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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

from idlenesse the seminary of all wickednesse * 27. Dignitates immoderatè exercuit Hee exercised the dignities which hee purchased with excessive usury It is a principle amongst hucksters and such as have dealings in the World that they that buy deare must sell deare It holds in spirituall preferments hee that emptieth his bags in buying of dignities will fill them againe in selling of Benefices and poling of under Officers it was so in the dayes of Richard the First when William Longshampe Bishop of Ely lived and long before him in the dayes of William Rufus when the munke of Malmsbury exclaimed proh dolor Ecclesiae nummis venduntur aere and it will ever bee so Aristotle seems to uphold the trade Consentaneum est saith hee ut ij qui emunt magistratus quaestui habere assuescant remp cum ●d eos largitionibus ascenderunt it is good reason that hee that buyes authority should make some profit of his authority but let us take heed how wee follow Aristotles consentaneum lest wee partake of the Bishop of Ely his supplicium Of the excessive pride and oppression and of the fall of the Bishop of Ely vid. Mat. Paris Anno 1190. in R. 7. Polid l. 14. * 28 Quidam comes Warwicensis ab Ed. 4 An Earle of Warwick raised to such a heighth of power by King Edw. the 4. This is the great Earle of Warwick that set up and pul'd down Kings Richard Nevill the son of Richard Nevill Lord Chancellour and Earle of Salisbury he was Lord high Chamberlain Constable of Dover Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque●orts and Admirall and indeed had the whole power of the Kingdome in his hands I may well say the whole power for he had not only the command of the Ports and Navy but hee had the command of the hearts of the people insomuch that they that knew him say quocunque ille inclinaret populus aut saltem major pars populi inclinabat which way soever hee went as a torrent hee drew the people along with him and to give him his due fuit verè nobilis quasi prae aliis notabilis nam ab ineunte aetate as Historians report of him non solum veris virtutibus mirabilis sed etiam art● quadam in ostentatione earum virtutum compositus hee was truly noble for from his childhood hee had not only rare and admirable gifts of nature but hee had art and eloquence to expresse them by meanes whereof hee grew gracious in the sight of the people amongst other his vertues he had two most eminent Magnanimity and Liberality which will win the heart of an enemy his Liberality he dayly shewed in his hospitality his Magnanimity and valour as at divers other times so especially at the first battell at St. Albons Anno. 1455. ubi ille primus omnium regios milites praelio lacessit as my Authour saith where hee himselfe made the first assault against the Kings Army and after a doubtfull warlike dispute which continued for the space of three or foure houres prevailed and slew Henry Lord Piercy the second Earle of Northumberland the Lord Clifford and the Duke of Sommerset Edmond Beauford that Duke of Somerset qui tot annos pro patria stren●è pugnasset adversus Francos that adventured himselfe many yeares against the French in the behalfe of his Country miserabile sanè spectaculum quod à suis civibus occideretur as that Authour saith a sad spectacle that he that so often adventured himself for his country should be killed by his country men but in abattell when all parties are in the higth of fury there is no distinction the Earle buried him nobly which was as much honour as hee could doe to one that fought against him the Earle married Anne the Sister and Heire of Henry Duke of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight and the favorite of King Henry the sixt who dyed at Hanly where hee was borne being now the Inheritance of the (g) Sir Iohn Russel of Strencham was Mr. of the Horse to Rich. the Second and many desc●nts before him was there one Tho. Russel of Strencham the Family quarters many Coates but the paternall Coat as I take it is argent a Cheurom between three Crosses Crosses Sables Russels of Strensham I cannot say the most eminent house of that name but this I say that I cannot finde others peradventure may any family of that name more ancient I will not except the most eminent in whose right hee was Earle of Warwick and had a massy estate by her hee had issue two daughters Isabell and Ann whom hee married into the Royall blood Isabell to George Duke of Clarence the brother of King Edward the fourth the eldest sonne of King Henry the sixt who was slaine after the battell at Tewxbury and afterwards to Richard e This honour is aptly compared to Sejanus his horse Tho. of Woodst Duke of Gloucest was strangled at Callis An. 1397. Tho. L. Spencer Earle of Gloucest was beeheaded at Bristoll An. 1400. Humfrey Duke of Gloucest was strangled in the Abby of St Edinbury An. 1446. Richard Duke of Glou. was slaine at Bosw an 1485. Duke of Gloucester who was slaine at Bosworth this man notwithstanding hee had been thus advanced fell off from the King and the cause of his revolt was for that he being sent into France to treat of a marriage for the King the King in the meane while married with the Lady Grey which the Earle taking to heart conceiving it to be a great wrong unto him to bee so deluded confederated with George Duke of Clarence his sonne in law to set King Henry the sixt at liberty being then in the Tower of London but it is conceived that this was but a pretence and that their intention was to settle the Crown upon the Duke for it is not probable or credible that the Duke would ever agree to settle the Crown out of his owne house upon the house of Lancaster and hereupon there was a bloody battell fought at Danes-moore not farr from Banbury and was called Edgcote field where the Kings Army was defeated and not long after the King taken prisoner at Wolney a village neare to Northampton and conveyed to Warwick Castle and from thence to Middlenam Castle in Yorkshire out of which hee escaped gathered new forces and at Stamford in Lincolneshire encountred and overcame the Earle and made him fly for succour into France but not long after the Earle returned and having assistance from the King of France put the King to the worst made him forsake the Kingdom and fly for reliefe to the Duke of Burgondy which Commines imputes to the Kings credulity in relying too much upon the Marquesse Mountacute who when hee had most need of him revolted to his brother but not long after the King returned and upon an Easter day after a bloody fight at Barnet the King prevailed and slew both the brothers the Earle and the Marquesse which

too high a pitch but had confined himselfe within a meane if one man might have deserved so m●ch as he had hee might have deserved it for that I cannot finde that ever hee reflected his thoughts upon himselfe to rayse any house of his name but ever sent forth his Treasure in handfulls that came in in spoonesulls and what he had the King knew the Kingdome knew because he exposed it daily to view hee that diligently reades this story will find that the King from the beginning used the Cardinall but as a sponge vid. Godw. de Epis Angl. G. Cavend in vita Wolsaei Polyd. lib. 27. m. H. S. Thu. lib. 1. * 30 Inter tres Principes Hee carried himselfe indifferently between the King his Master the King of England and the Duke of Burgondy Never did the Kingdome of France produce a more turbulent spirit then this Constable hee was the only Incendiary between the King his Master the King of England and the Duke of Burgondy and his ambition ever was rather to bee feared then loved for which hee grew a Odimus accipitrem qui semper vivit in armis contemptible and his death often threatned before it happened Commines writing of the tumultuous broyles that hapned between these Princes shews that there were two principall motives that occasioned the Constable and the Duke of Guyen to kindle the fire one was their own safety for they did conceive if there were a peace concluded that either the one or the other would fall fowle upon them the other was to compell the Duke of Burgondy by a War if they could not otherwise prevaile to marry his daughter being his daughter and heire to the Duke of Guyen and these designes were manifested to the Duke of Burgondy upon the delivering up of St. Quintins and Amiens to the King for the Duke beeng much troubled for the losse of these townes in a friendly manner writ unto the Constable not to presse a Warr being that there was no defiance offered unto whom the Constable perceiving that hee stood in feare of him which was the thing hee aymed at returned a peremptory answer to this effect that there was but one way for him to help himselfe which was to bestow his daughter upon the Duke of Guyen which if hee would doe not onely the said Duke but divers other Lords would declare themselves for him against the King and hee would redeliver St. Quintins and Amiens unto him and assist him with all his power otherwise hee would pursue the War which answere the Duke having received resolved to undergoe any misery rather then to have his daughter taken from him in that way and thereupon forthwith acquainted the King with those and the like letters which he had sent to the King of England who immediately revived the agreement made at Bonvines concerning the death of the Constable Of the letters which the Constable sent to the Duke of Burgondy and the King of England see Commines lib. 4. c. how the agreement at Bonvines was afterwards ratified and hee delivered by the Duke of Burgondy comming to him upon safe conduct see Commin lib. 4. See more of the Constable in the generall History of France in Lewis the 11. * 31. Peculasus accusatus suspendio affectus Enguerrande for robbing the Kings Treasure was accused and hanged Enguerrande was Earle of Longuevill and Superintendent of the Treasure under Philip the fourth called the fair and did him good service but Charles the Kings brother conceiving inplacable hatred against him in the beginning of the raign of Lewis Hutin accused him for robbing the Kings Treasure and gave this in evidence against him rerum vires nervusque pecunia est te interrogo Enguerran● cujusnam pecunia arcaque recondita clausaque cupiditati tuae fuerit non interrogo quam amplum patrimonium relictam tibi a Parentibus fuit tu te creasti tu te genuisti ingredere fiscum Regis inopiam invenies ingredere aedes istius gurgitis gazam Persicam invenies an virtute parta quae virtus in tali monstro potest esse and upon this evidence prevailed to have him hanged upon a gallowes set up at Mountfalcon See Paul Aemil. lib. 8. * 32. Petrus Laudoicus apud ducem Britaniae Peter Landais was in the like favour with the Duke of Britaine Peter Landais was the sonne of a very meane man of Vitry in Britanny and came to the Court very poore whom the Duke at the first imployed to carry his amorous Letters to his Ladies after made him the Master of his Wardresse then his Treasurer and in the end his power was so great that he did in a manner what he would hee was the man that caused the Duke to suffer Chauvin his Chancellour to dye miserably in prison of hunger and cold which so incensed the Nobility that they resolved to ease the Duke of him whereupon John of Chalon Prince of Orange and son to one of the Dukes Sisters and John of Rieux Marshall of Britanny and one of the greatest men in Court together with the Nobility resolved to surprise him in the Castle of Na●●s or wheresoever they could finde him though in the Dukes presence which they performed And so Peter was arraigned condemned and hanged priusquam causam sciret dux as Paulus Aemilius hath it Vid Paul Aemil. l. 10. c. 8. supplem ad lib. 6. Com. Observations There is no man so vile and contemptible in the world but is good to some body this Peter that was thus hanged did one of the greatest curtesies to King Hen. the 7th that ever was done to him When King Edw. the Fourth sent unto Francis Duke of Brittany Doctor Stillington with others-laden with Gold to request him to deliver unto them the Earle of Richmond being his Prisoner upon pretence to unite the two houses by an alliance the Duke conceiving that hee intended to marry Elizabeth his Eldest Daughter unto him without any scruple took their Gold and delivered him but being informed afterwards by Peter his favourite that it was but a pretence and that hee meant to cut off his head sent him post after them who finding them at Saint Mallo staying for a winde took a course to have the Earle conveyed into the Sanctuary there yet possessed the Doctor and his fellowes that hee had no hand in it but that hee escaped of himselfe and when they prest to have him redelivered hee told them it could not be without his Masters consent and that they should very speedily know his minde therein So Peter sent to the Duke and the Duke sent a peremptory answer that hee had once delivered him and being that through their negligence they had suffred him to take Sanctuary hee would not take him out but would keep him there or in his own Palace for them so Peter cosened them of their mony and adventure as he had cosened his Master all his life time and sent them home without either

Founder which did not a little move the King but that I impute to the workmen by reason that in a window not much distant the Cardinall to manifest to the World his originall and that whatsoever hee had hee had received by the gracious favour of his Prince (i) Non ignoro quod aliqui sunt qui hoc esse factum in contumeliam suam volunt sicut in Gallia in caenaculo suo insculpsere g●lerum Cardin litum cum p●tibulo supra caused above his Ensign to bee lively pourtraited for his crest Molossum ovinam scapulam arrodendem a Mastive-dog knawing of a shoulder of mutton because that those kinde of dogs are most commonly kept by Butchers erat enim lanii filius and he was not ashamed of it and therein hee shewed not onely a great deale of humility but a great deale of worth and wisedome for it is no dishonour to descend from mean Parentage by reason the greatest Rivers have their beginnings from little Springs and the greatest Families from meane beginnings but if he had set up the Crest of any great Lord or Prince that would have been a dishonour unto him and shewed a great deale of arrogancy in disclaiming his father that begot him Neither did the Cardinals thoughts rest here upon these foundations but hee raised them a great deale higher for if not at the same time that he laid these foundations yet not long after quasi natus ad splendida tecta erigenda hee built those two Princely Palaces of White-Hall and Hampton Court Novam regiam quae nunc a splendore aula candida dicta c. which doe exceed all other the Kings houses the one for entertainment the other for magnificence which indeed did a little exceed the degree of a Priest I might add a Subject for that in all the Histories that I have read I doe not finde any Subject to have done so great things unlesse it were Cosmo de Medicis a Citizen of Florence who built two Churches in the City and a Monastery and three Monasteries in the Country and an Hospitall at Jerusalem for Pilgrims and endowed them all and for himselfe a house in Florence admired for architecture by the best Architects and in the Country not farre remote from the City foure stately Palaces yet lived as a Citizen married his Daughters to Citizens of his owne rank and dyed a Citizen about the yeare of our Lord 1464 without any title of honour but his Posterity was abundantly rewarded for his good workes for the Florentines out of his Family chose their Dukes which doe continue Dukes of Florence and are named afther his name of the house of Medicis but to come to the Cardinall the retinue of this Cardinall fidem superat and for mine owne part I cannot believe the report which is given of it it is repotted quod assiduo famulitii obsequio aderant Comes unus barones novem multo plurimi equites armige●i that an Earle nine Barons and many more Knights and Esquires were Servants in ordinary to him it may be they might daily resort to his Table quasi famulitii as duly as if they had beene his domestique Servants which they might doe without disparagement of themselves for being that he was quicquid esse voluit whatsoever hee would bee and obtained quodcunque voluerit whatsoever hee asked non domi tantûm sed foris for the King himselfe acknowledged se regem Galliae a Wolsaeo regi I could not blame the Nobility to make in unto him both for their owne good and the good of their friends but that they should stoop so low as to become famulitii quotidiani daily waiters upon him whose beginning was so fresh in memory cannot enter into my thoughts This Cardinall that was so great to day in honors in possessions in attendants I cannot say in treasure for that went out as fast as it came in the next day or within few dayes after became so meane ut non modò supellectilem sed etiam pecuniam under aleretur ab amicis sumere necessum habuerit that hee was enforced to be beholding to his friends not onely for Money but also for necessaries which gave occasion to his Enemies thus but without cause to descant upon him Vilia qui quondam miseris alinenta negavit Nunc mendicato pascitur ille cibo It is reported that upon the Message which the King sent unto him by the Dukes of Suffolke and Norfolke to retire to Asher in Surrey being a house belonging to the Bishoprick of Winchester and not farre from Hampton-Court that hee continued there with his Family twenty dayes without either beds sheets table-clothes or dishes to eat his meat which report I doe not believe and if it be true yet I conceive it was his owne desire to have it so for being that hee wanted no kinde of Provision for his Table as is acknowledged by the same reporter hee could not have wanted those necessaries if hee had desired them of his Servants being persons of quili●y and estate and such as did adhere unto him in both fortunes as namely Sir William Gaescoigne his Treasureur Sadler the Clerke of his Kitching as I take it afterwards Sir Ralph Sadler who left a faire estate in Worcestershire and Cromwell his receiver especially of Cromwell of whom the greatest Enemies to the Cardinall gave this testimony quod nemo erat Caerdinalitam infensus quin Cromwelli fidelitatem summis laudibus extolleret quod dominum suum in summa calamitate non deseruit sed totis viribus defendere conatus est that there was no man so much offended with the Cardinall but highly commended Cromwell for his fidelity to his Lord and Master in his greatest extremity in few words all his Servants loved him and adhered to him to the last and not without cause for as hee wa● a good Steward to his Master so hee was a better Master to his Stewards and his followers thinking upon nothing more then how to advance them hee was twice accused of Treason but what that Treason was we shall know apud Graecas Calendas for hee was never attainted or convicted onely he submitted to a praemunire brought against him in Parliament by which his estate was confiscate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he dyed of a Flux in the Abbey of Leicester and was buried Divers are the votes that are given of this Cardinall Polydore condemnes him in every thing but Polydore was a stranger an Italian and had his errours as they that are familiar with him know better then I but Cavendish that was his Gentleman Vsher and wrot his life and knew him better then Polydore in most things speaks in another manner of him and for mine owne part I am of his opinion that sayes si ingenii dotes tam habuisset temperatas quam habuit illustres quantum fortunae habuit gloriae cupiit tantum meruisset if hee had not strained his thoughts unto