Lyrick verse were all turned into the gingling of Cymballs tinckling with rhythmes and like-sounding cadencies But let us heare a few lines of her Prophecies and thence guesse the rest In those dayes there shall rise up a people without understanding proud covetous and deceitfull the which shall eat the sins of the people holding a certain order of foolish devotion under the feigned cloke of beggery Also they shall instantly preach without devotion or example of the holy Martyrs and shall detract from the secular Princes taking away the Sacraments of the Church from the true pastours receiving almes of the poore having familiarity with women instructing them how they shall deceive their husbands and rob their husbands to give it unto them c. What could be said more plain to draw out to the life those Mendicant friers rogues by Gods statutes which afterwards swarm'd in the world Heare also how she foretold the low water of Tiber whilest as yet it was full tide there The Kings and other Rulers of the world being stirred up by the just judgement of God shall set themselves against them and run upon them saying We will not have these men to reigne over us with their rich houses and great possessions and other worldly riches over the which we are ordained to be Lords and Rulers and how is it meet or comely that those shavelings with their stoles and chesils should have more souldiers or richer armour and artillery then we wherefore let us take away from them what they do not justly but wrongfully possesse It is well the Index expurgatorius was not up in those dayes nor the Inquisition on foot otherwise dame Hildegardis must have been call'd to an after account I will onely ask a Romanist this question This Prophesie of Hildegardis was it from heaven or from men If from heaven why did ye not believe it If from men why did the Pope allow it canonize her As for miracles which she wrought in her life time their number is as admirable as their nature I must confesse at my first reading of them my belief digested some but surfeted on the rest for she made no more to cast out a devil then a barber to draw a tooth and with lesse pain to the patient I never heard of a great feast made all of Cordialls and it seems improbable that miracles which in Scripture are used sparingly and chiefly for conversion of unbelievers should be heaped so many together made every dayes work and by her commonly constantly and ordinarily wrought And I pray why is the Popish Church so barren of true works nowadayes here wrought at home amongst us For as for those reported to be done farre of it were ill for some if the gold from the Indies would abide the touch no better then the miracles However Hildegardis was a gratious Virgin and God might perform some great wonders by her hand but these piae fraudes with their painting have spoyled the naturall complexion of many a good face and have made Truth it self suspected She dyed in the 82. yeare of her age was afterwards Sainted by the Pope and the 17 day of September assign'd to her memory I cannot forget how Udalrick Abbat of Kempten in Germany made a most courteous law for the weaker sexe That no woman guilty of what crime soever should ever be put to death in his dominions because two women condemn'd to die were miraculously delivered out of the prison by praying to S. Hildegardis CHAP. 14. The Elder Brother IS one who made hast to come into the world to bring his Parents the first news of male-posterity and is well rewarded for his tidings His composition is then accounted most pretious when made of the losse of a double Virginitie He is thankfull for the advantage God gave him at the starting in the race into this world When twinnes have been even match'd one hath gained the gole but by his length S. Augustine saith That it is every mans bounden duty solemnly to celebrate his birth-day If so Elder Brothers may best afford good cheer on the festivall He counts not his inheritance a Writ of ease to free him from industry As if onely the Younger Brothers came into the world to work the Elder to complement These are the Toppes of their houses indeed like cotlofts highest and emptiest Rather he laboureth to furnish himself with all gentile accomplishment being best able to go to the cost of learning He need not fear to be served as Ulrick Fugger was chief of the noble family of the Fuggers in Auspurg who was disinherited of a great patrimony onely for his studiousnesse and expensivenesse in buying costly Manuscripts He doth not so remember he is an Heire that he forgets he is a Sonne Wherefore his carriage to his Parents is alwayes respectfull It may chance that his father may be kept in a charitable Prison whereof his Sonne hath the keyes the old man being onely Tenant for life and the lands entaild on our young Gentleman In such a case when it is in his power if necessity requires he enlargeth his father to such a reasonable proportion of liberty as may not be injurious to himself He rather desires his fathers Life then his Living This was one of the principall reasons but God knows how true why Philip the second King of Spain caused in the yeare 1568. Charles his Eldest Sonne to be executed for plotting his fathers death as was pretended And a Wit in such difficult toyes accommodated the numerall letters in Ovids verse to the yeare wherein the Prince suffered FILIVs ante DIeM patrIos InqVIrIt In annos 1568. Before the tIMe the oVer-hasty sonne Seeks forth hoVV near the fathers LIfe Is Done 1568. But if they had no better evidence against him but this poeticall Synchronisme we might well count him a martyr His fathers deeds and grants he ratifies and confirms If a stitch be fallen in a lease he will not widen it into an hole by cavilling till the whole strength of the grant run out thereat or take advantage of the default of the Clark in writing where the deed appears really done and on a valuable consideration He counts himself bound in honour to perform what by marks and signes he plainly understands his father meant though he spake it not out He reflecteth his lustre to grace and credit his younger brethren Thus Scipio Africanus after his great victories against the Carthaginians and conquering of Hannibal was content to serve as a Lieutenant in the warres of Asia under Lucius Scipio his younger Brother He relieveth his distressed kinred yet so as he continues them in their calling Otherwise they would all make his house their hospitall his kinred their calling When one being an Husbandman challenged kinred of Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln and thereupon requested favour of him to bestow an office on him Cousen quoth the Bishop
of all other Orders and therefore by canon to go last will never go in Procession with other Orders because they will not come behind them Sometimes the Paternall inheritance falls to them who never hoped to rise to it Thus John sirnamed Sans-terre or Without land having five Elder Brothers came to the kingdome of England death levelling those which stood betwixt him and the Crown It is observ'd of the Coringtons an ancient familie in Cornwall that for eight lineall descents never any one that was born heir had the land but it ever fell to Younger Brothers To conclude there is a hill in Voitland a small countrey in Germany called Feitchtelberg out of which arise foure rivers running foure severall wayes viz. 1. Eger East 2. Menus West 3. Sala North 4. Nabus South so that he that sees their fountains so near together would admire at their falls so farre asunder Thus the younger sons issuing out of the same mothers wombe and fathers loyns and afterwards embracing different courses to trie their fortunes abroad in the world chance often to die farre off at great distance which were all born in the same place The Holy State THE SECOND BOOK CHAP. 1. The good Advocate HE is one that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience It is the praise of the Spanish souldier that whilest all other Nations are mercenary and for money will serve on any side he will never fight against his own King nor will our Advocate against the Sovereigne Truth plainly appearing to his conscience He not onely hears but examines his Client and pincheth the cause where he fears it is foundred For many Clients in telling their case rather plead then relate it so that the Advocate hears not the true state of it till opened by the adverse party Surely the Lawyer that fills himself with instructions will travell longest in the cause without tiring Others that are so quick in searching seldome search to the quick and those miraculous apprehensions who understand more then all before the Client hath told half runne without their errand and will return without their answer If the matter be doubtfull he will onely warrant his own diligence Yet some keep an Assurance-office in their chamber and will warrant any cause brought unto them as knowing that if they fail they lose nothing but what long since was lost their credit He makes not a Trojan-siege of a suit but seeks to bring it to a set battel in a speedy triall Yet sometimes suits are continued by their difficulty the potencie and stomach of the parties without any default in the Lawyer Thus have there depended suits in Glocester-shire betwixt the Heirs of the Lord Barkley and Sr. Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle ever since the reigne of King Edward the fourth untill now lately they were finally compounded He is faithfull to the side that first retains him Not like Demosthenes who secretly wrote one oration for Phormio and another in the same matter for Apolidorus his adversary In pleading he shoots fairly at the head of the cause and having fastened no frowns nor favours shall make him let go his hold Not snatching aside here and there to no purpose speaking little in much as it was said of Anaximenes That he had a flood of words and a drop of reason His boldnesse riseth or falleth as he apprehends the goodnesse or badnesse of his cause He joyes not to be retain'd in such a suit where all the right in question is but a drop blown up with malice to be a bubble Wherefore in such triviall matters he perswades his Client to sound a retreat and make a composition When his name is up his industry is not down thinking to plead not by his study but his credit Commonly Physicians like beer are best when they are old Lawyers like bread when they are young and new But our Advocate grows not lazie And if a leading case be out of the road of his practice he will take pains to trace it thorow his books and prick the footsteps thereof wheresoever he finds it He is more carefull to deserve then greedy to take fees He accounts the very pleading of a poore widows honest cause sufficient fees as conceiving himself then the King of Heavens Advocate bound ex officio to prosecute it And although some may say that such a Lawyer may even go live in Cornwall where it is observed that few of that profession hitherto have grown to any great livelihood yet shall he besides those two felicities of common Lawyers that they seldome die either without heirs or making a will find Gods blessing on his provisions and posterity We will respit him a while till he comes to be a Judge and then we will give an example of both together CHAP. 2. The good Physician HE trusteth not the single witnesse of the water if better testimony may be had For reasons drawn from the urine alone are as brittle as the urinall Sometimes the water runneth in such post-hast through the sick mans body it can give no account of any thing memorable in the passage though the most judicious eye examine it Yea the sick man may be in the state of death and yet life appear in his state Coming to his patient he perswades him to put his trust in God the fountain of health The neglect hereof hath caused the bad successe of the best Physicians for God will manifest that though skill comes mediately from him to be gotten by mans pains successe comes from him immediately to be disposed at his pleasure He â—ansells not his new experiments on the bodies of his patients letting loose mad receipts into the sick mans body to try how well Nature in him will fight against them whilest himself stands by and sees the battel except it be in desperate cases when death must be expell'd by death To poore people he prescribes cheap but wholesome medicines not removing the consumption out of their bodies into their purses nor sending them to the East Indies for drugs when they can reach better out of their gardens Lest his Apothecary should oversee he oversees his Apothecary For though many of that profession be both able and honest yet some out of ignorance or haste may mistake witnesse one of Bloys who being to serve a Doctours bill in stead of Optimi short written read Opii and had sent the patient asleep to his grave if the Doctours watchfulnesse had not prevented him worse are those who make wilfull errours giving one thing for another A prodigall who had spent his estate was pleased to jeer himself boasting that he had cosened those who had bought his means They gave me said he good new money and I sold them my Great-great-grandfathers old land But this cosenage is too too true in many Apothecaries selling to sick
Simonem Romae nemo fuisse negat That Peter was at Rome there 's strife about it That Simon was there none did ever doubt it He hates corruption not onely in himself but his servants Otherwise it will do no good for the Master to throw bribes away if the Men catch them up at the first rebound yea before ever they come to the ground Cambden can tell you what Lord-Keeper it was in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth who though himself an upright man was hardly spoken of for the basenesse of his servants in the sale of Ecclesiasticall preferments When he hath freely bestowed a Living he makes no boasts of it To do this were a kind of spirituall simony to ask and receive applause of others as if the commonnesse of faulting herein made a right and the rarity of giving things freely merited ex condigno a generall commendation He expects nothing from the Clerk he presented but his prayers to God for him respectfull carriage towards him and painfulnesse in his Calling who having gotten his place freely may discharge it the more faithfully whereas those will scarce afford to feed their sheep fat who rent the pasture at too high a rate To conclude let Patrons imitate this particular example of King William Rufus who though sacrilegious in other acts herein discharged a good conscience Two Monks came to him to buy an Abbots place of him seeking to outvie each other in offering great summes of money whilest a third Monk stood by and said nothing To whom said the King What wilt thou give for the place Not a penny answered he for it is against my conscience but here I stay to wait home on him whom your Royall pleasure shall designe Abbot Then quoth the King Thou of the three best deservest the place and shalt have it and so bestowed it on him CHAP. 13. The good Landlord IS one that lets his land on a reasonable rate so that the Tenant by employing his stock and using his industry may make an honest livelihood thereby to maintain himself and his children His rent doth quicken his Tenant but not gall him Indeed 't is observed that where Landlords are very easy the Tenants but this is per Accidens out of their own lazinesse seldome thrive contenting themselves to make up the just measure of their rent and not labouring for any surplusage of estate But our Landlord puts some metall into his Tenants industry yet not grating him too much lest the Tenant revenge the Landlords cruelty to him upon his land Yet he raiseth his rents or fines equivalent in some proportion to the present price of other commodities The plenty of money makes a seeming scarcity of all other things and wares of all sorts do daily grow dear If therefore our Landlord should let his rents stand still as his Grandfather left them whilest other wares dayly go on in price he must needs be cast farre behind in his estate What he sells or sets to his Tenant he suffers him quietly to enjoy according to his covenants This is a great joy to a Tenant though he buyes dear to possesse without disturbance A strange example there was of Gods punishing a covetous Landlord at Rye in Sussex Anno 1570. He having a certain marish wherein men on poles did dry their fishnets received yearly of them a sufficient summe of money till not content therewith he caused his servant to pluck up the poles not suffering the fishermen to use them any longer except they would compound at a greater rate But it came to passe the same night that the sea breaking in covered the same marish with water and so it still continueth He detests and abhorres all inclosure with depopulation And because this may seem a matter of importance we will break it into severall propositions 1 Inclosure may be made without depopulating Infinites of examples shew this to be true But depopulation hath cast a slander on inclosure which because often done with it people suspect it cannot be done without it 2 Inclosure made without depopulating is injurious to none I mean if proportionable allotments be made to the poore for their commonage and free lease-holders have a considerable share with the lord of the mannour 3 Inclosure without depopulating is beneficiall to private persons Then have they most power and comfort to improve their own parts and for the time and manner thereof may mould it to their own conveniencie The Monarch of one acre will make more profit thereof then he that hath his share in fourty in common 4 Inclosure without depopulating is profitable to the Common-wealth If injurious to no private person and profitable to them all it must needs be beneficiall to the Commonwealth which is but the Summa totalis of sundry persons as severall figures Besides if a Mathematician should count the wood in the hedges to what a mighty forrest would it amount This underwood serves for supplies to save timber from burning otherwise our wooden walls in the water must have been sent to the fire Adde to this the strength of an inclosed Countrey against a forrein invasion Hedges and counter-hedges having in number what they want in height and depth serve for barracadoes and will stick as birdlime in the wings of the horse and scotch the wheeling about of the foot Small resistance will make the enemy to earn every mile of ground as he marches Object not That inclosure destroyes tillage the staff of a countrey for it need not all be converted to pasturage Cain and Abel may very well agree in the Commonwealth the Plowman and Shepherd part the inclosures betwixt them 5 Inclosure with depopulation is a canker to the Common-wealth It needs no proof wofull experience shews how it unhouses thousands of people till desperate need thrusts them on the gallows Long since had this land been sick of a plurisie of people if not let blood in their Western Plantations 6 Inclosure with depopulation endammageth the parties themselves 'T is a paradox and yet a truth that reason shews such inclosures to be gainfull and experience proves them to be losse to the makers It may be because God being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lover of man mankind and mens society and having said to them Multiply and increase counts it an affront unto him that men depopulate and whereas bees daily swarm men make the hives fewer The margin shall direct you to the Authour that counts eleven mannours in Northhamptonshire thus inclosed which towns have vomited out to use his own expression and unburthened themselves of their former desolating and depopulating owners and I think of their posterity He rejoyceth to see his Tenants thrive Yea he counts it a great honour to himself when he perceiveth that God blesseth their endeavours and that they come forward in the world I close up all with this pleasant story A Farmer rented a Grange generally reported to be
haunted by Faries and paid a shrewd rent for the same at each half years end Now a Gentleman asked him how he durst be so hardy as to live in the house and whether no Spirits did trouble him Truth said the Farmer there be two Saints in heaven vex me more then all the devils in hell namely the Virgin Mary and Michael the Archangel on which dayes he paid his rent CHAP. 14. The good Master of a Colledge THe Jews Anno 1348. were banished out of most countreys of Christendome principally for poysoning of springs and fountains Grievous therefore is their offense who infect Colledges the fountains of learning and religion and it concerneth the Church and State that the Heads of such houses be rightly qualified such men as we come to character His learning if beneath eminency is farre above contempt Sometimes ordinary scholars make extraordinary good Masters every one who can play well on Apollo's harp cannot skilfully drive his chariot there being a peculiar mystery of Government Yea as a little allay makes gold to work the better so perchance some dulnesse in a man makes him fitter to manage secular affairs and those who have climbed up Parnassus but half way better behold worldly businesse as lying low and nearer to their sight then such as have climbed up to the top of the mount He not onely keeps the Statutes in his study but observes them for the maintaining of them will maintain him if he be questioned He gives them their true dimensions not racking them for one and shrinking them for another but making his conscience his daily Visitour He that breaks the Statutes and thinks to rule better by his own discretion makes many gaps in the hedge and then stands to stop one of them with a stake in his hand Besides thus to confound the will of the dead Founders is the ready way to make living mens charitie like S r Hugh Willoughby in discovering the Northern passage to be frozen to death and will dishearten all future Benefactours He is principall Porter and chief Chappell-monitour For where the Master keeps his chamber alwayes the scholars will keep theirs seldome yea perchance may make all the walls of the Colledge to be gate He seeks to avoid the inconvenience when the gates do rather divide then confine the scholars when the Colledge is distinguished as France into Cis Transalpina into the part on this and on the otherside of the walls As for out-lodgings like galleries necessary evils in populous Churches he rather tolerates then approves them In his Elections he respecteth merit not onely as the condition but as the cause thereof Not like Leofricus Abbot of S. Albans who would scarce admit any into his Covent though well deserving except he was a Gentleman born He more respects literature in a scholar then great mens letters for him A learned Master of a Colledge in Cambridge since made a reverend Bishop and to the great grief of good men and great losse of Gods Church lately deceased refused a Mandate for choosing of a worthlesse man fellow And when it was expected that at the least he should have been outed of his Mastership for this his contempt King James highly commended him and encouraged him ever after to follow his own conscience when the like occasion should be given him He winds up the Tenants to make good musick but not to break them Sure colledge-Colledge-lands were never given to fat the Tenants and sterve the scholars but that both might comfortably subsist Yea generally I heare the Muses commended for the best Landladies and a Colledge-lease is accounted but as the worst kind of freehold He is observant to do all due right to Benefactours If not piety policy would dictate this unto him And though he respects not Benefactours kinsmen when at their first admission they count themselves born heirs apparent to all preferment which the house can heap on them and therefore grow lazy idle yet he counts their alliance seconded with mediocrity of desert a strong title to Colledge-advancement He counts it lawfull to enrich himself but in subordination to the Colledge good Not like Varus Governour of Syria who came poore into the countrey and found it rich but departed thence rich and left the countrey poore Methinks 't is an excellent commendation which Trinity Colledge in Cambridge in her records bestows on Doctour Still once Master thereof Se ferebat Patremfamilias providum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec Collegio gravis fuit aut onerosus He disdains to nourish dissension amongst the members of his house Let Machiavills Maxime Divide regnabis if offering to enter into a Colledge-gate sink thorow the grate and fall down with the durt For besides that the fomenting of such discords agrees not with a good conscience each party will watch advantages and Pupils will often be made to suffer for their Tutours quarrells Studium partium will be magna pars studiorum and the Colledge have more rents then revenues He scorneth the plot to make onely dunces Fellows to the end he may himself command in chief As thinking that they who know nothing will do any thing and so he shall be a figure amongst cyphers a bee amongst drones Yet oftentimes such Masters are justly met with and they find by experience that the dullest horses are not easiest to be reined But our Master endeavours so to order his elections that every Scholar may be fit to make a Fellow and every Fellow a Master CHAP. 14. The life of Dr. METCALF NIcholas Metcalf Doctour of Divinity extracted out of an ancient and numerous family of Gentry in Yorkshire was Archdeacon of Rochester Chaplain to John Fisher the Bishop thereof by whom this our Doctour was employed to issue forth the monies for the building of S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge For Margaret Countesse of Richmond and Derby intending to graft S. Johns Colledge into the old stock of S. Johns Hospitall referr'd all to the Bishop of Rochester and he used Metcalf as an agent in all proceedings which did concern that Foundation which will inferre him to be both a wise and an honest man Some make him to be but meanly learned and one telleth us a long storie how a Sophister put a fallacie upon him à sensu diviso ad sensum compositum and yet the Doctours dimme eyes could not discern it But such trifles were beneath him and what wonder is it if a Generall long used in governing an armie hath forgotten his school-play and Fencers rules to put by every thrust Doubtlesse had not his learning been sufficient Bishop Fisher a great clerk himself would not have placed him to govern the Colledge But we know that some count all others but dry scholars whose learning runneth in a different channell from their own and it is possible that the great distance betwixt men in matter of Religion might hinder the new learning in
in The names which Homer gives the Grecian Ceryces excellently import their virtues in discharging their office One was called Asphalio such an one as made sure work another Eurybates cunning and subtle a third Theotes from his piety and godlinesse a fourth Stentor from his loud and audible pronouncing of messages Therefore of every Heathen sacrifice the tongue was cut out and given to the Heralds to shew that liberty of speech in all places was allowed them He imbitters not a distastfull message to a forrein Prince by his indiscretion in delivering it Commendable was the gravity of Guien King of arms in France and Thomas Bevolt Clarenceaux of England sent by their severall Princes to defie Charles the Emperour For after leave demanded and obtained to deliver the message with safe conduct to their persons they delivered the Emperour the lie in writing and defying him were sent home safe with rewards It fared worse with a foolish French Herald sent from the Count of Orgell to challenge combat with the Count of Cardonna Admiral of Arragon where instead of wearing his Coat of Arms the Herald was attired in a long linen garment painted with some dishonest actions imputed to the said Count of Cardonna But Ferdinand King of Arragon caused the Herald to be whipt naked through the streets of Barcelona as a punishment of his presumption Thus his indescretion remitted him to the nature of an ordinary person his Armour of proof of publick credence fell off and he left naked to the stroke of justice no longer a publick Officer but a private offender Passe we now from his use in warre to his imployment in peace He is skilfull in the pedigrees and descents of all ancient Gentry Otherwise to be able onely to blazon a Coat doth no more make an Herald then the reading the titles of Gally-pots makes a Physician Bring our Herald to a Monument ubi jacet epitaphium and where the Arms on the Tombe are not onely crest-fallen but their colours scarce to be discerned and he will tell whose they be if any certainty therein can be rescued from the teeth of Time But how shamefull was the ignorance of the French Heralds some fourty years since who at a solemn entertainment of Queen Mary of Florence wife to King Henrie the fourth did falsly devise and blazon both the Arms of Florence and the Arms of the Daulphin of France now King thereof He carefully preserveth the memories of extinguish'd Families of such Zelophehads who dying left onely daughters He is more faithfull to many ancient Gentlemen then their own Heirs were who sold their lands and with them as much as in them lay their memories which our Herald carefully treasureth up He restoreth many to their own rightfull Arms. An Heir is a Phenix in a familie there can be but one of them at the same time Hence comes it often to passe that younger brothers of gentile families live in low wayes clouded often amongst the Yeomanry and yet those under-boughs grow from the same root with the top-branches It may happen afterwards that by industry they may advance themselves to their former lustre and good reason they should recover their ancient ensignes of honour belonging unto them For the river Anas in Spain though running many miles under ground when it comes up again is still the same river which it was before And yet He curbs their Vsurpation who unjustly entitle themselves to ancient Houses Hierophilus a Ferrier in Rome pretended himself to be nephew to C. Marius who had seven times been Consul and carried it in so high a strain that many believed him and some companies in Rome accepted him for their Patron Such want not amongst us who in spight of the stock will engraff themselves into noble bloods and thence derive their pedegree Hence they new mould their names taking from them adding to them melting out all the liquid letters torturing mutes to make them speak and making vowels dumbe to bring it to a fallacious Homonomy at the last that their names may be the same with those noble Houses they pretend to By this trick to forbear dangerous instances if affinity of sound makes kinred Lutulentus makes himself kinne to Luculentus dirt to light and Angustus to Augustus some narrow-hearted Peasant to some large-spirited Prince except our good Herald marre their mart and discover their forgery For well he knows where indeed the names are the same though alter'd through variety of writing in severall ages and disguis'd by the lisping of vulgar people who miscall hard French Sirnames and where the equivocation is untruly affected He assignes honourable Arms to such as raise themselves by deserts In all ages their must be as well a beginning of new Gentry as an ending of ancient And let not Linea when farre extended in length grow so proud as to scorn the first Punctum which gave it the originall Our Herald knows also to cure the surfet of Coats and unsurcharge them and how to wash out stained colours when the merits of Posterity have outworn the disgraces of their Ancestours He will not for any profit favour wealthy unworthinesse If a rich Clown who deserves that all his shield should be the Base point shall repair to the Herald-office as to a drapers shop wherein any Coat may be bought for money he quickly finds himself deceived No doubt if our Herald gives him a Coat he gives him also a badge with it WILLIAM CAMBDEN Clarenciaux king of Armes He dyed at Westminster Anno Dni 1623 Aged 74 yeares W Marshall sculp CHAP. 23. The life of M r W. CAMBDEN WIlliam Cambden was born Anno 1550 in old Baily in the City of London His Father Sampson Cambden was descended of honest parentage in Staffordshire but by his Mothers side he was extracted from the worshipfull family of the Curwens in Cumberland He was brought up first in Christ-Church then in Pauls School in London and at fifteen years of age went to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford and thence to Broadgates Hall where he first made those short Latine Graces which the Servitours still use From hence he was removed and made student of Christ Church where he profited to such eminency that he was preferred to be Master of Westminster School a most famous seminarie of learning For whereas before of the two grand Schools of England one sent all her Foundation-scholars to Cambridge the other all to Oxford the good Queen as the Head equally favouring both Breasts of Learning and Religion divided her Scholars here betwixt both Universities which were enriched with many hopefull plants sent from hence through Cambdens learning diligence and clemency Sure none need pity the beating of that Scholar who would not learn without it under so meek a Master His deserts call'd him hence to higher employments The Queen first made him Richmond Herald and then Clarenceaux King of Arms. We reade how