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A53043	A commemoration sermon preached at Darby, Feb. 18, 1674, for the Honourable Colonel Charles Cavendish, slain in the service of King Charles the First, before Gainsborough in the year 1643 / by William Nailour.	Nailour, William, 1627 or 8-1678.; Cavendish, Charles, 1620-1643.	1675 (1675)	Wing N85; ESTC R5836	9,370	30

Imprimatur Ex Aed Lambethanis Martii 16. 1674. Tho. Tomkyns A COMMEMORATION SERMON Preached at DARBY Feb. 18. 1674. For the Honourable Colonel Charles Cavendish Slain in the Service of King Charles the First before Gainsborough in the Year 1643. By WILLIAM NAILOUR 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by Andrew Clark for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1675. To the Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL of DEVONSHIRE My Lord THese Papers take shelter under Your great Name to You they belong of Right as the nearest Relation The Person here spoke of was Your Dear Brother You suffered much in that Cause for which He was Slain He was a Martyr You was a Confessor He fought upon Your Expense Your Money raised his Regiment If I have fallen short as needs I must in the Description of so brave a Man impute that to the Excellency of the Subject the best Faces of all others are the hardest to hit to draw unto the Life If any ask why I would offer to undertake this business To them I answer The last words of a Dying person the Will is such To me are Sacred by no means to be neglected I have but done my Duty and though I fail in all points else however I shall hope at least to gain this Obsequii Gloriam the praise of a Ready Obedience Knowing Your Lordships Goodness so very well I am inclined to thinks You will not refuse the First Fruits of his Pen who subscribes himself in good earnest Your Lordships Most devoted as most obliged Servant W. Nailour Southampton House March 29. 1675. 2 SAM iii. 38. Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel ' T IS a Law of the twelve Tables Honoratorum virorum laudes in concione memorantur Let the Names of Honourable Persons be celebrated in publick Assemblies in Funeral Orations and it is most equal meet and right that they whose Works praise them in the gates should be commended there too where there is the greatest concourse of the People The Roman Oratour viewing the Troubles which ensued the fall of L. Crassus takes his Death at the hands of the Gods as an Act of Grace and Favour Sed ii tamen Remp. casus secuti sunt ut mihi non crepta L. Crasso à Diis immortalibus vita sed donata mors esse videatur Cic. not as an expression of their wrath and indignation When I reflect upon the distractions and confusions which followed the Death of Colonel Cavendish methinks the Powers above did not snatch away his Life in anger but rather conferred Death upon him in pure kindness that so his eyes might not behold what his great Spirit could never brook I mean the sight of Rebels triumphing Usurpers domineering A dying Emperor in Ammianus Marcellinus tells us Humile est coelo sideribusque conciliatum lugeri Principem that it is low mean and effeminate to moan and bewail the Death and departure of a Princely Person who hath exchang'd a corruptible Crown for one that fadeth not away All this I grant and yet with all 't is manly enough to rehearse the brave Actions of Heroick Persons after their Death and offer them to the present and future Ages for imitation That 's my business at this time to represent the Glorious Exit the Honourable Fall of the truly Noble and Valiant Charles Cavendish this day is design'd for his Commemoration Give me leave then to arrest your thoughts to rouse up your Memories with this question Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel These words were utter'd by David upon the death of Abner one of great Name among the Souldiers I will look over the words as they lie in order with some observation and after that I shall apply them to my present purpose The first Observation I make is this A Great mans Death passes not without a signal remark and publick notice the King talks of it the Court does ring of it And the King said unto his Servants Know ye not that there is a Prince fallen c. Private men may steal into their graves without notice and lie there as obscurely as they liv'd here but Great men can't do so thus the light of a smaller Star may be intercepted and no body heed it but if the Sun is eclipsed all observe it Great men are the main wheels in this Machine of the World and if they fall off they make a great alteration whereas meaner men are as the Dust upon these Wheels and if that falls off who does mind it When the Grand Signior lay a Dying and they ask'd him about his Successor he demanded thereupon Will there be any World when I am dead He thought his Change would change the Universe The Fall of a Great man does amuse the World alter its Figure and put things into another posture but when a Poor man Falls we consider it no more then when one Atome in a Sun-beam strikes down another When a tall Ceder or a stately Oak does fall 't is with a great noise but 't is not so with the smaller wood the lower shrubs When tidings came that the Great Pan was dead that report was eccho'd with howlings and ejulations and the Death of a great Commander creates a Pannick fear gives a whole Army terrour and amazement whereas the death of a Common Souldier makes no hubbub is undiscern'd not lamented The Death of a great Person can't go by us without notice This then gives you a just account of your present meeting A great Man is fallen I mean the Honourable Charles Cavendish second Son to the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire deceased and Christian his Wife my Noble Mistriss He was slain in the Service of his Lord and Soveraign Charles the First of Blessed memory before Gainsborough in the Year 1643. His Body was carried to Newark a Garrison of the Kings and there buried in the best manner that is according to the Rites of the Church of England The Corps of this brave Person we have brought to this Place to be laid in the Sepulchre of his Ancestours Now 't is not fit such Dust as this should be hudled up in the dark should be translated in silence which deserves the fairest Epitaph the noblest Monument the best Encomiast O that this Achilles had his Homer too That the Name of Colonel Cavendish might last with Ages might vie with Eternity What Seneca says of the Stout Cannius let us engrave upon the Tomb of the undaunted Cavendish Dabimus te Aeternitati sacrum Caput And that for the First Observ The Second follows Extraordinary Persons are not exempted from the Common Laws of Mortality the Prince and the Great man fall too they must go the way of all Flesh and Death must feed upon them Great men and Potentates of the earth are terrestrial Deities I have said Ye

are look for Death there expect it This advice the best of Stoicks gives you Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet itaque tu illam omni loco expecta Death like Lightning enters every where any Pore in your whole Body is a passage big enough and he that thinks in any place to fence himself against Death is just as ridiculous as that Roman Emperour who run under his Bed to shelter himself against Thunder If you are at Sea then there are but three inches betwixt you and Death if at Land that ground you tread on may be your Grave and long home the place from whence you shall not return If you are in the City the Bells ring out all day long and if you retire to your Country House Death is never the farther off though less thought on If you are under the hardships of War then Death stares you in the face every moment and if you wrap up your self in softness you may remember that the delicacies at Capua made greater havock in an Army then the sore fight of Cannae When you are in Durance and laid in Chains the Iron enters into your Soul and a Prison is the perfect emblem of a Grave and when you go abroad your Keeper I mean Death goes along with you is linkt unto you Eadem catena custodiam militem copulat If you are exposed to Air and Wind the Candle of your Life is apt to be puffed out suddenly or at least to spend it self so much sooner and if you live in the Shade under shelter every minute your Light grows still shorter still nearer to the socket quotidie morimur tunc quoque cum crescimus vita decrescit No place no Condition hath a priviledge hath an exemption from Death and the Grave in all places in all conditions wait and expect them And so much for the words of my Text by way of Observation now I come to apply them to the present occasion And here I shall consider Abner 1. In his Titles and Apellations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Prince and a great one 2. In the manner of his Fall and that was by a treacherous hand 3. The place of it and that was in Israel and in all these points the Noble Charles Cavendish is his Peer and Parallel First Abner was a great Prince in respect of his Command thus he was Captain of Saul's Host and after that had the conduct of all Ishbosheths Forces and in regard of his Extraction thus he was a near kinsman to the first King of Israel for Abner was the Son of Ner Saul's Uncle 1 Sam. 14.50 First Abner was a great Prince in Respect of his Command He is so who has the Legions under him Phavorinus says with such an one there is no disputing They who have the Souldiery at their beck may talk at a great rate right or wrong and use the language of those younkers in Livy that they do jus in armis ferre omnia fortium virorum esse that the Sword is the best divider of Kingdoms that they who have most Might have most Right Our tongues are our own we are they that ought to speak who is Lord over us He is a great Prince who offers to dispose of Crowns and Scepters and does contest with and contradict too the King of Kings in the doing of it thus did Abner God Almighty by an express makes David King but Abner for all that will set up Ishbosheth This Power it is Gigantick for it gives battel to Heaven it self and my argument becomes unhappy by proving too much when thus I prove Abner a great Prince and therefore I will leave it and proceed to another Secondly Then consider Abner in point of Extraction and so he is a great Prince Abner was the Son of Ner Saul's Uncle you may call him if you please a Prince of the blood only the Sceptre departing from Saul's house he must put Fuimus under his scutchin Saul was an extraordinary man in Israel higher then the rest of the People in Place and Stature from the Shoulders upwards and He casts a great Lustre on his near relations such as Abner and they shine by his raies When Saul's servants spoke to David about marrying their Master's Daughter He asked them this question Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Kings Son in Law And let me ask you this Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Kings Cousin German that was Abner a great Prince by virtue of his bloud nec dicendus sine cura and not lightly to be spoke of Abner was a Prince and a great one and so was Charles Cavendish whether you respect his Command or his Extraction First If you look upon him in his Command So He was the Souldiers Mignion and his Masters Darling designed by him for General of the Northern Horse and his Commission was given him a great mark of Honour for one about five and twenty Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delights to Honour There was a time when he that did extraordinary things for his Lord and Soveraign might hope to be rewarded by him in a manner extraordinary Colonel Cavendish was a Princely Person and all his actions were agreeable to that Character he had in an eminent degree that which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the semblance and appearance of a man made to govern Methinks he gave this clear indication of a great Commander The Kings Cause lived with him the Kings Cause died with him when Cromwell heard that he was Slain he cried upon it We have done our Business And yet two things I must confess this Commander knew not pardon his ignorance He knew not how to Flie away He knew not how to Ask quarter This Youthful Commander knew not how to Flie away though an Older did I mean Henderson For when this Bold Person entred Grantham on the one side that wary Gentleman who should have attaqued it fled away on the other He knew not how to Ask quarter his Roman courage could not stoop to it If Cato thought it Usurpation in Caesar to give him his Life Cavendish thought it a greater for Traytors and Rebels of a common size to give him his This brave Hero might be opprest as he was at last by numbers but he could not be Conquered The dying words of the great Epaminondas will suite him Satis vixi invictus enim morior What wonders might have been expected from a Commander so Vigilant so Valiant so Loyal so Constant had he not dropt down in his blooming Age But though he fell in his green years he fell a Prince and a great one too in this respect Greater then Abner For Abner that Son of Mars deserved his Fathers epithite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of both sides first he sets up Isbosheth and then he deserts him Whereas Cavendish merited such a Statue as the Roman Senate decree'd L.