he had dazled the World with that false Light he never pleas'd his Judges that had secretly tried the Constitution of his Conscience Sir Edward Sackvile who shortly succeeded his Brother Richard in the Earldom of Dorset was at Rome Ann. 1624. and had Welcom given him with much Civility in the English College so far that he presum'd to ask rather out of Curiosity than Love to see this Prisoner de Dominis Mr. T. Fitz-herbert the Rector did him the Observance to go with him to the Jayl He found him shut up in a Ground-Chamber narrow and dark for it look'd upon a great Wall which was as near unto it as the breadth of three spaces Some slight forms being pass'd over which use to be in all Visits says Sir Edward My Lord of Spalato you have a dark Lodging It was not so with you in England There you had at Windsor as good a Prospect by Land as was in all the Country And at the Savoy you had the best Prospect upon the Water that was in all the City I have forgot those things says the Bishop here I can best Contemplate the Kingdom of Heav'n Sir Edward taking Mr. Fitz-Herbert aside into the next Room Sir says he tell me honestly Do you think this Man is employ'd in the Contemplation of Heav'n Says the Father Rector I think nothing less for he was a Male-content Knave when he fled from us a Railing Knave while he liv'd with you and a Motley parti-colour'd Knave now he is come again This is the Relation which that Honourable Person made Ann. 1625. which I heard him utter in the hearing of no mean Ones 113. But by this time Spalat was dead either by his fair Death or by private strangling Gallo-Belgicus that first sent the News abroad knew not whither But he knew what became of his Body that it was burnt at the same place in Rome where Hereticks do end their Pain It is a Process of Justice which is usual with their Inquisition to shew such abhorrence to Hereticks that were so in their sense to call them to account though they be dead and rotten First They are so Histrionical in their Ceremonies as if they made a Sport of Barbarousness that they cite the dead Men three several Days to appear or any that will answer for them but happy they if they do not appear then their Carkasses or Bones are brought forth and burnt in the common Market with a Ban of Execration The latest that were used so among us were Reverend Bucer and Fagius at Cambridge Anno 1556. And Dr. Scot Bishop of Chester one of Cardinal Pole's Visitors defended it before the University Haud mirum videri debeat si in mortem quoque ista inquisitis extendatur Bucer Scrip. Angl. p. 925. Sic postulare sacros Canones p. 923. This is their Soverity from which the Dead are not free Now by the Blaze of that Bonfire in which De Dominis his Trunk was consum'd we may read an Heretick in Fiery Characters I mean as he was entred into the black Book of the Roman Slaughter-House He lived and died with General Councils in his Pate with Wind-Mills of Union to concord Rome and England England and Rome Germany with them both and all other Sister-Churches with the rest without asking leave of the Tridentine Council This was his Piaculary Heresie For as Aâ—orius writes Tom. 1. Moral Lib. 8. Cap. 9. Not only he that denies an Article of the Roman Creed but he that doubts of any such Article is an Heretick and so to be presented to Criminal Judgment Si quem in foro exteriori l gitime allegata proâ—ata probaverint in rebus Fidci scienter voluntarie dubitasse arbitrer cum ut v re propriè haeretiâ—um puniendum Therefore if Spalat had return'd a Penitent in their Construction and imbodied himself into that Church as only true and Apostolical he could not have suffered in his Offals and Carkass as an Heretick So the same Azorius confesseth Lib. 8. Cap. 14. And Alphonsus à Castro is angry with Bernard of Lutzenburg for holding the contrary Lib. 1. Cap. 9. Quis unquam docuit eum esse dicendum haereticum qui errorem sic tenuit ut monitus conviclus non crubuerit palinodiam cantare This was the success of the variable Behaviour of M. Antonius de Dominis De Domims in the plural says Dr. Crakanthorp for he could serve two Masters or twenty if they would all pay him Wages He had an Hearing as it is mention'd before in our High Commission To countenance the Audience of so great a Cause the Lord Keeper gave attendance at it I began at that end of his Troubles and having footed all the Maze am come out at the other 114. Johosaphat distinguisheth between the Lord's Matters and the King's Affairs 2 Chron. 19.12 So do I in the Subject before me I have given some Says of his Church-Wisdom in the former Paragraph I go on to set the Sublimity of his State-Wisdom in the latter I must look back to a small Service which he did perform in Michaelmas-Term 1621. for as much as the Conjunction of some things which rais'd a Dust in the Year following are sit to go together Upon the solemn Day when the Lord Cranfield then Master of the Wards and immediately created Earl of Middlesex took his Place as Lord Treasurer in the Exchequer-Chamber the Lord Keeper gave him his Oath and saluted his Admission with a short Speech following My Lord You are called to serve his Majesty in the Place of a Lord Treasurer by the most Honourable and most Ancient Call in this Realm the delivery of a Staff to let you know that you are now become one of the surest Staffs or Stays that our great Master relies upon in all this Kingdom And these Staffs Princes must lean upon being such Gods as die like Mon and such Masters as are neither omni-sufficient nor independent For St. Austin writing upon that place of the Psalm I have said unto the Lord Thou art my God my Goâ—ds are nothing unto thee observes that God only is the Master that needs no reference to his Servant All other Masters and Servants are proper Relatives and have a mutual Reciprocation and Dependence Eges tu Domino tuo ut det panem Eget te Dominus tuus ut adjuves labore As the Servant wants a Master to maintain him so the Master wants a Servant to assist him For the present supplying of this want in his Majesty I will say as the Historian did of the Election of Tiberius Non quaerendus quem eligeret sed eligendus qui emineret The King was not now to think of one whom he should choose but to choose one who was most eminent For as Claudian said of Ruffinus Taciti suffragia vulgi Vel jam contulerant quicquid mox addidit Aula You were stated in this Place by the Votes of the People before you understood the Pleasure
up the greatest part of the Time in speaking to the Redress of petty Grievances like Spaniels that rett after Larks and Sparrows in the Field and pass over the best Game Therefore his Majesty to loose no time drew up a Proclamation with his own Pen Feb. 20 to this end that certain of the Lords of the Privy Council should have Power and special Commission to receive the Complaints of all the good People of this Land which should be brought before them concerning any Exorbitances Vexations Oppressions and Illegalities and either by their own Authority if it would reach to it to see them corrected or to give Orders to cut them off by the keenest Edge of the Laws That Complainants should be encouraged to present their Grievances as well by the Invitement of the Proclamation as by the Signification of the Judges to the Country and Grand Juries in their respective Circuits The Draught of this the Features of his Majesty's own Brain came by Post to pass the Great Seal Yet for all that Hast the Lord Keeper took time to scan it and sent it back with Advice that the Project would be sweeter if it were double refined presuming therefore that his Majesty would not be unwilling to stop a little at the Bar of good Counsel he wrote this ensuing Letter to the Court Feb. 22. May it please Your most Excellent Majesty 120. I Do humbly crave Your Majesties Pardon that I forbear for two or three days to seal Your Proclamation for Grievances until I have presented to Your Majesty this little Remonstrance which would come too late after the Sealing and Divulging the Proclamation First As it is now coming forth it is generally misconstrued and a little sadly look'd upon by all men as somewhat restreining rather than enlarging Your Majesties former Care and Providence over Your Subjects For whereas before they had a standing Committee of all the Council-Table to repair unto they are now streitned to four or five only Most of which number are not likely to have any leisure to attend the Service Secondly I did conceive Your Majesty upon Your first Royal Expression of Your Grace in this kind in a Resolution to have mingled with some few Lords of Your Privy-Council some other Barons of Your Kingdom Homines as Pliny said of Virginius Rufus innoxiè Populares Whose Ears had been so opened to the like Grievances in the time of Parliament as their Tongues notwithstanding kept themselves within the compass of Duty and due Respect to Your Majesty as the Earls of Dorset and Warwick the Lord Houghton Dr. Morton the Lord Dennie the Lord Russel the Lord North. And among the Lords Spiritual the Bishops of Lichfield Rochester and Ely and especially unless Tour Majesty in Your deep Wisdom have some Reasons of the Omission Dr. Buckeridge the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury This mixture would produce the these Effects ensuing First An Intimation of Your Majesties Sincerity and Reality in this Proclamation Dr. Felton Secondly A more free and general Intimation to Parties Aggrieved who will repair soonear to these private Peers then to the great Lords of Your Majesties Council Thirdly The making of these Lords and the like Witnesses of Your Majesties Justice and good Government against the next ensuing Parliament and the stopping of their Ears against such supposed Grievances at that time as shall never be heard of in their Sitting upon this Commission Fourthly and Lastly The gaining of these Temporal Lords to side with the State being formerly much wrought upon by the Factious and Discontented If Your Majesty shall approve of these Reasons it is but to Command Your Secretary to interline these or some of these Names in the Commission which in all other respects is already wisely and exceeding well penn'd with two short Clauses only First That these Lords shall attend very carefully and constantly in Term-time when they are occasion'd to be at London Secondly That they be instructed to receive all Complaints with much Civility and Encouragement giving them full Content and Redress according to the merit of their Grievances For nothing will sooner break the Heart of a People or make them lose their Patience than when hopes of Justice are frustrated after the Royal Word is engaged But if Your Majesty in Your high Wisdom will overpass these Particulars which I have dutifully presented upon the return of the Proclamation as it is it shall be sealed and divulged with all expedition But these Reasons were not overpass'd Both the Proclamation and private Orders to the Lords Commissioners were reformed by the Contents of that weighty Letter His Majesty greatly inclining to the Lord-Keeper's Readiness and espying Judgment in all Consultations For as Laertius in Zeno's Life said of a famous Musician 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Ismenias could play well upon all Instruments So this was another Ismenias who had the Felicity to make all Deliberations pleasing and tuneable especially he had that way above all that I knew to make sweet Descant upon any plain Song that was prick'd before him It will be to the Profit of the Reader if I rub his memory with one Passage of the Letter for it is but one though it come in twice which presseth the King to Sincerity and Reality to fix his Word like the Center of Justice that cannot be moved Righteous Lips are the delight of Kings Prov. 16.23 And a King of Righteous Lips is most delightful Since the coercitive part of the Law doth not reach him upon what Nail shall those Millions that stand before his Throne hang their Hopes if his Word do not bind him A People that cannot give Faith to their Sovereign will never pay him Love It seems that the ancient Latin Kings did profess to use Crookedness and Windings of Dissimulation in their Polity therefore their Scepter was called Lituus because it bent in toward the upper end But the Scepter of thy Kingdom says David of GOD is a right Scepter A right one indeed For Contracts and Promises bind God to Man much more must they oblige the King to his People An Author of our own Dr. Duck in his very Learned Treatise De usu Juris Civilis p. 44. hath well delivered this Morality Princeps ad contractum tenetur uti privatus nec potest contractum suum rescindere ex plenitudine potestatis cum maximè in eo requiratur bena sides Falshood is Shop-keepers Language or worse but 't is beneath Majesty 121. A Parliament being not far of either in the King's Purpose or in Prospect of Likelihood Serj Crooke Cvew Finch Damport Bramston Bridgman Crawly Headly Thin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authurst Blng. Dâ—y the Lord Keeper was provident that the Worthies of the Law should be well entreated Their Learning being most comprehensive of Civil Causes and Affairs they had ever a great Stroke in that Honorable Council Therefore he wrought with his Majesty to sign a Writ for the Advancement of some
sit and apt Clerk to be preferred to the same Hence it plainly appears by the said Covenant and Proviso that the said Committees as to the Advouson of the Church of Sutton belonging to the said Ward are but Lessees in Trust to present such a Clerk to the same as the King or the Master and Council of the Court of Wards for the King shall Name or Appoint Then it is Pregnant That the Clerk being refused whom the Lady offered to the Rectory without the Kings Consent c. no Injustice is offered 199. He rejoyns to the Second That the said Church being become Void the Lord Keeper by Virtue of his Place as time out of mind hath been used presented Dr. Grant the Kings Chaplain in his Majesties Name The Master of the Wards presented likewise Dr. Wilson in the Kings Name to the same Church But Dr. Grant was first presented admitted and Dr. Wilson gave way After both these the Committees present their Clerk in their own Name and pray a Quare Impedu to remove the Kings Clerk and to have their own Clerk admitted in his room This Quare Impedit by the Kings Commandment to the Lord Keeper was denied them For which much is alledged Lands in Question in Chancery were Decreed by the Lord Ellsmore to Peacock in Equity against Revell who had a good Title in Law Revell would have had an Original Writ of Assise against Peacock to have recover'd the Lands from him by Law The Writ was denied him by the Lord Ellsmore If Revell would have made a Lease or a Feoffment to any Friend in trust which Friend would have sued for an Original Writ to have recover'd the Land the Writ might as well be denied to him as to Revell himself So the Master of the Wards presented a Clerk to the Church of Sutton in the Kings Name before the Lord Darcy presented If that Clerk would have sued for a Quare Impedit in the Kings Name the Lord Keeper by the Kings Appointment might have denied the Writ And by the same Reason may he in like manner deny the Writ to the Lady Darcy who as to the Advouson is but a Lessee in trust to present such a Clerk as the Master of the Wards for the King shall name As by the Covenant and Proviso in the Lease doth appear If Lands in Question in the Chancery be by Order of the Court by both Parties conveyed to one of the Six Clerks in trust that he shall convey the same as the Court shall Order upon the hearing of the Cause who refuseth to convey the Land according to the trust and prayeth a Writ of Assise to recover the Land from him to whom the Court hath order'd the same for the trust appears as plainly to the Court as in the Case of a Decree This Writ may be denied So the Lady Darcy being a Lessee of the Advouson in trust to present such a Clerk as the King or the Court of Wards shall name or allow of if she will present a Clerk of her own contrary to the trust reposed in her and sue for a Quare Impedit to remove the Clerk presented by the King and to put in her own choice this Writ by the Kings Appointment may be denied her for the trust appears of Record So if Bonds be taken of a Defendant in Chancery in the Name of a Master of the Chancery with Condition to perform the Order or Decree of the Court The Court Decrees Money to be paid by the Defendant to the Plaintiff at a Day who pays the same the next Day after which the Plaintiff accepts and the Court allows of If the Master of Chancery will pray an Original Writ of Debt upon this Bond to recover the Money to his own use this Writ may be denied him The Lord Ellsmore presented a Clerk in the Kings Name Ratione Minoris AEtatis The Lady Mordant pretended Title to present and having four Feoffees in trust of the Mannor or Lands to which the Advouson did belong as she pretended would have had four Writs of Quare Impedit against the Kings Clerk in the Names of her four Feoffees severally The Lord Ellsmore denied them all There are many more Precedents to be shewed in like Cases where Original Writs have been denied 200. Yet since it is to be done with great Tenderness and Discretion and seldom or never but when it appears that one Injury must be prevented necessarily with another he declares Thirdly That the Lady Darcy's Proceedings thrust in so dangerously between two great Courts that ordinary Justice could not but be denied her for fear an extraordinary Difference should be raised between the said Courts being thus laid open When the Lord Ellsmore was Lord Chancellor and Robert Earl of Salisbury Master of the Wards there fell out a Contestation between these two Potent Lords whose Right it was to present to the Wards Livings which were under Value of 20 l. in the First-Fruit-Office And the Contention grew so insoluble that King James with all his Pacificous Wisdom could not readily light upon a way to reconcile it Yet at the last it was compounded thus That which soever of those two Officers should first present to such a Benefice his Presentation should be Valid for the Possession of the Living If both Presentations should come together to the Bishop which perhaps would not happen in an Age then there was Casus pro amico on the Bishop's behalf as the Canonists speak This Agreement had continued amicably to that very Day and was then in danger to be infring'd For if a Suit had commenced as the Lady desired the Lord Keeper could not avoid to charge the Court of Wards with Fraudulency in passing away the Donations of Livings in the Compositions for Wards which was a pre-occupating or rather plain deluding of the Patronage which was in the Lord Keeper by the Agreement Wherefore he waves the strong and full defence he had made upon the stopping of an Original Writ and deprecates all offence by that Maxim of the Law which admits of a mischief rather than an inconvenience Which was as much as to say That he thought it a far less Evil to do the Lady the probability of an Injury in her own sense than to suffer those two Courts to clash together again and fall into a new Dispute about their Jurisdiction which might have produc'd a publick inconvenience which is most carefully to be avoided This Plea satisfied the House and cleared him in the general Opinion or as some Interpreted excus'd him rather for his other good Parts then absolutely cleared in this intricate Point as Livie li. 1. says Horatius escaped Sentence by the Voice of the people because they loved his Person rather then lik'd the Fact upon which he was question'd Absolveruntque admiratione magis virtutis quam jure Causae Yet it goes strongly to justifie the Lord Keeper in the Fact that all the Lawyers in the House did unanimously
second quick and acute Dr. Ward in the Chair a rare Determiner Dr. Brownrigg in the Schools an unparallel'd Disputant and in the Pulpit a most divine Preacher As Tully said of Crassus and Scevola In aliquibus dissimiles erant inter se statuere tamen ut non possis cujus te malles esse similiorem So these two in some things were Matches in some things unlike in all things excellent and happy were he that could be like to either He that received such as these under his Roof might be comforted not that he received Angels unawares but Christ himself in his Disciples This Matter might have broken off here but that Mr. W. S. who likes the Gallantry of the Bishop's House-keeping adds that which was very true that Watches were set to note and espy him Warning was given by some that were appointed to it The Court is not always the closest Cabinet to keep Secrets As Budaeus observes it Lib. 3. de Asse fol. 105. Aius ille Locutius arcanum nihil sinit esse eorum quae in Aulâ geruntur But the Bishop would take no knowledge that such a Snare was laid esteeming of it as Physicians do of Cancer Occultus that it is more safe to let it alone than to go about to cure it nor was it easie for him to keep in his Freedom Which yet many times had subtlety mixt with it such as Fulgentius says was in Padre Paulo That he would seem open in his Talk out of an admirable Dexterity to make others speak freely But more often custom did make his Words run from him without regard to those that might be suspected As Camerarius writes of Melanchthon Oratio ejus erat libera etiam sine circumspectione consideratione eorum coram quibus illa haberetur Where much Knowledge and a sweet Nature meet with intelligent Company Discourse will flow without an over-anxious advertency upon the Hearers Yet Offence could never be grounded upon his Words if a candid Interpretation judg'd them Doubtless he that had lost one Eye would be more tender to keep the other As for those Spies and State-rats that are set to run and scent in every corner Budaeus a great Courtier as well as a Scholar in his Work cited before Fol. 188. Accounts them to be most ignoble Instruments bred at first under the ragged Princes of Asia But he that did most employ them was Midas King of Phrygia which gave occasion to the Fable that he had Asses Ears Quem narrant asininas aures habuisse quod multos otacoustas auricularios sermonum captatores haberet Thistles were fitter for such Asses to feed on than the sumptuous provision of a most bountiful Lord. 36. Though the good Fare remembred was much seen and much talk'd of yet there were Issues of Liberality from the same Purse no less or more to be approved The Lordly Senators of Rome sed the Bellies of their Clients that came officiously to salute them Fructus amicitiae magnae cibus Juven Sat. 5. And that was all the good they did But as this Bishop's Table was free and open so was his Hand Except Bishop Andrews who was sublime in all Vertue there was not so great a Giver of his Order to the Supply of the Learned and of Gentlemen of hard Fortune whom he gratified with no small Sums Beside some poor Scholars of eminent Hopes in both Universities whom he cherish'd with sufficient Pensions to maintain them modestly A Servant of a worthy Family that look'd to his Disbursements Mr. John Mostyn will avouch it that in such charitable Out-lets he spent a Thousand Pounds every Year at the least sometime Twelve Hundred Whatsoever Colours you lay upon the praise of a great Man certainly such Works are the best Mettal of his Coat Titulis fascibus olim Major habebatur donandi gloria Juven ut supra And that 's Truth in Ar. Will. History p. 196. That this Bishop was of a bountiful Mind to Men in want being a great Patron to support them when there was Merit that wanted supply The same Author hath instanced in one of the best to whom he did minister out of his store the Man whose Renown will ever be fresh Dr. Peter Moulin the Elder Who flying from the mortal Threatnings of his Enemies at the time of the Siege of Mount-Alban and finding harbour in England was not only furnish'd for his present use by this compassionate Providor but he sent also for his Son Dr. Peter the younger out of France ordain'd him a Deacon to make him capable of his Patronage instituted him into a Donative one of the best in North Wales and caused him to engage that Provision should be made out of it for his Mother-in-Law as it were in the way of a Joynture if the survived his Father A Benefit which the Father that great Pillar of the Reformed Churches in France neither sought nor expected For he had never seen his face that conferr'd it and came so welcome to discharge him from all further care of laying up for his Family that among his other rate Gifts he proved the most acknowledging true-hearted and constant Friend that ever the Bishop had to do with From whom he was presented every Month with all those Rarities which the Gallican Church and State set forth Neither were the Moulins the Father and Son the All and the only ones among the Worthies of the Transmarine Churches that were Debtors to his Courtesie But as our holy Fathers Grindal Whitgift and Abbot had done before him many in the Universities of France and the Netherlands that were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men of Fame and Industry were greeted from him with ample Tokens of Benevolence For though the Government and comely Order of our Church is far better contrived than theirs through the good Hand of God upon us yet he was not pufft up like some that think their Imperfections make them unworthy of Communion with us Is there but one Tree of Knowledge in all the Paradice of the Church of God Or must all be despised that are not reformed ad amussim The good God pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek the Lord God of his Fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary 2 Chron. 30.19 Alas yet many of these or their Colleagues since they were filled with good things from our Right Reverend Fathers have turned against us and have brought fuel to kindle the fire which hath burnt up the houses of God in our Land Lord lay not this sin to their charge They have received good things from us and we have received evil from them The white stone is on our side the blot is on theirs But our Bishop's End was good the Coagmentation of the parts of the Building of God's House and to oblige the Master-builders His Prudence and Humanity went far to close up Breaches and to advance Unity And as the Showers of the Clouds drop
Houses to accept thereof Obj. 3. They desire the King to command the Clerk of the House of Peers to enter this their Petition and Protestation among his Records which derogates from the Rights of Parliament As though the King could be his Command make a Record of Parliament 〈◊〉 It is to be conceived that the Bishops never intended that this Petition as may appear by the Directory thereof should be preferred to the King in any other place but in the Upper House of Parliament And it will appear among the Records of that most Honourable House 11 Rich. II. num 9. that the King in that House hath commanded the like Protestation of the Bishops to be enrolled which made the Bishops use that Phrase Howbeit beside the King's Command the Assent of the Peers and Commons have still concurred and the Bishops never conceived it otherwise which made them presume that no matter of their Protestation could possibly amount to any higher Crime than that of Error or Mistake considering that it was still to be admitted or rejected by the King with the Assent of the Peers and Commons Here the Answer ends in this brief compass Let all the Council in the Land plead against it and shew where it is not sound and satisfactory Yet the Bishops desire no other reparation for their false Imprisonment but Liberty and Safety to Vote in that House to which they were called by the King 's Writ Sidonius speaks in pity of Eutropia lib. 6. ep 2. Victoriam computat si post dammum non litiget And these innocent men would not hold it for Justice done unto them if after so much Wrong sustained the Contention might be ended 170. Every subsequent Action of that Parliament did castrate their Hope Day utter'd unto Day how they meant to dissolve that Primitive and Apostolick Order piece by piece And what shall we have next The very Kingdom of Christ set up in the Church if you will believe them As Pisistratus would perswade the Athenians that he changed not their Laws but reduced them to those that were in Solon's time by which Trick he made them his Slaves Laert. in Vit. Sol. Is it possible that men could have the face to pretend more ancient Rulers in Christ's Church than Bishops The method of Sacrilege was first to pluck the Spiritual Lords out of the House and to disable all the Clergy from intermedling in Secular Affairs The Bill is read and easily pass'd now the Bishops were not in place to hear it and dispute it The Plaintiff pleads the Cause at Westminster what can the Defendant say to it in the Tower Proceed my good Lords he that runs alone by himself must needs be foremost This was worse than if a young Heir were sent to travel by his Guardian and the Guardian pulls down his House fells his Woods leaseth out his Lands when he is not in the way to look to it But where were those Earls and Barons that sided with the Bishops before Shrunk absent or silent They that are wise Leave falling Buildings fly to them that rise Or as Plautus in Stych as neat in his Comick Phrase as Johnson Si labant res lassae itidem amici collabascunt But the King's part is yet to come The Parliament makes ready a Bill the King only makes it a Law So he did this and it was the last I think that ever he signed Why he did it is a thing not well known and wants more manifestation Necessity was in it say they that would look no further Nulla necessitas excusat quae potest non esse necessitas Tertul. Exh. ad Cast c. 7. The most said That nothing was more plausible than this to get the Peoples Favour Or that the Houses had sate long like to continue longer and must have Wages for their Work because they are no Hirelings they will chuse and take and this Boon they will have or the King shall have no Help from them It would ill become a Royal Spirit to plead he was compelled by Fear else His Majesty might have revoked this Act upon that Challenge As Sir Nic. Throgmorton surpassing most of his Age for Wit and Experience assured Mary Queen of Scots shut up in the hold of Loquelevin Cessionem in carcere extortam qui justus est metus planè irritam esse Cambd. Eliz. ann 1569. Yet Fear had not so much stroke in this as the Perswasions of one whom His Majesty loved above all the World The King foresaw he was not like to get any thing from this Parliament but a Civil War he would not begin it but on their part he heard their Hammers already at the Forge Et clandestinis turgentia fraudibus arma Manil. lib. 1. He being most tender to provide for the Safety of his Queen went with her to Dover to convey her into France not that she desired to turn her Back to Danger or refused to partake of all Hazards with her Lord and Husband for she was resolute in that as Theogena the Wife of Agathocles Justin lib. 20. Nubendo ei non prosperae tantùm fed omnis fortunae iniisse societatem But because His Majesty knew himself that he should be more couragious if his dear Consort were out of the reach of his Enemies Being at Dover the Queen would not part with the King to Ship-board till he signed this Bill being brought to believe by all protestation of Faith from Sir John Culpepper who attended there for that Dispatch that the Lords and Commons would press His Majesty to no more Bills of that unpleasing nature So the King snatch'd greedily at a Flower of a fair Offer and though he trusted few of the men at Westminster yet in outward shew he would seem to trust them all the more because the Queen had such Confidence in them How Culpepper instilled this into the Queen and how she prevailed York is my Author and could not deceive me for he told me in the Tower That the King had sacrificed the Clergy to this Parliament by the Artifices contrived at Dover a day before the News were brought to London Then they fell to Bells and Bonfires and prophaned the Name of God that He had heard them whose Glory was not in their Thoughts from the beginning to the end A Day-labourer lifts up his Ax towards Heaven but strikes his Mattock into the Earth And all the Evil that the Earth breeds was in their Mind when they seemed to look up to God That which is of God must have its Foundation in Humility its binding fast in Obedience its rising in Justice and its continuance in Peace So begins the Misery and Fall of the Bishops Synesius hath lent us words fit to express jump in the same Case Ep. 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is the Bishops were expulsed meerly by Slander nothing being demonstrated to lay any Crimes against them And verily God was gracious to them What should they have done as it
till he had his End for which he Labour'd The marvel is that his Worth and Activity should make such impression in the King that his Majesty upon some occasion told him of it long after when he was then become His Highness's principal Officer 24. These were the noted Adventures which our young Academian by deputation from his College did make abroad but his Staple was at his Study at home where his Light did break out openly in great splendor upon this occasion On Candlemass-Day Anno 1608. his Reverend Friend Dr. Playfere departed out of this World in the 46 year of his Life in his Flower and Prime whose greatest well-wishers did not wish him alive again because his rarely beautified Wits with which he had even inchanted his hearers in so many estivat commencements were now more and more distemper'd Yet Mr. Williams wept over him and exceeded in Grief as if a Child had lost his Father The University making preparation for the Solemn Funeral of so great an Ornament to it the Vice-Chancellour that then was Dr. Jeggon possest the Pulpit to Preach and Mr Williams was required to be the Oratour to give him a farewel of due praise in the Chappel of St. Johns College He pleaded the Truth that his sorrow would not grant him such a dispassionate mind as was fit to compose a Panegyrick and that in the space of three days and for such a man as Dr. Playfere And with this Excuse he held off till Dr. Clayton set upon it to enforce the Tasque on him that could best discharge it Threatned him with expulsion if he refused that Service to which his Superiours had allotted him An hard condition and such as might have been disputed as long after I heard him Argue upon it But then he yielded whether fair means or foul means overcame him I know not But I think rather Love than Fear got the upper hand of Grief And when â—his Turn came to speak upon the day of the Obsequies O what a tunable Musique he made between his Rhetorique and his Tears for both flowed together How curious were his Apostrophes How moving were his Passions How winning his pronunciation Many pauses he was compelled to make by the Applause and humming of the Swarms about him in the close of his Periods When he had done and the Assembly brake up it was in every Mouth that Playferes Eloquence was not dead with him while this Orator was alive Let me trouble this Narration with a small interjection I was my self in the throng among those that heard this Oration newly admitted into Trinity-College that being the second day wherein I wore my Purple Gown This being the First Exercise that I heard in Cambrige in the Latin Tongue I thought it was a City paved all with Emeraldes and that such Learning and such Silver Elocution was common to them all But there is a saying in Macrobius a great Orator being the Subject which might have made me Wiser it is thus ad notam seculi sui non sufficit Hortensius All men that lived in that Age were not like Hortensius and among a bundle of Gods the Poets have feigned but one Mercury and although the success of this Funeral Encomium was much to the Authors praise yet I have it from his own Testimony that he never suspected himself so much as then in all his Life least he should have shamed his own parts and Trespast against the Honourable Memory of the Dead because his Wits were bedarkened with a Cloud of Sadness But I see that falls out otherwise with many more than he imagin'd The Noble Author of the History of the Council of Trent hath remembred that the Letters of the Cardinal of Lorain ween he was struck with horror of Grief for the untimely Loss of his Brother the Duke of Guise I say his Letters consolatory written in that plunge and amazement of Sorrow to his Sister the Dutchess were the most full the most sententious the most flourishing in Phrases that ever he wrote No instance can go higher that that of the Prophet Jeremy whose Eloquence and curious Figures in his Lamentations were never matcht The mourning of that Dove is sweeter than the warbling of any Nightingale 25. Having bought this Credit so dear with the loss of his dearest Friend he grew more considerative to look above him not about him to the praise of God and not of Men. He had labour'd four years strenuously in Theological Studies and found himself in some Ripeness to do God Service in the Ministry So surrendring himself in Prayer to him that alone gives sufficiency he received the Orders first of Deaconry then of Priesthood in the 27 year of his Life And being recommended to the Grace of God by imposition of hands presently he began to labour in his Masters Harvest and became a Preacher of more frequency and diligence than it useth to be with Fellows of houses for the greater part Who stay too much upon their preparation before they buckle to the work of their calling like Mowers that are longer in whetting their Sithe then in cutting down the Grass And that the Lord when he came might find him careful in tending like a good Steward over the Houshold immediately with the Office of his Ministry he took the charge of a Living the scantling of it very mean and it could be no better after the Letter of the Local Statutes where he Lived that he might keep his Fellowship with it It lay beyond St. Edmunds Bury in the confines of Norfolk perhaps Fakenham or very near to it it was the flitting Milk of a poor Vicarage the Parsonage Tithes being scumm'd from it I know not who presented him to it but questionless the Benefice sought him and not he the Benefice He had a fair Champion Country to Ride over to it from Cambridg which was Exercise with breathing in sweet Air But the profits of the living would hardly defray the Costs of his Journeys The exility of the small Revenue took not off his Edge For it yielded all out as much as he did drive at to teach the simple to attain to a readiness in Preaching by early and often practice and to be acquainted with compassion I use his own words towards the hard condition which his poor Brethren did undergo that had scarce enough to feed them and keep them Warm for all their Labour It seems the people of the Parish were good people or he thought them such for in his highest Honour I heard him Treating with Sir Lionel Talomach of Fakenham that Sir Lionel would employ from him an 100 l. to buy Land of five or six pounds per annum Value for the Relief of the Poor of that Village to the worlds End I hearkned no more after it For I reckon'd it was done Because every place wherein he had a Title was the better for his Charity If further for a deeper Gage to sound his Learning some expect to know
at Chattam and to ride near to St. Anderos to bring the Prince for England if there were a rupture in the Treaty But if they should suddenly strike Hands and make a Bargain my Lord Duke had his Thoughts upon a Question which if it should be ask'd he would not be surpriz'd as if he were ignorant what to answer that is What Dowry should be granted to the Princely Bride Therefore he consulted the Lord Keeper and required Satisfaction to be brought by a Courier that must not spare Horse-Flesh who was hied away as fast as he could be with this Answer May 14. My Illustrious Lord THe Dowry about which your Grace requires the speediest Direction must consist in some of the Kings fair Mansion Houses and in Revenue For both which the Mannor-Houses and the just Sum of the Joynture I must refer to you and can do no otherwise to my Lord of Bristol's former Conclusions with that Council But whether it should be allotted in Land or other Revenue I cannot yet convince mine own Judgment fully which were better Sometimes I consider it were good that a great part were named out of Customs and such other Incomes lest our Poverty in crown-Crown-Lands be discovered Sometimes I find it for certain more advantageous to his Highness to have all the Joynture in Land and that the choicest of our Kingdom because being once in the Joynture it is sure to be preserv'd in the Crown and no longer subject to be begg'd or begger'd by Fee-Farms and unconscionable Leases And I believe your Lordship will so advise it Or if you please the Sum being agreed upon you may suspend the rest till you return that Counsel in the Law on all sides may put their Cases upon it Your Grace will give me leave to observe that now is the first time that any Daughter-in-Law of this Crown had any other set Maintenante than was granted to her voluntarily by her Husband But your Grace may reply That this is the first Portion of so great a Bulk And it is no way inconvenient for his Highness that she have a Copious Maintenance confirm'd to her in present as I could tell your Grace at large if I were present with you All is right here to your Lordship's Good and I will be vigilant to keep it so Nor will I serve his Majesty in that place wherein I shall not be so heedful as to be able to yield an account of any Disservice or Offer that way which may concern your Grace c. By the same Messenger at the same time another Dispatch was posted to the Prince in answer to his Highness who had signified his Pleasure was That the Recusants should be gratified for his sake warily and not by broad Day-light to shew that he was sensible of those Hospital Civilities which he then received from some Cards of their Suit Whereupon the Lord Keeper writes May it please your Highness I Would I had any Abilâ—â—â—â—â— to serve your Highness in this place wherein you have set me and what far more Grace and Favour Countenanced and Encouraged me To observe your Highnesses Commands I am sure the Spanish Ambassador resiant must testifie that since your Highnesses Departure he hath been denied no one Request for Expedition of Justice or ease of Catholicks although I usually hear from him twice or thrice a Week which I observe the more Superstiticusly that he might take knowledge how sensible we are of any Honour done to your Highness And yet in the Relaxation of the Roman Catholicks Penalties I keep off the King from appearing in it as much as I can and take all upon my self as I believe every Servant of his ought to do in such Negotiations the Events whereof be hazardous and uncertain God Bless your Highness as in all other so especially in this present Business of so main Importance c. These are the Negotiations which the Lord Keeper for his Share at this Season brooded under the Wings of Fidelity and Prudence How well let the Wise and Unbiassed be Judges Such will not be Cajol'd into a wrong Belief by Corruptors of History as Heraclides serv'd his Scholars Quos duplo reddidu sluitiores quam acceperat ubi nihil poterant discere nisi Ignorantiam Cicer. Orat. pro Flacco 140. It is enough declared how the great Matters about the Match went here The Dispensation of Pope Gregory the XV. turn'd them round in Spain till they were giddy with the Motion It was expected it should come in the common Church Style an absolute and Canonical Dispensation and no more only for her Sake that was in Submission to his Laws But it was Compounded with so many Reservations and ill-visag'd Provisoes that it swell'd like a Tympany The Pope knew with home he had to deal For there are none in the Earth more Superstitious to do him Honour then the King of Spain and his People That King would make the Pope too big for a Priest that the Pope might make him too great for a King Nor is there any other intent to make that Patriarch of the West the sole capacious Fountain from which all Pipes of Grace and Indulgence Ecclesiastical should be fill'd and run abroad but principally to Water his own Garden What between the Nuncio Resiant at Madrid who was Commanded to stop all Proceedings till safety were granted nay and put in Execution both for English and Irish Catholicks as much as they ask'd What with the Charge given to the Inquisitor General to use all possible diligence to draw the Prince to his Holiness's Obedience What with Olivarez's frowardness of whom the Duke could not obtain to put a Postscript in his Letter to the Pope that to add these new and un-relish'd Conditions with which the Dispensation was Clogg'd would be interpreted the worst of Unkindness what with all these together his Highness might say Fat Bulls of Basan have compassed me in on every side A little Honey God wot a little was allowed to to the Lip of the Cup if he would Taste of that Potion that was that from thenceforth his Highness might have access to his Dearly Affected Mistress not as formerly a bare Visitant but now as a Lover so some of their chief States were in presence to hear all their Conference a Rule which they say is never Infring'd in the grave way of the Castilian Wooing The old Man Gregory the XV. gave light himself to his Friends and Servants in Spain what they should do by the Flame of his own Zeal For he sent a Letter to the Prince Signed with the Signet-Ring of St. Peter to exhort his Highness with many words to reduce himself and the Kingdoms of which he was the Heir to the Subjection of the Roman See Hereupon some of our Hot-Heads in England made it a Quarrel and a Calumny that the Prince sent an Answer of Civility to the Popes Epistle Civility though it is a thing unknown among the Plebeians and Clowns
Ecclesiam Romano-Catholicam Parliaments naturally begat Entities and the want of Parliaments produceth Nullities Surely God and the King are must averse to such Parliaments Mark Gods Parliament the first Parliament in the World wherein the Three Persons in Trinity are consulting together Faciamus Hominem and you shall find it was to beget Entities Therefore God is scarce present in that Consultation that brings forth Nullities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Philosopher begins his Ethicks Every Consultation is for some Good some End some Entitie and most opposite to an Abortion or Nullity And therefore you may applaud those former Laws of Learning Piety Grace and Bounty which you handled before In my Opinion Mr. Speaker you have kept the good Wine and the best Law of them all till now which is Solon's Law Lex Oblivionis A Law of Forgetfulness That by His Majesties Grace and Favour freely offer'd unto us the last day all the Memory of these Unfortunate Abortions may be Buried in the River Lethe and never be had in any further Remembrance I will put you in Mind of a Story which Tully relates out of Thucydides and leave the Application to this Honourable Auditory When the Thebans having gâ—t the better of the Lacedaemonians Erected a Brazen Trophy for that Victory they were complain'd of apud Amphictyonas that is before the common Council of Greece Eo quod aeternum inimicitiarum Monumentum Graecos de Graecis Statuere non oportuit Because it was most unfit that between Greek and Greek there should remain any Record of perpetual Enmity Fifthly For the Common Law of England if we regard the Meridian for which it is Erected it is a Law as was said of those of Lycurgus Disciplinae Convenientissimae of a most apt and convenient Frame and His Majesty hath ever so approved of it Nay He is so precisely affected and disposed in this kind that as Paterculus writes of Cato Id solum ei visum est rationem habere quod haberet Justitiam He could never allow of any Devise or Project how plausible soever that was not justifiable at the Common Law 183. Sixthly For the Supply of Princes in this Kingdom His Majesty makes no Question but that by Parliament and Subsidy is the most Comfortable to the King and most Favorable to the Subject It Comforts the King as issuing from the Heart and it Easeth the Subject as brought by the Hands not of one or two but of all the People That which you call Benevolence or Good Will brings unto His Majesty neither so much Good nor so much Will as the other support And therefore the Kings of this Land though it hath been accepted by most of them have made of Benevolence but Anchoram Sacram a help at a dead lift when Parliaments being great Bodies and of slow Motions could not soon be Assembled nor Subsidies issuing from the Purses of Particulars be so suddenly Collected And it is very well known with what Reluctancy His Majesty was drawn to shoot out this Anchor never Assenting thereunto until he was in a manner forced by those intolerable Provocations from without and those general Invitations from whithin the Kingdom Remember therefore that good Lady in whose Defence the Money was spent that inimitable Pattern once of Majesty but now of Patience to the Christian World and you will say no Man can be found of that Malevolence as to find fault with this one Benevolence Seventhly His Majesty Returns you most hearty Thanks for your Care and Zeal of the True Religion And is much Rejoyced to hear That this Lower House as it is now Compos'd is such another Place as Tully describes the Town of Enna Non Domus sed fanum ubi quot Cives tot Sacerdotes It is no vulgar House but as Originally a Sacred Chappel wherein are Assembled in regard of their Zeal and Devotion look how many Men so many Church-Men And his Majesty gives you full assurance that he nothing so much Regards the Airy State or Glory of this Life as he doth that inestimable Jewel of our Religion which is to remain his only Ornament after this Life If there be any Scandals to the contrary not given but taken for want of due Information his Majesty wisheth as Aphonso the Wise King of Aragon did Omnes populares suos reges fuisse That every one of his People had been a King for then they might soon understand and be as soon satisfied with the Reasons of Estate His Majesty hath never spared the Execution of any Law but for the Execution of a greater Law to wit Salus Reip. the Good the Peace and Safety of the Church and Common Wealth And you know that is the ultimus finis all the rest are but fines sub fine For as the Orator well Observes Nemo Leges legum causâ salvas esse vult sed Reipublicae We do not desire the Observing of our Laws for the written Laws but for the Common-Wealths sake And for those Statutes made for the preservation of Religion they are all as you heard last day from that Oracle of Truth and Knowledg in full force and in Free Execution Nor were ever intended to be connived with in the least Syllable but for the further propagation of the same Religion What knowest thou O Man if thou shalt save thy Wife was a Text that gave no Offence in St. Paul'stime Remember the King's Simile which indeed is God's Simile Zach. 6. Kingdoms are like to Horses Kings resemble the Riders the Laws the Spurs and the Reins by which Horsemanship is managed A good Rider carries always a sure but not always a Stiff Hand But if Agar grow insolent by those Favours then in Gods Name out with the Bond-woman and her Sons For his Majesty is fully Resolv'd That as long as Life remains in his Body and the Crown upon his Head the Sons of the Bond-woman shall never be Heirs in this Island with the Sons of the Free-woman And our Royal Master gives us his Chaplains free leave to put him in mind of that of Synesius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God is still careful of the Good of Kings and Kings cannot be too careful of the Good and Service of God In the Eighth place his Majesty exceedingly comforted with the just Feeling and Resentment you express against the Usurpation of that invading Enemy who hath expell'd our most sweet Princess from her Jointure and her Olive Branches from their Rightful Inheritance Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor Surely if the Rule be true Attollit vires in milite causa That a good Cause makes good Souldiers it is no such impossibility to regain the Palatinate You say Sir Cato was positively of Opinion Carthaginem evertendam That whatever became of other designs Carthage must be overthrown And you are of Opinion and so are all good Men besides Palatinatum reglutinandum That the Palatinate must be Glued again to the Right Owner and pluck'd out of
profitable to the Church and that there should be no Violation of Justice in the Grant for which he cast his Eye religiously upon that Warrantable Rule Levit. 26.19 He that will Redeem that which is Sanctified must add a fifth Part to the Estimation So this Godly King was superabundant in his Care that the See of York should be Richer by parting with this House as is manifest by the Lord Keeper's Letter sent to that Worthy Patriarch of the North whose Age would not suffer him to come to London May it please your Grace I Have been as Careful as lay in my Power to further your Wise and Religious intent which your Grace so really expresseth in making an advantageous Exchange for your Successors between York-House with Warders tenement and the Mannor of Brighton in the County of Ebor together with the Woods which Woods I am assured are out of Lease And I conceive that part of the Exchange so well settled if the particulars be true as I probably presume and your Grace may better find then I that your Successors shall have good Cause to bless God for the same Now His Majesty and the Duke are very willing to fetch in the rest of the Tenements unto the House and to deal with you and your See Graciously and bountifully in the Exchange For when I kneeled before His Majesty in the presence of the Prince and others to crave Pardon that I stood so strictly upon Terms of Benefit and Good Accommodation to your Grace who had Trusted me in this Exchange the King gave me hearty Thanks for doing so and desired me that for His sake and Buckingham's to see that your Grace should convey nothing at all to his Majesty but that your See should receive back again for the same double Recompensation Your Grace therefore shall receive by your Son Sir Tobie whom His Majesty and the Duke would needs employ personally for the expediting of this Business with your Grace two particulars more proposed for an Exchange with the Tenements belonging to York-House The which particulars if they hold out in Value and Estates as they be presented which your Grace by the Industry of one of your Servants may in two days perceive by Reason of their vicinity to the City of York be of far more profit to your Grace and Successors then these Tenements can possibly be their States and Demises consider'd If those two particulars should dislike your Grace instance upon any other thing lying in Charge to the King and in more conveniency to your Grace and I find his Majesty so over good in this kind that I presume he will deny nothing that can be demânded without blushing Your Son my very good and much respected Friend hath been so industrious for the good of your See as though he were the Son of that Church as well as your Grace's as I would he were and I hope he may be I rest ever May 4. 1624. 194. All things being agreed upon this Bargain on this side Trent and beyond it an Act is drawn up and brought into the House of Commons The Provision for the Exchange is apparent without Fallacy or Fear of Wrong and better than the Redemption of a thing sanctify'd under the Levitical Prescriptions yet it stuck in the House of Commons and struggled with great Opposition The King's Counsel pleaded well that his Majesty's Lands were more profitable by a good Size than that which the Arch-Bishop contributed in lieu but it was answered by a worthy Knight Let Caesar keep that which is Caesar's and let God keep that which is God's And that Scruple was held in dispute for many days although the Duke did then appear to be a Person that deserved to be gratify'd till evident Reason like a Condensation of Light did shine more and more before them that Love and Conscience tender to preserve the Church her Rights ought not to hinder her Augmentation Or had it been no more than barely one for another it would be no worse than with the Man in Famianus Strada that sneezed once and blew out his Candle and sneezed a second time and blew it in again Therefore when the Commons had shewn their Good will not to violate Sacred things as if the Spirit of thrice honoured Sir Harry Spelman had possest them when they had said much upon it and received handsome Satisfaction when they were at a wit-stand and could reach no further the Bill was carried by some Votes and the Permutation concluded A noble Affection to the Bishops and to that Portion which our virtuous Progenitors had given them and little followed within twenty years after by such as the Prophet describes Isa 50.11 That walk in the Light of their own Fire and in the sparks which themselves have kindled Those Prelates that not long ago had so many Friends to support their Demesns are now like Abraham when God sent him into a strange Land where he had no Inheritance no not so much as to set his Foot upon Act. 7.5 Now those Mannors and Houses which were kept entirely for them are sold to make Payment 't is well known to whom But such Work such Wages Publick and Private Civil and Sacred Lands Civil Wars can gulp down all And yet the Grecians that knew not the true God invited all to take Arms against the Phocenses in the Quarrel of Sacriledge and called it the Sacred War When the whole Estate of Pompey the Great was Confiscate after Caesar had prevailed in the Pharsalian Battle says Tully Philip 2. Qui ad illud scelus sectionis auderet accedere inventus est nomo praeter Antonium None could be found so impudent to buy his Lands but Antony But enow are found in these Dominions that are ready to buy Gods Lands Their Peny-worths are cheap if there were no Account to be made to the Lord of the Vineyard hereafter These Huxters cannot chuse but think of it and if any of them should say he did not drive this Trade at least with a doubting Conscience in good Faith I would not believe him 'T is the Envy of the Devil when he cannot hinder Reformation to discredit it with Sacriledge And he is cunning at that horrid Sin ever since he mixt it in his first Temptation For the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which was not to be eaten had a Sacramental Signification in it and stood in Paradice for an Holy Purpose and was an holy Possession in regard whereof to eat of the forbidden Fruit was Theft in the Act and Sacriledge in the Circumstance But suppose a Church be unsound surfeited and fit to be purged of Offences What Physician that undertook to cure a sick Man did ever plunder him of all that he had for his Fee Who will think else that his Heart was set upon the Good of his Patient and not upon filthy Lucre He that reaps down Errors and fills his Barns with golden Sheaves he works for Mammon and
Prince his Heir and the whole Flower of the Realm with that Infernal Powder-Plot Not reveal it said I Yes more it was hatch'd in their Brain and confirm'd with their Blessing If Clanculary Confession was cast out of the Church of Constantinople for one Mans Lust What just cause have we to gagg it for forty Mens Treason I would have him hang'd for his Wit that should invent a way to discharge a Pistol that might give no Report Now let me forfeit my Credit if wise Men will not say That Conspiracies buzzed into the Ear and imposed never to be detected upon the deepest Obligations of Faith Church-Love Merit c. are far more dangerous than Powder and Shot that kill and crack not Would you in good earnest have us Repeal our Laws of Correction against such dangerous Flambeaux Were not that to break down our Walls and to let in the fatal Horse with his Belly-full of Enemies If they plead that there is no such danger in them now Let them tell it to deaf Men. We know and can demonstrate that the most of Contrivances against our State have been whetted upon the Grind-stone of Confession Our Sages that made the Laws to blow away the Locusts into their own Red-Sea have given us a taste of their Malice in the Preface of the Statute Eliz. 27. That they came into the Land to work the Ruine Desolation and Destruction of the whole Realm Therefore marvel not if some have lost their Lives that have tempted the Rigour of those Laws Neither doth it move us that our Fugitives thereupon have sprinkled their Calenders with new Martyrs What if Jeroboam's Priests had pass'd their own Bounds and come to Jerusalem where it is likely they would have been cut off for Enemies and Rebels should their Names have been crowded into the Catalogue of the good Prophets that were stoned by Tyrants Beshrew your Superiours beyond Seas that Conjure up such Spirits to come into our Circle It grieves us God knows our Hearts to Execute our Laws upon one ot two in Seven Years for a Terror to others But Prudence is a safer Virtue then Pity And it is far better our Adversaries should be obnoxious to our Tribunal then we to theirs by the Thraldom of our Nation which is the drift of those unnatural Emissaries And if the Venetians that are under the Obedience of your Church have banish'd some of that Stamp and irrevocably out of their Territories Nay if your selves in France did sometimes Expel the same Faction accept it favorably from us who will never be under that Obedience if we Banish all 227. Hold out your Great Courtesie my Lord to a few Words more The Answering of an Objection or two will not stay you long And before I conclude I will deal you a good Game to make your Lordship a Saver if you will follow Suit You please your self Sir because you ask no more Liberty for your sacrifical Priests in our Land then the Reformed Ministers enjoy with you in France But the Comparison doth not consist of equal Terms The Protestants receive a benefit of some Toleration in your Realm to stop the mischief of Civil Wars and to settle a firm Peace among your selves It is the Reason which your Wisest and most candid Historian Thuanus doth often give and Mounsieur Bodin before him p. 588. Reip. Ferenda ea Religio est quam sine interitu reip auferre non potest If you did not so you would pull up much of your own Wheat with that which you call Tares But such a Toleration in this Kingdom would not only disturb Peace but with great Probability dissolve it In the next place you urge that such a memorable Favour might be done to gratifie the sweet Madam our intended Princess upon the Marriage O my Lord you are driven by Blind Mariners upon a Rock If this could be Granted by the King which you contend for and wereeffected Sweet Lady she would be brought in the Curses of this Nation and would Repent the day that she drew the Offence of the whole Land upon her Head Let me say on the Husbands Part what your Country-man Ausonius says for the Wife Saepe in conjugiis fit noxia si nimia est dos If the Prince should make a Joynter to his Wife out of the Tears and Sorrows of the People it were the worst bargain that ever he made His Majesties Consort of Happy Memory Queen Ann did not altogether concord with our Church Indeed the Diversity between us and the Lutherans among whom she was bred is as little as between Scarlet and Crimson The Colours are almost of the same Dip. But she carried it so prudently that she gave no notice of any dissention Neither ever did demand to have a Chaplain about her of the Lutheran Ordination This were a Precedent for the most Illustrious Madam to follow rather to procure the love of the generality then of a few Male-contents from whom you your self my Lord will have Cause to draw off when I tell you all They deal not with your Lordship sincerely They thrust your whole hand into the Fire and will not touch a Coal with one of their own Fingers They that incite and stir these Motions behind the Curtain dare not upon pain of their Lives ask it in Parliament where they know the Power Rests and no where beside to ratifie the Grant And when they Solicite your Lordship to obtain these indulgences for them in the Court they know you beat the wrong Bush Upon my Faith the Bird is not there Noli amabo verberare Lapidem ne perdas manum Plaut in Curcul Knock not your Fingers against a Stone to Grate them Perchance my Lord you think I have pinch'd you all this while with a streit Boot which you can neither get on nor off Your Lordship shall not depart from me with little Ease if Truth and plain dealing will purchase me to be called your Friend None can Repeal our Laws but his Majesty with the Votes of the three Estates as you term them the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the people And to dispense with the Execution of a Law absolutely and unrestreinedly is as much as to Repeal it which if the King should assay it were null in Law and in Revenge of it in the next Parliament it would be faster bound and perchance the Rigour of it increased But Favour and Mercy may be shewn Praeter sententiam legis in some exempted Cases and to some particular persons Clemency against the Capital Sentence of the Laws is the Kings Prerogative the Life of his Subject when it is forfeit to him he may choose whether he will take the forfeiture Every Varlet says Seneca may kill a Citizen against the Law but then he turns to the Emperor Servare nemo praeter te c. None but the Supreme Majesty can save a Life against the Law Work upon that my Lord and it were a good days work to
extract advantage out of it But wherein lies the way You shall have better Heads then mine to help you if you please to be directed by me None can furnish you with the right Art of it but some of our sage Counsellors of our Common Laws I wish you therefore my Lord to proceed with the special knowledg of the Roman Catholicks that stir most in this Project Let them cull out some of the Learnedest Practisers together Let the King's Attorney General make one for my sake For the rest let your Clients pick out as they like An hundred Crowns among them that is a Fee of five pounds a Man will not be ill bestowed upon them Let them lay their Heads together And I will lose all I am worth if you do not thank me for having referred you to those who will fetch out by their Skill so much to be Granted that you will never be put to Contestation hereafter that you obtain'd much of the King and are never the nearer The Courtiers with whom alone you have had to do to this time have Complemented with your Lordship So could I do likewise give you Large concessions in Words and in Wax but in effect nothing Like Galley Pots Entitled with the Name of Cordials but have Cob-Webs in them and no more My Lord all that I have to say is no more but this will you be lead by me or will you wander still Sir says the Embassador Use me honestly I am a Stranger and while I am in England I will surrender up self to your Directions Nay I will possess our Virtuous and Illustrious Madam that you are a clear dealing Man and of good Faith and most worthy of her Trust when she comes into a strange Land And after a very civil Farewel at the present Mounsieur Villoclare made use of those Instructions For though he Climbed not so High as he looked yet he Climbed better for he stood sure where he could not fall 228. Which Papers came to the King with more satisfaction as he was pleas'd to say then he could have expected Not any Line of Wisdom or Learning could be lost to him who saw as far and as soon as any Man into the Intellectuals of another For as the Lord Bacon wrote his Majesty had a light of Nature which had such readiness to take Flame and blaze from the least occasion presented on the least spark of anothers knowledg deliver'd as was to be admir'd And this was the last present in that kind that the Lord Keeper sent to the King who finding some indisposition of Health retired for fresh Air and quietness to his Mannor of Theobalds VVhere Jacob gather'd up his Feet into the Bed and yielded up the Ghost Gen. 49.33 The Lord Keeper on March 22. being Tuesday receiv'd a Letter from the Court that it was feared his Majesties Sickness was dangerous to Death which Fear was the more confirm'd for he dispatching away in all haste met with Dr. Harvey in the Road who told him That the King us'd to have a Beneficial Evacuation of Nature a sweating in his left Arm as helpful to him as any Fontinel could be which of late had failed And that argued that the former Vigour of Nature was low and spent This Symptome of the Kings Weakness I never heard from any else Yet I believe it upon so learned a Doctors Observation And this might well cause a Tertian Ague and a Mortal when the Spring had Entred so far able to make a commotion in the Humours of the Body and not to expel them with accustom'd vaporation After the L. Keeper had presented himself before his Lord the King he moved him unto chearful Discourse but it would not be He continued til Midnight at his Bed-side and perceiv'd no Comfort but was out of all Comfort upon the consultation that the Physicians held together in the Morning Presently he besought the Prince that he might acquaint his Father with his Feeble Estate and like a faithful Chaplain mind him both of his Mortality and Immortality which was allowed and committed to him as the principal Instrument of that Holy and necessary Service So he went into the Chamber of the King again upon that Commission and Kneeling at his Palat told his Majesty He knew he should neither Displease him nor discourage him if he brought Isaiahs Message to Hezekiah to set his House in Order for he thought his Days to come would be but few in this World but the best remained for the next World I am satisfied says the Sick King and I pray you assist me to make me ready to go away hence to Christ whose Mercies I call for and I hope to find them After this the Keeper now of his Majesties Soul kept about him with as much Diligence as a Body of Flesh could endure He was ever at hand helpful not only in Sacred but in every kind of Duty never from that time put off his Cloaths to go to Bed till his Master had put off his Tabernacle which appear'd in his Looks on Sunday Night when he return'd to VVestminster employed himself Night and Day unless the Physicians did compose his Majesty to rest in Praying in Reading most of all in Discoursing about Repentance Faith Remission of Sins Resurrection and Eternal Life To which the King made Answer sometimes in Latin always with Patience and full of Heavenly Seasoning which Hallowed Works were performed between them on VVednesday as a Preparation to the Passover on Thursday the Fortifying of his Majesties Soul against the Terrors of Death with the lively Remembrance of Christ's Death and Passion in the Holy Communion At which the King made most humble Consession of his Sins craved Absolution rendred the Confession of his Faith before many Witnesses Profess'd he Died in the Bosom of the Church of England whose Doctrine he had defended with his Pen being perswaded it was according to the mind of Christ as he should shortly Answer it before him 229. All this while God did lend him such Strength to utter himself how well he Relish'd that Sacred Banquet of Christ's Body and Blood and how comfortably the Joy of the Holy Ghost did flow into his Soul as if he had been in a way of Recovery And his mournful Servants that saw and heard it rejoyced greatly that unto that time Sickness did not compress his Understanding nor slop his Speech nor Debilitate his Senses and submitted more willingly to God to have their Master taken from their Head because they believed the Lord was ready to receive him into Glory The next day his Soul began to Retreat more inward and so by degrees to take less and less Notice of external things His Custos Angelus as I may call him his Devoted Chaplain stirr'd very little out of the Chamber of Sorrow both to give an Far to every Word the King spake in that extream condition and to give it him again with the Use of some Divine
the Bishop doth thus remonstrate for himself That when a Defendant is examin'd upon Interrogatories in the Court and certified by a Judge to have answer'd insufficiently he is to pay twenty shillings costs the first time and to be re-examin'd If he be reported to fail the second time to pay forty shillings Costs The third time to be imprisoned but never in close Imprisonment These were ever the constant Rules of the ancient Lords that sate upon those Causes The Bishop being called to answer to these Eighty Interrogatories his Answers are certified to be imperfect to forty of them But the Judges did not point out wherein the Imperfection lay as it ought to be done But the Defendant is left in a mist and knows not how to direct his course to please them Yet goes them over again and answers so fully the second time that the Examiner thought his part was done and himself protests if he failed in any thing it was for want of direction from the Judges All that he had done and he had done to his best is not allow'd his Answers are again return'd to be insufficient yet not challeng'd in a word for such and such Omissions or Tergiversations for which an Amercement of 40 s. was the most that could be exacted by Rule That 's all one he is committed close Prisoner to his Chamber with order that neither Counsellor or Sollicitor should come near him or send to him The first night of his close restraint he perfected his Answer the third time to his best Abilities The Judges Jones and Berkeley are so awed that they refuse to certifie the sufficiency of this Answer till Kilvert will acknowledge it to be compleat So he continued in a melancholy Retirement from Allhollantide till the end of Christmas and then he finds a new Charge or rather no new one but the After-birth of the second Cause heard and censur'd before about Tampering A Course against the Fundamentals of Justice as Budaeus Tom. 2. in Pandec fol. 17. Senatus censuit ne quis ob idem crimen pluribus legibus reus fieret But in this latter Bill the Mystery of Mischief broke out by God's wondrous work and the detection of some Friends whom the Bishop had never sollicited to look after it Thus it runs Cad Powel George Walker T. Lund W. Wetherall in this new Charge are made Co-defendants with the Bishop these all were partly sentenced partly in durance before and must do some Service for their Freedom and Indempnity also with expectation of Reward that is they must couragiously accuse themselves in their Examination that they may be more forcible Witnesses against the Bishop but shall be as so many Coy-duks to cry a little in the ears of the World until the great Mallard be catch't in the Coy themselves then to be set free and to be fed with good Corn. The particulars of this Bill are branch't into Ten Heads For the greatest part they consisted of old matter That he had dictated Answers to Witnesses taught them cunning Evasions sent some Witnesses out of the way with addition that he had made Conveyances of his Lands and Leases to prevent the levying of the King 's Fine Nay lastly to sill it up that he did not allow competent Means to a Vicar from the Prebend of Asgaby I would their Lordships had sat upon such Reformations for seven years together if it did belong to their cognisance What a Task had the poor Bishop to fence with his Adversaries at all these Weapons As Isocrates extolls Evagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was Master but of one City and no more when he waged War with all Asia But our forlorn Defendant had no shelter left under Heav'n but a Prison wherein he was mured to encounter Perjuries Conspiracies Malice Kilvert with all his Party and all the Rulers in high places that back't him only that promise of Christ remained good Matth. 10.19 Dabitur in illa horâ It shall be given you in that same hour what to speak And it did not fail him 127. First he demurs and pleads That five Charges chained together in this Information had been heard before and censur'd in the Charge upon Tampering with Witnesses To bring the same Fault again to trial that had been once punish't is contrary to the Justice of God and exceeds the cruelty of the worst men The Lord Popham ' s Rules were famous and registred in the Court That bounds should be set to the process of Causes that they might not be infinite If a fourth Bill be admitted to survey the management of a former Defence then a fifth may start up in the management of the fourth a sixth upon the fifth and prosecutions will be endless Then he produceth his main defence That he could prove that T. Lund and W. Wetherall were drawn by Kilvert with divers indirect means of Terrors and Promises to accuse themselves to have had under hand dealings with the Defendant to teach them to shift direct Answers and to evade Interrogatories with Collusions That they had assurance given them when the Bishop was wounded through their sides their wounds should be healed their fines remited and their good service gratified The Bishop had this Confession of Lund and Wetherall under the hands of credible Gentlemen who smelling that Villany had conferred with them and galled them with suspicions that they might thrust themselves into the Briars and be forsaken by Kilvert who was very false And what if he should drop away which might be look't for from a man of his daily Surfeits And let him do his best when they had confest Perjury against themselves with their own mouth he could never soder up their crack't Credit but the disgrace would cleave to them and render them despicable as long as they liv'd Which Terrours being spread before these Men they exclaim that they were circumvented and undone for ever This being inferred into the Bishop's Defence his Counsel came twice to the Bar to move for a Hearing and were put off His well willers which droopt before had a strong opinion of a good Issue So often we see there is life in an Apoplectick though he seem to be dead Kilvert curseth his Fortune that his Spells are disinchanted Et fragilâ— quaerâ—ns illidere dentem Insregâ— solido Horace The Bishop's Innocency was not so brittle as he thought to be torn in sunder but the Solidity of it did break his Teeth Howsoever Kilvert is grown gracious for his good parts I wiss and must not be forsaken in this plungâ— But upon a reference all this matter about Lund and Witherall is expung'd as scandalous to Kilvert's good name Scandalous to his good name Non entis nulla sunt attributa Nay but give us andience says the Bishop's Counsel Is not all this necessary to our Clients Defence That cannot be denied say the Judges Brampston and Berkeley it is the very body of his defence but reproachful to the Man
was that if he would be bandied no more in Star-chamber 1. He must leave his Bishoprick and Deanry and all his Commendams and take a Bishoprick in Ireland or Wales as His Majesty pleased 2. He must recant his Book 3. Secure all his Fine 4. Never question any that had been employed by His Majesty against him Strange Physick as ever was prescribed for it was a Pill as big as a Pumpion and whose Throat could swallow it down Non est pax sed servitutis pactio Tul. Philip. 12. The worst that all the Courts in England could do could not impose such Terms upon him Beside to yield thus far were to fly the Field and to receive an inglorious wound in his Back Then he falls upon other Thoughts that he would please the King by making an unparallel'd Submission to him And were it not best to be content with half a Ruine to prevent a whole He must be a loser yet a man spends nothing that buys that he hath need of So he wrote back to the same Earl that he would lay his Bishoprick and Deanry at His Majesty's Feet but excused his going into Ireland To the second That he could not recant his Book which contain'd no Doctrine that he was not ready to justifie To the third He would pay his Fine as he was able To the fourth he submitted Not this not all this was accepted The very L. Drusus in Paterculus Meliore in omnia ingenio animoque quà m fortunà usus His noble Wit and good Parts were still destituted by Fortune He received this Return from the Earl That His Majesty was not contented to receive his Bishoprick and Deanry from him his Residency in Lincoln and Rectory of Walgrave are requir'd to be voided and to Ireland or no Peace To the second No Doctrin should be recanted but Matters of Fact c. The Bishop wonders at this who look'd for Praise that he had stoop'd so low yet rather than contest with his Soveraign he resolves with David Adhuc ero vilior And the common Rule of Polybius was observ'd by all men lib. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of two good things chuse the greatest of two Evils chuse the least He offers to resign all he hath in the Church of England but still will live in England for the Book he pleaded so well for it that the King was satisfied with a conditional submission as If any thing contained in it offended His Majesty he was sorry But to the third about the Fine he found very imperfect and unsolid Proposals and No Ground that 's good is hollow Since he must be stript of all that he had in the Church he would know how much should be left him of his Lands and Leases to live upon that the King 's Fine-gatherers might not snatch up all And he craves an Answer whether that Pension of 2000 Marks per ann bought of the E. of Banbury by His Majesty's Direction and for his Service and Profit being then Prince of Wales and 24000 l. in Arâ—ears for the same should be consider'd towards the King's Payment The Rejoynder began at the latter Clause That Pensions are not paid to men in disfavour the E. of Bristol being the Example for it For the Proportion what he should have to live upon rising out of his own Estate he must know nothing till he had wholly submitted From that hour the false Glass wherein the Bishop saw a shadow of Peace was broken And he writes to the Earl in the Stile of a man That it were a tempting of God to part with all he had willingly and leave himself no assurance of a Livelihood That his Debts if he came out of the Prison of the Tower would cast him into another Prison no better provision being made for them than he saw appearance for That he would never hazard himself into a condition to beg his Bread Truly he had cause to look for better Offers and since they came not he would lay his Head upon the Pillow of Hope till he had slept his last He had not suffer'd as an Evil man his Conscience bore him witness whereby he was not obnoxious to Infamy Majore poenâ affectus quà m legibus statutum est non est infamis a Maxim of Reason and of Law in our Kingdom To surrender up all he had were to suffer as a Fool. Plato is made the Author of the Saying That he had rather leave somewhat to his Enemies when he died than stand in need of his Friends who might prove no Friends while he lived But this is surely Plato's in Apol. pro Socr. That when Socrates was ask'd how he felt himself affected when he was wrongfully condemn'd he said he could give no Answer till he met with Palamedes and Ajax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till he had ask'd them how they took the Sentence of unrighteous Judges he was not fully provided to satisfie them Our bishop consulted day and night at his Study with Histories of Saints in by-past Ages and knew they had suffer'd more than he had done and was sorry for his human frailty if they could bear it better Now I am confident that the Prudent will collect that this Bishop was never deaf to Conditions of Agreement and that no man living could offer a greater Sacrifice than he did for a Peace-Offering unless he would have stript himself of all and not have left off his own two Mites in all the World to cast into the Corban 129. But if the Parly for Peace were nothing but Thunder and Thunder-bolt how will the Bishop endure it when it comes to strokes God be praised his Warfare in these Causes was at an end Flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est Metam lib. 7. The Chamber of Horror and its Star did not shine malignantly upon him again A time and times and half a time had pass'd over and these things were finisht Dan. 12.7 For three year and half he continued in the Tower and in that space lived as if he had drank of Homer's Cup Odyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he had represented and not felt the part he acted For except that so many Suits interrupted his Studies he lack'd nothing that could be perceived of Health Solace and Alacrity Benè dormit qui non sentit quà m malè dormiat a Fragment of Publius Mimus He wanted not good Society for I must ever praise his constant Friend Dr. Alabaster who took up a Lodging in one of the Mint-master's Houses to be with him continually While he was so many months shut up from the action of the World he began to hear of some Occurrences abroad which made him not dread his chief Enemy at Lambeth at all The Archbishop had entangled himself in his own Webb nay the King and all England and Scotland with him In illa liturgiâ infelicissimè ad Scotos missâ says wise Mr. Selden de Syn. Jud. par 2. His Majesty's Expedition into the
memory and they may repent it when they want us Now what banding here was on every side to ruin the greatest Saint that ever ruled our Nation God was in them that came about him with their homage in such a time of hazard Magna negotia magnis adjutoribus egent Paterc And I am sure the Metropolitan of York was none of the meanest of David's Worthies for Plot and Direction He was fit for the Service and obliged to assist it For as Scipio Nasica very well No good man is a private man most of all if the weal publick needs him 172. But the King's Condition at York was not in such strength and readiness as it deserved though the brave and resolute Spirits about him thought not so They perswaded themselves that the very Name of a King would supply the want of Power and that they were on the right side as sure as God's Word could warrant them Causáque valent causamque tuentibus armis Ut puto vincemus Luca. l. 8. For all that the Parliament had made better preparation for a War First A most deluded People made to believe that his Majesty had gathered a Popish Army to change Religion Quod sibi probare non possunt id persuadere aliis conantur Cic. pro Rose Com. But upon this false Fame their great Preacher St. Marshall tells them pag. 6. of his Letter That they may secure their Religion against their King with a good Conscience Next they had the Nerves of War all the Money of London at their command and which was the worst of all Infelicities they had cheated his Majesty of his Navy and seized on his Magazines It was not sit that the King should stay out their Provocations and when they had soaled then see what was in their Belly Dubia pro veris solent Timere Reges Sen. Oedi. And it was not reasonable to abide their Courtesie who had voted for Delinquents all that did Service to their Lord and Master They did all they could to disturb the tranquillity of a Soul most excellently composed and to tire him out of his Principles He held out the first Olive-branch and sought Peace from them by a most gracious Message who in right should have begun But as Lasicius notes of the sullen-proud Russians Ni prior ipse salutaveris non salutaberis Theol. Mosc p. 64. They salute none that do not first uncover and salute them It was not once or twice that his Majesty sent but he persisted yet all in vain to draw a dutiful Answer from them And what 's more tedious than to cast all day and not to throw a good Chance Since nothing would serve them but to rally the Sons of the Earth the Titans of their Tumults and to fill up an Army with them the King retired into his deep Thoughts what was best to be done Hic magnus sedet AEneas secúmque volutat Eventus belli varios Aen. l. 10. A Prince of so much Religion and Mercy was not to learn That it was sit to be slow in an Enterprize of so high a nature For Kingdoms in their Channels safely run But rudely overflowing are undone says our English Horace It is Marcianus his Maxim in Zonaras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A King must never fly to Arms if a noble nay if a tolerable Peace may be had Yet again he did not forget that a prosperous Wind might blow away a Storm that was gathering before the Shower fell upon him Fest inandum antequà m cresceret invalida conjuratio paucorum Tacit. Hist l. 1. Be sudden before a Conjuration strengthen it self and give it no day And Pliny brings it for the Advice of Apollo's Oracle Biduo citiùs messem potiùs facere quam biduo seriùs Lib. 18. c. 3. Begin Harvest two days too soon rather than two days too late Alluding not to the Rural but the Politick Harvest Another and a good Genius too would say to the contrary What! will you embroil the Land in a Civil War Every Life that is slain in it on either side is the King's damage And the blood of Christians shed in rebellion is poured on the Devil's Altar Every Field and Town and Castle that 's spoil'd is the Kings loss who hath the dominion of all the Earth that serves him though not the Property His Majesty knew the worth and good Governance of many in his List Pacisque boni bellique ministri Aen. l. 11. But who could promise for so many hot Bloods as were upon the place that they would not rob and ransack the Innocent and make the Army odious by too much Cruelty upon the Nocent All are not a King's Friends that follow him so do Flies the smell of strong Drink but they that will maintain his Honour with Obedience as well as his Quarrel with Manhood If the Headstronger should be more in number Such an If is enough to discourage any one to be the Captain of a Civil War Nam in civilibus bellis plus militibus quà m Duci licet Tacit. Hist lib. 2. Their Commander dare not displease them so much he fears Revolt or Treachery And his Majesty's great Wildom could not like it that his Cavaliers were too consident and Secure Contemnendis quà m cavendis hostibus aptiores Idem Hist l. 4. No man could perswade them that there was either number wit skill or valour among the Rebels But says a Master of Military Art Veget. l. 3. Ille difficile vincitur qui de suis adversarii copiis rectè potest judicare It was safer for the Royal Battalion to know that the Enemy multiplied fast and pleased divers by laying themselves forth abroad to to all shew of Sobriety and Holiness though sincere Honesty had no Charge of them And Despair will make Chicken-hearted Souldiers couragious They that had drawn their Sword against their Soveraign must throw away the Scabbard They must purple their hands with slaughter in the Field or be hang'd in Ignominy What would they do to break all the Bands of the Law in sunder the King's Name and Authority which would not allow them their Book to save them These things might be so deliberated in the King's Camp or Cabinet I cannot definitely say it For after the Archbishop departed from Westminster to the North I never saw him more to confer with him from whom before I learnt all things in effect that I knew But as Tully writes L. de Senec. of L. Maximus Illud divinavi quod jam evenit illo extincto fore unde discerem neminem After I mist him who was wont to tell me not barely what was done but the reasons the fitness or incommodities of it I have heard somewhat but I understand little And I make as much moan for the want of him as St. Basil did for Martinlan Ep. 379. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What skills it to hear many Discourse one after another when this one had gathered as much Experience and Wisdom as them all