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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67129	A short view of the life and death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham written by Henry Wotten ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1642 (1642)	Wing W3652; ESTC R21346	18,072	31

not three hours before his execution to Sir Richar Gresham two only inducements thereof The first as he made it in order was a certain libellous book written by one Eggleston a Scottish Physitian which made the Duke one of the foulest Monsters upon the earth and indeed unworthy not only of life in a Christian Court and under so vertuous a King but of any room within the bounds of all humanity if his prodigious predictions had the least semblance of truth The second was the Remonstrance it self of the Lower House of Parliament against him which perchance he thought the fairest cover so he put in the second place whatsoever were the true motive which I think none can determine but the Prince of darkenesse it self he did thus prosecute the effect In a by-Cutlers shop on Tower hill he bought a ten-penny knife so cheap was the instrument of this great attempt and the sheath thereof he sewed to the lining of his pocket that he might at any moment draw forth the Blade alone with one hand for he had maymed the other This done he made shift partly as it is said on horse back and partly on foot to get to Portsmouth for he was indigent and low in mony which perhapps might have a little edged his desperation at Portsmoutb on Saturday being the 23. of August of that currant yeer he pressed without any suspition in such a time of so many pretenders to imployment into an inward Chamber where the Duke was at breakefast the last of his repasts in this world accompanied with men of quality and action with Monsier-de Soubes and Sir Thomas Fryer and there a little before the Dukes rising from the table he went and stood expecting till he should Passe through a kinde of Lobye between that room and the next where divers attending him towards which passage as I conceive somewhat darker then the Chamber which he voided while the Duke came with Sir Thomas Fryer close at his ear in the very moment as the said Knight withdrew himself from the Duke a Safinate gave him with a back blow a deep wound into his left side leaving the knife in his body which the Duke himself pulling out on a suddain effusion of spirits he sunk down under the table in the next room and immediatly expired Certain it is that some good while before Sir Clement Throckmorton a Gentleman then living of grave judgement had in a private conferrence advised him to weare a privy Coat whose Councell the Duke received very kindly but gave him this answer that against any popular farie a shirt of mayle would be but a silly defence and as for any single mans assault he took himself to be no danger So darke is destiny One thing in this enormious accident is I must confesse to me beyond all wonder as I received it from a Gentleman of judicious and diligent observation and one whom the Duke well favoured That within the space of not many minutes after the fall of the body and removall thereof into the first room there was not a living creature in either of the chambers no more then if it had lien in the Sands of AEthiopia whereas commonly in such cases you shall note every where a great and sudden conflux of people unto the place to hearken and to see But it should seem the very horrour of the fact had stupified all curiosity and so dispersed the multitude that it is thought even the murtherer himself might have escaped for who gave the blow none could affirm if he had not lingred about the house below not by any confused arrest of conscience as hath been seen in like examples but by very pride in his own deed as if in effect there were little difference between being remembred by a verteous fame or an Illustrious infamy Thus died this great Peer in the 36th yeer of his age compleat and three dayes over in a time of great recourse unto him and dependance upon him the house and Town full of servants and suters His Dutchesse in an upper room scarce yet out of her bed and the Court at that time not above six or nine miles from him which had been the stage of his greatnesse I have spent some enquiry whether he had any ominous presagement before his end wherein though both ancient and modern Stories have been infected with much vanity yet oftentimes things fall out of that kind which may bear a sober constitution whereof I will glean two or three in the Dukes case Being to take his leave of my Lords Grace of Canturbury the only Bishop of London whom he knew well planted in the Kings unchangeable affection by his own great abilities after cortefies of courage had passed between them My Lord sayes the Duke I know your Lordship hath very worthily good accesses unto the King our Soveraign let me pray you to put His Majesty in minde to be good as I no way distrust to my poor wife and children at which words or at his countenance in the delivery or at both My Lord Bishop being somewhat troubled took the freedom to aske him where he had never any secret abodements in hi minde No replyed the Duke but I think some adventure may kill me as well as another man The very day before he was slain feeling some indisposition of body the King was pleased to give him the hoonur of a visit and found him in his bed where and after much serious and private discourse The Duke at His Majesties departing imbraced him in a very unusuall and passionate manner and in like sort to his friend the Earl of Holland as if his soule had divined he should see them no more which infusions towards fatall ends had been observed by some Authors of no light authority On the very day of his death the Countesse of Denbigh received a Letter from him whereunto all the while she was writing her answer she bedewed the paper with her tears And after a m●st bitter passion whereof she could yeeld no reason but That her dearest brother was to be gone she fell down in a swound Her said letter endeth thus I will pray for your happy return which I look at with a great cloud ever my bead too heavy for my poor heart to bear without torment i but I hope the great God of heaven will blesse you The day following the Bishop of Ely her devoted friend who was thought the fittest preparer of her minde to receive such a dolefull accident came to visite her but hearing she was at rest he attended till she should awake of her self which she did with the affrightment of a dream Her brother seeming to passe thorow a field with her in her Coach where hearing of a sudden shout of the people and asking the reason it was answered to have been for joy that the Duke of Buckingham was sick Which naturall Impression she scarce had related unto her Gentlewoman before the Bishop was entred into her Bed-chamber for a chofen Messenger of the Dukes death This is all that I dare present of that nature to any of judgement not unwillingly omitting certain prognostick Anagrams and such strains of fancy He took to wife eight yeers and two months before his death the Lady Katherine Manners Heir generall to the Noble House of Rutland who besides a solid addition to his estate brought him three sons and a daughter called the Lady Mary his first born his eldest son died at Nurse before his iourney at Rbez and his third the Lord Francis was born after his fathers death so as neither his first nor his last were participant of any sense of his misfortunes or felicities His second son now Duke of Buckingham was born to cheer him after his return from that unlucky Voyage For these sweet pledges and no lesse for the unquestionable vertues of her person and minde he loved her dearly and well expressed his love in an act and time of no simulation towards his end bequeathing her all his Mansion-houses during her naturall life and a power to dispose of his whole personall estate together with a fourth part of his Lands in Joynture He left his elder brother of the same womb a Viscount and his younger an Earl Sir Edward Villers his half brother on the fathers side he either preferred or removed call it how hou will from his step-mothers eye to the presidentship where he lived in singular estmation for his justice and hospitality and died with as much grief of the whole Providence as ever any Governour did before his Religious Lady of sweet and Noble direction adding much to his honour The eldest of the brethren and heir of the Name was made a Baronet but abstained from Court enjoying perhaps the greater greatnesse of self fruition He left his mother a Countesse by Patent in her own person which was a new leading example grown before somewhat rare since the dayes of Queen Mary His sister of Denbigh that right character of a good Lady he most humbly recommended to the Queen who alter a discharge of some French in her Court that were to return took her into three severall places of honour and trust In short not to insist upon every particular Branch of those private preferments he left all his female kindred of the entire or half blood descending of the name of Villers or Beaumont within any neer degree either matched with Peers of the Realm actually or hopefully with Earls sonnes and heirs or at least with Knights or Divinity and of plentifull condition He did not much strengthen his own substance in Court but stood there on his own feet for the truth is the most of his Allies rather leaned upon him then shoared him up His familiar servants either about his person in ordinary attendance or about his affairs of State as his Secretaries or of Office as his Steward or of Law as that worthy Knight whom he long used to solicite his causes He left all both in good Fortune and which is more in good Fame Things very seldome consociated in the Instruments of great Personages FINIS

Neither was there wanting some other that thought him altogether voyd of a little Ambition to shew his power either to knit or dissolve Howsoever the whole Scene of affaires was changed from Spaine to France there now lay the prospective which alteration being generally liked and all alterations of State being ever attributed to the powerfullest under Princes as the manner is where the eminency of one obscureth the Rest the Duke became suddainly and strangely Gracious among the multitude and was even in Parliament highly exalted so as hee did seeme for a time to have overcome that naturall Incompatability which in the experience of all ages hath beene noted betweene the vulgar and the Soveraigne favour but this was no more then a moere Bubble or blast and like an Ephemerall fit of applause as eftsoone will appeare in the sequell and traine of his life I had almost forgotten that after his returne from Spaine hee was made Lord Warden of the Sinque-Ports which is as it were a second Admiralty and Steward likewise of the Mannour of Hampton Court Dignities and Offices still growing of trust or profit And the King now giving not onely out of a beneficient disposition but a very habituall and confirmed custome one yeere sixe Moneths two dayes after the joyfull reception of the Prince his sonne from Spain King Iames of immortall memory among all the lovers and admirers of Divine and humane Sapience Accomplished at Theobals his owne dayes on Earth under whom the Duke had runne a long Course of Calme and smooth prosperity I meane long for the ordinary life of favour and the more notable because it had beene without any Visible Ecclipse or Wane in himselfe amidst diverse variations in others The most importunant and pressing care of a new and Vigorous King was his marriage for mediate establishment of the Royall lyne wherein the Duke having had an especiall hand hee was sent to conduce hither the most lovely and Vertuous Princesse Henriette Mariae youngest daughter to the great Henry of Burbon of whom his Majestie as hath beene said had an ambulatory view in his travells like a stollen taste of something that provoketh appetite Hee was accompanied with none of our Peeres but the Earle of Mountgomery now Lord Chamberlaine a Noble Gentleman of trusty free and open nature and truely no insuitable Associate for that hee himselfe likewise at the beginning of King Iames had runne his Circle in the Wheeling Vicissitude of favour And heere I must crave leave in such of high quality or other of particular note as shall fall under my pen whereof this is the first not to let them passe without their due Character being part of my professed ingenuity Now this Ambassy though it had a private shew being charged with more formalitie then matter for all the essentiall Conditions were before concluded could howsoever want no Ornaments or bravery to adorne it among which I am neere thinking it worth of a little remembrance that the Duke one solemne day Georgeously clad in a suite all over-spred with Diamonds and having lost one of them of good Value perchance as hee might be dauncing after his manner with lofty motion It was strangly recovered againe the next morning in a Court full of Pages such a diligent attendant was fortune every where both abroad and at home After this faire discharge all civill honours having showred on him before there now fell out great occasions to draw forth his spirits into action a breach first with Spaine and not long after with France it selfe notwithstanding so streight an affinity so lately treated with the one and actually accompished with other As if indeed according to that pleasant Maxime of State Kingdomes were never married this must of necessity involue the Duke in businesse enough to have over-set a lesser Vessell being the next Commander under the Crowne of Portes and ships But he was noted willingly to embrace those Overtures of publicke imployment for at the Parliament at Oxford his youth and want of experience in Maritine service had bin somewhat shrewdly touched even before the sleuces floudgates of popular liberty were yet set open so as to wipe out that objection hee did now mainly attend his charge by his Majesties untroubled and sereen Commands even in a tempestuous time Now the men fell a Rubbing of Armour which a great while had layen oyled The Magazines of Munition are veiwed The Officers of Remaines called to account frequent Counsells of Warre as many private conferences with expert Sea-men a fleete in preparation for some attempt upon Spaine The Duke himselfe personally imployed to the States Generall And with him joyned in full Commission the Earle of Holland a Peere both of singular grace and solidity and of all sweete and serviceable vertue for publicke use These two Nobles after a dangerous passage from Harwich wherin three of their Ships were foundred arrived the fift day at the Hage in Holland here they were to enter a treaty both with the States themselves and with the Ministers of diverse allyed and confederate Princes about a Common diversion for the recovery of the Palatinate where the Kings only Sisters Doway had beene ravished by the German Eagle mixed with Spanish Feathers a Princesse resplendent in darknesse and whose vertues were borne within the chaunce but without the power of fortune Here it were iniurious to overslip a Noble act in the Duke during this imployment which I must for my part celebrate above all his expenses there was a Collection of certain rare Manuscripts exquisitly written in Arabique and sought in the most remote parts by the diligence of Erpinius the most Excellent Linguist these had beene left to the Widdow of the said Erpinius and were upon saile to the Iesuits at Autwerpe Licourish Chapmen of such Ware Whereof the Duke getting knowledge by his worthy and learned Secretary Doctor Mason Interverted the bargaine and gave the poore Widdow for them five hundred pounds a summe above their weight in silver and a mixed act both of bounty and charity the more laudable being much out of his naturall Element These were they which after his death were as Nobly presented as they had beene bought to the University of Cambridge by the Dutchesse Dowager assoone as she understood by the aforesaid Doctor Mason her husbands intention who had a purpose likewise as I am well instructed to rayse in the said University whereof he was Chancellour a faire case for such Monuments and to furnish it with other choice collections from all parts of his own charge perchance in some Emulation of that famous Treasury of knowledge at Oxford without paralel in the Christian world But let me resume the file of my relation which this Object of bookes best agreeable to my course of life hath a little interrupted the aforesaid Negotiation though prosecuted with heale and probable appaof great effects took up a Moneth before the Dukes return from his excentricity for so I account