Aletheiâ— his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury so Christened by Queen Elizabeth because of the faithfulness of that house to the Crown so he espoused truth and faithfulness so cordially that when he heard some would have begged his Offices in his absence he said He was glad they made such easie demands which his Majesty might easily grant since he held not him by his preferments but by his heart Had his faith been as Orthodox as his faithfulness was Eminent King Iames his Gratitude and his Uncle Northamptons Policy had raised him as high as his had been and his Posterity now is But since his Opinion was supposed to have made him a Separatist from the Church and his Temper a Recluse from the Court we have him in a place of Honor only as Earl Marshall while we find his Brother in a place of profit as Lord Treasurer though both in a place of Trust as Privy-Councellors where this Earl approved himself a confutation of his Uncle the Earl of Northamptons Maxime That a thorough-paced Papist cannot be a true-hearted Subject Being as good an English-man in his heart as he was a Catholick in his conscience only the greatness of his spirit would not suffer any affronts in Parliament whence he indured some discountenance from the Court insomuch that the House of Lords finding him a Prisoner when they sate 1626. would not Act till after several of their Petitions he was Released afterwards his temper yielding with years he was very complying only he presumed to marry his Son the Lord Matrâ—vers to Elizabeth Daughter of Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox a person so nearly related to his Majesty that he thought it proper foâ— him only to dispose of her a fault he laid upon the Mothers of each side who made the Match Indeed the Politick Observator saith That women of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their naturall sprightfulness of imagination attended with their leasure furnishing them with a thousand expedients and proposing all kind of overtures with such probability of happy success that they easily design and as eagerly pursue their design When he was sometimes barred the Service of his own times he gave himself to the Contemplation of those before him being a fond Patron of Antiquaries and Antiquity Of whose old peices he was the greatest hoarder in Europe setting aside Ferdinando de Medicis Grand Duke of Tuscany from whom by the mediation of Sir Henry Wotton he borrowed many an Antick Sculpture which furnished his Library so well as we may guess by Seldens ' Marmora Arundeliana that as my Lord Burlieghs Library was the most compleat one for a Politician my Lord Bacons for a Philosopher Mr. Seldens for an Historian Bishop Vshers for a Divine my Lord of Northampton and my Lord of Dorset for a Poet Mr. Oughtreds for a Mathematician Dr. Hammonds for a Grammarian or an universal Critick so the Earl of Arundels was the best for an Herald or an Antiquary a Library not for state but use Neither was he more in his Study where he bestowed his melancholy hours than in Council where he advised three things with reference to the Forreign troubles 1. Correspondence abroad 2. Frequent Parliaments 3. Oftner Progresses into the Countries And he was not less in the Field than in Council when General against the Scots the more shame that Protestants should at that time rebel against the King when supposed Papists ventured their lives for him After which Expedition he was ordered beyond Sea with the Queen Mother of France 1639. when they say he looked back on England with this wish May it never have need of me It is true some observe that the Scots who cried upon him as a Papist yet writ under hand to him their Noble Lord as they did to Essex and my Lord of Holland so effectually that they had no mind to the war afterwards And it was as true that he declared first all the other Lords concurring with him against the false and scandalous Paper that the Scots published as the Articles of Paciâ—ication And upon this occasion a Schedule was a second time given of the parties that combined against the Government viz. 1. The busie Medlars that had got the plausible trick of Haranguing since King Iames his time not used in Parliament from Henry the Sixth time to his 2. The covetous Landlords Inclosers and Justices of the Peace that ruled in the Country and would do so in Parliament 3. Needy men in debt that durst not shew their Heads in time of Peace 4. Puritans that were so troublesome against Hutton c. in Queen Elizabeths days and under pretence of Religion overthrew all Government 5. Such male-contents as either lost the preferment they had or had not what they were ambitions of with their kindreds and dependants 6. Lawyers that second any attempt upon the Prerogative with their Cases Records and Antiquities 7. London Merchants that had been discovered by Craâ—field and Ingram as to their Cheats put upon the King in his Customs and Plantations 8. Commonwealths-men that had learned from Holland in Queen Elizabeths days to pray for the Queen and the State And 9. Such Recusants as were Hispaniolized whereof this Earl was none but though as a Church Catholick he had most of the Catholick Peers Votes devolved upon him he never bestowed them undutifully albeit sometimes stoutly and resolutely A great friend he was to all new Inventions save those that â—ended to do that by few hands which had been usually done by many because said he while private men busie their heads to take off the poors imployment the publick Magistrate must busie his to finde them maintenance Either he or the Earl of Northampton used to say when asked what made a compleat man To know how to Cast Accounts an accomplishment though ordinary yet might save many an estate in England Sanders writes that Queen Katherine Dowager never kneeled on a Cushion and my Lord never allowed himself the temptation he called it of softness well knowing that the ablest Virtue like the City of Rome was seldom besieged but it was taken too seldom assaulted but foiled Virtues being like the Tree in Mexicanâ— Dr. Hâ—ylin writes of that if you but touch any of its branches it withers presently We read of a Germane Prince admonished by Revelation as Surius and Baronius relate the story Anno 1007. to search for a Writing in an old Wall which should nearly concern him wherein he found only these two words Post sex whence he prepared for death within six days which when past he successively persevered in godly resolutions six weeks six months six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled though otherwise than he Interpreted it for thereupon he was chosen Emperor of Germany having before gotten such a habit of piety that he persisted in his religious course for ever after being sâ—mmoned by a fit of
that speaks from his belly called Ventri loquus seems to be another at further distance which whispers and when a man speaketh from the heart the speech seems to come from one at distance and that is God He kept up all Ordinances Prayers Sermons and Sacraments in equal esteem as Scipio in a Controversie between two who should have the sâ—aling Crown due to him that first climbed the walls gives it to them both knowing that they both got up the wall together Especially taking care of Catechizing priding him self as much as Luther did in this Character Discipulus Catechismi that men studying the dark corners of Divinity might not lose themselves in the beaten Road of it looking upon Catechizing as the way of settling Religion at first and maintaining it still Our Saviour is observed not to preach against Idolatry Usury Sabbathâ— breaking among the Jews because not so dangerous in an age wherein saith one Iniquity was spun with a finer thred but against spiritual pride and hypocrisie this his Servant connived not at Debauchery the confessed bewailed and lamented sins of one part of the Nation but was very severe against Sacriledge Disobedience Curiosity and Hypocrisie the maintained sins of the other Mens Consciences he said flew in their faces for the one and would reform them but their Consciences were made parties for the other and would harden them Those sins he said were to be preached against that were grown into so much reputation as to be preached for He looked upon it as equally impertinent to confute an old Heresie which time had confuted and to spend time in reproving those sins which every ones heart reproved him for He read much but orderly drawing up his notions as the King of Sweden used to do his men not above six deep because he would not have them lie in useless Clusters but so that every particular might be drawn into Service but meditated more dispiriting his Books into himself He was glad to go from London to Bristol to avoid the tumults but he was gladder to be translated from Bristol to Heaven quite heart-broken with the Rebellion He never though almost fifty years a Preacher went up a Pulpit but as Luther said he trembled such an aw and reverence of God was upon his heart he preached but once before the King at Oxford and he fainted so great his modesty before men that gracious Prince under whom it was incouragement enough to be a good Divine speaking to the people to pray for him for he said It might be any mans Case and wishing him to retire saying he was a good man and he would with patience wait for him as he did untill the good Bishop being a little refreshed came up again and preached the best Sermon and the last that ever he made What good opinion the Parliament as it was called had of him though not over-fond of Bishops appears by the insuing Order which with the following particulars are transcribed from his Daughter Elizabeths Mouth and Papers The Thirteenth of May 1643. from the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates Upon Information in behalf of the Bishop of Bristol that his Tenants refuse to pay him his Rents It is ordered by the Committee that all Profits of his Bishoprick be restored to him and a safe Conduct be granted him to pass with his Family to Bristol being himself of great age and a person of great Learning and Merit Io. Wylde About the midst of his Life he had a terrible Sickness so that he thought to use his own expression in his Diary that God would put out the Candle of his life though he was pleased only to snuff it By his Will the true Copy whereof I have he desired to be buryed in his Cathedral Church near the Tomb of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof and as for my worldly Goods Reader they are his own words in his Will which as the times now are I know not well where they be nor what they are I give and bequeath them all to my dear Wife Elizabeth c. he protested himself on his death-bed a true Protestant of the Church of England and dying Iunii 28. 1644. lyeth buryed according to his own desire above-mentioned with this Inscription Hic jacet Thomas Westfield S. T. D. Episcoporum Infimus peccatorum primus Obiit 25 Junii Anno M D C X L I I. Senio maerore confectus Tu Lector Quisquis es Vale Resipisee Epitaphium ipse sibi dictavit vivus Monumentum Vxor Maestissima Elizabeth Westfield Marito Desideratissimo posuit superstes Thus leaving such as survived him to see more sorrow and feel more misery he was seasonably taken away from the evil to come and according to the Anagram made on him by his Daughter Thomas Westfield I Dwell the most safe Enjoying all happiness and possessing the reward of his pains who converted many and confirmed more by his constancy in his Calling THE Life and Death OF The Right Honourable ROBERT Earl of LINDSEY I Find in the Observations upon the States-men and Favorites of England this honorable person thus consecrated to Immortality He and his whole Family I know not whether more pious or more valiant whether more renowned abroad as Confessors for their Religion or at home as Champions for their Country have been in this last Age an Ornament or Defence to the Crown equally reverenced by the Subjects of it and honored by the Soveraigns This honorable Lords Ancestors were Richard â—irâ—ue and Katherine Ducthess of Suffolk so eminently known for their patience and constancy in suffering for Religion in Q. Maries days in the Palatinate His Father was Peregrine Bertuâ— in his Mothers right Lord Willoughâ—y of Fresâ—y so famous for his valour success and conduct in acting for Religion in Queen Elizabeths time when Commander in Chief 1. Of the second Army of five that the Queen sent to aid the French King 2. Of the third fourth and fifth Brigade she bestowed on the assistance of the Dutch and of the Garrison she intrusted with the keeping of Berwick and the Borders The stout Souldier that brooking not the assiduity and obsâ—quiousness of the Court was wont to say That he was none of the Reptilia which could creep on the ground and that a Court became a Souldier of good skill and a great spirit as a Bed of Doun would one of the Tower â—yons That undaunted man who when an insulting challenge surprized him a Bed of the Gout returned this answer That although he was lame of his Hands and Feet yet he would meet him with a piece of a Rapier in his Teeth That Hero who taking a choice Gennet managed for the war and intended a Present to the King of Spain and being importuned by the Spanish General to return it with an overture of his own choice whether a 1000 l. down or 100 l. a year during his life for it made this magnanimous
conscience I could subscribe to the Church of Rome what should have kept me here before my imprisonment to indure the libelling and the slander and the base usage that hath been put upon me and these to end in this question for my life I say I would know a good reason for this First my Lords is it because of any pledges I have in the world to sway me against my conscience No sure for I have neither Wife nor Children to cry out upon me to stay with them And if I had I hope the calling of my conscience should be heard above them Is it because I was loth to leave the honor and profit of the place I was risen too Surely no for I desire your Lordships and all the world should know I do much scorn the one and the other in comparison of my conscience Besides it cannot be imagined by any man but that if I should have gone over to them I should not have wanted both honor and profit and suppose not so great as this I have here yet sure would my conscience have served my self of either less with my conscience would have prevailed with me more than greater against my conscience Is it because I lived here at ease and was loth to venture my loss of that not so neither for whatsoever the world may be pleased to think of me I have led a very painful life and such as I would have been content to change had I well known how and would my conscience have served me that way I am sure I might have lived at far more ease and either have avoided the barbarous Libelling and other bitter grievous scorns which have been put upon me or at least been out of the hearing of them Not to trouble your Lordships too long I am so innocent in the business in Religion so free from all practise or so much as thought of practise for any alteration unto Popery or any blemishing the true Protestant Religion established in England as I was when my mother first bore me into the world And let nothing be spoken but truth and I do here challenge whatsoever is between Heaven or Hell that can be said against me in point of my Religion in which I have ever hated dissimulation And had I not hated it perhaps I might have been better for worldly safety then now I am but it can no way become a Christian Bishop to halt with God Lastly if I had any purpose to blast the true Religion established in the Church of England and to introduce Popery sure I took a wrong way to it for my Lords I have staid more going to Rome and reduced more that were already gone then I believe any Bishop or Divine in this Kingdom hath done and some of them men of great abilities and some persons of great place and is this the way to introduce Popery My Lords if I had blemished the true Protestant Religion how could I have brought these men to it And if I had promised to introduce Popery I would never have reduced these men from it And that it may appear unto Your Lordships how many and of what condition the persons are which by Gods blessing upon my labors I have setled in the true Protestant Religion established in England I shall briefly name some of them though I cannot do it in order of time as I converted them Henry Berkinstead of Trinity Colledge Oxon seduced by a Iesuite and brought to London The Lords and others conceiving him to be Berchinhead the Author of all the Libellous Popish Oxford Aulieusses against the Parliament at the naming of him smiled which the Archbishop perceiving said My Lords I mean not Berchinhead the Author of Oxford Aulicus but another Two Daughters of Sir Richard Lechford in Surrey sent towards a NVNNERY Two Scholars of Saint Iohns Colledge Cambridge Toppin and Ashton who got the French Ambassadors pass and after this I allowed means to Toppin and then procured him a fellowship in Saint Iohns And he is at this present as hopeful a young man as any of his time and a Divine Sir William Webbe my kinsman and two of his Daughters And his Son I took from him and his Father being utterly decayed I bred him at my own charge and he is a very good Protestant A Gentleman brought to me by Mr. Chesford his Majesties Servant but I cannot recal his name The Lord Mayo of Ireland brought to me also by Mr. Chesford The Right Honorable the Lord Duke of Buckingham almost quite gone between the Lady his Mother and Sister The Lady Marquess Hamilton was setled by my direction and she dyed very religiously and a Protestant Mr. Digby who was a Priest Mr. Iames a Gentleman brought to me by a Minister in Buckingham-shire as I remember Dr. Heart the Civilian my Neighbours Son at Fulham Mr. Christopher Seaburne a Gentleman of an ancient Family in Hereford-shire The Right Honorable the Countess of Buckingham Sir William Spencer of Parnton Mr. Shillingworth The Sons and Heirs of Mr. Winchcombe and Mr. Wollescott whom I sent with their friends liking to Wadham-Colledge Oxford and received a Certificate Anno 1631. of their continuing in conformity to the Church of England Nor did ever any one of these I have named relapse again but only the Countess of Buckingham and Sir William Spencer it being only in Gods power not mine to preserve them from relapse And now let any Clergy-man of England come forth and give a better accompt of his zeal to the Church To the Accusation against him about Imposing a Liturgy upon the Church of Scotland he gave in this true Narrative DOctor Iohn Maxwell the late Bishop of Rosse came to me from his Majesty It was during the time of a great sickness which I had Anno 1629. which is eleven years since The cause of his coming was to speak with me about a Lyturgie for Scotland At this time I was so extream ill that I saw him not And had death which I then expected daily seased on me I had not seen this heavy day After this when I was able to sit up he came to me again and told me It was his Majesties pleasure that I should receive some instructions from some Bishops of Scotland concerning a Lyturgrie that he was imployed about it I told him I was clear of opinion that if his Majesty would have a Lyturgie setled there different from what they had already it was best to take the English Lyturgie without any variation that so the same Service-book might pass through all his Majesties Dominions To this he replied that he was of a contrary opinion and that not he only but the Bishops there thought their Country-men would be much better satisfied if a Lyturgie were made by their own Bishops but withal that it might be according to the form of our English Book I added if this were the resolution I would do nothing till I might by Gods blessing have
sober heat moderate desiresâ— and orderly though quick imaginations with all the advantages of age without any of its infirmities able to judge as well as to imagine to advise as well as execute and as fit for setled busisiness as for new Projects Having summed together those Experiences by reading which he could not by living to direct him in old Affairs and not abuse him in new emergencies Free from the errors of youth neither embracing more than he could hold nor stirring more than he could quiet nor flying to the end without consideration of the means and designs nor using extream remedies nor prone to innovations nor easily pursuing a few principles he chanced on nor uneasily retracting the errors he fell into and the mistakes of age as consulting too long objecting too much adventuring too little repenting too soon and seldom driving business home to the full Periods but sitting down with mediocrity of success Whereby he injoyed the favor and popularity of youth and the Authority of age the virtues of both ages in him corrected the defects of either acting as a man of age and learning as a young man This Incomparable Person being obliged in youth to hazzard his life in the behalf of those excellent Constitutions of this Kingdom which he hoped to be happy under when ancient and willing with his bloud to maintain what his Ancestors with their bloud had won saying That a small courage might serve a man to engage for that cause the ruine whereof no courage would serve him to survive The King when it was visible that he could not have an honorable and a just Peace without a War having not so much care to raise an Army the Nobility and Gentry who saw nothing between them and ruine but his Majesties Wisdom Justice and Power flowing upon him as to dispose of it under equal commands his own Troop consisting of 120 Persons of Eminent Quality worth above 150000 a year were intrusted with the Lord Bernard Stuart a Person suitable to the Command as it is said in our Chronicles of Edward of Caernarvon because one of themselves who having disciplined them with two or three Germain Souldiers direction to the exactest Model led them like himself valiantly and soberly after Sir Arthur Astons Dragoons to perform as the first so the best charge that was performed that day clearing the lined hedges so as to open a way to Sir Faithful Fortescue and his Troop to come over to his Majesty and to pursue the Enemy with great slaughter for half a mile untill he observed the Lieutenant General Willmot worsted and his Majesties Foot left naked to whose rescue he came joyning with Prince Rupert with whom he drew towards his Majesty with a noble account of his Charge with whom having taken care of his wounded Brother disposed of to Abington and Ian. 13. following solemnly Interred at Oxon he marched to Aino Banbury Oxford Reading Maiden-head Colâ—brooke and Brentford where he managed the Kings Majesty his Retreat and March with exceeding Conduct and Resolution as he did the excellent Services imposed upon him 1. Near Litchfield whence afterwards he was made Earl of Litchfield 1644. 2. Before Marleborough where he won three Posts lost two Horses and between thirty and forty ounces of bloud 3. And in Newbury second Fight when the Earl of Essex his Horse pressed so hard upon the Kings that they gave way in disorder untill this Noble Lord came in to the relief of Col. Legge as he had come just before to the rescue of Sir Humphrey Bennet and fell upon the Enemies Flank so dexterously and successefull that he routed them with the lose of several of their Officers and a multitude of the common Souldiers 4. And in Rowton-heath near Chester where when the King was over-powered by Poyntz and Iones this Lord managed his Retreat to the amazement of all that saw him till he fell the last of the three illustrious Brothers of this Family that dyed Martyrs to this great Cause wherein it was greater honor to be conquered than it was on the other side to conquer Causa victrix diis placuit victa Catoni Pro Patria si dulce mori si nobile vinci vivere quam laetâ—m est vincere quantus honos THE Life and Death OF LUCIUS CARY Viscount Faulkland A Brace of accomplished men the Ornaments and Supports of their Country which they served with no less faithfulness and prudence in their Negotiations abroad than honor and justice in their Places at home Of such a stock of Reputation as might kindle a generous emulation in strangers and a noble ambition in those of their own Family Henry Cary Viscount Faulkland in Scotland Son to Sir Edward Cary was born at Aldnam in Hertfordshire being a most accomplished Gentleman and a complete Courtier By King Iames he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and well discharged his Trust therein But an unruly Colt will fume and chafe though neither switch'd nor spur'd meerly because back'd The Rebellious Irish will complain only because kept in subjection though with never so much lenity the occasion why some hard speeches were passed on his Government Some beginning to counterfeit his hand he used to incorporate the year of his age in a knot flourished beneath his name concealing the day of his birth to himself Thus by comparing the date of the month with his own birth-day unknown to such Forgers he not only discovered many false writings that were pass'd but also deterred dishonest Cheaters from attempting the like for the future He made use of Bishop Vshers interest while he was there as appears by the excellent speech the Bishop made for the Kings Supply Being recalled into England he lived honorably in the County aforesaid untill by a sad casualty he broke his leg on a stand in Theobalds Park and soon after dyed thereof He marryed the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Lawrence Tanfield Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had a fair Estate in Oxford-shire His death happened Anno Dom. 1620. being father to the most accomplished Statesman Lucius Lord Faulkland the wildness of whose youth was an Argument of the quickness of his riper years He that hath a Spirit to be unruly before the use of his reason hath mettle to be active afterwards Quick-silver if fixed is incomparable besides that the Adventures Contrivances Secrets Confidence Trust Compliance with Opportunity and the other sallies of young Gallants prepare them for more serious undertakings as they did this Noble Lord great in his Gown greater in his Buff able with his Sword abler with his Pen a knowing Statesman a learned Scholar and a stout man One instance of that excess in Learning and other Perfections which portended ruine to this Nation in their opinion who write that all extreams whether Vertue or Vice are ominous especially that unquiet thing called Learning whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth its own Period and that of the
Hammonds Worth deserved or the Reverend Dr. Peirces affection could Indite upon whose affectionate Pen the Elogy grew thus Sed latere qui voluit ipsas latebras illustrat Et Pagum alias obscurum Invitus cogit inclarescere Nullibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illi potest deesse Qui msi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nihil aut dixit aut fecit unquam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Animi dotibus ita annos anteverterat ut in ipsa linguae infantia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eaque aetate Magister artium Qua vix alii Tyrones esset Tam sagaci fuit industria ut horas etiam subsicivas utilius perderet Quam Plerique Mortalium serias suas collocarunt Nemo rectius de se meruit Nemo sensit demissius Nihil eo aut exceltius erat aut humilius Scriptis suis factisque Sibi uni non placuit Qui tam calamo quam vita â—umano generi complacucrat Ita Labores pro Dei sponsa ipsoque Deo exant-lavit ut Coelum ipsum ipsius humeris incubuisse videretur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnem super gressus Romanenses vicit Profligavit Genevates De utrisque merito triumpharunt Et Veritas Hammondus utrisque merito triumphaturis ab Hammondo victis veritate Qualis ille inter amicos censendus erit Qui demâ—reri sibi adversos vel hostes potuit Omnes haereses incendiarias Atramento suo deleri maluit Quam ipsorum aut sanguine extingui Aut dispendio Animae expiari Coeli Indigena Eo divitias praemittebat ut ubi cor jam erat ibi etiam thesaurus Quod prolixe bene-volus prodiga manu erogavit aeternitatem in faenore lucraturus Quicquid habuit voluit habere etiam invalidae valetudinis Ita habuit in deliciis non magis facere quam sufferre Totam Dei voluntatem ut frui etiam videretur vel morbi taedio Summam animi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 testatam fecit Hilaris frons exporrecta Nusquam alius in filiis hominum Gratior ex pulchro veniebat corpore virtus omne jam tulerat punctum omnium plausus Cum Mors quasi suum adjciens Calculum Funesta lithiase Coeli avidum Maturum Coelo Abi viator Pauca sufficiat delibasse Reliqua serae posteritati narranda restant Quibus pro merito enarrandis una aetas non sufflcit The Third are his Books more lasting than Marble viz. ANnotations on the New Testament Fol. Annotations on the Psalms Fol. A Volume of Sermons Fol. Practical Catechism Octavo A Vindication of some Passages therein from the Censures of the London Ministers Quarto Tracts 1. Of Conscience 2. Of Scandal 3. Of Will-Worship 4. Of Superstition 5. Idolatry 6. Sins of Weakness and Willfulness 7. Of a late or Death-bed Repentance Of Fraternal Admonition or Correction Quarto Of the Power of the Keys of Binding and Loosing Quarto A View of the New Directory and Vindication of the Ancient Lyturgy of the Church of England Quarto Considerations concerning the danger of Changing Church-government Quarto Of Resisting the Lawful Magistrate under the colour of Religion Quarto A View of some Exceptions made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Faeulkland's discourse of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome Quarto A Copy of some Papers passed at Oxford between the Author and Master Cheynell An Address to the Lord Fairfax with a Vindication thereof A Vindication of the Dissertations concerning Episcopacy from the London Ministers Exceptions in their Ius Divinum Ministeri Evangelii Six Queries resolved 1. Of the way of Resolving Controversies 2. Of Marrying the Wives Sister 3. Of Poligamy and Divorce 4. Of Infant Baptism 5. Of Imposition of Hands for Ordination 6. Of the Observation of Christmass and other Festivals of the Church Twelves Of Fundamentals in a Nation referring to Practice Octavo Of Schism against the Romanists Twelves A Reply to the Catholique Gentleman about the Book of Schism Quarto A second Defence of that Book Quarto Controversies about Ignatius his Epistles Quarto Defences of the learned Hugo Grotius An Account of Mr. Cawdreys Triplix Diatuba of Superstition Will-worship and Christmass Festivals The Baptizing of Infants Revived and Defended against Master Tombes Dissertationes quatuor de Episcopatu contra Blondellum c. Paraenesis Or a seasonable Exhortatory to all true Sons of the Church of England wherein is inserted a discourse of Heresies in defence of our Church against the Romanists Twelves Discourses against Mr. Ieanes about the Ardency of Christs Prayer and other then agitated Controversies A Latine Tract of Confirmation wherein Mounsieur Daillee is concerned A single Sheet shewing to what shifts the Papists are driven Two Prayers for the Nation when under its great Crisis and hopeful method of Cure His fourth and last as durable as the rest is his Life I know not whether better lived by himself or writ by the Reverend Doctor Fell from whose exact Syllables it were a vanity impardonable in me while I have before me Dr. Hamond that compleat Idea of what is fit to vary further than my enjoyed brevity enforced me because no Pen can more elegantly express that Person than his who so severely practiseth his virtues To the Church of Englands honour and advantage be it spoken in this last age when ancient virtue had lost its reputation and was outshined by the success and gallantry of new vices it recovered its own amiableness in Dr. Hamonds person and Dr. Fells Character A character that is his nature not his fancy and writ well because lived so THE Life and Death OF Dr. RALPH BROWNRIG Lord Bishop of Exceter BIshop Brownrig was a person of that soundnesse of Iudgement of that conspicuity for an unspotted Life of that unsuspected Integrity that his life was Virtutum norma as Ierome of Nepolian ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non habuisset So eminent in every good and perfect gift as if he had but oâ—e only There was never any thing said by him which a wise and good man would have wished unsaid or undone He was born at Ipswich a Town of good note in Suffolk in the year of our Lord 1592. His Parents of Merchantly condition of worthy reputation and of very Christian conversation When he was not many weeks old God took away â—his earthly Father that himself might have the more tender care of the Orphan by the prudence of his pious Mother his youth and first years of reason were carefully improved for his breeding in all good learning He was sent in his fourteenth year to Pembroke-hall in Cambridge There his modesty pregnancy and piety soon invited preferment He was first made Scholar of the House and after Fellow a little sooner than either his years or standing in rigor of Statute permitted but the Colledge was impatient not to make sure of him by grafting him firmly into that Society which had been famous for many excellent men but none more than Brownrig When Bachelor and
not give as good account of their time as he could of his others diswaded men from uncleanness as a sin but he as a mischief in dissolving the strength and spirits dulling the Memory and Understanding decay of Sight tainture of the Breath diseases of the Nerves and Joynts as Palsies and all kinds of Gouts weakness of the Back bloudy Urine Consumption of Lungs Liver and Brain a putrefaction of the Bloud c. as the Philosopher would say I would strike thee but that I am angry so would he say when a discourse grew hot We would prosecute this business but that we are set on it He was in much danger of his life at the assault at Dartmouth Ian. 17. 1645. with Sir Hugh Pollard the Governour who was wounded there and Coll. Seymor being there taken Prisoner but he died at Oxford 1665. being of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty at home as he had been of his intimate Counsel abroad His Composition was 40 l. a year Land and 4179 l. Iohn Lord Pawlet of Hinton St. George entrusted by his Majesty with his first Commissioners of Array 1642. when other Noble men were Crest or Coronet-fallen and excepted by the Enemy as the most dangerous offender being a pious man for Religion an hospitable and well reputed man for doing justice and good in his Country a watchful and active man in the field and a shrewd man in Council as became the son of his Mother sole sister to the Martial Brothers the Norrices and the wife of his Father Sir Anthony Pawlet Governour of Iersey an accomplished Gentleman of quick and clear parts a bountiful House-keeper by the same token King Charles I. consigned Monsieur Sobez to him for Entertainment Guardez la Foy Keep the Faith was his Motto and Practice Sir Amias Pawlet in Q. Elizabeths time would not suffer his servant to be bribed to poyson the Queen of Scots nor our Lord his men to carry on a noble cause in an unworthy way Sir Thomas Savil of Pontfract Baron Earl of Sussex heir of his Father Sir Iohn Savils parts and activity Comptroller of his Majesties houshold falling off from the Parliament upon that saying of a Member to him That he must not be only against the Persons but against the Functions of Bishops and that men they are Mr. Pyms words how corrupt soever must be forgiven their past offences upon their present serviceableness to the Commonwealth he appeared with the King at York was of his Council at Oxford waited on the Queen in France and made his own peace easily being supposed one whose Counsels tended to the peace of the Kingdom at London his offence carrying an excuse he in the Wars being for an accommodation Observing abroad Mitres opposing of Crowns and Chaplains vying with their Patrons he would say that if Clergy men left all emulation with Lay men in outward pomp and applied themselves only to piety and painfulness in their Calling they had found as many to honour as now they had to envy them Frequent passions he avoided 1 Because then not likely to be regarded by others 2 Because by causing Fevers Palsies Apoplexies Apepsie they are sure to indanger our healths it s to be more then to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without affections and to be a wise man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good mannager of them which with the vigor of all his senses and faculties he preserved by temperance Francis Leigh of Newnham Warwickshire Baron Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 19 Car. 1. Captain of his Majesties Guards and a stout honest man in his Council having a great command of things as the first being he had a shrewd way of expressing and naming them His sirname was before the Conquest if there was any sirname then sirnames being used since which puts me in mind of him that said his Arms were 3 Gun hores 1000 years ago when there were no Guns in Europe above 300 years The honor died with him who left two daughters the Right Honourable Countess of Southampton and the Viscountess Grandison One being asked which St. Augustine he liked best answered that which was the best corrected My Lord being in discourse about our Modern Reformlings opinion said That way was best that had been least reformed when Ace is on the top Sise is at bottom When men whose flesh was refined bloud clarified spirits elevated by Victory got Goods to their new Gentry Lands to their Goods he would often mention Rich. 3. saying of the Woodviles viz. That many are noble that are not worth a noble He had a good rule for health that a full meal should be at such a time as might be Laboris cogitationum terminus and the heat and spirit not destracted from assisting in the concoction He continued with the King from York where the King begun to provide for himself to Oxford not yielding up himself till Oxford was surrendred The Lord Gray of Ruthen who as seriously asserted his Majesties dignity when questioned as Mr. Selden asserted his own honor and title when disputed Angel Gray of Kingston Marwood Coin Dorset Esq 900 l. for obeying the King for Concscience sake and Edward Gray of Campan Northumb. 389. A man that feared the War on this score because it was like a Fair that would draw in Chapmen from all parts who seemingly slight but secretly love and envy our plenty and would be willing to come from Wine to Beer and Ale and from Fruits to Meat His great Rule that Temperance enjoyeth the sweetness of things which Excess aimeth at if considered would prevent more diseases than his Relation the Countess of Kents Powder hath cured Sir Iohn Stowel of Stowel in Somersetshire a Knightly Family for above 200 years well known for serving their Country in all places of Justice in time of Peace and better for serving the King in places of Command in time of War All satisfaction did this Knight endeavour to give the people in a moderate way in their Liberties and Religion while any hopes of peace all pains and care imaginable did he take to reduce them according to the Commission of Arra where in he was an eminent Member when they were bent upon War 6000 men and 30000 l. did Sir Edward Stowel and Coll. G. Stowel raise to set up his Majesty and 8000 l. a year during the troubles did they bring to support him till Sir â—ohn having with Sir Francis Courtney Sir Iohn Hales and Sir Hugh Windham whose Loyalty cost them 45000 l. and upwards bravely kept Bridgewater was brought Prisoner as I take it from Worcester to Westminster where being convened for his great Estate rather than his great fault he refused to kneel and own their Authority demanded the benefit of the Articles whereon he rendred himself prisoner and demanded their charge against him being answered with 14 years imprisonment without any legal trial had notwithstanding that his Cause was heard in every Convention
a 〈◊〉 Pâ—â—clâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Mâ—â—â—â—y at Blandâ—ord a He declared at his death that C C. told him as he 〈◊〉 on the Road to Exeter that he was â—â—â—ry Sir Jo. Wagstaffe was not taken being he was a brave Gentleman and might if taken have hâ—d the benefit of the Aâ—â—â—cles yea and that several of C. C Troop were dismissed because they â—â—verâ—ed 〈◊〉 Articles which the Captain protâ—sted against though he had with many importunities and protestations put them upon them b When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Henry 7. time by the Western Rebels in Edw. 6. time and by the Parliament forces in King Charles 1. reign and now relieving these 80. distressed Gentlemen not only with necessaries but superâ—â—â—ities c Here note Sir Jervase Lucas the noble and active Governor of Belvoir who answered Poinz his Summoâ—s thus viz That he was not set by the King there to yield to Rebels and that he would not give an Inch of ground which he could maintain with his Sword a Sir Gilbert Gerard 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 near 〈…〉 b Dâ—â—â—ing his â—reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 think â—â—â—â—â—y of him a Cap. Simkins formerly Governour of Beaumoris shot to death for carrying a Letter from the King to Sir Thomas Middleton and being as true as his Steel not to be frighted or flattered to discover any b Laurence Hide Dâ—bâ—ney South 9â— l. composition 〈◊〉 Hide Kenning Berks Esq 538 l. c Much valued by Arâ—hbâ—shop Laud for his deâ—â— eâ—â—y activity and intâ—gâ—ity and Sequestred d Berbaâ—ously and foolish â—ascribing that request of his vanity and affectation of strange tongues e Several times calling him the most pious and just Prince in the World Hum Hide Kingston Berks Esq â—aid for his Loyalty 610l Lewis Levens of Heslington York paid for composition 316l and Lewtian Lewins of Ruthall York 130l f Here note 〈…〉 Line 〈◊〉 paid 〈◊〉 Loyâ—â—y and Jo. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 â—llcx Gent. 30â— g 〈…〉 with the Lord Beaumont Si. Thomas Beaumont 〈◊〉 Beaumont of York and 〈◊〉 Beaumont paid 5000l composiâ—ion h Having been of the Kings Army till Liverpool was 〈…〉 quiet â—â— the Country be â—â—d by Col. Forbes Col. Overten and Litutenant Col Fairâ—ax perswasion in the Parliament 〈…〉 that Crâ—â—â— did the King this service i Thoâ—pe and Paleston the Iudges being able to say nothing to him but silence him k H. Morris Weston Salop Mr. Morris of Penny bâ—nâ— Denbigh N Morris Emptail York Edw. Morris Devon paid 1200l l R. Blackborn Major paid 242l composition a Which he managed the better by living at Beconâ— field privately at an equal distance between Oxford and London b Who dyed in prison c Who paid â—â—r his life 2000 l. a Who 〈◊〉 great 〈…〉 b Prince Rupâ—â—â— with 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—e and 2000. Foot upon Dâ—râ—â—â— Downs expecting the 〈◊〉 the Ringing of 〈◊〉 having order not to offer violence to any only to 〈◊〉 them that had taken an Oath among themselves to maintain the Kings Crown and Dignity Note that the gates of the City were sâ—ut against the Kings Letters for these men so that they câ—me not till they were dead a Who was at a vast charge to entertain the Reformaâ—es from all parts a Note that it â—as the poâ—â—nt 〈◊〉 of the â—â—anish Ambassador that 〈◊〉 his life wherupon he said I was pulling off my Doubleâ— now I wiâ—â—â—ook â—n on my Brâ—eâ—â— b He 〈◊〉 800l composition Henry Goring Sullington Sussex 40l H. Goring Burton Sussex 250l Bishop John Owen of St. Asaph a He writ several Learned Discourse how the Loyal Clergy should behave themselvâ—s in the exigencies of thâ—se times he and Mr. Maurice of â— Lanbeder Denâ— Another undâ—unted sufferer maâ—â—yed two daughters of Doctor Williams Warden of Ruâ—then one of whom Mâ—s. Maurice suâ—feâ—d â—y the barbarousness of the Round-heads beyond expression as you may see in Mr. Weavers Poems b He having a considerable Command in all his Expeditions a â—hoâ—e Husband Jo. Lord Lovelace paid for his Loyalty as good as 6951 l. besides decâ—nations and constant troubles and his Brother Col. Francis Lovelace b Where the Scotch 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and â—sapnâ— they would no come to the â—â—â—l of Repenâ—auce c Taking 100 Pipes a day first used to it in Iâ—agâ—res Sir George Weâ—worth of Welly York paid for his Loyalty 3185 l and Sir George the Earl of Sâ—â—offords Brother his life at Marsâ—on-moor Tho Wentworth of Breton York 340 l. a See Mâ— Herles Ded. to him of his Medit. For murdering killing and destroying they are their own words R â—ertivala Linnen-Webster a His Son hath nobly contributed to Dr. Barrow the excellent Bishop of Man towards the settlement of that business Note that Ferdinando Stanley of Proughton Lanc. paid for his duty 150l Will. Stanley of Woodhall Lanc. 46l Jo Stanley of Dul-yarâ—â— Cumb. 40l a The first in Brigades reaching from Wales to Oxford clearing Monmouth and Glocester of the little Parliament Garrisons b The stream of the people being at my Lords devotion keeping out all forces whatsoever but his Majesties my Lord very watch fully and diligently looking to all those parts to recruit and secure them upon all occasions with â—â—râ—s and other necessaries as upon the betraying of Monmouth the danger of Chepstow and Lindsey Garrisons a Where being lodged in a gâ—â—en Tâ—â—â—râ—hed house he said â—e â—aid â—n a Bâ—gâ— uâ—der a Meadow b It is sâ—â—d of his A câ—â—â—or the Earl of Worcester that he kept himself up in the â—â—â—â—able times â— 8. E 6. Q. M. Q. E by being a Wâ—llâ—w and not an Oake c. a Translated by Mr. Rowland Vaughan of Caergâ—y Morion A great sufferer for his maiesly his house being burned 1645. by Col. Jo. Jones he did much good in these times by cransâ—â—ting Orthodox Books such as Bishop Usherâ—s Catechism Dr. Prideâ—ux his Legacies c An excellent Welch Poet and Antiquary a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 b His Loyalty cost 〈◊〉 400 l. 〈◊〉 a As did Major Cusaw a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 Malloâ— be was 〈◊〉 to the Tower c Owing he said his accomplishments to hardships d He had been long bred a Souldier in the Spanish Army a That is Commuâ—es his fault was 〈◊〉 excellâ—â—cy Viz. that he câ—uld with a grace relaâ—e Magnaâ—â—m â—â—um mâ—uâ—â— the little circumstances of great 〈◊〉 a Most of the Câ—â—â—s in â—â—gl are cist wâ—â—n a â—â—â—e of their house where â—â—y were â—â—â—n Sir T. Lunsford was Commissioner with Sir Jâ—cob Ashleâ— to get the â—â—â—h into a body aâ—â—er Naseby where he â—ed beeâ— sâ—abbed but for Sir Jo. â—â—â—â—us b Where he dyed 1644. and was buryed c Which Mr. siliot after 3. hours Conference with him imâ—private got from according to an Oath he had taken when admitted Lord-keeper to deliver up the Seâ—l when ever the King senâ— for it The saction had taken it from him before but that he had always in appearance Voted according to the sense of the best affected in the House a After thâ—y had in vâ—in samâ—â—neâ—