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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70678	Some notes concerning the life of Edward Lord North, Baron of Kirtling, 1658 by Sir Dudley North Lord North.	North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677.	1682 (1682)	Wing N1286A; ESTC R678	21,672	50

of known wisedom for though not impossible as in nature where A privatione ad habitum non datur regressus yet it is very difficult for persons once outed to obtain a restitution of Dignities and Possessions and sometimes it cannot be had at all even by those who seem to be very much advantaged with the present Governours as may appear in the Posterity of the Duke of Norfolk and of the Lord Dacre of the North whose Predecessours suffered for correspondence with Mary Queen of Scots and yet when the Son and Grandson of the same Queen came to wear the Crown successively they could not recover their former rights For ingenuity or open sincerity it is a most Christian vertue yet since the wisedom of the Serpent is an allowed companion to the innocency of the Dove that vertue cannot be so strictly required in a Statesman as in other persons for else it had been a very horrid thing in David a man according to God's own heart to suborn his friend Hushai to profess himself a Servant to his Son Absalom with an intention to supplant him and to subvert his Counsels for that action of David's is not at all disapproved of in Scripture as others were But to return to our business In the year of our Lord 1553 King Edward came to the period of his life and reign which though glorious for a great progress in the Churches reformation yet otherwise was but turbulent by reason of a presuming upon the King's minority both by the Commons who in several parts of the Kingdome arose in Rebellion and did it so dangerously as the State thought good to use Foreigners in the suppression of them a thing very unusual in this Nation and by the greater Nobles who divided themselves into Factions which some of them nearest in relation to the King himself paid for with the loss of their Heads even in his days and others upon grounds then laid very shortly after Upon King Edward's death this Kingdom fell from a condition of instability which it had often felt during the nonage of its Princes to an estate which was then altogether unexperienced by us to wit the government of a Queen regnant a thing which the French Nation professeth utterly to abhor and is called by them Tomber en quinoüille or to fall under the Distaff It is true that this Crown had frequently passed to the Progeny of our Sovereigns Daughters but before this time it was never set much less settled upon the head of any Woman This might have raised great storms but it pleased the Divine Providence so to dispose of things by way of preparation as the Pill was swallowed down with great quietness for first there was not then in being with us any male Prince of the bloud as Philip de Valois had been in France who there assumed the Crown to the disherison of our Edward the Third then this Nation had given its consent in Parliament to an Entail of the Crown upon Mary and Elizabeth Daughters to King Henry And last of all the Duke of Northumberland's ambition not being able to make way otherwise had endeavoured to fix the Crown upon another Lady of Royal bloud his Daughter in Law so as by reason of this competition all the active spirits of the Nation having no other adherence became quickly engaged with one of the Competitresses and so the other novelty was wholly put out of thought The affection of this People was then so great to a right Succession in the race of their Princes as notwithstanding hazard of the Churches late reformation which a great part of the Nation had then set their hearts upon and the interest of the most eminent persons become possessours of Church-lands by way of exchange and otherwise yet the Duke of Northumberland soon found the weakness of his designs which he thought so strongly laid and being forsaken by his party became an assistant in the proclaiming of Queen Mary but it was too late to prevent the loss of his Head which had shewed it self so dangerous Thus Queen Mary having her Sovereignty generally acknowledged began her Reign and being desirous to give some testimony of a gracious disposition she gave free pardon to all saving the Duke of Northumberland the Lady Jane and some few others The Lords of the Council who had subscribed against her and for some time had seemed to act in the same way were included in the Pardon and some of them continued in that great honour and trust which may seem strange considering that the designs of Queen Mary were so diametrally opposite to those of King Edward in point of Religion but the same opposition was between the Ecclesiastical policy and religion of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth yet many of the old Counsellours were also held on by the latter and it seems fit if not necessary that it should be so for great changes in a State cannot be wrought suddenly without great danger and the doing of it maturely and judiciously requireth not only an exact knowledge of matters formerly transacted but also of their grounds and causes Of the Counsellours retained Sir Edward North easily obtained to be one and not only so but in the first year of this Queens reign he received an encrease of Dignity being called to sit in Parliament as a Baron which is a character of the Queens favour not then extended to any other of the old Counsellours though many of them held themselves in favour with her even to the time of her death And this sheweth that she intended a special reward to him and presupposeth a merit contracted by the performance of some former service of eminence It cost her nothing yet was it of very high value for the dignity of Peerage was rarely conferred upon any but persons of great worth and merit during the reigns of these two Sisters though under the succeeding Princes it became not only more common but a kind of merchandize for the benefit of Courtiers And now it appears how seasonably he parted with his office of Chancellour of the Augmentations for he did it upon valuable consideration whereas his successour Sir Richard Sackvill who held himself in grace all Queen Mary's days yet lost it without any recompence at all One of the most remarkable occurrents during this Queens Reign was her marriage with King Philip the Second of Spain and considering that Edward Lord North is by our Historians specified in the catalogue of those Lords who were employed in his reception and therefore likely as a Counsellour to have concurred all the way in the negotiating of that affair perhaps it may not be thought improper to touch somewhat upon it It might well be apprehended as a great danger to this People for their Queen to match with a more potent Prince of another Nation in respect that this Kingdom might by such means become a Province being deprived of the presence of their Sovereign But the transactours well

knew that this great King whose vertues were so many as they cannot find sufficient room in this small Treatise was before his marriage here provided of a Son to inherit his great Kingdom in case there had been issue by Queen Mary which issue nevertheless of hers should have enjoyed the Burgundian Provinces a great accession to his Crown and free from the inconvenience before mentioned And all other particulars were so well provided for in that business as there appeared little intermixture of the Nations in the government during the Queens life and no inconvenience at all upon her death For Edward Lord North he continued in good favour all the time of Philip and Mary for he held his Counsellourship and was powerfull with the Queen to obtain grace for others as may appear by the restitution in bloud of a person very highly descended and wrought by his mediation which also could not but be a matter of good profit to him And now this Queens reign not affording more matter relating to the subject of this discourse I must not leave untouched a reflexion indiscreetly cast upon this noble person by Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments which is this He saith that he himself spake with a Woman who told him that near the expected time of Queen Mary's delivery for she conceived her self to be with Child and the whole Kingdom was possessed with such an expectation the Lord North and another Lord came to her and would have prevailed with her to part with a child of hers newly born but that she utterly refused it and this Mr. Fox conceiveth to have been desired as a supposititious Child for the Queen The design it self is so unprobable either to have been truly such or to have been carried on by a person of so much honour and wisedom as it needeth little answer for the Queen her self was too vertuous and religious in her way to admit of such a thought Neither if there had been such an intention could it possibly have been concealed being the concernment of so great Princes and Nations And questionless the succeeding Queen would never have cast the least honour or placed any trust upon this Lord or his Son Roger Lord North whom she made a Privy-Counsellour and near officer about her if she had given the least credit to that Calumny It is therefore a wonder that Mr. Fox should insert in his History so trivial a thing and casting so great a Scandal having received it from a mean person in an extrajudicial way who perhaps might be hired to the affirmation for certainly he could not have found a more ready way to abate the credit of his other Narrations But however it was concerning Queen Mary's conception whether it were only fancied by her or in it self real with an abortion following it is certain that she lived not long after for she fell presently into a deep sadness of spirit and ended her days in the year 1558 having reigned but a short time and very unhappily even in her own opinion for she thought the loss of Calais which was the last footing of our Nation in France to be an irreparable blemish to her government yet was there much bloud shed at home for Religion which better might have deserved her sorrow but she according to the Prophecy of our blessed Saviour thought she did God good service in it She was a Princess very eminent for Vertue and Piety but too flexible a weakness incident to her sex which is not so fit to govern in publick matters referring almost all to others but especially in matters of Religion to her Prelates These she should have considered as too much interested and over-violent in things tending to their own power and greatness The subjects of a Tyrant who manageth his own affairs prove for the most part not so unhappy as of those of a mild Prince who putteth the whole care of Government upon some choice instruments for they become many Tyrants in stead of one and being of a more servile condition are usually steered by more sordid ends Yet is the Prince himself answerable for their faults and so certainly was this Queen and the rather because in respect of her engagement to uphold the Papal power she may be thought not to have given an unwilling consent to those horrid cruelties but Sanguis martyrum est semen Ecclesiae which saying it pleased God to verifie most strangely at that time as may appear in the Reformation perfected and settled immediately after Queen Mary's days Queen Elizabeth's entry upon her Reign was embraced with a general applause by the Protestants cordially for they concluded her well affected to their principles and by the Papists seemingly because she was yet theirs in outward profession as appeared by the Popish Ceremonies used at her Coronation yet these could not but be very distrustfull knowing her interest to be directly opposite to that of her Sister for if the Pope had power to Legitimate the marriage with Katharine of Arragon Mother to Queen Mary then that with Ann of Bullen Mother to Queen Elizabeth being solemnized living the other must of necessity be invalide This Queen presently made an alteration at the Council-Table retaining some and dismissing others Of the latter sort was Edward Lord North and whether or no it was his own desire by reason of age and infirmity we know not but certain it is that he was not under any great displeasure for the Queen finding it requisite to erect a Lieutenancy for command of the Militia and ordering of Musters in each County made choice of him for that trust in Cambridge-shire and the Isle of Ely This she did in the first year of her reign and by another Patent in her second year she confirmed it unto him But this power was soon resumed and as I conceive laid down generally for the present which giveth occasion to say something Historically of the Militia of this Kingdom Anciently the Martial forces were of two kinds extraordinary or ordinary The extraordinary consisted of Mercenaries serving for Pay and taken into service upon the occasion The ordinary were partly such as lay under an obligation by the tenure of their Lands to serve their Prince and this comprized all the Nobility and Gentry of the Land with their Tenants and these were they by whose help our Kings made so great Conquests and became so formidable abroad for if the Tenants answered not the expectation of their Landlord it was in the Landlord's power to turn them out of the Estates which they held but especially such as were Copyholders This power of great men as it was extremely usefull against Foreigners so it grew dangerous at home for that means there was great and frequent oppositions made against the Princes by Civil War managed by the Nobles whose Tenants were necessitated to serve them and this made the Kings so far to diminish this power upon Tenants at Will by frequent decisions of