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A91832	Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a Lover of the Truth.	Raleigh, Carew, 1605-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing R149; Thomason E490_2; ESTC R206058	10,006	24

chuse so weak and vitious a person for his most intimate friend and indeed his governor Haply Overbury might have some tincture of pride in him as indeed who would not that had the power and interest of such a favourite at his command that commanded the King himself and often was known to threaten him if he denyed what he desired But that he should be his baud to Essex his Wife is most unlikely when all the world knows he was her greatest enemy and that his hatred to her and the House of the Hawards was his ruine How doth this passage agree with that which follows after wherein this Author sayes in the relation of this Ladies Divorce from Essex that she was a pure Virgin and so delivered in upon oath from the inspection of divers Ladies But this Author often forgets and contradicts himself Haply Overbury had hindred or thwarted this Gentleman in some illegal projects of which they say he had alwayes store which he had offered to Summerset and therefore he is not only contented his body should have been poysoned whilst alive but he will as far as in him lyes if any would believe such a fellow murther his fame too after his death I shall next only mind you of a letter which he sets down fol. 421 of Summersets to the King wherein there is this passage speaking concerning his estate which he desired the King to spare And I may say further that the Law hath not bin so severe upon the ruine of innocent posterity nor yet cancelled nor cut off the merits of Ancestors before the politick hand of State had contrived it into these several forms as fitted to their ends and government And yet this man Summerset could begg all the lands of Raleigh could begg the 10000 li fine of the Earl of Northumberlands and could enjoy the greatest part of the forfeited Lands of the Earl of Westmorland without any scruple But we are alwayes blind in our own affaires And in fol. 429 I take notice of another scandal which he throws upon his quondam Master Henry Ritch Baron Kensington and Earl of Holland scoffing at him for imitating the Earl of Carlile in his expensive wayes and calling him the natural son of the then Earl of Warwick which why he should do I can not imagin for certainly the Lady Ritch was the then lawful wife of the Lord Ritch after Earl of Warwick and if any of her children were to be stiled natural it were those which she had by the Earl of Devonshire not these by Ritch For as this Author saith in another place King James told Devonshire that he had gotten a faire Wife with a foul soul But no doubt this Author had a pick at Holland for turning him out of his service as is mentioned before I omit his slight character of Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury scoffing at his judgment in the businesse of Essex his Divorce calling him Puritan and a fomentor of factions His despising our Nation in the expedition of the Palatinate branding them with the fag end of an old Ballad saying they went abroad to fight and so came home againe as if they had only danced a morice thither when it is well known they defended Manheinu and Frankendale nobly and Hydelburge with so much honour that Sir Gerard Herbert Commander in chiefe there lost his life at push of Pike How contemptuously doth he speak of the Earls Oxford and Essex terming them young men apprehending no danger and so ignorant they knew not how to avoid any How improbably doth he cast the compiling of the History of the Councel of Trent upon a Protestant thereby to vilifie the work as partial fol. 471 And how doth he throughout his whole book contemne and vilifie both the Reformers and Reformation of Religion I shall now only give you an Item of some few of his mistakes He tells us that King Hen. 8 was a Lutheran when all Story assures us he lived and dyed a Papist T is true he put down Monasteries for his own profit and he declyned the Popes Supremacy for his own pleasure and for defending of these he put Sir Thomas Moor and Bishop Fisher to death with many others But at the same time he put multitudes to death for not subscribing and submitting to the six Articles which were all of them ranke Popery He tells us fol. 487 that all our marriages with Spain have been unfortunate to this Crown and then ravels into the story of the Black Prince as if he had married in Spain but if he will read our English Chronicles he shall find to speake the truth though I love not the nation that the Spanish wives were good and that it was the French wives which proved so unfortunate to our Kings Such was Elenor Wife to Hen. 2 who set all his Sons together by the eares with him Such was Isabel Wife to Ed. 2 who for the love of Mortimer suffered her husband to be miserably and cruelly murthered And such was Margaret Wife to Hen. 6 who by her pride perversnesse and evil government was one of the chief causes in the ruine of that meek and gentle Prince vvhom she lived to see murthered in the Tovver and her onely Son the Prince stabbed to death at Tewxbury field and her self sent home poor and miserable to her more poor and beggarly Father in Provence I need name no more Another mistake he hath concerning the Duke of Buckinghams talking with Yelverton in the Tower which surely the Duke never did But that Sir William Balfore should tell him so as being then Lieutenant of the Tower can not be for Balfore came in to be Lieutenant after Sir George More which was long after this time Another such mistake he hath in point of time relating the publick combat which should have bin between the Lord Rey and David Ramsey which he saith was in the time of King James when in truth it was in the Reign of King Charles and after the Marquis Hamiltons expedition into Germany Speaking of the troubles of the Earl of Middlesex he tells us that to his knowledg the Duke bought Chelsey house for the truth of this I refer my self to the Widow Countesse of Middlesex now living who hath told me many times that the Duke had Chelsey for nothing and that her husband never received one peny for it In another story he inverts the same just upon Middlesex saying that he bought Copthall of the Countesse of Winchelsey when I my self know very well that the Lady gave Copthall furniture and all to Middlesex and the Duke of Lenox to be made Countesse and Middlesex indeed bought out the Dukes estate but his mistakes ignorances and wilful errors are infinite both in the language and the matter I shall therefore conclude with that wholsome advice which once that Grave and Learned Lord Chancellor Elsemore gave to Sir Edmond Scony presenting him with a book in hope he would have given him something being then very poor his father yet alive which book the Chancellor having read over saith to Sir Edmond Sir Edmond Scony you gave me a book for which I will give you I humbly thank your Lordship cryes Sir Edmond I will give you good counsel Read more and write lesse Sir Edmond for indeed it is a very foolish book So say I Read more and write lesse Mr. Sanderson for indeed it is not only a very foolish but a very false and scandalous book far fitter for the fire then for the Presse FINIS

every where upon the verity of which he took his death And for this Authors base aspersion and surmise upon the death of Kemish it was so well known to all those who were in the ship how and in what manner he killed himself first shooting himself with a Pistol and then stabbing himself with a knife to dispatch lest he should be prevented upon the noyse of the Pistol his Cabbin door being locked on the in side that there can be nothing more plain and evident then that he killed himself But this unworthy Author will seek scandals from every thing So he saith he set out this Voyage with other mens money when it is well known though he had many adventures that he received 8000 livre. from the Countesse of Bedford in ready money which he had lent her that he sold a house and land at Micham in Surry for 2500 li all which money and more he spent every farthing in this Voyage for ten ships and he had no lesse with their men ammunition and victuals would not be set out with the adventures of a few fifty and hundred pounds alone This Author likewise saith That Raleigh had but a mean fortune which he meant to advantage by this Voyage He may thank K. James for the meannesse of his fortune who took away Sherborne from him for want of a word after he had been 7 years in the Tovver and gave it to his favourite Summerset But vvhen K. James came into England Raleigh vvas Lord Warden of the Stanneries Lord Leivetenant of Devonshire and Cornwall Captain of the Guard and Governor of Jersey he had a long lease of the Office of Wines he had most of the Earl of Desmonds estate in Ireland he had the daughter and heyre of Basset to his vvard to marry to his son her estate vvorth 3000 livre. per an. vvho vvas taken from him and married to Mr. Henry Haward vvho dyed suddainly at the table and she after married to the Earl of Newcastle vvho professed he vvould never have married her if young Walter Raleigh had been alive conceiving her before God to be his vvife for they vvere married as much as children could be he had likevvise Sherborn vvhich vvas lately valued by the State at 5000 li. per-an and this vvas no beggerly estate all vvhich he lost for his supposed treason And it is certain that many years after he and Cobham being prisoners upon the sute of Q. Ann being thereunto pressed by Sr. W. R. Cobham vvas re-examined before some of the Lords of the Councel at the Tovver and did clear Sir W. R. from all treasons vvhatsoever T is likewise true that the whole design and intention of his Voyage was by K. James under Raleighs own hand delivered to Gondomare and thereupon there was 300 Spaniards sent to St. Thomae which made that resistance there that was and Raleigh found his own letter under his own hand in the Governor of St. Thomas Closet which letter he brought back and shewed it to the Lords of the Counsel Now whereas he saith They had matter enough to take away his life in this his last businesse why did the Lords of the Councel then for a whole year together examine him at the Tower every week to pick out what they could to condemn him and yet when all was done they were fain to tell the King that if he would take away his life he must take advantage of his former condemnation which was accordingly done The next scandalous passage we meet with is fol. 365. concerning Will Earl of Pembrook and Philip Earl of Montgomerie his brother who he saith were men of considerable descents though of no fame in their merits when all men know William Pembrook was a man of Honour Valour and Learning and as well beloved as any man in this Nation But he leaves not the other brother so but farther saith though the King was no quarreller yet he hated a coward Strange that the King should hate that in his favourite which was so predominant in himself and turned Montgomery out of his affection for being switcht by a mean Gentleman Ramsey a Scot at a publick horse-race T●ough this favourite was urged to revenge and backed by the English forty to one to defend him he basely put it up to his death and the dishonor of a Gentleman That this passage in the main parts of it is true cannot be denyed but aggravated with these circumstances most slanderous and base and in every part of it most unfit to be left to posterity in Print being a particular and malicious blot upon a noble family and no way fit to be recorded by a Chronicler it is most notoriously false that the King deserted Montgomery for this action for though he were then in fancy with Carr yet after this he gave Montgomery greater gifts and was kinder to him then ever he had been before in all his life and the rather for putting up this injury lest it should have bred a national quarrel which it had like to have done and which King James dreaded above all things in the world for it is certain there was a sword put into n1g-nn hand being in an hunting posture without weapon to revenge himself and he sought for Ramsey all over the field but he was conveyed out of the way by the Scots and Mr. Pinchback by name said to Montgomery My Lord let us break our fast with them here meaning the Scots and sup with them at London For which speech King James ever hated Pinchback to his dying day Ramsey was committed close prisoner to the Tower and there lay until he had made all possible submissions that could be invented and it is well known that King James was alwayes kind to Montgomery to the very last as this Author himself confesseth in another place of his book fol. 592 therefore a false and malicious suggestion meerly brought in to brand Montgomery with a lasting disgrace The next businesse we shall take notice of is the poysoning of Overbury wherein he strives all he can to extenuate that foul murther both in Summerset and his Wife and magnifying the justice which was done therein forgets that Summerset and his Wife who were principals and drew in all the rest for money and rewards were pardoned and only the poor accessaries hanged And what an unworthy character doth he give of that poor unfortunate Gentleman Overbury saying That he was of an impudent and Thrasonical disposition that he had little in him that was solid for religion or moral vertue and that he was naught and corrupt making him the baud to Summersets lust with Essex his Wife and making him brag of that imployment when as all men that ever I met with have ever held Overbury to have been a sober religious and learned Gentleman and so it appeareth by what hath come out in publick of his writing besides he doth in this disparage Summerset whom he would defend by making him