hard Imprisonments one of which was two years in the Tower for declaring himself as honestly in some Law-points against a Treasonable popularity till the good man true to his honest principles of Loyalty was against the will of the Lower-House who yet laid no charge against him Bailed by the Upper-House shining the brighter for being so long ecclipsed insomuch that when the ignorant Faction did not think him worthy to be a Common-Lawyer the Learned University of Oxford whereof he was a worthy Member chose him her Burgess in one of the Usurping times of the Pseudo-Parliament it was his honour that he was then chosen to represent an Vniversity in Parliament and it was his integrity that he was noâ— then admitted He suffered in the Cause of all English-men and pleaded the Cause of many of them particularly my Lord Cravens though banished and Sir Iohn Stawell though a Prisoner till the whole Nation became as free as his Soul He
they had done great things for their Sovereign they might suffer greater THE LIFE ACTIONS AND DEATH OF Sir THOMAS WENTWORTH Earl of STRAFFORD Protoâ— Martyr for Religion and Allegiance SIR Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford owed his Birth to the best govern'd City London his Breeding to the best modelled School York and a most exact Colledge St. Iohns in Cambr. his Accomplishments to the best Tutors Travel and Experience and his Prudence to the best School a Parliament whither he came in the most active and knowing times with a strong Brain and a large Heart His Activity was eminent in his Country and his Interest strong in King Charles's Parliament where he observed much and pertinently spake little but home contrived effectuallyâ— but closely carried his Designs successfully but reservedly He apprehended the publick Temper as clearly and managed it to his purposes as orderly as any man He spoke least but last of all with the advantage of a clear view of others Reasons and the addition of his own He and his leading Confidents moulded that in a private Conference which was to be managed in a publick Assembly He made himself so considerable a Patriot that he was bought over to be a Courtier so great his Abilities that he awed a Monarchy when disobliged and supported it when engaged the Balance turning thither where this Lord stood The North was reduced by his Prudence and Ireland by his Interest He did more there in two years then was done in two hundred before 1. Extinguishing the very Relicks of the War 2. Setting up a standing Army 3. Modelling the Revenue 4. Removing the very Root and Occasions of new Troubles 5. Planting and Building 6. Setling Ecclesiastical and Civil Courts 7. Recovering the hearts of the People by able Pastors and Bishops by prudent and sober Magistrates by Justice and Protection by Obligations and Rewards 8. Recovering the Churches Patrimony and Discipline 9. Imploying most able and faithful Ministers and Instruments 10. Taking an exact view of all former Presidents Rules and Proceedings 11. An exact correspondence with his Majesty and the Favourites of England None was more conversant in the Factions Intrigues and Designs than he when a Common-wealths-man none abler to meet with them than he when a States-man he understood their Methods kenned their Wiles observed their Designs looked into their Combinations comprehended their Interest And as King Charles understood best of any Monarch under Heaven what he could do in point of Conscience So his Strafford apprehended best of any Counsellour under the Sun what he could do in point of Power He and my Lord of Canterbury having the most particular account of the State of Great Britain and Ireland of any persons living Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished yet Doctrine and Discourse had much allayed the severity of this Earls Nature and Custom more None more austere to see to none more obliging to speak with He observed pauses in his discourse to attend the motion and draw out the humour of other men at once commanding his own thoughts watching others His passion was rather the vigour than the disorder of his wel-weighed Soul which could dispense its anger with as much prudence as it managed any Act of State He gave his Majesty safe counsel in the prosperity of his Affairs and resolute advice in Extremity as a true Servant of his Interest rather than of his Power So eminent was he and my Lord of Canterbury that Rebellion despaired of success as long as the first lived and Schism of licentiousness as long as the second stood Take my Lord of Strafford as accused and you will find his Integrity and Ability that he managed his whole Government either by the Law or the Interest of his Country Take him as dying and you will see his Parts and Piety his Resolution for himself his Self-resignation for the Kingdoms good his Devotion for the Church whose Patrimony he forbad his Son upon his Blessing Take him as dead you will find him glorious and renowned in these three Characters The first of the best King I looked upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose great Abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed to imploy him in the greatest Affairs of State for those were prone to create in him great confidence of undertakings and this was like enough to betray him to great Errors and many Enemies whereof he could not but contract great store while moving in so high a Sphere and so vigorous a lustre he must nedds as the Sun raise many envious Exhalations which condensed by a popular Odium were capable to cast a Cloud upon the brightest Merit and Integrity Though I cannot in my judgment approve all he did driven it may be by the necessities of Times and the Temper of that People more than led by his own disposition to any heighth 〈◊〉 â—igour of Action c. The second of the best Historian He was a person of a generous Spirit fitted for the noblest Exercises and the most difficult parts of Empire his Counsels were bold yet just and he had a vigour proper for the execution of them Of an eloquence next that of his Masters Masculine and excellent He was no less affectionate to the Church than to the State and not contented while living to defend the Government and Patrimony of it he commended it also to his Son when he was about to die and charged his abhorrency of Sacriledge His Enemies called the majesty of his Mind in his Lieutenancie pride and the undaunted execution of his Office on the Contumacious the Insolency of his Fortune He was censured for that fatal errour of following the King to London and to the Parliament after the Pacification at York And 't was thought that if he had gone over to his Charge in Ireland he might have secured both himself and that Kingdom for his Majesties Service But some attribute this Counsel to a necessity of Fate whose first stroke is at the Brain of those whom it designs to ruine and brought him to feel the effects of popular Rage which himself in former Parliaments had used against Government and to find experience of his own devices upon the Duke of Buckingham Providence teacheth us to abhor over-sine Counsels by mischiefs they often bring upon their Authors The third of Common Fame A Gentleman he was of rare Choice and singular Endowments I mean of such as modelled fashioned accomplished him for State-concernments of a searching and penetrating Judgment nimble apprehension ready and fluent in all results of Council most happy in the vein of Speech which was alwayes round perspicuous and express much to the advantage of his sense and so full stocked with Reason that he might be rather said to demonstrate than to argue As these Abilities raised him to State-Administration so his addressing his applying those Abilities so faithfully in promotion of the Royal Interest soon rendred him
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the common-Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of common-Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
offer to both adding that we should think long before we resolve of great matters and an hasty Judgment may bring on that trouble and perpetual inconvenience to the kingdom that the Child unborn may repent of adjuring them as they would answer it at the dreadful day of Judgment to hear what he had to say The Club of Assassinates proceed to this horrid Sentence Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament have appointed them an High Court of Iustice for the Trying of Chales Stuart King of England before whom he had been three times Convented and at first time a Charge of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors was read in the behalf of the kingdom of England c. Here the Clerk Read the Charge Which Charge being Read unto him as aforesaid He the said Charles Stuart was required to give his Answer but he refused so to do and so exprest the several passages at his Tryal in refusing to Answer For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that the said Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publick Enemy shall be put to death by the Severing his Head from his Body To which horrid Sentence the whole Pack stood up by agreement among themselves before made and though they agreed in nothing else either before or since unanimously Voted the bloudy words words of so loud a guilt that they drowned all the earnest Proposals of Reason and Religion offered by a Prince that was a great master of both reason being a more dreadful Sentence against than that they pronounced against him and then used the sameforce to hurry the King away that they had imployed to bring him thither answering his Allegations with that violence wherewith they composed and made good their own The King always great was now greater in the eye of the world for the great Reason he offered the honorable Conduct 〈◊〉 managed and the freedom of Speech he used much beyond other times the captivity of his Person contributing much to the liberty of his Discourse All the great throng that pittied but could not help afflicted Majesty with whom they saw themselves drawn to the slaughter groaned upon the Sentence but with the peril of their lives It being as fatal then for any persons to own respect or kindness to Majesty as it was for the King to carry it and as dangerous for others to be good Subjects as for him to be a good King They that were to force him out of his Life forced others out of their Loyalty endeavouring fondly to depose him from his Subjects hearts as they had done from his Throne Several persons having since deposed that to set off their ridiculous Scene they had those who were appointed to force poor creatures to cry Iustice Iustice who as the excellent Prince observed would have done as much for money for their own Commanders a word one of them in Command then said since he cried because if it had been heard the Traytors had been at the Bar and the Judges of the Land at the Bench and deterr others from saying God save the King Notwithstanding which force this last voice was the most hearty and the other most forced Observable it is that to make his Majesty parallel with his great Pattern whom he represented equally in his Sufferings and in his Goodness and Power a wretch that was within a little while executed by his own Partner Spit in his Face whereat his Majesty not moved only wiped the Spittle and said My Saviour suffered much more for me The Excellent Prince while the Traytors before him were as much slaves to their base Malice Envy Fear Ambition and Cruelty as the poor People were to them exercising as ample a Dominion over himself now as he had heretofore over three kingdoms looking not as if he were before the Miscreants but they before him and he to give as he did and not receive a Doom I cannot forget how an Ancient Father saith That some creatures would not suffer God to be a God unless he please them These are the Creatures that would not endure Gods Vice-gerent should be so unless he served them Thus having formerly forgotten the Oaths of God that were upon them laid aside the Allegiance which they owed gone against the sense of the Law of the Clergy the Nobility the Gentry and most of the sober people of the Nation Besides above half of both Houses before they could fight the King But infinite were the obstructions they were to break through so carefully hath God guarded Kings before they could murther Him they must suppress the unanimous desires of the whole Nation expressed in the looks wishes and prayers of all men and the declared sense of several Countries in their respective Petitions which many thousands delivered in London with the hazard of their Lives and maintained in North-wales under Sir Iohn Owen in South-wales under Laughorne and Poyer in the Navy under the Prince in Kent Essex and Surrey under several of the Nobility and Gentry of those and the adjacent Counties they must steal the King that won ground from his Adversaries by his carriage as much as they had done upon him by their Arts and power reducing to an entire obedience to his Government all that conversed with his Excellent Person from those men that were now as ready to engage for him as ever they did against him as they did at Holdenby when it was said so considerable is a suffering King his very miseries being more powerful than his Armies by the Faction that now they had the King in their power they had the Parliament in their Pockets they must renounce those promises they made upon their Souls and as they and their Posterity should prosper that pittying the barbarous usage of His Majesty they were resolved never to part with their Arms till they had made his way to the Throne and rendred the condition of his party the more tolerable Promises that to enâ—nare the charitable Prince that suspected not that falshood in others that he found not in himself they gilded with the like specious but entrapping kindnesses as the permission of what they knew was as dear as his Life to the pious King the Ministry of his Chaplains Commerce by Letters with his Queen the Visits of his Party the service of his Courtiers some whom they also admitted to their Council of War to mould Propositions which they will urge in his behalf and alter them to the Kings gust and at his advice the intermingling with their Remonstrances such good words as these That the Queen and the Royal Family must be restored to all their Rights or else no hope of a solid Peace They must sacrifice Eleven of the most Worthy Members in the House of Commons and seven Noble Lords to the lusts and cavils of mercenary Soldiers that would not hearken formerly to the delivering of half so many to answer the Articles of their
Prebend of Westminster and Parsonages of Creek and â—â—â—sâ—ck in Commendam with it whereunto he was chosen Octob. 10. and Consecrated Novemb. 18. by the Lords Bishops of London Worâ—â—ster Chichâ—ster Fly Landaffe and Oxford the Arch-bishop Abbot being though irregular for casual Homicide King Charles finding how he managed these Preferments King Iames had bestowed upon him advanced him Iune 20. 1626. to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells in the room of Bishop Lake then deceased and Octob. 2. the same year Dean of the Chappel in the place of Bishop Andrews then departed and Iune 17. 1628. Bishop of London and Aug. 6. 1633. Arch-bishop of Canterbury instead of Arch-bishop Abbot then newly dead the highest honor a Subject can be raised to in England or a Minister in the Protestant Church and as if these honors were not equal to his merit at the same time that he was Installed Arch-bishop of Canterbury he was twice offered once Aug. 7. 1633. and the second time Aug. 17. following to be Cardinal he both returning the Messenger whom de discovered to his Majesty this Answer like himself That there was somewhat within him that would not suffer that till Rome was other than it is 2. It must needs be imagined that these preferments raised him as much envy as advantage and indeed though he was singular in other felicities he was wrapped in the common unhappiness in this case For Christmas 1610. Arch bishop Abbot set the good Lord Chancellor Ellsmen to suggest to King Iames his being Popishly affected Octob. 3. 1623. he went to the Lord Keeper Williams who he found had done him many ill offices who Octob. 3. 1623. he saith in his Diary quarelled him gratis in the Duke of Buckingham their Joynt-patrons Withdrawing-chamber April 3. 1624. He went to Arch-bishop Abbot about a course he had taken to ease the Church in times of paying the Subsidies to be given that Parliament which the Lord Keeper Williams and the Bishop of Durham approved so well that they confessed it was the best office that was done for the Church for seven years before His Grace was very angry Asked what he had to do to make any Suit for the Church telling him that never any Bishop attempted the like at any time nor would any but himself have done it that he had given such a wound in speaking to any Lord of the Laity about it as he could never make whole again that if the Lord Duke did fully understand what he had done he would never indure him to come near him again Whereunto he calmly replied That he thought he had done very good offices for the Church and so did his betters think If his Grace thought otherwise he was sorry he had offended him hoping that he having done what he did out of a good mind for the support of many poor Vicars abroad in the Countrey who must needs sink under three Subsidies a year his Error if it were one was pardonable Ian. 25. 1624. He was forced to declare the whole affair about the Earl of D's Marriage which happened twenty years before when he was a young man and that Lords Chaplain to the Duke of B. ill willers notwithstanding his growing merit and services whispering and suggesting up and down that supposed old miscarriage Nay again April 9. 1625. he writes thus in his Diary The Duke of Buckingham most Venerable to me by all Titles certified me that some body I know not out of what envy had blemished my Name with King Charles his most Excellent Majesty taking occasion from the error I fell into I know not by what fate heretofore in the Case of Charles Earl of Devon-shire Decemb. 26 1605. April 11. the Duke of Buckingham met him and informed him what Secretary C. had suggested against him to the Lord High-Treasurer of England and he to the Duke Ian. 17. 1627. He shewed the King reasons why the Papers of the deceased Bishop of Winchester concerning Bishops that they are Iure Divino should be Printed and was opposed then by several Grandees who were of the humor the Historian expresseth thus That they liked not their own happiness if others had the honor of contriving it receiving no counsels but what they themselves first gave In Octob. 1627. The Dean of Canterbury and Sir Dudley Digges told Dr. W. that if things went not well in the Isle of Rhee there must be a Parliament and some must be Sacrificed and B. L. as like as any which gave him great trouble Till the King desired him Not to trouble himself with any reports before he saw him forsake his other friends Iune 1. 1628. The House of Commons put him into their black Lists of Innovators and Incendiaries by the same Token that one in that House stood up and said Now we have named these persons let us think of some Causes And Sir E. C. answered Have we not named my Lord of Buckingham without shewing a Cause and may we not be as bold with them Wherefore he enters the Dissolution of that Convention in his Manual March 10. thus The Parliament which was broken up this 10th of March laboured my Ruin March 29. 1629. Sunday two Papers were found in the Dean of Pauls his Yard before his House one of which to this effect concerning him Laud look to thy self be assured thy life is sought as thou art the fountain of all wickedness Repent Repent thee of thy monstrous sins before thou be taken out of the world c. And assure thy self neither God nor the World can endure such a vile Counsellor to live or such a whisperer c. Ian. 26. was thus noted by his Lordship This day discovered to me that which I was sorry to find in L. T. Weston and F. C. Cottington sed transeat Feb. 28. Master Chancellor of London Dr. Duck brought me word how miserably I was slandered by some Separatists I pray God give me patience and forgive them Roiter the Felon that broke Prison his Charge of Treason against him Novemb. 13. 1633. the Lady Davies Prophecy of him that he should dye before Novemb. 5. 1634. Green the Printers swaggering with his drawn Sword in St. Iames's Court that he would have Justice of the King against him or that he would take another Course with him himself The falsehood and practises of L. T. whereof he advertised his Majesty Some 37. Libels against him up and down the Streets of London we had thought worthy remembring had not he thought it fit they should not be forgotten But for which of his good deeds The enjoyment of great and and many Preferments might indeed raise him malice but his design by all those Preferments to do great and many good works might have recovered him love for surely none needed to have envied that mans Preferment that considereth what he did or what he intended 1. What he did 1. 1607. No sooner was he Invested in any of his Livings than he Invested
most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods Servants were in this boysterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Savior for it my â—â—â—â—lution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I forsake the Temple and the â—â—â—uth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Da◠〈◊〉 in Bethel And as for this people they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blinde lead the blinde and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch St. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by Thought Word and Deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as weâ—e as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges For if they proceed upon proof by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of this Sentence lie heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his followers Before these St. Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd Woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carâ—hage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many Examples Great and Good and they teach me patience For I hope my cause in Heaven will look of another dy than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great Men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against St. Paul Acts 25. 8. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i.e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i.e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be it from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is Memorable that St. Paul who helped on this accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamor that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself Iohn 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani And the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come and see how just the Judgment of God was They crucified Chriâ—t for fear lest the Romans should câ—meâ— And his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamor of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honor and Dishonor by good Report and evil Report as a deceived and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And First This I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign he hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law Established as any man in his Kingdom And that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamor for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger any innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from parish to parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In St. Stephens Case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way When he had killed St. Iames yet he would not venture upon St. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of bloud Isa. 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes inquisition for bloud And when that inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. That God Remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the Complaint of the poor i.e. whose bloud is shed by oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making inquisition for bloud And with my prayers to avert it I do humbly desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ier. 26. 15. 3.
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
to Immortality And a fair vertuous Name can stand alone Brass to the Tomb and Marble to the Stone THE Life and Death OF Drâ— RICHARD HOLDSWORTH A Divine and to confute the common slander fastened upon Ministers Sons a Divines Son Richard Holdsworth the Son of Richard Holdsworth born at Newcastle upon Tyne where his Father was an eminent Preachâ—er and bred there under Mr. William Pearson to whom he was committed the youngest of his dying Fathers Sons at seven years of age an exact Preacher in the same place He came very young to St. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge with very pregnant hopes and went away young with very great accomplishments the ornament of that Society whereof he was a Member and the great Vote of it insomuch that they endeavoured to chuse him Master First to be Chaplain to Sir Henry Hâ—bart Chief Justice of the common-Common-Pleas where he was very honorably treated and thence to be Minister of St. Peters in the Poor London which he had in exchange for another Living whereto an honorable Patron presented him and where-from a reverend Prelate that was loath to loose him in the Country disswaded him in the West-riding of Yorkshire the Scene of his renowned performances while he was alive and the Grave of his virgin body when dead There he filled not the Peoples ears with empty noise but ravished their Hearts with solid truths here the Church rung not with the Preachers raving but with the Hearers groans the Walls Pillars and Windowâ— dropping with the Auditors sweat and tears extorted from themâ— not by a furious thundering but by a zealous and hearty Eloquence which awed Impiety comforted the Religious was the delight of good Men and a pleasant song even to Hypocrites being followed by all sort of people who delighted in him not as St Iohn Baptists Hearers did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a time till the Civil Wars when the times turning and he standing still the People in the late Tumults like those at Sea thought he who was as immoveable as the earth moved and altered and they whose Heads turned like Folks-heads at Sea thought themselves the same Once he was Preaching to them upon the Acclamation made to Herâ—d and the Consequence of it in Merâ—â—rs-Chappel and they Hummed him so that they could not hear him he cryed out to them several times I pray remember the Text to teach them to have no mans person in admiration Another time they thronged to hear his Sermon and he dismissed them with the Prayers and a Homily of the Church Reading both in his Surplice to inform them that he preferred the publick Offices before his private Abilities which though more fluent than any Gifted-man about Town tied himself to one sober Form of Prayer and to one grave Method of Preaching The Plague in 1625. when he first came to Broad-street could not drive him from his dear Flock though another Murrain 1640. among the Flock its self I mean the late Herefies and Schisms did But one Stage was not equal to so great Abilities that could fill both the Chair at Gresham-Colledge on the one side of Broad-street in as great confluence of Scholars and Divines as he did the Pulpit on the other side with a great throng of Citizens His learned labours returning upon him with fresh applauses each week in both places a specimen of the last whereof we have in his learned Lectures published by the reverend learned and good-natured Dr. Richard Pearson lately of St. Brides London who having power to Print them from one of the Doctors Overseers Bishop Brownrig as he had with much ado obtained leave of the modest Doctor himself who never Printed any thing but one single Sermon and that not till a third Command from his Majesty who otherwise was very conscientiously observant of his least Order that Pamphlet called by the Transcriber The Valley of Vision a Valley indeed not for the fruitfulness but for the lowness especially if compared to the pretended Authors high parts but little vision Printed them with that care that became an ingenious man who reverenced the memory of the Author who was by Relation his Uncle in Affection his Father in Favours his Patron in his Academical Studies his Tutor and in his Ecclesiastical his Compass Entring on his Lectures 1630. with great expectation and continuing them for eight years above it his own Colledge St. Iohns Voted him Master and when the perversness of some and the prevalency of others defeated the Colledge of that Vote the honor whereof his own modesty declined Emanuel Colledge gained him at once the most obliging and the most resolute Master that ever was in that House old Dr. Chadderton that had resigned to Preston and survived two Masters saying That he was the only Master that ever he saw in that House and he carrying it so civilly towards the old Doctor that he did nothing and went no whither about Colledge Affairs without Father Chadderton on his right hand telling him That as long as he lived he should be Master in the House though he himself was forced to be Master of the House Until opposing the torrent of the late Civil Wars as Vice chancellor for three years together by Preaching Loyal Sermons at St. Maries by Licensing his Majesties Declarations to the Press by discountenancing evil Principles and propagating good ones by forwarding Supplies to the King to suppress the Rebellion and by denying any to the Faction to maintain it he was advised to withdraw himself from that Tumult which it was in vain to contend with as he did first to the Country and then to London the best Hiding-place in the kingdom where being concealed a while God Almighty thinking it not fit that so great a virtue should in a time when there was so much need of it be hid and drawing it out to be as exemplary in its sufferings as it had been in its other performances he fell by accident as he walked an evening into their hands whom he desired to avoid for being known by a Captain of one of those Guards that Watched each Street and Corner he was brought before a Close-Committee and Committed by them first to Ely-house this prophane War turning Noblemens Palaces into Prisons as it did afterwards Gods Houses into Stables and afterwards to increase the charge as well as the severity of his Imprisonment to lessen both his Liberty and Estate to the Towâ—r which he called Davids Tower for four years together where Archbishop Laud sent particularly to this excellent person for his Prayers a little before his death and whence not without a great sum of money and as great intercession of friends on condition not to stir above twenty miles out of the City to enjoy only his choice Library that escaped their fury and his Parish in the City his Colledge in the University and a good Parsonage bestowed upon him by the Earl of Rutland being kept from him the Title of
Person viz. That this great truth that the imprisoning killing or deposing of any Supream Governor who is Gods Minister in a Nation is against the Will and Word of God should be offered by the Clergy of England to be proved by Scripture and if not regarded to be sealed with their bloud and with the Joynt-attestation of all Protestant Churches and Universities as the great principle of Christian Doctrine about the Peace and Government of Kingdoms and Nations And as he saith in his Letter Feb. 11. 1647. thinking of little else in this world than what he should do for the preservation of his Sacred Majesty than whose sufferings there was nothing greater he said except his vertues as a Christian a Subject an Englishman a Nobleman and an obliged Servant he caused a Rumor to be spread of his design which put the General upon calling him in from his Parole and upon his frank appearance he was dimissed till the Parliament should send for him so being free from his engagement which was as sacred to him as his Allegiance he went to Colchester with all the Horse he had and there incouraged the Souldiers by his own example going with an Halberd on his shoulder to the watch and guard in his turn paying six pence or twelve pence a shot for all the Enemies Bullets the Souldiers could pick up Charging the first day of the siege aâ— Head-gate where the Enemy was most pressing with a Pike till the gate could be shut which at last was but pinned with his Cane and after the Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle when Whaley and Ewres were sent to tell him and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen that they should have quarter as Prisoners answering them himself That since the condition of those two Gentlemen and theirs in reference to that service were alike they wished they had all run one hazard and they had thanked the General more for saving the Lives of the two Knights whom they had already executed than for the grant of their own From Colchester my Lord was sent to the remotest Prison they could imagine from his own Countrey and thence fetched up to the Tower where after a handsome escape over the water to Lambeth wherein he was betrayed by the wretched Water-man that carryed him over who discovered him by his munificence the Gold he gave him he spent not his time in thoughts for his own Life but for that of his Majesties conjuring a Lord then sitting to second their Vote against the Ordinance for Tryal of his Majesty with a resolute Declaration to all Kings Princes States Potentates and Nobility to be signed by all the Lords Judges Lawyers Divines Gentry and people of England and this he pressed with most pathetick Arguments whereof one was very remarkable viz. That he understood by his dear-bought experience of those men of the Enthusiasm that let them but meet a well-grounded and justificable Zeal Courage and Resolution greater than their misguided fury to stemme the Torrent of it they would recollect and as he said observing some hesitation in their proceedings who found it easier to Conquer a people than to govern them against their Interest by a small part of themselves it being easier to overthrow another Government than to settle their own in an excellent Letter from the Tower Ian. 9. 1648. full of a Noble and Heroick Spirit which he concludes with this expression That it grieved him that he could do nothing else but rub his fingers upon Paper an imployment that fitted not his Genius Give saith he but the people an honorable example they will follow you and vindicate both you and themselves from being as such a silly Generation that they should suffer themselves to be cozened out of their good known and established Laws and in the place of them be imposed upon by Imaginations and Dreams to which he added another Letter Ian. 15. to a very great man in the Army every line whereof runs with this vigor against their proceedings YOur Party is small and giddy the thing its self is monstrous the Lords and Commons under whom you fought are against you all Princes and Protestants will abhor you Scotland will be dis-united from England Ireland will be lost Trade will be stopped by all Kings and States with people of so dangerous principles all Nations will be ready to invade us many of the Judges to sit upon the King will leave you the Empire of the Sea will be lost the Nation will be infamous to Posterity the Protestant yea Christian Religion will receive a deadly blow to be revenged by all people that profess it no man is sure of his life or any thing he hath the most prudent Form of Rules the world hath known will be overthrown a vast number of people are concerned in those Rules no example will be-friend you all Potentates will be against you and the Prince to be murthered so excellent and knowing in the Art of Government so loved reverenced and desired that of all the Princes that that ever ruled the people that were so happy in the first sixteen years of his Reign were they to chuse would pitch upon him and which is more the only person in whom his enemies may finde security being otherwise like to be torn to pieces by their Fellow-subjects upon the least change the express word of the great God in whose hands you are is against you Prov. 8. 15. 1 Sam 24 5 6. Prov. 24. 21 22. Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2. c. the Laws of the Land your own Judges yea your own Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and Pretences all along fly in your faces the Prince the two Dukes and the numerous Royal issue should deter you the Precipice of endless Wars and Desolations you are at the brink of should affright you Words big with his heart which you may see at large at the end of his incomparable Book of Meditations as appears by this close I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it than you will allow your self for all your other Merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most Affectionate Friend How readily he would have dyed for him we may see in his chearfulness to dye with him for being brought before an High Court of Justice as it was called within a moneth after having offered brave Arguments from the Law of the Land the Government of the Nation the nullity of their Court the benefit of his Peerage and the Law that governed the world meaning the Sword by which he was promised quarter for life he heard the Villains ridiculous Sentence with a nobler spirit than they pronounced it telling them That they needed not have used those formalities to murther him And March the ninth the day appointed for the Assassination having conjured his Lady in two Letters That
burn the City â—earing that he should not dye in his Majesties favour for dying under a suspition of such a thing so unworthy of him and disowned their authority preparing himself for that death he had so often looked in the face both in England and in France for he Commanded in both kingdoms with a becoming frame and temper ennobled with honorable and devout circumstances by the assistance of a faithful Minister that honored his Family and in the company of many Reverend and Noble Friends with the Offices of the Church of England every day from his first imprisonment to his death Iuly 10. 1654. all with as much reverence zeal thankfulness holy sorrows and joys as his great soul could hold When with a religious confidence took his leave chearfully and particularly of all his honorable and good friends he passed through the Guards on whom he bestowed money twice bare-headed out of an humble respect to the people that pittied him on each side till he rather leaped up than ascended the Scaffold upon Tower-hill smiling with a pretty glance of his Eye which was a natural loveliness in him on the Executioner and his Instrument and saying Welcome honest Friend that will do the deed I 'le warrant it And being refused by the Sheriffs Edward Sleigh and Thomas Allen to speak to the people Let us saith he to the Reverend Minister with him speak to God as they did for half an hour afterwards professing he died a faithful Subject to King Charles II. for whom he said he would lay down if he had them a thousand lives and a Son of the Church of England for both whose Restauration he prayed and desiring the people to remember a poor Soveraign abroad who he said deserved to be remembred bowed himself to the stroke of death with Christian meekness and courage extraordinarily mixed together the same time and place but not with the same weak spirit that Don Pantaleon sa dyed wih who for fighting with Mr. Gerard on the New-Exchange where one Mr. Greenaway no ways concerned in the quarrel was killed was brought to dye with him though on a different occasion on Tower hill Upon which day Mr. Peter Vowel a Bedford-shire man School-Master of Isâ—ington being betrayed by a blind Minister he relieved at his house and disowning the pretended high-High-Court of Justice whom as Ierome of Prague did his adversaries he cited to appear before the great Tribunal was murthered at Charing-Cross a pitiful Minister of theirs sent under pretence of comforting to trepan him passing as severe a sentence on his Soul as they had done on his body dying as they would tell him and he confessed confidently instructing the Souldiery in the dangerous principles they went on in and professing his adherence to the King and the Church desiring that none should be disheartned at his death being assured that sanguinis Martyrum which he said they shed as the Heathens did in their bloudy sacrifices should be semen Ecclesiae commending his soul to Gods mercy and his numerous family to his providence saying He was sure the King should be restored and that his poor family should be better provided for than it could be by him he and Mr. Gerard leaving these principles behind them 1. That men might be excellent if they looked to their thoughts before they became desires and happy if they had but a right Opinion of things and understood That all the good and evil of mans life though it may have its occasions without hath truly and really its causes prevented or lessened or turned into good by a vertuous disposition 2. And that they looked into Opinions before they turned into Passions Major Henshaw escaped by flying and Mr. Somerset Fox by Argument that Massacre as did Mr. Manley a Merchant The noble Gentleman Sir Humphrey Bennet a Brigadire in his Majesties Army Mr. Woodcock Mr. Carrent Mr. Friar Mr. Io. Sumner and Mr. Oliver Allen Mr. Hatgil Baron Mr. Stapely Mr. Mansel Mr. Iackson and Mordant 1658. Mr. Sidney Fotherby and Mr. Tudor a Chirurgeon In which yet Col. Benlow fell Oct. 1651. having been observed active in the engagement at Worcester being shot to death at Shrewsbury a Person very observant in his carriage of that Rule in Mr. Herbert Slight not the smallest loss whether it be In Love or Honour take account of all Shine like the Sun in every corner see Whether thy stock of Credit swell or fall Who say I care not those I give for lost And in his habit of this Affect in things about thee cleanliness That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r Slovens take up their stock of noysomness Before hand and Anticipate their last hour Let thy minds sweetness have his operation Vpon thy Body Cloaths and Habitation And Sir Timothy Fetherston-haugh I think of Corkes-would in Cumberland Knight having paid 700 l. for the service of King Charles I. laid down his life for King Charles II. which he ventured magnanimously in the Field at Wiggan in Lancashire with the Earl of Derby with whom he being taken prisoner there lost it resoluteâ—ly by beheading after a Court-Martial at Chestâ—r where he denounced judgment on the Murtherers that passed sentence upon him setting the foulness of their fact with as much power on their Consciences as they did his Loyalty upon his Person and praying as heartily for the Kings person then in danger as for his own soul doing all he could honorably to save his life that he might not be felo de se and nothing dishonorably that he might not be a Traitor to Allegiance comforting himself with that saying of Pope Nicholas Martyrum solennia non funebria tanquam morientium sed utpote in vera vita nascentium natalitia vocantur and be it here remarqued that Sir Henry Fetherston and Col. Iohn Fetherston put as fair for Martyrdom as Sir Timothy which on all occasions to serve his Majesty they declined not by their own Cowardise but escaped by the Divine Providence winning and wearing the name of Confessors One whose Son lay very sick being told by a Physician that his Son was a dead man said I had rather a Physician should call him so an hundred times than a Judge on the Bench once whose pronouncing him for a dead man makes him one Sir Henry Hide Brother as I take it to the Lord High Chancellor bred a Turky Merchant and after the gaining of a considerable Estate and Experience made their Consul at Morea where his integrity and prudence gained him such respect in those parts that his Majesty having some occasion of correspondence at the Port sent him to use his own word Internuncio thither without any design against either the Merchants whom he had a charge to be tender of or Sir Thomas Bendish who had been a Prisoner in the Tower and paid a 1000 l. for his Loyalty to his Majesty by whose Commission he was there Ambassador and who hath published an Apology to clear
himself about Sir H. death where the Visier being bribed as it is the fashion there to betray him to the Faction of Merchants which the honorable Sir Sackevill Crow a Gentleman able and willing to do his Majesty as much service as any man in England in his lowest condition though he hath and doth inâ—initely suffer for it in his highest had to do with keeping up his Majesties Reputation at Constantinople in spight of them as long as it pleased God to preserve his life in England who sent him in the Sâ—irna-Fleet with other honest persons that there sided with him to England where after some moneths Imprisonment in the Tower he was by an high-High-Court of Justice which refused him the Liberty of pleading in Italian the language he was most ready and expressive in sentenced and accordingly March 4. 1650. out of malice to his Brother and Master as if they had a design against the peoples Trades beheaded near the Exchange where being attended by Dr. Hide Bishop Vsher had been with him before he owned the King and Church of England Allegiance he said being incorporated in his Religion he protested he was sent to the Levant to serve and protect all and injure none as a Messenger to take care of the English Interest there untill his Majesty had settled an Ambassador he blessed God for giving him the advantage of paying that Debt due by nature upon the account of grace and this way bringing him to himself he cleared his Brother and all other persons from any design against the English Merchants and offered all the satisfaction in the world to any person that desired it the Axe doing that at one blow which his many Diseases would have done within a few weeks for he was not able either to rise or fall himself though he was able to dye Dr. Levens This Learned Gentleman descended of an ancient Family in Oxford-shire near Bolley within a mile of the University His Education was truly generous his Profession the Civil Law wherein he was graduated a Doctor and in which he was excellently known before these Wars He continued most part of the War at Oxford and his own adjacent dwelling till such time as the surrender of the said City into the hands of the Parliament where he had the same terms and was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation which being forced to accept and lay down his Arms he again re-assumed his wonted studies But after the Murther of the late King this Gentleman very considerable in his numerous acquaintance prudence and integrity considering the confusion impendent ruine of Church and State became engaged for the Son our present Soveraign as before for his Royal Father several Consultations and private Meetings were held by him and others in order to his service to which purpose he also received Commission from the King then in France for several Officers of these Forces designed to be raised and other instructions as the Affairs proceeded But the sagacious industry of the Parliaments spyes lighting upon some glimpses of this business which they followed so close that they discovered Dr. Levens to be the chief Agitator and Manager of the plot in whose breast the Cabal was principally lodged An Order thereupon was made by the Council of State and a Warrant signed by Bradshaw the President to seize and bring him before them and to search his Chamber and break up his Trunks for Papers he then being at London the place most expedient for the design which accordingly was done a file or two of Musqueteers guarding and securing the House where the said Papers were among which there were blank Commissions signed by the King to the purport aforesaid were found with him and carryed to the Council who thereupon ordered him to be proceeded against as a Spie and referred him to a Councel of War Accordingly he was soon afterwards tryed by a Court-Martial where he not excused himself but acknowledged their Allegations against him and the Justice of his Cause of which he told them he was no way ashamed but if it must be so he would willingly lay down his life in the owning of it He told them moreover he was indispensably bound by the Laws of God and this Kingdom to do what he did and so referred himself to them They very earnestly pressed him to reveal the other parties engaged with him and gave him fallacious hopes of life if he would freely declare them but those offers prevailed not with him being resolved to suffer and take all upon himself rather than to ruine others whom they could not fasten upon without his discovery So the Court proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be hanged over against the Exchange in Cornhill in Exchange time which after some little preparation was executed he being brought in a Coach from the Mews with the Executioner Vizarded with him and a Troop of Horse to guard him to the said place where the Sheriffs received him into their charge After he alighted and some words passed between them concerning the said discovery he told them they should not expect it and desired them to forbear any further trouble to that purpose and so â—ascending up the Ladder where he prayed very fervently for the King and the Church and commending his soul into the hands of his Redeemer and so concluded his last breath on the eighteenth of Iuly 1650. Col. Eusebius Andrews an honest and Religious man bred in my Lord Capels Family whose Secretary he was and a good Lawyer of Grays-Inn engaging in his Majesties cause from 1642. to tâ—e surrender of Worcester 1645. when taking neither Covenant Protestation negative Oath nor engagement in London he followed his Profession till one Io. Bernard formerly a Major under him because of his good parts and sober demeanor admitted to his familiarity brought one Captain Helmes and Mr. Bâ—nson formerly belonging to Sir Iohn Gell who was hanged on this occasion Oct. 7. 1650. to save his Arrears repenting that ever he had served the Parliament and praying heartily for the King to his acquaintance who insinuated the discontents of Sir Io. Gell and other Reformadoes the designs of the Levellers and Agitators and Letters from Mr. Rushworth to be sent by Mr. Brown Bushel a Sea-Captain very active in bringing the Fleet to the Princes command taken as he was waiting an opportunity to serve the King at London and tossed from Custody to Custody till he went to the Tower where it went so hard with him for necessaries that his Wife was forced to go with his daily provision from Covent-Garden to the Tower every day and thence being condemned for delivering up Scarborough to his Majesty to the Scaffold at Tower-hill under which being deluded with a promise of pardon that very day he was for fear of the Sea-men that loved him beheaded suddainly April 29. 1651. beyond Sea Sir Io. Gells Interest in the Country and his regret that
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
8. 1644. The next news we hear of him after a Consultation about carrying on of the war between him the Lord Hopton and the Lord Gerard who left all he had sticking to his Majesty in all conditions since the Restauration at Bristol was the siege of Taunton the taking of Wellington-house by storm the clearing of the passage for the King from Oxford to Bristol to break into that Association interesting the States Ambassadors Borrel of Amsterdam and Reinsworth of Vlrecht both made Barons by his Majesty in the Kings Cause forming the Protestation in the Western Counties in opposition to the Covenant hampering the Forces of Glocester-shire with his horse and dragoons whither he brought his Majesty writing to him afterwards not to fight at Nazeby until he came to him with 4000. horse and pursuing the siege of Taunton where he fomented the tumult of the Clubmen lending them some Officers till the whole Parliament Forces coming upon him after a stout and cunning maintenance of several Passes that divided the Enemy and Lines and Hedges that secured the Men who retreated nobly to Bridge-water with 2000. in spight of 14000. men and thence to the North of Devon-shire where being able to do little good his Souldiers having no Pay observing no Discipline provoking the Country against them as much as they did the enemy and he in the Dutch way of good fellowship loosing opportunities which admit no after-games he slipped away under pretence of leading some French Forces that were promised into Holland with some contributions in his Pocket to assist the Prince of Wales for whom he gained all the civilities imaginable in the States Ports Counsels Treasuries Magazins and Armies and with whose Commission he returned to form the general design all over England 1648. for his Majesties Restauration particularly in Kent and Essex where by chance he met the Commissioners in his way to Sussex the loyal Inhabitants whereof in pursuance of the Petition for Peace which some of them had lost their lives in the delivery of he having given direction for seizing all the Armes and Ammunition of the Country modelled into an Army that moved up and down to incourage the Loyalty of the whole Country to an insurrection confining the factious as they went giving out Commissions to several Land-officers when upon Mr. Hales Sir William Brockham Mr. Matthew Carter Sir Anthony Aucher Sir Rich. Hardres Col. Hatton Mr. Arnold Brium Sir Iohn Mynce Sir Io. Roberts Colonel Hamond and the rest of the Country Gentlemens importunity he had accepted the charge of General which the Duke of Richmond had waved and dispatching Letters to the Sea-officers and Messages for Armes and Ammunition into France and Holland with a Copy of the Engagement taking in Deal and Sandwich together with Provisions securing the Passes and Rendezvouzing at Barham-downs three miles from Maidston where he was proclaimed General in the head of the Army in which capacity he would have quartered his Army close together but was fatally over-ruled by a Counsel of War of generous spirits rather than experienced Souldiers to whom always after the delivery of his own opinion he referred himself to let them lye at large whereby they were dispersed and made lyable on all sides to the enemy without any possibility of relief from one another the reason why such a number of them was cut off at Maidston after which Engagement leaving some to secure the Country about Rochester the General marched towards London for the Lord Mayor and Common-counsel promised assistance where finding all things against him and nothing for him after two or three nights absence in viewing the nature of the Essex Engagement in his own person for he would trust no body else and finding the disorders at his return of his Forces by continual alarms and want of rest disposed of them to the best posture for refreshment he himself having had no sleep in four days and three nights and then marched them to quicken the backward Levies at Chelmsford not far from which place to encourage them he drew them to a Rendezvouz and to regulate them divided the Volunteers that came in into Troops whence marching to Colchester not with any design to stay there but being surrounded he made such provisions of Victuals raised such Works made such Sallies kept such Guards and bore up the hearts of his men by such Orders Examples and Declarations that he maintained an unwalled old Town eleven months together against the Parliament General and Army till all hopes of Relief was cut off and all Provisions even the Horses Dogs and Cats were spent After which being Impeached before the High Court of Justice as it was called he so artificially pleaded the authority he acted under and the harmlesseness of the design he acted in that his case being put to the Juncto it was carried by one voice and that was the Speakers his life and banishment whereupon going beyond Sea was very instrumental in order to his Masters service in making the peace between Spain and Holland and the war between Holland and the Faction in England for all which service and sufferings being Created by Charles I. Baron of Hurst-Perpoint in Sussex and after the death of his Mothers Brother Edward Lord Denny Earl of Norwich 21. Car. I. he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners to his Majesty and Clerks of the Counsel upon the Marches of Wales the Motto of the Bohemian Nobility that sided with Frederick Prince Elector Palatine viz. Compassi conrâ—gnabimus being made good to him though not to them he partaking as well of the prosperities of his Majesties Restitution as he had done of his adversities and afflictions till he died suddainly at his Inne in Brenâ—ord Middlesex 1663. In his Company it is fit to mention 1. Sir Iohn Owen of Klinenney in Caernarvon-shire Vice-Admiral of North-Wales a Gentleman of a noble and an undaunted spirit and great interest in his Countrey which he led thrice to the assistance of his Majesty first 1642. continuing in the service with much respect from the greatest men pleased with the Integrity and generosity of his spirit in the Army much love from the meanest paying using and fighting his Souldiers well in 7. Battels 9. Seiges and 32. Actions leading to the most hazardous undertaking and bringing off from the most desperate onset till 1646. Secondly 1647. and 1648. making as considerable a party in North-Wales for his Majesties Restauration in spite of the Sheriffes and other Officers Of those Countries at Talerheer Caernarvon where after a smart fight he was taken Prisoner sentenced at London but for want of evidence at that distance against one so well beloved pardoned Thirdly 1659. raising Anglesea Caernarvon-shire and Merioneth-shire at the same time that Sir G. B. and Sir T. M. did Cheshire Denbigh-shire and Flint-shire c. besides what he did a little before he died 1665. with great pains and charge raysing 4. or 500. excellent
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
his preferment and a Papist afterwards though he was the same godly and orthodox man always he died 1649. dividing his estate equally between his relations to whom he was obliged in nature and distressed Ministers for whom he had compassion as a fellowâ— sufferer of whom I may say as it was of Dr. Reynolds that it must be a good heart that kept so good a head employed rather in rescuing old truths than in broaching new errors Dr. Iohn Richardson extracted of an ancient and worshipful Family in Cheshire brought up in Dublin and made Bishop of Ardah in Ireland peculiar for a very grave countenance and his being extraordinary textuary by the same token that they who would not let him Preach on the Scripture in the late times desired his help to Comment upon it for his is the painful Comment in the larger Annotations upon Ezekiel Many the gifts in these times bestowed upon him and much in Almes his deep poverty abounding to the riches of liberaliy as our Saviour relieved others though living upon others relief himself when living and considerable his Legacies especially to Dublin-colledge when dead which happened in the year of our Lord 1653. and of his age 74. being observed never to have desired any preferment but to have been sought for to many it being his rule to discharge his present place well knowing that God and good men use this method viz. to make those who have been faithful in a little Rulers over much as he was to the great benefit of the places he came where being as good and dexterous a Lawyer as Clerk he compounded Differences discharged Annuities and Pensions set up Presidents of Frugality built Houses that he long Inhabited not Dido being feigned in love with Aeneis when dead many years to salve the Anticronism it is said it was with his Picture truly I never saw this Reverend Prelates Picture but I was in love with him for his Portracture sake in Paper as I am with God for his Image sake in him Mr. William Lyford Bachelor of Divinity born and bred in Piesmer in Berk-shire preferred first Fellow of Magdalen-colledge to which he restored in way of Legacy what he had taken for the resignation of his Fellowship to his great grief many years in a way of bribe and thence by the favour of the Earl of Bristol who had a great value for him Minister of Sherburne where he divided 1. His people to two parts 1. The weak which he Catechised and Principled in the Doctrines of the Church for many years before the wars whereof he drew a Scheme since 2. The strong whom he confirmed by his exact Sermons his modesty visible in his comely countenance and the meekness and prudence of his spirit in his courteous behaviour 2. His time into nine hours a day for Study three for visits and conferences three for prayers and devotion two for his affairs and the rest for his refreshment 3. His estate into one third part for the present necessity of his family another third part for future provision and the third for pious uses and his Parish into twenty eight parts to be visited in twenty eight days every month leaving knowledge where he found ignorance justice where he found oppression peace where he found contention and order where he found irregularity planting true Religion apart from all fond Opinions the reason why though I have heard at a solemn Assembly 1658. at Oxford him charactered for a man of an upright life great gravity and severity by the same token that it was wondred there that so holy a man so much acquainted with God as he was should doat so much these are their own words on such sapless things as a King Bishops Common-prayer and Ceremonies and he to win them over used much their more innocent Phrases Expressions and Method yet he suffered much from the Faction in his Name and Ministry dying 1653. Mr. William Oughtred a native Scholar and Fellow of Eaton bred in Kings-colledge Cambridge and his Mathematical Studies wherein by Study and Travel he so excelled that the choicest Mathematicians of our age own much of their skill to him whose house was full of young Gentlemen that came from all parts to be instructed by him leading him to a retired and abstracted life preferred onely by Thomas Earl of Arundel to Albury in Surrey where having a strong perswasion upon principles of Art much confirmed by the Scheme of his Majesties return in 1660. sent his Majesty some years before by the Bishop of Avignon that he should see the King restored he saw it to his incredible joy and had his Dimittis a month after Iune 30 1660. and the 86. year of his age Much requested to have lived in Italy France Holland when he was little observed in England as facetious in Greek and Latine as solid in Arithmetique Astronomy and the sphere of all Meatures Musick c. exact in his stile as in his judgment handling his Cube and other Instruments at eighty as steadily as others did at thirty owning his he said to temperance and Archery principling his people with plain and solid truths as he did the world with great and useful Arts advancing new Inventions in all things but Religion Which in its old order and decency he maintained secure in his privacy prudence meekness simplicity resolution patience and contentment Dr. Richard Stuart a Gentleman of a great extraction and good education born at Pate-shull in Northamptonshire near Nâ—â—vesby to Navelshy in the midst of England where was born Martâ—â— de Pate-shull who being a Divine was the best Lawyer of his time and Chief Justice of the common-Common-pleas As he being a Lawyer bred Fellow of All-souls and almost being a little person of great faculties all soul himself in Oxford was one of the best Divines of his time made successively Dean of Chichester Provost of Eaton Dean of Saint Pauls and Westminster Prolocutor to the Convocation 1640. at Westminster Clerk of the Closet to the Kings Charles I. and II. a great Champion of the Protestant Religion at Paris where he Preached the excellent Sermon of Hezekia's Reformation in vindication of ours and a discreet propagator of it having with that publick spirited man Sir Georg-Ratcliffe gone very far in making an accommodation between the Iansenists and the Reformed a sit man for such a noble design considering the moderation of his principles his breast being a Chancery for Religion the Sweetness of his Temper the Acuteness and Depth of his Reason the Charm of his Rhetorick and Fancy he having been formerly upon all occasions as great a Poet and Orator as he was then a Divine and the full Smartness of his Stile Vir to give him the Elogy of his Country-man Holcot in divinis Scripturis cruditissimus saecularium rerum hand ignarius Ingenio praestans clarus eloquio declamator quoque concionum egregius He ordered this Inscription on his Grave
Aristotle handleth the affections in his discourses both of Rhetorick and Poetry and Devotion then keeping up his thoughts and parts the melancholy resulting from thence that made him in the midst of the brave discourses in his House and Company the Rendezvouz of all that was Noble Learned or Witty in the Nation silent some hours together drew in all that he heard into great notions and as if it had been a Meditation all the while expressed them in greater In a word he became the best Poet by being the best natured man in England sufficiently honored not so much by the great appearance at his Funeral at Westminster-Abbey as became the Funeral of the great Ornament of the English Nation August 1667 as that he was intirely beloved by his Majesty King Charles II. the Augustus to this Virgil familiarly entertained by her Majesty Mary the Queen Mother received into the intimate friendship of his Grace George Duke of Buckingham c. and so happily immitated by the excellent Mr. Sprat the surviving Ornament of English Ingenuity who hath done that right and honour to the Royal Society that that doth to Philosophy and the world the first grounds and rules whereof were given by Dr. Cowley in a way of Club at Oxford that is now improved into a noble Colledge at London Fran. Quarles Esq Son to Iames Quarles Esq born at Stewards nigh Rumford in Essex bred in Christ-colledge in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn London preferred Cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia Secretary to Bishop Vsher and Chronologer to the City of London having suffered much in his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and as much in his Peace and Name for writing the Loyal Converâ— and going to his Majesty to Oxford by the Faction in England he practised the Iob he had described and the best Embleme though he had out-Alciated and Excelled in his Emblemes of Devotion and Patience himself dying Septemb. 8. Anno Domini 1644. Aetatis 52. the Husband of one Wife and Father of eighteen Children buried at St. Fosters and living his pious books that by the fancy take the heart having taught Poetry to be witty without profaneness wantonness or being satyrical that is without the Poets abusing God himself or his neighbor To joyn together Poetry and Musick Mr. Will. Laws a Vicar Chorals Son born and bred at Salisbury but accomplished at the Marquiss of Hertfords who kept him at his own charge under his 〈◊〉 Govanni Coperario an Italian till he equalled yea exceeded him Of the private Musick to King Charles I. and of great respect among all the Nobility and Clergy of England besides his fancies of the 3 4 5 and 6. parts to the Viol and Organ he made above 30. several sorts of Composures for Voices and Instruments there being no instrument that he Composed not to as aptly as if he had only studied that When slain September 24. 1645. in the Command of a Commissary given on purpose to secure him but that the activity of his spirit disclaimed the Covert of his Office he was particularly lamented by his Majesty who called him the Father of Musick having no Brother in that Faculty but him that was his Brother in nature Mr. Henry Laws since gone to injoy that heaven where there is pleasures for evermore after he had many years kept up that Divine Art of giving laws to Ayr Fettering Sounds in Noble Halls Parlors and Chambers when it was shut out of Churches where for many years to use Mr. Hookers words it was greatly available by a native puissance and efficacy to bring the minde to a perfect temper when troubled to quicken the spirits low and allay them when eager soveraign against melancholy and despair forceable to draw forth tears of devotion able both to move and moderate affections The Bards thereby communicating Religion Learning and Civility to this whole-Nation When it was asked what made a good Musician one answered A good Voice another Skill but a third more truly Incouragâ—ment Having omitted the Reverend Bishop Bridgeman among the suffering Prelates it will be no offence to enter him among the discouraged Artists he being as ingenious as he was graâ—e and a great Patron of those parts in others that he was happy in himself for those thirty years that he was Bishop of Chester every year maintaining more or less hopeful young men in the University and preferring good proficients out of it by the same token that some in these times turned him out of his Livings that he had raised into theirs A good Benefactor to Chester I think the place of his Birth as well as his Preferment and to Brasen-nose-colledge oxâ—n the place of his Education but a better under God to England in his Son the honorable Lord Chief Justice Bridgeman a great sufferer in his Majesties Cause and a great honor to it his moderation and equity being such in dispensing his Majesties Law that he seems to carry a kind of Chancery in his Breast in the common-Common-pleas endearing as well as opening the Law to the people as if he carried about him the Kings Conscience as well as his own an instances that the Sons of married Clergy-men are as successful as the Children of Men of other Professions against the Romanists suggestion who against Nature Scripture and Primitive Practise forbid the Banes of Clergy-men within their own jurisdiction and be â—patter them without though they might observe that the Sons of English Priests prove as good men generally as the Nephews of Roman Cardinals Dr. George Wild a native of Devonshire Scholar and Fellow of St. Iohns-colledge in Oxford and Chaplain to Archbishop Laud at Lambeth a great wit in the University and a great wisdom in the Church which in its persecutions he confirmed by his honest Sermons in Country and City in publick and private particularly in his well-known 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Oratory in Fleet-street fitted for the Preaching of the Word the Administring of the Sacrament with a constant solemn and fervent use of the publick Liturgy encouraged by his chearful spirit and converse adorned with his great and gentile example of piety and charity communicating with great care to others relief that were Sequestred Imprisoned and almost Famished what he himself by his great reputation and acquaintance received for his own maintenance who hazarded himself by keeping correspondence beyond Sea most yet suffered less than any bold innocence is its own guard only surprized sometimes to a few hours Confinement and some weeks Silence when as it is said of Saint Iohn Baptist by Maldonate miraculum nonfecit magnum fuit so it is written of him by his successor Bishop Mossom Concionem non habuit magna fuit He preached no Sermon yet was he himself in the pattern of patience and piety a good Sermon because Herod was afraid of this burning and shining light he came not to execution himself for his Loyalty because he feared not Herod he
that was during the Usurpation and he himself set five times before a nâ—igh Court of Justice nor any judgement given till his Majesty returning May 29 1660. was met by him at Charing Cross with a stand of Loyal Gentlemen and old Officers of the Kings Army the stateliest sight seen that glorious day He died Feb. 21 1661 2. faelicitas in ipsa faelicitate mori Sen. being supported under his great age and greater suffering by a naturally great spirit made greater by solid and unquestionable principles by a chearful temper by noble studies that both comforted and diverted sublimating natural bodies for he was a great Chymist as he did his affections by a well grounded patience for he would say he learned patience himself by looking on the inconvenience of impatience anger in others And to keep his body in a temper suitable to his soul for many years he eat no Breakfasts that his stomach might be cleansed and its superfluous humors consumed before he came to Dinner saying that those who went with a crude stomach from one meal to another without an extraordinary use of exsiccatives as Ginger Oranges and Lemons Citrons Horse-Radish Roots c. would hardly escape the Scurvey if they did the Dropsie Coll. Edward Stradling Major General Sir Henry Stradling Coll. Iohn Stradling and Coll. Thomas Stradling of the ancient Family of the Stradlings the second Baronet of England of St. Donats in Glamorgan one of the noblest seats in all Wales Very forward in raising that Country for his Majesty and in eminent trust commanding it under him much to the satisfaction of the people more of the Gentry Good Prome-Condi of Antiquity faithful in keeping monuments thereof and courteous in communicating them whereof though some had as it said of Iohn Stow Mendacio now and then jogging them on the elbow yet many of them lacked Learning ratâ—er than Truth seldom omitting what is sometimes observing what is not considerable A Family to whom a Septenary number is happy a Nonary fatal Iohn Lord Culpepper of Thorsway whose Family is now honourable in the Isle of Wight bred to the Law was resolved to maintain it relating to the Exchequer in times of Peace when the Parliament grew sullen and would not see what they did he made his business to fill it against a War bringing his Majesty in some thousands from his friends and all that he had himself Novemb. 9. 1640. he made a smart Speech in Parliament against the grievances of the Government in the behalf of Kent for whom he sate Decemb 6. the same year he offered the peaceable and safe ways of repressing them and when he saw the Remedy like to prove worse than the Disease he endeavoured to compose differences in the House as long as he could and afterwards out of it bringing the first message of Peace with the R. H. the E. of Southampton and the most accomplished Sir Will. Wedall a handsome man and as knowing as much Learning long Travels and great Observations could make him men of parts sided with the King that could encourage them to the Parliament 1642. as he did six more during the Wars assisting in all his Majesties Councils and promoting all the Treaties wherein he was always a very sober Commissioner And when he saw no more good to be done by those Treaties than the Father saith he saw by Councils advising his Majesty to enlarge his Interest by dividing it into his own the enjoyment of the Kingdom and his sons the hope the one-to draw together the North and South out of a sense of their present duty and the other the West out of a regard to their posterities happiness he was appointed to direct his Highness the Prince his Counsel 1645 6. as he did first in raising a good Army towards the recruiting of the War and afterwards in proposing his Highness as a fit Mediatour between the King and Parliament for Peace From Cornwal he attended his Highness to Holland to negotiate supplies from thence to the revolted Fleet to keep it in order and dispose of it to advantage thence to France and Holland to settle the new Design 1648. for re-establishing the King mannaging an exact correspondence then both with the Scots and English thence to Breda to forward the Agreement with the Scots where he with an admirable dexterity solved or mitigated each morning the difficulties they made at over-night therefore called by those people The Healer thence to Denmark and Muscovy where he prevailed so far for his afflicted Master that he made the first Kingdom declare against the Rebels and the other besides some supplies he sent his Master lay all the Estates and persons of English men in those parts at his Masters feet whom he used so civilly as to convince that his Master aimed more at their good than his own Right and that he desired to govern his people only to protect them He lived to see his own maxim made good That time cures sedition which within few years groweth weary of its self the people being more impatient as he would say of their own Libertinism than of the strictest and most heavy Government besides that the arts and impulses of seditious Demagogues may a while estrange and divorce their minds yet the genius of English men will irresistably at last force them to their first love and his Majesty entring his Metropolis where he would say A Prince should keep himself in all commotions as the seat of money and men May 29. 1660. He dying Iune 12. following Master of the Rolls and his Son Governor I think of the Isle of Wight Sir Tho. Culpepper of Hallingborn in Kent paid 824l Composition William Culpepper and Thomas his son of Bedbury in Kent 434l Sir Alexander Culpepper 40l Prince Maurice bred in the Wars of Germany which were undertaken for his Father Frederick Prince Elector Palatine and chosen King of Bohemia and with some German Officers coming Sept. 17. 1664. over to serve his Unkle K. Charles I. whose only sister Elizabethâ— son he was in the Wars of England Where he behaved himself at once valiantly and soberly acting nothing in any place without a Council of War of the most knowing Gentlemen in that place nor exacting any contribution without the consent of the Inhabitants very much did he assist by a strange reach in contrivance he was Master of in pounding Essex in Lestithiel and more towards the taking of Exeter wary in his advice and bold in his action surprized twice by the carelessness of his Officers yet so that both times he told them of it having a strange mixture of Jealousie mingled with Courage Indeed he was a Monogdoon that is one admirable Prince of eight compleat Qualities Sobriety Meekness Civility and Obligingness Conduct Resolution Seriousness and Religion Justice and Integrity Foresight and Thoughtfulness Patience and Constancy Noble in bringing his people on and careful in bringing them off being called by his Enemies the
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
a Scythian Bishop found but 15 Christians in his Diocess and left but 15 Heathens there b He hath out a Pentaglot Dictionary of Modern Languages and a Portugez Grammar c The peculiar excellency of his Dodcna's Grove two Parts Translated into French with applause d See â—is lâ—tters to Sir Dudley Carleton in Mr. Hâ—les Remains e Being able to repeat 500 strange words after twice hearing of them and to make use of any mans Exercise or Sermon verbatim if he once but either sâ—w or heard it a As in Bâ—shâ—p Câ—â—â—zens 〈◊〉 Case and several others b The Earl of Câ—â—lisle and G. Lord Berkley especiâ—lly See his Dedicatiâ—ons in his Church History The old Eâ—â—l of Bristol and Bishop offered him a noble compeâ—ency to live with them â—he old Earl being much pâ—â—asâ—d with his company when he was Chaplâ—in to the P. Henat Exeter c See his Sermâ—ns and Meditations the handsome dress of which doth 〈◊〉 their useful matters to the Readers not only head but heart d See their Letters one to another a 〈◊〉 â—â—tidotum Lincolniensâ— b In his Ecclâ—sia vindicata a Mrâ— Puller Mr Sandersen Mr. Lestrange Mr. Hickâ—nan whom he strâ—nâ—gly discovered in the the very â—hrases he had borrowed from him and others to feather his Book a Vpon Arch-bishop Bancrofts motion 1611 b Formerly Fellow of Nâ—w Colâ—â—in Oxf. a His gâ—and Sacriledge of the Church of Rome about the Cup his Parallels his case of Spectaeles and â—is Vertumnus Romanus a See his disputation in his Dipper Dipped a Called the Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxf. which all the Parliament Divines refused to answer a See â—is Seâ—mons full of caâ—es about our Discipâ—â—nâ— and Ceremoâ—is b Seâ— his Lectures there â—e Juramenâ— to 〈…〉 c Seâ—â—is Xl. Sermons â—d Auâ—â—n d See the casâ—s of Love c. lately set out and supposed to be his a And he was of a Commiter in the Jerusalem-chamber March 2â— 1640 〈◊〉 view the lyturgâ— the Dâ—ctâ—â—â—e and Disâ—â—â—line of the Church sâ—â— whose first 〈◊〉 formers and their moderation â—e had a very great veneration and therefore he was very uâ—will 〈…〉 a See his excellent Preface to Bishop Ushers Book of Power and Obedience George Sanderson of Gunthâ—ope Lincoln Compounded for 140l b He succeeded Bishop Jo. Thorneburgh born in Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford acceptable to Queen Elizabeth who preferred him Dean of York and Bishop of Limbrick for his comely presence and to King James who made him Bishop of Bristol and Worcester for his Chymical Extraction and merry heâ—â—t which contributed much to his long life lying in an old Castle in Ireland the flâ—or over head broke down upon him and yet did him and his no â—arm c His style was manly for the strength of it maidenly for the modesty and Elegant for the phrase a Shocting and Bowles a See a Book called Bishop Prideaun his Last Legacy * with Doctor Wickham a 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 That 〈◊〉 â—â—gin to 〈◊〉 it with 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 â—nd it 〈◊〉 satisfaction a With his Patron Dr. Smith â—ackon we Mâ—â— Humphrey Sydenham born at Dalverton in Somersetshire Fellow of Wadham deserving witness his Athenian Babler the namâ— of Silver-tongued Denham b A deserving modest man that suffered much in the late times a Several Gentlemens Wives of his acquaintance a His body being worn out by study and sufferings Rob. Lautence of Bâ—gburgh Somerset compounded for 5D6l James Laurence Her 120 l. Giles Laur. Wore 370. Rob. Laur. Isle Perâ—eâ—le Esq 4500 l. Jo. Laurence Cheswick 200 l. b Hâ—monds poor mans Tyching a Whose 〈◊〉 sâ—â—â— Vâ—lentine Saunders of 〈◊〉 Ruâ—â—â—d Esq 〈◊〉 ser 12 〈◊〉 as hâ—â— Sâ—n 〈◊〉 Sir Orlando Bridgâ—â—â—n Lord Kâ—epâ—r 〈◊〉 for 4 oâ— Val. Saunders 〈◊〉 b Herbert c Juris intergentes qâ—aestiâ—â—um de eâ—dâ—m explicaâ—â—o de legati delinquenâ—is Judice Elementa â—uâ—is prudenciae c. a Reckoning himself so much more or less proficient in the Law of Nations as he more or less rellished Dr. Zouches works who was one of the Iudges at the Tryal of Panâ—aleouha the Portugal Ambassadors Brother upon which occasion that book was written b Of an eminent Family his Cozen Jo. Soames of Burnham in Norfolk compounding for 1430 l. c Mr. Heywood and Mr. Chase who both compounded deeply for their loyalty and suffered extreamly the first having served his Highness the Duke of York from a Child a 〈◊〉 Henryâ— was moved to marry by all â—he Nâ—â—â—â—y because of the convenâ—ences of her years together with her excellent at beauty and purenâ—â—s of 〈…〉 they are be wards of 〈◊〉 Act of Pâ—â—â—ia 〈◊〉 b Of whom shâ—ded in Child beâ— in Henry 8. full favour c 21. Counties a Among other writings of antiquity this Noble Fâ—â—â—â—y keeps a gâ—eâ—t Huntershâ—rn tiâ—ped with silver in â—oken of their dâ—scent from the Sâ—â—mies Lords of Woksale and Guardians of the wâ—ll gamed Forest of Savernake well 〈◊〉 so its 〈…〉 maâ—y haâ—nd 〈◊〉 years ago b Note Sir F. Anderson of New-castle upon Tiâ—e was a Col. in his Majesties Armyâ— and paid for it 1â—00 l. as Sir Henry Anderson of Pentdey Hert. 1730l Stephen Anderson of Mâ—â—by Line 372â— l. Jo. Anderson London 0â—00l Rob. Anderson of Châ—ehester Esq 0407 l. a To whose charity weâ—â— that stately built and richâ—y endewed Hâ—â—â—ital â—al at Appâ—â— by 〈◊〉 Westmâ—â—â—â—â—d Henry the last Earl of Humberlands Daughter married the Right Honorable the Earl of Coâ—â—â—e a Routing Col. Râ—ssâ—er at Moulton Monbâ—ay and the besiedgers though twice in number to his tiâ—â—d forces b Mem. Thâ—â— Sir Edward Musgrave of Layton Camb. paid 1974 l. composition a He was the first man thaâ— taughs Souldiers to â—a Cats Dogs c b With the assistanceâ—â—f his Countrâ—y-man Dr. Rawâ—nson 〈◊〉 excellent Maâ—hemaâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— Queens Col. Oxford c He was once upon making Mâ— Thruscross and other godly men Trustees for the Education of his Children in case it should please Gâ—d he failed in the Waâ—es d In an attempt made â—o vise at Hâ—â—â—â—m mooâ— 16â—5 â—o second Mr. Penruddock Where â—e and Sir Richard Maleverer were taken â—e it remembred that the noble Gentleman Sir Charles Sling-by was kissed at Marston-Moor Lieutenant Col Sliâ—gsby at Newbery a Who afterwards maâ—â—yâ—d Sir Abraham Shipman an active Gentlemen for his Majesty during the wares especially at â—olâ—â—â—ter for which â—e suffered sevâ—â—â—ly and was cast away in a place in the Indies he went to possâ—sse for his â—ajesty a As he did at the Court offering that if either Iudges singly oâ— the learned Counsel at 〈◊〉 would give it under their hands that the High Court of Iustice was a Lawful Iudicaâ—ory he would have pleaded b Note that Edward Ashton of Al denâ—am Sâ—â—sex Esq pâ—â—â— 2000 l. composition Thomas Ashton of â—â—â—kâ—th Lane 192l and T. A. of Westbanke Lane 116l c Where how would â—e seal his eyes and send them to his heart a Wâ—â—h 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 that Lâ—â—◠〈…〉 Seâ— b 〈…〉