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A15040	A mirror of treue honour and Christian nobilitie exposing: the life, death, and diuine vertues, of the most noble, and godly Lorde Frauncis Earle of Bedford, Baron Russell, Lorde chiefe Iustice, [and] Iustice in Oier, of all the Queene forrests, [and]c. ... Who deceased at Bedford house, the xxviij. of Iune. 1585. AEtatis suæ. 58. Wherevnto is adioyned a report of the vertues of the right valiant & worthy knight S. Frauncis, Lord Russell, sonne and heire apparant of the honour and good giftes of the sayd right noble Earle, who vpon a daye of truce was slaine, by a treacherous strategeme of the Scots, the 27. day of the said month of Iune. The report of George Whetstone, Gent. a faithfull seruant of the sayd right honorable Earle.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1585 (1585)	STC 25342; ESTC S111688	14,333	24

4 My Muse is bound by seruice zeale and loue The spight of death and fortune here to showe The Sire Sonne whose soules are crownd aboue With ethers corse posses the earth below Untill the daye of Christe his glorious showe By natures corse the one bereft of breath By fortunes spight the other brought to death 5 First of the first that Earle of Bedford hight A gratious Lord as euer lui'd on earth A Counseller and of the Garter knight Right honorable in vertue lore and birth Image of Grace and goodnes here on earth Whose life may be a Mirrour for the best Whose death nay life proclaimes his soule at rest 6 His purple rohe doth show his honor sound His armed sword the metle of his hart His forward leg in S. Georges Garter bound A token is of courage and desart His Counselers place to valour ioyneth Art His loyall truth aboue the rest doth shine His Godly zeale may well be cal'd deuine 7 His mourners clothd in harts as sad as weedes His vertues blasd for few bad men bemone Among the rest his charitable deedes with his sweete soule to Abrahms brest are flone The poore dismayd crye out that he is gone Whose sights and teares their eyes do scald or blind as men past hope his like againe to finde 8 But to discribe this gratious Lord at large His birth life death his gifts and godly feare For Homers pen or Virgils ware a charge Whose vertues firme beseemes the noble peere As Honors Grace within his brest to beare His perfect life the best devines might teach What workes become the holy words they preach 9 First of his birth which in his actes appeare By oft decents a Gentleman he was Ten worthy Squiers the Russels Armes did beare To Knights likewise decended of the race And through desart which hath the hyest place His noble Sire in Henries eye a pearle Clim'de by degrees vntill he was an Earle 10 Eight Cotes he bare which hereditare were The Russels first of all men knowne his owne Delatowres the next a Westerne heire Muschamp the third a Northerne Baron knowne Herringham the fourth a neighbour of his owne Frewxmer the fift from Worcetshire which came Wise was the sixt in Devonshire long of name 11 Deriu'd from Truth and lawfull Pedigrewe These former six his noble Father bare The other too were to his Mother dewe Sabcote she hight Inheritrix and heire With Saint Marke ioynde both in Northampton shire Long thus he was as I haue sayd before A Gentleman and Caesar was no more 12 And sith his howse is built of Honer now You well shall see the ground worke to be found Aduaunce I graunt to weake desart may bow And weaker Grace the building may confound But this strong forte is raisde on noe such ground The noble Lord first Earle of all his race The ground-worke layde by Vallor lore and Grace 13 He did not mount as some men with a starte Vallor him proud a Scevola to be Baronde he was on tryall for desarte Through wisedome then he climed by degree King Henries eyes did iudge as well as see Who with these roomes and Garter did him staule Lord Preauy zeale and eke Lord Admirall 14 Edward the sixt of Christ endeme the pearle For seruice great and loyalty vnstainde Created him of Bedford then the Earle Who still confest these guts by God he gainde And blest of God his vertues all remainde as ioynde vnto the honnor he begonne Unto this Lord the noble Earle his sonne 15 Gods wisedome oft euen from the Iawes of death Saues those whome he to worthy charges caule Throwne in the deepe he gaue to Moyses breath At Lycaonia Stonde he did reuiue S. Paule That there escapes might cōfort thraules in thraule To shew his strength and for a thousands good The Lord this Lord preserued in the stood 16 In tender yeares where one Instruction might Grafte lore and grace which make the noble shine His vertues blasde so cleare in all mens sight As by the same a number did deuine What frutes would grow vpō those bloomes in fine At eighteene years when youth would wāder far This Lord was stayd tooke a chardge in war 17 The West doth know the valour of his hart The Rebels strong he nobly did dismaye The people since haue honord his desart His Syre and he did bring them to obaye And euer since haue kept them at that staye His deeds were knowne by Iustice Trueth zeale To God his Prince and to the Common Weale 18 His holy zeale he builded on Gods word In all his pompe the Pope he did defie When Mary rain'de and bishops rul'de the sworde To cut him short who all his Acts did eye A godly feare his loyall truth did trye His seruice then and hye regard therefore Doth Papists teach their Princes to adore 19 Yet eare I showe his seruice vnconstrain'de I neede must showe how hardly he was vide A Prisoner with the Lord Rich he remainde Till papists had his actions all pervide Which fauteles were but he reuenge resusde He layd his wrong not to his Countries chardge But heaping trueth did sheild her with his tearge 20 Well armed with a stout and loyall hart At S. Quintins he seru'd with proper charg● There needs no trompe to sounde his hye desart Truth bydes the push vnarm'd with shield or targe Malgre his foes his merits were so large As that the Queene esteemde him with the best And made him then lieutenant of the We●t 21 The trust was great but far more great his trueth Yet he profest the faith he did before When as he saw the Clergie voyde of ruth Wherin their rage they seamde a Forest Bore And Christians blood they dronke vp more more He grieu'd to liue where as such Tyrants rainde Yet loyally this bitter Crosse sustainde 22 To trauell then his noble minde was set Which knowledge sought to do his Coūtrey good Abroade his port such noble praise did get As Princes when his fame they vnderstood They honord him by all the meanes they could God did him shield in spight of all his foes And yet he liu'de vnder the Pope his nose 23 Abroade he did not as our papistes doe In practise ioyne their Countrey to confownde Although his Queene were to gods word a foe He neuer wrought that she should be vncrownd No no his faith and honour both were sound Who oft had read and did regard it well That Tyrants were no warrants to rebell 24 No Tyrants are the scourges of Gods Ire Sent from aboue to chasten sinne below But as the Rod the father throwes in fire If in his sonne he sees that grace doth grow The soueraigne God with Tyrants dealeth soe Their rules are short and long his mercies raigne When as he sees that we our sinnes refraine 25 England doth know my censure to be

shield Yong yeeres faire lookes nor prayer may intreate The Prince the Peere and evry estate must yeld Of fame yeat Death the 〈…〉 not get Desire whereof mens mindes 〈…〉 set And sure this Lord by Fame 〈◊〉 here Old Iohn of Tymes that saw 〈◊〉 ●●●dred yeare 89 He liued so as he shall neuer dye In Heauen nor earth while any earth remaine His godly life is crownde aboue the skye His noble deedes which no fowle deed doth staine Though veniall sinne in evry flesh doth raigne Doth make his life his mortall life I saye In fame to liue till Mor●all Tyme decaye 90 I say no more that can not praise too much This Lord that liued well and dyed blest Fame spreades abroade reports I dare not tuch Ti●l leaue do ioyne in knowledge with the rest Truth shields frō shame and Truth is yet exprest And I in time God willing will expose With leaue obtainde the practise of his foes Viuit post funera virtūs AN EPITAPHE VPON THE DEATH of the right honorable Frauncis Earle of Bedford Baron Russell c. And of his most valiant Sonne and heire S. Frauncis Lord Russell treacherously slaine by a Stratageme of the Scotes and dyed the day before his noble father HEare vnderneathe the Earle of Bedford lyes Whose head was fraught with Grace godly care Who eares were ope to heare the poore mās cries Whose eyes to wi●h his neighbours goods forbare VVhose toung pronounst but good and godly speach VVhose hands 〈◊〉 and seldome did receiue VVhose holy 〈◊〉 ●●rts of men might teach This painted wo●●d did nothing but deceiue He liu'd and dy'de as he with God should raigne But O his losse ioynes with an other rod. His noble Sonne slaine by a Scottish traine His father lead the happy way to God Vpon a day of trute they did him wound VVhome shame no doubt by vengeance will confound Nemo ante obitum beatus The Order of the Romaine funerals to be attired withall his honors Ill men are not lamented being dead He was a liberall Comforter of the poore His Ancestors were Lords of the manner of Barwick in Dorcetshire H. ● Dorcetsh His noble fathers vertues and dignities By H. 8. He was created Earle of Bedford by E. 6. His saying Sans ●ayde de Dieu le ne puis He was in mortall peril of drowning and yet preserued His seruice in King Henry 8. dayes His Father being a generall he had chardge at Muttrill whē he was but 18 yeares of age His most valiant seruice in suppressing the Western Rebels in King Edward the 6 dayes He was alwayes a most godly Protestant The bishops in Queene Maries dayes narrowly searched him Vide acts monum He was Prisoner with the old ● Rich 〈◊〉 Queene M●●nes dayes His seruice in Queene Maries dayes at S. Quintes at his owne charge Queene Mary made him Lieutenant of the West Countries The tyranny of the papists in Queene Maries dayes He was most honorably ●ntertained ●y forraine Princes Disposition of english fugitiues Tyranny no warrant to rebolt The short raignes of Tyrants Example by England Queene Elizabeth He was the first that was sworne of Queene Elizabethes Counsell H●r great zeale to advaunce the Gospell Hee made high accou●● of good preachers Hee litle passed of dum Preachers Hes poesie applied to Gods power ouer all actions Antipater was driuē by a subtill pollicie to get Alexanders body buried the glory that Caesar esteemed His bounty and mercy very great A gratefull parte Passiōs which followes Princes Courts An honorable disposition Her Maiestie sēt him Ambassadour into Fraunce He was Gouernour of Barwicke in her Maiest Time A reuenge contrary to Martiall or politicke Iustice. He was her Maiesties deputie to cristen the scottish king Lord Darley her Maiest subiect ●e was Warden of the stanerie in the West The true cōmendatiō of the Iustice which he administred He was Lieutenant of the Counties of Dorcet Deuō of Cornwaule at the time of his death and oftentimes before The Lawiers in the Westerne Circuts murmured that he ended so many matters Vnkind sutes vnnaturall in this peaceable Gouernment The Petifogger a dāgerous neighbour The best end of law To appease smal discords a speciall duty of Iustices of peace Written vpō a cruel worldlings house A most honorable vertue in this Lord. He was a gret comforter of persecuted strangers He was highly regarded of forraigne princes which profes the ●ospell He greatly in what he might ●urthered the succour of Flaunders He was highly honored of strangers His wiues were most gratious Ladies 3 Daughters of his were al maried to Earles His sonnes were all Lords or Knights in his life time Pharos a wōderfull light made by Ptholomie Philodelphus for the derectiō of sea-faring men He was afflicted with a most violent sicknes one yeare and more past He was wonderfully martered by the Phisitions Surgieons The gretnesse of his patiēce The Doctors and Surgions gaue him ouer M. Marrad Fow●er westerne men Surgion● Discription of the world and of all estates The vncertaintie of Life The certainty of death The worldly mans felicity Nemo ante obitum ●eatus Life like voyages at Sea Hee neuer had great care of worldly causes since his former sicknes Her Maiestie oftentime most gratiously visited him in his former sicknes His most godly and blessed ende One of his godly sayinges in his last ende The senses of a number fayle before they deseace He had parfect vse of his senses vnto his latter gaspe He lyuely cōfessed his faythe in the tremblyng passage of deathe A frutefull admonition vpon hi● last sayinge His departure most quiet Of the valiāt Lord Russell God pun●●●eth murder for the most pai●e with visible vengeance At the spu● In the last siege of Edenbrough Vide Holengh Cre. He was treache●ously slaine vpon a daye of Truse Euer 〈◊〉 last rebellion in the 〈◊〉 He followed all o●ters of seruice in Scotland and the Norther● partes He maried the daughter and heire of S. Iohn Foster Knight L. Warden of the midle marcher TITVS MANLIVS being Consul commaunded that none of his Souldiers should fight but when he commaunded them Ge●●iu● Metius one of his Enimyes pricked forth of his Campanie and chalenge Ma●●ius Sonne The commandement of his father was that h●● should not fight But he being the Consul Sonne rather then the Ehim 〈…〉 him with Cowa●dise preferred a certaine death by breac● 〈…〉 Commandement before a dishonorable life in refusing 〈…〉 Hee slew his enimie and was himselfe put to death 〈…〉 iustice Euen so this noble Lord although not so 〈…〉 because hee valiauntly aduentured his person in a 〈…〉 at the assaults of Edinbrough Castell which Sir W Drurie ●●●●●enant had appointed for men of meaner reputation was by the sayd Lieutenant Committed toward But albeit discipline in martiall pollicie it to be reuerēsed The noble courage of this Lord aunswered 〈…〉 saying 〈…〉 matters of honorable danger there ought to be no difference betweene a king and a meane Souldier and through that thought vpon a mortall drought hee powred a present of 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 because it sufficed not to releaue his whole Armie Vid●●●oling Cro. He was Knighted by the Earle of Sussex generall of the field His stont aunswere to his treacherous enimies He liued vntill the daye after that hee was wounded Spes famae solet ad virtutom impellere multos Iohannes de Temporib●s liued in Charles the 5. time