A MONVMENT OF MORTALITIE VPON THE DEATH AND FVNERALS OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Late Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earle of New-castle and Darnley c. Lord of Torbolton and Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Lord high Admirall and great Chamberlaine of SCOTLAND Lord high Steward to the Kings most Excellent Majesties most Honorable House-hold Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and one of his Majesties most Honorable Priniâ— Councell for ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Captaine of an hundreth Scots-men at Armes of the French Kings Ordinances By IAMES CLELAND Doctor in Diuinitie and Domestick Chaplaine to his GRACE LONDON Printed by William Stans by for Ralph Rounthwaite 1624. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE ESME Duke of Lenox Earle of March and Darnley Lord of AVBIGNY Torbolton Methuen Baron of Settrington c. Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER Honourable LORD LOe here A Monument of mans Mortalitie erected in haste to represent the Death and Funerals of my good Lord your Noble Brother whose heroicke LIFE requires more leasure to build A MAVSOLE to his Immortall Memorie Meane time J offer vnto your Grace these mournefull Spoiles and funerall Trophees as most proper and due vnto you his Successour and Jnheritour in assurance you will accept them fauourably and with your gracious aspect giue them a speaking-power as the Sunnes reflection did on the Image of Memnon The Ghostly visage of his Effigie I know cannot affright your Grace who is ready and prepared at all howers for Death nor I hope will the representation of it renew your griefe as Iosephs particoloured Coate caused sorow to his father Iacob and Caesars shirt to Calpurnia But that you will looke and behold in it as a Mirror to see your Fate as your Fortune and so esteeme me for euer one of Aprill 20. 1624. Your Graces Most humbly Deuoted in all dutifull obseruance IAMES CLELAND IN IVSTA FVNEBRIA OPTIMI PRINCIPIS LODOVICI Ducis Richmondiae Lenoxiae c. EPITAPHIVM Dum Populum Proceresque suos IACOBVS in vnum Cogit Europam terror vbique tenet Spes populi Procerumque decus LENOXIVS Heros Non expectato funere raptus obit Prô Superi non haec mors est sed Publica clades Quam Rex Proceres plebs populusque lugent Egregiè factum Funus Moestissma Coniux Produxit Ciniri gloria magna fuit MONVMENTVM MORTALE In Obitum Optimi Ducis RICHMONDIAE LENOXIAE c. B. M. P. VIde Mortalis quisquis es hoc te MonumentuÌ„ rogat se vt aspicias Speculum Putes aut Scholam Viden ' formam mutatam gloriam marcidam euanidam Pompam Triumphus est Mortis fati Trophaeum fragilitatis documentum Disco omnia praecipits cursu fluere lubrico orbe versari raptari auolare vanescere Fui non sum aut quicquid Sum Puluis cinis terrae pondus Parcae spolium dum melior pars mei in caeluâ—â— ascendit vnde descendit vbi quiesco Quis Fuèrim sâ—lubido audire est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breus capies Interim ne mirere quisquis es hoc tanto tamque inopinato euentu neue curiâ—su◠〈◊〉 hic causas inuestiga non vis non casus non ordo eternus fatorum Me de medio sed vnus Ille Omnium rerum Moderator sustulit vt post tot exantlaâ—os labores in perpetuum cum eo vinam ac conquiescam Hac moncre volui nunc abi sed heus tu Deum Verere Regem reuerere hoc tantum Vale. A Funerall Discourse VPON THE DEPLORABLE DEATH OF THE GRACIOVS PRINCE LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. ALthough Ioseph of Iohn 19. 38. Aramathea and Nicodemus begged of Pilate the body of IESVS and on the day of preparation wrapt it in a fine cleane linnen cloath embalmed it with odoriferous spices buried it and so gaue him the last dutie of Iewish Ceremonies the first of Christian Funerals yet Mary Magdalene and the other Mary could not bee satisfied with all that was done by Ioseph and Nicodemus for their Lord and Master Christ vnlesse in the next day after the Preparation their poore balme had gone likewise for him After which imitation of these two Maries I cannot content my selfe with what hath beene done by others hitherto for my late Lord and Master the Duke of Richmond and Lenox though most sufficiently except I bring some Sindon of my owne now and buy some Balme to bestow vpon his Grace Yesterday you heard how the Lord Keeper most accuratly and affectionatly expressed my Lord Duke his Heroick life to day with permission I will represent vnto you and others afarre off his Deplorable Death and Christian Funerall Behold them then both in this Monument as better to be considered by the Eye then by the Eare by the Grauers pencill then by the Writers pen by silence then by discourse In this Monument which may giue feare to the Faithfull amazement to the Prophane and sorrow to all men For on the sixteenth day of Februarie last in the Kings Palace of White-Hall whiles the Kings Majestie the Prince the Peeres and the Noblemen of the Land were readie to ride in state vnto the High Parliament of England Behold an ancient Statute from the highest Court of Parliament in Heauen put in Execution vpon this honorable person my Lord Duke of Richmond and Lenox This Execution was serued vpon him whiles the people expected a pomp and whiles I for my part was preparing another Iacob Triumphant or King Iames Second Triumphs in Executing his Statutes and penal Lawes against all Popish Policies and Practises within his Majesties Dominions But oh the sodaine change and strange passage of the peoples expectation and my design from a glorious Pompe on Horse-backe to a mournfull Hearse followed afoot from a Triumph to a Tombe from the Trophees of ioy to the Spoiles of sorrow in a moment all my thoughts turned to a Monument This is euer the miserable condition of man to mixe sowre with sweet or else to ioyne them so inseparably together as a concaue superficies with a conuexe In that morning all the Court and Citie of London were full of mirth but about noone all in mourning then in pleasure and delight soone after in sorrow and sadnesse Thus the clearest dayes haue their stormes the euening is not answerable to the calmnesse of the morning nor to the cleernesse of the noone-day but the Sunne eclipses the Cloudes ouercast and the Day is changed into Night or darknesse The Statute that was Executed so peremptorily vpon this honourable Person was first enacted in the vpper House of Parliament in Heauen generally against all men All men Heb. 9. 27. must once die and then receiued and resolued vpon of all in the lower House of Parliament on Earth Here Gods Word Reason and Experience the three States of our Earthly Parliament haue ratified and confirmed it vna voce without appeale God said expressely In that day
is the acceptable time 2. Cor. 6. 2. as Saint Paul speaketh now is the day of saluation This World is for thy Repentance the other for thy recompence Hic locus luctae ille coronae Hoc cunaeorum tempus est illud coronarum as Saint Chrysostome saith This is the Chrys in Heb. c. 2. Hom 4 time and place of combatting that of crowning this of working that of rewarding this for thy patience that for thy comfort Happie and thrice happie are they which are thus religiously exercised and Christianly affected HAPPY then by the judgement of Charitie is My Gracious Lord Duke as the iudgement of certaintie the Lord of all alone knoweth his who in a comfortable Christian manner was thus resolued and in the time of his short sicknesse vnto his Death piously deuoted As King Ezekiah beeing summoned by sicknesse and the Prophets short Sermon to prepare for his Death turned presently to the wall prayed and wept so did this Prince feeling his frailtie immediately turned to the wall prayed and wept for his former sinnes But alas Herein differed that King from this Prince that God added vnto the dayes of Ezekiah fifteene yeeres but he shortned the dayes of Prince Lodouick in that same houre Then hee Dyed in his Bed without any further delay and slept in the Lord with his Fathers O Kings Princes and Great men who all your life long run after the dreames and sleepe of the World whose thoughts are wholy anchored vpon the Earth and your hopes haue no further extent then the Earth in picture of this Death behold that the vanitie of your greatnesse and ambition things so vaine and fraile as when they seeme to glister and twinkle like Diamonds they vanish from our sight and breake themselues in pieces like glasse Your spirits being touched with this Death as with an Adamant should without ceasing turne towards the firme and fixed Pole of that truth That whatsoeuer is vnder Heauen is nothing but vanitie and that the World passeth away with his pride and pompe And O yee Gentlemen and Commons come see this picture of Death knowing of wise King Salomon It is better to goe to the house of Eccles 7. 2. mourning then to go to the house of feasting For that is the end of all men and the liuing will lay it to his heart Lay it to your heart then if you be liuing and not stupid senslesse and dead in your minde Gaze not onely vpon it with your eyes as little children doe vpon their painted Booke not learning their Lesson nor to your cares onely to heare of Death nor to your tongues onely to talke of it but lay it to your hearts ruminate remember and meditate vpon Death day and night For if yee looke vpon Death onely with your eyes heare of it enquire after it and take hold of it onely with your hand and the heart be farre from it then it cannot auayle or profit you The eye without the heart is a deceiuing eye the care without the heart is vnprofitable the tongue without the heart is a flattering tongue the hand without the heart is a false hand and God will confound all the rest of the bodie without the heart Sonne giue me thy heart Consider the great God who is the iudge of life and death hath disposed of the life of this Prince by so sudden a Death to the end Great Britaine should know that this must be the end of all men and as a man Dieth in the fauour of God so without changing or recalling hee remayneth Death being to the wicked the Deuils Seriant to arrest them and carry them without baile vnto a Prison of vtter darknesse which to the godly is the Lords Gentleman Vsher to conduct them to a Palace of euerlasting happinesse yea Death being to the one as Satans Cart to carry them presently to execution in Hell which to the other is as Elias 2. Kings 2. 12. his fierie Chariot to mount them vp to Heauen Againe as Death is certaine so the forme is vncertaine wee see round figures fall otherwise then Cylinders or Triangles life ends not all after one manner the fruits of one tree fall not all at one instant some are gathered before they bee ripe others fall of themselues some are snatcht away some pulled gently and the violence of the winde and haile beateth them downe indifferently My Lord Duke as hee liued so hee Died meekely patiently like a Lambe and so soone as hee felt his paine of the head increase and more then heretofore he turned his eyes towards heauen and carried his thoughts whether his extreme griefe did conduct him Affliction makes men forget the World when they must thinke of Heauen and it is the liuerie of the seruants of God Hee prayed vnto God in his Bed beleeuing assuredly hee who is in all places where hee is called on God in the Crib God on the Crosse God in the Graue and God euery where Who heares Ieremie in the mire Daniel in the Den who makes a Palace of a Stable of a Caluary a Paradice makes of this Bed an Arke of propitition and sent his Angels thither to assist this soule and bring it vnto him Hee receiues this generous gracious gentle courteous and meeke Soule which neuer refused his grace to any one that sought it That great and vnspeakable mercy of God fortifie vs in this beleefe and the same truth which recommends mercy vnto men for that God is all mercy and will rather cease to bee God then to bee mercifull who promiseth mercy to those which shall be mercifull God it's true might haue suffered this Prince to haue Died otherwise then suddenly but his mercy had not beene so apparent in in any other kinde of Death this being the sweetest and easiest Death seeing it takes feare and apprehension from Death which is omnium terribilissimum most troublesome Hee calls these terrible and sudden Death to the absolute power of his bountie whereas man hath scarce the time to contribute a thought or a sigh And this Prince himselfe would not end his life otherwise then suddenly thinking it vnworthie of a great courage to languish betwixt a desire of life and the feare of Death and to quit for the interest of his abode sometimes the vse of a member halfe Eyes sight and all his hearing and to submit himselfe to the discretion of paine and old age It is true a sudden Death is terrible and fearefull to those that are taken vnawares but is not so to those which attend it alwaies constantly and who did watch sleepe walke and eate often with those cogitations made Christian like discourses said so often that it was not sufficient to know the graces of God but they must acknowledge them might well bee taken but he could not be surprized by Death His desire you see was not like vnto ours for wee would haue wisht to haue seene him send vp his soule quietly to
THE SONNE OF NATHAN WHO WAS PRINCIPALL OFFICER AND THE KINGS FRIEND He expressed abundantly his Learning and Loue towards My Lord Duke in declaring his Christian Life and Heroick Deeds which make me now speake onely of his Death and Funerals After whose Sermon all My Lord's Armes Armor Standers Banners Shield and Ensignes were offered by Noblemen or by the Knights that carried them vnto My Lord Duke of Lenox now is who was his onely Brother Here now wee may mitigate or temper the bitternesse of our affliction with the sweetnesse of some comfort Open your eyes Brethren of acknowledgement you shall see the great mercy of God's Prouidence and his speciall fauour and care towards vs How God is mercifull in all his justices and if of one hand hee beats vs downe of the other hee lifts vs vp he chuses the time to afflict vs when hee hath prepared to comfort vs when apparantly hee depriues vs of all hope yet casts hee vs not into despaire The Persians at the Death of their King smoothered or put out all the sacred flames and fire in their Houses but let vs who are Christians kindle quickly our coales of affection towards God in taking away one Lord and Master to giue vs another without delay Though God hath giuen vs check yet not Mate he hath suffered vs to swimme in our teares and hearts griefe yet hee will not haue vs to drowne in them God hath taken vnto himselfe the Duke of Richmond and Lenox but loe he hath giuen vs a Duke of Lenox changed in nothing but in name as being Duke by birth by succession by merite and by all mens Wish if he were to be elected For no doubt we shall find no change no alteration but a Phoenix renewed of anothers ashes or a Pollux that riseth after his Brother Castor to his Seruants Tenants and Retainers Euen hee will proue himselfe a trustie Steward in Gods House of Church and Common-wealth vnto whom it will be said as vnto his most faithfull Brother Matth. 25. 23. It is well done good Steward and trusty Thou hast beene faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler ouer much enter into thy Masters ioy What remaines then for vs to doe more seeing our Lord and Master is Dead and now wee haue another aliue Shall wee imitate the Romanes in these his Obsequies in powring forth Bloud and Milke vpon his Tombe Shall wee throw into the fire our best Iewels and most precious things and shall wee sacrifice vnto him a Captiue or shall wee bring some Fencers to fence and kill vpon his Graue No such Offerings and Heathen Sacrifices are to be performed of vs nor doth the puritie and simplicitie of our Christian Religion permit any such superstitious Ceremonies But wee will Offer and Sacrifice our selues through the violence of our griefe as so many Sacrifices and Victimes to his Noble Nature wee will offer and shed out our teares our sighs and sobs which are the bloud gushing out of the wounds of our heart Those are the Funerall Honours which wee will offer to his Memorie and remember and euer speake of his fauours loue and liberalitie towards vs. Let these bee his Statues Pillars Pyramides Colosses Obelisques and Triumphant Arches which will bee more durable then all the Maruels and Monuments of Asia of Lidia of Caria of Memphis of Egypt of Babylon of Semiramis of Croesus or of all the Marble Masonrie and workes of Architecture wee can erect to his Name and Fame For this is the Tombe and Monument which Prince LODOVICK purchased and prepared for himselfe whiles he was aliue and in this wee shall imitate Artemesia who swallowed the ashes of her husband Mausoleus to keepe him so much the better in her memorie Finally as his Officers brake their Staues ouer the Effigie after all the Offerings were ended and the Heralds thrice proclaimed THE DVKE OF RICHMOND AND LENOX IS DEAD with his glorious Titles of Elogie sounded by the Trumpetters so let vs ouer sound out his praises of Heroicall Vertues Thus as of old they cast into the aire a thousand times Io of ioy when any Roman Captaine Trimphed or went into the Capitoll to receiue a Laurell Crowne in signe and token of his Victories before the Image of Iupiter So now seeing our Prince LODOVICK Duke of Richmond and Lenox c. is ascended vp into Heauen before God on a Chariot of Triumph there to receiue not a Laurell Crowne which may fade and faile but a Crowne of Immortall Glorie wee should all aloud cry-out with an open mouth Teque dum procedis Io Triumphe Horat. Non semel dicemus Io Triumphe As he no doubt is singing praises with Angels and Arch-angels vnto the Lord of Lords and King of Kings HALELVIAH HALELVIAH Amen IN POMPAM FERALEM FAELICIS PRINCIPIS LODOVICI Ducis Richmondiae Lenoxiae c. CENOTAPHIVM SISTE hic etiam Viator vide Vides Purpuram Coronam Claritudinis Pegma Libitinae Trophaea Ne mortuum hic quaeras non querare Cenotaphium est Honoris vacuum Mortalitatis Gloriae plenum Memoriae sacrarium Pietatis pignus Amoris Monumentum Hunc Lectum floridum Fulora aurea Culcitram variegatam Tapetia conchiliata Laquearia nitentia Lilia ornata Insignia Virtutis haec manuum decora acroteria Pompae feralis quae in Vita vt in Scena minuti homines mirantur Caelites rident Ego nihili pendo prae choragio quo perfruor tu ne impensè opere nimio mirere Viator Oculos in sublime attolle coelumque tuere quò me bigae albae duxerunt PIETAS BENIGNITAS ista homines illa Deum conciliauit vtraque stellatam arcem aperuit vbi regnabo dum Rex aetheris moderabitur Interim Deum precare pro te-ipso in rem tuam abi Vale. FINIS Gentle Reader seeing things out of season are euer out of frame and being hastned in this I pray thee to amend what is amisse in letters words or sense
the place of his beginning after a long continuance of yeeres and that the gracious Duchesse his Lady had taken her last leaue of him that he had giuen Legacies and tokens to his friends and fauourites finally appointed recompences for his old and faithfull seruants but God thinke vs not worthie of those fauours and kindnesse of our Lord and Master Wherefore should wee rather lament for our selues then for him and let vs say of him as Rome did of Titus Hee is gone for his owne good and for our afflictions Death which hath raised him to immortall felicities doth plunge vs into a gulfe of miseries Wee lament iustly for our selues who see our hopes Dead and our miseries liuing Death hath strooke but one and hath slaine many The felicitie which hee enioyes doth not ease the affliction which doth torment vs the contents which he finds in heauen takes not from vs the feeling of those griefes which his absence hath left vs vpon the earth If Death after this blowe should haue broken his bowe despairing euer to make the like shot that would not cure the wound which his arrow hath made But if there be anything in this world able to mollifie our griefe it is that diuers nations and many people haue sorrowed for that which wee lament The afflicted receiue some ease when as euery man beares a share of their affliction Alas when the Doctour of Physike and the Groome of his Bed-chamber drew the Courtaine and found him cold Dead without breath or motion hauing one hand lifted towards heauen and the other as is written of Iulius Caesar when he was murthered in the Senate collecta manibus toga honestè cadere studuit Sueton. in vita Câ—â—s spread his gowne ouer himselfe so this Comely Lord desiring to Die decently in his Bed as he carried himselfe in all his actions of his life hee pulled vp the vpper sheet close about his necke and so quietly gaue vp the Ghost not so much as giuing one groane Then alas all their rubbing with hot clothes was in vaine and to no purpose when Death seizes one all the Aurum potabile in the world cannot auaile nor will the Bezar stones helpe against the heart-beatings nor the confection of Alchermes against the dissentories nor the feet of Elan against the crampes and contractions of the sinewes No more then Aristotles arguments Platoes interrogations Gorgias his sophismes Demosthenes eloquence Tullies oratorie S. Thomas his fundaments Scotus his subtilties Durandus his sentences nor Hectors courage Achilles his valour Samsons strength Croesus his riches Caesars fortune can preuaile against Death What pen or pencill can represent vnto you the iust outcries of my Ladie Duchesse all the house ouer outcries I confesse so iustly and deseruingly that they may approue rather their continuance then condemne their extremitie How she casts herselfe vpon the ground teared her faire haire from her head beating her breast blubbering or disfiguring her face and renting her clothes from her backe I am not able to expresse nor yet could learned Haelicarnasseus who painted out the transported Ladies of Rome for their husbands Death paint out this our Ladies griefe and sorrow Or how should I or any other figure vnto you how the Kings Maiestie was amazed at the first dolefull newes My Lord Duke is Dead and euer since hath missed him Surely Timanthes himselfe that inimitable painter of Mourning if he were aliue and would vndertake this picture of the Kings griefe he should faile in his art and skill otherwise then with a vaile before Agamemnons face Royaltie nor Philosophie cannot free nor priuiledge him from the first motions and sudden passions of the minde Nor yet can I tell you how the Prince his Highnesse and the whole Court tooke these sorrowfull newes of my Lord his Death otherwise then by silence and by all mens teares Discourses are to no end neither to augment the griefe of the losse nor to aduance the greatnesse of the glorie of this Prince LODOVICK for the one is infinite and the other is seene in his Apogea But teares shew that hee which was lamented of euery man was necessarie for all Teares are better vnderstood then words it is more easie to weepe for this Prince then to speake of his Princely vertues Frame hath sorrowed for this Duke and Prince like vnto a Mother who being a Widdow and Old hath lost her owne sonne and as a Campe or an Armie of men hath lost their Captaine and Commander For he was borne in France where his wofull Mother yet liueth and bred there vntill the ninth yeere of his age and now Died their Captaine of an hundred men at Armes in Scotland of the French Kings Ordinances Then was he in his ninth yeere brought into Scotland which now lament and grieue for his Death as it was delighted for twenty yeers together with his life there As also hee is vniuersally lamented of euery one here in England where he liued these twentie last yeeres of his life in all honor and loue and now is Dead and Buried with great griefe and sorrow Ireland likewise sorrow for his Death and hang vp their Harpes from the touching or trembling of their strings to any pleasant sound So that his Funerall needed not any hired teares nor borrowed weepers called in Latine Praeficae and in Hebrew Mekonenoth as it is written in the ninth chapter of Ieremie Euery one did affoord them with abundance those which had not their eyes full of teares had their hearts voide of pitie and commiseration Teares which constancy and grauitie held in that they might not appeare were no lesse bitter then those which common griefe did cast forth to be seene If any one had strength to resist teares it was wanting to fight with sorrow To tell now what the lamentation of London was it is impossible and incredible the people sighed and lamented one to another so nor can I tell you how the poore people of the Countrie euen such as neuer saw him were sorrie for his Death because they heard of his goodnesse Nor yet needed he those Lawes of other nations appointed to weepe at the Death of their Princes and Great men As the Egyptians in Diodorus Historie wept threescore and Diodor. lib. 2c 2. twelue dayes for the Death of their King and we did now for our Prince LODOVICK before his Funerall and will many more hereafter So did the Sparthians or Lacedemonians mourne for their Kings Death some certaine dayes as Herodotus writes Such was the cruell policie Herodot lib. 6. Ioseph Antiq. lib. 17. c. 8. of great Herodes to cause the chiefe Councellours of the Kingdome to bee murthered at his Death that there might some teares bee shed then liking belike that which Medea said in the Tragedie Mors optima est perire Seneca de Med. lachrymosum suis it is to bee wished to bee wept for euery man wept and lamented willingly his Death and their teares which