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Rawleigh redivivus, or, The life & death of the Right Honourable Anthony, late Earl of Shaftsbury humbly dedicated to the protesting lords / by Philanax Misopappas.
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Philanax Misopapas.; S. N.
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and make no haste into the Boat they called to him to come away Gentlemen said he I intreat you to excuse my going with you for I now call to mind some extraordinary business which obliges me to stay in Town But his company was too pleasant to be so easily relinquish'd wherefore one of them stepping out of the Boat endeavoured by his importunity to alter his resolution and perswade him to go with them according to his first intention but being not able to prevail he protested he would carry him into the Boat if he would not go willingly so that being unwilling to disoblige them he adventur'd to go although with much reluctancy As they were shooting the Bridge it being low Water the force of the Ebb carried their Boat with such violence against a Loyter that was just gone through before them that she sunk but several Boats presently making towards them they were all sav'd however their design for Bowling at Greenwich was spoiled for that day Having spent some considerable time in the Inns of Court his Relations began to think of disposing of him in Marriage and a suitable Match was enquired after that might answer the largeness of his Fortune At length a Marriage is agreed by the consent of both Families between him and Margaret Daughter to Thomas Lord Coventry sometime Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose agreeable Conversation render'd his Life the more pleasant and delightful He had no Issue by this Wife His second Wife was the Lady Frances Daughter to the Earl of Exeter by whom he had Issue his only Son and Heir Anthony Lord Ashly now Earl of Shaftesbury who married the virtuous and ingenious Lady the Lady Dorothy Daughter to John Earl of Rutland by whom he hath Issue two Sons Anthony a Youth of about Twelve years of Age extreamly like his Grandfather both for Person and Parts for which reason he was so dear to him that his Life seemed to be bound up in this Grandsons as Jacobs was said to be in his Son Benjamin's His last Wife was Margaret Daughter to William Lord Spencer a most accomplished and Virtuous Lady whose exemplary Piety is so extraordinary that she may very well be proposed as a pattern for other Noble Personages to imitate her constant custom being to rise by Five of the Clock in the Morning and she usually spends two or three hours there in her private Devotions No sooner did the Fame of his great Abilities reach the Royal Ear but his late Majesty cast a favourable Eye upon him employing him in several eminent Services which he performed with an exact Loyalty to the satisfaction of his Majesty from whose Interest he never departed otherwise then as Hushai from King David when the Tribes of Israel revolted from him in order to the using his Interest for the Service of his Prince and endeavour by his Wisdom and Counsel so to order and influence the Councils and Designs of the Conspirators that they might be the less hurtful to his Soveraign and tend to the overthrow of themselves And it is admirable to contemplate with what dexterous Skill and exquisite Policy he so managed all their Councils as to make them run directly towards and naturally tend to swell the Royal Stream which immediately upon their Ebb flowed so suddenly and swiftly that like a swelling Sea it easily overflowed all those Banks which were cast up to impede its Flux and by its irresistable force bore down all before it until at last it terminated in the full Tide of his Majesties Restoration Like the Generous Hushai never resting until he saw his Ejected Soveraign like the glorious Sun newly escaped from a total Eclipse return to the possession of his Crown and Kingdom His Majesty having December 5. 1639. upon the advice of the Earl of Strafford and Marquess of Hamilton and Doctor Land Archbishop of Canterbury declared his resolution for the calling a Parliament After 11 years interval he was by the unanimous consent of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Tewkesbury in Gloucester-shire chosen to serve as Burgess for that Town Sir Edward Alford being chosen for the other On Monday April 13. 1640. this Parliament opened and were acquainted by his Majesty That he thought never any King had greater cause to call his People together nor more weighty Affairs to confer with them about then himself the particulars whereof he referred to the Lord Keeper By whom they were recommended to the Parliament in an elegant Speech The Parliament sate in debate of those things recommended to them till the fifth of May when his Majesty concluding they were too slow in giving those Supplies he demanded Dissolved them publishing a Declaration thereupon containing an account of his Reasons for that Dissolution This was the fourth Parliament which had been Dissolved by his Majesty In the beginning of our unhappy Troubles he raised a Regiment for the Service of his Majesty and was by him upon the Rupture with the Parliament made Governour of Waymouth being at the same time High Sheriff of the County of Dorset And when he saw that the War would unavoidably break out he summoned by virtue of his Pesse Contitatus the whole County from sixteen years old to meet at Dorchester which is the County Town thereby to engage them to stand by his Majesty But before that day appointed for their Meeting his Majesty sent down Colonel William Ashburnham with a Commission to be Governour of the County of Dorset whereupon he repaired presently to Dorchester and shewed his Commission to the High Sheriff At which time the Sheriff acquainted the Colonel with what he had done in reference to his Majesties Interest by summoning the County wherewith the Colonel was very well pleased But Sir Anthony concluding that the Colonel's being sent to command as Governour of the County notwithstanding his being Governour of Weymouth and high Sheriff of Dorset-shire proceeded from some secret suspition which his Majesty had conceiv'd of his Fidelity perhaps occasioned by the malicious whisperings of some about the King who grew Jealous of him lest the greatness of his Parts should in time have raised him higher in his Majesties Favour and good Opinion then would have consisted with their Interest took Horse the next Morning and went to his own House about 20 Miles from thence the next day he went to his Brothers and from thence to London The day being come for the Counties Meeting they flocked in vast numbers to Dorchester there being scarce a Man in the whole County wanting whereupon the Colonel being informed that the High Sheriff was not in Town went up to the Guild-Hall being accompanied with several of the chief of the Town and told the People That he was glad to see so great an appearance and that they yielded so ready Obedience to the Summons of their Sheriff who was at that time absent telling them that the occasioning of Summoning of them was to engage them to
RAWLEIGH Redivivus OR THE Life Death OF THE Right Honourable ANTHONY Late EARL of SHAFTSBURY Humbly Dedicated to the Protesting Lords By Philanax Misopappas Virtuti Pompeij quae potest Par Oratio inveniri Cicero LONDON Printed for Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey 1683. TO THE Most Illustrious and High-born Prince James Duke of Monmouth And to the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Kent Theophilus Earl of Huntington William Earl of Bedford James Earl of Salisbury Gilbert Earl of Clare Thomas Earl of Stamford Robert Earl of Sunderland Arthur Earl of Essex Charles Earl of Macklesfield Charles Viscount Mordant Philip Lord Wharton William Lord Pagett Ford Lord Grey of Wark John Lord Lovelace Henry Lord Herbert of Cherbury Charles Lord Cornwallis Thomas Lord Crew Who enter'd their Protestation against the Lords rejecting the Impeachment of Edward Fitz-Harris and generously asserted the Commons Right to Impeach any Subject whatsoever Great Sirs THe following Tract humbly offered to your Lordships and for which the Author implores your Patronage is a brief but yet true and impartial History of the Life and Policies the Rise and Fortunes Troubles and Exit of the late Earl of Shaftsbury whose great Actions constant Loyalty and successful Councils certainly are worthy the transmitting to Posterity for whose sake as well as the vindicating his Name and Honour from the bold and confident although ridiculous and groundless Calumnies wherewith the Roman Achitophels have maliciously aspersed him I have endeavour'd to Decipher him and draw his Image according to the best of my skill although infinitely below his Deserts which justly merit the being pourtray'd by a more skilful hand and one whose extraordinary acquirements and admirable proficiency in Politicks renders capable of representing his Lordships wonderful Parts and Abilities in the most apt and lively Touches Especially in regard the malice of 〈…〉 hath somewhat 〈◊〉 his best Feature and unâ—â—â—fully sullyed the most Beautiful and Loyalest of his Actions My Lds. It was the extraordinary Endowments wherewith this Earl was inrich'd that drew upon him so much Envy and swell'd his Adversaries to such an heighth of Malice and Fury fearing lest he might prove their Rival and acquire a greater Interest in the Favour of his Soveraign then they were willing he should Or else it was his imitation of the magnanimous Roman who being Commanded by the Emperor to forbear coming to the Senate and threaten'd with Imprisonment if he presumed to appear in that Assembly boldly answer'd You may do as you will but I must do as I ought Nor had ever any Man larger Experience then his Lordship of the truth and reality of what the famous Sir Walter Raleigh so long since wisely observed That he who follows Truth too near at the Heels may have his Teeth struch out thereby and that he who goes after her oft loseth her sight and himself too Most Noble Patriots I acknowledge that it is no small persecution of your Illustrious Greatness to be thus troubled with the impertinent Address of one so much below you And am very sensible that the Generosity and good Nature of persons who like your selves shine with Glory and Splendor in a superiour Orb frequently draw upon them unnecessary and needless Dedications And therefore I should not have been guilty of presuming to six your Honourable Names to any trifle of mine had not the nature of the thing laid a kind of necessity upon me and furnished me with an unanswerable Argument and sufficient Apology for so doing May it please your Lordships You are all under the same Circumstances and you have like him adventur'd to stem the Stream and dared to be Virtuous when to be wicked and debauch'd is in Fashion And have presumed to be Loyal under the disadvantage of exposing your selves thereby to the malice and rage of a sort of Men who with an Hellish Industry have long endeavour'd to Metamorphise your very Virtues into Vices and Transubstantiate your Loyalty into a Crime You have with a firm resolution and undaunted courage opposed in the very face of danger the ambitious and growing designs of a bloody and malicious Crew who have Burned our City Assassinated our Magistrates Forged Shame Blots and invented Meal-Tub Conspiracies to ruine our Nobility and Gentry And if Divine Goodness had not protected us and disappointed them would have murther'd our Soveraign Massacred our Persons Extirpated our Religion Plunder'd our Houses seized our Estates trampled upon our Laws inslaved our Wives and Children and subjected our Posterity to a Bondage infinitely worse then that of Egypt And whatsoever is Sacred and Dear to us as English Men or Christians must have been sacrific'd to their Revenge for the satiating whereof and to give vent to their fury they would have turn'd the Paradise of the World into an Acheldama And moreover my Lords his Enemies are your Enemies his Reproaches are all directed at and centre in You. You were all to be involved in the same Guilt and made Parties in the same pretended Conspiracy And You were by an imaginary Power derived from that Infallible Fop the Pope all condemned to the same Fate in the secret Consults and private Cabals of Rome as appears by the Scheme found in the Meal-Tub and afterwards more fully discovered by Mr. Dangerfield Nor is it unworthy Your consideration that the time when that cursed Conspiracy was hatching and some Circumstances in the management thereof renders it not altogether improbable that it derived its Original from and was ingaged in upon the success of a certain Story upon the account whereof the greatest of You stands at this day strip'd of all Your Honorary Places But that which further encourag'd me to make this Address to Your Lordships was Your being his intimate Acquaintance and constant Companions his familiar Friends and only Associates with whom he maintained an exact Correspondence and almost daily conversed withal whereby You must necessarily be better acquainted with and have a clearer prospect of the Principles and Temper Designs and Inclinations of his Lordship than any of his detractors can possibly pretend to since many of them never had any personal knowledge of and much less intimate Acquaintance with him and most of them never saw him in their Lives Nor have many of his Accusers notwithstanding their formal and confident charging him with Treason ever born a Part or made a Figure large enough in the World to procure them admittance to his Person or imbolden them to appear in his presence or so much as exchange two words with him in their whole Lives You know his Loyal Behaviour towards and constant cleaving to the Interest of his Soveraign and are surviving Testimonies of the extraordinary Reverence and profound Veneration wherewith he always made mention of His Majesty whensoever you had occasion to speak of him in Your publick or private Discourses nor can You have forgotten his frequent lamenting his own unhappiness in being so strangely mis-represented