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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

new Farmers So that we may take this also into observation that there were of the Queen's Council that were not in the Catalogue of Saints Now as we have taken a view of some particular Notions of her Times her Nature and Necessities It is not beside the text to give a short Touch on the Helps and Advantages of her Reign which were without Parallel for she had neither Husband Brother Sister nor Children to Provide for who as they are Dependants of the Crown so doe they Necessarily draw maintenance from thence and do oftentimes Exhaust and Draw deep especially when there is an ample fraternity of the bloud Royal and of the Princes of the Bloud as it was in the time of Edward the third and Henry the fourth for when the Crown cannot the Publick ought to give them Honourable Allowance for they are the Honour and Hopes of the Kingdom and the Publick which enjoys them hath a like interest in them with the Father that begot them and our Common-Law which is the Inheritance of the Kingdom did ever of old provide aids for the Primogenitures and the eldest Daughter So that the multiplicy of Courts and the Great Charge which necessarily follow a King and Queen a Prince and the Royal Issue was a thing which was not in rerum natura during the space of forty years and which by time was worn out of memory and without the consideration of the present times Insomuch that the aids given to the late and right noble Prince Henry and to his Sister the Lady Elizabeth were at first generally received for impositions of a new Coynage Yea the late impositions for Knighthood though an ancient Law fell also into the imputation of a Tax of novelty for that it lay long covered in the embers of division between the Houses of York and Lancaster and forgotten or connived at by the succeeding Princes So that the strangeness of the observation and difference of those later reigns is that the Queen took up beyond the power of the Law which fell not into the murmur of the people and her successors nothing but by warrant of the Law which nevertheless was conceived through disuse to be Injurious to the Liberty of the Kingdom Now before I come to any further mention of her Favourites for hitherto I have delivered but some Obvious Passages thereby to prepare and smooth a way for the rest that follows it is requisite that I Touch on the Relicks of the other Reign I mean the Body of her Sisters Council of State which she Retained intire neither Removing nor Discontenting any although she knew them averse to her Religion and in her Sisters time Perverse towards her Person and privy to her Troubles and Imprisonment A prudence which was incomparible with her Sisters nature for she both dissipated and Persecuted the major part of her Brother's Council But this will be of certainty that how Compliable soever and Obsequious she found them yet for a good space she made little use of their Counsels more than in the Ordinary course of the Board for she held a Dormant Table in her own Princely Breast yet she kept them together and their Places without any sudden Change so that we may say of them That they were of the Court not of the Council For whilest she Amused them with a kind of Promissive Disputation concerning the Points Controverted by both Churches she did set down her own Reservations without their Privity and made all her Progressions Gradations But so that the Tenents of her secrecy with intent of her establishment were Pitcht before it was known where the Court would sit down Neither do I find that any of her Sisters Council of State were either Repugnant to her Religion or Opposed her doings Englefield Master of the Horse excepted who withdrew himself from the Board and shortly after from out her Dominions so Plyable and Obedient they were to Change with the Times and their Princes And of this there will fall in here a Relation both of Recreation and of known Truth Paulet Marquess of Winchester and Lord Treasurer having served then four Princes in as Various and Changeable seasons that I may well say time nor any age hath yielded the like precedent This Man being noted to grow High in her Favour as his Place and Experience required was questioned by an Intimate friend of his how he stood up for Thirty years together amidst the Changes and Reigns of so many Chancellors and Great Personages Why quoth the Marquess Ortus sum ex salice non ex quercu I was made of the plyable Willow not of the stubborn Oak And truly the Old Man hath Taught them all especially William Earl of Pembroke for they two were ever of the King's Religion and over-zealous professors Of these it is said that being both younger Brothers yet of Noble Houses they spent what was left them and came on trust to the Court where upon the bare stock of their Wits they began to Traffick for themselves and prospered so well that they Got Spent and Left more than any Subjects from the Norman Conquest to their own Times whereunto it hath been prettily replyed that they lived in a Time of Dissolution To conclude then of any of the former reign it is said that these two lived and dyed chiefly in her favour The latter upon his son's marriage with the Lady Katharine Grey was like utterly to have lost himself But at the Instant of the consummation Apprehending the insafety and danger of an inter-marriage with the Bloud-Royal he fell at the Queen's feet where he both Acknowledged his Presumption with tears and projected the Cause and the Divorce together and so quick he was at his work for it stood him upon that upon Repudiation of the Lady he clapt up a marriage for his Son the Lord Herbert with Mary Sidney daughter to Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy of Ireland the blow falling on Edward late Earl of Hereford who to his cost took up the Divorced Lady of whom the Lord Beauchamp was born and William Earl of Hereford is descended I come now to present Those of her own Election which she either admitted to her secrets of State or took into her Grace and Favour of whom in their order I crave leave to give unto posterity a cautious description with a short Character or Draught of the persons themselves For without offence to others I would be true to my self their memories and merits distinguishing them of the Militia from the Togati and of these she had as many and those as able Ministers as any of her Progenitors Leicester IT will be out of doubt that my Lord of Leicester was one of the first whom she made Master of the Horse he was the youngest Son then living of the Duke of Northumberland beheaded primo Mariae and his Father was that Dudley which our Histories couple with Epson and both so much Infamed for the Caterpillars of

my Lord of Leicester and Burleigh out of France containing many fine passages and secrets yet if I might have been beholding to his Cyphers whereof they are full they would have told Pretty Tales of the times But I must now close up and rank him amongst the Togati yet chief of those that laid the foundation of the Dutch and French Wars which was another piece of his fineness and of the times with one observation more That he was one of the Great Allies of the Austrian Embracements For both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to the Fiend in the Gospel that sowed his tares in the night so did they their seeds of division in the dark And it is a likely report that they father on him at his return That he said unto the Queen with some sensibility of the Spanish designs on France Madam 〈◊〉 beseech you be content not to fear The Spaniard hath a great Appetite and an Excellent Digestion but I have fitted him with a bone for this Twenty years that your Majesty shall have no cause to doubt him provided that if the fire chance to slack which I have kindled you will be ruled by me and now and then cast in some English fewel which will revive the flame Willoughby MY Lord Willoughby was one of the Queen's first Sword-men He was of the Ancient Extract of the Bartues but more ennobled by his Mother who was Dutchess of Suffolk He was a great Master of the Art Military and was sent General into France and commanded the Second of Five Armies that the Queen sent thither in aid of the French I have heard it spoken that had he not slighted the Court but Applyed himself to the Queen he might have enjoyed a plentiful portion of her Grace And it was his saying and it did him no good That he was none of the Reptilia intimating that he could not creep on the ground and that the Court was not in his Element for indeed as he was a Great Souldier so was he of a Suitable Magnanimity and could not brook the Obsequiousness and Assiduity of the Court and as he then was somewhat descending from youth happily he had an animam revertendi and to make a safe Retreat Sir Nicholas Bacon I Come to another of the Togati Sir Nicholas Bacon An arch-piece of Wit and Wisdom He was a Gentleman and a man of Law and of great knowledge therein whereby together with his other parts of Learning and Dexterity he was promoted to be Keeper of the Great Seal and being of kin to the Treasurer Burleigh had also the help of his hand to bring him into the Queen's favour for he was abundantly factious which took much with the Queen when it was suited with the season as he was well able to judge of his times He had a very quaint saying and he used it often to good purpose That he loved the jest well but not the loss of his Friend He would say That though he knew Vnusquisque suae fortunae faber was a true and good principle yet the most in number were those that marred themselves But I will never forgive that man that loseth himself to be rid of his jest He was Father to that Refined Wit which since hath acted a disastrous part on the publick stage and of late sat in his Father's room as Lord Chancellour Those that lived in his age and from whence I have taken this little Model of him gives him a lively Character and they decypher him for another Solon and the Synon of those times such a one as Oedipus was in dissolving of Riddles Doubtless he was as able an Instrument and it was his commendation that his head was the Mawl for it was a great one and therein he kept the Wedge that entred the knotty pieces that came to the Table And now I must again fall back to smooth and plain a way to the rest that is behind but not from the purpose There were about these times two Rivals in the Queen's favour Old Sir Francis Knowls Comptroller of the House and Sir Henry Norris whom she called up at a Parliament to sit with the Peers in the higher House as Lord Norris of Ricot who had married the daughter and heir of the old Lord Williams of Tame a Noble person and to whom in the Queen's adversity she had been committed to safe custody and from him had received more than ordinary observances Now such was the goodness of the Queen's Nature that she neither forgot good turns received from the Lord Williams neither was she unmindfull of this Lord Norris whose Father in her Father's time and in the business of her Mother died in a Noble cause and in the justification of her innocency Lord Norris MY Lord Norris had by this Lady an ample Issue which the Queen highly respected for he had Six Sons and all Martial brave men The first was William his eldest and Father to the late Earl of Berkshire Sir John vulgarly called General Norris Sir Edward Sir Thomas Sir Henry and Maximilian Men of an haughty courage and of great experience in the conduct of Military affairs And to speak in the Character of their merit they were persons of such renown and worth as future times must out of duty owe them the debt of an honourable memory Knowls SIr Francis Knowls was somewhat of the Queen's affinity and had likwise no incompetent Issue for he had also William his eldest and since Earl of Banbury Sir Thomas Sir Robert and Sir Francis if I be not a little mistaken in their names and martialling and there was also the Lady Lettice a Sister of these who was first Countess of Essex and after of Leicester And these were also brave men in their times and places but they were of the Court and Carpet not led by the genius of the Camp Between these two Families there was as it falleth out amongst Great ones and Competitors for favour no great correspondency and there were some seeds either of emulation or distrust cast between them which had they not been disjoyned in the residence of their persons as it was the fortune of their imployments the one side attending the Court the other the Pavilion surely they would have broken out into some kind of hostility or at least they would have wrestled one in the other like Trees incircled with Ivy For there was a time when both these Fraternities being met at Court there passed a challenge between them at certain exercises the Queen and the old men being spectators which ended in a flat quarrel amongst them all And I am perswaded though I ought not to judge that there were some reliques of this feud that were long after the causes of the one Families almost utter extirpation and of the others improsperity For it was a known truth that so long as my Lord of Leicester lived who was the main pillar of the one side as

where you may follow your Book Read and Discourse of the Wars But to our purpose It fell out happily to Those and as I may say to Those Times That the Queen during the Calm of her Reign was not idle nor rockt asleep with Security for she had been very Provident in the Reparation and Augmentation of her Shipping and Ammunition and I know not whether by a fore-sight of Policy or an Instinct it came about or whether it was an Act of her Compassion but it is most certain That she sent Levies and no small Troops to the assistance of the Revolted States of Holland before she had received any Affront from the King of Spain that might Deserve or Tend to a breach in Hostility which the Papists to this day Maintain was the Provocation and Cause of the after-wars but omitting what might be said to this point those Netherland wars were the King's Seminaries and the Nurseries of very many Brave Souldiers and so were likewise the Civil Wars of France whither she sent five several Armies the French-Schools that inured the Youth and Gallantry of the Kingdom and it was a Militia wherein they were daily in acquaintance with the discipline of the Spaniards who were then turned the Queen's Inveterate Enemies And this have I taken into observation of her Dies Halcyonii those years of hers which were more Serene and Quiet than those that followed which though they were not less propitious as being Touched more with the point of Honour and Victory yet were they Troubled and ever Clouded over both with Domestick and Foreign Machinations and it is already quoted they were such as awakened her Spirits and made her cast about how to Defend rather by Offending and by the way of diverting to Prevent all Invasions than to Expect them which was a piece of Policy of the times and with this I have noted the causes or Principia of the Wars following and likewise pointed to the Seed-plots from whence she took up those Brave Men and Plants of Honour which Acted on the Theatre of Mars and on whom she dispersed the Rayes of her Grace which were Persons in their kinds of Rare Vertues and such as might out of height of Merit pretend interest to her Favour of which rank the number will equal if not exceed that of the Gown-men In recount of whom I proceed with Sir Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney HE was Son to Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of Wales a Person of Great Parts and in no Mean Grace with the Queen his Mother was Sister to my Lord of Leicester from whence we may conjecture how the Father stood up in the place of Honour and Imployment so that his Descent was Apparently Noble on both sides For his Education it was such as Travel and the University could afford or his Tutors infuse for after an incredible Proficiency in all the species of Learning he left the Academical life for that of the Court whither he came by his Uncle's Invitation famed afore-hand by a Noble Report of his Accomplishments which together with the state of his Person framed by a Natural Propension to Arms he soon Attracted the good opinion of all men and was so highly prized in the good opinion of the Queen that she thought the Court Deficient without him And whereas through the fame of his Deserts he was in the Election for the Kingdom of Poland she refused to further his Advancement not out of Emulation but out of Fear to lose the jewel of her Times He married the daughter and sole heir of Sir Francis Walsingham then Secretary of State a Lady destinated to the Bed of Honour who after his Deplorable death at Zutphen in the Netherlands where he was Governour of Vitishing at the time of his Uncle's being there was married to my Lord of Essex and since his death to my Lord of Saint Albans all persons of the sword and otherwise of Great Honour and Vertue They have a very quaint and facetious figment of him That Mars and Mercury fell at Variance whose servant he shoul be And there is an Epigrammist that saith that Art and Nature had spent their Excellencies in his fashioning and fearing they should not end what they begun they bestowed him on Fortune and Nature stood Musing and Amazed to behold her own work but these are the fictions of Poets Certain it is He was a Noble and Matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without Hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Vticensis That he seemed to be born to that only which he went about Versatilis ingenii as Plutarch hath it But to speak more of him were to make him less Sir Fra. Walsingham SIr Francis Walsingham as we have said had the honour to be Sir Philip Sidney's Father in Law He was a Gentleman at first of a Good House but of better Education and from the University Travelled for the rest of his Learning He was doubtless the Best Linguist of the times but knew best how to use his own Tongue whereby he came to be employed in the Chiefest Affairs of State He was sent Ambassadour into France and stayed there a Leiger long in the heat of the Civil wars and at the same time that Mounsieur was here a Suitor to the Queen and if I be not mistaken he played the very same part there as since Gundamore did here At his return he was taken Principal Secretary and was one of the Great Engines of State and of the times high in the Queen's Favour and a watchful servant over the safety of his Mistress They note him to have had certain Curiosities and Secret ways of Intelligence above the rest But I must confess I am to seek wherefore he suffered Parry to play so long on the hook before he hoysed him up and I have been a little curious in the search thereof though I have not to do with the Arcana Imperii For to know is sometimes a burthen and I remember that it was Ovid's crimen aut error That he saw too much But I hope these are Collaterals of no danger But that Parry intending to kill the Queen made the way of his Access by betraying of others and impeaching of the Priests of his own correspondency and thereby had Access and Conference with the Queen and also oftentimes familiar and private Conference with Walsingham will not be the Quaere of the mystery for the Secretary might have had his end of discovery on a further Maturity of the Treason but that after the Queen knew Parry's intent why she should then admit Him to Private Discourse and Walsingham to suffer it considering the condition of all Assailings and permit him to go where and whither he listed and onely on the security of a dark sentinel set over him was a piece of Reach and Hazard beyond my Apprehension I must again profess That having read many of his Letters for they are commonly sent to